Posted on 04/04/2013 5:16:52 PM PDT by bcafrotc
Commencing with the earliest settlements, America's eventual rise to superpower status was in no small measure due to the continual flow of gifted, venturesome immigrants coming to her shores with little more than their hopes, dreams, skills, and willingness to apply these to forge a new life for themselves and their families. They thirsted for liberty and economic opportunity while accepting the responsibilities of dealing with the risks and privations that lay ahead, collectively achieving their goals through hard work and perseverance. That was then; this is now. Current immigration policy is not only very costly to the taxpayers, who ironically subsidize both the influx of poor people to expand the Democrat voter base and the "cheap" labor big business craves, but also against fundamental national interest. In fact, current immigration law is resulting in demographic shifts that not only threaten to change America into a one-party state, anathema to a democratic republic, but may eventually introduce internecine ethnic conflict that threatens the Union. Our immigration policies worked well prior to 1965, assuring the existing national ethnic and cultural mix and encouraging assimilation. However, in the wake of the momentous Civil Rights Act of 1964, passed with wide bipartisan support, then-current immigration policies appeared exclusionary and were decried by political liberals and many conservatives as manifestly racist or discriminatory, spurring the passage of the Democrat-sponsored Immigration Act of 1965 (Hart-Cellar). Democrat luminaries of the period such as Lyndon Johnson himself, Robert Kennedy, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk gave the new legislation unqualified support, while Ted Kennedy, a leading advocate, reassured the country that the nation's demographic mix would not be impacted. As events would prove, such supporters either lied or were woefully mistaken.
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