Posted on 01/07/2004 2:45:15 AM PST by ovrtaxt
WND BOOKS
America's fate in hands
of illegal aliens?
New WND book shows immgration issue could determine future of U.S.
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
With the U.S. government poised to make sweeping changes to immigration laws critics say amount to de facto mass amnesty, WorldNetDaily's publishing division, WND Books, announces a powerful new book destined to supercharge the debate over illegal immigration.
In "Illegals: The Imminent Threat Posed by Our Unsecured U.S.-Mexico Border," veteran journalist Jon E. Dougherty documents the hard truth that both major political parties have missed namely, that sustained high immigration levels from south of the border will continue to pose economic, labor, security and criminal threats to the United States, unless American and Mexican leaders find ways to limit it.
Taking readers right to the front lines of the "border wars," "Illegals" includes interviews with citizens living along the most traveled border corridors in the American Southwest, as well as Border Patrol agents and other immigration officials who are charged with guarding and protecting America's nearly 2,000-mile-long border with Mexico.
Dougherty also brings readers along on actual "missions" involving local citizens' groups who are trying desperately to stem the tide of the illegal incursions. And he takes readers into the lives of men and women who have been victimized by hordes of illegal immigrants who cross their property by the thousands every year.
While acknowledging that most immigrants come to America to work and others come because they truly want to become U.S. citizens, "Invasion" shows that an increasing number come "merely to clamor for opportunities and benefits not available to them in their home countries."
"Worse," writes Dougherty, "there is a growing faction in America assisting them knowing all along these immigrants aren't interested in enriching American society, but rather to take what they can from it."
"There is also a change in mindset among elements of the political establishment and among the U.S. population, in terms of immigration," writes Dougherty. "In years past, gaining access to America so one could share in its promise was treated as a privilege, not a right to be granted automatically just because you could make it over the border. Today, however, the process of immigration indeed, the requirement our immigrants assimilate into our society has changed dramatically."
"Illegals" is especially timely now, coming on the heels of an announcement by Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge at a town hall-style meeting in Miami Dec. 10. Ridge said Americans need to "come to grips" with an estimated 8 million to 12 million illegal immigrants and "determine how you can legalize their presence."
Though President Bush said Ridge's comments were not akin to granting illegal immigrants amnesty a policy Bush said he doesn't support because it rewards lawbreaking immigration-reform advocates and opponents in Congress say such a plan, were it to be adopted, would in practice be nothing less.
"Illegals" provides a gripping and profoundly disturbing dose of truth the kind most politicians, whether Democrat or Republican, can't seem to confront about immigration in modern America. As politicians now attempt to deal with this crucial national issue, the book couldn't have come at a more important moment.
Indeed, writes Dougherty in "Illegals": "How the problem is solved or not solved ultimately may decide the fate of this nation."
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America has always led the world in its generosity to aliens. Mexico lags and no one ever calls them on it.
My country deserves lawful and orderly and stable immigration--too bad you don't think my country deserves the same.
What I don't understand is why you're here.
Haven't you already won?
I just have *one*, Cultural Jihad...let everyone see if you'll answer a question.
Why are you here? Haven't you gotten what you wanted?
What do you want from us?
I just have *one*, Cultural Jihad...let everyone see if you'll answer a question.
Why are you here? Haven't you gotten what you wanted?
What do you want from us, now?
And if you can manage to answer two whole questions in a row--
I repeat--
Why doesn't my country deserve lawful, orderly immigration?
Figures. I've also heard that they very strictly enforce their southern border.
WRONG... Americas fate is in elected republican hands.. sorry for the BAD news... democrats need new 3rd world voters, true... but republicans ?.. who knows why.. mass moronification maybe ?.. the big question who am I personally going to vote for.. an I feel just a little dumber today than yesterday... not a good sign.. damn
I repeat--what are you after? What point do you seek to make at this venture?
We have too many AMERICAN CITIZENS like you described. They will become more and more marginalized and more and more desperate eventually.
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