I don't know what I'm going to do this election. I am most grateful to the President for his service to the pro-life cause, and he has done many positive things as Mr Robinson states.
I've listened to various theories as to why he is doing this (immigration); I have arrived at the conclusion that it is going to cause extreme damage with this policy. I'm not saying intentionally, but it won't matter if it was done intentionally or not. The end result will be the same.
As I've stated before, the Clintons spent eight years flooding the country with Mexican and other Third World immigrants; that was part of an intentionally conceived plan to tip the demographic scales as it were. You know, Hillary "Trash the Electoral College While We're Doing It" Clinton. Put these people on a fast track to citizenship just in time for Election 2000. We saw the ruse. We knew what they were doing, and what the outcome would be.
Now the President is adopting a strategy that is going to lead to the same state, in my opinion. We can assume his intentions are good, many here (and probably he himself) think they will be won over by the Republican Party.
I don't think it's going to play out that way. These illegal immigrants are lawbreakers who want handouts and social services; I have no doubt as to what party they are going to gravitate towards eventually. The party of lawbreakers and entitlements.
So we'll start with 8 million as some estimate, but that will be the tip of the iceberg. These people will have children here, they'll have liberal lawyers and judges conspiring to keep them here. They won't be leaving when 3 or 4 years are up as everybody is optimistically projecting.
In four years, eight million will become twelve or fourteen or even twenty million. Twenty million new Democrat voters for 2008.
America is not prepared to handle such instability, especially in the condition we find it today. I'm not trying to be a pessimist; all I know is that I have a sinking feeling about all of this.
I feel as if it's vote for the President, get him four more years, after which I fear we'll not see a conservative President for many years to come due to demographics. We'll be completely overrun by then. I wonder if this is how the men at the Alamo felt.
I just came across Freeper Imal on another subject and he shared his blog sight. You might find what he has to say about immigration thought provoking.
Here's the Blog:
http://imal.blogspot.com/ And here are his comments:
Bush Versus Illegal Immigration
From President Bush's weekly radio address:
"This past week, I proposed a new temporary worker program that would match willing foreign workers with willing American employers, when no Americans can be found to fill the jobs. If an American employer is offering a job that American citizens are not willing to take, we ought to welcome into our country a person who will fill that job."
The actual number of illegals in the U.S. is somewhat higher than the 8 million typically reported, and the number is growing.
I favor enforcement of our laws, which has definitely NOT been happening due to a variety of factors, mostly a combination of corruption and the apathy upon which corruption thrives.
However, the reality is that mass deportations are simply not possible short of a declaration of martial law. Attempting to deport even just 100,000 people would clog America's courts so thoroughly that we would be facing chaos. Make it ten million, and it's literally not doable.
That's not even considering the political backlash that would probably unseat the party that tries this, as well as direct opposition from Congress and the Supreme Court. Anyone who thinks they would not intervene has not been paying attention for the past few decades. While it is certain that America's court system and laws of civil procedure also desperately need revision, it would be folly to expect that to happen any time soon.
A solution dependent on other solutions is not a solution. I'm not happy about it, but that's the way it is.
If America implements a guest worker program that actually works, closes abusive loopholes such as anchor babies (How about "You are only born a U.S. citizen if your parent is a legal U.S. citizen."), federally-mandated welfare for illegals (How about "We'll help you until we drop you off at the border."), etc. etc.
The cat is already out of the bag, mainly because having a class of easy-to-exploit cheap labor is the equivalent of crack cocaine to many U.S. business interests, who in turn funnel money into political war chests and lobbying to maintain the status quo on this issue. While I prefer to stand firmly on principle myself, those who think money -- lots of money -- isn't at the root of this problem have no concept of what the problem really is.
The grim reality of illegal immigration is that it is a very real and complex issue that will never be resolved with tautologies, blind reductionism or mendacious sophistry.
Instead, somebody actually has to get off their duff and do something about it, and that is what our President is doing, like it or not.
posted by Imal # 12:15 PM