Ex-Governor backs illegal immigration initiative

The Pueblo Chieftain ^ | 11/26/2005 | Charles Ashby

[RightDemocrat]

DENVER - Former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm has been saying it for years - that the state and the nation must do something about the growing number of illegal immigrants.

Now, Lamm and others are poised to get a citizens' initiative on next year's ballot that they hope would do just that.

For years Lamm, who served three terms as governor, has traveled around the state and the nation warning about the perils and pitfalls of the country's current immigration policies.

In a speech on immigration overpopulation at a Washington, D.C., conference earlier this year, Lamm satirically outlined eight ways on how to destroy America, much of which had to do with an open-door policy on immigration.

In that speech - and in others before and since - Lamm said the nation has turned a blind eye to the number of undocumented workers who are coming to the United States and, because of that blindness, are allowing a subculture to thrive that could one day bring the nation down.

"The history of American immigration is clearly a history of xenophobia, racism, nativism and all those other bad things," Lamm said in an interview on Friday. "But never before in our history have we taken such a disproportionate in a conflict that within five or 10 years is going to have some very dramatic ramifications."

In order to put a stop to all of that - and get Congress to focus more on the problem - Lamm has thrown his support behind a proposed Colorado constitutional amendment to ban all state services to undocumented workers except those already mandated by federal law, such as education and emergency medical care.

[RightDemocrat]

I disagree with Richard Lamm's views on overpopulation, but share his concerns about the impact of illegal immigration in terms of economics, our social fabric and national security. Illegal immigration hurts workers at the lowest end of the wage scale, creates linguistic divisions and leaves us vulnerable to potential terrorism.

[gubamyster]

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[Travis McGee]

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U.S. Constitution Article 4 Section 4:

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,

and shall protect each of them against Invasion;"

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Invasion: \In*va"sion\, n. [L. invasio: cf. F. invasion. See Invade.] [1913 Webster]

1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.

[Brian Allen]

BTTT!

[DTogo]

Build it here, build it NOW!

Coming to an American neighborhood near you, thanks to a lack of border security and immigration enforcement:

[Razz Barry]

"Lamm maintains that the average undocumented worker has two to four school-age children. At $7,000 a student, it costs approximately $210 million a year to educate the estimated 30,000 children of undocumented workers each year, he said."

The truth is, it costs more to educate illegals than our own children.

One of the biggest mistakes we made was allowing the courts to force us to educate illegal immigrants. If we'd taken to the streets in protest over this we would not have the problem with illegals we have today.

What crap we are. Our parents/grandparents fight and defeat the Germans and we allow the government to force their grandchildren/great grandchildren to learn Spanish. While the rest of the world teaches their children English, as a second language, we have Mexicans refusing to learn it in an English speaking country. Who the hell do they think they are?

[blackie]

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