Another view of LA, today.
Posted on 03/25/2006 3:06:09 PM PST by Boston Blackie
We are not a "nation of immigrants." This is both a factual error and a warm-and-fuzzy non sequitur. Eighty-five percent of the residents currently in the United States were born here. Sure, we are almost all descendants of immigrants. But we are not a "nation of immigrants."
(Isn’t it funny, by the way, how the politically correct multiculturalists who claim we are a “nation of immigrants” are sooo insensitive toward Native American Indians, Native Alaskans, Native Hawaiians, and descendants of black slaves who did not “immigrate” here in any common sense of the word?)
Even if we were a “nation of immigrants,” it does not explain why we should be against sensible immigration control.
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
It was a lot simpler when we were just right-wing Clinton haters.
I love it when you talk dirty
Exactly: make them carry the acsh back to Mexico and seal the border and with a year or two half the ilegal population would be gone.
And every I time I hear the old saw about "jobs Americans won't take" I say, "That's because the jobs only pay minimum wage, thanks to the hordes of illegals willing to work for $5.50 an hour or under the table for cash."
Why, they are vacationing in Mexico! Fully paid travel and accommodations, and plenty of cash under the table. ICE is the most corrupt organization that we have under DHS. The system is gamed by the lawyers and "employers" of a slave labor pool. The amount of cash that is generated by this black market economy is staggering. American politicians have NO desire to upset this status quo. We will get platitudes and blue ribbon committees. I remember well the Cesar Chavez movement during the '60s and '70s. This time around, the issue is not about migrant farm workers. The economic prowess and organizational skills are much greater today. Reasonable Americans must demand a civilized and pragmatic approach. Without the violent picket lines and demonstrations. And without the violent rhetoric that damages a conservative cause.
Michelle IS.
Nuff said.
12 Million illegal aliens = 1/25 of the current US population. It's no wonder the Welfare, the Medical, and other support systems are bankrupt.
Those New Orleans buses could have come in handy today.
From The Denver Post today http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3639576 :
"If there was any doubt about the large volume of migrant workers in Colorado, a crowd of more than 50,000 Latino demonstrators proved it today."
They immigrated here too.
Dangerous Holes in Border Security (Is a War Going on in Texas?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602967/posts
"in Laredo, Texas. U.S. authorities grabbed two completed Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), materials for making 33 more, military-style grenades, 26 grenade triggers, large quantities of AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles, 1,280 rounds of ammunition, silencers, machine gun assembly kits, 300 primers, bullet-proof vests, police scanners, sniper scopes, narcotics, and cash."
That's for sure, but they are not as great of an enemy as those who walk through the halls of Congress. It's their greed and lust for power that makes them so dangerous. We need to clean house, from the top to the bottom. and I don't want to wait until the election. LOL
The full context of Hamilton's remarks:
Alexander Hamilton
EXAMINATION OF JEFFERSON'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS OF DECEMBER 7, 1801
NO. VIII
January 12, 1802.
Resuming the subject of our last paper, we proceed to trace still further the consequences that must result from a too unqualified admission of foreigners to an equal participation in our civil and political rights.
The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias, and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education, and family.
The opinion advanced in the Notes on Virginia is undoubtedly correct, that foreigners will generally be apt to bring with them attachments to the persons they have left behind; to the country of their nativity, and to its particular customs and manners. They will also entertain opinions on government congenial with those under which they have lived; or, if they should be led hither from a preference to ours, how extremely unlikely is it that they will bring with them that temperate love of liberty, so essential to real republicanism? There may, as to particular individuals, and at particular times, be occasional exceptions to these remarks, yet such is the general rule. The influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to change and corrupt the national spirit; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities. In the composition of society, the harmony of the ingredients is all-important, and whatever tends to a discordant intermixture must have an injurious tendency.
The United States have already felt the evils of incorporating a large number of foreigners into their national mass; by promoting in different classes different predilections in favor of particular foreign nations, and antipathies against others, it has served very much to divide the community and to distract our councils. It has been often likely to compromit the interests of our own country in favor of another. The permanent effect of such a policy will be, that in times of great public danger there will be always a numerous body of men, of whom there may be just grounds of distrust; the suspicion alone will weaken the strength of the nation, but their force may be actually employed in assisting an invader.
In the infancy of the country, with a boundless waste to people, it was politic to give a facility to naturalization; but our situation is now changed. It appears from the last census that we have increased about one third in ten years; after allowing for what we have gained from abroad, it will be quite apparent that the natural progress of our own population is sufficiently rapid for strength, security, and settlement. By what has been said, it is not meant to contend for a total prohibition of the right of citizenship to strangers, nor even for the very long residence which is now a prerequisite to naturalization, and which of itself goes far towards a denial of that privilege. The present law was merely a temporary measure adopted under peculiar circumstances, and perhaps demands revision. But there is a wide difference between closing the door altogether and throwing it entirely open; between a postponement of fourteen years, and an immediate admission to all the rights of citizenship. Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the principles and imbibe the spirit of our government; and to admit of a probability at least, of their feeling a real interest in our affairs. A residence of not less than five years ought to be required.
If the rights of naturalization may be communicated by parts, and it is not perceived why they may not, those peculiar to the conducting of business and the acquisition of property, might with propriety be at once conferred, upon receiving proof, by certain prescribed solemnities, of the intention of the candidates to become citizens; postponing all political privileges to the ultimate term. To admit foreigners indiscriminately to the rights of citizens, the moment they put foot in our country, as recommended in the message, would be nothing less than to admit the Grecian horse into the citadel of our liberty and sovereignty.
LUCIUS CRASSUS.
http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/LFBooks/Hamilton0135/Works/0249-08_Bk.html
An airhead.
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