For those of you blaming all this on Republicans only, check this out:
Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, center, D-Houston, speaks during an immigration rally in Guadalupe Plaza in Houston, Texas, Monday, April 10, 2006.
Posted on 04/11/2006 8:10:40 AM PDT by Wolfstar
Ladies and gentlemen, the scope of the out-of-countrol illegal immigration problem is more massive than even those who've been warning about it for years may have realized. The photos on this thread are only a sampling of the hundreds available from yesterday's coast-to-coast demonstrations. They are intended to show -- in stark visual terms -- the scope of what we are up against. I think they also show that, in some respects, we have already lost the arguments so many have been making. We lost with immigration "reform" in the 1960's.
More significantly, we lost in 1986 when President Ronald Reagan signed the first amnesty for illegal aliens in U.S. history.
Link to the full text of The Immigration Reform and Control Act (Simpson-Mazzoli Act, IRCA, Pub. L. 99-603, Nov. 6, 1986, 100 Stat. 3359)
Summary of the IRCA of 1986:
a. Authorized legalization – amnesty -- for aliens who had resided in the United States in an unlawful status since January 1, 1982. Covered aliens entering illegally or as temporary visitors with authorized stay expiring before that date, or with the Government’s knowledge of their unlawful status before that date, and not excludable.
b. Created sanctions prohibiting employers from knowingly hiring, recruiting, or referring for a fee aliens not authorized to work in the United States. (This provision has not been enforced.)
c. Increased enforcement at U.S. borders.
d. Created a new classification of seasonal agricultural worker and provisions for the legalization of certain such workers.
e. Extended the registry date -- the date from which an alien had resided illegally and continuously in the United States and thus qualified for adjustment to permanent resident status -- from June 30, 1948 to January 1, 1972.
f. Authorized adjustment to permanent resident status for Cubans and Haitians who entered the United States without inspection and had continuously resided in country since January 1, 1982.
g. Increased the numerical limitation for immigrants admitted under the preference system for dependent areas from 600 to 5,000 beginning in fiscal year 1988.
h. Created a new special immigrant category for certain retired employees of international organizations and their families, and a new non-immigrant status for parents and children of such immigrants.
i. Created a non-immigrant Visa Waiver Pilot program allowing certain aliens to visit the United States without applying for a non-immigrant visa.
j. Allocated 5,000 non-preference visas in each of fiscal years 1987 and 1988 for aliens born in countries from which immigration was adversely affected by the immigration reform 1965 act.
For those of you blaming all this on Republicans only, check this out:
Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, center, D-Houston, speaks during an immigration rally in Guadalupe Plaza in Houston, Texas, Monday, April 10, 2006.
A protester rallies for immigration reform on the Washington Mall April 10, 2006.
Counter-protest in Tuscon
Is it better that they are waving American flags instead of Mexican? Yeah probably. But the point I got out of the demonstrators was, "My God, look at how ineffectual our government is at one of it's most important duties of protecting our borders."
Hail Aztlan
Manuel Lopez, from Mexico, wears a flag during a rally at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn., Monday, April 10, 2006.
Gaby Sifventes, of Durango, Mexico, waves flags next to Lupita Medina, of Mexico, as she and her cousin Erica Chavez, left from Wichita, attend an immigration rally outside City Hall in Wichita, Kan., Monday, April 10, 2006.
Demonstrators hold signs as thousands rally for immigration reform along Broadway in New York, April 10, 2006.
Wang Mei Hua, left, originally from Shanghai, China, joins a group of Chinese-Americans in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan prior to marching towards a rally against immigration reform held in front of New York's City Hall, Monday April 10, 2006.
Mexican flags carried by demonstrators on Broadway in New York City.
Leandra Ovalle, left, of Trenton, N.J., a native of Guatamala, listens to speakers at an immigrants rally at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J.,
The USA has been invaded by a foreign power with the help of a treasonous fifth column of politicians and businessmen. Time to clean house.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (a Democrat) addresses demonstrators during the national day of action for U.S. immigration law reform in Los Angeles, California April 10, 2006.
Los Angeles-based Cardinal Roger Mahoney addresses demonstrators during the national day of action for U.S. immigration law reform in Los Angeles, California April 10, 2006.
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