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Unchecked liberalism can ruin the country and, literally, kill us. I remember the House in my prayers, the Senate is hopeless.
As bad as the 1965 Act was the 1990 Immigration Act was worse because it combined the family chain laws with a doubling of legal immigration. Kennedy also had a large hand in that one too. Now unless the House stops them they're going to do it all over again only this time it will finally break the United States for good.
The issue will not begin to be settled until:
-the 11 million ILLEGALS are sent back to Mexico.
-the GOP wakes up to the real problem--FIX MEXICO.
-Bush understands that 11 million people dumped on Vincente Fox's doorstep will bring about reform, including US companies investing south of the border.
What? You mean we CAN'T send 11 million people across the border?
Mexico did.
More people = more regulation = less freedom.
Senate immigration subcommittee chairman Edward Kennedy (D-MA.) reassured his colleagues and the nation with the following:
"First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same ... Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset ... Contrary to the charges in some quarters, [the bill] will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated and deprived nations of Africa and Asia ... In the final analysis, the ethnic pattern of immigration under the proposed measure is not expected to change as sharply as the critics seem to think."
Also Edward Kennedy (D-MA.):
"The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs."
In 1965, new Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach testified:
"This bill is not designed to increase or accelerate the numbers of newcomers permitted to come to America. Indeed, this measure provides for an increase of only a small fraction in permissible immigration."
Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-RI):
"Contrary to the opinions of some of the misinformed, this legislation does not open the floodgates." (Congressional Record, Sept. 20, 1965, p. 24480.)
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"Senate floor manager and Camelot knight-errant Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, assured jittery senators that "our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually."
No wonder he's drunk every day.
No amnesty 07-07-2007 bump
The 1986 amnesty was almost as bad as the 1965 act. People should have known better in 1986.