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President Defies Most Republicans on Immigration
www.townhall.com ^ | May 29, 2006 | Phyllis Schlafly

Posted on 05/29/2006 10:52:30 AM PDT by cornelis

As President Bush's poll numbers drop dramatically even among his base, the question most frequently asked by angry Republicans is: Why, oh why, is Bush so stubbornly rejecting the advice of his supporters even though that advice is consistent with the thunderous message from public opinion surveys?

The reliable Rasmussen survey, for example, reports that by a 63 percent to 19 percent margin, voters want legislation that controls the borders before trying to change the status of illegal immigrants.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger encapsuled the typical reaction to Bush's May 15 televised speech: "I have not heard the president say that our objective is to secure the borders no matter what it takes. That's what I want to hear."

Bush's dogmatic statement that we can't stop aliens from illegally entering our country unless legislation is packaged "together" with a guest-worker program is a non sequitur, nonsense, and untrue.

So what gives?

Here are some of the speculations grass-roots Republicans are making in regard to Bush's behavior:

(a) Bush prides himself on being a man of his word and he gave his word to Mexican President Vicente Fox that he would never stop the migration of Mexicans into the United States;

(b) Bush made a Faustian bargain with the big-money guys who raised more political money in 2000 than all other Republicans combined in order to nominate and elect him president;

(c) Bush is a globalist at heart and wants to carry out his father's oft-repeated ambition of a "new world order";

(d) Bush meant what he said, at Waco, Texas, in March 2005, when he announced his plan to convert the United States into a "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" by erasing our borders with Canada and Mexico.

Bush's guest-worker proposal would turn the United States into a boardinghouse for the world's poor, enable employers to import an unlimited number of "willing workers" at foreign wage levels, and wipe out what's left of the U.S. middle class. Bush lives in a house well protected by a fence and security guards and he associates with rich people who live in gated communities. Yet, for five years, he has refused to protect the property and children of ordinary Arizona citizens from trespassers and criminals.

Much attention has been paid to Bush's proposal to legalize the estimated 10 million to 20 million illegal immigrants currently living in the United States. Despite his denial of the "A" word, friends and foes alike recognize this as amnesty.

However, amnesty for 10 to 20 million is almost a drop in the bucket compared to the mammoth legalization of immigrants hiding under the deceitful words "temporary" and "guest worker." Those words are lies because the workers are not temporary and not guests.

We are indebted to the Heritage Foundation for its stunning report proving that the so-called 614-page "compromise" bill being debated in the Senate (under the Martinez-Hagel names) is a stealth open-borders bill that would import permanently and put on the path to U.S. citizenship at least 66 million people, with the actual number rising to at least twice that amount when they bring in relatives. Every category of legal immigration will be quadrupled or quintupled, and the racket called "family-chain migration" will be dramatically expanded.

The so-called temporary workers in their fourth year will get the right to remain in the United States permanently if they have learned English OR are enrolled in an English class, and after five years will get the right to become a U.S. citizen who can vote in U.S. elections. At the same time, the guest worker's spouse and children, without any numeric limits, will get legal permanent residence and citizenship.

After the so-called temporaries and their spouses become citizens, they acquire the right to bring in their parents as permanent residents on the path to citizenship. Siblings and adult children and their families will be given preference in future admissions.

In the words of the author of the Heritage report, Robert Rector, this is "the most monumental bill ever considered" and its mind-boggling costs would be the largest ever expansion of taxpayer-paid social benefits. Adding these millions to Medicaid, and adding their parents to Supplemental Security Income benefits, will become staggering entitlement costs.

The Senate bill would make 25 percent of the U.S. population foreign born within 20 years (most of them high school dropouts), and the United States as we know it would cease to exist.

It is impossible in so short a time to assimilate 100 million people whose native culture does not respect the Rule of Law, self-government, private property, or the sanctity of contracts, and where they are accustomed to an economy based on bribery and controlled by a small, rich ruling class that keeps most of the people in dire poverty.

Phyllis Schlafly is the President and Founder of the Eagle Forum.

Copyright © 2006 Copley News Service



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; boarders; borders; bush43; bushamnesty; bushbash; illegalaliens; illegalimmigration; illegals; immigrantlist; immigration; immigrationlist; invasionusa; schlafly
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To: Paul Ross
Has to weaken us to the point we have to depend on Globalist agencies...

Which IMO is the impetus for the quick selling off of our ports and transportation infrastucture for foreign owned port logistics, rail and toll highways. We will completely lose the ability to be independent when we no longer own/ control the transportation facilities for trade in basic necessities.
101 posted on 05/29/2006 8:24:12 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer ("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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To: cornelis
President Defies Most Republicans on Immigration

Not a good idea I might add, especially in the mid-term elections!

102 posted on 05/29/2006 8:29:01 PM PDT by danmar ("Reason obeys itself,and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it....... Thomas Paine)
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To: upchuck
If you can read Phyllis' article from a year ago, follow the link I supplied and not find anything alarming then your FR name certainly fits.

I followed your links and read both. I think Ms Shaffely is reading things into it that are not there. That is why I asked your opinion of the report. I didn't express my opinion. I only asked for yours.

Personal attacks are often a sign of a weak argument, a tactic often used by liberals. They are also unnecessary.

103 posted on 05/29/2006 8:42:37 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
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To: upchuck; Mind-numbed Robot; hedgetrimmer; Arizona Carolyn; potlatch; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; ...

Phyllis Schlafly hasn't lost it, nor was she to far off the mark, matter of fact dang close folks.


Citizenship Is Precious

by Phyllis Schlafly, Oct. 12, 2005

Rep. John Hostettler (R-IN) presided at a House hearing last week on Birthright Citizenship, Dual Citizenship and the Meaning of Sovereignty. It's unfortunate that this important subject received little media coverage.

The statistics are shocking. At least 383,000 babies are born in the United States every year to illegal aliens; that's 10 percent of all U.S. births and about 40 percent of indigent births.

The cost to the U.S. taxpayers is tremendous because all those babies, called anchor babies, claim birthright citizenship. Their mothers and other relatives then sign up for a vast stream of taxpayer benefits.

At least 12 million persons now live in the United States illegally. In addition, smugglers operate a thriving business of bringing in pregnant women from all over the world just in time to give birth and claim citizenship and citizens' benefits.

Full article:
Click here

 

 


104 posted on 05/29/2006 8:54:01 PM PDT by Smartass (Vaya con Dios - And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets)
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To: Smartass

I certainly agree that she is right on in that article.


105 posted on 05/29/2006 9:02:33 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
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To: nj26
"I'm beyond the point of trying to figure out why Bush is supporting amnesty and open borders. "

Simple, Bush is an elitest globalist, not an American, after you realize that very thing is easy.

106 posted on 05/29/2006 9:06:34 PM PDT by jpsb
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To: Arizona Carolyn; Smartass

Thanks for the ping!


107 posted on 05/29/2006 9:09:34 PM PDT by ntnychik
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To: Smartass

That's nearly 1,050 per day... probably a low estimate.


108 posted on 05/29/2006 9:19:23 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (God Bless Our Troops...including U.S. Border Patrol, America's First Line of Defense)
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To: Mind-numbed Robot

:o)


109 posted on 05/29/2006 9:22:15 PM PDT by Smartass (Vaya con Dios - And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets)
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To: cornelis
The Senate bill would make 25 percent of the U.S. population foreign born within 20 years (most of them high school dropouts), and the United States as we know it would cease to exist.

Why do so few people understand this including many Freepers!

110 posted on 05/29/2006 9:25:53 PM PDT by Fruitbat
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To: La Enchiladita
Hi Enchi...
Wondered what happened to "Dita?"
Yeah, more like a Bugs Bunny rabbit breeding farm.

 

111 posted on 05/29/2006 9:27:03 PM PDT by Smartass (Vaya con Dios - And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets)
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To: Fruitbat
Anyone who would sign such a bill would instantly catapult to the status of "worst President in history".

One cannot top ending the USA.

112 posted on 05/29/2006 9:29:11 PM PDT by RodgerD (Reject the Democrat's Migration Explosion Act of 2006. No to 66 million new third-world aliens.)
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To: Smartass

bttt


113 posted on 05/29/2006 9:34:57 PM PDT by nicmarlo (Bush is the Best President Ever. Rah. Rah.)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

thanks for the ping.


114 posted on 05/29/2006 9:35:20 PM PDT by nicmarlo (Bush is the Best President Ever. Rah. Rah.)
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To: Fruitbat

When you figure it out, please ping me... I'm confused why the obvious is so debated.


115 posted on 05/29/2006 9:40:23 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Mind-numbed Robot
Personal attacks are often a sign of a weak argument, a tactic often used by liberals. They are also unnecessary.

Call me anything you want. Flame away!

Apparently you lack the ability to read and comprehend. Given that, I'm not going to help you by quoting chapter and verse. No reason to. But if you read the entire 70 page CFR report and didn't find anything upsetting in it, then what can I say?

Good luck to you.

116 posted on 05/29/2006 9:54:25 PM PDT by upchuck (Wikipedia.com - the most unbelievable web site in the world.)
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To: upchuck
Apparently you lack the ability to read and comprehend. Given that, I'm not going to help you by quoting chapter and verse.

Just as I thought. You don't know what you are talking about, just going with the flow. Prove me wrong by citing just a couple of things.

117 posted on 05/29/2006 10:27:11 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
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To: Smartass

Busy long weekend... including Memorial Day ceremonies at Los Angeles National Cemetery today, which leaves a somber impression ... tending to be reflective.


118 posted on 05/29/2006 10:28:10 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (God Bless Our Troops...including U.S. Border Patrol, America's First Line of Defense)
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To: La Enchiladita
The amount of Americans, that have given their lives
for America, that are buried world wide, is overwhelming.
Thank God, there's a day set aside just to honor them.

 

119 posted on 05/29/2006 11:01:25 PM PDT by Smartass (Vaya con Dios - And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets)
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To: cornelis

A very nice, and concise, summary of the situation. Good work Phyllis.


120 posted on 05/29/2006 11:20:15 PM PDT by Colorado Buckeye (It's the culture stupid!)
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