President Defies Most Republicans on Immigration

www.townhall.com ^ | May 29, 2006 | Phyllis Schlafly

[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

[Paladin2]

So exactly what IS Bush's motivation for the stance he has taken? Are W and the 'Rat$ concerned about the price of illegal drugs in America's big cities?

[cornelis]

The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (CIRA, S.2611), which recently passed the Senate, provides amnesty to illegal immigrants and creates a massive “guest worker” for life program. Earlier this month, The Heritage Foundation released an analysis calculating that the bill, if enacted, likely would result in 103 million immigrants obtaining legal status or entering in the U.S. legally over the next twenty years.[1] All of these individuals would have the right to permanent residence and could become citizens and vote in U.S. elections. - link

[cornelis]

Heritage Report: Senate Immigration Bill Would Allow 100 Million New Legal Immigrants over the Next Twenty Years

[cornelis]

Compassion?

[DeweyCA]

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.

This point is huge, and must be repeatedly said. There is a huge danger that they will bring their culture with them. We have already seen this corrupt political culture happen in Southgate, a southern suburb of Los Angeles.

[fish hawk]

He'll never work in this town again !!

[Wallace T.]

I am waiting for the Bushbots to claim that Phyllis Schafly, who has been a conservative activist since before most of us were born, is really a radical extreme right wing racist fascist homophobic xenophobe who has sold out to Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.

[stephenjohnbanker]

What is up with southgate?

[ECM]

I shall wait (eagerly) with you.

[Paladin2]

Wouldn't it be more compassionate to invade the northern states of Mexico and install a US gov't there?

[beaelysium]

1. Just for starters, we need to change the immigration laws so that children do not automatically become citizens and set a limit to how many relatives can come in also.
2. Build the wall.
3. Apply a Heavy federal tax to any money sent out of the country via western union and the likes.
4. Apply Heavy punitive fines on employers of illegals
5. Support freedom fighters: leftist governments are rearing their ugly heads in Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, and perhaps Mexico and Peru. U.S. oil companies are being nationalized. China is aligning itself with Cuba and Venezuela to explore and drill offshore oil just forty-five miles off the Florida Keys.
   
   That begs the question, why isn’t the United States drilling there?
   
   And, perhaps more importantly, what is our government policy regarding this burgeoning leftward tilt in Latin America—which by the way is a safe harbor for a number of terrorist groups including Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, all of which are actively plotting to destroy the United States?
   
   This is very serious stuff. The U.S. government needs a clear and aggressive response to this leftist revolt that threatens our hemisphere.
   
   And by the way, what actions will our government take to defend our corporations from expropriation? Since when do we allow foreign governments to take over the assets of American companies?
   

 

[newgeezer]

Compassion?

Either that, or expanding the labor pool. Maybe both.

[Esther Ruth]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1634942/posts

This obvious deception in the regards to these matters cannot be good and can only mean certain things.

[DumpsterDiver]

ping

[newgeezer]

That begs the question, why isn’t the United States drilling there?

We're not drilling in the Keys for the same reason we're not drilling ANWR, not building refineries, not burning our coal, and not building nuclear power plants.

[Paladin2]

Halliburton and Cheny won't so we need to outsource it those who will?

[investigateworld]

Why?

He wants to duplicate his father and hand over the White House to a Clinton.

[Regulator]

If the S 2611 would bring in 100 million over the next 20 years (and it would, and more), then what kind of bill could it be called?

RADICAL. A transformation of the United States unprecedented in all of their history.

So what's "conservative" about either the bill or the people who voted for it?