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Posted on 07/26/2006 3:50:17 AM PDT by RWR8189
Just when it looked like the Senate Republicans had finally gotten the message that the American people in general, and their own supporters in particular, are outraged over amnesty for illegal aliens, some Republican Senators have come up with yet another disguise for amnesty -- and gotten bipartisan support, including Ted Kennedy and John McCain.
Under this new plan, its advocates claim, illegal immigrants would "have to leave the country" and re-apply to come back in legally and get on a path toward citizenship. It sounds good but on closer examination it turns out to be a fraud.
How long would the illegal immigrants have to leave the country? According to the Senate bill they "may exit the United States and immediately re-enter." In other words, do a U-turn and come right back. How is that for "tough" border control?
Nobody else gets into the United States that easily. You can say "tough" all you want and still be a wimp. Or a politician.
How long do the Senate Republicans think they can keep insulting the public's intelligence, with an election just a few months away?
Every gesture that the Senate has made toward controlling the border is one that they have backed into under pressure from an outraged public. The Senators' whole focus has been on what they could do for the illegal aliens, in order to win Hispanic votes -- and how they could camouflage it in order not to lose other votes.
Businesses that want cheap labor are also in favor of amnesty, under whatever name. So are citizen-of-the-world intellectuals, for whom national borders are just unfortunate relics of the past and illegal aliens are just like everyone else except for not having legal documents.
Nobody is just like everyone else, individually or collectively. Second-generation immigrants are not even just like their parents. Their crime rates are far higher than those of their parents who came here to work and who can appreciate the difference between what they had in Mexico and what they have here.
The second generation does not compare their lives here with how people live in Mexico. They compare their lives with the lives of other Americans -- and there are all sorts of people around to tell them that the difference is due to injustices that they suffer.
Some of the more doctrinaire free trade advocates see the free movement of people across national borders as being just like the free movement of goods. But, when you buy a Toyota, it doesn't issue demands that our automobile laws be in Japanese and it doesn't have little Toyotas that add to the crime rate or to the burdens of our school system.
Moreover, when a Toyota needs repair, it doesn't go to an emergency room and expect the taxpayers to pay for parts and labor.
Whoever buys a Toyota is expected to pay the full price of the car and its upkeep.
But employers of illegal immigrants get the benefit of cheap labor and leave it to the taxpayers to cover the costs of their health care, imprisonment and everything else.
Our schools pay the price not only in money but also in lower educational quality when children with a limited knowledge of English and a limited commitment to learning impede the education of other children.
People who argue about immigration in the abstract ignore the fact that there is no such thing as an immigrant in the abstract. Immigrants from some countries have twice the education of immigrants from other countries and the differences between how many commit crimes can be some multiple between one group and another.
The most fundamental question is: What is to decide how many immigrants from what countries are to be admitted to the United States? The laws of this country or the fait accomplis of illegal aliens?
Are the citizens of this country to be people committed to this country or people who go back and forth, who expect American culture to adjust to them instead of vice versa, and who are kept separate and disaffected by their leaders and by the multicultural cult? We already have too many Americans with no real commitment to this country and no willingness to defend it.
Gee, I wonder if the thought of registering illegals to vote ever occurred to La Raza, Mecha, etc........hmmmm. I guess with all the fake ID fraud going on their biggest problem might be figuring out how many names one person could use....for absentee voting maybe?
They don't have to have any kind of ab ID, only an addreaa that they can receive mail at.
BUMP
Is that the case in every state or are some like CA more liberal in how they interpret the law (as well as enforcement)?
I only know sbout Cslifornia. The law here is that it is illegal to ask for an ID even at the polling place.
I'm sure that illegals voting are using the other option, register by mail, request an absentee ballot by mail, and return it by mail. Their signature on the outside of the return envelope just has to match the one that they registered with.
All elections in Oregon are conducted 100% via mail. One never has to appear in person at any stage of any proceedings.
Sometimes I'm just in awe of the sheer stupidity of our (so-called) leaders when it comes to issues like this.......although I believe it's not stupidity at work here just people going about the job of selling out this country.
Thom Sowell is always good!!!
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Captain McQueeg is skating on the same edges of treason and breach of oath of office as our el preidente.
"It's going to be a real pleasure to help crush this arrogant idiot's presidential ambitions in the Republican primaries."
There isn't a single loyal American conservative I know who is willing to vote for this showboat.
One of the "buzzwords" being tossed about on news programs and "talk radio" is the term "tipping point."
I wonder...............when will the "tipping point" be reached where the rank and file "republicans" will decide that they've been had, and will no longer support the party that thrives on "how do we fool them today?"
Probably never......................................
Thomas Sowell!
Is there an actual Pence bill yet, or is it still "virtual"?
This excellent Sowell article was sent to both of my so-called "Senators" Boxer & Feinstein with a note that neither one of them deserve to be in the Senate, because they both have turned their backs on California's (and America's) workers and taxpayers.
All of these no-goods sit in the Senate, at our expense, thinking that they're kings and queens. They need to be ousted, no matter which party they claim to "represent".
I believe Sowell mentioned them specifically:
We already have too many Americans with no real commitment
to this country and no willingness to defend it.
Captain Oldsmobile and The McAiniac do not qualify as 'bipartisan' support.
L
That's exactly what I believe an Embassy would be considered, especially in a case like this. An Embassy is considered the "foreign country soverign property", and is safe haven for that country's citizens from the local country in which it is located. The only way to get someone (who doesn't have diplomatic immunity, unless the Embassy refuses to release them).
How many pesos does it take to buy off an American Senator? Can't help but wonder!
Bttt!
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