Posted on 01/04/2007 5:32:40 AM PST by Mount Athos
Five years into the war on terror, most Americans desperately hoped 2006 would be "the year" for solutions to the long national nightmare of intentionally unsecured borders and the resulting illegal immigration crisis. For many, the dream was that at a minimum, we would begin to see border security and immigration law enforcement similar to what Mexicans still living in Mexico enjoy. It didn't happen.
According to a report released in late 2006 by the House Committee of Homeland Security, up to 10 million people entered the United States illegally and un-inspected last year. Georgia watched as its population of illegal aliens increased by 114 percent - the highest rate of growth in the nation.
Now, 2007 is being touted as "the year." The word in Washington all over the country is that "comprehensive reform" - a repeat of the 1986 "one-time" path to citizenship for illegal aliens who come mostly from Mexico - must happen before official campaigning begins for the 2008 elections.
Happy New Year!
It seems that the party taking power in Congress is more in line with the president's ideas on how to treat the resentful illegals and the vast black market labor-addicted employers.
Even as it became clear on election night in November that the Democrats were taking over the House, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow remarked that the election results presented "interesting opportunities" for "comprehensive immigration reform."
For something that the "do-nothing" Congress accomplished, I point to stopping the McCain/Kennedy/Bush amnesty of 2006. To the GOP House: Gracias.
The solution to the illegal immigration problem coming from Washington can be boiled down to this: Make everybody "legal." Give them - again - the path to citizenship they demand, and whatever you do, don't mention the "A" word. The present voters are on to the amnesty swindle, but hold on, we have millions of potential new voters right in front of us!
Happy New Year!
"They might be unlawful aliens but otherwise lawful citizens," was how U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales described the millions of identity and wage-stealing illegal aliens in remarks during his Senate confirmation hearings in January. Happy New Year!
Having happily endorsed the re-writing and translating of the American national anthem, in the spring of 2006, millions of screaming illegals marched in America waving the flag of Mexico in a demand for "dignity," "justice" and amnesty for all. In Chicago, about 75,000 marching illegals were led by U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez.
"This is our country and we are not leaving!" was Gutierrez's rallying cry.
Gutierrez is busy now helping write the House version of "comprehensive immigration reform." Happy New Year!
Imagine the headlines of "intolerance and racism" if Americans were to march by the millions in a demand for secure borders and requiring that illegals be punished along with their employers.
An effort to preserving the common language of our grandfathers, laws making English our official language were angrily ridiculed as "racist" by - among many - U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, (D-Nev.).
Does anyone remember the outrage of 1999 when El Cenizo, Texas, not only resolved to grant safe haven to all illegal aliens from Mexico, but made Spanish the town's official language? Me neither.
Reid is the incoming Senate Majority Leader. Happy New Year!
Here in Georgia, taking time out from lobbying against passage of the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act, Jerry Gonzales, executive director of the Atlanta-based Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, joined marchers outside the CNN Center carrying signs calling CNN's Lou Dobbs a racist.
Dobb's offense? His must-see daily television presentation of the consequences of illegal immigration.
Beware: The open borders lobby, designed to create a climate of fear for Americans tempted to speak out in defense of their nation against amnesty-again, will be in high gear in 2007. On illegal immigration, the president has found new friends.
Happy New Year - or as we may be saying next year if illegals are rewarded with a path to citizenship again - Feliz Ano Nuevo.
Yeah right, nancy pelosi was more strident than Tom Tancredo.
Eventually we are going to have to UNDO the amnesty deals.
Every politician will be able to stand before the American people and say (once all you mention becomes reality), "A new America for the children.....a nation based on lawlessness and full of hate for those who are citizens of the nation", but it will also be plenty of money in the pockets of those politicians so ..... there goes the excuse of once again .... "We loved the country into third world status for the children."
Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside....just knowing I (and all of the US citizens) have politicians in power who hate this nation. We will vote them all back into power as soon as the next election cycle comes round.
"If true then why did voters vote in nancy pelosi and the democrats and that 1/3 of the GOP of Tancredos's immigration caucus, lost."
Here you go Dane.
"More broadly, this was obviously a very bad year for Republicans, leading to the defeat of both enforcement supporters — like John Hostettler (career grade of A- from the pro-control lobbying group Americans for Better Immigration) and Charles Taylor (A) — as well as amnesty promoters, like Mike DeWine (D) and Lincoln Chafee (F). Likewise, the winners included both prominent hawks — Tancredo (A) and Bilbray (A+) — and doves — Lugar (D-), for instance, and probably Heather Wilson (D).
What’s more, if legalizing illegals is so widely supported by the electorate, how come no Democrats campaigned on it? Not all were as tough as Brad Ellsworth, the Indiana sheriff who defeated House Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Hostettler, or John Spratt of South Carolina, whose immigration web pages might as well have been written by Tom Tancredo. But even those nominally committed to “comprehensive” reform stressed enforcement as job one. And the national party’s “Six for 06” rip-off of the Contract with America said not a word about immigration reform, “comprehensive” or otherwise.
The only exception to this “Whatever you do, don’t mention the amnesty” approach appears to have been Jim Pederson, the Democrat who challenged Sen. Jon Kyl (a grade of B) by touting a Bush-McCain-Kennedy-style amnesty and foreign-worker program and even praised the 1986 amnesty, which pretty much everyone now agrees was a catastrophe.
Pederson lost."
Mark Krikorian, National Review, 11/9/2006
Stop the Tancredo canard and LIES bonehead. FYI I've been saving this just for yooooooou.
The Great Illegal Immigration Myth of '06So 'stick it' about Tancredo's 'loss' and go beat the slaves you have out in your field picking berries.
HUMAN EVENTS, Dec 27, 2006~~ snip ~~~ In other words, about 9.6% of the tough guys on illegal immigration lost, while 25% of the amnesty crowd went down to defeat. Along those same lines, these numbers from the same article seem to be rather compelling:
If being tough on illegal immigration is such a killer, then how can it be that the members of Tom Tancredo's Reform Caucus outperformed the rest of the House? The question answers itself.
- 11.5% of all Republican seats in Congress were lost as Democrats took back control of Congress
- But only 6.7% of the members of Tancredo's Immigration Reform Caucus lost their seats.
Nice post!
Two posters have shown this claim is a bald-faced lie. You need to stop making such.
See post my post #30 and read the article linked to Human Events.
Excuse me, 1/3 of the democrat pickups came from Tancredo's immigration caucus.
The biggest door the election opened is comprehensive immigration reform, giving the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition, to which NRCA belongs, better prospects in the House for reform along the lines of President Bush's proposal. The election proved the one-dimensional hard-line approach to immigration espoused by House Republicans did not work, with almost one-third of the 31 Democrat House pickups coming from Rep. Tom Tancredo's (R-Colo.) anti-immigration caucus.
Whereas it has been documented on this thread from two different articles that the percentage of seats lost from Tancredo's immigration caucus was LOWER than the pro-amnesty bunch.
So someone is lying here. Please show details to back up your claim.
Dubya's longtime strategy is to do nothing. He lets his enemies run their mouths and he stands there, squinting, and clumsily repeating 2003 talking points years later. It doesn't matter that the strategy fails, it's what he knows best and he keeps on doing it.
I think he thinks it makes him seem above it all, but all it does is make him a long-term, unpopular president who probably won't get near a 45% approval rating for the rest of his term.
Awful. And his peanut gallery of enablers are mentalcases.
Well it pretty easy, the democrats gained 30 seats and 10 of those pickups came from Tancredo's caucus, including such big names as Hayworth and Hostettler who made immigration a big part of their campaigns.
Tancredo, Buchanan, and the small but vocal minority in the Republican party are NOT the holders of the key that will allow the Republicans to continue in office.
Most core voters were disgusted at the Republicans failure to comprehensively address the immigration debacle, along with their failure to address ANY issue with something more than cowardly sleaziness. This does not translate to an affirmation that the Republican party core is for slamming the door and expelling all illegals. There is a sizeable group of Republicans who would be perfectly happy to admit the whole crowd of illegals now, if we could devise some type of system to get them mainstreamed into our social order.
Shrieking "NO SHAMNESTY" is not going to get the Congress back for you.
They will allow the illegals in so that the workers subsidize the social security system. The employers pay in for th0ose workers, but few of the illegals will claim benefits, so the system will receive a "premium" through all of the unpaid claims.
As always, follow the money.
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