Posted on 04/24/2007 7:13:50 AM PDT by UnklGene
About the Petition:
The liberal media is not disclosing the real truth about immigration. American citizens are not being told the full story, and are being deceived with misinformation.
A prime example is the recent PEW Research Survey that showed that 77 percent of the American people did not want an increase in legal immigration;yet the media refused to report it, or they manipulate the numbers. Left unchecked and unchallenged, the medias biased reporting, will sway the outcome of the immigration debate.
That is why Grassfire has launched a national Demand the Media Tell the Truth!" about Immigration petition. Teaming with the nations foremost media watchdog group, the Media Research Center, we want to give outraged citizens a true platform to help usher in a new era of responsibility and truth in reporting as it pertains to immigration!
Headed by media expert Brent Bozell, the Media Research Center is leading the charge in this effort. Each day, MRC analysts and researchers painstakingly chronicle and expose the medias immigration bias. By signing this petition you will be joining a fast-growing grassroots army that is demanding the truth from the media!
http://www.grassfire.net/403/petition.asp?PID=12912199
Ping
Gee, Hoagland’s quote made it into a highly select group of big thinkers:
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37eff46e436b.htm
Actually, his quote seemed similar to a 19th century visionary setting a date certain for the end of the world. At least he didn’t proclaim a new date when 2000 came and went.
B U M P
Hoagland = nutcase
Unfortunately Steyn appears to be right. My uncle and his in-laws’ extended family live in GTA (more precisely Markham/Scarborough) and all I get is that they appear to live in little Hong Kongs rather than anything like Canada. In contrast, my brother and family live in Metro Detroit just 4 hours away and even if they retain lots of Chinese customs they have far more of “native” American influence and values.
As a migrant background I found it is a bit like walking on a tight rope. Do we define assimilation in believing in the natural rights and republican (small r) values that underpin America’s foundation, or go on the routes like watching NFL and eating apple pies and hamburgers? Steyn is also unclear on the issue of “How many Canadians will be saying “eh?” in 20 years’ time? Or following hockey?”. It was Steyn himself who noted the Islamists who beheaded Danny Pearl 5 years ago were educated in the London School of Economics and were avid followers of cricket. If we use the “you are assimilated into New Zealand life if you follow rugby and eat meat pies” manifesto they are 100% assimilated Britons. Besides, who defines these cultural habits as “native”? 100 years ago pizza was considered un-American food, and today you will be regarded as loony if you say spaghetti is not American.
It is not as easy walk as a migrant. I wish I could have the courage and wisdom to do what is right of God.
Gives whole new meaning to "Oh, Canada!" Doesn't it?
Caution for other countries: Don't try this at home!
This is a very big question and I’m afraid there is a whole can of worms that awaits to be opened. Should we decide meat and three veg is good for all American and decide to purge burrito from the streets? Should we banish the low in cholesterol tofu for the heart disease stoking fatty beef patties? Should we force Chinese and Jewish grown up children to stop sending money to support their parents as this is “un-American”?
These are some of the types of questions native-born New Zealanders asked me when I came to New Zealand 15 years ago. And yet the same New Zealanders are the first to complain there is no meat pies and sausage rolls the minute they land in San Francisco.
Come on now. give these hard working, fun loving, family valued, hard working and cost effective undocumented temporary guest workers a break.....enough is enough....if Bush likes them, they must be ok....
Our Lady of the Snows
1897
(Canadian Preferential Tariff, 1897)
Rudyard Kipling
A NATION spoke to a Nation,
A Queen sent word to a Throne:
Daughter am I in my mothers house,
But mistress in my own.
The gates are mine to open,
As the gates are mine to close,
And I set my house in order,
Said our Lady of the Snows.
Neither with laughter nor weeping,
Fear or the childs amaze
Soberly under the White Mans law
My white men go their ways.
Not for the Gentiles clamour
Insult or threat of blows
Bow we the knee to Baal,
Said our Lady of the Snows.
My speech is clean and single,
I talk of common things
Words of the wharf and the market-place
And the ware the merchant brings:
Favour to those I favour,
But a stumbling-block to my foes.
Many there be that hate us,
Said our Lady of the Snows.
I called my chiefs to council
In the din of a troubled year;
For the sake of a sign ye would not see,
And a word ye would not hear.
This is our message and answer;
This is the path we chose:
For we be also a people,
Said our Lady of the Snows.
Carry the word to my sisters
To the Queens of the East and the South.
I have proven faith in the Heritage
By more than the word of the mouth.
They that are wise may follow
Ere the worlds war-trumpet blows,,
But II am first in the battle,
Said our Lady of the Snows.
A Nation spoke to a Nation
A Throne sent word to a Throne:
Daughter am I in my mothers house
But mistress in my own.
The gates are mine to open,
As the gates are mine to close,
And I abide by my Mothers House,
Said our Lady of the Snows
Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government.”
Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference,
Evians, France, 1991
I would like to be added to the Steyn ping list please!
My nominee would be:
"...that's the reality: the Canada North America of tomorrow will be built by who shows up."
Leave it to the Canadians to move south.
To St. Paul...
from canadianencyclopedia.com:
A Mari usque ad Mare (”From Sea to Sea”), Canada’s motto, was derived from Psalm 72:8, which reads in Latin “Et dominabitur a mari usque ad mare, et a flumine usque ad terminos terrae,” and in the King James version, “He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.” Attention was first directed to the verse when, apparently at the suggestion of Samuel Leonard TILLEY, the term “dominion” was chosen to represent Canada as a whole when the British North America Act was drafted.
Like father, like son.
Aw hell, and Nixon went to China.
For a long time there, I just thought I got wiser. Naw, just ornier.
Never.
Aw come on, re-elect all the NAFTA supporting globalists you can find.
I have something in mind, but it has nothing to do with re-election. Far from it.
What is going on today is unprecedented in our nation's history. Here are some facts gleaned from Bureau of the Census data that provide an indication of what is really happening:
--The 35.2 million immigrants (legal and illegal) living in the country in March 2005 is the highest number ever recorded -- two and a half times the 13.5 million during the peak of the last great immigration wave in 1910.
--Between January 2000 and March 2005, 7.9 million new immigrants (legal and illegal) settled in the country, making it the highest five-year period of immigration in American history.
--Immigrants account for 12.1 percent of the total population, the highest percentage in eight decades. If current trends continue, within a decade it will surpass the high of 14.7 percent reached in 1910.
--Of adult immigrants, 31 percent have not completed high school, three-and-a-half times the rate for natives. Since 1990, immigration has increased the number of such workers by 25 percent, while increasing the supply of all other workers by 6 percent.
--The proportion of immigrant-headed households using at least one major welfare program is 29 percent, compared to 18 percent for native households.
--The poverty rate for immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) is 18.4 percent, 57 percent higher than the 11.7 percent for natives and their children. Immigrants and their minor children account for almost one in four persons living in poverty.
--One-third of immigrants lack health insurance -- two-and-one‑half times the rate for natives. Immigrants and their U.S.‑born children account for almost three-fourths (nine million) of the increase in the uninsured population since 1989.
A central question for immigration policy is: Should we allow in so many people with little education, which increases job competition for the poorest American workers and the size of the population needing government assistance? How did we get into this predicament in the first place?
Prior to 1965, the US was taking around 178,000 legal immigrants annually. In 1965, Congress replaced the national origins system with a preference system designed to unite immigrant families and attract skilled immigrants to the United States. With these changes and some subsequent ones, the result was that most of our legal immigrants now come from Asia and Latin America, and not Europe. Chain migration designed to unite families has also brought in aged parents, children, uncles, etc., many of whom are not contributing to our society and in fact, require more social services. Even with quotas in certain immigration categories, we are now legalizing the status of over one million people annually and millions more are waiting in lines overseas for their turn to come in. Chain migration has also changed the "mix" of immigrants, making it less diverse.
Mexico accounts for 31 percent of all immigrants, with 10.8 million immigrants living in United States, more than the number of immigrants from any other region of the world. Immigrants from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean account for the majority of immigrants, with 54 percent of the foreign‑born coming from these areas. Of those who arrived 2000 to 2005, 58 percent are from Latin America. This lack of diversity has hindered assimilation and could well result in the Balkanization of the country by language and culture.
We need a rational, sensible immigration policy for many reasons, some of them economic and some of them cultural, i.e., the ability to assimilate these massive numbers into our society .
Since 1970, the population of the US has increased by 100 million; since 1990; by 53 million; and since 2000 by 20 million or the equivalent of our six largest cities. The Bureau of the Census projects that we will have 364 million by 2030 and over 400 million by 2050 with one-quarter of the population being Hispanic. The annual arrival of 1.5 million legal and illegal immigrants, coupled with 750,000 annual births to immigrant women, is the determinate factor or three-fourths of all U.S. population growth. These additional people will require infrastructure [roads, water, electricity, gasoline, etc.], and impact our schools, hospitals, social welfare systems, penal system, etc. Couple these increases with an aging US population faced with entitlement programs about to go belly-up in 10 years and you have some serious public policy issues that could threaten the future of this country.
Just as Social Security is the third rail of American politics, so is real immigration reform. No one really talks about decreasing the numbers of legal immigrants or changing the laws to give us a system that acts to benefit this country in terms of supplying us with people who will contribute economically to our national well-being. We are after all a "nation of immigrants" and our politicians and others speak as though we have gone through all of this before. No one is against legal immigration, and some even want to increase the numbers. The real fact is that we are taking in unprecedented numbers of legal immigrants and when you add an additional 500,000 to one million illegal aliens annually, you have a recipe for disaster.
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