Posted on 08/19/2007 12:11:00 PM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON -- Seven weeks after the collapse of legislation in Congress, the outcry against illegal immigration is louder than ever, manifested by proposed clampdowns at the state and local levels and an uproar over the arrest of an undocumented immigrant in the execution-style slayings of three New Jersey college students.
Scores of organizations, ranging from mainstream to fringe groups, are marshaling forces in what former House Speaker Newt Gingrich calls "a war here at home" against illegal immigration, which he says is as important as America's conflicts being fought overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan.
While most of the groups register legitimate, widespread concerns about the impact of illegal immigration on jobs, social services and national security, the intense rhetoric is generating fears of an emerging dark side, reflected in what appears to be growing discrimination against Latinos and a surge of xenophobia unseen since the last big wave of immigration in the early 20th century.
"I don't think there's been a time like this in our lifetime," said Doris Meissner, a senior fellow with the Migration Policy Institute and former commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. "Even though immigration is always unsettling and somewhat controversial, we haven't had this kind of intensity and widespread, deep-seated anger for almost 100 years."
The Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, said the number of "nativist extremist" organizations advocating against illegal immigration has grown from virtually zero just over five years ago to 144, including nine classified as hate groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan supremacists.
Eighty-three percent of immigrants from Mexico and 79 percent of immigrants from Central America believe there is growing discrimination against Latin American immigrants in the United States, according to a poll conducted by Miami-based Bendixen & Associates.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Mark Steyn wrote a piece today on ‘Sanctuary Cities’ wondering where ‘ours’ are. The immigration problems’ progress to ‘sanctuary cities’ is a major structural turning point, in my opinion, in the disastrous fallout from a deliberate policy of open borders. ‘Sanctuary’ cities are nothing less a phenomenon than ‘multiple successions from the Union’, and, they are inexorably becoming ‘networked’. No one, effectively, at the federal level, sees value in opposing this phenomenon, and, in fact, the feds ignore/encourage it in the main. That the US is irreversibly fractured is an understatement. Open borders have done their intended job of destruction. A ‘point of no return’ may have been reached in that open conflict will ultimately result nationwide. More violence occurs in the US everyday than in Iraq and Afganistan...and, it is rising with almost no resistance. Here is a link currently listing ‘sanctuary’ cities...http://www.ojjpac.org/sanctuary.asp
If they could just get the feral immigrants around the Home Depot stores ...
A hate group monitoring hate groups, that's rich! Blackbird.
Nah, Cuba is paradise, don’t you know that? Just cruise on over to Democratic Underground, they’ll straighten you out on Cuba and Chavez as well in his country. Why, Cuba has the best FREE healthcare in the world and everything is just fine there.
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Yep, if they didn’t hate it, then I’d have been worried.
The press damn well knows this... it just chooses to ignore it because it sells better.
It's time Americans victimized by these alien invaders have OUR rights enforced by federal law. The SPLC knows what it can do with its nonsensical blathering.
Clearly, latino invaders, MS-13 gangs, and their cadres of co-conspirators are (a) publicly and privately conspiring against the US government and (b) committing hate crimes against America and Americans.
Anyone who spews hate and discontent about OUR country, who marches in mobs, holds up hate signs, and publicly proclaims they will violate US law, shall be penalized (and shall be excluded from holding US citizenship).
It's time to penalize anyone on American soil who (a) conspires to undermine the US government, and (b) commits hate crimes against America and Americans.
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ACTION NOW Tancredo or Hunter should be called upon to initiate federal legislation that would impose severe penalties for foreigners undermining the US government and committing hate crimes against Americans (crimes like stealing our identities, cloning our cell phones, fraudulently registering/voting, and looting the tax assets of Americans).
Hate Crimes---Undermining the US government
1 - Invaders' using illegal ID or documents
2 - Invaders' Federal income tax evasion
3 - Re-entry into USA after deportation
4 - Obtain/Operate vehicles with illegal ID
5 - ID theft/fraud - Social Security fraud
6 - Knowingly gaining employment fraudulently
7 - Recruiting other illegal aliens workers
8 - Transporting illegal aliens across the border
9 - Harboring &/or housing illegal aliens on American soil
10 - Endangering Americans by undermining US national security
11 - Registering/Voting using fraudulent documentation
12 - Conspiracy to violate federal statutes
13 - Uttering false statements to public officials
14 - Obstructing law enforcement
15 - Sham marriages to avoid deportation
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FReepers should emphasize to lawmakers that Americans are demanding:
Federal grounds for expulsion from US soil
Federal grounds for denying citizenship
Provisional federal citizenship laws
Severe penalties for committing Hate Crimes Against Americans
Severe penalties for conspiring against, and undermining, the US government.
Denying federal funds to sanctuary-cities.
Abolishing anchor-baby ruling.
STRICT ENFORCEMENT of all EXISTING laws WRT illegals.
Seven weeks after the collapse of amnesty, the outcry against illegal immigration is louder than ever.....fomented by the arrest of a slew of career criminal illegals who visciously killed three Newark college students execution-style.
The killers were aided and abetted by the “Newark diversity worshippers in positions of power, who callously violated existing laws and judicial rules to free a Peruvian illegal, Jose Carranza, mastermind of the killings (who was also under 31 counts of child rape):
(1) Dumb Dora Dow, Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow (who cant even read her job description),
(2) Judge Vena (who said so what when he heard Carranza did not have a SS#), and,
(3) Margarita Rivera (assistant Essex County prosecutor who mishandled Carranzas child rape case which set him free to kill)
(4) Newark Mayor Booker——the minority scavenger is already climbing on the backs of the bereaved families to seek higher office.
These sap-happy “diversity” nitwits in Newark government, in Newark L/E and in the Newark judiciary should be tossed out of public office and disbarred.
What a sorry bunch of lowlifes-—killers and enablers alike.
“These sap-happy diversity nitwits in Newark government, in Newark L/E and in the Newark judiciary should be tossed out of public office and disbarred.
What a sorry bunch of lowlifes-killers and enablers alike.”
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Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders! Stop the DREAM Act!!
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Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders! Stop the DREAM Act!!
U.S. Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121
U.S. House switchboard: (202) 225-3121
White House comments: (202) 456-1111
Find your House Rep.: http://www.house.gov/writerep
Find your US Senators: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Republican National Committee
310 First Street, SE Washington, D.C. 20003
phone: 202.863.8500 | fax: 202.863.8820 | e-mail: info@gop.com
Take a look at their hidden agenda: http://www.mexica-movement.org
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