Posted on 09/20/2010 5:21:17 AM PDT by tobyhill
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says illegal immigrants do essential work in the U.S. and he has firsthand knowledge of that — because they fix his house.
Powell, a moderate Republican, urged his party Sunday to support immigration generally because it is "what's keeping this country's lifeblood moving forward."
In an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," he said a path to legal status should be offered to illegal immigrants because they "are doing things we need done in this country."
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Senility?
Early Alzheimer’s?
Wow, Powell has gone from patriot to traitor.
Isn’t there some way to have him arrested for knowingly using illegal aliens to do his work?!
That is pretty insensitive to advocate bringing in more workers when unemployment is 10%!!
Shame on you!!!
Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to statistics released by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens. That’s 21,900 since Sept. 11, 2001.
Total U.S. troop deaths in Iraq as of last week were reported at 2,863. Total U.S. troop ... deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan during the five years of the Afghan campaign are currently at 289, according to the Department of Defense.
While King reports 12 Americans are murdered daily by illegal aliens, he says 13 are killed by drunk illegal alien drivers – for another annual death toll of 4,745. That’s 23,725 since Sept. 11, 2001.
While no one – in or out of government – tracks all U.S. accidents caused by illegal aliens, the statistical and anecdotal evidence suggests many of last year’s 42,636 road deaths involved illegal aliens.
King also reports eight American children are victims of sexual abuse by illegal aliens every day – a total of 2,920 annually.
Based on a one-year in-depth study, Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute of Atlanta estimates there are about 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States who have had an average of four victims each. She analyzed 1,500 cases from January 1999 through April 2006 that included serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides and child molestation committed by illegal immigrants.
It doesn’t seem like he cares anything about Americans that are here legally if he supports illegal aliens.
*Senility?
Early Alzheimer’s?*
Special secret “grant” from the DBC to get more voters?
^DNC
The fact that he reduces Illegal Immigration to a simple minded statement (definition of Demo-LIb), and ignores all your points; speaks volumes on how really stupid this man is. I am not a big tent person when it comes to people like this. I prefer to know my enemies and keep them out of my camp.
Legal immigration is fine.
There are plenty of legal Hispanics who can fix houses. That argument is ridiculous that only illegals can do it.
Ask Powell why he cheats on paying proper withholding on these people he employs and why he is unwilling to pay “the going rate” for labor.
He can afford it.
He doesn’t vote Republican, he endorsed Obama in 2008.
What is it that makes him a “Republican” again?
Exactly. The issue must be immigration period. Not this false dichotomy between legal and illegal immigration.
Conservatism can not become a philosophy of legalism. It doesn't matter if all illegal immigration is stopped if legal immigration is doubled from its already insanely high numbers.
Conservatives have failed for 100 years to learn from the tactics of the left: demand FAR more than you can get and then compromise closer to what your ultimate goal is. And then before the ink is even dry on the compromise start demanding far more than what you demanded previously and repeat the cycle.
In less than 2 generations you'll go from arguing over birth control for the unmarried to homosexual "marriage".
And never, ever, criticize that to your right. You didn't see the left denouncing its unreconstructed Stalinists and Maoists in the 60s. The left knows the radicals are how the critique is moved. What the left says is "compromise with our moderates and our radicals will fade away".
Of course the radicals never fade away, but become more emboldened. What was once radical is now the power structure, with a radical outside waiting to become the next power structure as the goalposts move leftward.
If you want the borders enforced, you don't ask for the borders to be enforced-you demand the revocation of all visas, mass deportations and an immigration moratorium.
The leftist permeated system we live under now was the inspiration for my screen name. There is a Marxist term called "the rarification of triumphant values". It is when leftism so permeates every institution, and even the citizens' thought processes, no solution to a problem can be enacted which is not liberal in nature.
All the vast majority conservatives are asking for on immigration is for the already extremely liberal status quo laws to be enforced. Supposed conservatives in power want just the appearance of the status quo-an even more liberal position. That is the rarification of triumphant values in place.
It's the same thing with education, where the liberal solution of stricter testing by the state is the supposed conservative position. Whereas a real conservative position would entail bulldozers and salting the earth. Homosexual "marriage" of course, the same thing. The compromise was the extremely leftist concept of civil unions. Even I am guilty here, as I have to use the word "marriage" in quotation marks as a word deriding the concept of homosexual "marriage" doesn't even exist. That's how alien the concept is.
The rarification of triumphant values has outstripped the ability of the language to keep up. That's how far down the rabbit hole we've gone as a society. Just as the Frankfurt School intended. You can't oppose what you can't describe without using the left's descriptors. They win just by semantics and its subliminal effects.
Even the Tea Parties or Glenn Beck can't talk about tax cuts without first giving a paen to diversity. There I did it again just by using the word "diversity".
The lefts intellectuals gave them the dialectic and class theory and critical theory.
Gramsci gave them the practical tactic of taking a "long march through the culture". Alinsky taughts the skills of organization to the streetfighters.
I see people here on Free Republic constantly stating the left's goal is the destruction of the West or the United States. That's not true at all. The left doesn't have any permanent goals. Constant revolution is an end to itself. That which is established they wish to tear down. If we ever find ourselves at the point where homosexual "marriage" is considered sacred, they would immediately be advocating for its destruction. Even Stalin, who many conservatives consider the epitome of the left, held an impure rightist tendency in that he put a stop to the concept of permanent revolution. He did keep the permanent terror though.
I don't know what we have in our arsenal, but it doesn't look good. We don't even know where to aim it.
Sorry for the long post.
Zoe Baird must be screaming and pulling her hair out right about now.
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