Posted on 07/17/2025 10:28:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
This insidious slogan is once again being used by Republicans to justify another amnesty bill.
A group of congressional Republicans have joined Democrats in an effort to push through an amnesty bill by performing two cheap tricks: repeat the tired trope that we’re a “nation of immigrants” and redefine “amnesty” as “dignity.”
The bipartisan bill, dubbed the DIGNITY Act, was introduced this week by Republican Florida Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, who has lately been on a media tour to promote what she calls, falsely, “a revolutionary bill that offers the solution to our immigration crisis.”
But of course Salazar’s bill isn’t “revolutionary,” and it doesn’t offer a solution to our immigration crisis. It offers amnesty wrapped in platitudes. The key part of the bill is an “earned opportunity for long-term immigrants to stay here and work.” How long-term? Seven years. That means people who illegally snuck across our border as recently as 2018 would be allowed to remain in the United States forever — without any of the obligations and responsibilities that come with full citizenship. That’s amnesty, no matter what Salazar says.
It’s also a miscarriage of the rule of law. As my colleague Brianna Lyman noted yesterday, “no one deserves to be rewarded for violating our sovereign borders simply because they want to ‘pay taxes’ and ‘work.’” Billions of people all over the world would very much like to come here and pay taxes and work, our laws be damned. But our economy is not a possession of the world, it belongs to the American people. Foreign access to it, to the extent we allow it at all, should first and foremost serve the interests of the American people, not a contingent of foreigners who managed to...
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How the globalists and their political puppets have betrayed the working people of America is sickening.
America is turning into a colony again. These modern colonists are third world parasites.
Oh, and off topic, but a perfect example of just how Republican Republicans are in practice:
Take a look at where they came form and how most legal immigrants fared in America compared to their country of origin.
You’re spewing only part of the story not the whole story, just like a good Leftist.
It is 80% non immigrant
“Look at Los Angeles”
I was there about seven weeks ago. I also visited San Diego.
In the cultural institutions I visited, Caucasians were always the minority. The highest concentration I saw was at the Getty Center at about 40%.
I still encountered quality people of all races, but the percentages seemed smaller than in the past.
This is both demographically and ecologically wrong. The entire landscape Europeans "settled" had been shaped by people. The degree to which European crowd diseases had depleted their numbers is to an unknown degree. I have seen estimates well over 100mm North American Indians before the Spanish arrival. What I do know is that our property on the Central Coast of California was once managed in surprising detail despite that it was far from any known tribal settlement. Hence, I suspect that arguments over those pre-Columbian numbers will continue indefinitely.
We aren’t a nation of immigrants and what does that poem have to do with anything?
A colony of indentured and cowed workers.
LOL, you seem very gullible, the left loves you.
The election of JFK killed America.
“During the 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles was a bastion of Anglo Protestantism, reflecting the values of Midwestern parishioners who had been carried to the Southland on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Well into the 1970s, Protestant denominational leaders enjoyed comfortable, influential ties with the city’s still-strong “downtown business
establishment,” which itself was largely Protestant.
The Immigration Act of 1965, however, created the condition for a radically different religious future for the City of Angels-a future that would anoint Roman Catholicism as the area’s dominant religious group. Today Roman Catholicism is the single largest faith tradition in Los Angeles County, with 294 parishes and 3,631,368 adherents.
Among Christians, 71% are Catholics. Between 1980 and 1997, Roman Catholicism experienced a 36% growth.”
Everything I stated is factual. The people I know suggesting those high numbers of aboriginal people are hardcore property rights, pro-hunting, conservatives. The latter element re proto-agricultural patches on our property were a consequence of 20 years of exotic plant control and successional reversal.
IOW, those are the facts. Deal with it.
While the 1940s weren’t a period of open immigration to the United States, several factors led to specific groups of immigrants entering the country during that decade:
World War II and its Aftermath:
Refugees: As the war raged in Europe, some people fled persecution and sought refuge in the US. However, this was often hindered by strict immigration laws and quota systems based on national origins.
Displaced Persons: Following the war, the US admitted hundreds of thousands of refugees, including those displaced by the conflict and others who couldn’t return to their homelands, under the Displaced Persons Act of 1948 and the Refugee Relief Act of 1953.
War Brides: The War Brides Act of 1945 allowed the foreign spouses and children of American military personnel to immigrate to the US, a privilege later extended to fiancées and alien wives of citizens.
Labor Needs:
Bracero Program: During World War II, the US and Mexico established the Bracero Program, which brought millions of Mexican immigrants to the US for short-term agricultural labor contracts, addressing the need for workers in the agricultural sector. These workers often faced harsh conditions and discrimination.
Relaxation of Restrictions:
Repeal of Asian Exclusion: Although limited initially, the repeal of Asian exclusion laws opened the door for some Asian immigrants, particularly war brides and their families, according to Oxford Research Encyclopedias.
In summary, while overall immigration remained restricted during the 1940s, wartime circumstances and specific policies allowed for the entry of war-related immigrants, refugees, and workers to meet labor demands. These events laid the groundwork for a more diversified immigrant population in the post-war era.
Immigration to the United States after 1945
Jul 7, 2016 — Beginning in the late 19th century, the U.S. government took steps to bar immigration from Asia.......w/ the establishment of the national origins quota system.
That poem is on the base of the Statue of Liberty. It is America welcoming those who LEGALLY immigrate from other countries “yearning to breath free.”
“A lot of people came here with pennies to their names, pulled themselves up and became solid citizens contributing greatly to their chosen country.”
I knew one. He worked in a clothing factory.
It’s not economic to make most clothing in the USA any longer.
My aunt sewed shirts in the early 1960s.
“pulled themselves up and became solid citizens contributing greatly to their chosen country.”
It takes a lot of pulling to afford a $412,000 new house meeting modern building codes.
A highway interchange was built years ago in Springfield, Virginia. It cost about $500 million.
A tunnel system was built to speed traffic to and through Boston - it cost $13 billion.
Adding more people to a maxed-out infrastructure is expensive.
It’s not like running a highway through rural pig farms.
When the Shirley Highway was built circa 1948, the land to the south and west of the Pentagon was undeveloped.
Congress passing an immigration bill?
That has to be the “joke of the day.”
It must be mid summer if this garbage is making the news.
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It isn’t true and the colonists were not moving into countries and borders.
Used to be, anyway.
At the end of the Roman Empire, the Romans stopped being Romans.
I think this is where we're at.
Yeah, a fund raising poem that a woman wrote and you are trying to use that meaningless nothing to convince me to give up America.
As a supporter of post 1965 immigration and what it has done, is doing, and will do to America, you should drop quoting poetry.
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