Posted on 08/20/2002 12:25:19 PM PDT by gubamyster
August 20, 2002
The Republican National Committee's mail-order fund-raisers often contain a comprehensive multiple-choice survey so that prospective donors can give their opinions on topics of national importance. One issue, however, is conspicuously missing from the list: immigration.
The omission isn't an oversight; it's a deliberate policy. The National Republican Congressional Committee has been advising its candidates not to mention this issue in their speeches or campaign literature.
House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., gave Republicans the opportunity to seize this issue when he addressed a radical left-wing Hispanic group, The National Council of La Raza, in Miami on July 22.
He announced a Democratic Party plan to introduce legislation to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.
Nothing is more unpopular with voters than amnesty (which Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.V., called "sheer lunacy"). If the powers that be in the Republican Party don't realize this, they are out-of-touch with the grass roots.
The shyness of the Republican Party and the Bush administration about immigration explains why they manifest a deafening silence about Rep. George Gekas's bill called Securing America's Future through Enforcement Reform. The Pennsylvania Republican's bill is completely in accord with public opinion polls, showing that the majority of the American people want government to reduce the number of legal immigrants, to stop the irresponsible issuance of visas, to deport illegal aliens and to use U.S. troops to guard our borders (instead of the borders of Eastern Europe).
Title I, called Securing the Border, would increase the number of INS investigators and enforcement personnel, lengthen criminal sentences for alien smuggling, beef up the Border Patrol and use U.S. military troops until the Border Patrol reaches full strength. It would stop granting visas in countries that refuse to cooperate in combating alien smuggling.
Title II, called Screening Aliens Seeking Admission, would tighten the visa program to reduce the risk of aliens using fraudulent passports, require in-person interviews before issuing all visas, and bar any alien who is a member of a terrorist group or supports terrorism. Most people don't understand why this isn't already the law.
Title III, called Tracking Aliens Present in the United States, would establish a comprehensive entry-exit control system with registration and fingerprinting (which the INS has promised for years but never implemented). At least 40 percent of illegal aliens are visa overstayers. Several of the 9/11 hijackers had overstayed their visas.
Title IV, called Removing Alien Terrorists, Criminals, and Human Rights Violators, would authorize the INS to deport any alien who was inadmissible in the first place or is suspected of being a terrorist. This title would reverse several court decisions that accord unreasonable "rights" to terrorists claiming asylum, and would prevent the courts from releasing criminal aliens into the community.
Title V, called Enhancing Enforcement of the Immigration and Nationality Act in the Interior, would protect Social Security cards against counterfeiting and fraudulent use. This title would increase the number of INS investigators, as repeatedly requested by the INS, and double the number of INS detention beds.
Title VI would eliminate excessive review and dilatory, abusive tactics by aliens in deportation proceedings. It would also exclude aliens who knowingly make a false asylum application.
Title VII would clean up the problem of voting by illegal aliens. It would require verification of citizenship for voters and applicants.
Title VIII, called Reforming Legal Immigration, would repeal the infamous Diversity Immigrant Program which admits 50,000 immigrants a year, mostly from the Third World, including countries that sponsor terrorism, and helped the Fourth of July LAX murderer win U.S. residency. It would reform the abuses in the refugee program and in the extended-family visa program, and reduce the number of legal immigrants by 20 percent.
This would still leave immigration nearly double the traditional level. The INS is unable to cope with its current backlog of 5 million applications.
Gekas, chairman of the Immigration Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, will start hearings on his bill next month. He should then add one more section requiring the INS to screen out aliens with diseases, such as the West Nile virus, malaria, Chagas disease, intestinal parasites and tuberculosis.
The BBC reported that the current epidemic of the West Nile virus (a central African disease) was probably brought to America for the first time three years ago by an imported exotic bird. The Centers for Disease Control reported that 16,000 foreign birds passed unscreened for West Nile virus through JFK airport in 1999. Where are the environmentalists when we need them?
That's it!
I agree. I challenge anyone to name any other threat that has the potential to turn our country into a battle-scarred, impoverished, disease-ridden, Third World wasteland in the next 20 years. Maybe Moslems spreading smallpox or some madman becoming president of Russia, but while these are only hypotheticals, the Mexican Invasion is an uncontestable FACT that is happening RIGHT NOW!
Look, I don't know about Texas, but the overwhelming majority of people in California are outraged at our politicians and the federal government for allowing this most dangerous issue, to continue, year after year. Remember, several years ago California voted 3 to 1 in favor of prop 187. That in itself tells the story here.....
In my opinion, there is no bigger threat to this country than this unchecked, unmanaged, out of control, immigration "free for all".
Well there we have it. We know why you voted for Buchanan,and we both know why I voted for Bush. I'm honestly not trying to be rude, but you're going to have to accept that Buchanan did poorly, Bush won the election and go from there. I imagine that we'll likely not vote for the same candidate in 04 as well. I'll also wager that your choice of candidates fairs little better.
Well, I have no real experience with or in California, but judging from the comments, I'd say that as a rule Texans are more comfortable with the hispanic population in the state.
I believe of lot of the problems directed towards immigrants are misdirected. I don't like to see anyone on welfare, but I'd rather attack welfare itself than those who recieve it. Cut that hydra off at the head, and it won't be a problem. No one will be collecting welfare.
So, a couple of "whiz kids" control GOP policy? How then is the GOP different from the "opposition"? Face it, this isn't the work of a couple of young idiots, it's a systemic problem with the party leadership. The GOP isn't conservative and never has been. They have simply allowed a few of their politicians to play a little bit of conservative sounding chin music over the years.
Right now, in our face.....
Look you may be right about Texans being more comfortable with criminal illegal aliens. I personally find this hard to believe....
A Nationalist Party could peel working class whites from the DemocRat Party and conservative whites from the RepublicRat Party with a platform of drastically cutting immigration and ending handouts to "victim" classes.
Unless we create a strong Nationalist Party, I'm afraid it will come to killing the outsiders - or them killing us - within 20 years.
(Word of Advice: If you're aiming to be clever, don't try to do dialect if you can't do it right.)
White this, white that, and a not so subtle reference to minorities as a victim class. Still, I have this unsettling feeling that you probably expect everyone to believe that your opposition here isn't solely based on racism. Please, give me a freakin' break.
Well one thing you have to say about the GOP is the party(particularly the national party) has an almost genetic ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
this is a HUGH wedge issue out on the factory floor with joe six-pack, and in the "minority community".
11 years and counting. Thanks for the fish.
Little brown serfs? Wouldn't you be much more at home at Stormfront or some other white power forum?
My beliefs are based on white nationalism, not racism. Blacks are allowed to act in their own best political interests. Nobody bats an eye when "Hispanics" act in the best interests of their group -- AND THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A "HISPANIC" IN THE FIRST PLACE. IT'S A PHONY MADE UP ETHNIC GROUP!
White people have our own culture, heritage, behaviors, heroes and history. Why do people like you automatically cry "racist" when whites simply try to act in our own best interests and preserve our unique way of life? In less than a hundred years, there will be no country on earth where whites will be the majority. In a few centuries, we will be extinct. Why do people like you persecute whites who simply want a place on the planet where we can live in peace? Why does the world not "celebrate diversity" when it comes to whites?
Well, does that "settle your feelings" or make them queasier? Hmmm.....?
Hey, aren't you the guy who was sniffling about the tone of the discussion going into the toilet a few posts back? Sorry, but you sound like a liberal on the hunt for an argument. I hope everyone will just ignore you or the thread will turn into a free-for-all.
The final nails are now being hammered in our coffin and the majority of the American people, if not outright encouraging this state of affairs, are at least indifferent to it. Our fate is well deserved.
Uh, what's the problem here? There was nothing bad here. Or did I miss something?
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