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Pretending immigration isn't an issue
Townhall.com ^ | August 20, 2002 | Phyllis Schlafly

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?


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KEYWORDS: donutwatch; immigration; schlafly
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To: Marine Inspector
As he said, all the other groups can stand up and defend themselves, but us "White Middle Class Americans" have to keep are mouths shut, or "THEY" will silence us.

Good observation. To discover the pecking order in a society, ask who it is you can and can't criticize. [And there's always a pecking order, that's an enduring part of human life, even in America.]

The people that founded and built this country--the ones that had the largest hand in it, at least, are now fair game. The white working and middle classes are the most besieged demographic in America. Anybody can dump on them, and even demand reparations for "crimes" both real and imagined. But if anybody raises a peep about that, the heat comes on. People have even lost jobs in witchhunts for "racists."

141 posted on 08/20/2002 7:06:53 PM PDT by Hoppean
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To: 4Freedom
Your probably right, but he should not have been timed out in the first place.
142 posted on 08/20/2002 7:07:54 PM PDT by Marine Inspector
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To: Hoppean
Agreed.
143 posted on 08/20/2002 7:08:43 PM PDT by Marine Inspector
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To: Arleigh
Hey Arleigh, I know you were just banned, but if you can read this, your post was very truthful. Like the inspector and I were discussing earlier on this thread, the truth will get you in big trouble. It apparently got you banned. I will probably be next.

Take care Arleigh.

144 posted on 08/20/2002 7:10:48 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
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To: B4Ranch
Sen Frist and Rep bob clement sent me back replies on ILLEGAL immigration when I wrote them about HR 1452. Rep john tanner wrote me back about another bill.

Some group is running a radio ad in Memphis urging listeners to contact john tanner to support Gekea's bill HR 5013 (SAFER)

145 posted on 08/20/2002 7:11:41 PM PDT by GailA
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To: Joe Hadenuf
Strange.....he was banned, but his 'offending' post hasn't been removed.....yet.
146 posted on 08/20/2002 7:14:00 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Marine Inspector; Joe Hadenuf
Under those circunstances, wouldn't firing you for starting a 'white employee's group' be discrimination?

We need to get the opinion of a very able advogado. ;>)

147 posted on 08/20/2002 7:15:10 PM PDT by 4Freedom
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To: FreedomFriend
I agree with everything you said. We still need to address the race problem in the USA. The status-quo is unacceptable, and the non-whites will always be bellyaching about all the injustices they suffer (like being a net consumer of gov't handouts -vs- taxes, priority admission into universities, disproprotional granting of officer commissions in the military, first in line for every good job in the USA, and looking the other way for the misdeeds they commit).

As long as America is comfortable, America will suffer from a lack of will to thrive in their own culture.

When 50 million yuppies crawl into a corner, suck their thumbs and wonder how they will retire better than their parents, then we can wonder about how to deal with our problems. Until then...

I've got mine...
Don't rock the boat...
I'm so enlightened...

148 posted on 08/20/2002 7:15:50 PM PDT by Orion
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To: Melas
We should change and enforce the laws so that we have no legal or illegal immigrants who refuse to learn English, who have no education, who cannot afford their own health insurance or food or housing. We're letting in way too many criminals, indigents, and other losers who require billions of taxpayer dollars. We're seeing county hospitals all along the border on the edge of bankrupcy ---it's getting to a critical point.
149 posted on 08/20/2002 7:16:03 PM PDT by FITZ
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To: 4Freedom
I'm sure he would be tons of help.
150 posted on 08/20/2002 7:16:18 PM PDT by Marine Inspector
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To: 4Freedom
Thanks buddy. I hope your right. Even so, it still sends home a 50 amp jolt of reality.....
151 posted on 08/20/2002 7:16:38 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
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To: Jack-A-Roe
Yeah, I noted that.....Maybe it's just a two day suspension for stating the truth.....
152 posted on 08/20/2002 7:17:34 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
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To: Marine Inspector
Agreed.
153 posted on 08/20/2002 7:18:51 PM PDT by 4Freedom
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To: Joe Hadenuf
Thirty Cubans arrive in Florida

We now have 30 more citizens in the US.

154 posted on 08/20/2002 7:21:35 PM PDT by Marine Inspector
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To: Admin Moderator; Marine Inspector; Joe Hadenuf

155 posted on 08/20/2002 7:22:53 PM PDT by 2Trievers
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To: Marine Inspector
Yeah, he'd get never stop fighting for you, even if it took him 20, 30 or 50 years to get you satisfaction.

Huge help, I agree. :P
156 posted on 08/20/2002 7:25:41 PM PDT by 4Freedom
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To: Joe Hadenuf
Nope, it appears to be a banning. People are banned without all their posts being removed. When your posts are pulled as well, it's called being nuked. When someone is suspended the screen states that as the case when you click on their name.

A guy posted an old thread awhile back and I went down the line clicking on the nicks. It was amazing how many were listed as banned.

157 posted on 08/20/2002 7:25:42 PM PDT by Twodees
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To: 2Trievers
Hey, whaddaya say there, Peaches? ;-)
158 posted on 08/20/2002 7:28:07 PM PDT by Twodees
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To: Twodees
I asked the AM what the problem was and they never responded. Tell you the truth, after seeing what happened to Arleigh, I am willing to take a bullet too.

Or is it better just not to discuss this ever escalating crises. I don't know, it's left a very bad feeling with me.

159 posted on 08/20/2002 7:32:30 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
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To: 2Trievers
I'm Tellin!
160 posted on 08/20/2002 7:37:34 PM PDT by sleavelessinseattle
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