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?
But Lithuania has always been a nation of immigrants.
Diversity made Poland great!
It is only fair that the chickens come home to roost in Bucharest, since Romania has such a history of oppressing the indigenous people in the world....
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.
But the truth is there is no "white culture" to protect. It's the American culture we need to protect. One thing I fear is that as Mexico ruins itself completely, we'll start to get more and more of their whites and those are far worse than their browns. We see them here on the border all the time. Just a bunch of elitist Socialists.
I agree with your sentiments and predictions. There is a "white culture," though, I'd say.
Look at it from another angle: Columbus Day seems to be an example of white culture that its PC enemies attack all the time. And in Boston a while back, some housing development banned the Irish shamrock from being displayed on the property--said it made "minorities" "uncomfortable." And there's the controversy over the Confederate Flag. In America, "white culture" is a composite, European-descended one, hence my varied examples.
It's hard for lots of Americans to identify the elements of that culture because they live it like a fish in water. It's like going to a university campus and seeing the library, the classrooms, the dorms, etc. and then saying that you saw all those things but never saw "The University."
I going out on the porch for a beer and a cigar. I got to get away from here for now......
Shyness? I call it cowardice.
But if you don't want the job, then I guess Michelle will do. *L* I'd like to see the libs scream racism or sexism with her appointed.
Very good post, and very true! These sorts of things tend to work themselves out well when people are free to go their own way and organize their own lives without the heavy hand of government--especially its policies like affirmative action and greasing the skids for open borders--which, strangely enough, always seem to garner more votes for the Democrats!
He was silenced. But this thread was appropriate. It is becoming clear that this immigration crisis and the lack of Republican concern is off limits.....
Observations...
First: Some panty-waste hit the abuse button. This should only happen when someone is issuing threats, advocating specific violent acts, or clearly not participating in the discussion thread with the intent to bolster their viewpoint, regardless of how offensive it may be.
Second: While it is JimRob's site, and he makes the rules, there seems to be an undercurrent of what is PC, even on FR. I have been lurking around FR since '97, and a member since early '98. I have seen some pretty benign threads and comments pulled. If FR can't resist thought orthodoxy, what hope is there for the nation at-large?
Third: Anyone who addresses the race issue (from the non-PC point-of-view) demonstrates that he has a pair about the size of watermelons. To explore this most sacred of subjects in an intellectual manner has to be one of the most challenging efforts in the entire English language. The truth is very few wish to discuss this. Perhaps it is because they "do business" with the subject matter, or are married to a member of the "huddled masses." Either way, discussion taboos (political correctness) is destroying our way of life.
When the history is written on America, the most unbelievable chapter will be on how the mightiest nation on earth, gave their nation and culture away because they feared being thought of in a poor light.America's greatness will not end in bloody conquest - it will end in a pathetic spectacle of a whimpering giant, who enthusiastically gave up power so "nice things" would be said.
At least Carthage had to be conquered. At least the Polish stood up against the Nazis, even if it was with horses and cannons. At least the French had the "Resistance." At least the Nazis had to be overrun by the Reds. At least the Mexicans and the American Aboriginals lost their land at the point of a gun. At least the British had to be removed from the Colonies at gunpoint.
In 20 years, my son will ask why America is the way it is, and why my generation, and the three prior to mine let it happen, and I will say:
"So you will think nice things about us, when you are sold into slavery."
What gets me is that this is a very blatantly racist group, it's even named "The Race" in Spanish but that racism is perfectly acceptable with our government. Politicians wait in line to speak in front of "The Race" as long as it's not "The White Race". If racism is wrong, certainly "hispanic" racism is wrong.
False. Adults are responsible for their own actions. Arleigh had it coming.
Welcome to Amerika.
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