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?
Hell yes that'll lern us! LOL
This in itself is a must, one of the only countries in the world tht does not have a language, but I fear that it is 20 years to late. I have friends here that have small business's and have to learn to speak another language to stay in business. Is all this helping the NWO? Yes, theres no question about it.....
Quite frankly, I see all of the trends pointing down. The fundamentals of America's prospects for increased freedom and the preservation of the unique American culture that gave birth to that freedom to be miserable.
That's what happens when you dissolve your borders. That's why you have borders in the first place.
All you're doing, is using a bloody work of fiction, published in 1948, whose purpose it was, to shakeup / wakeup the world ( and, as an aside, to repudiate the author's former fling / devotion to Socialism / Communism ! ) as to the USSSR. By cherrypicking something from it, and then attaching that, to a 2002 time frame / cufrrent evident, is juvenile, irrelivant, solophistic, banal, inane, and spurious !
You want to talk about " perpetual war " ? How abot the 100 year war ? The 30 year war ? The blood hatred wars , which are centuries ( if not millenial )old, all over the planet ? Go for it, dear ; just don't get too mislead, by factual, historically provable history ... which you don't appear to know much about. :-)
Last week on Fox network TV, The Pulse, The host, O'Reilly and some pro amnesty offical had a debate. I read here that the pro amnesty guy said there should be no borders and Mexico will take back the southwest. Something to that effect.
It was sickening last week to see Jason Priestly updates and Elvis on every damn news show, local news too. When Monday the funeral for the Park Ranger that was killed and Tancredo attended, was never reported.
I send alot of stuff from FR to O'Reilly. I don't think it's a bad idea to inundate all the Personalities at Fox Cable and Fox Sunday at FOX network TV with everything we can.
I will find the FOX email list and post it.
Well that's two news shows. O'Reilly on FOX Cable and The Pulse, on FOX Network.
I am not that "bullish" on America. Why? Because all of us "white folks" have decided not to make babies anymore. I did my share but the fact is, the only ethnic groups that are at population replacements are Black and Hispanic. We could stop all forms of immigration tomorrow and still have a white minority in 20 years. We boomers are quickly losing the ability to procreate and we are the largest white population that will likely be seen again. Those following us are not real interested in having kids and we boomers didn’t procreate all that well ourselves. For us to keep our "white America" we have only 2 options. Start having kids again, or ethnic cleansing. Now, which do you advocate?
From being in other forums and chat rooms the students in Asia, Hong Kong, Germany, Russia, Norway, were taught English all through the grades and could construct sentances much better than the dumbed down adults in the forums. And now we have come to the point, in the largest English speaking country in the world, where we have to be PC and not make English the NATIONAL language. I wonder if there is any documentation from the FCC and the FAA on the use of English?
What was that he said? Call yourselves the "kill the outsiderz party."
Who let themselves get incited? Go look at the post... he said it to me, and I'm still here.
We all know the drill, pro-Bush trolls can pull stuff like that, almost with impunity. Is it really so hard to rise above them?
Let's hope at least some of it makes it through Congress... and that Bush signs it.
Barr would be good, but I don't want Dick Armey anywhere near the INS.
Armey ran around this Spring claiming that Section 245(i) wasn't about legalizing Illegals, it was about unfortunate legal immigrants who were the victims of paperwork snafus. He was not telling the truth.
Dick Armey has joined Jack Kemp and Bill Bennett in surrendering on Illegals.
Apologies, I was distracted.
Tonight's a twofer Tuesday. My timing was bad on both threads, so I got to see the action after the fact.
It's not shyness, it's cowardice.
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