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?
Wilson knew that 187 would (a) get HIM re-elected and (b) never stand up to the most cursory judicial review, saving him any real political heat over having to enforce it. The initiative's drafters didn't help any by failing to include a severability clause. If one element was thrown out, the entire thing would get tossed.
Please do not assume that Wilson actually gave a flying Monica about whether a Democrat or a Republican succeeded him.
What a great photo. Back when America was America and didn't cave into greedy ethnic groups that want to bring all their "frens" and compadres to America. Legal and Illegal. Back when we didn't call these lawbreakers "migrants" but called them their real name ..... ILLEGAL ALIENS!
How did Americans become so weak to allow these invaders into our house and raid our refrigerators? Suck off our welfare system and misplaced generosity?
I wish, as well, the little guy had his "trap door" open, to signify the crap that flies around here.
Congratulations! You are very perceptive, and correct.
I can remember back when the Democrat Party was run by pro-American, anti-communist Liberals. After the 1968 Democrat Convention riots, the Leftist-Marxists began taking over the DNC. Tom Hayden, John Conyers, Hillary Clinton, and others began their political careers.
Over the years, the Democrat Leftists completely purged the old Liberals who came to the Republican Party and were known as "neoconservative."
The Left was never satisfied with just one party - we are now observing the systematic takeover of the Republican Party as well. The big difference now is that conservatives have nowhere to go.
There was a time not too long ago when Pat Buchanan's ideas were accepted in the Republican Party ... then they became "controversial" ... now Pat is demonized as "anti-semitic" "homophobic" "isolationationist" and "racist."
Big difference between being ruled by one's passions like a dog and crafting the policies of our destruction ... including the Legal Abortion and other "voluntary" population control measures they would have enforced had their "educational" efforts not met with such resounding success.
Guess you don't remember that is exactly what the Leftists told Republicans about Ronald Reagan in 1980, and Newt Gingrich in 1994.
Republicans win only when they show their principles and stand un-compromisingly on them.
It's the same leftist media that keeps saying it was wrong for the Republicans to support Prop 187, it killed them with the hispanic vote etc. How nice of the liberals to give Republicans advice. Prop 187 was a winner with the voters, including hispanics, but you'd never know it if you listen to the media.
"Societal pressure" like the government printing things in many different languages? "Market forces" like hiring quotas?
This thread is part of the real "Societal pressure" that you mention. Societal pressure is when the people apply pressure to something they care about. The government is doing everything they can to thwart and undermine societal pressure to control illegal immigration. Clearly the Government doesn't care to promote unity by printing its various forms in english. Would that not be considered a "Societal pressure?
Exactly, and the ones who are calling him those names are:
the old Liberals who came to the Republican Party and were known as "neoconservative."
Good, perceptive post. Thanks.
Name-calling is all the pro-illegal immigration crowd is left with since facts and reason are not on their side. In following this issue closely on FR in the last year I have yet to read a cogent or persuasive argument by those supporting the party line on immigration. What I do see from them is a lot of name calling and half-baked arguments that get instantly obliterated by Freepers who understand the crisis of illegal immigration.
As I've mentioned before, it is interesting to note that the open borders/RINO/Neo-Con contingent on FR use exactly the same race baiting smears and demagoguery that the far left uses on the republican party to get republicans to go along with their socialist poison. And it works! Most republicans will do almost anything to avoid getting tabbed with the racist label. And this works because Courage, Leadership and Patriotism are in short supply in the Republican Party these days.
It’s no accident that the Republican Party earned the name The “Stupid” Party but along with Stupid I’d add Coward. This party better start listening to their base on issues like immigration and trade or their days in power are numbered.
Yes, these measures are desperately needed if America is going to retain its sovereignty in the decades ahead.
The problem is not immigration.
The problem is non-European immigration.
Though, I can't really bellyache about immigrants from East Asia, either.
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