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?
Check for exhaust leaks in your car..
Read the Republican Party platform planks on immigration for the last 120 years. Have your buddy Bush join you.
That's what we voted for. Not this crap Bush is giving us.
When did Bush mention on the campaign trail that if elected, he'd put an open borders Libertarian in charge of the INS, push for an extension of 245i and give away the Naval training bases on Vieques, Puerto Rico and Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico to pander to the Hispanic vote?
He didn't have any reason to do that.
If this is what it means to the Republican Party to have a Republican in the White House, I'll take 4 more years of gridlock.
"...stay the course..."
Yeah, right into a socialist, 3rd world hell-hole.
Nobody in the Republican party is suggesting "killing any outsiders". You appear to be delusional.
#939: Oh, so the Republicans are fighting for our sovereignty? Besides Tancredo, which Republicans are these Jim? If you could be specific.
#1034: Which ones are not ?
#1056: You never answered my question Jim.
Since you failed to answer my question, I will go first.
Given thirty years of this open border, immigration "free for all" that has resulted in many millions entering our nation illegally, I believe there are very few Republicans, or anyone else in DC, besides Tancredo, that are visibly and vocally fighting for our national sovereignty.
Now would you care to tell me which Republicans are standing with Tancredo and voicing outrage against this titanic, never ending invasion of illegal aliens?
1056 posted on 6/22/02 11:09 PM Pacific by Joe Hadenuf [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1034 | View Replies | Report Abuse
To: Joe Hadenuf
I have no idea. Immigration is not a big concern of mine.
1109 posted on 6/22/02 11:43 PM Pacific by Jim Robinson [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1056 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
Illegal aliens are stealing more than just minimum wage jobs. You really need to do some research on the subject.
See post #50
Dear Mr._____
Thank you for contacting me regarding your opposition to H.R. 1452, the Family Reunification Act of 2001. I appreciate hearing from you and having the benefit of your views.
First, let me take this opportunity to elaborate on my position concerning immigration. One of our greatest strengths is that America is a nation of immigrants. However, countless Nevadans recognize the problem of unchecked growth of immigration, both legal and illegal, which places an unfair burden on taxpayers and takes a toll on American jobs and wages. While I support efforts to welcome new citizens into the United States, I continue to work with my colleagues in Congress and with the Bush Administration to address many of the inadequacies in our nation's current immigration system.
As you may already know, H.R. 1452 will amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit certain long-term residents aliens to seek cancellation of removal under such Act. It also authorizes that the Attorney General to release such aliens while they are seeking their exemption of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Currently, this bill has been referred to House Judiciary Subcomittee on Immigration and Claims. Although I am not a member of this Comittee, be assured that I will not support this legislation when it reaches the House floor.
Again, thank you for contacting me regarding this issue. Please do so again, on this or any other issue of importance to you.
I know this is a standard issue letter but it must irritate Senator Reid to no end to know that Jim is against the communism he promotes. Jim doesn't have to exuviate any false coats when he is in front of the Northern Nevadan voters. I just wish he was cloned as a Nevada Senator.
He is, and he talks to himself, also.
6/23/02 | Joe Hadenuf
Posted on 06/23/2002 12:52 PM Pacific by Joe Hadenuf
I was brutally attack pretty good on this one..... Glad I got a thick hide...
America's best days are in the rear view mirror. The majority population of the USA is a weak minded bunch that only wants to be left alone and make a buck. We have been shouted out of our culture and our nation is next.
Take a look at California. As California goes, so goes the rest of the nation. I grew up and went to college in California, and the influence of alien invaders has grown geometrically since I was a kid in the 80s. Now, the white-left, the apathetic white middle, and the alien hordes have permanently aquired power in the Golden State. They are chasing out the productive members of society that pay the taxes (whites between $60-120k). California's population growth would be negative, if not for all the international immigration - think about that! Given the fertility of the alien masses, this is a bold statement. The majority of children in the gov't schools are non-english speakers.
The rest of the nation awaits this fate. New Mexico and Texas are next.
What will wake up the majority of natives? One thing - economic catastrophe. It is the only thing we understand. During the paltry downturn of the early '90s, Californians became very "close minded" on immigration. As soon as things picked up, the "I have mine - don't rock the boat - gee, aren't I enlightened?" mindset came roaring back.
Immigration is killing America. These people do not assimilate, and are an alien presence in our nation. They are bent on destroying us.
Let's bring the race debate to a head. Let's have Joe 401k, pony up $200/mo for the next ten years to give to anyone who can trace their roots to anyplace south of the Med or East of the Jordan or south of the Rio Grande. Let's destroy America's captial in guilt brokering. Let's stand and be counted, and openly discuss race and the future of America. This can only happen when the average Joe is wondering where the next mortgage payment is coming from, wondering where his Lexus is being chopped, and watching street gangs burn down his neighborhood.
This can not happen when his 401k is growing 20%/yr, his preferred topic of conversation is how much his house is worth, and his concern for his DVD player in his new Ford Extinction over a $4 cup of Seattle-based brown water.
Bring it on. Pony up the money, and let's get the taboos on race removed from our discourse. I have said it before and I will say it again...
A GOP president will sign "Reparations" into law within the next 10 years!!!
Better now then later. 50 million yuppies cowering in fetal positions over their stock portfolios and upside down mortgages are more likely to fight when they are 45 than 55.
Thanks.
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