Posted on 04/14/2003 11:21:52 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
The National Republican Congressional Committee has mailed a survey to a selected list of grass-roots Republicans seeking opinions on "issues of greatest concern" so that the party can be strengthened "by getting more Americans involved."
Of course, it is really a fund-raiser (send your "most generous contribution"), but it is artfully designed to look like authentic market research using catchphrases such as "registered survey number," "classified document" and "data entry control number for office use only."
Whoever produced the survey must have the same worldview as Inside-the-Beltway policy wonks whose sensitivity to public opinion is bounded by the Washington Post in the morning and Dan Rather in the evening. They are clueless about what grass-roots Americans think.
Out of 54 detailed questions sorted into 13 different issues, there is only one about border security and immigration. That lone question appears at the bottom of the page titled Foreign Affairs. There is a section on homeland security, but it contains no mention of border security or immigration.
I'm going to help the Republican Congressional Committee by providing a list of 20 questions for which the answers would be helpful to party leaders.
1. Do you favor President George W. Bush's plan to give amnesty to undocumented aliens, putting people who violate our laws in line ahead of those who lawfully apply for entry?
2. Do you favor the repeal of Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's Diversity Visa Lottery, which admits 50,000 aliens per year, mostly from non-Western countries, including countries that sponsor terrorism?
3. Should the U.S. State Department stop issuing visas in countries that sponsor terrorism?
4. Do you favor closing our borders to undocumented aliens, illegal drugs and contagious diseases by whatever means necessary, including electronic fences and National Guard troops?
5. Do you favor requiring visual inspection of the contents of at least 50 percent of trucks entering the United States from Mexico and Canada, instead of the current 1 percent to 2 percent?
6. Do you favor prohibiting the State Department from negotiating a plan with Mexico to give Social Security benefits to undocumented aliens?
7. Do you favor repealing the federal requirement that hospitals must give free medical care, including scarce organ transplants, to undocumented aliens, an unfunded mandate that is bankrupting many hospitals and increasing the price of medical care to U.S. citizens?
8. Do you favor cutting off federal funding to state universities that give lower in-state tuition to undocumented aliens in violation of current federal law, or that refuse to cooperate with the foreign student tracking system?
9. Will you vote to revoke the citizenship of naturalized citizens who betray their oath of U.S. citizenship by claiming dual citizenship with their native country?
10. Do you favor stopping the issuance of driver's licenses to undocumented aliens since many of the 9/11 hijackers boarded the fatal planes by showing their driver's licenses?
11. Do you favor penalties for local public officials who refuse to cooperate with immigration officials in identifying undocumented aliens?
12. Do you favor prohibiting government agencies from accepting foreign-issued identity cards, such as Mexico's matricula consular, as acceptable identification?
13. Do you favor strict health screening of foreigners entering the United States in order to stop the extraordinary rise in cases of tuberculosis, malaria, hepatitis B, intestinal parasites, Chagas' disease, West Nile virus and SARS?
14. Do you favor stopping the racket of smuggling pregnant aliens into the United States so they can give birth to their babies in the United States, thereby making their children immediately eligible for citizenship and welfare?
15. Do you favor a timeout on immigration and visas until the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has a functioning computer system to track aliens, not U.S. citizens, through smart identification cards?
16. Do you favor rescinding Bill Clinton's Executive Order 13166 requiring anyone who receives federal funds, such as doctors and hospitals, to provide their services in foreign languages?
17. Do you favor abolishing federal requirements to provide foreign-language ballots, since the ability to speak, read and write basic English is a requirement to become a naturalized U.S. citizen and only citizens are eligible to vote?
18. Do you favor a general policy of drawing a bright line of difference between U.S. citizens and aliens so that law-abiding U.S. citizens are not treated like potential terrorists or hijackers?
19. Do you favor a Republican Party policy of rejecting political contributions from individuals and corporations that hire undocumented aliens?
20. Is the reason why questions about border security and immigration were omitted from the Republican survey because our leaders don't want to know the answers?
LOL! I agree and I did too!
Sad but true...It's going to happen. I don't know when, but it sure enough is going to happen....
From the inside out? You make me laugh. They refuse to even discuss the problem amongst themselves!
I have been screaming in Bill Gibbons ear for five years about this subject. This is the first year I have ever told him that the cashbox is closed because I need the money to pay for the $900 million Nevada State budget increase that Governor Guinn is demanding.
If the GOP won't listen then they can kiss my $4000 in the ass as it goes to third party officials because that's where it's headed unless I see MAJOR, SERIOUS ACTION on this subject BEFORE the next election.
I died of laughter after seeing that. That's how bad off the Republicans are in this state. Their top vote getter is Schwarzenegger, which is a joke.
And why IS that? Because everyone here KNOWS the real problem: illegal immigration. EVERYONE I talk to is aware that that's the real problem, but are terrified to talk about it for fear of being called "racist". And that goes double for the GOP: not a peep. Meek and terrified, like little children. How Pathetic.
The GOP has been bamboozled by many in the press into believing Prop 187 was just so bad for them being racist and all. Many legal hispanics voted for 187 from what I understand. Truth is, if they were to run on the same platform Pete Wilson did and carried out reforms they would win, and keep winning. Besides that, if the nation is going to survive, which is more important, enforcing the law has to be done.
These are supposedly smart men and women with college educations running the GOP, but only lay people can see the obvious?
The spectre of Hillary and Bill have been used to silence Republicans for long enough. True no one wants them - but the situation with immigration and open borders is the most critical issue we have facing us. Personally, I think it is/was more important than the war on Iraq. Although, I think the two could/should have been handled simultaneously and with the support of most Americans.
Leaving aside the fact that terrorists are almost certainly coming across our borders - we need to realize there are more ways than one to destroy a nation. It can be detroyed from within as easily and more completely than a foreign attack. We could more than likely survive an attack - we cannot survive this invasion.
It is latching onto and sucking the lifeblood from every aspect of our nation.
It is making our sovereignty and law enforcement null and void.
It is destroying our educational system.
It is destroying our healthcare system.
It is destroying the very lives of American taxpayers who are hurting from the burden of subsidizing the employers who hire them.
Law enforcement for these people are a joke. They are quite often not arrested, not held, not anything - just let go.
It is causing an increase in deadly diseases.
It has taken away the livelihood of many American worker - the fallacy of 'doing the work no one else wants to do' is so laughable I am surprised anyone, except a shameless politician, can even utter that phrase.
I believe that this is the most important and critical issue facing this country today. I truly, deep down in my heart think it means the destruction of America as we know it.
Our President is going to do nothing about it, actually he is encouraging it. He is using scarce resources to persecute citizens who want to do something about it rather than using them to correct the situation. (1) I believe that in his next four years (he will have them) we will have amnesty, by hook or by crook. For those of you who think this will make them taxpayers - think again. They will receive far more in UN-earned tax credits than they pay in and much more in benefits than they do now. We will be providing them with HUD homes, all their children with college educations, and more.(2) I believe we will have unsafe trucks on our highways.(3) I believe we will have Mexican professionals? - doctors, teachers, nurses, lawyers, whatever just moving in and setting up shop.
I am supposed to quake at the thought of Hillary?
Don't be shocked when Texas gets the same crap. Someday, you'll need a translator to talk your doc, when the hospitals get to staff with "cheap labor" foreign MD's.
I understand in 2005 per NAFTA they will be able to do this.
Tell me what you think the reasoning for this really is? I realize a lot of it is cheap labor for the campaign contributors - but what is the reasoning behind putting American professionals out of business. Why aren't the doctors howling - or my goodness, what about the lawyers. Don't they know they won't be on the gravy train much longer? Is it really that the politicians want to destroy nationalism? Does PRes. Bush really want a western hemisphere type union? Do they want a society of haves and have not and nothing in the middle? Why are American middle class people cutting their own throats, and more importantly, that of their children by supporting this lunacy?
I can't get a handle on some of this.
LOL. Yeah, I guess Hispanics don't need to be a citizen of the U.S. (or even LEGAL) to run for pubic office these days. Makes me wonder what other laws can be safely ignored in America? Maybe we should sub-contract out ALL OUR POLITICAL OFFICES to Mexican Nationals seeing how they seem to know what's best for us.
Well it keeps on getting better out here in IL too. Our State House by a vote of 112-4 recently voted to allow "In-State" tuition rates for illegal aliens. Yes, the vote was 112-4 I kid you not and my "Republican" State Rep was in that lopsided majority. What do the think the chances are that it passes the IL Senate? One of the proponents of the bill sheepishly said he thought it was a good idea because, well, "we educate undocumented immigrants all the way through high school so why not college”?
It's no wonder that IL is seeing a huge influx of illegal immigration. We are as Illegal Alien friendly as any state in the union. Meanwhile our trusting GOP, those vanguards of low taxes and the rule of law are saying through their actions: Just Shut Up and Pay Your Taxes or a Democrat may do this to you!
I died of laughter after seeing that. That's how bad off the Republicans are in this state. Their top vote getter is Schwarzenegger, which is a joke.
Yes, things are getting more and more comical all the time.
And why IS that? Because everyone here KNOWS the real problem: illegal immigration. EVERYONE I talk to is aware that that's the real problem, but are terrified to talk about it for fear of being called "racist". And that goes double for the GOP: not a peep. Meek and terrified, like little children. How Pathetic.
Bump That. Even the notion of protecting our borders is considered “racist”. Our government might as well tell the world “Please Take Us Over”. Maybe they are.
Hispanics will be the majority it's come to this: they will need to catch the news on the spanish stations for the real story. I myself only found out about the Dream Act marches planned for 50 cities by switching to the local Spanish station in Phoenix. I recognized the words "Dream Act" (which were read in english) as legislation from last year, then found the story on the web. This report WAS NOT on channel 3, owned, operated and broadcasted from the same studios as 'MAS! And the march in Phoenix was the first of the planned 50! So they already have a NON-for-gringos news item pile. Congressmen Ed Pastor and Rick Rimzi are 2 of the 15 sponsors of the bill, for heaven's sake, but this is about "their people". After recently reading about the Mexican media being anti-war and reporting regularly that the southwestern states were acquired from Mexico illegally and therefore immigrants are entitled to any and all benefits that American citizens are eligible for, I am really getting mad. Reading Allan Wall's translations of last fall's spanish campaign ads in Texas and the references to "our people" I was mad. After reading that Mexicans often reply to gringos who are MAD about these things, "It's their own fault, stupid gringos!" I am red hot madder than I have ever been about the whole business.
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