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Posted on 05/01/2006 7:21:51 AM PDT by kellynla
Senator Alarcon’s talk about the views of the Founding Fathers on immigration caught my attention and interest. I am quite familiar with the writings of Benjamin Franklin on the subject and Senator Alarcon may be very surprised to learn that there was no more ardent or vigorous critic of illegal immigration than Benjamin Franklin. He wrote about it extensively during the mass immigration of Germans into Pennsylvania, in the 1750s. His solution however was not to ban immigration, but rather to insist upon legal immigration.
And that is the problem I have with this resolution: it blurs that vital distinction between legal and illegal immigration. The proponents are absolutely right and absolutely solid in saying that ours is a nation of immigrants. Virtually every one of us is either an immigrant ourselves or the son or daughter of immigrants.
That is what makes this country so great. That is the foundation of a nation, built on that uniquely American motto, E Pluribus Unum: from many, one.
From many people, one people. The American people.
From many races, one race. The American race.
Our immigration laws are not written to keep people out. Our immigration laws are written to ensure that as people come to America, they come to become Americans and to assimilate to American society: they acquire a common language, a common culture and a common appreciation of American constitutional principles and American legal traditions.
(Excerpt) Read more at tommcclintock.net ...
LOL
There was a flag burning, Mexican flags this time.
http://www.staggeron.org/homeland.html#Mexican_flags_burning
These protesters need to protest in Mexico or wherever they're from since that is where their problems originate.
Text of SCR113 - from prior thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1624535/posts
And where does Senator Alarcon fit on the ideological spectrum? His sister Evelina has been Vice Chair of the Communist Party USA and chair of the Southern California District of the Communist Party USA as well as a “state coordinator” for the United Farm Worker union. Senator Alarcon has been featured speaker at a banquet for the People’s Weekly World, the newspaper of the Communist Party USA.
You should start your own CA blog!
you've got the goods on all these clowns! LOL
http://www.tommcclintock.net/oneadmin/newspublish/home.print.php?news_id=74
Illegal immigration undermines the process of legal immigration that makes our country possible in the first place. Blurring the distinction between legal and illegal immigration is an insult to the millions of legal immigrants who right now are obeying our laws; who are doing everything our country asks of them; who are waiting in line to become Americans and who are helplessly watching as millions and millions of people cut in line in front of them.
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That one was just published this morning. It's worth a read.
It outs many of our "esteemed" legislators for their other-than-American loyalties.
BTTT
ElkGroveDan keeps reporting the "turnout" down around the crapitol on the CA board and KFBK keeps reporting approximately 10K. I like the way Dan keeps comparing it to the Recall Rallies and how today's doesn't measure up at all!!!
You should start your own CA blog!
you've got the goods on all these clowns! LOL
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I agree!!!
psssst,, ccg,, sell ya a blog, cheap! only posted to it once and ain't been back to uopdate it since. ;-)
Illegal aliens = invaders - millions of them. We're being forced to pay the bills for invaders! A first in U.S. history! A first for an American president to allow an invasion of America by a third world dump and force his citizens to pay for it.
I'm not sure I could afford the ongoing legal fees. ;-)
...only posted to it once and ain't been back to uopdate it since. ;-)
Well get to work there, pardner! I'd read it!
I wish he had decided to run against DiFi.
Been here yet?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1624842/posts
Well, I hope today goes down as the Great Anti-American Flameout!
There was some idiot on Fox News talking about today being Labor Day. Even when Gibson pointed out his error, that it was a SOCIALIST holiday, the guy went on saying "yes my friend, there is a labor day in the United States, too." Gibson let it go muttering something about "the end of summer." These people aren't American!
Sounds like a repeat of what Bush said
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