Posted on 09/02/2007 12:23:14 AM PDT by Niteflyr
LOS ANGELES - Retired utility worker Charles Warren worries his quality of life is slipping and says that illegal immigrants are to blame.
The 55-year-old retiree complains about day laborers waiting for work outside the nearby Home Depot, saying they give his neighborhood "a Third World look."
"Ten or 15 years ago, the neighborhood wasn't like this," Warren said. "The states are overpopulated, there is oversprawl, and immigration is contributing to this."
After seeing a television commercial that blamed many of California's woes on illegal immigrants, Warren immediately donated $50 to the sponsoring group, Californians for Population Stabilization.
And he's not the only one. Since the Santa Barbara-based group aired the commercials, it has collected thousands of membership applications.
Other anti-immigrant groups have watched their rolls and coffers swell, from California to New York. Most of the organizations are small affairs, started by one or two people, such as California Coalition for Immigration Reform or Save Our State.
Other groups, such as CAPS or Numbers USA, which center on population control, provide statistical data and research-oriented services.
But anti-illegal-immigrant groups say growing interest is a wider backlash against pro-immigrant street protests that swept the country last spring and frustration with federal officials whose immigration-reform bill has stalled.
Critics warn that the upsurge in activity - also being replicated among pro-immigrant groups - is evidence of a growing anti-immigrant sentiment sweeping the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailybulletin.com ...
LOL! We need posters, flags and T Shirts!!
Euphemisms are a staple of demagoguess.
Abortion = choice
Gun Control = Gun Safety
Homosexual = gay
alien = immigrant
Border jumper = migrant
It's a very old and effective leftist tactic; Control the language and you control the culture.
mexican is not a race or ethnic group, it is a nationality, one that is held in poor regard throughout latin america
Ah “border restrictionists” are the problem. Wow thats the first time I have heard that term used. Who makes these words up?
About Morris Dees from
“A GUIDE TO THE POLITICAL LEFT”
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/default.asp
Skeptics charge that the now-famous trial lawyer is motivated less by a devotion to justice than a pursuit of profit.
Even leftist journalist Alexander Cockburn accused SPLC’s Morris Dees of raising funds by “frightening elderly liberals that the heirs of Adolf Hitler are about to march down Main Street.”
Morris Dees raised eyebrows in the 1990s when he told an interviewer, “I learned everything I know about hustling from the Baptist Church. Spending Sundays on those hard benches listening to the preacher pitch salvation — why, it was like getting a Ph.D. in selling.”
SPLC directors — having garnered $9 million in donations in a two-year fundraising campaign for the trial — afforded themselves salaries of $350,000 for the trial’s duration.
The Nation magazine lambasted the Center for spending nearly $6 million on fundraising activities but only $2.4 million on litigation.
Coming soon to your town, if its not already there.
Oh, I hope not. I'd like to think my fellow Americans are not anti-immigrant but, rather, vigorously anti-illegal alien.
Personally, if you come here as a legal immigrant, jump through the hoops, assimilate, learn English, etc. I'll welcome you with open arms.
The leftists made me to puke from this word!
work hard, save, invest and keep your cost of living low
This is why the left in concert with the Teachers Union are sabotaging any meaningful education starting with the first grade.
Queer means odd and better fits groups that scream and march because they are unhappy.
Besides that, queer covers the carpet munchers without need of a special name for them.
Very interesting - bumping to read.
Somehow I doubt the failure of McCain-Kennedy is the reason cited by anti-illegal-immigration groups.
Actually the street protests WERE a main reason for the reform bill failure.... IMHO
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,
1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
We’re getting there........
I saw a new one in an article today: refugee.
Some liberal professor is trying to give illegals refugee status. However, they don’t meet the definition - they are neither fleeing a war or religious or political persecution. They’re just too lazy to fix their own country and would rather come here for free handouts.
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