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Ranks of anti-illegal immigrant groups swelling
The Daily Bulletin ^ | 9/2/07 | Rachel Uranga, Staff Writer

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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; immigrantlist; immigration; population
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To: arbooz

LOL! We need posters, flags and T Shirts!!


21 posted on 09/02/2007 3:07:42 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Visit this thread 1-hour from now. In that time, an average of 416.6 more ILLEGALS will be in the US)
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To: WesternPacific; Beagle8U
"I get so tired of correcting these illiterates.

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.

22 posted on 09/02/2007 4:21:54 AM PDT by VR-21
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To: Niteflyr

mexican is not a race or ethnic group, it is a nationality, one that is held in poor regard throughout latin america


23 posted on 09/02/2007 4:33:24 AM PDT by bigjackattack
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To: Niteflyr

Ah “border restrictionists” are the problem. Wow thats the first time I have heard that term used. Who makes these words up?


24 posted on 09/02/2007 4:53:59 AM PDT by Aruchu (There is no I in team, but there is a M and an E.)
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To: Niteflyr

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.


25 posted on 09/02/2007 5:34:35 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Life is Good!)
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To: Niteflyr

Coming soon to your town, if its not already there.


26 posted on 09/02/2007 5:36:53 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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To: Niteflyr
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.

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.

27 posted on 09/02/2007 5:46:40 AM PDT by upchuck (Today there are 10,000 more illegal aliens in yer country than there were yesterday. 10,000! THINK!)
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To: Niteflyr
The 55-year-old retiree...
While I am no fan of these wet-backs, how is this guy able to retire at 55??
The only people that I can think of that are able to retire that young are career military people & cops...
28 posted on 09/02/2007 5:48:13 AM PDT by Conservative Infidel (How come they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them??)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
"divvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvversity.".

The leftists made me to puke from this word!

29 posted on 09/02/2007 5:58:52 AM PDT by OneHun
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To: Conservative Infidel

work hard, save, invest and keep your cost of living low


30 posted on 09/02/2007 6:02:46 AM PDT by bigjackattack
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To: VR-21
"It's a very old and effective leftist tactic; Control the language and you control the culture."

This is why the left in concert with the Teachers Union are sabotaging any meaningful education starting with the first grade.

31 posted on 09/02/2007 6:14:04 AM PDT by OneHun
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To: VR-21
Gay has always meant happy and most Homosexuals don’t sound very happy with their situation these days.

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.

32 posted on 09/02/2007 8:09:23 AM PDT by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: nicmarlo

Very interesting - bumping to read.


33 posted on 09/02/2007 9:29:02 AM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: counterpunch
"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."

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

34 posted on 09/02/2007 10:48:39 AM PDT by Niteflyr ("If you’re drawing flak, you know you're over the target".)
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To: Niteflyr
U.S. Constitution, Article 4 Section 4:

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,

and shall protect each of them against Invasion;"


Invasion: \In*va"sion\, n. [L. invasio: cf. F. invasion. See Invade.] [1913 Webster]

1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.


35 posted on 09/02/2007 2:18:44 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com--)
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To: Travis McGee

We’re getting there........


36 posted on 09/02/2007 2:33:51 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: WesternPacific
anti-immigrant Anti-Illegal Aliens.
I get so tired of correcting these illiterates.


Same here.
37 posted on 09/02/2007 2:44:27 PM PDT by CottonBall
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To: VR-21

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.


38 posted on 09/02/2007 2:46:22 PM PDT by CottonBall
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To: Conservative Infidel
how is this guy able to retire at 55??

That's no reason to discount what this guy says. If one starts saving young and holds down expenses, it is doable. My huband and I are in our mid-40s and can retire in another 8 years if we keep saving at the same rate we have been, get a 5% return, and live economically. We don't have the RVs or pools with waterfalls that our neighbors have, only had as many kids as we could afford, and were otherwise fiscially responsible for decades. Health care will be the only issue....and likely a big enough one that we won't retire early.
39 posted on 09/02/2007 2:52:16 PM PDT by CottonBall
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To: bigjackattack; Conservative Infidel
work hard, save, invest and keep your cost of living low

Good concise summary. I am personally so sick of the rat race, of paying taxes to support illegals and others who have 4-8 children but can't afford them - I'd be happy to retire someplace rural, cheap, quiet, by a river or lake preferably - and do the Henry David Thoreau thing. I don't need 'things' to be happy -but I do need to get out of Mexifornia!
40 posted on 09/02/2007 2:55:10 PM PDT by CottonBall
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