Posted on 06/17/2015 4:54:55 PM PDT by Kaslin
Sen. Ted Kennedy's 1965 immigration act allowed the Democrats to start winning elections the same way they win recounts: by enlarging the pool of voters.
Liberals couldn't convince Americans to agree with them, but they happened to notice that the people of most other countries in the world already agreed with them. So Sen. Ted Kennedy's immigration act brought in millions of poverty-stricken foreigners to live off the American taxpayer and bloc-vote for the Democrats.
The American people aren't changing their minds. Americans are becoming a minority to other, new people.
Deft politicians used to know how to convince the 15 percent on the fence. But even Reagan would look at today's electorate and say: Who are you guys? We live in a different country, and I don't remember moving.
At the precise moment in history when the United States abandoned any attempt to transmit American values to its own citizens, never mind immigrants, the 1965 immigration act began dumping the poorest of the poor from around the world on our country.
When the Republican Congress passed welfare reform in 1996, one of the provisions prohibited immigrants from going on welfare for the first five years they were here -- a mere five years! It turned out to be the single biggest savings of the entire welfare bill.
The New York Times immediately denounced the provision, demanding that at "the very least," immigrants get food stamps if they become "disabled" after arriving -- i.e., the biggest scam in the welfare apparatus -- and also that they be eligible for health care under Medicaid. Previewing the line that would soon be adopted by the Democrats' plaything, Sen. Marco Rubio, the Times proclaimed: "After all, legal immigrants pay taxes like everyone else."
No, they don't. Perhaps the Times is unfamiliar with America's tax system, but half the country doesn't pay taxes. The only contact most immigrants have with the Internal Revenue Service is to receive money under the Earned Income Tax Credit. That's money meant for America's poor!
Also "cruel," according to the Times, was the Republican Congress' cut of $20 billion from legal aid for immigrants. (Americans:WE GIVE FREE LEGAL AID TO IMMIGRANTS?) Yes, it's "cruel" for the American taxpayer not to spring for lawyers suing taxpayers for yet more immigrant benefits.
At the risk of striking a discordant note: We don't have an obligation to bring in people who need government assistance intended for our own people. You only have to do something you don't want to do if you're obliged morally, legally or with a gun to your head. You have to invite your relatives to Thanksgiving dinner because you'd be a jerk not to -- but you don't have to invite your neighbor's relatives to dinner.
What is the point of bringing in immigrants whom we have to help? Oh, I remember now! The rich need cheap labor and the Democrats need welfare-dependent voters.
One year before Clinton's re-election in 1996, the Immigration and Naturalization Service began running a "pro-Democrat voter mill" -- as the agency itself complained -- by processing 1 million citizenship applications before Election Day. It was, The Washington Post said, among "the most damning indictments ever leveled at the immigration service: that it has cheapened U.S. citizenship."
Thousands of criminals were made citizens to ensure Clinton's re-election. If felony records were ignored, it goes without saying that there was zero effort at enforcing other basic citizenship requirements, such as having good moral character, five years' U.S. residency or an understanding of American civics.
Kennedy's 1965 immigration bill, combined with white self-loathing and, in some quarters, WASP-loathing, has made it impossible for America to assert any sensible traditions, even abandoning the requirement that immigrants learn English, our "common medium of speech," as Justice Louis Brandeis put it.
And if tolerance is so important, why aren't Third World immigrants asked to be tolerant of American laws and morals? To the contrary, in any cultural conflict, Americans are expected to give way to immigrant values -- or be accused of opposing "inclusivity."
Why does all the bending and conforming have to come from us? Americans didn't move to Somalia; Somalis moved here. Apparently, the bargain is: We assimilate to Sharia law, and they assimilate to America's culture of constantly bellyaching minorities.
True, our laws and traditions are very different from the places where most of our post-1970 immigrants come from, but again, they moved here. It makes me wonder if maybe they'd be happier in their own countries.
BTTT.
Will wait for the “I’m against illegal immigration but welcome all legal immigrants” crowd.
The truism “demographics is destiny” is still true, whether the immigrant walks across the border openly, drops an “anchor baby” while at Disney World, or comes in on one of Suckerberg’s H-1B visas.
Ted Kennedy brought so much damage to this country. The 1965 immigration act was purely to get the voters. He may have had the guilt of privilege to spur him on, but he was not looking out for the country. Period.
Mary Jo made the same mistake as the Massachusetts voters who affected all of us. He was a cheater and he was glutenous on every level.
Illegal-Democrats
Ted Kennedy was an extremely evil human being.
Ted Kennedy's soul is one with Satan.
The 65 act is truly destroying America as Founded.
I can't see the political will to ever stop the third world scum from overrunning every corner of our Republic.
If it is to be solved, it will be outside of government. What it will take is anyone's guess.
No wonder the communist USSR liked Ted so much. He was one of them.
Since this was JFK’s dream, and his life’s work, someone needs to let people know that the 1965 Immigration Act resulted from JFK’s election, and that the democrats passed it on his death, when they controlled everything, the Senate, the House, the Presidency, and the entire media.
JFK ran on this platform.
It takes voters to destroy America.
John F. Kennedy had a dream to replace the American people with foreign voters, a different kind of voter, the importation of an endless supply of democrat voters.
“However, if there is one man who can take the most credit for the 1965 act, it is John F. Kennedy. Kennedy seems to have inherited the resentment his father Joseph felt as an outsider in Boston’s WASP aristocracy. He voted against the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, and supported various refugee acts throughout the 1950s.
In 1958 he wrote a book, A Nation of Immigrants, which attacked the quota system as illogical and without purpose, and the book served as Kennedy’s blueprint for immigration reform after he became president in 1960. In the summer of 1963, Kennedy sent Congress a proposal calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system. He wanted immigrants admitted on the basis of family reunification and needed skills, without regard to national origin.
After his assassination in November, his brother Robert took up the cause of immigration reform, calling it JFK’s legacy. In the forward to a revised edition of A Nation of Immigrants, issued in 1964 to gain support for the new law, he wrote, “I know of no cause which President Kennedy championed more warmly than the improvement of our immigration policies.” Sold as a memorial to JFK, there was very little opposition to what became known as the Immigration Act of 1965.”
Yet there are more Republicans in office than any time since the 1920’s.
Go figure.
And out of all these candidates running who is willing to take some action on getting the illegals out of this country?
Only two. Cruz and Trump.
WHITE VOTE IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
2012: 72% of electorate, Romney 59, Obama 39
2008: 74% of electorate, McCain 55, Obama 43
2004: 77% of electorate, Bush 58, Kerry 41
2000: 81% of electorate, Bush 55, Gore 42
1996: 83% of electorate, Dole 46, Clinton 44 (Perot 9)
1992: 87% of electorate, Bush 41, Clinton 39 (Perot 21)
1988: 85% of electorate, Bush 60, Dukakis 40
1984: 86% of electorate, Reagan 66, Mondale 34
1980: 88% of electorate, Reagan 56, Carter 36 (Anderson 8)
1976: 89% of electorate, Ford 52, Carter 48
AVERAGE DEMOCRATIC WHITE VOTE SHARE: 40.6%
LOL - Ann totally gets it.
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