It's really wild, blacks throughout southern L.A. County are being sold out be Leftist, hate-whitey black pols and "community activists," who won't say a word about the Illegals.
Posted on 08/20/2002 12:25:19 PM PDT by gubamyster
August 20, 2002
The Republican National Committee's mail-order fund-raisers often contain a comprehensive multiple-choice survey so that prospective donors can give their opinions on topics of national importance. One issue, however, is conspicuously missing from the list: immigration.
The omission isn't an oversight; it's a deliberate policy. The National Republican Congressional Committee has been advising its candidates not to mention this issue in their speeches or campaign literature.
House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., gave Republicans the opportunity to seize this issue when he addressed a radical left-wing Hispanic group, The National Council of La Raza, in Miami on July 22.
He announced a Democratic Party plan to introduce legislation to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.
Nothing is more unpopular with voters than amnesty (which Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.V., called "sheer lunacy"). If the powers that be in the Republican Party don't realize this, they are out-of-touch with the grass roots.
The shyness of the Republican Party and the Bush administration about immigration explains why they manifest a deafening silence about Rep. George Gekas's bill called Securing America's Future through Enforcement Reform. The Pennsylvania Republican's bill is completely in accord with public opinion polls, showing that the majority of the American people want government to reduce the number of legal immigrants, to stop the irresponsible issuance of visas, to deport illegal aliens and to use U.S. troops to guard our borders (instead of the borders of Eastern Europe).
Title I, called Securing the Border, would increase the number of INS investigators and enforcement personnel, lengthen criminal sentences for alien smuggling, beef up the Border Patrol and use U.S. military troops until the Border Patrol reaches full strength. It would stop granting visas in countries that refuse to cooperate in combating alien smuggling.
Title II, called Screening Aliens Seeking Admission, would tighten the visa program to reduce the risk of aliens using fraudulent passports, require in-person interviews before issuing all visas, and bar any alien who is a member of a terrorist group or supports terrorism. Most people don't understand why this isn't already the law.
Title III, called Tracking Aliens Present in the United States, would establish a comprehensive entry-exit control system with registration and fingerprinting (which the INS has promised for years but never implemented). At least 40 percent of illegal aliens are visa overstayers. Several of the 9/11 hijackers had overstayed their visas.
Title IV, called Removing Alien Terrorists, Criminals, and Human Rights Violators, would authorize the INS to deport any alien who was inadmissible in the first place or is suspected of being a terrorist. This title would reverse several court decisions that accord unreasonable "rights" to terrorists claiming asylum, and would prevent the courts from releasing criminal aliens into the community.
Title V, called Enhancing Enforcement of the Immigration and Nationality Act in the Interior, would protect Social Security cards against counterfeiting and fraudulent use. This title would increase the number of INS investigators, as repeatedly requested by the INS, and double the number of INS detention beds.
Title VI would eliminate excessive review and dilatory, abusive tactics by aliens in deportation proceedings. It would also exclude aliens who knowingly make a false asylum application.
Title VII would clean up the problem of voting by illegal aliens. It would require verification of citizenship for voters and applicants.
Title VIII, called Reforming Legal Immigration, would repeal the infamous Diversity Immigrant Program which admits 50,000 immigrants a year, mostly from the Third World, including countries that sponsor terrorism, and helped the Fourth of July LAX murderer win U.S. residency. It would reform the abuses in the refugee program and in the extended-family visa program, and reduce the number of legal immigrants by 20 percent.
This would still leave immigration nearly double the traditional level. The INS is unable to cope with its current backlog of 5 million applications.
Gekas, chairman of the Immigration Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, will start hearings on his bill next month. He should then add one more section requiring the INS to screen out aliens with diseases, such as the West Nile virus, malaria, Chagas disease, intestinal parasites and tuberculosis.
The BBC reported that the current epidemic of the West Nile virus (a central African disease) was probably brought to America for the first time three years ago by an imported exotic bird. The Centers for Disease Control reported that 16,000 foreign birds passed unscreened for West Nile virus through JFK airport in 1999. Where are the environmentalists when we need them?
I hope that you are right, I fear that you are most likely wrong.
If Reagan couldn't change the direction of the GOP, who can?
It's really wild, blacks throughout southern L.A. County are being sold out be Leftist, hate-whitey black pols and "community activists," who won't say a word about the Illegals.
It's not shyness, it's cowardice.
You're both wrong. It's on purpose.
Hey, you got post 444!
You're both wrong. It's on purpose.
Thank you, sir... you're a gentleman.
BTW, I'm compiling another list over here
Right you are my friend. I e mailed on 3 different occasions in the last 5 months to the two leading candidates for the Republican nomination to Max Cleland's senate seat here in Georgia, Saxby Chambliss and Bob Irvin, asking them their positions on illigal immigration and affirmative action. I never recieved an answer from either one's campaign. I did recieve numerous e mails from both begging me to donate money to their campaigns.
I voted yesterday, but only in a non partisan race for the local superior court judge; and I won't be voting for Saxby Chambliss in November either. Max Cleland votes with Boxer and Feinstien about 95% of the time, but I'll be a no show for that one.
I've seen posts saying that all Pub candidates have been ordered by the party elites to not even talk about immigration on the campaign trail. I wouldn't doubt it either.
Thank you, Bunny... glad you enjoyed them.
Sorry I've been busy lately, I'll try and get over to the Canteen soon.
Sad isn't it? Our presidents today seem preoccupied with the welfare of every one on the planet EXCEPT American Citizens. The arrogant, detached, self-absorbed ruling class in the Beltway will have to be removed from power before any constructive changes can be made on immigration reform. That much is clear to me.
You've got to vote to get Cleland out of there. Barnes needs to be thrown out as well. Both of those guys are open-borders, insanely liberal democrats. At least Chambliss and Perdue are more conservative, especially the latter, and Chambliss has indicated his intention in that regard.
Cleland was the guy who, just a few years ago, was up in a Dalton city elementary school advocating bringing Mexican teachers into the Dalton city schools to teach the children in Spanish.
Roy Barnes is most likely going to push for drivers licenses for illegal aliens. Furthermore, he is advoating bigger government. On the other hand, Perdue is pushing for lower taxes, cuts in the government, and is for sane districting as well as many other conservative ideas. Don't sit home.
D.C. is crackers, barking mad, it's broken and cannot be mended. The best thing for it really is to be marginalized and made inconsequential.
I almost voted for the weasel.
Do, please get help ; there ARE free clinics, dear. :-)
But one thing that you can count on is that in democracies, Electoral Systems determine Party Systems. That is, whether a nation has a one, two, or multi-party system will be determined not by media conspiracies, but by the laws and regulations which govern elections.
- Communist electoral systems gave rise to one-party politics.
- The American electoral system gives rise to two-party politics.
- Parliamentary electoral systems give rise to multi-party politics.
This is a universal law of political science. You will find no exceptions. I'll try and find a good article to post on Free Republic that will explain in more detail than I am here, but I'm telling you the truth... ask any political scientist.
Really, thinking that a third party will arise in America without significant and impossibe Constitutional Amendments is like thinking that a man can fly unaided if only he flaps hard enough, or that human beings can concieve children trisexually.
Perot wasn't a third party, he was a third candidate fluke, just like George Wallace but less successful. Once the candidacies of '68 and '92 were over, the American Independent and Reform Parties sank into their inevitable oblivions, never to achieve what they did at the height of their flukedoms.
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