[gubamyster]

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[Sabertooth]

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).

While I don't support troops at the border, the rest of Gekas' bill merits close consideration.

With the resignation of INS Commissioner James Ziglar, President Bush has a golden moment to silence many his critics and nominate a new INS Commissioner whose views on immigration, Illegal Aliens, and border security more accurately reflect that of the American People. There is no weeping in the Heartland now that the Ziglar the Buffoon is making his belated exit.

The next INS Commissioner needs to understand the best of what immigration brings to America, placing a high value on citizenship, assimilation to our culture, and a love of the English language. At the same time, the new Commissioner's patriotism must place America's security and sovereignty ahead of the trendy ideological and economic infatuations of the Washington Beltway.

There are Middle Eastern terror cels in our country. There are hundreds of thousands of Arab Moslem non-citizens amongst whom they hide. There are eight to thirteen million Illegal Aliens whose presence provides a black market infrastructrue for border crossing, infiltration into the American interior, and forged documents and identification. Millions are draining resources and taxpayer money in unearned subsidies from all levels of government. They fill our schools, our emergency wards, and our prisons. They cost our country billions even as the degrade our neighborhoods.

They engender an atmosphere of lawlessness. Many vote illegally, the worst trampling of our precious citizenship.

Current INS Commissioner James Ziglar, boyhood chum of Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), cared not a whit for any of this. His malfeasance in office reflected poorly on President Bush and the Republican Party. The best thing he will ever do in his career is... leave.

But who now? Who can turn the INS around and make it function in the capacities that it was intended?

Michelle Malkin, the daughter of legal Philippino immigrants, has been tireless in writing of the problems highlighted above. She has documented the failings of the INS from terrorism to Illegal Aliens, knows who the entrenched, open-border bureaucrats are, and would hit the ground running as President Bush's next INS Commissioner.

Articulate and telegenic, Mrs. Malkin would be a refreshing new face in the Bush Administration and the Republican Party, on the same path blazed by National Security Advisor Condileeza Rice.

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[4Freedom]

Pennsylvania Republican, George Gekas is on the right track.

Can we add people with AIDS/HIV to the list of those we would exclude?

Wait'll I get ahold of a copy of this Republican questionnaire. Where's my black, magic marker? ;^)

[glc1173@aol.com]

To borrow Ross Perot's 1992 campaign phraseology, immigration is the "crazy aunt in the basement" of GOP politics.

Ignoring it won't make it go away. Place after place - even far from the border - has overstuffed schools with ever-more trailer classrooms no matter what tax referendum the sheeple pass because of it. This is the point where it affects middle-class families most in quality of life - not just in high taxes. It puts a huge quasi-tax on families in some areas by forcing near-universal middle-class flight to private schools.

However, place after place is also seeing immigration take over local welfare caseloads - even far from the border. Place after place - even far from borders - is also seeing immigration put ruinous burdens on hospitals.

The GOP elites ignore this issue at their own peril - as social conservatives no longer will support a party that doesn't support us; we will vote Buchanan or just not vote for president at all in 2004 if the party doesn't stand by us.

Get the sticker!

[Sabertooth]

FYI

[Fearless Flyers]

Just another reason I am not a Republican, the party of the limp wristed.

[Melas]

Perhaps the consensus isn't as great as the rabid anti-imigration crowd would have us believe? As an American, a Texan, and a Republican, I consider myself as much a part of the grass roots as anyone, and I am not alarmed that a nation 1/4 our size to the South is somehow going to ruin everything by crossing our border. The very notion defies logic.

If the name calling hasn't taken over this thread already, I'm sure it will start now.

[Gritty]

BTTT

[Arleigh]

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.

Calling the RepublicRats "out of touch with the grass roots" is being charitable. They DON'T CARE what we think! Every poll shows that a large majority - as high as 90% - of Americans don't want more immigration. But the rich global elites that control the RepublicRat and DemocRat parties need cheap foreign serfs to maintain their privileged lifestyles, so that's what we get - more immigrants!

When a government no longer heeds the wishes of a majority of its citizens, it has become a tyranny.

[Mr. Mojo]

The stupidity of the GOP borders on incurable. If the party platform on immigration mimicked Gekas' bill, they'd absolutely slaughter the Dems in every election. Don't these idiots read voting demographics? American voters are overwhelmingly white and middle class. So overwhelmingly, in fact, that most other voting blocks can be safely ignored.

The final nails are now being hammered in our coffin and the majority of the American people, if not outright encouraging this state of affairs, are at least indifferent to it. Our fate is well deserved.

[Enough is ENOUGH]

On my survey from the Republican Party I x'ed out the survey questions and wrote a note over it to see the attached. Stapled on top of it was a note stating that I was more concerned about the lack of immigration policies for reasons of safety from terrorists and the rising costs associated with providing medical care and education for the illegals. I reminded them that amnesty is part of the problem and not the solution. I returned it without a check with a comment that my vote is waiting for someone who has the guts to say enough to PC.

[Bullish]

The shyness of the Republican Party and the Bush administration about immigration....

Shyness? I call it cowardice.

[bok]

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[Michael2001]

Thanks for posting. Immigration is one of the most important isues facing this nation.

[CIBvet]

All American bump.

[dougherty]

The shyness of the Republican Party and the Bush administration about immigration....

It's not shyness, it's cowardice.

[RonF]

"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?"

Let me assure you that the environmentalists would be more than happy to see an immediate halt to the import of all exotic species (exotic meaning "non-native"). The list of noxious plants, animals, and micro-organisms that have been imported to the USA, both deliberately and accidentally, that have caused damage to American property, health, and lives is quite lengthy. The gypsy moth, Japanese beetles, Chestnut blight, and that boring beetle whose name I forget but that is killing trees in New York and Chicago come immedately to mind.

Environmentalists definitely spend time and money lobbying legislators to just this end; however, the government doesn't want to spend our money to do this, and the press doesn't think it's a sexy issue. So, you don't hear about it unless you're going to some effort to follow the issue.

Here in the Midwest, you can easily spend all your spring, summer, and fall weekends with environmental groups out in the field cutting up, digging up, and destroying infestations of purple loosestrife and buckthorn. There's a lot of comments here in FR criticizing environmentalists, but there's plenty of them that don't spend their time writing letters to newspapers and legislators, they're out in the field actually working.

[Joe Hadenuf]

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.

To those that think there is no agenda surrounding this titanic crisis...

[F16Fighter]

BUMP