[Sabertooth]

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.

"Well, I am shocked! Shocked!"

not.

[Re-electNobody]

This was very evident in the questionaire I received. They wanted your opinion on issues not nearly as important to the future of this country as the question of illegal immigration. That is the major reason I will not donate to the party as a whole.

[tenderstone jr.]

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.

Even on Free Republic, immigration isn't listed under any of the General Interest discussion topics. Almost every issue imaginable is listed, but immigration is not.

[Tempest]

Well yeehaawww!!! Ya allz should just start yer own party then to show dem der Republicans how yaz alls feel.

Perhaps you can call it the party of kill da outsiderz!!!

Yeeehhhhaaaaa!!!!

[MissAmericanPie]

Then they should understand why their envelopes come back empty, or not at all.

[janetgreen]

When I get those in the mail from the RNC, I use a marker to write my comments. I tell them that they are forgetting a very important issue - illegal immigration. I tell them that I will not donate a cent to them or to any candidate who will not address this issue. When they call on the phone I tell them the same thing, plus some other choice words about immigration and what it has done to California.

[Valin]

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.

Well one thing you have to say about the GOP is the party(particularly the national party) has an almost genetic ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
this is a HUGH wedge issue out on the factory floor with joe six-pack, and in the "minority community".

[Victoria Delsoul]

Gekas's bill sounds pretty good in general, especially Title VIII.

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.