Latest News: New Immigration Proposal Creates "System of Modern Peonage"
Engraved on the pillar supporting the Statue of Liberty is a poem by Emma Lazarus, titled "The New Colossus." We've all read it, but I'm asking you to read it again. Read more...
Engraved on the pillar supporting the Statue of Liberty is a poem by Emma Lazarus, titled "The New Colossus." We've all read it, but I'm asking you to read it again. Read more...
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Those who have come here before wanted to assimulate, become an American and join in our society. The huge invasion from down South, wants nothing to do with America as all they want is a meal ticket. The ones who have squatted in the Southwest have been brain washed that this region belongs to them. They do not want to speak our language or even be part of our traditional society. Never before have the majority of the American people been intentionally ignored by our leaders. The real truth we should use the 1986 Simpson Mozzoli laws that is already on the books
Thought you might be interested excerpts of this two-faced, chamelion who like most wealthy elites plays games with the ordinary peoples mind. I have no proof, but may be he energizes the average Massachusetts worker by giving them little bits of good policy. Then knowing full well he is going to ride the wave of corporate influence in later travels to the Senate?
HERE ARE STATEMENTS BY SENATOR. TEDDY KENNEDY IN 1965
Here is Ted Kennedy commenting on the 1965 immigration bill,Quote “The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission.” End of Quote.
Ted Kennedy on the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli Bill, Quote: “This amnesty will give citizenship to only 1.1 to 1.3 million illegal aliens. We will secure the borders henceforth. We will never again bring forward another amnesty bill like this.” End of Quote.
Ted Kennedy(2007) on the current immigration proposal, Quote: “The plan will strengthen our borders and our national security while providing a tough but fair path to citizenship for millions of people.” End of Quote.
Ted Kennedy: Celebrating over 40 years of lying to the American people regarding immigration. No one does it better.
He has lied to the citizens of his state and the whole population of America
Judge for yourself and search for the real suppressed truth.
http://immigrationcounters.com/
http://www.judicialwatch.org
http://www.numbersusa.com
Actually, there already are large sections of this country (very noticeable here in California) that are filled with illegal immigrants that are not assimilating, not learning English, not paying taxes (yes, some do, but many do not), and having children here to gain citizenship and act as anchors to bring up relatives from Mexico.
Yes, they are affecting jobs here. Qualified construction workers are losing jobs to cheaper illegals. That’s the most obvious. Many local stores employ illegals as stockers and janitors, despite their status. They are regularly employed by restaurants. Because of the undermining of unions, unions are no longer able to protect or maintain legitimate workers in these positions. Legal workers would like many of these positions, but the employers prefer being able to underpay employees, underpay taxes, and easily fire and abuse illegal employees.
Illegals use emergency rooms as medical care, and don’t pay for it, which means that the people paying taxes, those who pay their medical bills, and insurance companies are supporting them.
Landlords in some neighborhoods prefer to rent to illegals, because the landlords can then leave the properties uncared for, and simply kick out the tenants whenever they wish. This has caused some neighborhoods to become heavily populated with illegals, and, frankly, the quality of life in those neighborhoods has gone way down.
They are dragging down the level of learning in the schools. Many of the children do not have any English by the time they reach school, so they slow down the rest of the class. Money that could be going to infrastructure and supplies is paying bilingual teachers and aides to help these children get up to speed. The test scores in these districts is consistently low, and gang activity at the higher grades has gone up.
The Mexican government’s lack of care for its own people results in immigrants who are concerned only with their needs and wants. Of course, this attitude is not limited to illegals, but it seems to occur at a much higher rate, resulting in no desire to be part of a neighborhood, no sense of social responsibility, and a general adversarial attitude.
Illegals send much of what they make outside the U.S. It has been shown that that money does not come back here. It is not spent here, it doesn’t contribute to taxes, and it doesn’t pay the real cost of illegals.
How do I know all this? Because I’ve been living in the same neighborhood for nearly twenty years. In that time, I have watched it go from being a mixed-race, blue collar neighborhood, to about 70% illegal. I personally have witnessed all of the above.
When the poem by Emma Lazarus was written, there were still large parts of the U.S. that could be settled and farmed. The population was one-fourth what it is today. Today, California is a desert state that is running out of water and can barely support the legal population it has. The millions of people who have come here legally resent and are angered by those who are attempting to squat their way to legal recognition. The legal immigrants I know, and their children, especially the ones from Mexico, are most likely to be anti-amnesty.
Hola. (That’s “hello” in Spanish in case you don’t know–and you wouldn’t want to since you want “English only”) I am a 37-year-old Hispanic woman, born and raised HERE in this country of ours, working, paying taxes, and attending college–all thanks to a man who came here from Mexico over 80 years ago when he was a kid, a kid who didn’t know ANY English at all, a kid who grew up to serve our country during WWII, marry, raise a family, and make an honest living through construction work. That kid was my grandfather, and thanks to him, I’m here participating in the American discussion and doing all the things that people such as yourselves have been doing here for years. You are here because someone from a foreign country dared to come and make better lives for themselves. Should THEY have been told to go back home because they were “clogging” the system?
A lot of hot air. Round ‘em up an head’em out. You DO NOT reward criminals. End of story. And it’s 35 million not 12. Oh yea, Bush is a liar.
There is only one effective comprehensive immigration bill that can be drafted in this country that will be satisfactory to the American people, and that bill is to impose sanctions against any company, corporation or landlord that employs, or houses illegal immigrants, and the deportation of all illegal immigrants, with no work visa, or amnesty program, and the security of our borders should be the 2nd agenda. If you stop the jobs and housing, they will have no choice but to stay in their own countries until they get legal status, and legal status should not be granted to anyone who has been caught in the United States illegally, this cannot be construed as unfair, because after all, isn’t being in this country illegal just as unfair to the American people? Illegals have came to this country and had children just to insure their citizenship when since we all know this is the case, they should still be deported and made to take their children with them. This is not a prejudicial issue, this is about entering our country legal without breaking the laws of the United States. The American people are tired of not getting a hike in minimum wage because they can hire an illegal alien cheaper, or social programs that are using American workers tax dollars to house and feed illegals, not to mention all the illegal alien street gangs on the west coast that are spreading rapidly throughout our major cities, the drug importations and murders since the massive influx of illegal aliens of all nationalities. Transparent borders which give terrorists incentive to cross into the U.S. and murder it’s citizens. Then there are the Arabs that have a store in every poor neighborhood in America, that sell substandard goods to the poor people to finance terrorism. What are we going to do when they start pulling out those AK-47’s they been stashing that they bought with American money?
Tom-
If you read this, I hope you recognize one basic truth that renders all other points moot:
Any soveriegn nation, including the US, has the right to regulate who enters their country.
This right is practical. What if the Chinese government began a months long program to smuggle in 15 million of its poorest citizens? What if our neighbors in Mexico invited millions of “guests” from other nations to live there in camps, with the implicit promise they could sneak in the US, have an anchor baby and start working eligibility for Social Security?
This basic national right gives the US the tools to protect itself from this more insidious form of invasion.
Your article defending amnesty is riddled with ad hominem assertions. Here’s the first I spotted: “We would never see 12 million undocumented Ph.D.-holding white multimillionaires in the United States, and if we did, granting them citizenship would not be a national debate.”
We would all be concerned if say it was Soviet citizens in 1980 and the iron curtain has yet to fall! But may be you’re right about the lack of debate; they would get shipped back with few questions asked.
Remember it is about sovereignty!