NEWS JUNKIE POST
Mar 4, 2010 at 12:49 amA Bad Week For The GOP On Immigration
Immigration doesn’t break cleanly along left/right, liberal/conservative, or Democratic/Republican lines. There are lots of pro-immigration and pro-immigrant conservatives and they come in different varieties. Likewise, there are lots of progressives with deep reservations about immigration reform and immigration in general.
But the divisions the immigration debate creates on the right are deeper, more passionate, and much more destructive to GOP unity than the division on the left and the last few weeks since the Tea Party and CPAC conferences have underscored this fact of political life.
Within the Republican Party, you’ve got a lot of pragmatists who want immigration reform and a lot of others trying to find the balance between taking a strong stance against illegal immigration and not seeming to push away voters who are immigrants or closely tied to immigrants, for example, Latinos.
Republican activist Linda Chavez wrote in TownHall.com that the immigration position of many Republicans these days is inconsistent with her notion of conservative values. She points out that Republicans, who are theoretically opposed to heavy-handed government regulation, should naturally oppose strict regulation of immigration.
The Washington Post’s Peter Slevin wrote a long piece over the weekend on the dilemma facing the GOP, quoting a leading GOP strategist.
“The numbers don’t lie,” said Whit Ayres, a GOP consultant. “If Republicans don’t do better among Hispanics, we’re not going to be talking about how to get Florida back in the Republican column, we’re going to be talking about how not to lose Texas.”
And yet, as we all know, there are many in the Republican Party who haven’t gotten the message. They range from the opportunistic and merely loopy to the deadly and violent.
Here’s are a few highlights of how the immigration issue is playing out in the press that underscore the problem conservatives have with the immigration issue.
First the Comic Relief
Tom Tancredo, the former Colorado Congressman, is the gift that keeps on giving. Having keynoted the Tea Party convention in Nashville announcing his desire to see U.S. citizens tested for their civic knowledge before being allowed to vote, he is now attacking Tea darling and retired Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as not being “presidential.” He made these remarks in an interview with a Dutch publication, NRC Handelsblad
The right-wing on-line publication Tancredo writes for, WorldNetDaily, delightfully and accurately known as WingNutDaily by progressive wags on the web, reported on the Dutch interview and went on to say that Tancredo could not rule out another run for President.
Former Colorado congressman and Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo told WND today that if no one to his liking emerges in the 2012 run for the White House, he will consider another bid for the GOP nomination and would not rule out becoming a third-party candidate, as a “last option.”
For the record, Tom, I have not ruled out a run for Pope or for Queen of England, but my chances are about as good as yours are of becoming President some day.
The Wall Street Journal’s Gerry Seib wrote this week about Tancredo’s “cringe-worthy” performance in at the Tea Party convention and how “the Tea Party movement threatens to pull the [Republican] party away from its moorings on two crucial and emotional issues: the war on terror and immigration.” Seib cites Tancredo’s crude conspiracy theories, as when he says of John McCain that had he won the White House, he and Mexican President Felipe Calderon “would be toasting the elimination of those pesky things called borders and major steps taken toward creation of a North American Union.”
Razing Arizona
That same Senator John McCain is now locked in a primary battle for his Arizona U.S. Senate seat against a hard line, pro-Tea, anti-immigration talk-radio host, JD Hayworth. McCain has been lining up support for his candidacy from Palin, Mitt Romney, and a slew of national Republican headliners. Hayworth, who lost his House seat in 2006, is trying to match McCain, but is falling short, according to a Politico.com article this week:
Hayworth hasn’t been able to point to anywhere near the same amount of establishment support. And his most prominent endorser, once-popular Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, is under federal investigation for alleged abuse of power.
Arpaio is the self-appointed “toughest Sheriff in America” who has spent a lot of the last several years making national and international headlines for his roundups of immigrants (which have sometimes netted citizens, too). He is an icon for the anti-immigration movement and a magnet for civil right lawsuits, costing his local taxpayers millions in legal fees.
Meanwhile, the Arizona State Senate is in the grip of the anti-immigrant wing of the GOP, which is trying again to use state laws to send the political message that they are “tough on illegals.” The latest is an attempt to pass a law that makes being in the country illegally a violation of state felony trespassing laws so that local cops can arrest anyone suspected of being an undocumented immigrant (which, based on Arpaio’s track record, means anyone suspected of being a Latino or standing up to oppose racial profiling). According to the Associated Press, the trespassing measure would make about 460,000 more people vulnerable to arrest and incarceration by the police. Local police are not too happy about it.
Many of the state’s local police bosses have long resisted suggestions that their officers conduct day-to-day immigration enforcement, saying it would distract them from investigating other crimes and sow distrust among immigrants, who might not help officers investigating crimes because they fear being sent home.
“We are not anti-immigration enforcement,” said Kingman Police Chief Robert DeVries, who opposes the bill. “We are just concerned about some of the responsibilities that are being pushed on us and how it affects our ability to provide day-to-day services in our communities.”
Despite the objections of police, the Arizona Senate already passed the trespassing measure and it may come up for a vote in the House at some point soon.
It’s “An Invasion”
The chief proponent of this effort, Republican Senator Russell Pearce of Mesa, says it is necessary because “The greatest threat to our neighborhoods is the illegal alien invasion.”
Hmm, where have I heard that before?
“We are here to tell you wake up Georgia and stop the Latino invasion now,” Imperial Wizard Jeff Jones said. (Jacksonville News, “Cheers, jeers greet Klan rally in Nahunta,” Feb. 21, 2010)
Oh, yes. It was from the Ku Klux Klan of Southern Georgia who rallied against immigration a couple of weeks ago. Amazing how those talking points get around.
That’s probably unfair. A lot of opponents of immigration use the term “invasion” to describe – and demonize – the current wave of immigrants. Failed Presidential candidate and former WingNutDaily columnist Patrick Buchanan was saying it for years before he used it in the title for his 2006 book, “State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America.” Buchanan, who is a paid political analyst on MSNBC, uses the term regularly, along with the term “illegal” as a noun to describe an immigrant in the US illegally.
The rhetoric of restrictionists now flows seamlessly from conservative politicians to media personalities to radical activists to Klansmen and back to talk jocks and politicians.
Deadly Serious Part
Which is really scary when you look at what is happening on the radical right. The other bad news for Republicans on immigration this week came from the Southern Poverty Law Center, the organization that sued the KKK back to the Stone Age from whence it came and almost out of existence and continues to track hate groups in America.
SPLC found that there has been an explosion of right wing “Patriot” groups since Obama took office and especially ones targeting non-white immigrants. Mark Potok, of SPLC’s Intelligence Project wrote this week:
The number of hate groups in America has been going up for years, rising 54 percent between 2000 and 2008 and driven largely by an angry backlash against non-white immigration and, starting in the last year of that period, the economic meltdown and the climb to power of an African American president.
According to the latest annual count by the Southern Poverty Law Center, these groups rose again slightly in 2009 — from 926 in 2008 to 932 last year — despite the demise of a key neo-Nazi group. The American National Socialist Workers Party, which had 35 chapters in 28 states, imploded shortly after the October 2008 arrest of founder Bill White for making threats against his enemies.
At the same time, the number of what the SPLC designates as “nativist extremist” groups — organizations that go beyond mere advocacy of restrictive immigration policy to actually confront or harass suspected immigrants — jumped from 173 groups in 2008 to 309 last year. Virtually all of these vigilante groups have appeared since the spring of 2005.
And these groups are growing at the same time that hate crimes against all groups are growing – including hate crimes linked to immigration – even as overall violent crime is going down or holding steady.
High profile cases are in the news. The organization Long Island Wins has a moving blog with daily coverage of the trial of those accused of killing Marcelo Lucero in New York in November 2008. Just last week, a 20-year old accused of federal civil rights violations related to the murder of Jose Ramirez in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania in July 2008, was paroled on the lesser state charges he faced.
Tom Perez, the head of the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that in addition to targeting immigrants, the haters are targeting advocates for immigration reform
He voiced concern, in particular, that hate crimes directed at Latinos are “on the rise” and recounted a prosecution recently brought in Trenton, N.J., against “DevilFish” – a man sending e-mail threats to leaders of the National Council of La Raza and other Hispanic leaders.
Why? “They had the audacity to stand up for immigration reform,” Perez said.
When a political movement’s rhetoric escalates so far that it becomes entwined in a violent fringe, that’s very bad news for America.
It is also very bad news for legitimate opponents of illegal immigration and for the Republican Party that is most closely associated with illegal immigration as a political issue. Clearly, most people with a concern about illegal immigration are not racists, especially not violent racists. But the ones who are racists and violent racists taint almost anyone advocating against illegal immigration and even a lot of the people who advocate for reduced legal immigration.
It is a political liability for the immigration-reduction side because Americans are repulsed when strong rhetoric turns to ugly action. It also makes a debate on what to do about immigration much harder to conduct on civil terms. The temptation is often too much for the pro-immigrant side to resist. Many of us call almost everyone who opposes immigration a racist. But the debate shuts down – and it especially shuts down for the 70 or 80 percent of Americans who don’t really feel strongly about the immigration issue one way or the other or who hold mixed, confused, and sometimes contradictory opinions about this most complex of issues.
The Republican Party has lost a lot of moderates and is hemorrhaging over the immigration issue. Why should Democrats or Progressives care? Shouldn’t we stand by and let wing nuts like Tancredo, Hayworth, Pearce, Arpaio, and others lead the GOP over a cliff?
When the GOP loses its reasonable center, it is a lot harder to accomplish anything in Washington, as we are seeing these days. The leaders with whom Democrats could find common cause are no longer around. Standing by as the hard liners bring the GOP down means being complicit in the gridlock. As long as there is still hope that our politics can be rescued from hate, we should help those who want to work with us because inaction has real, unbearable costs. People are dying – in the desert trying to get here, in detention, at the hands of vigilantes – and we know that reforming the system is within our grasp. But with the political clock ticking, the window of opportunity for this President to make a difference this year is closing.
Editors note – Douglas Rivlin is the weekly contributor for Immigration Thursday on NJP. Please follow him on Digg and Twitter.
Good article, great points. I’d love to not call this a racism issue, but what else can we call it? I’ve never seen the “nativists” and other anti-immigrant groups and their political enablers go after undocumented Russians, Canadians, Irish, or any other European immigrants. They may not be here in such great numbers, but they’re here. And why don’t we honestly discuss that many African Americans have grown to resent immigrants? I’ve had to explain to my black family/friends that those who exploit Latino immigrants won’t hire black US-citizen workers regardless of whether Latinos are here or not. They hire undocumented Latinos because they can easily exploit their undocumented status, not because they love Latinos. They’d hire any undocumented immigrant, of any race, because there’s one area where those bosses agree that black, white, Asian and Latino American citizens are equal: none will work for slave wages in horrible working conditions, if they can possibly avoid it.
This article began as interesting, but lost all credibility when the author quoted Tom Perez’s major blunder about hate crimes being on the rise, and expanding and expounding on it. Fact: the most recent FBI tallies show that all hate crimes have fallen in numbers, including those against Latinos. No credibility here.
You may have bothered to check out that the first FBI statistics doumenting the rise in hate crimes came out during the Bush Administration. But I guess that would rob you of your simplistic dismissal. Which is… simplistic.
FBI 2008 Hate Crimes Report:
* Anti-Hispanic incidents fell 6%
* Anti-Hispanic offenses fell 5%
* Victims of anti-Hispanic incidents fell 4.6%; and
* Known offenders against Hispanics fell 6.2%
SPLC comes up with stuff using finger magic. Go to the source, the FBI 2008 Hate Crimes Report.
Your stats are outdated. This article refers to 2009 statistics, not 2008.
The article also says:
“And these groups are growing at the same time that hate crimes against all groups are growing – including hate crimes linked to immigration – even as overall violent crime is going down or holding steady.”
Check the stats, and you will see overall hate crimes increase in 2008 (FBI statistics), even as the overall crime rate decreases.
Also, I suggest that you find out about the term “statistical significance” before making comments about change in rates…
“Your stats are outdated. This article refers to 2009 statistics, not 2008.”
Wrong! Stats for 2009 are not released yet. Fact remains that hate crimes went DOWN in 2008 against Hispanics.
Man, I really liked the article. Especially when you said “When the GOP loses its reasonable center, it is a lot harder to accomplish anything in Washington, as we are seeing these days.”. GREAT, GREAT ARTICLE!!!
What is the argument here? every single alien “BROKE THE LAW!” Our Government, past & present, Republican & Democrat, have allowed the invasion of 20 to 30 million criminals and uneducated peons which is the largest invasion of any Nation, at any time, by any means & in direct violation of Article IV, Section IV of our Constitution.
This refusal to abide by our Constitution or enforce our Immigration Laws should be classified as Treason of the most foul kind, & as grounds for impeachment & trials for Treason!
Not only have they allowed the invasion, they force American tax payers to pay Billions on Billions of dollars to provide Welfare, Prison cells, Educate the invaders numerous children, and free medical care, at the same time the invading horde break numerous laws and massive document fraud, & are destroying our schools, hospitals, communities, culture and standard of living while Robbing, Raping, Killing & Assaulting American Citizens WAKE UP PEOPLE!
Wow, calm down. Whereever there are huge economic disparities, there are going to be unauthorized border crossings, but it is not fair to call this an ‘invasion’. People come here looking for opportunities. Don’t fear the brown man, he is human, just like you are.
Why is it not fair to call 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens stealing across our borders and deliberately overstaying visas an invasion? Look up the definition of invasion. What’s more, these people are occupying our country. Look up the definition of occupy. The Pew Hispanic Center says nearly 8 million illegal aliens are now holding American jobs. This is only possible by their commission of felonies like income tax evasion, lying on I-9 forms and using stolen Social Security numbers and/or fraudulent or forged identification documents. P.S. the poster you’re responding to makes no mention of brown men in his post, only criminals and uneducated peons. We all know that criminals and uneducated peons come in all skin colors, ethnicities and nationalities.
I know a lot of undocumented immigrants here in America, the vast majority are not latino, but that’s just because of the groups I run with. Regardless, they work their tails off using SS#’s that are usually just made up, and guess what, they can’t get tax returns. Beyond this, if you really are serious about immigration reform, you have to put the blame squarely on the big corporations (in particular big ag) who pay pennies on the dollar to maximize profit for a few elite landlords, which by the way forces family farmers out of business.
its not an invasion its our Manifest Destiny. no…wait…thats what its called when europeans do it. but when latinos do it, its an invasion.
So, since the brown man is human too, we should excuse his atrocious behavior that comes at our expense? Or is it a lack of sensitivity on the part of long-time, law-abiding citizens who contributed to the development of this once great nation that is being torn down before eyes?
How long will we suffer fools like you?
I think you are missing the whole point, the immigrations system is broken and it needs fixing. It might not be the people itself, it might be the system is outdated, and everyone agrees on that.
Something that was done many decades ago, needs to adjust to the future generations not other wise – which is actually how it is intended as is and — its not working.
Thanks for just corroborating some of the points made in the article. You indeed are a good illustration of the nativist wing that’s tearing apart the GOP. Thanks again!
Estoban:
“Fact: the most recent FBI tallies show that all hate crimes have fallen in numbers, including those against Latinos. No credibility here.”
Should we take your word as credible?
Get your facts right before writing nonsense. The author is basing this statistics on credible data. See http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/splc-report-number-of-patriot-groups-militias-surges-by-244-in-past-year for an article by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
FBI 2008 Hate Crimes Report:
* Anti-Hispanic incidents fell 6%
* Anti-Hispanic offenses fell 5%
* Victims of anti-Hispanic incidents fell 4.6%; and
* Known offenders against Hispanics fell 6.2%
SPLC comes up with stuff using finger magic. Go to the source.
“Arpaio is the self-appointed “toughest Sheriff in America” – aand JD Hayworth is his clone! aw how wonderful. They can both go away, now
on AZ GOP — No way that mccain loses here, he was the gop nominee for president
The most ridiculous, inaccurate article I have wasted my time reading in a long time.
Citizens as members of the Minutemen have directed border patrol to apprehend over 30,000 illegal aliens who show blatant contempt for our laws.
Those include people from 26 countries, including Koreans and Chineses on both borders.
This is not about any group of people it is about national security.
We have also provided life saving aid to over 500 individuals we found stranded in the desert including scores of women who were raped and left to die in the desert.
JD Hayworth understands the border issues and will take it head on as an issue that must be resolved.
John McCain has ignored the problem to the effect that drug cartels now control our southern border.
Well, you have wasted countless hours of the American public’s time. And if you are the poster for national security, then we need… a new poster.
Are you the same Chris Simcox that dropped out of the Senate race with 2% support? http://bit.ly/apDTzX
With all the respect I can muster for the founder of the Minutemen, let me say: I think your 15-minutes are up.
Minute men killing innocent people and children:
http://www.aztlan.net/minutemen_murders_911_call.htm
I cannot say it enough.
Millions of American citizens of Hispanic heritage are NOT in favor of illegal immigration.
American Hispanics are not of a monolith mind. Some are conservative, some are liberals, some are Democrats, some are Republicans, some are independents, some are Greens, etc. Get the picture?
One thing is for sure, we are not in favor of the illegal alien invasion from south or our border!
Please stop calling illegal aliens “immigrants.” If they are immigrants, I’m the Queen of England!
All illegal aliens have coming is deportation.
Hello, Queen of England.
Carmen, excellent post! You are one of the vast majority of Americans that understands our love of our freedoms, rule of law, culture and the shared experience of being American that outstrips skin colors, religions, ethnicities. Some of these left wing nuts do not comprehend this at all.
The dirty little secret is that, other than occasionally paying lip service to enforcement, for at least the last 35 years, regardless of party affiliation, the rich and powerful in this country have been the enablers for illegal migration into the US from Latin America. This cohort only benefits–in their businesses and in their homes–from the plentiful supply of cheap, easily intimidated labor pouring in from Mexico and further south. The rest of us–the non-rich who are not members of the power elite–pay the price, in our hospitals and in our schools, and in the overall deterioration in the quality of life here in the US for all but the rich.
McCain did us a great favor by defeating Romney in the GOP primaries. Despite his strong pronouncements during the 2008 Presidential primaries against illegal migration, had Romney won the Republican nomination and been elected President, he would have stabbed us in the back, by signing a “comprehensive immigration reform” along the lines of the Kennedy-McCain bill. The only thing the GOP can be counted on is to continue to reduce taxes on the rich. They don’t give a damn about those of us in the middle class.
I agree 100% on that, but I think we also need comprehensive immigration reform. It is not about what could have been done, or what has been happening, its about our next step as a nation and actually fix the problem and not just point fingers which helps no one, it only satisfies the ultra Eggo of some people
If the GOP keeps limiting itself to angry old white males Southern constituents, the party is doomed. A comprehensive immigration reform is a matter of when, not if. History will judge harshly racist monsters such as Senators Jeff Sessions, Jim DeMint, Vitter (the one who bought prostitutes) and other creatures who stand in the way of progress and humanity by offering fear and hatred. In a rapidly changing demographics, the GOP will be made to pay if it keeps its racist stand on immigration.
I couldn’t agree more. I think in the long run the world tends to have a good turn out — as what happened to the Italians and the Irish years ago. Is in the short run that some politicians leech the juice our of the issues for political gains
Sooner or later, Americans have to realize that these illegal aliens are destroying this Country and in a big part, bankrupting this Country. One would have to be almost blind not to see this.
Illegal aliens have made America the dumping ground for all their illegal alien children, then we have to school them and give them free medical care.
I for one, am sick and tired of these illegal aliens snubbing their nose at our immigration laws and the many other laws of this Country. If our Federal Government can not ENFORCE our immigration laws, and get these illegal aliens out of this Country, then let the States do it! One way or another, an end has to come to this illegal immigration, and not with AMNESTY! Amnesty will only encourage more illegal aliens to invade our Country and reward those who broke our laws and raped the American taxpayer in many ways…depressing our wages, taking our jobs, overwhelming our schools with their illegal alien children, driving without a license or car insurance, all the crime from stolen identities to rape, drugs and everything else.
It’s time for ZERO TOLERENCE with these illegal aliens. It’s time for them get out of this Country and back in their own Country where they belong. When we get rid of the illegal aliens, we will get rid of all the problems that go with them. THAT IS A FACT!
What do you propose we do, surround every ethnic neighborhood in the country then send in masked gunman door to door, round up anyone without documents, and put them in camps?
You do the same pathetic ploy that so many others do. You try to make it about racism and anti non-whites. Thats not what it is for many us. Its about slapping in the face all the immigrants who followed the rules. Its about an unregulated flow of people who may or may not have criminial records, diseases, etc that is just walking in. Im sure you dont leave the doors of your house wide open so just anyone can walk in do you? No you have locks on your door and the door is shut so you can control who comes into your house. Why do you seek to deny the citizens of this country the same right?
You can ask any scientists that studies biological systems what happens you try to introduce a new entity an area in an unregulated fashion. It throws the existing system into chaos and does alot of damage. This can be mitigated with a slow, steady, controlled flow.
No one is saying these people cant come here, we just ask they follow the rules and we dont want to reward those that ignored the rules. Why is that so hard to get through your head? Maybe because you are too busy chanting ‘racist’ long enough to see the truth.
Hi, I’m a biologist. You seem to be referring to invasive species, which do damage to an ecosystem because they lack natural predation to keep them in check. “Slow, steady controlled flow” of the invasive species makes no difference in the measured outcome. This has zero bearing on human society.
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Yeah, the Republicans should sell out the country and let everyone in the world come here illegally if they want all for some extra votes! Sounds like some twisted liberal logic right there.
I don’t think that is how it works. We need to enforce our borders and deal with those here, because like or not they ain’t going no where unless you come up with some better plan like… deport 12 million people.. and try to re-write history, which has told us over the years all the grief toward immigrants like Italians and Irish in the past.
The problem with this article, as with most pro-immigration reform articles, is that it makes no distinction between legal and illegal immigrants. The vast majority of Americans are pro immigrant, anti illegal immigrant. There is a reason amnesty cloaked as ‘immigration reform’ has been shot down recently. People are sick of it. Find yourself a legal immigrant and ask them their opinion of illegal immigration. It won’t be the one you’re obviously expecting.
oH YEAH? how is how? do you speak for everyone or what? I really hate it when people make assertions which are not true. Legal or Illegal, they are still immigrants – aren’t they? It is like saying.. there this blue car and that red car… and they both are cars! … so obvious you are calling people for distinctions that aren’t really specific, but you want them to be. I just want the problem to be solved and that’s it! that is why we need comprehensive immigration reform, and I then the borders sealed if possible. The point is to deal with the problem, and not try to cover up the solutions with more rhetoric and hatred
BREAK LAW, GET TAX MONEY! Local Governments Urge Illegal Immigrants to Fill Out Census To Get Taxpayer Funding. http://shar.es/m3KGr
This is–WHY–E-Verify must be fully funded, permanent and using the money to make the program a keystone of immigration enforcement. It’s being updated constantly with new innovations including using green card holders and complimentary data bases. No! its not been perfected yet, but give it time? There are many business elements that doesn’t want the program to succeed, nor thousands of other organizations that have a ominous reasons which is power-money and large profits. E-Verify is not going the way of the Do-Do.bird, as it will get stronger and it’s databases cross-reference with perhaps even with IRS and Census records. Even now politicians are trying to substitute E-Verify, for some other tool. I don’t trust them as they will do anything to undermine any working tool. With the technology we have inherited today, we can mandate its use and hire the top computer engineers to perfect its ability, to deport every illegal immigrant in America.
Not the 12 million facade that we have brain washed with, but the–REAL–number of somewhere between 20 and 30 unauthorized foreigners bleeding our nation dry. E-Verify in its second generation performance, could be used to drivers license irregularities, vehicle registrations, insurance fraud, along with house mortgages, health care and much more. Every local police department should be funded to train its police in the 287 (G) program, with instruction to arrest and hand over to ICE. Then ICE should not be blocked by a wimpy Janet Napolitano, who has ordered the agents to slowly desist on immigration raids. Perhaps the inception of the “TEA PARTY” movement has an agenda to stop this absolute travesty of our immigration enforcement? Immigration is one big game, playing with peoples lives. It starts with national security? Politicians pushing New Employee Verification Act, or NEVA, is just another hold-up, to staunch the use of E-Verify. Just more corrupt lawmakers who owe favors to parasite business groups, who want to see the end to E-Verify.
Even if a Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill passed, do we really think that the hundreds of thousands of criminal illegal immigrants walking the streets is coming out of the so called shadows? Neither are they going to answer the door to the adjudicator, who is out counting the population for the 2010 US Census. They will run and hid, because the came here illegally thumbing their noses at The People’s Law and don’t trust the US government. Let’s face it, a great majority of the American people cannot trust the government, because they continuously lie to us. Two politicians that must–GO–in the midterm elections is Sen. Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Has anybody ever considered the fact that no immigration enforcement tool ever really–WORKS. The fence-No Match letter-ICE raids.
ALL WERE COMPROMISED. The First line of defense the International fence was meant to be a double barrier, not a single fence. Places in Indian reservations and barren areas have no restrictions, no tower, no sensors, no cameras. No match letter was rescinded. ICE raids have been cut well back by Napolitano. Border states need a lot of help? They are uninterrupted by the illegal immigration invasion. That’s why states like California that refuses to immunize itself against the invasion and need budgetary stewards like Steve Poizner, as a new governor who promises to fight back against supporting illegal alien families public entitlements Sen. Shelby shows his support for rescinding the instant Birthright Citizenship for any pregnant female, who makes it past federal agents at airports or at the borders.
WE NEED NO MORE AMNESTIES, MAKE E-VERIFY PERMANENT , FULLY FUND 287 (G) FOR LOCAL POLICE AND RESUME EXPANDED ICE RAIDS. Learn more at NUMBERSUSA , JudicialWatch, and Americanpatrol. Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and asked for your Senator or Congressman. In addition bombard your State Representatives to enforce state laws. Just look to the State of California, that has been labeled a–SANCTUARY STATE–because its run by a horde of Democrats who are really liberals under their skin, that have pandered to the illegal alien occupation. Now the state is dead–BROKE–with not enough money to pay its bills.
You a gain, I see you cross post you Anti-immigrant propaganda every where .. at least change the lines….
Rampant population growth threatens our economy and quality of life. Immigration, both legal and illegal, are fueling this growth. I’m not talking about environmental degradation or resource depletion. I’m talking about the effect upon rising unemployment and poverty in America.
I am the author of a book titled “Five Short Blasts: A New Economic Theory Exposes The Fatal Flaw in Globalization and Its Consequences for America.” To make a long story short, my theory is that, as population density rises beyond some critical level, per capita consumption of products begins to decline out of the need to conserve space. People who live in crowded conditions simply don’t have enough space to use and store many products. This declining per capita consumption, in the face of rising productivity (per capita output, which always rises), inevitably yields rising unemployment and poverty.
This theory has huge implications for U.S. policy toward population management, especially immigration policy. Our policies of encouraging high rates of immigration are rooted in the belief of economists that population growth is a good thing, fueling economic growth. Through most of human history, the interests of the common good and business (corporations) were both well-served by continuing population growth. For the common good, we needed more workers to man our factories, producing the goods needed for a high standard of living. This population growth translated into sales volume growth for corporations. Both were happy.
But, once a critical population density is breached, their interests diverge. It is in the best interest of the common good to stabilize the population, avoiding an erosion of our quality of life through high unemployment and poverty. However, it is still in the interest of corporations to fuel population growth because, even though per capita consumption goes into decline, total consumption still increases. We now find ourselves in the position of having corporations and economists influencing public policy in a direction that is not in the best interest of the common good.
The U.N. ranks the U.S. with eight third world countries – India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Uganda, Ethiopia and China – as accounting for fully half of the world’s population growth by 2050. It’s absolutely imperative that our population be stabilized, and that’s impossible without dramatically reining in immigration, both legal and illegal.
If you’re interested in learning more about this important new economic theory, I invite you to visit my web site at http://PeteMurphy.wordpress.com.
Pete Murphy
Author, “Five Short Blasts”
Is Tancredo serious about testing people on their civic knowledge? The only people that would ace it are those who just gained US citizenship. Definatley most voting Republicans would fail. Sounds great!
Some good points in this article, but many “independents” oppose amnesty for illegal alien, as do some democrats. It’s not just Republicans. As an independent, I support most of the immigration enforcement laws passed in AZ and I’m trying get get the same thing done in my state.
I don’t hate of even blame the illegal aliens. I blame the employers for exploting them. Immigration builds up this nation. Illegal immigration doesn’t.
I think you must confused. Actually Illegal built this country. Did everyone had passport when they came over here on the early stages of the country???!
Some people want to see WHITE America destroyed. They are the ones who welcome the immigrants who are going to drag us down to a lower level. Then, they think they will have proved something about equality.