Posted on 05/22/2006 3:05:29 PM PDT by NRA2BFree
Exactly! Just wait until the race riots break out. It's going to be bad, and the result is going to be restrictions on our freedoms.
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WoW! Thanks! That is so cool. I think I need to buy one of them. Of course, living in NM, I might get killed if I wore it out in public. LOL!
We already have restrictions on our freedoms thanks to bloated popolation.
Here's a few: recycling laws, pollution controls (in some places, it's even illegal to use your wood burning fireplace--OMG!), increased guns laws, water conservation, the need to import fuel, stoplights, speed limits, limits on game animals, parking meters, parking tickets, picking up after your dog,
But like that frog in water brought to boil, the restrictions have sneaked up on people such that they don't link cause and effect.
Not to mention, as the number of people approaches infinity, the power of your vote approaches zero.
The 1965 immigration act actually hasn't been all that bad for America. (It incidentally first limited immigration from countries of North and South America.) Despite the clearly erroneous predictions (with the benefit of hindsight), I can't think of any valid reasons to decry Asian immigration generally. And I certainly do NOT want to revert to a national-origins system that favors European immigrants, especially considering the penetration of socialism and Islamism throughout Europe.
That said, the Congress should terminate the extended-family-chain immigration system, especially those segments with a 23-year wait. Members of such extended families might qualify on their own merit; however, mere familial association with an American citizen should not give you any preferential treatment in a "merit-based" immigration system. We generally should allow approved immigrants to bring a spouse and minor children, although the family chain should stop there.
Any rational immigration policy will contain a "hard" cap on the total number of immigrants admitted annually as a proportion of the total population of the United States. This cap would include all members of an admitted immigrant family.
The Congress also should remove the right of any non-citizen to any form of welfare benefits, including Social Security payments, Medicare, and Medicaid. Although we might permit refugees to subsist off private charities for two years or less after their initial arrival, any immigrant who becomes or remains a public charge must be deported. Only a nation of idiots (like France) would allow immigrants to come for welfare benefits. Why should we import leeches who make no substantial contribution to our society? Contrary to popular belief (in Congress at least), the United States already sustains an excess of professional welfare recipients.
In 1996 the Jordan Commission recommended doing just that but the Republicans led by Dick Chrysler and Spencer Abraham gutted the proposal. No immigration legislation can ever succeed until they get that one provision under control and I suspect they all know that in Washington.
No amnesty 07-07-2007 bump
In a misguided application spirit of the civil rights era
Misguided my rear. I guess they were just trying to be polite.
The 1986 amnesty was almost as bad as the 1965 act. People should have known better in 1986.
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