Posted on 07/10/2014 6:08:25 AM PDT by shoff
You’ve heard the war cry of fixing our broken immigration system so often it has become as ubiquitous as the Karashian’s and about as annoying. But is it broken and can we find evidence to back up that claim? To find out the truth was must look at immigration past. Whatever our conclusions we should review past efforts to fix the system and their results.
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You’ve heard the war cry of fixing our broken immigration system so often it has become as ubiquitous as the Karashian’s and about as annoying. But is it broken and can we find evidence to back up that claim? To find out the truth was must look at immigration past. Whatever our conclusions we should review past efforts to fix the system and their results.
When speaking of past immigration the first things that come to mind are the US Mexican border and Ellis Island. Since numbers across the Rio Grande are not reliable we need to look to the gateway for immigrants, Ellis Island. In operation from 1892 thru 1954, twelve million immigrants entered legally past the Statue of Liberty and thru Ellis Island (Ellis Island). At the year of its closure this represented 8% of the US population. Today according to the US census there are 41.7 million foreign born living and working in America. This represents 13% of today’s population. It is estimated 28% of those 41.7 are here illegally (Census). Just in raw numbers that is four times the amount in almost the same amount of time. How is this broken?
Now we should look at efforts to repair the system that allows so many to enter the country. The most comprehensive change in immigration policies was the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. (Hart-Cellar Act) This act opened up what is referred to as chain immigration. Before this bill legal immigrants could only sponsor members of their nuclear family. (Wife, husband under age children) This act now permitted siblings, parents, and adult children. This bill also reset the quotes to favor immigrants from South America and Asia. This act was championed by Ted Kennedy and his brother Robert. Ted, in defense of the bill stated “The bill will not upset the ethnic mix of our society”. Robert Kennedy added “Set to rest any fears that this bill will change the ethnic, political or economic make-up of the US”. Lyndon Johnson when he signed it assured Americans “It does not affect the lives of millions. It will not reshape the structure of our daily lives”. This was all prior to “Press one for English” and Telemundo was required for basic cable. Also before Robert Kennedy was assassinated by an immigrant Palestinian who INS labeled “Asian” and would be a dreamer today since he entered the country at age 12. (Sirhan Bishara Sirhan)
The Hart-Cellar act just wasn’t enough so in the seventies refugee programs were added, the 1986 blanket amnesty which was in exchange for closing the borders, and the 1990 immigration act. Even handing out citizenship like lollypops at the border wasn’t enough to repair the system. So in 1994 there was temporary rolling amnesty (245i), extended in 1997 and for the 400,000 who missed the 1986 deadline covered in 2000. That same year the Life Act picked up another 900,000.
Now we know the history of our broken immigration system should we entrust the fix to the same people that tried so many times before? The same people that while preventing citizens from knowing the truth are advertising that 90% of illegal’s will never be asked to leave? The same Department of Homeland Security that now transports abandoned children to questionable families will secure our borders? If not our elected officials, who will protect us from this invasion? It would seem apparent to every informed person currently residing in these United States we don’t need any more bills, Acts, or laws. What we need is elected officials that will follow the existing laws, make good broken promises, or get the hell out!
Very well written and researched!
We do not need more laws, just politicians who will see existing laws are enforced.
No more lawlessness!
Thanks for the compliment.
What really pisses me off about the state of the country is only 57.5% of the population turns out to vote. The actual number is most probably lower if you remove the dead and multiple votes. I know I am preaching to the choir on this forum but what the heck is wrong with people?
I agree. Most of the country doesn’t have a clue. Combine that with a propaganda main stream media machine which controls the entertainment content. Doesn’t bode well, but there is hope that a majority of people will start to see through what is really happening.
The perpetual class who do not pay taxes but vote themselves benefits, is a real drag on democracy.
A recent poll stated that 57% of Americans thought that taxes were too high. Closer analysis probably would have revealed that among taxpayers, almost all would say that taxes were too high. People who don’t pay taxes at all are certainly not bothered by high taxes.
Collapse the state systems and then the feds take over with programs like living wage, single payer healthcare, maybe even appoint governors.
NO!!!! We don’t want any more of their fixes. When they “fix” something it is always worse.
Just call me the eternal optimist; I have seen some people I know voting for the first time in their lives. Not enough yet to make a difference but the worse it gets the more people will get off their butts and do something. (hopefully)
I agree with you on this, 100%.
Yesterday's photo op was stunning: the President shooting pool, while our nation is being invaded; then not taking time to inspect the border. Just wow, amazing in his ineptitude!
Just makes one wonder (and shudder), what new amazing display will today bring?
The first real immigration reform should be the repeal of Teddy Kennedy’s Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
It abolished the immigrant quota system that had existed since the 1920s.
President Lyndon Johnson called the bill “not a revolutionary bill. It does not affect the lives of millions”. Senator Ted Kennedy hastened to reassure the populace that the demographic mix would not be affected.
THESE ASSERTIONS WOULD LATER PROVE GROSSLY INACCURATE, EVEN OUTRIGHT LIES.
In effect, the bill gave *preferences* to people who were from “fourth world” nations, uneducated, from primitive and barbaric cultures and religions, who were often vehemently anti-American in their outlook.
That is, in a choice between a successful European scientist with a PhD, and an uneducated Somali Muslim with a family of 30, the *preference* would go to the Somali.
The disparity was so great that eventually a new law had to be passed to give *visas*, if not citizenship, to the educated and productive people denied citizenship from these stupid preferences.
You need a competent editor badly.
Even though the bill didn’t have Kennedys name on it he was the champion. Then two years later the esteemed statesman drives off a bridge
I post here to learn. If you wouldn’t mind giving me some examples either private reply or public since everyone can see it anyway.
Regardless of what they do NOW regarding illegal immigration (or any of the other ‘broken’ systems), in 5 to 10 years they will be back with the same claims — ‘broken system’ — and wanting more tax dollars to ‘fix’ it.
Only in ten years it will be 3.2 million instead of the current 1.6 million DHS tells us
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