Constitution Party on Immigration

http://www.constitutionparty.com/party_platform.php#Immigration ^ | Constitution Party

[Taxman]

We [The Constitution Party] affirm[s] the integrity of the international borders of the United States and the Constitutional authority and duty of the federal government to guard and to protect those borders, including the regulation of the numbers and of the qualifications of immigrants into the country.

Each year approximately one million legal immigrants and almost as many illegal aliens enter the United States. These immigrants - including illegal aliens - have been made eligible for various kinds of public assistance, including housing, education, Social Security, and legal services. This unconstitutional drain on the federal Treasury is having a severe and adverse impact on our economy, increasing the cost of government at federal, state, and local levels, adding to the tax burden, and stressing the fabric of society. The mass importation of people with low standards of living threatens the wage structure of the American worker and the labor balance in our country.

We oppose the abuse of the H-1B and L-1 visa provisions of the immigration act which are displacing American workers with foreign.

We favor a moratorium on immigration to the United States, except in extreme hardship cases or in other individual special circumstances, until the availability of all federal subsidies and assistance be discontinued, and proper security procedures have been instituted to protect against terrorist infiltration.

We also insist that every individual group and/or private agency which requests the admission of an immigrant to the U.S., on whatever basis, be required to commit legally to provide housing and sustenance for such immigrants, bear full responsibility for the economic independence of the immigrants, and post appropriate bonds to seal such covenants.

The Constitution Party demands that the federal government restore immigration policies based on the practice that potential immigrants will be disqualified from admission to the U.S. if, on the grounds of health, criminality, morals, or financial dependence, they would impose an improper burden on the United States, any state, or any citizen of the United States.

We oppose the provision of welfare subsidies and other taxpayer-supported benefits to illegal aliens, and reject the practice of bestowing U.S. citizenship on children born to illegal alien parents while in this country.

We oppose any extension of amnesty to illegal aliens. We call for the use of U.S. troops to protect the states against invasion.

We oppose bilingual ballots. We insist that those who wish to take part in the electoral process and governance of this nation be required to read and comprehend basic English as a precondition of citizenship. We support English as the official language for all governmental business by the United States.

[Taxman]

This is the Immigration plank of the Constitution Party platform.

Any takers?

[SteveMcKing]

How long before CINOs take over the Constitution party? (".... in name only")

[Ronin]

Sign me up.

[pickrell]

Tell me where I can learn more...

[Echo Talon]

Ross Perot was for a balanced budget, and we ended up with Bill Clinton.

well, this is what we're gonna do.. see..

[Robertsll]

I am tempted to leave the Republican Party and join the Constitution Party.

The one thing that is keeping me in the Republican Party is Tom Tancredo. I want to vote for him in the Republican Primary.

[BigTom85]

I like what i read! I think the constitution party ran a man from Maryland for president in 04. I cant remember his name... It might be Mike Peroutka or something along those lines...

[Zeon Cowboy]

Sounds good, but will this go anywhere?

[bjcintennessee]

I've never been a one-issue voter before, but I'm thinking this is the hill I'll choose to die on. Soooooo.....who's running for President in this party?

[SeaBiscuit]

"Sounds good, but will this go anywhere?"

Who knows.. maybe useful to inch the GOP back to the right a notch or two.. grow a spine maybe.

[Ronin]

Personally, I could give a rodent's rectum right now.

I am so damn pissed at the Republicans in the Senate for lots of different reasons, amnesty for illegals just being the most recent, that it would take a major effort of will to get me to mark a Republican ballot again.

The Republicans have had the bag since 2000 and effective control of all three branches of government since 2004 and in that time federal spending has gotten worse than it was under Clinton, homeland security is busy patting down geezers in wheelchairs, Spectre keeps making cutesy little deals while judicial nominees languish and McCain is busy working to prove he could be the biggest media whore in the country.

I'm not sure, at this point, that Hillary as president could be any worse. But I have reached my limits as far as the Republicans are concerned.

[Echo Talon]

and voting constitution party or libertarian is going to so what exactly?

[Echo Talon]

do

[DancesWithBolsheviks]

I agree. I feel very used over the years. I can easily vote Constitution Party next time around.

[SoCalPol]

If you look further this bunch is against the war and in several areas they so state.
Under Terrorism & Personal Liberty...America is engaged in an undeclared war with an ill-defined enemy and it goes on.

Howard Dean or Ted Kennedy coouldn't have written it better.

Since there are more Democrats than Republicans and the
Republicans start spliting the vote all you are doing is
electing a Democrat.
The Third Party folks did this before and gave us Carter and Clinton.

[Columbine]

Sounds good, but will this go anywhere?

Sure.

It will go to Clinton just like Perot did.

[Ronin]

It'll give my support to a group of people who apparently believe in the same things I believe in. Which, by the way, is why I originally voted Republican in the first place.

Now it appears the Republicans do not believe in what I do, at least at the top levels, so what makes you think I should vote for them?

[corkoman]

and voting constitution party or libertarian is going to so what exactly?

Allow the big spending pork bellied hypocritical RINOs to wallow on the sidelines and contemplate the folly of their ways.

What with the ballooning if fed spending and the abandonment of conservative principles I hardly see a difference in the parties right now.

[SoCalPol]

*We ended up with Bill Clinton because of George HW Bush, by the way. He *made* a 3rd party nearly viable.*

That one doesn't wash. Am glad you enjoyed Clinton and his 8 wonderful years. Am sure your vote will put his wife in next time.

[Plutarch]

I'll have to look for a Constitutional Party congressional candidate to vote for instead of my Republican Rep., who shills for illegal hiring growers. Gerrymandered district, so its not like a Dem is going to get in or anything.

[RHINO369]

"Ross Perot was for a balanced budget, and we ended up with Bill Clinton."

And we got a balanced budget. Under Bush2 we just keep spending and spending. I know it wasn't Clinton who balanced but the budget was balanced.

[Echo Talon]

welcome to FR BTW. good luck on your quest to siphon votes.

[de Buillion]

Where can I join?

[Echo Talon]

And we got a balanced budget. Under Bush2 we just keep spending and spending. I know it wasn't Clinton who balanced but the budget was balanced.

So you think, Hillary is going to close the borders? LOL

[GregoTX]

"It will go to Clinton just like Perot did."

Yup ... vote 3rd party or vote democrap, the end result is the same. We split, they win. Divide and conquer.

We have to reform the Republican party. That is whay primarys are so important.

[RHINO369]

"So you think, Hillary is going to close the borders? LOL"

Hell no, do you think Bush2, or McCain or Rudy or Romney will close the borders? Nominate a open border, big government, pro gun control nominee and prepare for Clinton2.

Its smarter to fight your enemy head on than trust yourself to be stabbed in the back from your only leadership.

[de Buillion]

"We ended up with Bill Clinton because of George HW Bush, by the way. He *made* a 3rd party nearly viable."

Yes, he did. And how did he do that? He dissed the NRA.

[Echo Talon]

Sessions in 08!

Hmmm, I could be wrong but isn't he a Republican?

[RHINO369]

"We have to reform the Republican party. That is whay primarys are so important."

And how do you do that when you vote for anyone who simply calls himself a republican. IF they know they can court liberals by being liberal and keep the conservatives they will (and are) doing it.

[de Buillion]

Amen to almost all of your statement, BUT hillary WILL be worse. Trust me!

[SoCalPol]

Why do you side with the left wing against the war?

Read what this wack job of a party stand for new bee

[truemiester]

I would vote COnstitution party but they would pull our troops out of Iraq, first order of business. Other wise they would have my vote.

[MonroeDNA]

Not me.

Micheal Savage party.

[Cobra64]

As I mentioned on another thread, this is most likely the party for which I will be voting.

[de Buillion]

I am currently rethinking this.

[Octar]

I am tempted to leave the Republican Party and join the Constitution Party.

I'm feeling the same way. Sadly, our entrenched Republican members of congress have strayed so far from their base that they may need a giant defeat to wake them up. Don't they know that they are the majority party there? If the Constitution party can rise as a threat, as Perot did, some good may ultimately come from this. I'm very disappointed with the Republicans in congress who behave like frightened wimps. Where are their balls? In Hillary's purse? jeez

[Cobra64]

Click the link.

[Cobra64]

You speak for a lot of us.

[Unmarked Package]

"If you look further this bunch is against the war and in several areas they so state."

Coming so soon after the horrendous attacks of 9/11/2001 and faced with the current threat of radical Islam, I agree that the Constitution Party's plank on Terrorism and Personal Liberty is an abomination. I want nothing to do with a political party that holds their stated views on these life and death issues and so vigorously opposes the Patriot Act and preemptive actions against terrorist regimes.

[rodeocowboy]

"Personally, I could give a rodent's rectum right now. I am so damn pissed at the Republicans in the Senate for lots of different reasons, amnesty for illegals just being the most recent, that it would take a major effort of will to get me to mark a Republican ballot again. The Republicans have had the bag since 2000 and effective control of all three branches of government since 2004 and in that time federal spending has gotten worse than it was under Clinton, homeland security is busy patting down geezers in wheelchairs, Spectre keeps making cutesy little deals while judicial nominees languish and McCain is busy working to prove he could be the biggest media whore in the country. I'm not sure, at this point, that Hillary as president could be any worse. But I have reached my limits as far as the Republicans are concerned"

Very well said and right on! I am with you in frustration. I like the Constitution Party's stance on immigration. I wonder where they stand on taxes and guns?

[SoCalPol]

I am sitting 15 miles north of the largest and busiest border crossing the world.
I was a counter protester at yesterday's 50,000 Mexican
march and rally here in San Diego
And BTW we need both a wall and we need to be fingthing the war on terrorism be in the Middle East or where ever.
I have many relatives who have pulled tours in Iraq and many going back.

Get the big picture. We need both and taking away votes
from Republicans for sure will keep the border open.

[GregoTX]

"And how do you do that when you vote for anyone who simply calls himself a republican. IF they know they can court liberals by being liberal and keep the conservatives they will (and are) doing it."

Damage control. Ill vote for weak Republican before I vote for a democRAT or a 3rd party (same end result, the democRAT wins). Thats why voters need to place more importance to Primarys, we have to vote out the RINO's.

[Cementjungle]

Sounds good to me.