Posted on 05/21/2007 11:52:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
"At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected?
"I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
So said Abe Lincoln to the Young Men's Lyceum in Springfield. Observing the Senate last week, and looking over the latest figures from the Census Bureau, America is now risking national suicide.
Last week, senators meeting in secret produced a bill to legalize our 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens. If a path to citizenship becomes law, nothing will stop the next invasion. As President Bush acknowledges, 6 million tried to breach our southern border in his first five years. One in 12 – 500,000 – had a criminal record.
According to the Census Bureau, from mid-2005 to mid-2006, the U.S. minority population rose 2.4 million, to exceed 100 million. Hispanics, 1 percent of the population in 1950, are now 14.4 percent. Their total number has soared 25 percent since 2000 alone. The Asian population has also grown by 25 percent since 2000.
The number of white kids of school age fell 4 percent, however. Half the children 5 and younger in the United States are now minorities.
What is happening to us? An immigrant invasion of the United States from the Third World, as America's white majority is no longer even reproducing itself. Since Roe v. Wade, America has aborted 45 million of her children. And Asia, Africa and Latin America have sent 45 million of their children to inherit the estate the aborted American children never saw. God is not mocked.
And white America is in flight.
In the 1990s, for the first time since the Spanish came, whites left California. Two million departed. From July 1, 2005, to July 1, 2006, 100,000 more packed up and headed back whence their fathers came. The "Anglo" population of the Golden State is down to 43 percent and falling fast. White folks are now a minority in Texas and New Mexico. In Arizona, Hispanics account for over half the population under 20.
The future is not in doubt. Why ought this be of concern?
First, while the black and Hispanic population combined is now 85 million – five times what it was in 1960 – half of all black and Hispanic kids drop out of high school. And the average math and reading scores of the half who graduate are at seventh-, eighth- or ninth-grade levels.
And the future is not so sanguine as it seemed 50 years ago. As I write in "State of Emergency":
"In 1960, 18 million black Americans, 10 percent of the nation, were not fully integrated into society, but they had been assimilated into our culture. They worshiped the same God, spoke the same language, had endured the same Depression and war, watched the same TV shows on the same four channels, laughed at the same comedians, went to the same movies, ate the same foods, read the same newspapers and went to schools where, even when segregated, we learned the same history and literature and shared the same holidays: Christmas, New Year's, Washington's Birthday, Easter, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Columbus Day. Segregation existed, but black folks were as American as apple pie, having lived in this land longer than almost every other group save the Native Americans.
"That cultural unity, that sense that we were one people, is gone."
Today's immigrants exceed in number anything any nation has ever known. They now come from cultures and countries whose people have never before been assimilated by any First World country. Not only is the Melting Pot broken, it is rejected by our elites. Minorities are urged to hold onto their own language, customs, traditions. Identity politics is in. And the largest cohort, Mexicans, comes from a country with a historic grievance and a claim on the territory they are entering.
Moreover, since the cultural revolution of the 1960s, we have been fighting one another over issues of race and ethnicity, history, heroes and holidays, morality and religion, right and wrong.
All over the Western world, multiethnic, multicultural countries are coming apart over language, ethnicity, history. The Soviet Union broke into 15 nations, Yugoslavia into half a dozen. Czechs and Slovaks divorced. Scots want separation from England. Catalans and Basques seek independence. Corsicans and Bretons want out of France. Northern Italians want to secede. Only immigrants who prefer Ottawa prevent Quebecois from breaking free of Canada.
As we see from the election battles in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Mexico, race and ethnicity are not receding as issues, but rising. In South Central Los Angeles, black and Hispanic gangs are at war over race and turf.
Addressing the Knights of Columbus in 1915, Theodore Roosevelt warned, "The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."
In every way possible, Americans have said they do not want to take this risk with their country. Why, then, are our elites taking it?
“Pat really nails it. He will be called a bigot, racist, natavist, etc., but facts are facts. Demographics is destiny. We will lose our sense of national identity, culture, and shared sense of endeavor. And economically, we will increasingly take on the profile of a third world country, i.e., rich and poor with little in between. The rich will be living in their gated communities surrounded by poor and decaying communities.
Of adult immigrants, 31 percent have not completed high school, three-and-a-half times the rate for natives. Since 1990, immigration has increased the number of such workers by 25 percent, while increasing the supply of all other workers by 6 percent.
Anyone who thinks that importing high school dropouts into America will not be a future burden to this country is nuts.”
Their is another less talked about factor at play I believe. What about the baby boomer crisis? 60 million retiring seniors. Is our desire to have enough labor pool or wrongfully hope these Mexi-Americans can fill in this gap on this looking crisis?
Great article from Pat.
True, there will be 70 million Americans of retirement age by 2030, twice the number today. However, the US population is at replacement levels in total fertility rate, i.e., 2.09 births per female. Our population is growing primarily due to immigration, legal and illegal.
Since 1970, the population of the US has increased by 100 million; since 1990; by 53 million; and since 2000 by 20 million or the equivalent of our six largest cities. The Bureau of the Census projects that we will have 364 million by 2030 [an increase of 63 million people in the next 23 years or the equivalent of the current populaton of the UK] and over 400 million by 2050 with one-quarter of the population being Hispanic. The annual arrival of 1.5 million legal and illegal immigrants, coupled with 750,000 annual births to immigrant women, is the determinate factor or three-fourths of all U.S. population growth. If this bill passes the annual legal immigrant admissions will triple to over 3 million a year for a decade. This will send the above projections soaring.
We need to reform our existing immigration laws and stop illegal immigration. Prior to 1965, the US was taking around 178,000 legal immigrants annually. In 1965, Congress replaced the national origins system with a preference system designed to unite immigrant families and attract skilled immigrants to the United States. With these changes and some subsequent ones, the result was that most of our legal immigrants now come from Asia and Latin America, and not Europe. Chain migration designed to unite families has also brought in aged parents, children, uncles, etc., many of whom are not contributing to our society and in fact, require more social services. Even with quotas in certain immigration categories, we are now legalizing the status of over one million people annually and millions more are waiting in lines overseas for their turn to come in. Chain migration has also changed the "mix" of immigrants, making it less diverse.
Mexico accounts for 31 percent of all immigrants, with 10.8 million immigrants living in United States, more than the number of immigrants from any other region of the world. Immigrants from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean account for the majority of immigrants, with 54 percent of the foreign‑born coming from these areas. Of those who arrived 2000 to 2005, 58 percent are from Latin America. This lack of diversity has hindered assimilation and could well result in the Balkanization of the country by language and culture.
The 35.2 million immigrants (legal and illegal) living in the country in March 2005 is the highest number ever recorded -- two and a half times the 13.5 million during the peak of the last great immigration wave in 1910.
Between January 2000 and March 2005, 7.9 million new immigrants (legal and illegal) settled in the country, making it the highest five-year period of immigration in American history.
Immigrants account for 12.1 percent of the total population, the highest percentage in eight decades. If current trends continue, within a decade it will surpass the high of 14.7 percent reached in 1910.
The bottom line is that the Reps want the bill for more cheap exploitable labor and the Dems want it for future voters to ensure that they become the permanent majority party. We are being sold down the river by the political elites while sowing the seeds of our own destruction.
“Great way to flex your political muscle.”
Voting for Giuliani, McCain or Romney certainly doesn’t do that. Sheep.
So are thoughtless one-liners.
Romney = GWB II
Obviously you like the liberal immigration policies connected with multiculturalism and political correctness.
Obviously you like the liberal immigration policies connected with multiculturalism and political correctness.
Gee! Aren't you swell? I thought the policy in here was no pesonal attacks.
No...I don't like them. And if you keep this up, I'll like you even less.
Stop your whining!
Funny, I made the same comparison recently, but with CLINTON and GW Bush being the players: “conservatives” who voted for Bush, now after over 6 years, are disillusioned it seems to me in nearly EXACTLY the same way that the near or far Left was with Clinton/ Clinton managed to hang onto his base perversely only by things more style than substance: becoming the Icon for middleaged men with a mid-life crisis, his in-your-face blatant pardons of damn near the whole spectrum of unworthy types, and the knowledge that he would be back in the form of his wife Hillary.
Bush hung onto his base for a few things like his Judge appointments, and his stand on partial birth abortion, and getting John Bolton into the UN. It just isn’t enough for Bush, when his posture now regarding immigration is virtually EVERYTHING a Liberal would do: he’s lost.
The way I see Romney , he has NONE of the serious defects of character and outlook I see in Bush. He IS the candidate.
Bingo. Just ask the Serbs.
Mecha and La Raza have been voicing their plans for the American Southwest for years. They are not hiding their agenda. What we are seeing now is the result of 15 years of the Government allowing for unchecked waves of people entering the country. This was allowed because the governing class of this nation no longer looks at it as a nation-state. We are now simply an economic zone. Since we are only an economic zone the illegal alien worker is equal to the citizen.
Over and over the American people have said they want this to stop. Over and over the political class and the corporatists who fill its ranks have told the American people to shut their mouths and accept wave after wave of people from the third world.
This bill and the fact that the leaders of the Republican party are pushing for it WITH TED KENNEDY have shown me that the system is broken. We are now at the point where it is conservatives helping to bring about the destruction of the Republic. It is Bush, McCain, Graham and Kyl who have attempted to give this bill legitimacy. They have sold their souls for cheap labor. They want cheap labor and the Democrats want to change the demographics of the country. Between the two neither could care less about the American people.
30 pieces of silver.
You’re not too far off. But I dont really think characterizing me as childish is fair. If you’d read the posts, you’ll notice a lot of the rhetorical argument’s being bandied about today are of the “I know you are, but what am I?” variety.
Excellent point.
“In every way possible, Americans have said they do not want to take this risk with their country. Why, then, are our elites taking it?”
Because they are elites, and don’t give a rat’s ass about those who aren’t.
This must be a record. It took 12 posts for the first accusation of racism.
You get a gold PC star.
Grow up.
State your points and make your arguments without the baiting and all arrogance you perfected on the "The Thread from Hell".
You're better than that.
If you want to pursue this please take it to Freepmail. Otherwise, stay away from me.
Good to see what you consider a reliable source.
For you, an accusation by Democrat 'Lefty' Morris is gospel, and Ron Paul's complaint that he's taken out of context is ignored.
How's Morris Dees doing at the SPLC? Are you up for a raise?
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