Posted on 06/06/2007 3:00:32 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Republicans' defense of President Bush's immigration bill is more enraging than their defense of Harriet Miers. Back then, Bush's conservative base was accused of being sexist for opposing an unqualified woman's nomination to the highest court in the land. Now we're racists for not wanting to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.
I don't know why conservatives like Linda Chavez have to argue like liberals by smearing their opponents as racists. Oh wait, now I remember! Their arguments are as strong as liberals' arguments usually are.
Apart from abortion, no subject produces so much disingenuousness as America's immigration policy, both legal and illegal. For nearly 50 years, Americans have been intentionally lied to about our immigration laws.
In 1965, Teddy Kennedy overhauled immigration law with the specific purpose of effecting a dramatic change in the nation's demographics. Bobby Kennedy had civil rights, so Teddy needed something big: He would preside over a civil rights bill for the entire Third World! My word, but that man could drink in those days.
With his 1965 immigration act, Kennedy embarked on entirely transforming American culture for no good reason. (You know how people always say the same arguments against illegal immigrants today were once made about the Irish to show how silly those arguments are? If only the U.S. Senate had had an "Irish Need Not Apply" sign!)
Until that point, immigration law basically took a laissez-faire approach, with country quotas attempting to replicate the traditional immigration patterns. Most immigrants to America had historically come from Great Britain, Germany and Scandinavian countries. Consequently, immigration quotas roughly reflected that balance, with smaller numbers of immigrants admitted from other countries.
But in an angry, long-awaited payback to WASPs, Kennedy decided he was going to radically transform the racial composition of the country. Instead of taking 15 immigrants from England and three from China, America would henceforth take three from England and 15 from China. Payback's a bitch, Daughters of the American Revolution!
Some of those hardworking immigrants who just want a chance to succeed were arrested in a plot to blow up JFK Airport last week.
Most immigrants still come from a handful of countries; Kennedy simply changed which countries those would be. In 2005, according to the Department of Homeland Security, the overwhelming majority of immigrants came from only 10 countries, none of which had sent a lot of immigrants to America for the country's first 200 years: Mexico (161,445), India (84,681), China (69,967), the Philippines (60,748), Cuba (36,261), Vietnam (32,784), the Dominican Republic (27,504), Korea (26,562), Colombia (25,571) and Ukraine (22,761).
In 1960, whites were 90 percent of the country. The Census Bureau recently estimated that whites already account for less than two-thirds of the population and will be a minority by 2050. Other estimates put that day much sooner.
One may assume the new majority will not be such compassionate overlords as the white majority has been. If this sort of drastic change were legally imposed on any group other than white Americans, it would be called genocide. Yet whites are called racists merely for mentioning the fact that current immigration law is intentionally designed to reduce their percentage in the population.
We needed to have "more discussion" about Iraq for nearly two years before finally invading. When will we be allowed to begin discussion of a government policy enacted by stealth 40 years ago specifically intended to decimate one particular ethnic group in our own country?
If liberals think Iraqis are genetically incapable of pulling off even the most rudimentary form of democracy, why do they believe 50 million Mexicans will magically become good Americans, imbued in the nation's history and culture, upon crossing the Rio Grande? Maybe we should dunk Iraqis in the Rio and see what happens.
And as long as we're adopting an open borders policy for immigration, how about opening the borders for emigration? As it stands, anyone can come in and start plotting terrorist attacks or collecting government services right away. But the rest of us can never escape having to pay for it.
You can leave the country, you can renounce your citizenship — but you still owe taxes for 10 years. The government does not allow us to stop supporting welfare recipients in America, millions more of whom it plans to import under Bush's bill. That's not a free market — it's a roach motel.
If these free-marketeers at The Wall Street Journal want the free movement of people, how about letting us freely leave after they've wrecked the country?
In Samuel P. Huntington's book "Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity," he asks: "Would America be the America it is today if in the 17th and 18th centuries it had been settled not by British Protestants but by French, Spanish or Portuguese Catholics? The answer is no. It would not be America; it would be Quebec, Mexico or Brazil."
I don't want to live in Mexico, Quebec or Brazil. But now I guess I have no choice, since "open borders" means I can never leave.
This immigration bill is the pits, but AC lost credibility with me when she trash CJ Roberts and AJ Alito.
The ultimate “earthling” will have a composite of ALL ethnic branches of the human “race” commingled in the genetic makeup. What happens to “diversity” then?
O brave new world!
Hey! You know the rules!
Unqualified? How? She had one of those law degrees and her undergraduate degree was in mathematics.
Mathematics, Ann.
Did you get a degree in mathematics, Ann?
Would you last 5 minutes in differential equations, Ann?
I don't think so. Memorizing case law is the least intellectually taxing task there is. Harriet Myers would have had the greatest intellectual qualification of anyone to sit on the Supreme Court, ever.
Recently, each new article makes me want to shout Y-Y-E-S-S-S!!
Are ya liss'nen, W?
Another great article by Ann
O brave new world!
Read or watch "Lathe of Heaven". That very thing happens in the story, at least as far as skin color goes.
do u mean rio linda, CA?
'Bout time somebody said it.
I actually find myself completely agreeing with her in this article, which has been relatively rare lately, but she's really going to get it for publishing this.
I guess she figures she put herself out of the mainstream with that stupid "Godless" book of hers, so there's no need for any inhibition.
Title is pretty clever.
If this bill passes, I won’t get my Social Security entitlement, and meanwhile, the Swimmer doesn’t want a windmill in his front yard.
We’re nothing but $hit to him.
Bitter, sarcastic, and absolutely correct, Ann. Keep speaking out—your refusal to speak diplomatique makes you one of the most refreshing and informative commentators around.
CASA LA CUCARACHA!
Guess who helped invite?
Fred Thompson’s actual voting record on Immigration issues.
Voted YES on allowing more foreign workers into the US for farm work.
Vote to create a national registry containing names of U.S. workers who want to perform temporary or seasonal agricultural work, and to require the Attorney General to allow more foreign workers into the U.S. for farm work under H-2A visas.
Reference: Bill S.2260 ; vote number 1998-233 on Jul 23, 1998
Voted YES on visas for skilled workers.
This bill expanded the Visa program for skilled workers.
Status: Bill Passed Y)78; N)20; NV)2
Reference: The American Competitiveness Act; Bill S. 1723 ; vote number 1998-141 on May 18, 1998
Bump for Ann Coulter.
Bump....at least some Republican commentators still have the guts to call the President the RINO he is (on immigration, at least and I am being generous here).
How did it go?
You don’t learn algebra until you take calculus
You don’t learn calculus until you take differential equations
You don’t learn differential equations until you take LSD!
Attributed to some old hippee dude.
A perfectly natural progression.
She must think Linda Chavez is the designated spokeswoman for all supporters of the President.
Ann Coulter, National Treasure......
I liked her last two articles also:
Wake Up America!!
The framers were intellectuals but they were also farmers, writers, inventors, lawyers, doctors and businessmen. They had faith in a Creator. They studied the great societies of earlier ages. They were familiar with the writings of philosophers from earlier eras.
They looked at the ills of the Articles of confederation, the loss of the Roman and Greek republics to dictators and tyrants.
They saw the ills that befell Poland and England whose rulers were not natives of their lands.
As a group, they were eminently more knowledgeable than any similar group today. Their contribution to our Republic is beyond comprehension by any single judge or even a select seven.
Every time a federal court or judge decides it knows better than the founders of what a provision means, and every time some knee-jerk reaction to some specific circumstance results in amending our Constitution we suffer a great loss.
Well, Bush’s words to his base have been no different from Linda Chavez’s. Both have abused opponents of the amnesty bill.
Hey, La Raza (The Race) never said anything when they called roaches German Cockroaches...
AC rocks. Another great article from Ms Coulter
Then why did you read this?
Why? 
BINGO!
Take a Liberal position and suddenly you "think" just like a Liberal too. If only it worked the other way around ...
Go Ann!!!!
“You just have a problem with brown people”
Karl Rove
ANN COULTER....Dit Dit DITTOS bless her heart....
SHE’S our intelligent, indignant, princess of the right:
she slugs yet another homer over the right field fence.....what a Gal...what a Patriot.....she’s .....she’s just SUPER...
she makes me want to call my legislators and order them to sponser a cloning law....lets clone a couple of hundred thousand ANNIES’....and...save the rebublic before it’s too late, by god i think im gonna.
AUUUU RAH!
“Memorizing case law is the least intellectually taxing task there is.”
Thanks for posting Fred T’s voting record on immigration issues. I knew it was not good.
Of course, the FredHeads and FredNecks wont like that being pointed out
Good grief. Meiers was a political hack and Bush jumped the shark when he tried to run that one by the American people. By the way, as far as I know Anne hasn’t been nominated to any court so your point is worthless.
Steven Breyer is “qualified,” and he thinks that the Constitution is not sufficiently general to apply today and should be, in essence, discarded.
Bump
Wow. Ann has more balls than most of the men in Congress.
No Karl, we have a problem with Bushlickers.
You can't have read any of her legal writing, or transcripts of her speeches.
She didn’t trash Alito but yes, she was suspicious of Roberts. So what. She did her homework rather than just gather around anyone King George nominated. She is smarter than most of the people around GWB.
And, as I said before, Stephen Breyer is "qualified."
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