Or community organizers.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 11/03/2010 7:25:13 AM PDT by 11th_VA
The cause of immigration enforcement and numerical reductions was a huge winner in Tuesday's elections, promising that immigration issues will finally be addressed as job issues in the next Congress.
I'm not sure there has been a Congress since 1924 -- and certainly not in the last 50 years -- that had a membership more interested in reductions in overall illegal and legal immigration than will be the one that was elected yesterday.
I know that these are big claims.
Many observers may have missed this dramatic shift because of the one massively publicized counter-example of amnesty-champion Sen. Harry Reid keeping his seat from immigration-enforcement advocate Sharon Angle in Nevada. Certainly, immigration was a hot issue in that race, and both candidates made it clear that they represented opposite positions. In that case, voters chose the high-immigration candidate over the low-immigration candidate, although several other major factors were involved.
Reid's was a case of a pro-amnesty incumbent keeping his seat, and lots of them did. Nonetheless, there are a lot of examples in which pro-amnesty seats did get filled by anti-amnesty candidates. On the other hand, [h][c:red]I can't find any example of the opposite happening -- of an anti-amnesty seat being taken by a pro-amnesty candidate.[-h][-c]
To analyze the results, NumbersUSA in advance of the elections assigned every current Member of Congress and every candidate to one of three categories based on extensive review of their actions, their official stances and statements in the media. The three categories were:
* MORE IMMIGRATION: Support high current levels of new foreign workers, with many favoring letting illegal aliens keep their jobs * UNCOMMITTED: Immigration positions not clear * LESS IMMIGRATION: Favor stronger enforcement to open up illegal-alien-held jobs for unemployed Americans, with many favoring reductions in legal immigration, too Here is what voters nationwide did on Tuesday:
IN THE HOUSE
1. They wiped out a net of three dozen More-Immigration seats in the House.
2. They knocked the number of More-Immigration seats down to about 170, far below the 218 majority needed to pass legislation, seemingly eradicating any possibility of "comprehensive immigration reform" being considered in the next Congress.
3. They didn't just go for mild enforcement types. They filled about two dozen of those current More-Immigration seats with Less-Immigration candidates who made explicit promises not only to push stringent enforcement measures but also promised to work to eliminate several categories of legal immigration.
4. The number of elected Less-Immigration candidates promising stepped-up immigration enforcement looks like it will fall just short of the 218 majority. But most of the final 50 elected candidates classified as Uncommitted appear likely to lean toward more enforcement if presented opportunities and requirements to vote on it. There is no question that a solid pro-enforcement, bi-partisan majority will exist in the new House.
IN THE SENATE
1. Five or six of the Senate's most aggressive More-Immigration Members were replaced by Less-Immigration candidates.
2. That shift puts the More-Immigration bloc about 10 votes short of stopping a filibuster and creates a virtual 50-50 deadlock in the Senate.
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ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA
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Illegal immigration is a law and order problem. Most of us on the right want our laws enforced. The lefties see it a bit differently, worrying first about how they can use Mexicans to stuff the ballot boxes, and second (if at all) about border integrity.
As for legal immigration—the countries we should favor would be those with people who have something to offer to America. We need more scientists, doctors, engineers and entrepreneurs. We don’t need any more landscapers, roofers, fruit pickers or bus boys.
Totally agree - I'd be in favor of a DREAM Act that grants citizenship to those that PAID for their college education. But don't ask me or my kids to PAY for heir college education.
One of the first order of business in the new House should be to pass is a bill forbidding federal money be sent to Sancturary Cities or States. (if you can’t get the State added settle for cities) Putting everyone of record is a win-win situation for US.
I believe this is true of the governor’s races too. I believe several of the governors who won ran on a promise to push a Jan Brewer-style enforcement law. Now we have to hold them to that promise!!!
HOW DO YOU THINK ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AFFECTS THE ECONOMY, THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE ON THE BALLOT???? Millions of jobs taken by non taxpaying illegals, cost of education, food stamps, housing, criminal system, medical costs, school meal programs,drain on utilities, etc... Get rid of illegal immigration and you put a huge dent in our economic downward spiral.
Almost all immigration should be shut down whenever the unemployment numbers go above 7 percent.
I like that!
Or community organizers.
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Immigration Restriction BUMP.
It’s also about national identity, culture, and sovereignty. Is America going to be America or descend into a third-world “Mexico Norte.”
Say NO!!!! to shamnesty!
With the large construction boom that Nevada went through in the years right before the economy took a dive I am sure large numbers of illegals moved to Nevada. It doesn't take much imagination to come to the conclusion that many that voted for Reid are in fact here illegally.
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