Posted on 04/17/2011 5:12:01 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Three decades ago, a middle-aged doctor sat outside his northern Michigan home and saw a patch of endangered paradise.
A beekeeper and amateur naturalist of prodigious energy, John Tanton had spent two decades planting trees, cleaning creeks and suing developers, but population growth put ever more pressure on the land. Though fertility rates had fallen, he saw a new threat emerging: soaring rates of immigration.
Time and again, Dr. Tanton urged liberal colleagues in groups like Planned Parenthood and the Sierra Club to seek immigration restraints, only to meet blank looks and awkward silences.
“I finally concluded that if anything was going to happen, I would have to do it myself,” he said.
Improbably, he did. From the resort town of Petoskey, Mich., Dr. Tanton helped start all three major national groups fighting to reduce immigration, legal and illegal, and molded one of the most powerful grass-roots forces in politics. The immigration-control movement surged to new influence in last fall’s elections and now holds near veto power over efforts to legalize any of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States.
One group that Dr. Tanton nurtured, Numbers USA, doomed President George W. Bush’s legalization plan four years ago by overwhelming Congress with protest calls. Another, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, helped draft the Arizona law last year to give the police new power to identify and detain illegal immigrants.
A third organization, the Center for Immigration Studies, joined the others in December in defeating the Dream Act, which sought to legalize some people brought to the United States illegally as children.
Rarely has one person done so much to structure a major cause, or done it so far from the public eye.
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Legalizing illegals is about one thing,,,votes for the RATS. If all the illegals were percieved to be future votes for the GOP, you’d see the borders closed and illegals deported lickey split. It’s a major crime, actually.
It is the Free Trade Communist element of Liberalism that supports Open Borders/Illegal Alien Amnesty
The biggest pushers of Illegal Alien Amnesty are the most virulent, Statist, and liberal Free Trader Communists.
Look at the GOP. Look who supports Illegal Alien Amnesty/Open Borders...and look at their position on Free Trade Communism.
Free Trade = Open Borders/Illegal Alien Amnesty
This is why you can get Al Gore, George W Bush, George H W Bush, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Bill Clinton, et al...in agreement on these two issues: Free Trade and Illegal Alien Amnesty
Also, in the McCain/Kennedy Illegal Alien Amnesty bill in 2007....there were many addendums and riders that would have expanded NAFTA and the North American Union. More proof that Liberal Free Trade Communists are big supporters of Illegal Alien Amnesty and Open Borders.
Why can’t someone support free trade with Mexico and other countries but not open borders? I do. Free trade spurs economic growth around the world (including in the U.S.), and the more prosperous people are in their own countries, the less they will want to leave them, other things being equal.
If immigration of highly skilled people to the US is stopped it will seriously harm the tech sector. Looking at statistics, about 13% of tech company founders are foreign born and immigrated to the US. These foreign born founders are twice as likely to have a doctorates degree. This is just discussing founders, as the amount of immigrant workers who are employed in the tech sector is far greater than 13%.
This country was founded on immigrants, and it will require new immigrants(legal) who want to come here and build a better life. Most children here these days want to become a singer or an athlete and their confidence levels probably make them think they are capable of it. Ive been across many engineering faculties in many campuses, and have seen indians and asians outnumber americans 3:1.
Watermelons don’t really care about the enviornment and the invasion of America promises them power here. They are communists out for control over the modern central means of production - oil. They want to centrally control prices of it and they want to ration it.
When they get global power structure to replace National governments, they plan to enact a global population control policy like their commrades in China have imposed. They would also have no problem killing tarteted populations through starvation or freezing as they have done in the past.
The man is a national hero.
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