STATE'S LOOPHOLE FOR TERRORISTS

November 13, 2002 -- AS hard as it is to imagine post-9/11, someone with a history of advocating terrorism cannot be refused a visa to come to America for, well, advocating terrorism. The provision is based on a measure snuck through by Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) over a decade ago. But the State Department has the power to do away with it - yet has failed to do so.

"Today, it is astonishing to read the assurances given by the 1965 Immigration Act’s floor manager, Sen. Edward Kennedy, of Massachusetts.
“First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same…. Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset…. Contrary to the charges in some quarters, [the bill] will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated and deprived nations of Africa and Asia….
“In the final analysis, the ethnic pattern of immigration under the proposed measure is not expected to change as sharply as the critics seem to think.”
Every one of Senator Kennedy’s assurances has proved false. Immigration levels did surge upward. They are now running at around a million a year, not counting 3-500,000 net illegal immigration annually. Immigrants do come predominantly from one area—85 percent of the 11.8 million legal immigrants arriving in the U.S. between 1971 and 1990 came from the Third World, 44 percent from Latin America and the Caribbean, 36 percent from Asia—and from one country: 20 percent from Mexico. The ethnic pattern of immigration into the U.S. did change sharply, because immigration from Americans’ traditional European homeland has been choked off by the act. And the ethnic mix of the country has, of course, been upset.

By 2050, when (God willing) my American children will be in their 50s, there will be perhaps 400 million people in the United States. But only if immigration continues. Some 130 million of those people will be post-1970 immigrants and their descendants. Early in the next century, African-Americans will no longer be the largest minority. Around mid-century, caucasians will slip below half the population"

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