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Alien Invasion
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Posted on 10/24/2001 2:23:18 PM PDT by VinnyTex

Alien Invasion
Illegal immigration skyrocketed in the 1990s.

By John J. Miller & Ramesh Ponnuru
October 24, 2001 12:00 p.m.

 

onservatives welcomed the Census Bureau announcement last week that it would not "adjust" its statistical figures for the purposes of federal funding. What they failed to notice — and what the Center for Immigration Studies now has pointed out — is that the Census Bureau also said an unprecedented 8 million illegal aliens live in the United States.

In a slower news cycle, this might have been front-page news. Ten years ago, the illegal-alien population was estimated at 3.5 million — meaning that it grew by about half a million per year through the 1990s. (The actual annual inflow was probably even larger; CIS estimates that perhaps 700,000 illegal aliens enter each year but that 200,000 of them either return home or legalize their status.)

At least three of the September 11 terrorists were illegal aliens, according to INS commissioner James Ziglar — and authorities still lack complete information about several others. "If a Mexican day laborer can sneak across the border, so can an al Qaeda terrorist," says Steven A. Camarota of CIS. "While the vast majority of illegals are not terrorists, the fact that hundreds of thousands of people are able to settle in the United States illegally each year indicates that terrorists who wish to do so face few obstacles."

The new Census Bureau report also shows that the U.S. foreign-born population, comprised mainly of legal immigrants, grew from slightly less than 20 million in 1990 to more than 31 million in 2000 — an increase of 57 percent. During the height of the Ellis Island years, from 1900 to 1910, the foreign-born population grew by only 31 percent.

"No nation in history has every attempted to incorporate and assimilate 31 million newcomers into its society," says Camarota. "The experiment is by no means over. If policy remains unchanged, at least 13 million legal and illegal immigrants will likely settle in the United States over the next ten years."

Changing that will require strong public support. In June, it simply wasn't there: 42 percent of Americans believed immigration levels should remain as they are, and 41 percent thought they should be decreased, according to a CNN/USA Today poll. The latest survey, however, shows a dramatic shift: 58 percent now say immigration levels should be decreased and only 30 percent say they should go unchanged.


Recommended Reading
Did you know that 87 percent of the baggage screeners at Dulles International Airport aren't citizens? Writes Linda Chavez: "As a frequent Dulles passenger, I've often wondered why none of the people screening my bags were American. And, even before Sept. 11, I worried that nearly all of them appeared to hail from countries that support terrorism."



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1 posted on 10/24/2001 2:23:18 PM PDT by VinnyTex
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To: VinnyTex
Every Middle Eastern national on an expired visa should be located and expelled from the country. Period.

Sincerely, a thoughtful liberal.

2 posted on 10/24/2001 2:28:52 PM PDT by Hotspur
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To: Hotspur
No dis-respect intended.... but I didn't know a liberal could think!
3 posted on 10/24/2001 2:35:27 PM PDT by RepublicanJoe
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To: VinnyTex
8 million illegal aliens live in the United States.

8 million motor-voter democRATS!

4 posted on 10/24/2001 2:35:34 PM PDT by aShepard
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To: VinnyTex
Not more than 1 hour ago, I was across the street from a house located on Palm Street in Bonita Springs Florida. It's full of illegal mexican immigrants.

Everyone knows that they deal drugs from the house and everyone knows they're here illegally, yet nobody (including the police) does a f**king thing about it. It's enough to make you sick.

Can someone tell me why the police can't take them to the nearest INS and have them deported?

5 posted on 10/24/2001 2:42:41 PM PDT by AAABEST
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To: VinnyTex

Alien Invasion


"Uh, yes, thank you; I'd like to know how to register as a Democrat."

Dan

6 posted on 10/24/2001 2:47:27 PM PDT by BibChr
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To: VinnyTex

 

The only way they can win is to convince people that we're space aliens.

--bill clinton

 
 
June 9, 1999
 
Peggy Noonan's excellent piece in yesterday's Wall Street Journal is really the story of the death of democracy. At its core it is the description of the human double helix gone terribly awry, of a denatured protein grotesquely twisted, of two mutant, tangled strands of DNA, the basest imaginable of base pairs linked permanently, as firmly as guanine to cytosine, bill inexorably to hillary and conversely, doing what they do best, and doing it relentlessly.
 
Killing.
Killing insidiously.
Killing as they pose and pander and feel our pain.
 
My only complaint is with Peggy Noonan's title.
The Mad Boomer, doesn't begin to capture candidate clinton considered separately or even taken as the self-anointed "twofer," permanently conjoined at that cavity conspicuously empty except for ego, that place where brain and soul and guts and heart normally reside.
 
This is not to say that she -- that they -- are not both quite mad and of that self-indulgent, arrogantly, ignorantly solipsistic age sandwiched flatly between yesterday's innocence and tomorrow's insouciance. Rather, it is that their madness and their boomerism don't even begin to explain their noxious influence: The cloying, internally inconsistent clinton calculus. The unspoken clinton threats. They permeate the atmosphere like a coiling miasma, choking off all freedom.
 
Even in New York.
Especially in New York.
When she wrote "The New Colossus," Emma Lazarus hardly had in mind this pair of mutant, deadly, twisted aliens.
 
So forget Arkansas-Illinois carpetbaggery and standard issue muckraking. The clintons are aliens of quite another sort. They are extrinsic, not of this world. They are inhuman. They are dehumanizing.
 
You may recall that the first act of this story of two degenerates maintained by iterating idiots, farce of farce ad infinitum, was generated quite by accident by iterated AlGoreRhythm, who, it should be noted, is now himself the object of iterated calculation by said degenerates who want iteration 2004 all for themselves.
 
And thus the odd bit of bloody Gore in Act II: The ugly sight of a corrupt, bottom-heavy hillary self-impaled on the horns of a Treason-Dilemma- masquerading-as-a-Third-Term-Dilemma-masquerading-as-a-Senate-stampede, for example, or bill's recent unsolicited, underwhelming Times interview on the Gore candidacy.
 
Act I was called "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover." Ostensibly the tale of the wife of a bloodthirsty crime boss who finds romance with a bland bookseller between courses at her husband's restaurant, it was in fact the Thyestean and moveable -- yet unmoving -- feast of hillary clinton at her husband's sham restitution. (Note the reciprocity. The sham restitution in Act II is all hillary's.)
 
Food, color coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism were the exotic (if mostly horizontal) fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern memoir which passed as ancient fable about nouveau riche rapacity.
Not for the faint at heart, Purple Hearts or queazy stomachs, this depiction of the gross debasement of America was heavily peppered with irony and dark humor throughout.
 
Although she baked no cookies, didn't do illicit land or cattle deals and stood by no man, hillary clinton starred in the triple role of the Cook, the Thief and his Wife. Her lover was played at once vaporously and in workmanlike fashion by the ghost of Eleanor Roosevelt, with Janet Reno, between her stints rendering intermittent injustice for the Husband, as the reliable stand-in. Sidney Blumenthal was the stand-in for the Cook and Craig Livingstone the stand-in for the Thief. The last-minute addition of Christopher Hitchens as the snitch was a stroke of absolute genius notwithstanding its cerebral accident, its predictable-if-perfect pitch and its facile alliteration.
 
Although Act I had no rating, the new clinton soccer-mom directive will require a photo ID for any viewer without independent proof of illegal alien DNC or DNA sequencing.
 
 
In Act II, rabid anti-clinton voters, roughly 33% of the U.S. populace according to as-yet-unpodded pollsters, become increasingly aware that they are disappearing in droves and being replaced by alien pod replicas which have their physical attributes but lack all anti-clinton affect.
 
If Act I was a thinly veiled allegory about naked clintonism, then Act II is a parable about the plan for world domination by the Establishment, aged hippies in pinstripes all, with their infantile, solipsistic world view amazingly untouched by time.

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS

 


8 posted on 10/25/2001 1:17:39 AM PDT by Mia T
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To: trank
*All your country belong us prepare to be assimilated*

It will NEVER come to that the Hispanics don't have the Political and particularly the Economic Clout to do that. The ones who do have some Economic power are the Assimilated & English Speaking Ones. PLUS us "Gringos" have the Military power & we control the food chain. IF PUSH REALLY CAME TO SHOVE MEXICO and ITS MERRY IMMIGRANTS, would not stand a chance.

In fact for the most part US-Born hispanics DO ASSIMILATE, its just there DAMN parents that don't. SAP is only provided for a fraction of programming, as far as I know ABC only provides it for about 2 Sports Magazines & ABC Nightline. Other networks also provide SAP only for a very few Programmes its really nothing to worry about too much.

As I said so long as US-Born hispanics keep on Assimilating and the vast majority (75%) swtching to English (Which they are), I don't see any real long-term problems for the integraty of out great nation. But as for the Short and possibly to a lesser extent the Mid-Term well things will probably get worse before getting better.

Los-Angeles and many S/Western cities are becoming "Divided" two cities. A rich mostly White or Native Born Assimilated American & English Speaking Part & a Poor mostly Hispanic & Spanish Speaking Part. (EG: Los-Angeles "The Mexican City") the South & East LA are Cesspools just like "MEHICO" and the North/West & Coastal regions are English Speaking & All American. This is happening to Much of the S/West. How Sad, that our nation was divide/segregated by RACE just 30 years, is In parts of the USA becoming somewhat divided by Language. *Clearly the Liberal Idiots have not learnt anything, from our history*

9 posted on 11/28/2001 3:30:04 PM PST by RICK77
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