Posted on 11/13/2001 3:57:59 AM PST by SJackson
REP. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., is one of the few politicians in Washington, D.C., with the courage to speak out openly about America's dangerously flawed immigration policies and practices. The weekly publication Human Events selected a terse statement by Tancredo as its "Quote of the Week": "The U.S. can bomb Afghanistan to dust but terrorism will remain. In some bizarre thought process understood only in Washington, D.C., the possibility of tightening up immigration laws paralyzes most politicians."
America is being seriously damaged and endangered by uncontrolled immigration. But our elected officials studiously avoid facing the issue.
Although it is generally considered most insensitive to bring up such matters, Steven A. Camarota, research director of the Center for Immigration Studies, reports that the poverty rate for immigrants, defined as foreign-born U.S. residents, is 50 percent higher than that of natives. They and their U.S. born children account for 22 percent of all persons in the U.S. living in poverty.
When politicians deplore the number of people without health insurance, they conveniently neglect to mention that immigrants who arrived in the last 10 years and their U.S.-born children account for 60 percent of the increase in the size of the uninsured population.
When journalists and edu-crats discuss the problems of education in America -- class size, high school dropouts, poor performance and costs -- rarely do they explain that immigration accounts for essentially all the growth in the public school population over the past 20 years, and that currently there are about 9 million children from immigrant families in public schools. Nor do they mention that almost one-third of the immigrants arriving in America do not have a high school diploma -- three times the rate for natives.
One powerful and courageous voice speaking for English as America's official language is that of John H. Tanton, M.D., founder of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and co-founder of ProEnglish. He reports that new data released by the U.S. Census Department show that the number of Americans who do not speak English has soared in the past 10 years. The number who do not speak English at all or speak it poorly has increased by 60 percent since 1990. Nearly 20 percent of Americans do not speak English in their own homes. Neither, of course, do their children.
Such reports are viewed as evidence of success in many quarters. In a Hoover Institution essay entitled "Bilingual Education: A Critique," Peter Duignan describes a growing problem: "Mexican American activists reject assimilation, insist on bilingualism and multiculturalism, and lay claim to Southwest America as belonging to Mexico! ... Their message is not pushing assimilation but rather the protection of the Spanish language and culture ... "
One sadly remembers the words of John Jay, recorded in the Federalist Papers: "Providence has been pleased to give us this one connected country, to one united people, speaking the same language."
The United States has no operative immigration policy. The evidence is clear. For example, of the 8 million to 10 million illegal aliens who live in the United States, between 250,000 to 300,000 of them have been brought to court and sentenced to deportation by federal judges. After their court hearings, these illegal aliens simply walked away and disappeared. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) does not know where they are or what they are doing and has no plans to round them up and see that they leave the country.
....snip....
It is time to face the reality that, according to no particular plan, America is being degraded, disunited and endangered by a powerful flow, wave after wave, legal and illegal, of poor, unskilled and uneducated people into our country, many of whom have no interest in becoming Americans or learning the English language. Unable to join the American mainstream, they will fester in ethnic ghettos, work for sub-standard wages, reproduce, vote the straight Democrat ticket and provide cover for terrorists.
As they say down Mexico way, "loco, completamente loco!"
ISSUE: The Council for Government Reform, a grassroots advocacy organization seeking responsible and limited government (www.govreform.org), has alerted us to a bill that would bring much-needed reform to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).
It shouldn't surprise anyone to find out that Subash Bahadur Gurung, the armed man who tried to board a United flight at O'Hare Airport last weekend, was an illegal alien. It turns out that Gurung held an expired student visa and phony work authorization papers from the INS.
While most news stories on Gurung have focused on the fact that he had no apparent ties to the September 11th terrorists, they have almost unanimously ignored the fact that he was a criminal. He was a visa overstayer, in this country illegally since December of 1999. The INS had no idea where he was or even that he was in our country. That is the case with millions of illegal aliens living here. They are all criminals -- violating U.S. immigration laws by living among us.
Earlier this week, the Office of Inspector General at the Justice Department issued a report finding no evidence that the INS had the ability to locate those who remain illegally in this country. The INS even admits that it has deportation orders against 250,000 illegal aliens that it simply cannot enforce because it can't find them.
What's the answer, you ask? Reform the INS.
Today, the INS fails both immigrants and the American people. It doesn't carry out either its law enforcement or service missions very well. In fact, the 1994-1997 U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform concluded in its final report that the INS suffered from "mission overload" -- it has the responsibility for more priorities than one agency can handle.
ACTION ITEM: House Judiciary Chairman, Rep. James Sensenbrenner, has introduced legislation to alleviate the mission overload of the INS. H.R. 3231 would split the two missions of the INS into separate bureaus -- one to handle the law enforcement actions of the INS and Border Patrol and one to handle the customer service functions necessary to ease the transition for legal immigrants.
This distinction is necessary because, due to the breaches of immigration law that facilitated the tragic events of September 11th, illegal immigration has become an issue of national security and safety.
Contact your Senators and Congressman, and urge them to support H.R. 3231, The Immigration Reform and Accountability Act, to create a better immigration agency with a clear mission and more accountability:
Send 'em all home!
Deporting all illegal aliens will work for me.
P.S. Hug Annie for me.
No flame intended, getting rid of all illegals is a wonderful idea and one I support. But it doese beg the question how are we going to do it given the numbers involved.
Oh that, now that we need him more than ever, he was still a viable politician!
If they're 'illegal'....toss 'em!
*Sensitivity* be damned!.
1. Congress declares war and closes our borders;
2. All illegals are warned that in 30 days they are liable to arrest trial, punishment and expulsion -- and are given 30 days -- and any reasonable assistance -- to leave;
3. All those who remain are arrested, those guilty of crimes are hauled before military tribunals and incarcereated or executed and all of the rest -- with great force -- are expeditiously expelled and their papers marked "FOR EVER!"
Yer Federalized Publik Skewl System at Work!!!
SHEEEESH...MUD
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.