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by Pat Buchanan
Buried in the Oct. 30 Washington Post was a bland headline: “Report Points to Faster Recovery in Jobs for Immigrants.”
The story, however, contained social dynamite that explains the rage of Americans who are smeared as nativists and xenophobes for demanding a timeout on immigration.
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by Oliver North
“We’re under siege,” said rancher Ed Ashurst, as he pointed to where he had tracked the killer of his friend and neighbor to the U.S.-Mexican border. “Five years ago, we didn’t even bother to lock our doors. Now, my wife and I carry firearms everywhere we go.”
John Ladd is a fifth generation cattle rancher in southern Cochise County, Arizona. The southern boundary of his family property is a ten-mile long stretch of steel fence erected by the U.S. government. On the other side of the fence: Mexico. He told us, “Mexican drug cartels are running this part of America.”
The poet Robert Frost posited that “good fences make good neighbors.” From what our FOX News War Stories team documented this week, that’s not the case here in southern Arizona – where “the fence” on the U.S.-Mexican border remains unfinished. According to many level-headed, beleaguered Americans here, the fence is little more than a “speed bump” for drug couriers, killers, human smugglers and lesser criminals flooding into our country.
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Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum and other state lawmakers have proposed an immigration bill modeled after Arizona’s bill, but one they say should withstand court challenges.
“This legislation will provide new enforcement tools for protecting our citizens and will help our state fight the ongoing problems created by illegal immigration,” McCollum said in a statement. “Florida will not be a sanctuary state for illegal aliens.”
“Arizona is going to want this law,” said McCollum. “We’re better, we’re stronger, we’re tougher and we’re fairer.”
The proposed Florida bill has been ‘strengthened‘ and goes beyond Arizona’s immigration bill by letting judges consider a defendant’s illegal immigrant status during bond proceedings.
In ‘lawful stops,’ Florida would require law enforcement officers to check the residency status of anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant. It also would make it a crime for employers who hire illegal immigrants, and it would make Florida businesses to use a federal E-verify system against hiring illegals.
Since the introduction of the new 2010 census, there has been an increase in the amount of debate over illegal immigration and the negative effects it would create. The main thing would be how many electoral districts would benefit, while others would suffer losses. Patrick Buchanan has a well written essay on the very topic.
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.”From “A Tale of Two Cities,” Sydney Carton’s words, as he rode the tumbrel to the guillotine, came to mind on reading the latest statistics on what open borders has done to a Republican Party that altruistically embraced it.
The Center for Immigration Studies reports that, since 1980, some 25.2 million immigrants have entered legally and been granted permanent status with “green cards” to work and become citizens.
“Immigration, Political Realignment and the Demise of Republican Political Prospects” is the title of the CIS report, which understates the crisis. Bottom line: The more immigrants in an electoral district, the more grim the GOP prospects.
Certainly, the main cause of this is the fact that America’s borders remain open, and ready to take in and house those who wish to become citizens. However, without proper legislation it has allowed an influx of illegals to enter and drastically change the political map.
The more immigrants who come in and become citizens, the more Democratic the country becomes.Why? Almost all immigrants, legal and illegal, are poorer and less skilled than Americans, and depend far more upon government.
According to CIS, of recent immigrants who became citizens by 2008, by 55-30 they identified as Democrats. Among immigrants who have not yet become citizens, 70 percent identify as Democrats, 15 percent as Republicans. The sooner Democrats get them naturalized, registered and voting, the sooner the bell tolls for the Grand Old Party.
Understandable is it that the Democratic party would appear to be beneficial to illegals seeking citizenry, being that they seem to offer so many entitlement programs to “help” them succeed. On the contrary, without the proper education as to how the Liberty of America and its way of Life, they see the Republican party as a roadblock to their prosperity.
So, what is to be done?
First, an offensive against the administration for laxity in enforcing our immigration laws against businesses that hire illegals. Each time a business is forced to let illegal workers go, the jobs go to some of our 25 million unemployed and underemployed.
Second, a Put-Americans-First moratorium on legal immigration until U.S. unemployment falls below 6 percent.
However, there should be a third and very important issue. It should be that the Republican party become one of education and embracement to those who are already here. They should not only educate them as to proper citizenship, but educate them to what America really is. One of Freedom, Prosperity and Liberty.
