Thread: Clash of Brown vs. Black (Opinion)

Approximately 43 million Hispanics or Latinos or 14% of the US population have overtaken African-Americans as the largest minority in the USA. Any attempt to rationally discuss this change results in folks being labeled racist when most simply want to preserve what they perceive as America’s democratic government and a way of life with English as the national language.

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Dr. Ada Fisher
Letter to the Editor
8/17/2005

Of the population growth, the largest percentage of babies being born are to the Hispanic population with projections of 46% of the US population growth over the next 20 years within this group. 58% of the Hispanic population now hails from Mexico. A July 2005 Pew Center survey in Mexico revealed that 40% of Mexicans regardless of income wanted to migrate to America and would be willing to do so illegally if necessary. That could mean upwards of 70 million people waiting for a chance to get in.

Legal immigration should always be respected and honored. It is the illegal immigration which must be stopped and dealt with. The more than 8 million illegal residents in this country are a reason for concern as it relates to National Security including public health concerns, Economic Security and Social Stability. The Clinton Administrations Presidential Executive Order 13166 provided a language accommodation for those not speaking English which has extended beyond education to driver’s licenses, NC state hiring preferences, and don’t look and don’t report companies employing large numbers of illegal residents. Bush Administrations guest worker proposals are a hidden form of Amnesty which if allowed to pass Congressional muster with the help of businesses profiting from illegal labor at below minimum wage costs, will result in Spanish being the national language whether inadvertent or overt.

It is not correct to say undocumented workers do jobs, which Americans won’t do. If these jobs were required to pay minimum wages there are thousands of out of work people who would be glad to fill them. It should not be lost on the American public that the number of unskilled Americans out of work approximates the number of illegal residents in this country. Exploiting illegal residents ultimately depresses wages for everyone. We must look for reasonable business alternatives to meet their needs without compromising legal resident’s opportunities e.g. non-violent criminals.

The birthrate dynamics now shows the Hispanic population as the fastest growing identifiable population segment. Those here illegally who have a baby on this soil will produce citizens who cannot be deported. Rather than change the constitution to stop this let’s enforce the laws and make legal immigration the only acceptable port of entry.

No citizen should have to learn Spanish to get a job and no preference should be given for such. At Ellis Island not only were the tired, the hungry and huddled masses yearning to be free welcomed, but they had to have a sponsor, a job and speak English. Those criteria should not be changed. In Mexico, Spain, France or Italy the government does not force accommodations to English or any other language in helping you survive. We must quit giving our country away.

As a black woman, I will never support any provision to relax borders with Mexico when we keep turning Haitians away and sending them back to situations we know are equally bad if not worst. I support the resettlement of the Bantu’s who have been given legal citizenship for up to 175,000 but note they are having difficulty finding a place to call home. I’m not racist but do have my biases, for as a granddaughter of a free African boy who was made a slave on reaching these shores and granddaughter of his Seminole Indian wife, I am mad that my peoples were stripped of our cultures and languages to improve this nation and now see others advance with minimum standards set for their citizenship as they become our new underclass.

A prescription for Immigration Reform must be discussed. Considerations must resist any attempt to grant amnesty or citizenship to those who are here illegally; require random inspections in industries known for hiring illegal workers with severe penalties and fines as well as deportation of illegal immigrant workers; issuance of tamper-proof photo visas for all non-citizen immigrants entering for education, business or visits; monies now sent to Mexico from the Totalization Agreement (compensation in social security payments from illegal immigrant workers) considered for disbursement to those states whose social services cost increase due to illegal immigration; stimulate the economy of Mexico with oil drilling subsidized by US oil interest to increase jobs there, stimulate revenue for their country, and generate a new resource for the world; and support a national standard for driver’s licenses with criteria being only a valid social security card and birth certificate, as well as voter identification card to ensure that only citizens and residents of a state could vote.

Dr. Ada M. Fisher is a physician, licensed teacher for secondary education in mathematics and science, previously elected school board member, and was a Republican candidate for the 2002 NC US Senate and 2004 NC US 12th District US Congressional race. Contact her at DrFisher@DrAdaMFisher.org; P. O. Box 777; Salisbury, NC 28145; telephone (704) 637-6134.

This is so true. If we do not get a handle on this issue, which is THE issue of our times, we are in severe trouble.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 13166

IMPROVING ACCESS TO SERVICES FOR
PERSONS WITH LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENCY

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve access to federally conducted and federally assisted programs and activities for persons who, as a result of national origin, are limited in their English proficiency (LEP), it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Goals.

The Federal Government provides and funds an array of services that can be made accessible to otherwise eligible persons who are not proficient in the English language. The Federal Government is committed to improving the accessibility of these services to eligible LEP persons, a goal that reinforces its equally important commitment to promoting programs and activities designed to help individuals learn English. To this end, each Federal agency shall examine the services it provides and develop and implement a system by which LEP persons can meaningfully access those services consistent with, and without unduly burdening, the fundamental mission of the agency. Each Federal agency shall also work to ensure that recipients of Federal financial assistance (recipients) provide meaningful access to their LEP applicants and beneficiaries. To assist the agencies with this endeavor, the Department of Justice has today issued a general guidance document (LEP Guidance), which sets forth the compliance standards that recipients must follow to ensure that the programs and activities they normally provide in English are accessible to LEP persons and thus do not discriminate on the basis of national origin in violation of title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, and its implementing regulations. As described in the LEP Guidance, recipients must take reasonable steps to ensure meaningful access to their programs and activities by LEP persons.

Sec. 2. Federally Conducted Programs and Activities.

Each Federal agency shall prepare a plan to improve access to its federally conducted programs and activities by eligible LEP persons. Each plan shall be consistent with the standards set forth in the LEP Guidance, and shall include the steps the agency will take to ensure that eligible LEP persons can meaningfully access the agency's programs and activities. Agencies shall develop and begin to implement these plans within 120 days of the date of this order, and shall send copies of their plans to the Department of Justice, which shall serve as the central repository of the agencies' plans.

Sec. 3. Federally Assisted Programs and Activities.

Each agency providing Federal financial assistance shall draft title VI guidance specifically tailored to its recipients that is consistent with the LEP Guidance issued by the Department of Justice. This agency-specific guidance shall detail how the general standards established in the LEP Guidance will be applied to the agency's recipients. The agency-specific guidance shall take into account the types of services provided by the recipients, the individuals served by the recipients, and other factors set out in the LEP Guidance.

Agencies that already have developed title VI guidance that the Department of Justice determines is consistent with the LEP Guidance shall examine their existing guidance, as well as their programs and activities, to determine if additional guidance is necessary to comply with this order. The Department of Justice shall consult with the agencies in creating their guidance and, within 120 days of the date of this order, each agency shall submit its specific guidance to the Department of Justice for review and approval. Following approval by the Department of Justice, each agency shall publish its guidance document in the Federal Register for public comment.

Sec. 4. Consultations.

In carrying out this order, agencies shall ensure that stakeholders, such as LEP persons and their representative organizations, recipients, and other appropriate individuals or entities, have an adequate opportunity to provide input. Agencies will evaluate the particular needs of the LEP persons they and their recipients serve and the burdens of compliance on the agency and its recipients. This input from stakeholders will assist the agencies in developing an approach to ensuring meaningful access by LEP persons that is practical and effective, fiscally responsible, responsive to the particular circumstances of each agency, and can be readily implemented.

Sec. 5. Judicial Review.

This order is intended only to improve the internal management of the executive branch and does not create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or equity by a party against the United States, its agencies, its officers or employees, or any person.

WILLIAM J. CLINTON


THE WHITE HOUSE,
August 11, 2000.

the Constitution FOR THE United States which William Jefferson Clinton took an oath to "support and defend" granted no power to the executive branch to improve "person with limited English proficiency" in order that they may receive federal benefits.


in January 1794, when Congress proposed appropriating monies to French refugees, the Philadelphia Gazette and Universal Daily Advertiser reported

"Mr. Madison...was afraid of establishing a dangerous precedent, which might hereafter be perverted to the countenance of purposes, very different from those of charity. He acknowledged, for his own part, that he could not undertake to lay his finger on that Article in the Federal Constitution, which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. And if once they broke the line laid down before them, for the direction of their conduct, it was impossible to say, to what lengths they might go, or to what extremities this practice might be carried."

James Madison was a Federalist and the Chief Architect of the U.S. Constitution!

there is no authority granted to ANY branch of the federal government to provide benefits of any kind to 'foreign nationals' in this country -- they are to protect the life and property of the Citizens of the States and DEFEND them against foreign encroachment


Title VI, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d et seq., a part of the l Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance

ALIENS are under the 'LAW OF NATIONS' -- NOT the laws of the United States and is not entitled to protection of Titie VI.

Title VI protects CITIZENS of the United States against discrimination based up THEIR race, color, and national origin -- NOT "NATIONALITY"

Title VI does not protect 'foreign nationals' under the jurisdiction of 'foreign power.'