Thread: Immigrant and minority leaders offer feasible solutions to..

http://www.dakotavoice.com/200510/20051005_2.asp


(10/05/2005)

Immigrant and minority leaders offer feasible solutions to curb illegal immigration
without deportation or amnesty; warn of severe consequences of repeat of 1986 Amnesty

Oakland, CA - The Immigration Reform and Control Act ("IRCA") passed in 1986 has granted amnesty to 3 million illegal aliens. Last December, the illegal immigrant population in the U.S. was estimated to be 18 to 20 million by Bear Sterns’ economist Robert Justich.

"To effectively curb illegal immigration, elected officials in Washington, D.C. should send a strong and unequivocal message that no amnesty will be granted to existing and future illegal immigrants, in addition to enforcing existing immigration laws. Additional border patrol agents should be hired, exactly as recommended by the September 11 Commission. Congress should also adopt new legislation making it illegal to grant any benefits whatsoever to illegal immigrants, including amnesty and automatic citizenship to children born here of illegal alien parents. Few illegal immigrants would want to stay in the U.S., or even come here, if they could not survive economically in the U.S. and if their families would receive no benefits whatsoever. The U.S. has the obligation to stop illegal aliens from killing and displacing Americans," says Mexican-American Ms. Angie Morfin-Vargas, co-founder of Latino Americans for Immigration Reform whose son was killed by a Mexican illegal alien.

"Amnestied aliens once naturalized and their U.S.-born posterity could become U.S. voters. Americans should not allow Mexico to use legal and illegal migration to control American policies and reconquer the American Southwest," remarks J.C. Hernandez, a third-generation Texan of Mexican descent and a Vietnam vet who is the founder and president of the Houston-based Americans for Zero Immigration.

Dr. Frank L. Morris, Sr., former Executive Director of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, wants illegal aliens out of the U.S. labor markets: "The Katrina tragedy is a reminder that America has often neglected its own poor and rolled out its welcome mats for foreign nationals who are competing against our native poor for jobs and other resources.All labor unions should urge President Bush and Congress to save all the low-skilled reconstruction work for American citizens."

"Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have created hundreds of thousands of refugees in the United States who need help. President Bush and Senators Kennedy-McCain defacto amnesty proposal could add, within years, tens of millions of additional people to the U.S. through births here and chain migration who consume energy and need jobs, health care, education and other social services," warns Yeh Ling-Ling, executive director of Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America (DASA), a national non-profit organization whose leaders and supporters are racially and politically diverse. It urges national leaders to support Congressman Tom Tancredo’s bills, the Right Act of 2005 and the Real Guest Act.

This could posit a huge advantage to the GOP. If the party can solidify the views of it's majority it could capture a big block of the opposition's voting core.