Thread: Thw Washington Times-FORUM: A pro-illegal alien bias

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Article published Nov 6, 2007
FORUM: A pro-illegal alien bias


November 6, 2007


The Democratic Party supports discrimination by condoning illegal migration and amnesty for illegal aliens.

These policies discriminate based on origin because 80 percent of illegal aliens are from Latin America, yet Latin Americans represent only 8 percent of the world"s population. This means Latin Americans benefit from illegal migration and amnesty for illegal aliens at a rate 30 times greater than non-Latin Americans.

Amazingly, this is the same party that in 1965 changed U.S. immigration law to "end immigration discrimination." In 1963, President Kennedy submitted legislation that would become the 1965 Immigration Reform Act, explaining it was for:

The "Elimination of Discrimination Based on National Origins

... The use of a national origins system is without basis in either logic or reason. ... such a system is an anachronism, for it discriminates among applicants for admission into the United States on the basis of accident of birth."

President Kennedy also said:

Natives of no one country should receive over 10 percent of the total quota Numbers authorized in any one year. This will insure that the pattern of immigration is not distorted by excessive demand from any one country.

Unfortunately although President Kennedy's legislation was enacted into law, immigration discrimination has not ended, only the countries involved have changed. Mexicans account for about 32 percent of recent U.S. legal immigrants and legalized illegal aliens and 80 percent of illegal aliens. Other Latin American countries also have high percentages compared to their world population percentage. These percentages are so high because of past illegal alien amnesties and continued allowance of illegal migration. If another illegal alien amnesty was passed, these percentages for Mexico and other Latin American countries would further increase.

The Heritage Foundation has estimated that if the current 30 million (number from research by Bear and Stearns, the Heritage Foundation and the California for Immigration Stabilization) illegal aliens in the country now are given amnesty, that number, with family unification, would grow to 100 million in the coming decades.

While Democrats claim their amnesty schemes send illegal aliens to the back of the immigration line, nothing could be further from the truth. You see, illegal aliens are already at the front of the line.

Compared to legal immigrants waiting for a visa overseas, most illegal aliens have a U.S.-based paying job, access to U.S. health care and education, plus their babies born here are granted automatic U.S. Citizenship and all its benefits. The only way for illegal aliens to be at the back of the immigrant visa line is for them to return to their country of origin and apply at the U.S. Embassy there like everyone else in the world does, including law-abiding citizens of their own countries.

It should also be noted that the Democratic Party ignores the problems created for legal immigrants by illegal alien amnesties. Past amnesties for illegal aliens have almost tripled the waiting times for family unification of legal immigrants. Since the waiting times are now many years long, every year thousands of legal immigrants die while waiting for their green cards overseas, without ever stepping foot in the U.S.A.

The Democratic Party supports this discrimination because it is an easy way for them to replace some of their current constituents who are not reproducing, groups such as homosexuals and radical feminists who have very low birthrates.

Poor, unhealthy and illiterate illegal aliens who receive amnesty are more likely to become Democratic constituents as they would require many government assistance programs. Increasing legal immigration is not as beneficial for the Democratic Party as illegal immigration and amnesty because it would not swell their numbers as massively or as quickly as granting amnesty to 30 million illegal aliens already here. Whereas legal immigration is about 1.2 million yearly, Bear and Stearns has estimated illegal immigration at about 2 million to 2.5 million annually. Unlike the illegal aliens who would typically lean toward the Democratic Party, legal immigrants are, as demonstrated by their respect of our borders and laws, law-abiding and far more self-reliant and less likely to depend on tax-paid social assistance.

All political parties have from time to time supported discriminatory immigration policies. However in our era, it is clear the Democratic Party does not support equal opportunity immigration. Their support for amnesty, the Dream Act, the Agriculture Bill (Agriculture cheap labor guest worker programs); and open borders in general shows they support immigration discrimination as vigorously as ever.

Poll after poll indicates a supermajority of more than 70 percent opposes amnesty in any form. Twice in one year the Democratic Party and handful of Republicans in the Senate introduced amnesty bills but both times failed to gain support due to massive opposition from their constituencies.

Since corporate employers of millions of illegal aliens continue to weigh in with their lobbying and influencing of our elected officials we now see a new approach — piecemeal instead of general amnesty.

One such bill on the floor just now is Senate Bill 2205, the so called Dream Act. The strategy from the Democratic Party appears to be to break the dam one stone at a time until 30 million or more illegal aliens break loose in the end.

New York state Gov. Eliot Spitzer has received a huge figurative slap in the face. He degraded the security of the New York state driver"s license by ordering through an Executive Order (devoid of public or legislative input) which could potentially allow up to a million illegal aliens in the state to vote Democratic in coming elections. This is made possible by the 1993 Motor Voter Act which allows any illegal alien who gets a driver"s license to vote without proof of U.S. citizenship.

The problem is that 72 percent of New Yorkers, in the latest poll, oppose the governor"s maneuver to secure hundreds of thousands of illegal votes in coming elections. Ironically, the Democratic elected representatives and the party in New York that stand to gain the most from this illegal voting have turned against Mr. Spitzer with a fury. The Party fears the backlash from the public to the governor"s discriminatory immigration policy and the dishonest and illegal way he attempted to gain votes for the Democrats.

It is very dangerous at this time to continue the Democratic policy of discrimination in immigration policy. The public simply will not stand for it any more.

So not only does the Democratic Party support discrimination, it also supports rewarding lawbreakers and penalizing the law-abiding foreigners in order to increase their constituency. Talk about a culture of corruption and hypocrisy.

TONY DOLZ

Originally Posted by Virginiamama

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Article published Nov 6, 2007
FORUM: A pro-illegal alien bias

These policies discriminate based on origin because 80 percent of illegal aliens are from Latin America, yet Latin Americans represent only 8 percent of the world"s population. This means Latin Americans benefit from illegal migration and amnesty for illegal aliens at a rate 30 times greater than non-Latin Americans.

This is a great op-ed! What the above means is anyone who supports amnesty over enforcement is either a racist (if Latino) or bigot (if non-Latino). Tell that to your friends and relatives who support amnesty. Print this out and show them the "30 times greater" part.

To put that in perspective, ask: "what if white Americans were admitted to college at 30 times the rate of black Americans?" Would they support that? Well the immigration system the Democratic Party supports is basically the same thing.