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Why America's politicians are selling out it's citizens on immigration (Washington, D.C.)

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Date: 2009-03-23, 5:29AM EDT



This is a seminar for the purpose of studying and learning from the excellent paper on the subject of mass immigration and amnesty for iollegal aliens by Mexican Political Scientist Fredo Arias-King. As an activist in the Partido Accion Nacional Arias-King accompanied Vicente Fox in the run up to the 2000 Mexican Presidential election and met with fifty American elected officials of the Congress and Senate. He subsequently discussed it with an additional thirty. He was shocked by the disregard of the American elected officials for the opinion and wishes they were elected to represent. He also was more concerned with the development of Mexico and felt that the wrong policy coming out of the United States government might undermine it by being too generous with the Mexican American political special interest and the American businesses seeking cheap labor for workplaces in the United States.

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Most serious attempts to study immigration to the United States acknowledge that the results of the present immigration policy were, in effect, an accident — the product of a miscalculation by the authors of the 1965 Immigration Reform Act.1 Their disagreements tend to center on the consequences of immigration. However, despite the mounting evidence that these consequences may not be as positive as often argued, there has been a certain reluctance to limit immigration (or discuss the issue frankly), and even a campaign by several groups to maintain it as such or even increase it. Another paradox is that immigration continues to be popular with practically all the ideological and political elites of the United States. At the same time, however, there is perhaps no other issue that represents a larger divide between ordinary Americans (who largely oppose current immigration levels) and their political elites. This paper attempts to address this paradox through the prism of my discussions with about 50 United States legislators on the issue of immigration.

If you are a legitimate patriotic American professional or business owner you may have found that willingness to overlook immigration law by competitors and the government may have created an anti-competitive situation. Likewise if you are a foreign business owner who wants to see their own business in their own country develop the attitude of the American ethnic specialist interest groups and business groups like the U.S Chamber of Commerce has created clear problems. It is still possible to become more aware and to act and our seminar shows you how.