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Thread ID: 15102 | Posts: 10 | Started: 2004-09-24
2004-09-24 06:59 | User Profile
WHOSE SIDE IS THE ADMINISTRATION ONââ¬âIMMIGRANTS OR AMERICANS? by Samuel Francis
Only one week before a Time magazine cover story breathlessly informed the nation what the nation has long knownââ¬âthat America's borders are grotesquely out of control and getting worseââ¬âthe Bush administration's border security chief told the nation to forget about the borders, there's nothing we can do. But what Homeland Security Under Secretary Asa Hutchinson told The Washington Times last week is hardly surprising, given this administration's indifference to the immigration crisis.
"It's not realistic to say we're going to reduce that number," Hutchinson told a group of editors at The Washington Times last week, speaking of the 8 million illegal immigrants he says are here (others say as many as 13 million or 14 million, but leave that point asideââ¬âwhat difference does it make if the federal government doesn't have a clue about exactly how many are here if it won't or can't do anything about any of them?) "We don't set goals like that. Our goal is to enforce the law as we see violations of the law."
Great, but with even a piddling 8 million illegals here, "we" are doing a pretty lousy job of it. Hutchinson, whose job includes running the government's agencies for border and transportation security, also had lots of excuses as to why the government can't do what it has a constitutional duty to doââ¬âprotect the nation from foreign invasion.
"But I don't think America has the will," he added. "I think they have too much compassion to tell our law-enforcement people to go out there and uproot those 8 million hereââ¬âsome of whom might have been here 8 or 12 years, who got kids here that are American citizensââ¬âand to send them out of the country." This, despite that fact that the ill-conceived amnesty for illegals that Hutchinson's boss proposed last winter fell as flat as a tortilla pancake the day he proposed it. Has anyone in this administration learned anything about what Americans really think about illegal immigration?
One who has learned is Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado, who is also chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus in the House and has done more to push serious immigration control than any other public figure in the nation. Tancredo came close to suggesting that Hutchinson ought to be fired. "If the statements attributed to him are accurate," the Colorado congressman said, "then this administration has got some major problems." Hutchinson told a congressional aide that the Times had "misrepresented" what he said, but he never told the Times that.
The blunt truth is that this administration, like the national political elite it reflects, does not have the will to deal with the illegal immigration problem or the larger and more serious problem of mass legal immigration. The reason it does not have the will is that it has forgotten what it means to be a nationââ¬âand shows no interest in remembering.
The healthy leadership of a nation puts the interests of the nation it leads ahead of the interests and preferences of the illegal aliens who have invaded it. Hutchinson, bubbling about "compassion," is more worried about "uprooting" the invaders and hurting their feelings. But since they came here illegally and remain here at the expense of the nation, serious compassionââ¬âcompassion that is just and not merely mawkish slop or a politically expedient sloganââ¬âshould be for the victims of the invasion.
"I don't know that we've arrived at a consensus and, sure, that makes a difference," Hutchinson told the Times. "You can define that as political will. You also can describe it in terms of whether we've debated it sufficiently and drawn our thoughts together." "It," presumably, is immigration, and as a matter of fact we have not debated it quite enough. As any writer who favors stronger immigration control can tell you, what usually gets published and promoted is Open Borders propaganda. Those who publish and promote it don't want a "debate" because they know they'd lose.
But as for the "political will" to start the arduous process of enforcing elementary border control, that really should not be a problem for an administration that has already fought two wars halfway around the planet and set up the most massive internal security apparatus in American history. Just what exactly does Hutchinson think would give us the will?
Hutchinson, if he really said what he is reported to have said and what he has never denied saying, should be fired at once. But more importantly, the American people need to wonder just whose side this administration is really onââ¬âthat of the nation it claims to represent, or the aliens who have invaded it?
[url]http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/News/Francis/Principalities.html[/url]
2004-09-24 12:39 | User Profile
The only thing that the admistration wants is to keep itself in power. It has not compassion for anyone, including the illegal immigrants, who are just tools for future votes. cheap labor, and their use to create schism in society. "Compassion" is just a coverup for a more sinister agenda.
2004-09-24 12:44 | User Profile
One thing that is bugging me is why TIME would publish such a piece against their liberal agenda? Is circulation dropping and so they are trying to fish in the conservative crowd? I will think about this more but I don't think it is because they are having a change of heart and turning into Paleoconservative magazine. Any ideas?
2004-09-24 15:17 | User Profile
New survival kit being sold on the Mexican side of the border,,,,,it contains the following.
1- One gallon of water. 2- One small umbrella. 3- Map telling best way to come into the USA. 4- Instruction as to how avoid ground listening posts. 5- " what to say to border patrol if captured. 6- Small book with instruction as to where to go in order to apply for emergency aid, welfare, housing, food, free attorneys services, school for kids, etc etc.
You know what, with my spanish I feel like pretending that I don't understand English in order to apply for all of the above benefits.
Me no spechi ingli.
2004-09-24 15:25 | User Profile
Surely, you can't be serious when you ask: "whose side is the administration on"?
It should be obvious to anyone with a working brain that Georgie wants nothing more than to flood this once great nation with as much of the third world as possible in order to gain a "thank you" vote and thus keep himself and his cronies in power for as long as possible ( that is, until the country finally ceases to exist altogether ).
Lest this be construed as an attack directed solely at 43, allow me to hasten to add that a Kerry administration would be even worse!
2004-09-24 23:24 | User Profile
Both Bush and Kerry are worthless when it comes to immigration policies -
For more information on all party candidate positions goto:
[URL=http://www.betterimmigration.com/candidates/]ALL Presidential Candidates views on Immigration [/URL]
If anyone is interested in viewing how their candidate voted on immigration issues, then I would suggest:
[URL=http://www.numbersusa.com/index]Numbers123[/URL]
I also got an interesting email today from projectUSA -
[URL=http://projectusa.org/ezine/2004/09-24-conti-cannon-aila.html]Immigration lawyers funding Tancredo's opponent[/URL]
2004-09-25 20:41 | User Profile
The fact is that Bush is President and he is not doing a damn thing about foreign nationals in the US illegally---matter of fact---Bush supports various amnesty bills to reward foreign nationals who have entered the US illegally!
When the local police pick up illegal aliens/foreign nationals illegally in the US---the BUSH INS tells the local police to let them go. Even if they have phoney, forged or stolen identification on their person!!!!
Kerry can't do any worse than Bush...:wallbash:
2004-09-26 09:26 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Pennsylvania_Dutch]The fact is that Bush is President and he is not doing a damn thing about foreign nationals in the US illegally[/QUOTE]
What is your definition of what a foreign national is? I'm more worried about a Jew who has been living in this country for decades whose sole loyalty belongs to Israel than to an illegal Mexican who has no loyalty to Mexico at all.
Don't get me wrong, I'm against a complete halt on immigration as well as fining Mexico for allowing cross-border excursions.
In fact, Hutchinson just put up several new stations to monitor illegals crossing the border but it is far less than meets my expectations.
2004-09-26 15:41 | User Profile
The Bush administered INS is telling the locla police to let foreign nationals in the US illegally a/k/a the ilegal aliens go when caught by the local police. Even if the illegal aliens have phoney, forged or stolen identification on their persons!
Here's a geat example of what is happening in this country because Bush is soft on illegal aliens/foreign nationals: [url]http://www.kirotv.com/news/3743798/detail.html[/url]
2004-10-01 03:27 | User Profile
After reading the preceding and following articles, how could a thinking person come to any other conclusion than the traitors in the District of Corruption should be given a blindfold and cigarette. Then we could get on with the task of restoring the Republic.
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Septemebr 30, 2004
National Data, By Edwin S. Rubenstein Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor ââ¬Â¦ Your Infectious Diseases? Illegal aliens are, by Federal law, entitled to free emergency health care, and many states provide non-emergency care as well. The cost to U.S. taxpayers exceeds $1 billion in border hospitals alone.
But a potentially more onerousââ¬âeven deadlyââ¬âburden lurks in the infectious diseases that many illegals bring with them. Diseases once thought eradicated in the U.S. have reappeared courtesy of the post-1965 influx.
The Centers For Disease Control reports that illegal immigrants account for over 65 percent of communicable diseases (TB, hepatitis, leprosy, AIDS, etc.) in the U.S. Of course, immigration officials are supposed to screen out applicants for legal immigration who are carrying diseases. But illegals slip over the border unchecked. [Marty Nemko, ââ¬ÅThe Overwhelming of America.ââ¬Â]
There are seven thousand registered cases of leprosy in the US, for example.
Each year some 300 new cases of leprosy are identified in the United States. The vast majority of these patients are immigrants who acquired the disease in their home countries. [MSN Encarta]
Tuberculosis is generally regarded as the most common infectious disease found in immigrants. More than half (53.4 percent) of all TB cases reported in 2003 involved foreign-born persons. [Table 1.]
The disparity between native and immigrant TB rates increased significantly over the past decade:
TB cases among U.S. natives fell from 17,464 in 1993 to 8,903 in 2003, a 49 percent declineââ¬âbut TB cases among immigrants rose from 7,354 in 1993 to 7,902 in 2003, a 7.5 percent increase
The TB case rate for immigrants in 2003 (23.6 per 100,000 population) was nearly ten-times that of natives (2.7 per 100,000 population)
Immigrant children are at least 100 times more likely to be infected than children born in the U.S. [William M. Stauffer, MD, et al., ââ¬ÅMedical Screening of Immigrant Children,ââ¬Â Clinical Pediatrics, November-December, 2003.]
However, the risk posed to Americans is potentially far greater than these numbers might suggest:
Approximately 7 million foreign-born persons are infected with TB, although most are not active cases.
It is estimated that each active case infects10 to 20 more people via airborne bacteria spread through coughing.
It can take years for the symptoms to present themselves.
Even worse, the form of TB most common among illegal aliens is a drug-resistant typeââ¬âwith a higher death rate than cancer.
California has the largest TB caseload ââ¬â 3,205 reported cases in 2003. More than three-quarters (75.6 percent) were foreign-born. Texas and Arizona are also among the top ten in active TB cases. [Table 2.]
But the TB problem is no longer confined to the border states.
In northern Virginia, for example, foreign-born residents accounted for 92 percent of the new TB cases in 2000. [Marvene Oââ¬â¢Rourke, ââ¬ÅTransnational Crime: A New Health Threat for Corrections,ââ¬Â Corrections Today, February 2002.] Prince Georges County, Virginia, reported a staggering 188 percent rise in TB cases in 2002. Health officials attributed it to illegal immigrants from Mexico.
Queens, NY, Portland, Maine, Del Ray Beach, Florida, Minnesota, and Michigan have also reported TB outbreaks linked to recently arrived immigrants.
A particularly heart-rending mode of disease transmission: foreign children adopted by U.S. parents.
Fewer than half of children adopted from orphanages in Russia, China, and Eastern Europe are found to have protective anti-bodies to polio, diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping coughââ¬âdespite records purporting to show proper immunization.
Immigration, even in its most compassionate form, may be bad for our health.
[Number fans click here for tables.]
Edwin S. Rubenstein (email him) is President of ESR Research Economic Consultants in Indianapolis.
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