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Published: date  Issue #282 2007-03-16 Bush Tips His Hand plus: betrayal, gratitude riots, and bottom rung presidency Issue #281 2007-02-05 Bush feels betrayed on amnesty Sides with Rep Gutierrez against GOP Issue #280 2007-02-01 Spot the common thread The top three states in the nation for common sense immigration legislation Issue #279 2007-01-28 Immigration Conflagration; Editorial Stagnation Just what is it that makes the Post so bad on immigration? Issue #278 2007-01-23 Zoe and the Abramoff visa Dems to push Abramoff's cheaper humans import program? |
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Anchor babies: more immigration folly +== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==+ The Los Angeles Times reported a few weeks ago on a large and growing industry in Asia catering to "birth tourists" -- pregnant women who time trips to the United States to coincide with their due dates. The motivation for these mothers-to-be is simple: thanks to a gross misinterpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment, the U.S. grants automatic citizenship to any child born on U.S. soil. These children are known as "anchor babies." That is, they may legally "anchor" themselves and their extended families in the United States. There are an estimated 200,000 such babies delivered in the United States every year (including those born to illegal aliens). Foreign women stand to gain much from having an anchor baby in the family, but the benefit to the United States is unclear. The anchor baby phenomenon effectively removes control of immigration from the American people and is a significant component in a population explosion that now has the United States growing at a faster rate than China. Furthermore, anchor babies contribute to the dangerous trend toward dual citizenship -- the holding of both U.S. and foreign passports. The Fourteenth Amendment, on which "birthright citizenship" is based, was originally enacted to ensure the voting rights of newly freed slaves after the Civil War. It was not intended to, say, make the child of the French ambassador an American if it happens to be born in Washington while the ambassador is serving. The salient part of the amendment reads: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." Neither a pregnant Mexican woman illegally in the United States, nor a pregnant Korean tourist, is "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. They are subject to the jurisdiction of the countries of their citizenship. As such, their newborns are not subject to the American people, and they are not American citizens. The Great Attractor (John Derbyshire in National Review) Anchor Babies and Interpreting the 14th Amendment (FAIR) Forum on dual citizenship: Freedom means choice (Dan Stein in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Birthright citizenship and dual citizenship dilute our national heritage and weaken our sense of community. Both customs must end. Unfortunately, we cannot count on Washington for any help. This battle will likely have to be won in the courts. A great test case would be that of Yasser Esam Hamdi, the Al Queda fighter (and Guantanamo prisoner) who is an "American" because he was born in Louisiana to Saudi parents, but who lived all his life in Saudi Arabia until he went off to kill Americans in Afghanistan. The State Department should revoke this guy's citizenship, and let the ACLU take the case to the Supreme Court. It is time for a ruling on the foolish and unnecessary custom of giving away citizenship to anyone who happens to be born in the U.S. No other country that we know of does this, and neither should we. You can help in the legal battle for a more modern and moderate immigration policy by supporting the new group, Friends of Immigration Law Enforcement (FILE). http://fileus.com/
A nation to be strong, must be united; to be united, must be equal in condition; to be equal in condition, must be similar in habits and feeling; to be similar in habits and feeling, must be raised in national institutions as the children of a common family, and citizens of a common country.
Please sign me up for your "Free Ezine." I love your "talking points" which articulate how I feel, but was never able to put into words. You have provided me with the verbal ammunition to go out there and do my bit more effectively. Thank you. Laila Sullivan Immigration and homeland security: too many, too fast +== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==+ In the face of continuing public outrage over the failure by our immigration, border, and security agencies to protect Americans, President Bush has announced plans for a massive restructuring within the federal government. Bush is asking Congress to create a brand new "umbrella" department called Homeland Security, under which numerous agencies would operate. While this is a step in the right direction, the re-organization must consist of more than re-shuffling bureaucrats. Otherwise, the entire undertaking will be an expensive exercise in futility. Unfortunately, so far, few in Washington are backing -- at least publicly -- the very best method for increasing the ability of the government to protect innocent Americans from foreigners who mean us harm: reducing the total number of foreigners coming to the United States. While Washington is full of proclamations regarding "strategy" and "focus," more than a million people a year continue to immigrate. Islam continues to be the fastest growing religion in the country. Tens of thousands of Chinese nationals continue to labor away in the hard sciences at our nation's top universities. The Bush Administration's hispandering political advisor Karl Rove continues to put politics above the national interest. Open-borders libertarian James Ziglar continues to run the INS. And the U.S. Chamber of Commerce continues to try to sabotage any attempt to tighten the free flow of labor and consumers across our borders. The United States desperately needs to take a breather -- a temporary time-out -- while we fix our reckless immigration policy. There is no good reason not to. Trying to fix our homeland security system, while blindly barreling full speed ahead with record-breaking immigration levels, is, as ProjectUSA's West Coast representative Brenda Walker notes, like trying to fix a car while hurtling down the highway at 95 mph. INS future becoming a 'mess' (UPI) Texas state GOP calls for a temporary moratorium on immigration from "terrorist nations" (AP) Islam is the fastest growing religion in the United States Rethinking Foreign Students (George J. Borjas)
On June 6 and 7, ProjectUSA director Craig Nelsen was in Washington, DC at a Federation for American Immigration Reform-sponsored lobbying effort on Capitol Hill. The most remarkable thing about the whole event was the change in the climate from similar lobbying efforts in years past. Among both ethnic-identity Democrats and cheap labor Republicans, there was a new willingness to listen to arguments for a more modern and moderate immigration policy. Few could dispute our contention that it would serve the national interest to take a time-out while we fix our broken immigration and security systems. This argument needs to be reinforced. Contact your representative and politely tell him or her that you support a time-out from mass immigration while we bring our broken security systems up to date. Please take a few minutes to do this. It's important. You can find your representative's contact information at:
If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem. John Jay Chapman (1862-1933),
INS Headquarters staff is more concerned with turf and politics than the mission they have been given; the Congress, for all its finger pointing, is too busy pandering to the business community and Hispanic activist groups for dollars and votes to provide the kind of oversight necessary to bring INS back to reality; and the President should hire a new bunch of advisors - perhaps a few with a smattering of knowledge about the subject of immigration would help? Meanwhile, and until some positive actions are taken, America's citizens will continue to watch their country on a downhill slide - that shouldn't be happening. Bill King Ninth-grader slams Bush on amnesties +== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==+ In spite of repeated failures, the Bush Administration continues its efforts to push another amnesty through Congress in the face of strong public opposition. Some of that opposition showed up this past week in a regular feature in the Tucson (AZ) Citizen called "Citizen Teen Columnist." In a piece titled, "The key word in 'illegal immigrants' is 'illegal'," ninth-grader Timothy Workman of Tucson takes President Bush to task for his dogged siding with the anti-borders special interests. "Bush has got some nerve," writes the young man, "demeaning the meaning of American citizenship by proposing amnesty… "It is as if President Bush is trying to please everybody, which he must believe is his ticket to a second term, and he is doing so by embracing issues that are opposite of what is the best for the citizens of America." In normal countries in normal times, the youth are generally the repository of radical ideas, extremism and social upheaval, and the older generation represents conservatism, stewardship of traditions, and wisdom informed by experience. But this is not a normal country in normal times. In today's America, we find fifteen-year-olds writing intensely conservative lines like, "If we want to lead America into the future as a healthy political state, and as an America with upright, honest qualities, then we will start with turning away the idea of illegal immigrant legitimacy." Meanwhile, in today's America, the Wall Street Journal, the very essence of old and established, has repeatedly proposed a radical new Constitutional amendment that would read (and we're not making this up): "There shall be open borders." Our own president, and nearly every newspaper editorial page in the country, likewise support open borders by advocating some type of amnesty for illegal aliens. Even before 9-11, and certainly afterwards, open borders policies are surely irresponsible. As young Timothy from Arizona asks: "Why has our country stooped so low?" Why don't we learn from the past?" Mass deportation effort unlikely, INS chief says (Arizona Star) High School Students Worry about Immigration (Chicago Tribune poll)
Two days after Timothy Workman's piece appeared in the Tucson Citizen, INS commissioner and anti-borders ideologue James Ziglar was in Tim's hometown announcing that official U.S. policy would be to ignore the word "illegal" in "illegal immigration." "No one likes the idea that people came into the country illegally," Ziglar said during a joint press conference with Mexican officials at the Tucson Border Patrol station, "but it's not practical or reasonable to think that you're going to be able to round them all up and send them home." Ziglar admitted that economic considerations lay behind the Bush administration's official non-enforcement policy. We find it mind-boggling that the head of the agency responsible for enforcing the law and political will of the American people -- and securing our borders -- would publicly take the extreme and irresponsible position that anyone who can get into the country should be allowed to stay, regardless of whether they arrived legally. We find it disgraceful that the old and the powerful would be so willing to risk the futures of kids like Tim simply for some short-term economic benefit to themselves. On this Memorial Day, and in remembrance of the ultimate sacrifice so many have made, please take a few minutes and contact the White House and the Office of the Attorney General. Tell them to fire James Ziglar. Tell them the man is an outright menace. If they don't have anyone to replace him, suggest Timothy Workman of Tucson. White House comment line Attorney General comment line
"…let us die to make men free." From "Battle Hymn of the Republic" (original version) "All of our uncles and grandfathers who fought and died for freedom are essentially just handing America off to a mass of unlawful immigrants. They wouldn't want that, and there is nothing they can do from beyond the grave, therefore, I take it upon myself." Timothy Workman
For Vermonters only: If you live in Vermont and would like to become active in your state working for a more moderate and reasonable immigration policy, please contact: Tom McKenna New immigration poll: Bush at odds with Republicans +== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==+ The Justice Department has announced that a system to track foreign students in the United States will finally be implemented. In the wake of 9/11, even the education industry, which rakes in about $14 billion per year in foreign student tuitions, saw the writing on the wall and dropped its lond-standing opposition to this sensible and modest proposal. Meanwhile the nation will continue to debate the larger question of what we are doing with more than a million foreign students in the United States anyway, including 50,000 -- mostly in the hard sciences -- from the hostile and belligerent nation of China. (The government of the People's Republic, which even now has weapons of mass destruction trained on American cities, actually pays the tuition for many Chinese students in the U.S.) As the immigration issue continues to cement its position at the center of public debate, financial interests will inevitably be trumped by public opinion -- as the recent progress on the student-tracking program encouragingly shows. The tension between the financial interests, which seek to maintain or increase mass immigration numbers, and the public as a whole, which favors a more modern and moderate policy, will be most visible in the Republican Party. Immigration policy has divided the Republican Party into two camps. There is the Wall Street Journal, corporate-funded RNC, George Bush open-borders camp. And then there is the Congressman Tom Tancredo camp, which advocates a time-out from mass immigration while we fix our broken system, a reduction of immigration to sustainable levels, and an end to illegal immigration. Which camp enjoys the all-important support of grassroots Republicans? If a current poll at a Republican website is any indication, the open-borders extremists in the Bush camp are going to have their heads handed to them in the next elections: From a GOPUSA poll (May 14, 2002, 10:30 a.m.): QUESTION: Which of the following statements best summarizes your position on illegal immigration? RESPONSES: 67% -- Illegal aliens should be deported because they broke the law in order to get here. 2% -- Amnesty should be granted to certain illegal aliens covered under President Bush's proposals. 29% -- A moratorium should be placed on all immigration until the illegal immigration problem can be fixed. 1% -- There should be no restrictions on immigrants who wish to enter the United States. The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China GOPUSA poll on immigration (Republican site) Another poll on immigration at an influential conservative site Another poll on the Bush amnesty at vote.com INS to Monitor Foreign Students; Ashcroft Reverses Stance on System
The Republican leadership seems to be most out-of-touch with its grassroots in its appointment of Libertarians to positions of influence in the Immigration and Naturalization Service. In the poll above, the Libertarian position on immigration was the least popular, garnering just 1 per centof the vote. Yet, the director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Republican-appointed James Ziglar, is an avowed Libertarian who once told a U.S. Chamber of Commerce gathering that his libertarian doctrine made the idea of borders difficult for him (!) And Stuart Anderson, the influential Executive Associate Commissioner for Policy and Planning at the INS, was once an immigration policy analyst for the corporate-funded CATO Institute, a Libertarian think tank. From there, Mr. Anderson went to work for Republican Senator Spencer Abraham, whose open-borders extremism cost him his Michigan Senate seat in 2000. According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, Senator Abraham and Stuart Anderson together "opposed legislation to speed development of a system to track people crossing the border." Before he was booted out of office, Abraham justified his opposition to the common-sense visa-tracking system on the grounds it would "slow down" commerce at the border. Of course, now we know that such a system might have helped prevent the atrocities of September 11. If you believe the safety and security of the American people outweighs the profitability of some special business interests, please phone the Office of the Attorney General and ask them to remove Stuart Anderson, James Ziglar and other open-borders extremists from the Immigration and Naturalization Service. AskDOJ@usdoj.gov Office of the Attorney General - 202-353-1555
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I read an article from Associated Press regarding the 75% increase in INS arrests for the states of Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado. It would make a lot of aware people happy to see the same start happening in California. I only regret to say it will not happen. Unfortunately, California may fall victim to this rash of immigration. Heidi Burns Immigration extremism: just say no +== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==+ Events in Europe over the past few weeks have brought the world's attention to the Continent's struggle with immigration extremism. But before we Americans become too smug, we should remember that such extremism is also a big problem in the United States. Like Europe, the United States has adopted an immigration policy so extreme that we are radically transforming our country within a generation or two. Meanwhile, immigration extremists in the Bush and Clinton Justice Departments have decimated US border controls to the point that an entire nation is left virtually defenseless against foreigners who mean us harm. Money fanatics in the business community dump millions of dollars into congressional and presidential campaigns to further their goal of turning America into a vast cheap labor camp. Alan Greenspan, the Wall Street Journal, and other growth zealots continually agitate for importing more consumers through mass immigration. And militant racist groups like La Raza (The Race) use millions of dollars in grants from extremist anti-American organizations like the Ford Foundation to attack any citizen who wonders aloud about the wisdom of doubling our population within the lifetimes of today's children. The United States should adopt a more modern and moderate immigration policy. We need to reduce legal immigration to sustainable levels and eliminate illegal immigration altogether. Continuing along the extremist path we are on will eventually bring about an extreme political reaction. Interview with assassinated Dutch immigration realist Condenan campaña antiinmigrante (HOY) Where extremism and hate resides in the U.S. (emails we received in response to article above) The Know-Nothing revival
One of the most extremist newspapers in the United States is the Denver Post, a long time proponent of absurdly high levels of mass immigration and an attack-dog for the cheap labor and ethnic-identity enthusiasts. Recently, the Post has trained its sights on Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo. Recognizing, as do most Americans, that US immigration policy is out of control, Congressman Tancredo is one of the few politicians in the country brave enough to recommend we take a time-out from the extremist immigration policies in place today. This moderate and common sense suggestion has drawn the attention of the Post, which routinely refers to Tancredo as "anti-immigrant." (In one rant, the Post went so far as to link the environmentally conscious Congressman to the KKK.) Here's what you can do: Call the Denver Post, ask for the "editorial page," and politely tell the person who answers (or leave a message) that for 40 years polls have shown that most Americans agree with the position of Congressman Tom Tancredo. It is the Denver Post's attacks on Tancredo and immigration realism that are out of the mainstream and extremist. Remind the Denver Post that advocating a reduction in immigration numbers is no more "anti-immigrant" than family planning is "anti-child." (303) 820-1201
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. ---Friedrich Nietzsche
Although I am African American, I really feel it is NOT prejudiced to Demand an immigration Time out. To be honest I am for the elimination of ALL immigration. We have enough people here now. There's enough fighting between Blacks, whites and hispanics that needs to stop before we import others who will also begin fighting for their own agenda. KEEP UP THE GOOD RIGHTEOUS WORK YOU are doing. I did send emails to my Congressmen to STOP IMMIGRATION for now. Eleanor Wiltshire
go to hell fucking kkk you piece of shit if you think america is full so what can you do about it we mexicans are taking over you fucking loser Octaza@aol.com New "anti"-immigration billboard in NYC +== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==+ A new billboard advertising a Census Bureau statistic about immigration has gone up at King's Highway and East 16th St in Brooklyn. Visible from the Q & V trains, the sign reads: "Immigration is doubling U.S. population in your child's lifetime." This new billboard is the latest in a series of informative outdoor advertisements erected in New York City -- all meant to encourage democratic debate on the very important issue of mass immigration. However, local officials have used the power of their political offices to bully billboard companies into taking down these informative ads twice in the past, and it has taken over a year to get the current one erected on a billboard owned by an independent (and brave) sign owner. We urge the city to reconsider its anti-democratic policy of censorship aimed at ending debate about a policy that is fundamentally altering the future of the United States. (Thanks to ProjectUSA merchandising director, Lance Marlo, for making this new billboard possible.) 'CITY PLANS CURBS ON ANTI-IMMIGRANT SIGNS' Billboard Foes Yearn to Breathe Free without Its Presence
ProjectUSA has two lawsuits pending against the City of New York and the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey. In 1999 and 2000, these entities violated our First Amendment right to free speech by forcing down ProjectUSA billboards similar to the new billboard on King's Highway. Please call the NYC public relations department and urge them to stop immigration censorship. After the trauma that New York City has suffered as a result of America's harmful immigration policies, city leaders should discard their racist obsessions with diversity and allow Americans to consider immigration's long-term consequences in realistic and non-racial terms. Politely express your hope that they do not force the removal of this new board.
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
Political Correctness and Multiculturism have rendered most politicians impotent concerning "3rd world" immigration. I think the majority of politicians simply look the other way because their career is all that really matters. Ninety per cent of the rest are scared shitless that someone in the media will label them a racist so everyone kind of holds their head in the sand while the media paints a rosy picture for the public saying how blessed we are to have "diversity." Tom Tweed Police must enforce immigration law, of course +== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==+ On March 15, four Pakistanis -- after inappropriately receiving temporary visa waivers from an INS inspector -- never returned to their ship in Norfolk, Virginia. One of them was reportedly on a terrorist watch list, and their disappearances sparked a nationwide manhunt. While we are glad that the INS has pulled out all the stops to find these four, we wonder about the other 115,000 illegal aliens in the United States from the Middle East. Is anyone looking for them? To date, only one of the Pakistanis who jumped ship in Virginia has been apprehended. If it takes two weeks of an enormous effort by the INS to catch just one illegal alien, how long will it take to catch the other 115,000? Or the 314,000 aliens who were ordered deported but chose to remain illegally in the country? Or, for that matter, the estimated nine million illegal aliens now present in the United States? There are only 2000 investigative agents for the INS working to track down absconders and illegals. If it takes two weeks for, say, two agents to track down one illegal, it will require over 300 years for the current force to track down all the illegal aliens in the country -- assuming no more arrive (in fact, about a half dozen will arrive while you read this message). Fortunately, there is help available for the INS. According to the Department of Justice, there are over 700,000 local law enforcement officers in the country, and Title 8 of the U.S. Code says that any "officer whose duty it is to enforce criminal laws" has the authority to make an arrest for any violation of immigration law. In other words, local police officers can assist in arresting illegal aliens when they encounter them in the course of their normal duties. Predictably, ethnic identity activists and others bent on radically altering our country object on the spurious grounds that enforcing immigration law would lead to "racial profiling." But pro-borders activists point out that the immigration status of any person would become an issue only in the event that that person had been stopped for an unrelated, non-immigration offense. This means that an illegal immigrant of any color or race has an equal chance at being apprehended on immigration charges if he or she breaks the law. Given that there are 4.9 billion people in the world who live in countries poorer than Mexico, and given the near anarchy in U.S. immigration, it is time to stop the nonsense and let law enforcement officers enforce the law. Police: We aren't INS agents
David Snowden, Chief of Police in Costa Mesa, California, told the Los Angeles Times that his police force wouldn't enforce immigration law because, "We also don't want to put a burden on the people who live in our community." It is almost beyond belief that a police chief would utter such an absurd statement. Chief Snowden (714-754-5117) isn't the only American to go squishy-headed whenever the issue of immigration comes up, of course, but a man this out of touch is not fit for the job of policing -- he should read his own department's web site, which states that the department's "objectives are accomplished through the enforcement of local, State, and Federal laws." Chief Snowden should know that most law enforcement officers can, will, and want to enforce immigration law; the problem is working with an inept and unresponsive Immigration and Naturalization Service. What is essential is that there is political will in Washington to force the INS upper management to do their jobs. Please take a minute to make a couple of phone calls. Call your two senators and politely, but firmly, tell them that you are very concerned about the disaster that U.S. immigration has become. You believe the INS is overwhelmed, ineptly run, and out of control. You want immigration law enforced, and you want local law enforcement personnel to do it. Contact your two senators through:
It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime. What to do with the Immigration Service SPECIAL NOTE: Upcoming PBS debate to include ProjectUSA director +== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==+ The Immigration and Naturalization Service's major blunder last week -- sending visas to dead hijackers -- continues to roil Washington, and some sort of Congressional overhaul of the badly broken INS seems likely. At the top of the list should be the replacement of INS head James Ziglar with someone who has both the experience and propensity for effective border enforcement Despite the obvious dangers of border business as usual, the pro-cheap labor Bush Administration and corporate globalists in the Wall Street Journal wing of the Republican Party continue to resist sensible and needed reforms. Even in the face of the outrage over the story last week that the INS sent visas to two 9/11 terrorists, the Bush administration is offering very little in the way of proposals for fixing that hopeless agency, while it continues to push for amnesties for foreign nationals illegally residing in the country. An INS agent writes advocating a wholesale replacement of management personnel, and adds, "Given personnel, political direction and agency culture, there will be no change (in the INS), until there is a will to enforce the laws at the highest level. Without political direction, nothing will be done." And a State Department official writes, noting the INS is a "sprawling, decentralized, unionized bureaucracy run by semi-autonomous regional directors. They lack info technology support and, since immigration is a highly politicized issue, they often lack political support in Washington as administrations cave to the various demands of The Groups." There are other serious problems at the INS (and other agencies in charge of securing borders). These include crushing paperwork, bureaucratic territorialism, rampant fraud, outdated technology, and ill-advised policies such as allowing for status adjustment in the United States. Until these problems can be resolved, policy-makers need to reduce the overall load on the agency. In short, we need an immigration timeout while the problems with border security are fixed. However, one immediate step can also be taken: firing Commissioner Ziglar It's the Fraud, Stupid! (Why the two-bureau INS plan and the EOIR must be scrapped) Phones light up about alien amnesty bill (The Washington Times) Watch James Ziglar in his recent appearance at the National Press Club (requires RealVideo)
Strong grassroots activism has helped delay the new Bush amnesty and focused attention on the complete inadequacy of anti-borders libertarian ideologue James Ziglar as INS Commissioner, who the New York Times reports is "trying to hold onto his job." Please take a few minutes (it is important) and call your two senators. Tell them: "We are a nation. Nations have borders. Dump Ziglar." Contact your two senators through: Also, don't forget to utilize the very effective free fax system at NumbersUSA.
"It is one of evils, perhaps not the smallest, of democratical Governments that the People must feel before they will see or act ... " George Washington
After reading that there are about 8 million illegal aliens in this country I want my money back. Our tax dollars pay for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. This service has let the equivalent of the population of New York City into this country illegally. What are they getting paid for? When will we wake up, next September 11th? John Tate Importing disease: Bush amnesty increases health risks +== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==+ Eighteenth Century French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau said he would prefer to be born under a democratic government, since he would wish to live in a country in which the interests of the government and the interests of the people must be "single and identical." One can only wonder what he would think of immigration policy in our democracy. Six months after September 11, there is virtually no identifiable change in immigration policy; the United States continues to receive immigrants at a rate five times higher than our historical levels. Moreover, just last week, the Bush Administration pushed another mini-amnesty through the House of Representatives -- even though an Immigration and Naturalization Service study released before the 2000 elections found that amnesties encourage illegal immigration. Already, according to the INS, 275,000 illegal immigrants enter the United States every year (and the real number is likely very much higher). Since these illegal immigrants do not undergo requisite health, criminal, and national security screening, illegal immigration presents a real danger to the American people. Now word comes from the Centers for Disease Control that the first American victims of Chagas disease have died. Chagas disease is caused by a parasite (T. cruzi) that is spread when a "kissing bug" bites a human host and then defecates while it feeds. The feces contain the parasite, which can enter the human host when the bitten person rubs or scratches the bug bite. One can also contract it by eating uncooked food contaminated with infective feces of "kissing bugs." Chronic Chagas infections can lead to various neurological disorders, including dementia, obstruction of the colon and esophagus, and damage to the heart muscle. Left untreated, Chagas disease is often fatal. The appearance of the parasitic disease in the United States has been traced to the cadaver of a Central American immigrant. Ominously, "health officials estimate as many as 100,000 Latin American immigrants in the United States may carry the parasite, and more than 16 million people are said to be infected in Central and South America," according to an Associated Press story on the outbreak. Since illegal border-crossers do not go through normal health screening and treatment procedures, our government should be doing everything in its power to discourage illegal immigration. The Bush amnesty is exactly the wrong move. Chagas Disease Fact Sheet Immigrants and Public Health: Why Immigration is a Health Care Concern (FAIR) Government cutting health care to elderly Americans (New York Times) Public Health Put at Risk
Now the Senate is set to vote on the Bush amnesty. Contact your two senators through: Politely ask them to say "no" to the Bush amnesty plan. Tell them it is time to put people OVER politics, or the people will throw them OUT of politics.
The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it. Alexis DeTocqueville
You are right to point a finger at the 7500 immigration lawyers -- but you are missing the two biggest villains driving mass immigration: The Democratic Party and the Republican Party. Democrats want Third World immigrants because those immigrants vote Democratic; Republicans want them because they provide cheap labor for their businesses. Ordinary Americans just get rolled over by those two big parties -- in spite of the fact that numerous polls reveal how much Americans dislike and resent this invasion. John Barchilon Bush amnesty dumps new load on chaotic INS +== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==+ On March 12, George W. Bush succeeded (barely) in pushing a stealth amnesty for illegal immigrants through the House of Representatives. The White House and the Republican leadership had hoped to sneak this measure through by attaching the proposed law, known as Section 245(i), to a popular bill that had already been passed. Then they scheduled it for a vote in a part of the Congressional calendar usually reserved for Representatives to do things like congratulate their state's high school football champs. Unfortunately for the increasingly discredited political strategists at the White House, the press has picked up the story. Now the White House finds itself once again defending a pro-illegal immigration position while polls show large majorities of Americans desire tighter immigration and more border enforcement. In a development worthy of Shakespeare, the House vote was being taken just as NBC News broke the story that the Immigration and Naturalization Service has issued new flight-training visas for 9/11 terrorists Mohammed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi. The last 245(i) amnesty generated 400,000 claimants, and observers expect this new one to generate as many more. In other words, Congress and cynical political strategists at the White House are dumping another huge caseload on an agency that a February Government Accounting Office report says is already racked by fraud and "out of control." House OKs reprieve for illegal immigrants Immigration Inaction: Six months later, and little has been done. Majority of Americans support tighter immigration (Zogby Poll)
Meanwhile the man in charge of the chaos over at the INS is former Senate Sergeant-at-Arms, James Ziglar. Hand-picked to head the INS by Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, Ziglar is an avowed libertarian. In other words, the man in charge of the integrity of our borders does not believe in borders. ProjectUSA believes strongly that it is a mistake to have an inexperienced and benighted open-borders ideologue at the helm of the INS. While a spokesperson in Lott's office said on March 13 that he did not know whether the Senator still supports Ziglar as head of the INS, we have heard nothing that says Lott will withdraw his support. He should. Dump Ziglar. Scrap the INS Trent Lott See how your Representative voted on yesterday's amnesty ("Yea" means FOR the amnesty): Contact your representative:
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert F. Kennedy
I have always thought that our asinine immigration policies had within them the seeds of the destruction of the USA. Everyone is for the quick fix, more bucks for the lawyers, more votes for the two parties (although Bush is nuts if he thinks illegals are going to vote Republican), more bucks for the educators. No one cares about the long haul and the potential it has to end the U.S., as we know it. Lawyers pushing record-breaking immigration (SPECIAL NOTE: for a FREE BUMPER STICKER, go to http://projectusa.org/free_bumper_sticker.html) +== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==+ The United States admits three times as many immigrants every year as the next highest receiving country. Immigration rates are now so high that we will double our population within the lifetimes of today's college students if Congress does not lower the numbers. Thanks to mass immigration, the Unites States is now growing at a faster rate than China. But ask the average American to justify a policy that is altering our country so radically, and the responses will range from the misinformed (immigrants do the jobs Americans won't do) to the vacuously sentimental (we are a nation of immigrants). The real engine, however, driving immigration policy is simple greed. For example, when Congress mandated an entry-exit visa tracking system in 1996, a system which could have helped prevent the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, it was never implemented because of pressure from American industry on the grounds such a system would slow down commerce -- not even stop it, just slow it down. And in the wake of Sept 11, Senator Diane Feinstein made the common-sense suggestion that the United States initiate a 6-month time-out on student visas while we get our foreign student tracking system under control. However, the education industry, which rakes in $14 billion per year from foreign students, quickly forced Feinstein to back down. The tourism industry, cheap labor lobby, pro-consumption profiteers, home-building industry, ethnic identity industry, refugee-settlement industry, and many others, all profit enormously from mass immigration. But perhaps the most potent and insatiable special interest pushing for high levels of mass immigration is the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), an organization of 7500 immigration attorneys. AILA lobbies relentlessly in Washington to sabotage every piece of pro-borders legislation that comes down the pike. And it's no wonder. Immigration law is big business. And the wider the gates are open, the greater the flood of cash for immigration lawyers. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the mean annual wage for lawyers is $91,320 per year. Multiply that by the number of AILA members, and we are talking about a nearly $700 million-a-year industry. Disturbingly, however, the American media relies heavily on AILA representatives for background information about immigration policy. In 2001 alone, according to a Lexis-Nexis search, there were 363 news stories using the phrase "American Immigration Lawyers Association." But, we could not find a single instance in which the reporter citing an AILA source also noted the financial motives all AILA members have in promoting mass immigration. When citing an AILA position in any piece on immigration policy, reporters should include the information that the American Immigration Lawyers Association has a huge financial interest in mass immigration. Myth: Immigrants do the jobs Americans won't do Myth: This is a nation of immigrants Refugee advocates press Congress to help boost flow Section 245(i) -- the stealth amnesty The Cannon-AILA agenda for mass immigration
George W. Bush is once again (!) pushing the sham marriage-amnesty proposal known as 245(i). This unfair amnesty would allow illegal aliens to jump over all those who wait in line to enter the United States legally. All they would need to do is find an American "spouse" and pay a $1000 fine (plus fees to immigration lawyers, of course). And guess who is in the forefront pressuring Congress to pass this amnesty? Why, the American Immigration Lawyers Association! Help get money and selfish special interests out of American politics. Call your Representative and say: "Please tell President Bush to stop pushing for the stealth amnesty known as 245(i), which is part of bill HR 1885. This amnesty will allow illegal aliens to jump in front of legal immigrants who play by the rules. Plus, this amnesty threatens our national security because it removes the requirement that illegal aliens must undergo security screening in their own countries before they are allowed into the United States." Find your representative: For more ways to help:
"Family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." "Neither do terrorists"
During the past few years because of my anti-MASS immigration and pro-controlling our borders positions I have been inappropriately called anti-immigrant, and in some extreme cases have even been called by someone who could not win the argument and in a last act of desperation a racist. Now after September 11, 2001 another label I welcome is ANTI-TERRORIST. Because of the recent events my positions on safe borders and managed immigration are considered anti-terrorist therefore my detractors must be PRO-TERRORIST. James Lane Immigration: a tussle between the races? SPECIAL NOTE: Web-listen to Congressman Tom Tancredo live on the Terry Anderson Show (KRLA -- Los Angeles) tonight, 11 p.m. Eastern (http://theterryandersonshow.com/) +== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==+ Some American politicians continue to indulge those who seek to define U.S. immigration policy in starkly racial terms. Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, for example, was recently honored by the National Council of La Raza (The Race) for his work promoting mass immigration. "This honor is especially meaningful to me," said the Kansas Republican as he accepted an award from the largest Hispanic-power group in the country, "because the Latino community represents the best part of America." The senator continues a disturbing practice of defining record-breaking mass immigration as being "pro-Asian," or "pro-Hispanic." While many Americans recognize the danger of turning immigration policy into a tussle between the races, their reasonable concerns often fall on the deaf ears of shortsighted politicians. These self-interested politicians are more likely to listen to the much louder ethnic-identity lobbies. But more than that, Congressional legislators are interested in the "contributions" appreciative businesses send their way for encouraging the mass import of cheap labor. GOP Ups Efforts to Woo Hispanic Vote (Las Vegas Sun) GOP's Softer Line May Help Lure Latinos, But How Many? (Newhouse News)
While Senator Brownback (who gets a D-minus from Americans for Better Immigration) might like to make it seem his support for doubling U.S. population within the lifetimes of today's children is driven by his adherence to modern diversity dogma, we think the real reason has more to do with dollars. For his last race, according to the non-profit watchdog group, Open Secrets, the senator received nearly $3 million dollars in bribes -- oops, "campaign contributions" -- from business interests. All this money might help the senator remain in power, but it is extremely divisive and reckless -- in our multi-racial country -- to link immigration policy with racial advantage. If you would like to see the Senator put the country's well-being above corporate and racial interests, you can contact him and say: Dear Senator Brownback, please stop casting immigration in racial terms; rather, let us think about the long-term consequences of a policy that now has us growing at a faster rate than China. While some business interests can make money off the cheap labor and increased consumption represented by mass immigration, in the end present policy is not good for the American people and our environment. sam_brownback@brownback.senate.gov
"The people who have built up America, the Anglo-Saxons and the northern people of Europe, are not discriminated against in this bill ... the people from [the Asia-Pacific Triangle] probably will never reach 1 percent of the population." -- Senator Hiram Fong of Hawaii, arguing for passage of the mass immigration act of 1965
Sorry, but you will have to put up with immigrants for as long as immigrants want to be here. There's nothing you can do about it…we will keep on coming for as long as we want to. You wanna know why? Again, because there's nothing you can do about it, Pal. OOhhh!!! Don't get mad. Go out and have fun. Eat some spanish food, go to Chinatown, visit a mosque. Dance the samba, man. José in America Cast down your bucket: Immigration and black Americans +== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==+ As the nation marks the end of Black History Month, it seems an appropriate time to consider the economic effect on black Americans of current immigration policy. An analysis of Census Bureau data indicates that, even though the economy boomed for most of the 1990s, adjusted figures for median household income failed to climb in many counties because of the influx of low-income immigrant workers. (http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/22/nyregion/22CENS.html) This phenomenon is particularly hard on the black community. While African-Americans make up 12.5 percent of total U.S. population, they account for 25 percent of Americans below the poverty level. By depressing wages for low-income Americans in high immigration areas, mass immigration makes it disproportionately harder for large numbers of blacks to improve their financial positions. Our country should not be making it harder for the historically dispossessed to achieve the American dream. Rather we should "cast down our bucket" where we are (meaning that the nation should better employ the people who are already here) and formulate public policy that considers the best interests of ALL Americans -- not just those who profit by the cheap labor of foreigners. [To hear the voice of an uncompromised black American discuss how illegal immigration has ravaged his Los Angeles community, listen to the Terry Anderson Show, webcast on Sunday nights at 8 PM Pacific time. http://theterryandersonshow.com/PgHome.htm] Mi Casa No Es Su Casa (Los Angeles Times) Blacks Are Losing Their Communities Black Americans on Immigration (ISBN 1-881290-12-3)
In the struggle for economic parity and social justice, African-Americans must confront the damaging efforts of racial-engineering utopians like Shirley Ragsdale -- a Des Moines Register columnist who has repeatedly championed mass immigration policies because, in her view, her home state of Iowa is too white. Whatever the reason for Ms. Ragsdale's hostility toward one particular race, it does not justify making the road to prosperity even harder for the members of the one group in this country that has faced the most formidable economic challenges. Please contact Ms. Ragsdale and ask her to put aside her racial biases and start treating all Americans -- including black Americans -- as equally deserving of the solicitous protection of our government. ragsdales@news.dmreg.com
''The old employments by which we have heretofore gained our livelihood, are gradually, and it may seem inevitably, passing into other hands. Every hour sees the black man elbowed out of employment by some newly arrived immigrant whose hunger and whose color are thought to give him a better title to the place.'' Frederick Douglas, advisor to President Abraham Lincoln and recognized as one of America's first great black speakers.
Since when is this "our country?" Who owns it? If you're talking about the white European IMMIGRANTS to the United States who not only robbed Native Americans of their homes and jobs, but killed their culture, then you're dealing with racism... Mexicans don't come to the U.S. because they love our culture. They come because their children are starving due to a situation inflicted by the United States' neglect to offer aid in the first place. Megan Yoder
Professor BENJAMIN ZUCKERMAN, a longtime member of the Sierra Club and a Professor of Astronomy at UCLA, is running to become a board member of the Sierra Club in upcoming elections. Prof. Zuckerman understands how overpopulation is the biggest threat to our environment; he understands that organizations concerned with saving the environment must openly and honestly deal with this problem. ProjectUSA recommends that you "bullet vote" -- that is, vote only for Ben Zuckerman, thereby increasing the influence of your vote. For more info, visit Sierrans for U.S. Population Stabilization Felons exploiting political asylum rules +== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==+ In spite of all the excited talk about tightening immigration in the wake of September 11, a West Coast Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) inspector tells ProjectUSA that things in the field continue pretty much as they were before the attacks. Asking that his name not be divulged for fear of reprisals, the inspector echoes what agents from around the country are telling ProjectUSA: the border remains essentially open to any and all -- including terrorists -- who want to enter the United States. These front line agents routinely cite fraud as a primary culprit in an immigration situation that a General Accounting Office report prepared for Congress and released this week calls "out of control." (With unusual bluntness, the usually mild-mannered GAO stated in its report that the INS is "fragmented and unfocused" about enforcement. In one analysis, the GAO found a 90 percent rate of fraud in 5,000 petitions for asylum. A follow-up check of 1,500 of those petitions could locate only one that was genuine. House Judiciary Chair Jim Sensenbrenner -- who ordered the report -- remarked, "Based on this report, I'm not confident that the INS isn't giving green cards to al-Qaida operatives.") Our West Coast INS inspector tells us that political asylum policies are especially vulnerable to fraud. According to the officer, a foreign national who attempts to enter the United States using false documents is guilty of a felony. Yet if he or she is caught trying to enter in this manner, INS agents must twice (!) invite him or her to claim political asylum (Forms 867 A & B). To claim political asylum, all the foreign national with the fraudulent documents has to do is, well, claim it. "We do not prosecute felonies once that claim is made," says the officer. These felons are then released and are "never heard from again." The agent notes that very, very few of these claimants -- especially from China and including those from the Middle East -- are legitimate political or religious refugees. As another INS officer wrote in a widely distributed e-mail that was reported on by the Los Angeles Times, "...God help the American public." Download the GAO report "Immigration Benefit Fraud: Focused Approach Is Needed to Address Problems" GAO-02-66 by going to this page: Memo Angers INS Agents
Americans are generous people and most of us like the idea of helping the world's truly persecuted find temporary haven in our country. However, the current scam-ridden system is making a mockery of our generosity and threatening to sabotage the entire idea of asylum. Please contact your representative and let him or her know that our political asylum situation today is unmanageably corrupt, that you want the political asylum mess cleaned up now, and that people who commit felonies by entering the United States with fraudulent documents must serve prison time. In a world in which so many mean us harm, not taking our borders seriously presents a grave danger to the American people. Contact Congress: http://capwiz.com/fair/dbq/officials/
It can't be futile to try to keep out terrorists, because my brother cannot have died for no reason. Immigration Lawyer Brandon Valvo
In a democracy such as ours, it is usually a catastrophic event that brings about a fundamental alteration in the direction that the ship of state has been sailing. Given the ease with which the 19 hijackers entered the country, any reasonable person would have to conclude that our immigration policy over the last 20 years has been nothing short of reckless. Miles Brand Iowa students to sponsor immigration forum +== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==+ A special public forum on immigration will be held Sunday, January 27, at Drake University in Des Moines, IA. Entitled "Immigration: Labor Issue? Environmental Issue? Racial Issue?" the forum is sponsored by two student organizations: the Black Law Students Association and the Environmental Law Society of Drake. The forum, which is free and open to the public, will feature a balanced panel representing both critics of mass immigration and those who support current levels. Panelists will give short presentations and field questions from the audience. Immigration reductionists welcome this rare opportunity to engage in an open and fair debate about what might be the most important issue of our time. "Immigration: Labor Issue? Environmental Issue? Racial Issue?" Cartwright Hall Iowa's immigrant-friendly policies aren't wildly popular among its residents. (Congressional Quarterly) Wary Iowans back immigration curbs (Des Moines Register)
Politically, Iowa is a very important state because of its middle-of-the-road politics and its early presidential caucuses; Iowa is often a political bellwether for the rest of the nation. It is therefore significant that Iowa Senator Tom Harkin has consistently supported loose immigration policies. In 1996, Senator Harkin voted to continue chain immigration, the primary engine driving an immigration policy that will double U.S. population within the lifetimes of today's college students (Don't know what "chain immigration" is? Neither does George W. Bush: http://www.projectusa.org/Resources/Bush-Nelsen.rm). Senator Harkin also voted for amnesties in 1997, 1998, and 2000. Moreover, in 2001, he voted to extend the fraud-ridden marriage amnesty bill known as 245i. (Just how bad is 245i? See: http://www.fairus.org/html/07386111.htm). Now the Senator is facing a tough re-election campaign. Ominously for him, a Des Moines Register poll published in October shows support among Iowans for tighter immigration policies in line with the rest of the nation at an astounding 91%. You can call the Senator and tell him whether you agree with his reckless and shortsighted efforts to keep America's borders open -- needlessly doubling our population and leaving America more vulnerable to terrorists. 202-224-3254
"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product." Christopher Lasch
I would just like to say I appreciate all the effort you are making to make this country a better place. I am 17 and not currently working so I have nothing to give but my gratitude. Hopefully I will get a decent job after college and be able to help you guys out. I am from San Diego. I'm not sure if you have ever been here but illegal immigration is hitting the middle class teens pretty hard. Well businesses are loving it. Thanx again for your hard work. Matt Cotton ProjectUSA responds: Matt, there is a lot you can do without money to help save America. First, talk it up. There has been way too much silence by concerned people. And don't forget a ProjectUSA bumper sticker! Good luck! NY Times: Immigration drives down wages +== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==+ As reported by the New York Times, ("Median Income Drops Are Tied to Immigrants" 12/22/01), new Census data backs up what we immigration reductionists have long argued: Immigration is not good for middle- and low-income Americans. The article noted annual income losses of $5,000-$9,000 per household over the last decade in high-immigration locales. The article didn't mention, however, that while mass immigration is a kick in the teeth for Americans on the lower rungs of the economic ladder, it is a great boon to higher-income Americans, who are more able to enjoy the benefits of a large, low-wage servant class. Many Americans, of course, recognize the inherent injustice of a public policy that is stacked against our most vulnerable citizens. Unfortunately, many Americans also seem to have swallowed the lie that immigrants take the "jobs Americans don't want." The real truth is that immigrants do the jobs that Americans don't want for those WAGES. This is easily seen by the fact that the "jobs Americans don't want" are the very jobs Americans have always done during the long immigration time-outs in our nation's history (the most recent being the 40-year period between 1925 and 1965). Meat-packing, for example, is a dirty, dangerous, and low-status job that no one WANTS to do. Yet, a few decades back, those jobs were protected by union memberships and provided a middle-class income for American workers and their families. Then a period of union busting was followed by the meat-packing industry's importation of illegal aliens williing to work at sub-American wages. If other industries follow the poor example of the meat packing industry, the list of "jobs Americans don't want" will continue to grow. We need a complete ten-year time-out from mass immigration in order to reestablish social justice in the United States and reassess our nation's priorities -- economic, social, and environmental. American immigration policy must be devised for the good of all Americans, and not just those who profit by the cheap labor of foreigners. U.S. Charges Tyson Foods with Alien Smuggling (Reuters) STRANGERS ON THE PRAIRIE (Congressional Quarterly)
Congress is on break and your representative is likely in your district meeting with constituents. Now is the time to look in the phone book in the government pages under Congress (or use 411) and call your rep's local district office. Ask when and where he or she will be appearing. Go there and politely ask that the long-term consequences of mass immigration finally be considered. Tell your representative that America needs a time-out from mass immigration while we reassess its effects on our environment, and on all Americans.
"We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions…And we should end the unskilled immigration that competes with young Americans just entering the job market." US Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA),
Every now and then, I can catch the vague scent of sanity in the air. I wish your organization the greatest success, because the future of our Country literally depends on gaining control of our borders. Anyone with the ciphering skills of Jethro Bodeen can see what lies ahead for us. I have too much too say in one e-mail, so let me just say: THANK YOU for the work you are doing! Doug in Austin |
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