No Reasonable Thinking When it Comes to Illegal Immigration

A 'Second Great Wave' of immigration?

By Alexander Bolton - The Hill.com 03/02/14

If Congress passes immigration reform legislation this year, it would dramatically add to what the Census Bureau is calling the “Second Great Wave” of immigration in U.S. history.

Opponents of the legislation have seized on the Census Bureau’s analysis of migration patterns to warn of an explosion of the foreign-born population over the next few decades.

 “Once again, the country is approaching a percentage of foreign-born not seen since the late 1800s and early 1900s,” the Census Bureau wrote on its blog this week. “Will this proportion continue to increase, perhaps exceeding the high of nearly 15 percent achieved in both 1890 and 1910?”

The agency estimates that 40 million people living in the United States in 2010 were born elsewhere, approximately 12.9 percent of the population. That is the highest population of immigrants, percentagewise, since the 1920s, according to the Census Bureau.

Opponents of granting citizenship to 11 million illegal immigrants and expanding legal immigration flows have pounced on the study.

“After 40 years of large-scale immigration, rising joblessness, failing schools and a growing welfare state, would not the sensible, conservative thing to do be to slow down for a bit, allow wages to rise, assimilation to occur and to help those struggling here today?” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said Thursday, when he delivered the keynote address to commemorate the Tea Party Patriots’ fifth anniversary.

An aide to Sessions estimated the number of foreign-born people living in the United States has now reached 45 million. Sessions’s office estimates that number could swell by at least 30 million over the next decade if Congress passes the Senate immigration bill. 

The legislation would expedite permanent legal status for an estimated 5 million people waiting for green cards and increase the number of green cards issued each year from 1 million to 1.5 million.

The Center for Immigration Studies, which opposes the Senate-passed reform legislation, estimates it would allow the foreign-born population to reach 17 percent or 65.2 million by 2033.

The foreign-born population was less than 20 million or 7.9 percent of the total population in 1990, according to the Census Bureau. The bureau says the first “great wave” of immigration took place between 1880 and 1930, when the foreign-born population represented between 12 and 15 percent of the total population.

The immigrant population reached a low in 1970 when 9.6 million people — 4.7 percent of the total population — residing in the United States were born in another country.

What Happened to the Rule of Law?

America Is Turned Upside Down On Immigration Policy

3/12/2014 - Douglas MacKinnon - Townhall.com

Welcome to the upside-down world of the rule of law and the immigration policy of the United States of America.

A just-published, prominently featured article in the Washington Post highlighted the fact that Barack Obama is now falling out of favor with Hispanic-Americans because he continues to deport illegal aliens who broke the laws of our nation.

What's next? Dictators and terrorists will take issue with Obama because he's destabilizing the Middle East faster than they can capitalize on his misguided policies?

Ironically, it's the "pro-illegal immigration" lobby that many in the entrenched establishment of the Republican Party now seem to want to champion. Where's a law-abiding American to turn when both parties shamelessly troll for the lawbreaker vote?

During the 2012 presidential election, 71% of Hispanic-American voters supported Obama over Mitt Romney. They are now having buyer's remorse because they believe he is stabbing them in the back by doing his job as a responsible American and president. They should cut him some slack and take him at his word when he stresses that he is not acting in the best interest of our nation.

As reported by the Post, Obama tried to instantly backpedal by explaining that he was powerless under federal law to stop the deportations. And then our "commander in chief" embarrassingly proclaimed, "I am the champion in chief of comprehensive immigration reform."

The president was so taken with his "champion in chief" line that he promptly posted it on Twitter. How far it seems we have fallen from one young Democrat president to another: John F. Kennedy had "Profiles in Courage," Barack Obama has "Champion in Chief."

Clearly, whichever Democrat gets the nomination to try and succeed Obama, be that Hillary Clinton, Martin O'Malley or someone else, she or he is already a lost cause if you happen to believe the U.S. should have sovereign borders and entry laws.

For the growing number of Republicans jockeying for the 2016 nomination, it might be wise for them to keep in mind that a strategy to appease the "pro-illegal immigration" lobby is a loser and will backfire.

First, because this shameless strategy is a direct slap in the face to the millions of Hispanic-Americans who entered our country legally and then proudly became citizens. In one way or another, I have worked in the Hispanic-American community for over two decades, and no one is tougher on illegal immigration than these legal immigrants.

What's more, they vote. Unlike the fantasy vote being chased by some of the Republican "leadership," the millions of legal Hispanic-Americans are willing to stand up and be counted if they are given the respect they have so responsibly earned.

This pandering for votes from both sides is also an insult to the millions of legal immigrants to our nation from countries all over the world. Be they from Russia, Korea, India, Europe, the Middle East or Indonesia, they also proudly stood in line, did all our government asked of them to enter our nation and become citizens, and also feel slighted by a policy that rewards lawbreakers.

Why have borders? Why have laws? Why have a country? Are there any leaders out there who still believe in the rule of law?

Is Politics Before Principle a Proper Choice?

Will Boehner Lose the House by Shifting the Focus from Obamacare to Amnesty for Illegal Aliens?

By Ronald W. Mortensen, January 17, 2014

Many House Republicans put politics ahead of principle when they voted for the budget deal that funds the government through FY2015. They reportedly did this in order to keep the focus on Obamacare, which many Republicans believe is the key to success in the 2014 mid-term elections.

However, Speaker Boehner (R-Ohio) and other key members of the House leadership now appear to be getting ready to switch the focus from Obamacare to immigration reform.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Republican leadership in the House is ready to embrace legal status for millions of illegal aliens. This would seem to indicate that Republican leaders are ready and willing to give millions of illegal aliens amnesty from multiple job-related felonies including massive child identity theft, forgery, perjury on I-9 forms, and Social Security fraud.

Boehner, Eric Cantor (R-Va.), and Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) apparently believe that immigration reform will buy Republicans the support of business interests, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and high tech companies, while at the same time picking up Hispanic votes. And they may be right as far as business goes, at least for the short-term; however, if history is any indicator, Republicans will not gain any appreciable support from Hispanics.

House leaders and their overpaid and underperforming establishment strategists apparently also believe that disgruntled Tea Party voters and other Republicans have nowhere to go and that they will have to vote for Republicans in the 2014 congressional elections regardless of what Republicans do on amnesty for illegal aliens. If so, they may be half right — these voters won't vote for Democrats, but that doesn't mean they will turn out and vote for Republicans.

Boehner and his leadership team would do well to remember what happened in the 2012 presidential election when establishment Republicans took it for granted that Tea Party Republicans would automatically fall in behind Mitt Romney. Of course, they didn't nor did the Ron Paul supporters who were disrespected by the party establishment and their incompetent strategists. Rather than voting for the lesser of two evils, many Tea Party and Paul supporters just stayed home or voted Libertarian and President Obama walked away with the presidency.

So, if Boehner and company think they can focus on Obamacare for the first part of the year, pivot to immigration reform in the spring over the objections of the Tea Party and other groups and then get the focus back on Obamacare in time for the November election, they will be playing with fire.

And after the November 2014 elections, they may well be left scratching their heads and asking themselves how they could once again have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

Are We In Trouble - Or What?

83 Numbers From 2013 That May Dispute What The Liberals Are Telling You

By Michael Snyder December 16, 2013 (Part IV)

#61 Right now, one out of every five households in the United States is on food stamps.

#62 The U.S. economy loses approximately 9,000 jobs for every 1 billion dollars of goods that are imported from overseas.

#63 Back in 1950, more than 80 percent of all men in the United States had jobs.  Today, less than 65 percent of all men in the United States have jobs.

#64 According to one survey, approximately 75 percent of all American women do not have any interest in dating unemployed men.

#65 China exports 4 billion pounds of food to the United States every year.

#66 Overall, the United States has run a trade deficit of more than 8 trillion dollars with the rest of the world since 1975.

#67 The number of Americans on Social Security Disability now exceeds the entire population of Greece, and the number of Americans on food stamps now exceeds the entire population of Spain.

#68 It is being projected that the number of Americans on Social Security will rise from 57 million today to more than 100 million in 25 years.

#69 Back in 1970, the total amount of debt in the United States (government debt + business debt + consumer debt, etc.) was less than 2 trillion dollars.  Today it is over 56 trillion dollars.

#70 Back on September 30th, 2012 our national debt was sitting at a total of 16.1 trillion dollars.  Today, it is up to 17.2 trillion dollars.

#71 The U.S. government "rolled over" more than 7.5 trillion dollars of existing debt in fiscal 2013.

#72 If the U.S. national debt was reduced to a stack of one dollar bills it would circle the earth at the equator 45 times.

#73 When Barack Obama was first elected, the U.S. debt to GDP ratio was under 70 percent.  Today, it is up to 101 percent.

#74 The U.S. national debt is on pace to more than double during the eight years of the Obama administration.  In other words, under Barack Obama the U.S. government will accumulate more debt than it did under all of the other presidents in U.S. history combined.

#75 The federal government is borrowing (stealing) roughly 100 million dollars from our children and our grandchildren every single hour of every single day.

#76 At this point, the U.S. already has more government debt per capita than Greece, Portugal, Italy, Ireland or Spain.

#77 Japan now has a debt to GDP ratio of more than 211 percent.

#78 As of December 5th, 83 volcanic eruptions had been recorded around the planet so far this year.  That is a new all-time record high.

#79 53 percent of all Americans do not have a 3 day supply of nonperishable food and water in their homes.

#80 Violent crime in the United States was up 15 percent last year.

#81 According to a very surprising survey that was recently conducted,68 percent of all Americans believe that the country is currently on the wrong track.

#82 Back in 1972, 46 percent of all Americans believed that "most people can be trusted".  Today, only 32 percent of all Americans believe that "most people can be trusted".

#83 According to a recent Pew Research survey, only 19 percent of all Americans trust the government.   Back in 1958, 73 percent of all Americans trusted the government.