Why Amnesty Is A Bad Idea

• March 29, 2006

The image above, coupled with comments from Mexico indicating that certain parts of this country still belong to them, should tell us all we need to know about the wisdom of granting amnesty to these people, be it through a guest worker program or whatever.
If Mexicans (or people of any other nationality) want to be Americans let them come through the legal immigration process and declare their loyalty to our country and our way of life. I’m fond of quoting Theodore Roosevelt on this issue, and I’ll do so again now:

In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile…We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language…and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.

Teddy had it right back in 1907. Why can’t our leaders get it right like this today?

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http://Array TwoHotel9

So, which country do you hold dual citizenship in?
Anh

I second that.   I have no problem at all with immigrants and cheap labor.  What I do have a problem with is unAmericaness of the new immigrants, and especially the "immigrant advocates"   I am a immigrants, but I am first and foremost an American Nationalis.
http://www.sportshandicappingforum.com/ Ralph

I’m an american that has been living in brazil the majority of the last 6 years. Brazil has the 2nd largest population of illegals in the U.S. only behind Mexico. Besides brazil being world reknown for money laundering, drugs, and the falsification of documents, they have an area on the border region of their country with Paraguay and Argentina, where it is a well known fact that Hamas and Hezbollah have outposts. This areas has the largest population of muslims outside the middle-east.

 

Brazil has an estimated 1+ million of illegals in the U.S. And you can bet, there is quite a bit of "anti-american" sentiment here. Brazilian requests for tourist visas are getting denied in record numbers, and many of these denials are people with honarable intenetions, to visit and leave, but a LARGE percentage is to arrive in america and only leave after years of raping the american system, all the while sending every available dollar back to their homeland as a large percentage of Mexicans do the same. Brazilians sent 6 BILLION dollars back to brazil last year equaling the dollar amount of their LARGEST export, soy. Brazilians sending money back home is the THIRD largest economy in the country and the vast majority of this money is earned and sent from the United States.

Vast percentages of these people are not coming to america to assimiliate, to be american, to start a "new life". They are coming to take advantages of opportunities that they’re not afforded in their own countries.

It’s way past time that american politicians look out for the people that pay their salaries, american citizens, and not people that are in the country illegally!

The burning of american flags, hanging them upside down under the mexican flag, the changing of the language and lyrics to the national anthem, are so disrespectful that I can’t fathom seeing americans or any other nationality, in another country that this type of behavior would be tolerated.

 
http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

We’re no more than fifteen years away from the exploding Mexican. Mark my words.
We’ve got a claim to land.
We’ve got racism and a powerful radical group with political power.
And we’ve got "the world community" and the "multicultural" left who will be the handmaidens in all of this.

We’ve got a brewing Palestine south of our border.
Gerry

I must agree that enforcing our current immigration laws is the only way to go. People are foolish to believe that any guest worker will only want to stay in the US for a low paying job. Wake up. They will use any low paying job only to gain entry into our workforce and will continue to look for higher paying jobs. Those employers that thought they were getting a good deal through cheap labor, especially day laborers, will soon find themselves out of business. Hispanics will not want to work for you. They are starting their own businesses while you employers have enabled them to stay. Once they are given any legal status, their humble hard-working attitude will shift to what we see in the current protests "in your face" and your job and business will be ADIOS. We must hammer the Senate with our calls to demand an enforcement only bill. No one will be rounded up and sent home.. They will gradually return home when there is no work and we stop accepting their Anchor babies as citizens. It is never complicated to do the right thing and obey the law. It only gets sticky and uncomforable when you want to bypass the laws and create your own special reasons for disobeying them. Now get on the phones and call your Senators!!
J.R.

The Post Title by Kathryn Jean Lopez over at NRO summarizes this image the best:

The photo that should kill amnesty.

Let’s hope that our esteemed, idiotic Senators who think guest-worker programs and amnesty are the answer get in line with more than 70% of the US population who want the Federal Gov’t to enforce the current illegal immigration law!
Tim Coney

“Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all.”

Oooooh! I guess you better tell all those people holding joint citizenships with Israel that they aren’t true Americans. As well as all the other countries that allow dual citizenship. Oh, WAIT! I guess that includes AMERICA. Gotta love the irony of that, eh?
wes

Perhaps it’s that whole issue of national sovereignty. Or maybe it’s the $38 billion a year spent on social programs for illegals. Or the fact that illegals depress wages for lower income jobs held by Americans and legal immigrants by 8 percent. Or maybe it’s the base racism of supporters of illegal immigration who say "They do jobs Americans won’t do" – which suggests some jobs are too good for Americans, but it’s okay if we make the brown people do them. Maybe it’s the fact that the argument that the American economy "needs illegals" is empty rhetoric that ignores basic fundamentals of economics, and is laughably disprovable.

Maybe it’s the fact that American employers exploit the illegals. Or the dishonesty of the claims that illegals "built this country" when in fact a small percentage may have provided manual labor, but they did not provide the capital, the vision, the engineering, and the risk Americans did. The mule doesn’t build the farm. After all, if they "built America" why is it that they couldn’t stay south of the border and "build Mexico."

Maybe it’s the fact that the tide of illegal immigration serves as a pressure valve for the corrupt, stagnant, socialist government in Mexico, meaning it will remain in power and keep the people there poor. Maybe it’s the fact that people who are breaking the most fundamental law of a nation – its borders – are being offered a free ride while others queu up and take the right path to become immigrants and citizens. Maybe it’s the fact that we can’t continue importing poverty. Maybe it’s the fact that illegal immigration is a net drain on the economy to the tune of tens of billions a year.

Maybe it’s the fact so few assimilate, and they want to import the same corrupt, backwards, illiberal, banana republic values that have kept the rest of Central America in the third world. Maybe it’s the fact that amnesty now means 48 million illegals in another 20 years, based on our experience with amnesty for 3 million in 1986. Maybe it’s the notion of Reconquista. Maybe it’s the fact that illegals have driven Parkland Hospital into near ruin, and DISD is next.

But really, do you really care why? All people like you see is racism. So what does it matter?
Continue to contact the Senate Judiciary Committee –

—NO AMNESTY 

—NO GUEST WORKER

 

Senate Judiciary Committee:

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) – 202-224-4254

Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT) – 202-224-5251

Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-IA) – 202-224-3744

Sen. Jon L. Kyl (R-AZ) – 202-224-4521

Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH) – 202-224-2315

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) – 202-224-4124

Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-SC) – 202-224-5972

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) – 202-224-2934

Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) – 202-224-6521

Sen. Thomas A. Coburn (R-OK) – 202-224-5754

Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT) – 202-224-4242

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) – 202-224-4543

Sen. Joseph R. Biden (D-DE) – 202-224-5042

Sen. Herbert H. Kohl (D-WI) – 202-224-5653

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) – 202-224-3841

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) – 202-224-5323

Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) – 202-224-6542

Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) – 202-224-2152

 
Oberones

Good old Teddy! He sure was a great guy, if only we could all live by his values.

 

He believed in equal education for women, although he never championed equal rights. He did not believe, however, that African Americans, Native Americans, or Asians were equal to whites, ignoring the courageous role that black troops played at the Battle of San Juan Hill. Roosevelt subscribed to the racist and imperialistic view that people of color were a "burden" that the white man must carry as part of his Christian duty."

http://www.americanpresident.org/history/theodoreroosevelt
Raechel

Here’s the real issue.

Unless you are of Native American desecent, you and all of your relatives were once immigrants.

How would you like to wait in a craphole of a country, filling out paperwork after paperwork trying to get a visa, waiting years to be able to make a decent wage to support your family all because you were cursed with the unfortunate luck of being born in a 3rd world country.

Yes, they should do things legally.  Perhaps we should reevaluate the INS processing issues before so many stones are cast.

It’s sad that we can willing let terrorists on the "No Fly" list come in, but the Hispanics who want to earn an honest living are left out in the cold.
http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

Raechel said, Unless you are of Native American desecent…
Try this one on for size: I was born in America. I am therefore a "native American". Not that it matters, but my parents were both born in America as well. Now you can safely say that I am of "native American descent".
TwoHotel9

Anh, you once again strike to the heart of the issue. Those who come to this must do so with the full understanding that they will become American citizens. Anything less is a cheat and a lie. The perspective you and other naturalized citizens have on this should be the main one put before the media, it never is. They are only interested in showing those who hate America.
http://christianpundits.blogspot.com/ Christian Pundits

 <i>"Now get on the phones and call your Senators!!"</i>

Or email them from <a xhref="http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=13155">Human Events Online</a>.   They also have a chart that shows how each Senator feels about this issue.
Isrealcool

Isn’t reconquista the same as Zionism?
http://home.earthlink.net/~harveywards/ Harvey Edwards

John wayne on his American CD says some good things about hyphenated Americans. Nothing has done more to divide us than the little – hyphen such as afro-american, Irish-american mexican-American etc etc. We should be proud to just be known as Americans.
Sean

Quick question:

Did Roosevelt co-publish his remarks in Dutch?

Just asking….
TheWall

Can you post the source for the Teddy Roosevelt quote? When exactly and where? I like it a lot but I just want to confirm the source, thanks
TwoHotel9

Native Americans came from Asia. What was your lame assed point?
Chris

<blockquote>Oooooh! I guess you better tell all those people holding joint citizenships with Israel that they aren’t true Americans. As well as all the other countries that allow dual citizenship. Oh, WAIT! I guess that includes AMERICA. Gotta love the irony of that, eh?</blockquote>

The United States does not recognize dual citizenship.  Perhaps you should read the Naturalization Oath of Allegiance: http://uscis.gov/graphics/aboutus/history/teacher/oath.htm />
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

The Wall, I had the date on the quote wrong.  It isn’t 1907 but rather 1919.  Sorry about that, I got my quotes confused.

It comes from a letter Teddy wrote to the American Defense Society on January 3, 1919 just three days before he died.

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