I’m what you might consider a “double issue” voter, meaning I will not support any candidate who doesn’t A. seriously want to stop illegal immigration and B. won’t reverse our insane, pro-terrorist foreign policy. Right now, every other issue is at least negotiable with me.
This election year only Ron Paul fit this bill. That Paul is right on just about everything else was refreshing, but if he were only right on foreign policy and immigration he would have had my vote anyway.
Hillary Clinton will not change our foreign policy and will not stop illegal immigration. Barack Obama promises to change our foreign policy, but I honestly don’t believe he will “change” anything and once elected, will simply maintain the current status quo, including our non-border policy. And John McCain? He is worse than both Clinton and Obama – he fought for amnesty, thinks Iraq is a success and can’t wait to make things worse by bombing Iran. No thanks.
But a little examined aspect of the immigration debate was brought up by Dylan Hales over at The Left Conservative:
“immigration is a much more complex issue than traditional conservatives are willing to admit. While I am deeply sympathetic to efforts to suspend immigration wholesale, I am not willing to allow a totalitarian state on our shores to achieve this goal.”
Hales goes on to explain how American military, economic and even CIA influence in Latin America has had an effect on mass immigration, in addition to and perhaps even more so than the obvious magnet of economic opportunities here in the United States.
Kudos to Hales for exploring an important aspect of the immigration debate that is vritually ignored. I recommend reading his blog post to everyone, but especially conservatives:
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Immigration and current foreign trade policy ARE the two biggest problems right now facing the country.
What we are sacrificing in the name of codependency and neo-liberalism are:
1. National Sovereignty.
2. National Security.
3. National Prosperity.
4. Global and National Constitutional Democracy (as we weaken our country and enrich and assist Communist and authoritarian dictatorships all over the world).
5. National Culture and the American way of life.
There are other important losses so this list constitute the heart of our loss but not their aggregate.
Enjoy the new article up titled United States Free Trade at our website and keep telling the truth Southern Avenger.
P.S. I’ll be writing in Ron Paul for President no matter who the nominees are this year.
Just an aside, neo-conservatives should, of course, be included with neo-liberals as the source of the problem.
Thanx SA and Mr. Hales…Short but sweet: I feel too strongly regarding these issues to do anything else:
I, too, am writing him in.
Hope For America.
The immigration issue is often painted as a black and white, either or, or an all or nothing debate.
Where is the common sense and compromise to seek out the middle ground on one of the most complex issue facing America today? Sensible Americans are disgusted with the partisan politics that permeate Washington today.
Border security is evident. I have been on the border where many try to cross into the United States. For the Border Patrol, I’ve been told by them first hand, they ‘play a cat and mouse game’ with the migrants and worse yet the drug smugglers. We need to give them effective means to do their jobs and secure our southern border.
At the same time, we must recognize that there are jobs in America that most Americans won’t do.
Our federal government must address these industries, agriculture including crops, produce, nurseries, poultry, dairy and the like that are labor intensive and our current quota systems doesn’t have adequate numbers in place to protect these industries.
According to the Office of the United States Trade Representative the size of the United States economy has doubled since 1990 and yet our immigration quotas have stayed at the same levels since then.
There are stats on how many people are employed and there are 12 million more workers than bodies in this country.
A little common sense goes a long way. I hope our congress and senate will recognize that this debate is not all or nothing.
For those myopic and narrow-minded individuals that insist that it is, please teach your kids the work ethic that our forefathers had. It is the same one that most new immigrants coming to America bring.
We need to encourage reasonable and rational debate.
Angelo Mancuso
Director
“American Harvest” documentary – The Real Truth About Immigrant America
http://www.americanharvestmovie.com
A comprehensive immigration reform with path to citizenship for illegals is the only solution. And the GOP getting humiliated in November will be the first step to solving the problem. People such as Dobbs, Tancredo, Senator Sessions, etc. are writing the political obituary of their party with their hateful rhetoric on immigration. Reality check? Yesterday’s special elections in Illinois.
Obama is our next President!!!
Some of you folks need a reality check. A path to citizenship? We’ve been down that path before. 1986 the amnesty to end all amnesties. The only thing that amnesty did was beget more of the same except this time instead of about 3 million we are now looking at 12-30 million. Rewarding something does nothing but encourage more.
Hateful rhetoric my ass. How about pie in the sky socialism and wholesale change of our countries social fabric, language, third world mentality and way of life that all you bleeding hearts are proposing.
There is plenty of blame to go around particularly with the government and industry looking for slave labor but you folks who insist the immigrants “know not what they do” are naive at best or worse. They willing take the money but most of them in way want to become American nor assimilate. That is balkanization anyway you look at it.
Nice job Ernest, very well put…You are so right on, man. Path to citizenship?? Hateful rhetoric? Gimme a break! And earlier tonight I, too, was thinking the same thing about the “rewards” spreading the infecious nasty plague that is…illegal immigration.
I clearly recall the day my baby brother went off to join the Border Patrol. He thanked me for being such a “black sheep” that led him to his career…I am talkin’ years of blood, sweat and tears since then. That man has camped out in snow with only a dead rabbit (no knife to skin it, no match to cook it) to eat…He’s had to saved the ones who were not prepared for the heat of the dessert or the chill of the valleys AND SENT THEM BACK, he’s run the prison facilities that house the illegals…He has pulled terrorists off cargo ships…been tasered and choked and gassed for SEAL-type training..to list just a FEW things he’s done in the name of protecting this country’s borders….And I could go on…and on…but suffice it to say, my brother and his gang CANNOT fight this fight alone! It is also up to US, the VOTERS.
When will the greed end?
Employers/business owners could do something. Hospitals could do something. The prison and legal system could do something. The White House could do something.
Do some of yall realize how the problem is only becoming a worse infestation?? Why is it little first graders have to learn Foreign Language? Why do we pay for medical insurance out of our pay AND they get Medicaid as a reward? I walk into a local pizza buffet place and what do they YELL at me when I come through the door? “Oh-layy!” (I KNOW, I don’t “have” to eat there). Stimulus…GUESS WHO (I think) can get that to send back “home”???
Last month, an unlicensed illegal immigrant came upon that “little red & white octagon-shaped sign” and smashed into a school bus! FOUR children DIED. Also, last month, an agent was deliberately run down and killed by a Hummer at the border. Deliberately. Several years ago, a very young friend of my brothers’ was scaling the canyons doing his job when he plunged to his death. And please, don’t get me started about the animals throwing bricks at my brother’s head or tying chicken wire across in an attempt to decapitate the agents on ATVs.
Perhaps, yes, I am still naive about SOME of the political arena (not for long)…and yeah, I suppose I am really pretty close to this subject that I see ONE view only…but C’mon…AMNESTY??? Path to CITIZENSHIP??? Um, I don’t think so.
Nuff said.
Thanks.
We are still a democracy and polls consistently show that 68% of Americans oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants. VOTE OUT EVERYONE ACTS CONTRARY TO THAT STATED OPPOSITION.
First, we did used to do all those jobs that “Americans don’t want to do”. We worked the fields, mowed the lawns, delivered the papers, and worked the fast food counters growing up. And we can certainly do it again. There are 40,000,000 citizens in this country living below the poverty line and many of them would love to have a shot at those jobs with a fair wage.
Second, the county I live in (e.g. Los Angeles only 1 of 58 counties in California) has a greater population than all but 7 states in the union. I am a white person and now a minority in my county and state. There are so many Latinos here on social welfare that if they cut welfare tomorrow (something they may have to do as the deficits continue to spiral out of countrol), the rush of millions upon millions of Latinos into the surrounding states would shock and overrun the social system’s there. The problems are only getting worse. Gone are the fields, farms, and orchards and in their place are miles of concrete barrios patrolled by roving gangs of La Raza. As 77 million baby boomers pass out of the picture, this will become the blueprint for much of the nation.
For more information: http://paleoconservatist.blogspot.com/2008/01/mexicans-deserve-our-country-more-than.html
They want in so bad, fine. Instead of building a border fence we get rid of the border… Mexico, our 51st state.