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Keep The Faith?McCain (and Amnesty) Will Fail

Cross posted from Vdare.com

http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/080206_amnesty.htm

 

Keep The Faith?McCain (and Amnesty) Will Fail

By Joe Guzzardi

Let?s start with the good news. John McCain, the likely (but not absolutely certain) Republican nominee, will never be president.

(What are my credentials for such a bold statement? Wait until the last paragraph of this article!)

Coming after eight years of the disastrous George W. Bush administration and its legacy of war, lunatic immigration enthusiasm, indifference to the middle class and the crushing mortgage crisis, McCain would have a tough climb even if he were the ideal GOP candidate.

But in most ways, McCain is the worst possible candidate. He’s Bush all over again?maybe worse. Open those borders! Let?s stay a hundred more years in Iraq! (See McCain?s speech on YouTube here).

Good luck to McCain campaigning on a platform that echoes Bush and his 30 percent favorable poll rating.

Now for the bad news. If McCain doesn?t become president, then a Democrat will?most likely Hillary Clinton but there?s still plenty of time for Barack Obama to maneuver his way to the nomination.

Both are proud of their amnesty stances. And each insists, wrongly and hurtfully, that more non-immigrant worker visas are essential for the American economy to thrive.

To be sure, it?s a bummer that Republicans don?t have a solid patriotic immigration reform candidate that we can count on at the forefront of the race.

But have faith! Don?t panic! Amnesty will not come automatically regardless of who is elected. History and momentum are on our side.

Have readers totally forgotten how far we?ve come and the magnitude of our 2007 victories?

Here?s an example of what I mean.

Throughout Clinton and Obama?s campaigning and especially since McCain?s resurgence, my in-box has filled up with the direst messages?? It?s all over now,? ?This is the end!? and ?Amnesty is inevitable!?

Rightly outraged correspondents are aghast that Obama endorses driver?s licenses for illegal aliens. To them, it is beyond the pale.

And I agree that, after watching N.Y. governor Eliot Spitzer get put through the sausage grinder on alien licensing, it is astonishing that any candidate would touch the subject, especially when it is so easily dodged by merely saying that states?not the federal government?regulate driving.

But that?s my point: who really cares what Obama thinks about licenses? He has no control over it. Any at his own risk.

And the same can be said about presidential opinions on amnesty: that issue is determined in Congress, not the White House.

To better understand the strength of our position, let?s review what?s happened in the amnesty wars since Bush took office.

Bush, at the outset, blindsided many (not all) of us. We didn?t foresee his fanatical devotion to open borders.

As hard as this still may be for some Republicans to swallow, it is impossible?as a practical matter?to be a bigger open borders advocate than Bush.

Remember that Bush?s first out-of-the country trip was to Mexico and the first foreign leader he invited to the White House was Vicente Fox. And Bush had barely survived the dangling chad vote count before he floated an amnesty trial balloon in the spring of 2001.

Then, after his 2004 re-election, Bush vowed to use what he perceived as his accumulated ?political capital? to push for amnesty. Result: nothing!

And yet again after the 2006 mid-term election and as Bush worked non-stop with the pro-open border Democrats who controlled Congress, he still couldn?t push through an amnesty despite a series of passionate pleas he made in Arizona and during a rare (for a president) personal visit to Capitol Hill.

In short, for eight years Bush was repeatedly embarrassed on the immigration issue by both Republican- and Democratic-controlled Congresses.

Since Senators Clinton, Obama and McCain were all present and close-up witnesses to the series of beatings Bush took, is it realistic to expect that the first matter of business for whoever is elected will be amnesty?

Not very likely?and that?s not just my opinion either.

During a trip to Washington D.C. in December I attended separate meetings with immigration reform leaders that included NumbersUSA Executive Director Roy Beck, Mark Krikorian and Steve Camarota of Center for Immigration Studies, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow John Fonte and the Federation for American Immigration Reform. The overwhelming consensus is that amnesty is ?too toxic? a subject and that it will not rear its ugly head until 2010 at the earliest.

This is a huge change. Remember that in January 2007, when the 110^th U.S. Congress was sworn in, nearly every immigration reform advocate on Capitol Hill assumed that the Senate would pass an amnesty again after a tough fight (as it did in 2006), and that we would ultimately have to stop it in the House of Representatives.

Beating it back in the Senate was seen as requiring something of a political miracle, given the odds against us.

For a solid six months, newspaper editorial boards, the majority of columnists and reporters as well as the leadership of businesses, unions, civil rights groups, universities, religions (most visibly the Roman Catholic Church) and ethnocentric lobbyists predicted that ?comprehensive immigration? legislation was inevitable.

They were all wrong. Instead, the bill was stopped in the Senate without ever getting to the House.

Here?s what happened instead:

The Senate defeated amnesty and a green card increase in May?and again in June!

A smaller amnesty, the Dream Act, also considered inevitable because of its impact on ?the children ? went down in October.

As a result of three consecutive defeats and despite a massive assault by the print media and the Chambers of Commerce nationwide predicting bushels of unpicked rotting fruit, an AgJobs amnesty never surfaced.

The new Democratic leadership in the House headed by illegal immigration fanatic Nancy Pelosi did not even attempt to move an amnesty bill through a subcommittee?let alone the floor.

In the meantime,

Rep. John Gingrey (R-GA) introduced H.R. 938, the Nuclear Family Priority Act that will reduce the numbers of family sponsored immigrants (chain migration) and limit them to spouses and minor children.  The bill currently has 31 co-sponsors.

Rep. Robert Goodlatte (R-VA) has added 58 co-signers to his H.R. 1430, the Security and Enhancement Fairness for America Act that would eliminate the 50,000-diversity visa lottery. This is a significant move forward in reducing legal immigration.

And, most significantly, Congressional Democrats proposed tough enforcement legislation

Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC) introduced the SAVE Act (Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement) that bulks up the E-verify system to identify legal U.S. workers. The bill has been co-signed by 142 representatives?50 Democrats and 92 Republicans.

Mark Pryor (D-ARK) and David Vitter (R-LA) forwarded legislation similar to Shuler?s in the U.S. Senate.

Use 2007?widely but incorrectly predicted to be a disastrous year for patriotic immigration reform?as a guideline.

And, big difference, in 2008, we are forewarned and forearmed.

Not the slightest clue exists that Americans are more receptive to amnesty than they were in 2007. In fact, the reverse is true.

Judge for yourself where we standing by asking this simple question: would you rather be on our side, winning the battles as we fight them, or on La Raza?s team, consistently losing while its captain, Janet Murguia, becomes more frighteningly unhinged with each defeat?

Sure, it would be nice not to have to go to the mat again and again. I?m at a point in my life where I?d like to write fewer columns so I could spend more time upgrading my butterfly collection.

But I?m confident that no matter who wins the November election?the bad, the worse or the worst?we?ll beat back our opponents as consistently and as thoroughly as we have for the last several years.

We have brought immigration into the limelight of presidential politics?a huge triumph in itself?and we?ve won on the playing field.

So don?t fall victim to negativity. Based on our recent record, there?s no real reason for it.

And my credentials for saying this? I don?t like to blow my horn. But I predicted that the McCain-Bush-Kennedy Immigration Surge/ Amnesty bill would fail and when it was exhumed, I predicted it would be reburied. I predicted that front-runner Giuliani would flame out. I said that Mitt Romney should stop Hispandering and run against illegal immigration?without which, as Steve Sailer has pointed out, Romney ?would have been tarred and feathered and run out of California on a rail?.  And I warned New York?s Spitzer that his driver licence plan would end in Gray Davis-type humilation.

So I repeat: McCain won?t be President. Amnesty will not pass.

Joe Guzzardi [ e-mail him] is the Editor of VDARE.COM Letters to the Editor.

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HillaryCare Door Wide Open to Illegal Aliens

crossposted from: http://www.hillaryproject. com/index.php?/ en/story-details/ hillarycare_door_wide_ open_to_illegal_aliens/

permalink: http://www.rogueriver. tzo.com/NoAmnesty/ archives/2007/10/ entry_158.html

HillaryCare Door Wide Open to Illegal Aliens

By Kathy Miller - The Hillary Project

Hillary Clinton claims her universal healthcare program will not cover illegal aliens, but the positions of her lead advisor on immigration and recent statements she has made to Spanish-language media outlets indicate otherwise.

The top campaign expert on Hispanic issues for the New York senator running for President has a long history of orchestrating lobbying efforts for taxpayer-funded healthcare, drivers? licenses and free in-state tuition for illegal aliens, as well as bilingual requirements for state agencies.

Raul Yzaguirre, who was president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza from 1974-2004, is now the co-chair of Clinton?s presidential campaign and chair of her Hispanic outreach team.

Notably, in his long career for the open borders advocacy group, Yzaguirre was called to testify before Mrs. Clinton?s tight-knit 12-member health care task force team in March 1993.

There, Yzaguirre said that universal healthcare ?ought to cover the undocumented citizens.?

?We need to understand that health is a public health issue and that disease doesn?t respect nationalities,? he pleaded.

Under the radar of the mainstream U.S. media, the Spanish news agency EFE reported on September 20 that Clinton "alluded to the necessity" of providing emergency treatment to illegal aliens and she supports laws that required medical providers to do so.

The article was titled ?Plan m?dico de Hillary Clinton incluir?a a indocumentados? or, in English, ?Medical plan of Hillary Clinton would include undocumented people.?

According to the article, Clinton told a reporter ?plan de salud no incluye a inmigrantes indocumentados en este momento? in a phone interview. In English that quote literally means: ?plan of health does not include undocumented immigrants at the moment.?

At the first-ever presidential Spanish-language debate on September 10, Clinton promised her audience her healthcare plan ?will cover everyone.?

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The latest propaganda from the Pro-Amnesty cabal...

Did you catch the latest propaganda trying to convince us that the recent announce from El Presidente Bush that he is finally getting TOUGH on illegal immigration is working! Here it is from AP (one of the pro-amnesty crowd). Since there is no permalink that is usefull for a period of more than 24 hours (YAHOO links are notoriously bad) I will quote the article in full.

Border crackdown working, numbers show

By TRACI CARL, Associated Press Writer

YAHOO News Link (dont be surprized when it cant be found)

TECATE, Mexico - Mexican shelters, usually the last stop for northbound migrants, are filling with southbound deportees. Fewer migrants are crossing in the wind-swept deserts along an increasingly fortified border. Far to the north, fields are empty at harvest time as workplace raids become more common.

Mexicans are increasingly giving up on the American dream and staying home, and the federal crackdown on undocumented workers announced Friday should discourage even potential migrants from taking the risks as the United States purges itself of its illegal population.

U.S. border agents detained 55,545 illegal migrants jumping over border walls, walking through the desert and swimming across the Rio Grande River between October and June. That's down 38 percent for the entire border compared to the same period a year before.

U.S. and Mexican officials say increased border security, including 6,000 National Guard troops, remote surveillance technology and drone planes, have thwarted smugglers who had succeeded for years at beating the system.

Migrants also say they feel Americans are increasingly hostile toward immigrants.

"It's the discrimination," said 28-year-old George Guevara, who was deported to Tijuana last month after living in the U.S. for 18 years. "It's making people step back. It's just too much of a risk. It's better to be out here."

Guevara, who speaks perfect English and has only distant memories of Mexico, was living at a Tijuana migrant shelter filled with deportees, many of whom are Mexican-born but find themselves in a country that is foreign to them.

"I barely remember living here," Guevara said. "But I see this as an opportunity. I'm going to go back to Guadalajara to see my family and forget what happened."

While some migrants try to set up new lives, others are caught between two worlds. Salvador Perez still has a pregnant wife and three small children in Bakersfield, Calif., where he worked on a pistachio ranch before he was deported. He's tried to cross the rocky, snake-infested mountains near Tecate three times this summer to get back to them, but failed each time.

"I want to try again, but I'm scared something will happen," Perez said.

The biggest drop in Border Patrol detentions ? a 68 percent decrease ? was in the remote, heat-seared desert surrounding Yuma, Ariz., once popular with smugglers. Border Patrol spokesman Jeremy Chappell credits the additional troops and tougher security.

"Where an alien before was able to sneak across, now he has the National Guard watching him," Chappell said.

The only area that has seen an increase ? 1.5 percent ? is the San Diego sector, which runs along the California border and includes the harsh, roadless desert surrounding Tecate. The Border Patrol has responded with helicopters and increased intelligence from detained migrants.

Crossing there requires hiking up to six miles, scrambling over or under the border fence, then walking some more, usually in the dead of night. The region is difficult to patrol, making it one of the few places migrants believe they can still get through.

That's why 22-year-old Romeo, a Salvadoran who refused to give his last name for fear of reprisals, was in Tecate's town square after failing twice to sneak into El Paso, Texas, once in a car and once on foot. He was flown back to El Salvador each time.

"They tell me this is the best place to cross, but it isn't easy anywhere," Romeo said.

Deportations also are up for illegal immigrants who have lived in the States for years. Some are caught for minor infractions like a burned-out headlight. Others are rounded up in workplace raids that the Bush administration has vowed to intensify.

The new measures announced Friday will force employers to fire anyone who cannot prove their Social Security numbers are legitimate.

U.S. employers are already complaining, especially those in agriculture, where most workers are believed to be working with false documents. On a recent visit to Mexico, Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire said some crops are already rotting in the fields for lack of workers.

Many employers join President Bush in blaming Congress for stalling an accord that would allow more people to work legally.

"Pretty shortly people are going to be knocking on people's doors saying `Man we're running out of workers,'" Bush said.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon also lashed out Thursday. "The U.S. Congress, which today turns its back on reality, knows full well that the American economy could not move forward without the labor of Mexicans," he said.

Fewer Mexicans are sending home cash remittances ? Mexico's biggest source of foreign income after oil ? leaving many Mexican relatives with no other resources, the Inter-American Development Bank reported Wednesday.

Despite all this, some migrants are still trying to beat the odds.

Isaac Mendiola, 41, mapped out how he would cross near Tecate.

"We start walking about 7 p.m., hit the Golden Casino on Highway 8 by 4 a.m.," Mendiola explained. "Then we call this Indian guy from the reservation, and pay him $200 to take us to Oceanside, Calif. An American lady gets us past the checkpoint for another $200. Then we take public buses to Disneyland, and we are in L.A."

Still, even Mendiola wants to work in construction for only two more years, then return to Mexico to run a convenience store his family has opened with the money earned up north.

"Crossing is getting a lot harder now," he said. "You gotta stop sometime. This year and next, and boom, I'm done."

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Border Patrol: http://www.cbp.gov/

There it is... now you wont be surprized when "Georgie and the Panderers" come back and say they have been tough and now want to give amnesty to the remaining 15 million illegals that hunkered down to wait for the Bush announcement. I bet that there is no noticable difference in Southern California or any other part of Occupied America (the Aztlan States). I have not seen any drop in the local population here in Michigan (a quiet sanctuary state). The only population changes here are citizens leaving Michigan to find work as Michigan is still in a One State Recession. (Our governor's solution is to try to use the Democrat formula to tax us into properity.)

A compilation of links from VDare.com

The final collapse of the Bush/Kennedy Amnesty/ Immigration Surge bill marks the most important victory ever scored by the patriotic immigration reform movement. Everyone is exhausted and we're behind on bulletins-sorry!

 

Patrick Cleburne comments on a (rare) graceful summary by an immigration enthusiast-which also reveals the Mexican government's subversive activity:

 

Mexican Meddling In Waco, by Patrick Cleburne

http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2007/07/09/2987/

 

Now That The Amnesty/Immigration Surge Bill Is Dead, What's Next? by Marcus Epstein

http://www.vdare.com/epstein/070702_amnesty.htm

 

Joe On Immigration Vote--"We Had Them All The Way!" by Joe Guzzardi

http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/070629_vote.htm

 

In Defeat, a Bush Opportunity, by Patrick J. Buchanan

http://www.vdare.com/buchanan/070702_bill.htm

 

A Democrat Sends A Post Senate Amnesty Defeat Warning to His Party's Leadership, by Donald A. Collins

http://www.vdare.com/collins/070702_warning.htm

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