Top commentators are warning the Republican Party to drop amnesty cold – right now – or risk losing it all, because the addition of millions of illegal immigrants to the voting rolls does nothing good.
“Why on Earth are they
bringing in people sworn to their political destruction?” wondered columnist
Ann Coulter on Thursday.
He told Laura Ingraham on her radio program that would knock the party “off its present gain.”
Coulter’s advice was more
blunt. Under a Drudge headline “Coulter: Republicans on Suicide Watch,” her
column, which
was posted on WND, cited a still embargoed report from Phyllis Schlafly
that “demonstrates that merely continuing our current immigrant policies spells
doom for the Republican Party.”
“Immigrants – all immigrants – have always been
the bulwark of the Democratic Party. For one thing, recent arrivals tend to be
poor and in need of government assistance. Also, they’re coming from societies
that are far more left-wing than our own. History shows that, rather than
fleeing those policies, they bring their cultures with them,” Coulter wrote.
“At the current accelerated rate of immigration
– 1.1 million new immigrants every year – Republicans will be a fringe party in
about a decade.”
She continued, “How are Republicans going to
square that circle? It’s not their position on amnesty that immigrants don’t
like; it’s Republicans’ support for small government, gun rights, patriotism,
the Constitution and capitalism.
“Republicans have no obligation to assist the
Democrats as they change the country in a way that favors them electorally,
particularly when it does great harm to the people already here,” she said.
That the GOP is moving
that direction is evident. The
Wall Street Journal said Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has confirmed the party is
“looking to give illegal immigrants legal status right away, with the chance
for a green card – and citizenship – down the line.” Read
the details, in Patrick Buchanan’s “The Death of the West.”
And a report from the
Washington Times has Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus
confirming a “general consensus” that an overhaul is needed on the nation’s
immigration laws.
“I think politically speaking it’s a mixed bag,
but the question is whether or not it’s something we have to do as a country,
and I think that’s what’s trumping the political answer,” he said. “You see in
our party, whether it’s [Kentucky Sen.] Rand Paul, who’s called for massive
immigration reform, or [Florida Sen.] Marco Rubio, I think you have general
consensus that something big has to happen.”
But the division remains.
Sen.
Jeff Sessions has argued that pushing immigration reform is bad politics
and bad policy.
“According to news reports, House Republican
leaders are instead turning 2014 into a headlong rush towards Gang-of-Eight
style ‘immigration reform,’” Sessions wrote this week. “They are reportedly
drafting an immigration plan that is uncomfortably similar to a ‘piecemeal’
repackaging of the disastrous Senate plan – and even privately negotiating a
final package with Democrat activists before consulting with their own
members.”
He said, however, there has been “a near absence
of any serious thought about the conditions facing American workers.”
Buchanan warned that moving forward with amnesty
would mean the “last hurrah” for the speakership of Rep. John Boehner, leaving
him with “a nice job at a trade association.”
That’s
because studies show Texans spend about $12.1 billion annually for services
for illegal aliens, who generate only about $1.27 billion in taxes, and plans
in Congress dubbed “amnesty” by its critics would do little to change that.
“The proponents of amnesty, or ‘earned
legalization,’ as they term it, generally ignore the fiscal effects of illegal
immigration other than to note that ‘unauthorized immigrants’ pay taxes,” said
the report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR.
“If amnesty were enacted, most of the illegal
aliens would become legal immigrants, and, according to the amnesty advocates,
the fiscal impact issue would become moot,” the group asserted.
FAIR said the fiscal costs “from having absorbed
the population of aliens who either entered the country illegally or overstayed
visas would not appreciably change.”
“The only way to lessen the fiscal burden from
illegal aliens is not by making them legal but, rather, by reducing the size of
this uninvited foreign population,” FAIR said. “Amnesty legislation would
assure that the population would become permanent and invite others to follow.”
The report noted that the same arguments were
made in favor of amnesty in 1980s, but when the measure passed, “the study that
tracked the earnings of the 1986 amnesty applicants five years after receiving
amnesty found that for the most part the only income advance they had realized
was an overall increase for all wage earners in which the amnestied aliens
shared.”
However, amnesty for millions of illegal aliens
already living in the United States long has been one of Obama’s top
objectives. Obama has gone so far as to say that if Congress doesn’t pass the
“immigration reform” he wants, he would not just wait for legislation.
“I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone, and I can use
that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions,” he threatened.
Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., a far-left
mega-millionaire, took to screaming on the floor of the U.S. House because he
didn’t think the agenda for illegal aliens was moving quickly enough.
“You think they want to be spending their time
here?” he shouted, referring to visitors in the congressional gallery. “I want
you, Madam Speaker, to address the reason they are here.”
The study reveals in just Texas alone, taxpayers
shell out $8.5 billion for education for illegal aliens annually, $1.8 billion
for health care, $1 billion for justice, $47 million for public assistance and
$577 million for general services. Not counting the spending in 49 other
states.
The rhetoric has soared to new levels.
Ex-New York Mayor
Michael Bloomberg contended
that the current laws are “national suicide.” “I don’t think that’s an
exaggeration,” he said.
And Jeh Johnson, a leftist who is Obama’s
Homeland Security secretary, claimed illegal aliens have “earned the right” of
citizenship.
FAIR’s solution isn’t complicated.“A refusal to enact amnesty legislation coupled with measures to deny benefits to the illegal alien population – with denial of job opportunities at the top of the list – would work over time to not only deter new illegal immigration, but also to encourage those already residing here illegally to return to their home countries,” the analysis said.
Source: WND, Published: January
30, 2014 by Bob Unruh
http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/gop-crafts-plan-to-wreck-country-lose-voters/
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more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/gop-crafts-plan-to-wreck-country-lose-voters/#8Sw5qW0puteOUr0b.99
Comments:
The
FAIR solution is the right answer.
Employers can still use current law to bring in seasonal agricultural worker
they select and sponsor. Tech firms can still bring in engineers on H1b
visas. However, total legal immigration
needs to be reduced by at least 50%, back under 500,000 per year until U.S.
workforce participation reaches at least 65%.
Norb
Leahy Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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