Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) score 58%
F and Democratic Congressman Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) score 18% F support the Amnesty and
Immigration Expansion plan backed by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) score 80% B.
In a speech at the Erie House in Chicago, Ryan and Gutierrez provided more
details about how they aimed to institute a formal open borders policy for the
United States—that is, a federal policy of allowing any employer to
legally hire any worker regardless of where they live. This vision for the free movement of people across
international boundaries is similar to immigration policy the
European Union has among solely European countries– over the objections of
rising insurgent populist parties. In his speech, Ryan lays out how the same
legal structure could be adopted for the United States and all the foreign
countries of the world.
“We want to have an immigration system that… has gates open to the people
who are coming in pursuit of their version of the American dream,” Ryan told
the crowd. Ryan made the case for dissolving borders, declaring unabashedly
that the United States “is more than [its] borders.” “America is more than just
a country,” Ryan said. “It’s more than Chicago, or Wisconsin. It’s more
than our borders. America is an idea. It’s a very precious idea.”
This statement is significant because while a country has borders, “ideas”
do not. If America is an “idea” rather than a “country” that means that
refugees in Somali have as much “right” to a job in the United States as the children
of the American revolution. In fact, every year, the U.S. issues five times
more green cards than there are members of Daughters of the American
Revolution. Ryan began his speech by assuring the audience that he and Gutierrez see
eye to eye on immigration. “Luis talked about his peaceful protests and the arrests that resulted from
them,” Ryan said. “That just goes to show that Republicans and Democrats
might do things a little differently, but we don’t always see things
differently. And that’s the point I just simply want to make here today.” Activists for immigration expansion warmly received the couple’s message:
Ryan and Gutierrez were even enthusiastically greeted by a mariachi band. Even though Gutierrez has made clear previously that he has “only one
loyalty…and that’s to the immigrant community,” Ryan seemed proud to
inform the audience that he has been one of the biggest boosters of Gutierrez’s
immigration policies, which prioritize the needs of foreign nations and foreign
citizens above those of American citizens. “Luis is right,” Ryan said. “Back in 2005, he and I tried to work on that
legislation back then. I cosponsored that bill that Luis was the coauthor
of. You know what, we’ve been trying to fix this system for years.”
While best-selling author Ann Coulter has repeatedly made the point that
the United States is a nation “created by settlers, not immigrants,” Paul Ryan
told his audience that America is not a nation with clearly delineated borders
and sovereignty, but is instead an amorphous “land of immigrants.”
When people come to this country in pursuit of that [American] idea, they
are expanding that idea, they are making our country better. We are a land
of immigrants… This country is made great by the people who come to this
country in search of a better life, in search of a dream. America, however, was not founded by immigrants at all— and the history of
America is one of assimilation, not ongoing immigration— as President Calvin
Coolidge argued in his day before signing a bill that helped end all
immigration growth for the next fifty years.
Despite this history, Ryan opted to retell a revisionist version of the
past— one used by progressives to rob Americans of the vocabulary necessary to
articulate their opposition to unprecedented waves of low-wage, third world
workers into the country. In Ryan’s retelling, the history of the United States
is a history of unbridled, large-scale immigration with no regard for the
amount of immigration, its duration, or its origins: I’m a product of a wave of immigration just like current immigrants
are—Irish immigration. Most people in this country are a product of the various
waves of immigration that we’ve had to America because that is America.
As a result of the nation’s green card gusher ushered into law by Ted
Kennedy’s in 1965, the nation’s middle class has experienced sustained compression. Real average hourly wages are lower today than
they were in 1973; all net job creation among working-age people went to
foreign workers from 2000-2014; the number of struggling Americans forced
to rely on welfare has reached a record
high.
A plurality of American voters would like to see immigration paused in
order to allow wages to rise, the middle class to expand and immigrants already
here to assimilate. According to a recent Pew poll, by nearly
10-1 margin Republicans want to reduce, not increase, the number of immigrants. However, Ryan argues the opposite, suggesting that our immigration policy
does not serve our “family interest.”
We all must acknowledge that we have an immigration system that is broken.
It is not serving our interests as a nation. Our broken immigration system does
not serve our national security interests. Our broken immigration system does
not serve our economic security interests, and our broken immigration system
does not serve our family interests… That’s why Luis Gutierrez and myself and
other Republicans and Democrats are doing everything we can this year to try to
make sure that we find common ground united behind the common
theme that this is the greatest country in the world, attracting people in
search of this great dream, and that we want to make it possible and real. Ironically, Ryan’s desire to import an even larger influx of new
immigrants, who prefer big government policies by a margin of two-to-one, may
not bode well for a Republican Party of limited government conservatism.
Analysis shows Paul Ryan would be Vice President today if not for the
enormous immigrant voting-bloc he helped create – a voting bloc that
enthusiastically rejected his platform of entitlement and tax cuts.
A 2014 report authored
by University of Maryland professor James Gimpel, found that: “the enormous
flow of legal immigrants in to the country — 29.5 million 1980 to 2012 — has
remade and continues to remake the nation’s electorate in favor of the
Democratic Party.”
Examining the data in this study led the Washington Examiner’s Byron
York to conclude: “The
bottom line is that more immigration favors Democrats; there is no prediction
of Democratic electoral ascendancy that doesn’t rely on demographic factors as
the main engine of the party’s dominance.” As Reuters has reported: “Immigrants favor Democratic candidates and liberal
policies by a wide margin, surveys show, and they have moved formerly
competitive states like Illinois firmly into the Democratic column and could
turn Republican strongholds like Georgia and Texas into battlegrounds in the
years to come.”
Indeed, Breitbart News has previously exposed how the same
electoral transformation is underway in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Experts say immigrants’ support for Democrats has nothing to do with
Republican rhetoric, but rather is based on policies. Scholars have
documented how Republicans will struggle to court immigrant voters unless
they drop their platform of limited government policies.
If Paul Ryan believed that his message of cutting Medicare and
corporate taxes was a winner with immigrant voters, presumably Ryan would have
encouraged the Romney campaign to devote its time, money, and resources to
winning California and its treasure trove 55 electoral votes— a state in
which half of California children have a foreign-born parent.
Nevertheless, Ryan concluded his address with a call to action: It’s high
time we fix this broken system… to renew this belief, this idea that America is
a land of immigrants and that that makes us a healthy country, that makes us a
prosperous country, that makes us a country that passes on to each
generation the idea that you can come here, and you can make a better life for
yourself and, as a result, a better country for everybody else.
Ryan’s desire to codify the Brussels principle— of allowing people to
legally cross into and out of the country without interference—
would have the ultimate effect of dissolving any national identity
and transforming the United States into a global commercial destination similar
to the Cayman Islands— a place where companies can park their money.
As Pat Buchanan puts it: Will the West endure, or disappear by the century’s end as another lost
civilization? Mass immigration, if it continues, will be more decisive in
deciding the fate of the West than Islamist terrorism. For the world is
invading the West…. Countless millions are determined to come to the West,
legally if they can, illegally if they must. And the more who succeed, the more
who come… Western nations will be swamped. The character of their countries
will be altered forever, and smaller countries will become unrecognizable. And
as this is happening, ethnic and racial clashes will become more
common… America is our home. We decide who comes in and who does not, how
large the American family becomes, whom we adopt and whence they come… It
has become the issue of 2016. Indeed, it is the issue of the 21st century.
Comments
Paul Ryan
will be worse than John Boehner.
According to the Constitution, the States get to decide who should be
allowed to immigrate to the US.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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