Misleading Headlines

The Atlanta Journal page 1 for Thursday 1/5/17 has several “slanted” headlines.  The first reads: “GOP goal: Toughen Immigration Laws.  It should read: ‘GOP goal: Return to US Immigration Laws. Republicans want to remove illegal Obama Executive Orders and end the Refugee program for starters.  But what Republican voters really want is for them to return to US Immigration Laws that benefit US citizens, not immigrants.

The purpose for allowing immigration in the first place was to build a compatible European population to take over the continent and later to solve our labor shortages. There was nothing “humanitarian” about it.  The sign on the Statue of Liberty that states “Give us your poor..” was wishful thinking on the part of the French who gave us the Statue of Liberty in 1886.

Immigrants were admitted and screened at their own expense and with sponsors, usually relatives, who guaranteed that they would support them until they became self-sufficient. Those who arrived with enough wealth started businesses. Those who were poor, got jobs, saved, bought their own homes and started their own lives. They received no government assistance. This policy was designed to attract the best immigrants.  They came because we operated a free market oriented private sector and they would have property rights.

US Immigration Laws have been damaged by bad law since the 1970s.  This bad law needs to be repealed to end H2b visas and watered-down H1b visas. The other plethora of visas needs to be reviewed for consolidation.  There are only two types of visas we should keep. One is the H2a visa for seasonal farm workers and this one needs to work.  The other one is an H1b visa with a high bar for entry, like a BSEE or MSEE degree and the ability to do design engineering. There should be no laws that meddle with salaries.  We need to pay according to the capability of the applicant, nothing else.  We need to return to becoming a “meritocracy”.

The other headline reads: “Bitter fight begins over health law” as if keeping Obamacare is even an option. 

Nuances in headlines will be the norm as long as the media is in the pocket of the Liberals and the Liberals are in the pocket of the Communists, Socialists and Globalists. Elections have consequences and until we repeal socialism, we will continue to allow our economy to decline. 

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader