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"Norm???" <storman3@nospam.net> wrote in message news:<QpEW8.72062$wj4.6192766@e3500-atl2.usenetserver.com>...
> United? States
> Our immigration problem.
> 
> By Rob Sobhani
> 
> 
> 
>  he House vote to abolish the INS and split it into two bureaus completely
> fails to address the root problems America faces as a result of its broken
> immigration policy. The 1990s mass immigration to America is the result of
> foreign policy directives that failed to address the core problems of
> freedom, economic opportunity, and corruption in countries like Mexico,
> Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, India, and the Philippines, among others.
> With few exceptions, the citizens of these countries come to America to
> escape poverty, repression and corruption, not necessarily to become
> Americans.
> 
> Furthermore, our broken immigration system combined with multiculturalism is
> eroding America's sovereignty and the national identity of its citizens.
> Once in America, recent immigrants have little incentive to become Americans
> because the liberal culture tells them that we are a multicultural nation of
> immigrants rather than a nation of people from many different countries
> embracing the American culture. Separation, not assimilation, has become the
> norm: Mexican-American; Pakistani-American; Arab-American; Chinese-American.
> This hyphenation of America can only lead to the creation of divided
> loyalties, which only plays into the hands of America's enemies, of which
> there are many.
> 
> If our elected officials are serious about 1) protecting America's borders,
> 2) increasing security at home, 3) creating jobs instead of handouts for
> America's disadvantaged, and 4) preserving our national unity, then any
> reform needs to address the following issues.
> 
> First, since symbolism is important, renaming the bureau responsible for
> assimilating newly arrived immigrants to "The Immigration and
> Americanization Service" is a good start.
> 
> Second, language is the glue that holds a country together. English must
> become the official language of America. It is the language of our
> Constitution and the language of economic opportunity. Unfortunately, both
> political parties have started a shameful policy of pandering to recent
> immigrants (especially Mexicans) by allowing for a dual-language system. In
> my home state of Maryland, you can take a driver's license exam in Spanish,
> but why not in Hebrew or Turkish?
> 
> Third, loyalty to America matters, especially after the national calamity of
> September 11. We should not apologize for asking immigrants to be patriotic.
> The Pledge of Allegiance should once more be a mandatory part of every
> child's school day. Swearing-in ceremonies for new American citizens must be
> administered only in English and not in any other language. The citizenship
> exams - which today only require the prospective citizen to identify their
> senators and congressman - must include questions about the history of
> America and its Constitution. The issue of dual citizenship must also be
> seriously questioned.
> 
> Fourth, since the basis of our current immigration policy is "family
> reunification," when one member of an immigrant family gains a foothold he
> or she begins a chain migration by bringing in the entire extended family.
> This places an enormous burden on our nation's resources. Family members of
> recent immigrants expect access to Medicare and Medicaid. The demands on the
> public-school system are staggering due to explosive growth in the
> population of new immigrant children. Counties throughout America are
> struggling to pay for the education of millions of these new immigrant
> children, not to mention a bilingual-education bureaucracy that has been
> forced upon them. This crowding out of precious resources for elderly and
> disadvantaged Americans is a consequence of a failed immigration policy that
> can only be addressed by a temporary moratorium on immigrant visas to the
> United States.
> 
> The American economy would receive an enormous boost if we cut back on
> immigrant visas and instead focused on the issuance of visitors' visas
> (another form of family unification without the cost to American taxpayers)
> and student visas. Both visas would be temporary. Visitors would spend money
> and students would learn about America. Both would eventually have to
> return. Of course, it is crucial that the new immigration office devise
> strict guidelines governing who is allowed into America and then ensuring
> that they do not overstay their visas.
> 
> Fifth, one of America's top moral priorities is the healing of America's
> black and native-American communities. To the extent that the large-scale
> immigration of the 1990s (illegal as well as legal) interferes with meeting
> black Americans' socioeconomic needs, immigration reform must address the
> correlation between black unemployment and immigration. Consider what Mark
> Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies calls "the intersection of
> affirmative action and immigration." Since minority status is fungible and
> any kind of minority status counts towards the goal of affirmative action,
> businesses have avoided hiring blacks simply by hiring immigrants.
> Therefore, under the banner of diversity, a window of opportunity has opened
> for recent immigrants (primarily Hispanics and Asians) and that same window
> has been slammed shut on the black underclass. In short, affirmative
> action's black-centered rationale is being undermined by mass immigration.
> 
> America's out-of-control immigration policy should be addressed immediately
> by both the Congress and the White House before our country becomes the
> Balkanized States of America instead of the United States of America.
> 
> - Rob Sobhani is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and president
> of Caspian Energy Consulting.

Our political leaders, Democrats and Republicans, are whoreish
scumbags on the immigration issue. Americans are so wimpish as to
avoid anything that could be construed as "racist". I truly hope that
some outraged citizen takes the law into their hands and "offs" some
high profile pro-immigration creep.

Phil
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