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ragsdell@xxx.ooo (Ragsdell) wrote in message news:<29JX365M37211.3738078704@frog.gilgamesh.org>...
> Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., is one of the few politicians in
> Washington, D.C., with the courage to speak out openly about
> America's dangerously flawed immigration policies and practices.
> The weekly publication Human Events selected a terse statement by
> Tancredo as its "Quote of the Week": "The U.S. can bomb
> Afghanistan to dust but terrorism will remain. In some bizarre
> thought process understood only in Washington, D.C., the
> possibility of tightening up immigration laws paralyzes most
> politicians."
> 
> America is being seriously damaged and endangered by uncontrolled
> immigration. But our elected officials studiously avoid facing
> the issue.
> 
> Although it is generally considered most insensitive to bring up
> such matters, Steven A. Camarota, research director of the Center
> for Immigration Studies, reports that the poverty rate for
> immigrants, defined as foreign-born U.S. residents, is 50 percent
> higher than that of natives. They and their U.S. born children
> account for 22 percent of all persons in the U.S. living in
> poverty.
> 
> The United States has no operative immigration policy. The
> evidence is clear. For example, of the 8 million to 10 million
> illegal aliens who live in the United States, between 250,000 to
> 300,000 of them have been brought to court and sentenced to
> deportation by federal judges. After their court hearings, these
> illegal aliens simply walked away and disappeared. The
> Immigration and Naturalization Service does not know where they
> are or what they are doing and has no plans to round them up and
> see that they leave the country.
> 
> It is time to face the reality that, according to no particular
> plan, America is being degraded, disunited and endangered by a
> powerful flow, wave after wave, legal and illegal, of poor,
> unskilled and uneducated people into our country, many of whom
> have no interest in becoming Americans or learning the English
> language. Unable to join the American mainstream, they will
> fester in ethnic ghettos, work for sub-standard wages, reproduce,
> vote the straight Democrat ticket and provide cover for
> terrorists.
> 
>                  http://www.fairus.org/

The factor not discussed in the above is the devastating effect
population growth will have on the environment.

Phil