Amnesty bill dead wrong

A statement by U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., to the effect that the bipartisan “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” bill will bring millions from darkness into daylight could well be looked upon in reverse as “take the United States from daylight into darkness.”
The amnesty bill — and that’s what it is — is wrong for the nation.
Today’s America may not survive if the illegal immigration is not halted in its tracks now.
Amnesty is clearly not the answer.
The amnesty granted to 2 million illegals some 20 years ago has expanded to some 20 million illegals today, a 10-fold increase.
Without a positive solution to the illegal invasion that is going on today, political control of the country will be tipped in favor of the numerous minorities that total about 50 percent of the population.
Most of the 20 million illegal immigrants speak no English and can add little to the advancement of the nation.
The far left will label anyone who opposes this sellout to amnesty.
The newest label, “xenophobe,” has been added to the evil fashion house of political correctness. Webster defines xenophobe as “an individual who fears or hates strangers or foreigners or anything foreign or strange.”
So there you have it. If people disagree with the far left, they have to hate.
Political correctness has stood too long in the path of the truth that would otherwise permit open discussion of critical problems facing America today.
I refuse to be intimidated by the corrupt labels of political correctness. I have already been labeled a xenophobe.
The Declaration of Independence declared: “We hold these truths to be self-evident.”
Many truths are self-evident. Many of those truths today have been assigned to the trash bin of political correctness.
Here are just a few that I have resurrected and state, herewith.
America’s greatness and its continuing power were derived from the Anglo-European heritage and genius of the Founding Fathers. The Anglo-European heritage encompassed the concept of democracy from Greece, the rule of law from Rome and liberty under law (the Magna Carta) from England.
The Founding Fathers wrote what has become known as “the greatest work of the mind of man,” the U.S. Constitution.
For the first time in the history of mankind, a covenant was written to guarantee man’s God-given rights of life, property and liberty. That document created a democratic republic that has functioned well for more than 200 years.
That democratic republic, known as the United States of America, has stood as a continuing beacon of liberty to all the people of the world.
All the other leaders of the world had the same opportunity. What kind of governments did the other leaders of the world create, and how long did their governments last?
And another thing, America’s Founding Fathers were undeniably Judeo-Christian and both the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution reflect this. In addition, they provided freedom for the practice of all other religions within the United States.
What other nation during these centuries has so unselfishly shed the blood of hundreds of thousands of its citizens to protect and save others, many of them of different races, creeds and nationalities, some from near extinction?
And what other nation spends so much of its wealth on foreign aid and is a first responder to disasters and other crises in the world?
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., stated recently that America has lost its moral standing in the world. To accomplish this, America would have had to lose its morality.
Sen. Schumer, in your politically correct state of mind, you chose the wrong words. America has not lost its moral standing. America has merely lost its popularity. In a world that has been overwhelmed with isms of every known color, Americanism is under the greatest attack today.
What is at stake is the very embodiment of Western civilization itself, based on its 2,000 years of distilled wisdom with respect to the concepts of democracy, rule of law and liberty under law.
The Immigration Act of 1965, sponsored by Sen. Ted Kennedy and his late brother Robert, turned America’s immigration policies upside down.
Since 1970, the number of legal immigrants from Asia, Africa, Latin America, Central America and South America has risen to 85.6 percent while the Anglo-European nation immigrants have been reduced to 14.4 percent, a reverse of previous years.
Of the nearly half million legal immigrants admitted to the United States from the top 10 countries in a given year, only 71,000 represent the Anglo-European heritage of America.
In the year 2000, of the 10 leading countries of birth of the foreign-born population, Mexico is No. 1, followed by China, Phillipines, India, Cuba, Vietnam, El Salvador, Korea, Dominican Republic.
The 10th is Canada, the remaining one nation of the Anglo-European heritage.
Just 40 years before, nine of the 10 leading countries of birth of the foreign-born population were all Anglo-European nations, with the exception of Mexico, which ranked seventh out of 10.
The above figures illustrate the stark reality of the failure of America’s immigration policies. It is questionable whether America as we know it with its accompanying Western civilization will exist by the year 2040.
What Congress does today with respect to the illegal alien problem will determine America’s survival.
And where will the world be without America?
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