-Caveat Lector- > > Democrats try to sneak amnesty for illegal aliens through Congress > > October 20, 2000 > > Virtually unknown to (and unwanted by) most Americans, Congress > may soon vote to grant a mass amnesty to more than 3 million illegal > aliens. The reasons the impending vote is virtually unknown are > obvious enough: The backers of the amnesty hope to push it > through before anyone notices, and its opponents are afraid of the > consequences of voting against it. > > Unable and unwilling to seek an up-or-down vote on the measure, > the amnesty lobby is trying to sneak it through by attaching it to an > appropriations bill that few congressmen would vote against and > President Clinton would sign. Drafted by left-wing Democrat John > Conyers, the amnesty is estimated to add some 3.4 million people -- > mostly already in this country as illegal aliens -- to the national > population. > > The illegal aliens to be included under the measure are more than > one million Central Americans from El Salvador, Guatemala, and > Honduras, but some 40,000 Liberians here because of "temporary" > refugee status are also covered, as well as any and all illegal aliens > who have lived in the United States since 1986. As the Immigration > and Naturalization Service estimates, the latter category constitutes > a whopping 1.9 million illegals. > > The measure is manifestly unfair to legal immigrants who obeyed > U.S. immigration laws to come here and who have waited in line to > gain entry and citizenship. But the injustice to legal immigrants > shrivels compared to the smack in the face to Americans > themselves. > > The illegal aliens to be legalized under the amnesty would be able to > compete with native Americans for jobs, education and access to > welfare. They would join the ever-swelling army of immigrant lobbies > that pressure politicians for favors. They would increase the burden > on the national infra-structure and natural resources. Once they > became citizens, they could then import their own relatives into the > country as legal immigrants. Moreover, since Congress will have > granted one amnesty, why shouldn't future illegals expect more to > come? All they have to do is sneak across the border and wait. > > The INS, in a new study of the effects of amnesty, concludes that > the last amnesty for illegals in 1986 almost certainly increased illegal > immigration in the years that followed. Amnesties don't solve illegal > immigration. Before the 1986 amnesty, the illegal alien population > was estimated to be about 5 million; today, despite the amnesty 14 > years ago, it's estimated to be about the same number. > > The Democrats are pushing the amnesty because they know very > well that the new citizens will swell their own voters at the polls, that > more immigrants mean more excuses for demanding more welfare, > more spending on social programs to help them "assimilate" and > more education. The Republicans are either in favor of the amnesty > because they support Big Business's bottomless appetite for more > cheap labor or because they're terrified of alienating Hispanic voters > on the eve of the presidential elections. > > House Speaker Dennis Hastert is supposed to be in favor of the > Democrats' amnesty proposal. So are President Clinton and Vice > President Gore. So is the AFL-CIO, which has decided to dump > American working people in favor of supporting foreign workers. > So, of course, are the immigrant lobbies, which are holding sizeable > rallies in support of the amnesty measure in cities across the > country. George W. Bush's position is not known, and since the > subject of immigration policy never came up in the presidential > debates, there's no reason he should take a position at all. > > The arguments against amnesty are largely the same as those > against illegal immigration and more legal immigration in general, but > the issue is no longer settled by argument or facts. Sentiment, > ideology, special interests and sheer political expediency are what > determine whether the United States enforces its own laws against > illegal immigration and indeed whether it continues to have any laws > controlling immigration at all. > > The larger point of the INS study cited above is not so much that it > shows that amnesties fail to solve the immigration problem as that > the federal government is simply not serious about controlling > immigration at all. If today we have the same number of illegal > aliens inside the country as we did before 1986, that means that > everything the government has done in the last fourteen years has > been a flop. > > You probably didn't need the INS study to know that, but then you > probably won't learn about the proposed amnesty from your > congressman. If you'd like to stop the amnesty and put a little > pressure on Congress to do something serious about immigration > control, you can contact an effective and well-informed organization > called Numbers USA (at http://www.numbersUSA.com), which is > coordinating grassroots action against the amnesty. If you don't > want to stop the amnesty, start learning some new languages. > > Samuel Francis Online Forum > http://forum.samfrancis.net > > Call your Congresscritter at one of the following toll-free numbers and let > him/her/it know that you will remember in November if he/she/it votes for > amnesty for illegal aliens. > > US Congressional Switchboard Toll-free Numbers > 1-800-241-7109 > 1-877-778-9001 > 1-800-648-3516 > 1-800-722-7494 > > > > > ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- > >> > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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