Thursday - August 12, 2010

Anchor This

The Pew Hispanic Center, a project of polling organization Pew Research Center, finds that, of the 4.3 million babies born in 2008, roughly 340,000 were born to undocumented aliens. This is double the percentage of illegal immigrants in the U.S., owing in part to the fact that the illegal immigrant population is largely comprised of men and women at birthing age.

In addition, high birthrates among undocumented aliens give that population a similar share of children in the U.S. The study finds that children born to illegal immigrants account for 7 percent of the total population of people under the age of 18, or 5.1 million children. Four million, or 79 percent, of those children were born in the United States, making them U.S. citizens.

This analysis comes amid calls from some GOP members to consider ending birthright citizenship, the right enshrined in the 14th Amendment, that persons born in the United States are citizens of the country and the state in which they reside. House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said on NBC’s “Meet The Press” this week that terminating the practice is an idea “worth considering.”

Ending or revising the guarantee of birthright citizenship, Boehner said, may eliminate a major motivation for many immigrants to cross the border unlawfully. “There is a problem. To provide an incentive for illegal immigrants to come here so that their children can be U.S. citizens does, in fact, draw more people to our country,” Boehner said. “I do think that it’s time for us to secure our borders and enforce the law and allow this conversation about the 14th Amendment to continue.”

Critics of the idea claim that the guarantee their children will be U.S. citizens is not great enough of an incentive for parents to immigrate illegally, since they would have to wait 21 years for their children to be old enough to sponsor their parents for citizenship. Additionally, such a change would require a Constitutional amendment, which two-thirds of Congress would have to approve before state legislatures consider the measure, and three-quarters of those must agree to the provision for it to become part of the Constitution. A bill that calls for such a change-the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009-has been stalled in the House since April 2009.

Meanwhile, nearly half of respondents in a new poll support a Constitutional amendment ending automatic birthright citizenship. In a CNN/Opinion Research poll released today, 49% of respondents said they would favor a Constitutional amendment to limit a guarantee of citizenship to children whose parents are citizens.

If our political masters are afraid to kick them out, and are afraid to deny citizenship to the ones born here, then at least seal the damn borders and put an immigration moratorium in place. We have too many people here already. How about NO immigration from anywhere for the next 10 to 20 years? No exceptions, no asylum, no H1-B, no nothing. If we need some specialist, train a citizen. There is no job, no skill, that some American can not do or learn. Instead of paying insane executive compensation and fat fat dividends, companies should be proud of how many people they employ.

Hell, I’m all for sealing the borders period. No NAFTA, CAFTA, or endless imports of poison laden crap from China. Make it here, buy it here, or go without. And that’s the only real way to get the country working again. We have to have manufacturing. We have to Buy American. And yes, making all or nearly all our stuff here is going to cause some pollution and is going to cost somewhat more. But we can not be a nation of managers running offshore companies. We need jobs for the masses, and that means factory work. That doesn’t mean sweatshops, that doesn’t mean unions, and that doesn’t mean $75/hr for guys who use an air wrench to turn a couple of bolts. I’m talking “living wages” for honest labor, and rebuilding the bonds of trust between companies and their employees. And that’s the one and only way we will become a strong nation again.



Oh look, another week, another “unexpected” rise in unemployment claims. Who the hell do these people think they are fooling at this point? For 20 months now, every single week it’s been “unexpected”. Same goes for the low numbers for mortgages, new housing starts, durable goods purchases, and consumer confidence numbers. It’s all “unexpected”. By whom? Total BS. A garden slug could figure out that the government’s policies are killing business and stifling growth. No kidding. Every day more and more people cross the line from accepting “unexpected” to believing in “deliberate”. And that’s the “Change” we’re getting.

But hey, let’s have another “stimulus” to bail out Maxine Waters’ failed BS bank and whatever other nonsense businesses the Chicago Thugs have their hands in. Let’s have another round of those $1000-down, no-credit-check mortgages. Because they worked so well the first time, right?

It’s not an accident. It’s done on purpose. You don’t have to connect the dots when so many exist that they’re edge to edge. The lines are already there.

Posted by Drew458     on 08/12/2010 at 08:06 AM   
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