The Anti-Immigration Crusader

[LostAmerican]

“I finally concluded that if anything was going to happen, I would have to do it myself,” he said.

Improbably, he did. From the resort town of Petoskey, Mich., Dr. Tanton helped start all three major national groups fighting to reduce immigration, legal and illegal, and molded one of the most powerful grass-roots forces in politics. The immigration-control movement surged to new influence in last fall’s elections and now holds near veto power over efforts to legalize any of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States.

One group that Dr. Tanton nurtured, Numbers USA, doomed President George W. Bush’s legalization plan four years ago by overwhelming Congress with protest calls. Another, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, helped draft the Arizona law last year to give the police new power to identify and detain illegal immigrants.

A third organization, the Center for Immigration Studies, joined the others in December in defeating the Dream Act, which sought to legalize some people brought to the United States illegally as children.

Rarely has one person done so much to structure a major cause, or done it so far from the public eye. Dr. Tanton has raised millions of dollars, groomed protégés and bequeathed institutions, all while running an ophthalmology practice nearly 800 miles from Capitol Hill.

Read more at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/us/17immig.html?_r=1&hp

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If the United States is to survive the invasion from Latin America, it will need more Americans to do the job themselves and not wait for instructions from Washington to save the American way of life.

 

[Gunny]

“I finally concluded that if anything was going to happen, I would have to do it myself,” he said.

Improbably, he did. From the resort town of Petoskey, Mich., Dr. Tanton helped start all three major national groups fighting to reduce immigration, legal and illegal, and molded one of the most powerful grass-roots forces in politics. The immigration-control movement surged to new influence in last fall’s elections and now holds near veto power over efforts to legalize any of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States.

One group that Dr. Tanton nurtured, Numbers USA, doomed President George W. Bush’s legalization plan four years ago by overwhelming Congress with protest calls. Another, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, helped draft the Arizona law last year to give the police new power to identify and detain illegal immigrants.

A third organization, the Center for Immigration Studies, joined the others in December in defeating the Dream Act, which sought to legalize some people brought to the United States illegally as children.

Rarely has one person done so much to structure a major cause, or done it so far from the public eye. Dr. Tanton has raised millions of dollars, groomed protégés and bequeathed institutions, all while running an ophthalmology practice nearly 800 miles from Capitol Hill.

Read more at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/us/17immig.html?_r=1&hp

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If the United States is to survive the invasion from Latin America, it will need more Americans to do the job themselves and not wait for instructions from Washington to save the American way of life.

You have a point, or what? I can see his. We can't even employ and/or feed and house our current population; yet, the bleeding hearts have no problem letting illegals come in and take it out of our mouths.

 

[LostAmerican]

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You have a point, or what? I can see his. We can't even employ and/or feed and house our current population; yet, the bleeding hearts have no problem letting illegals come in and take it out of our mouths.

The United States is slowly being dragged into Latin America where no other race will survive.

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Good ideas - oughta be national laws...

New Law Requires Photo ID, Proof of Citizenship to Vote in Kansas
Monday, April 25, 2011 - Voters in Kansas will need to show a photo ID the next time they go to the polls.

In a signing ceremony last week, Republican Gov. Sam Brownback signed a bill to protect the integrity of elections, he said: "We must be able to accurately and fairly discern the will of the people of Kansas." While Gov. Brownback said the new law establishes "reasonable steps" to protect the rights of citizens, the American Civil Liberties Union called it a "giant leap backwards." The new Kansas law requires photo ID from all in-person voters at every election. People submitting mail-in ballots must include either a copy of their photo ID or the number from the photo ID card. The law also requires proof of citizenship – a birth certificate, for example -- for new voters who register on or after Jan. 1, 2013.

The ACLU complains that the new law offers free birth certificates only to Kansas-born residents, while residents born out-of-state "would bear the financial burden and trouble of contacting their home states to attain birth certificates" to meet the new law's requirements. "The costs associated with meeting the new law's requirements are especially burdensome to low-income voters," the ACLU added. The group says Kansas' new voter ID law undermines efforts to expand the right to vote to "historically marginalized groups" such as racial minorities, low-income voters, the disabled, and senior citizens. It also rejects the argument that a photo ID will bar illegal immigrants from voting in Kansas. It says there is no evidence of rampant voter fraud.

Only 41 percent of eligible people voted in the 2010 general election, but Kansas' Republican leaders "apparently think that number is too high," the ACLU said. The group accused Gov. Brownback and Secretary of State Kris Kobach of preferring a system where voting is a privilege secured "by jumping through hoops."

"Theirs is an extremely nearsighted view of just how difficult it will be for remote, marginalized, and under-resourced individuals to obtain a valid photo ID and evidence of citizenship," the ACLU said. But Secretary of State Koback said Kansas has accomplished something truly extraordinary with its voter ID law: "No other state in the union does as much to secure the integrity of the voting process," Kobach said. According to the ACLU, 32 state legislatures have introduced similar photo ID bills this year.

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Prove You're Here Legally Before Getting Gov’t Services, Voters Say
Friday, April 22, 2011 – Most voters in the United States want stricter enforcement of immigration laws, and a vast majority say people should be required to prove they are in the country legally before receiving any federal, state or local services, according to a new poll.

“Before anyone receives local, state or federal government services, should they be required to prove they are legally allowed to be in the United States?” Rasmussen Reports asked likely voters. Eighty-four percent of respondents answered in the affirmative, while nine percent disagreed. “Most voters continue to feel that the policies of the federal government encourage illegal immigration,” Rasmussen commented.

In the same vein, the polling firm found that a solid majority oppose birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants. It asked, “Suppose a woman enters the United States as an illegal alien and gives birth to a child in the United States. Should that child automatically become a citizen of the United States?” No, said 61 percent of respondents, while 28 percent said yes, and percent were undecided. Under current law the child would automatically gain citizenship.

Sixty-three percent of unaffiliated voters, whom both party try to court each election season, agree with the majority that citizenship should not be automatic. The pollster said the 61 percent result was “up slightly from last August but is the highest level of support for a change in the existing law found in five years of Rasmussen Reports surveying.” Both questions came to prominence last year. In November, the California Supreme Court in a controversial ruling supported the right of illegal immigrants to get in-state tuition rates. The only requirement is that they are high school graduates and have spent three years at a California high school. Opponents say they plan to appeal the decision before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Prove You're Here Legally Before Getting Gov’t Services, Voters Say
Friday, April 22, 2011 – Most voters in the United States want stricter enforcement of immigration laws, and a vast majority say people should be required to prove they are in the country legally before receiving any federal, state or local services, according to a new poll.

Thank goodness we live in a Constitutional Republic and not a democracy.

Consequently, such laws may violate the 14th Amendment, as determined by the Court in Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982).

 

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Prove You're Here Legally Before Getting Gov’t Services, Voters Say
Friday, April 22, 2011 – Most voters in the United States want stricter enforcement of immigration laws, and a vast majority say people should be required to prove they are in the country legally before receiving any federal, state or local services, according to a new poll.

Thank goodness we live in a Constitutional Republic and not a democracy.

Consequently, such laws may violate the 14th Amendment, as determined by the Court in Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982).

I thought we lived in a democratic republic? Could Mr Ivonelli of my high school government class be wrong?