The new immigration plan

Roy Beck of NumbersUSA has sent out an e-mail alert on the new comprehensive immigration plan released Thursday that the White House says 25 Senate Republicans will support. As I read Beck’s summary, it seems to me that the advocates of turning America into a China-sized Third-World country have gotten much smarter. Beck writes:

This new plan espouses several key elements that NumbersUSA has been pushing for years. It calls for (1) an end to chain migration, (2) an end to the visa lottery, (3) strong enforcement against future illegal immigration, (4) no path to green cards for new guest workers, (5) no family accompanying guest workers.

Also, illegals who have been legalized would have to pay $3,500 for a three year visa, which would be renewable every three years on the payment of another $3,500. That is very far from the instant legal permanent residence that had been threatened under last year’s S.2611.

Also, instead of doubling or tripling legal annual immigration, as S.2611 would have done, this new plan increases legal immigration by 50 percent. While that may sound very “moderate,” even stingy, to open borders types, in reality it represents a drastic increase over an already intolerably large immigration inflow. At the current rate of one million immigrants per year, the U.S. population will increase by 40 million immigrants over the next 40 years plus another 80 million due to natural increase, for a total of 420 million in 2050. That is already utterly staggering. Increasing existng immigration by 50 percent to 1.5 million per years will increase the U.S. population to 500 million in the middle of the century.

The advocates of a globalized America have thrown some good measures into this plan to soften opposition, but the overall effect would still be the submergence of America in an overpopulated Third-World society. We therefore must reject any increase in immigration. We must reject the giving of any legalized or quasi-legalized status to illegals, even if they must pay for it. We want a decrease in legal immigration, enforcement of our immigration laws leading to the steady departure of illegals from America, and real border protection. We cannot believe the advocates’ promises that this new plan will protect the border or do anything else to enforce the law, since the border fence that was passed by Congress last fall has not materialized. Indeed, every time an open-borders advocate tells us that this bill will enforce the law, we should remind him of this history and tell him that any such assurances are dismissible on their face.

We must, in short, take the winning stand that the House Republicans took last year, but then unaccountably failed to take credit for in the election and so last control of the Congress: ENFORCEMENT ONLY. Because we know, as surely as the night follows the day, that a bill combining legalization with supposed beefed-up enforcement will end up doing the first, and not the second.

Here are some steps to activism, sent out by Paul Nachman:

1. New to NumbersUSA?

Go here and start sending faxes, via their website, to your Representative and Senators.

Register here to receive alerts for faxing and phoning at other immigration-critical times.

2. Familiar with NumbersUSA, but you haven’t been active in awhile?

Go here to login to the current action items on your “corkboard.” If you don’t remember your password, type in your Username anyway and tab to the password box. It may fill in automatically. Failing that, follow the “Forgot?” option just below on the right.

3. Ready to phone your Senators and Representative? (I never look forward happily to this, but once I get going, it’s OK. You don’t have to be expert or eloquent, just clear and to the point.)

If you’re a NumbersUSA veteran, their DC phone numbers are all available here. [Exact capitalization as I have provided seems to matter.]

If new and unregistered with NumbersUSA, simply dial the Capitol switchboard, 202-224-3121, each time and ask to be connected to your Rep’s and Senators’ offices.

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Edward D. writes:

This legislation almost seems precision crafted by those who have dissected mainstream conservative anti-illegal-immigration arguments. In other words, it shows just how much of a strawman positions like “i’m not against immigration, I’m against illegal immigration” really are. Now what are the “conservatives” going to say?

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 30, 2007 04:26 PM | Send