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2015-02-14 Government

Obama amnesty creates loophole for illegal immigrants to vote in elections

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-02-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 As designed.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-02-14 01:40|| 2015-02-14 01:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Life would have been a lot simpler, with fewer opportunities for this sort of thing, if we just recognized foreign drivers' licenses, perhaps along with the international driver's license. We recognize Canadian licenses and registration. But life would be simpler if Mexican (and other countries' citizens) were monitored by a few consulates. Even before the EU,Europeans used to traipse back and forth across the continent without the kind of restrictions we've been trying unsuccessfully to impose on Mexicans.

Posted by Fred 2015-02-14 01:58|| 2015-02-14 01:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Surprise meter?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-02-14 04:43|| 2015-02-14 04:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Life would have been a lot simpler

If you just fined anybody caught employing illegals out of business.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-02-14 04:53|| 2015-02-14 04:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Four Choices for America

In the concluding chapter, Hanson declares that Californians (and, thus, Americans) have essentially four choices in dealing with immigration. First we could "continue de facto open-borders" but insist upon assimilation. Second we could vastly reduce immigration and assume that assimilation will take care of itself. Third—Hanson’s choice—we could combine greatly reduced immigration (both legal and illegal) with vigorous patriotic assimilation.

The fourth path¾our present policy—would lead to "a true Mexifornia," an "apartheid state" that "even the universal solvent of popular culture could not unite." California would then combine the "worst attributes of both nations," an "American individualism shorn of both Anglo-Saxon-inspired allegiance to the letter of the law and traditional Mexican familial and religious bedrock values."

In this case, Hanson tells us, poverty becomes endemic; schools erode; crime soars; taxes increase; budget deficits explode; legal or illegal status becomes "irrelevant" for college tuition, driver’s licenses, welfare, and "perhaps soon even voting privileges." The assimilated upper and upper-middle classes of all races practice a "self-interested apartheid" while professing "selfless liberality." A new argot of Spanglish, the "dumbing-down of both languages," emerges among a large, unassimilated, constantly growing Latino underclass that dwarfs both the upper class and an assimilated and intermarried middle and working class.

Victor Davis Hanson, The Coming of Mexifornia
Hudson Institute, Thursday, August 21, 2003

Mexifornia Five Years Later.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-02-14 05:41|| 2015-02-14 05:41|| Front Page Top

#6 How delightful, the nation is going down the drain...

Posted by Eohippus Cloth6610 2015-02-14 09:09|| 2015-02-14 09:09|| Front Page Top

#7 So, can I go vote in Mexico now?

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-02-14 10:29|| 2015-02-14 10:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Doing jobs Americans won't do -- like vote Democratic...

Posted by Iblis 2015-02-14 16:22|| 2015-02-14 16:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Iblis wins the thread!

Posted by Barbara 2015-02-14 17:08|| 2015-02-14 17:08|| Front Page Top

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