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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (762710)	6/7/2007 10:46:52 PM
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President Bush and first lady Laura Bush board Air Force One at Andrews AFB, Md. Monday June 4, 2007. They was leaving for Europe. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Related Audio: Immigration, Bush Top GOP Debate Apart from abortion, no subject produces so much disingenuousness as America's immigration policy, both legal and illegal. For nearly 50 years, Americans have been intentionally lied to about our immigration laws. In 1965, Teddy Kennedy overhauled immigration law with the specific purpose of effecting a dramatic change in the nation's demographics. Bobby Kennedy had civil rights, so Teddy needed something big: He would preside over a civil rights bill for the entire Third World! My word, but that man could drink in those days. With his 1965 immigration act, Kennedy embarked on entirely transforming American culture for no good reason. (You know how people always say the same arguments against illegal immigrants today were once made about the Irish to show how silly those arguments are? If only the U.S. Senate had had an "Irish Need Not Apply" sign!) Until that point, immigration law basically took a laissez-faire approach, with country quotas attempting to replicate the traditional immigration patterns. Most immigrants to America had historically come from Great Britain, Germany and Scandinavian countries. Consequently, immigration quotas roughly reflected that balance, with smaller numbers of immigrants admitted from other countries. But in an angry, long-awaited payback to WASPs, Kennedy decided he was going to radically transform the racial composition of the country. Instead of taking 15 immigrants from England and three from China, America would henceforth take three from England and 15 from China. Payback's a bitch, Daughters of the American Revolution! Some of those hardworking immigrants who just want a chance to succeed were arrested in a plot to blow up JFK Airport last week. Most immigrants still come from a handful of countries; Kennedy simply changed which countries those would be. In 2005, according to the Department of Homeland Security, the overwhelming majority of immigrants came from only 10 countries, none of which had sent a lot of immigrants to America for the country's first 200 years: Mexico (161,445), India (84,681), China (69,967), the Philippines (60,748), Cuba (36,261), Vietnam (32,784), the Dominican Republic (27,504), Korea (26,562), Colombia (25,571) and Ukraine (22,761). In 1960, whites were 90 percent of the country. The Census Bureau recently estimated that whites already account for less than two-thirds of the population and will be a minority by 2050. Other estimates put that day much sooner. townhall.com Logout Home Forums Hot Mail (22) SubjectMarks PeopleMarks My Account Watchlist Portfolio Quote Charts Forex Commodities News Toplists Financials Terms Of Use Contact Us Copyright/IP Policy Privacy Policy About Us FAQ You are on WEB1. Copyright © 2007 InvestorsHub.com, Inc.. All rights reserved.SubjectsBoard DescriptionsMembersMember ProfilesPublic MsgsMy Private MsgsQuotes Advanced Search