THE WAY TO MAXIMIZE PRESSURE TO STOP THIS ILLEGAL
ALIEN AMNESTY IS BY PUSHING FOR A MORATORIUM BILL!
Only by pushing for a Moratorium do we:
1) Call the whole Enterprise of Mass
Immigration into Question and put the Open Borders
lobby on the defensive.
2) Demonstrate the dynamic links between
legal and Illegal immigration: the facts that legal
Immigration attracts and aids Illegals through the
Family Magnet and the Safe Harbor effects.
3) Avoid the flawed category approach
used by the Neo-Con Mass Immigration Management groups
which has NEVER worked because it seeks to solve the
immigration problem piecemeal, category by category.
In fact this approach has in the past resulted in
an opportunity for the Open Borders lobby to increase
immigration, category by category. In 1990, the Open
Borders lobby turned a "reform" bill into
a good hunting opportunity for themselves - by using
the category approach to increase legal immigration
by 40%.
New Legislation:
- An Immigration Reform Bill has recently
been introduced by Tom Tancredo (R-CO) -H.R. 3700,
The Reducing Immigration to a Genuinely Healthy Total
Act of 2005 (The RIGHT Act).
This Bill would achieve several worthy
goals, but contains major flaws.
Nevertheless, WE BALANCE SUPPORTERS
CAN HELP FIX THE BILL, Encourage Its Passage, AND
RENDER IT A POTENT FORCE FOR IMMIGRATION REDUCTION!
- The positive features of the Bill
are sun-setting provisions of prior immigration enabling
bills, helping to prevent immigrants from becoming
a public charge, revoking the citizenship of those
who vote in foreign elections (Hooray!), and attempting
to reduce the categories of family sponsored and diversity
immigrants to zero.
- BUT the Bill contains MASSIVE FLAWS,
which, fortunately, are correctable. Among the flaws
are that it would give the children of all non-citizen
Lawful Permanent Residents U.S citizenship at birth
and, perhaps worst of all, would create a new uncapped
category of De Facto Immigrants: this Category could
be called the "ANCHOR GREEN CARD HOLDER"
category.
- The provisions of this new ostensible
non-immigrant Lawful Permanent Resident ("LPR")
category would allow the spouses and minor children
of ALL lawful permanent residents to become De Facto
permanent Immigrant residents through the device of
"Indefinitely" Renewable Visas.
- The largest category of Lawful Permanent
Residents are Green Card Holders. The Census Bureau
estimates that 10 million are now in the United States,
and an additional million come annually.
The visa renewability feature would
allow the Spouses and Minor Children of ALL TEN MILLION
GREEN CARD HOLDERS TO BECOME DE FACTO PERMANENT IMMIGRANTS
and to enable ANY PROSPECTIVE SPOUSES AND CHILDREN
to have renewable visas (i.e. to become immigrants
in fact) indefinitely - another chain migration nightmare!
(Imagine the demand for green card holders as marriage
partners and the number of marriages that would instantly
legalize Illegal Aliens) - PLUS the instant legalization
of the spouses and children of the tens of thousands
of LPRs who come ANNUALLY!
- We greatly admire the Congressman's
efforts on behalf of reduction and know he is serious
about his oft-stated position that pushing a moratorium
is the only way to get reductions. BUT clearly, Congressman
Tancredo was poorly served by those who helped him
draft these loopy provisions, and we have reason to
believe it was the Neo-Con mass immigration group
Numbers USA which was the culprit.
The Bill certainly reflects Numbers USA's publicly
stated disinclination to deport any significant number
of illegal aliens and its De Facto refusal to push
for a moratorium bill which is the only way to achieve
U.S. population stabilization which it claims it supports.
In any event, Numbers USA publicly announced support
for this bill immediately after it was dropped and
WITHOUT QUALIFICATION, even though this bill would
surely add millions to U.S. population growth!
SO LET'S HELP HEAL THIS BILL FROM ITS
ENCOUNTER WITH THE NEO-CON MASS IMMIGRATION MANAGEMENT
GROUP. LET'S PUSH AN AMENDMENT TO MAKE IT THE MORATORIUM
BILL THE CONGRESSMAN HAS ALWAYS WANTED! BUT WE MUST
ACT ON THE MORATORIUM BILL NOW TO BE IN TIME TO STOP
THE ILLEGAL ALIEN AMNESTY!
And here's how:
FOREMOST, make a moratorium the centerpiece
of the Bill. A moratorium of 100,000 immigrants, (including
those granted Lawful Permanent Residence and "indefinitely
renewable" visas) annually should be couched
in terms of the carrying capacity of the United States
and the need to stabilize population size. The many
potential benefits of a non-growing population should
be cited: reduced growth in energy use, reduced farmland
loss, reduced wage depression and job loss, and reduced
environmental degradation, among many
others.
It follows that the "Anchor Green Card Holder"
provisions of the Bill would be swiftly eliminated.
These simple changes - all congruent with Congressman
Tancredo's oft-stated support for a moratorium - would
make this Bill into model legislation that all of
us at Population-Environment BALANCE and the ASAP
Coalition would be proud to support.
Going forward, population stabilization would be a
continuing goal and rationale for appropriate enforcement
of existing laws regarding illegal aliens - including
sanctions against employers of illegal aliens and
against those who subvert U.S. law by facilitating
the movement of illegal aliens amongst the population
of legal aliens and citizens.
The limited carrying capacity of the United States
- most recently brought home by the rising energy
prices that probably signal an approach to "peak
oil" - no possibility of further production increases
and, most likely, imminent production declines - make
it imperative to stop population growth.
An immigration Moratorium on all immigration (including
LPR's and "indefinitely renewable" visa
holders) in excess of 100,000 per year is logically
necessary. Stabilization is consistent with 100,000
immigrants, but NO MORE, annually.
How You Can Help:
1) Help BALANCE fight for a moratorium,
and fight against all Guest Worker Program/Illegal
Alien Amnesty Bills. Support us today by mailing in
a donation in your latest BALANCE BRE or by visiting
our website, www.balance.org.
2) Demand a Moratorium! Call, fax, and
write your Senators and Representatives and urge them
to support a Moratorium. Specifically, tell them to
support H.R. 3700, but amended so as to include a
moratorium on all immigration in excess of 100,000
for five years, the highest number we can admit and
still achieve U.S. population stabilization.
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO MAKE A SPECIAL
DONATION THIS FALL TO HELP BALANCE SUCCESSFULLY FIGHT
OFF THE $50,000 (EACH) PLUS SPECIAL INTEREST DONATIONS
TO THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S OPEN BORDERS COALITION!
