Copy of email I sent to my DC reps #NoAmnesty

Senator Stinker,

As one of your constituents I am voicing my opinion on the immigration reform bill.  No Amnesty, no partial recognition, no nothing for the law breakers!  These people have disrespected our laws and we are going to grant them a legal status because the President will not fulfill his duty and enforce the laws of the land?  I am sorry, but NO!  To give the illegals any status is the same as a criminal getting caught with a stolen flat screen television by the police and instead of arresting them, the officer gives them a Blu-ray player and cable box.  How can we expect anyone to respect our laws if we do not set a firm example?

These illegals are mostly uneducated, not even having the most basic high school education.  This massive influx of unskilled labor will only flood the market with individuals that will not help our economy.  This will create a downward pressure on wages at a time when the labor participation rate is the lowest it has been since the Carter years.  We need real immigration reform.  We need a point system like Canada.  If you do not have enough points and money to support yourself and family while searching for a job, you cannot get a visa.  If someone does not have enough points, but they have a job skill that is in a category that is needed in the USA, they must have a job lined up in advance to just get a work visa.  This must be a job that has not been filled by potential American labor.  The free market can work, if we allow it to.  If jobs are not being filled because they are not paying enough, then instead of flooding the market with cheap labor, those employers need to increase their wages to fill those positions.  We are talking about unskilled labor, not chemists and engineers. 

With a Canadian type point system, we can reward the educated and those who can already read and write English.  We can reward the younger people who have finished school, but cannot find work in their present country.  We can reward families, when both parents are educated.  The point system has worked well for Canada and we can develop one that works well for the USA.

Real immigration reform would involve a one strike and you are out law like Norway has.  In Norway if you are ever caught there illegally just a single time, you are never allowed within their borders again and you have no chance to gain a visa or citizenship for any reason. 

We also need to abandon right of soil and switch to right of blood.  Yet we must make it even more difficult than other blood countries do, to discourage anchor babies.  If one parent is a citizen then the child must apply for citizenship at 18 like anyone else would (with credit being given for time raised in the USA).  If both parents are citizens, then no matter where the child is born, they are a naturalized citizen.

Before anyone can take the oath of citizenship, they need to understand English at a conversational level.  They also need to understand our country's history and the Constitution at a high school level.  If this is not accomplished, they do get the honor of American citizenship.  We also need to discourage pacifist from becoming citizens, if they are not willing to fight for this country, then they should not be allowed to take the oath of citizenship.

I realize that these are extreme steps, but with 5 million to 25 million illegals in the USA, we need to take extreme measures!  We are 17 Trillion in debt and we cannot afford the burden of people that will never be able to give more to our society than they take. 

Thank you,
Room 101 (not going to post my name :P)

What I wrote to my Reps!

Senator,

I am very concerned with the bill the Gang of Eight has put together.  I am in complete agreement with Senator Ted Cruz that this bill is not good for America!  I would ask that you stand against it the way it is written.

I also have concerns that are not mentioned.  First why are we trying to add millions to the workforce when tens of millions are under or unemployed?  Why are we rewarding people who violate the rule of law?  Why are we going to allow every illegal immigrant who was returned to their home country to return?  This is not something that a logically thinking American citizen would put together when it pertained to their home and personal property.  So why is the Senate doing something that logical dictates so clearly against?

If you break the law, you face the consequences for your actions. That is a basic premise of responsibility and a concept that has made America great.  We cannot be granting exceptions to the law just because of protests.  Would we legalize meth if one million meth addicts marched on Washington?

Why are businesses that violate the law not going to be prosecuted? Why does E-verify not get expanded and instead a new system is put in place similar to E-verify.  E-verify has been a great success and deserves to be expanded rather than scrapped.

The USA has plenty of uneducated and low skill workers, adding more will only add to the burden that our country carries.  It is the right of every country to control its borders and decide who may and may not enter.  The immigration system is on life support, but this bill will kill it.  The Gang of Eight make horrible surgeons!  I see this bill as nothing but catering to every single special interest group in the USA (from illegals to labor to business).  It is time for our elected officials to do the right thing, rather than the politically expedient thing.

Thank you,

Multiculturalism vs the Melting Pot

            The United States of America is a very unique country; there is none other like us in the world!  I am not referring to American Exceptionalism, though I believe in it.  That is something that liberals have arguments against.  Even though their arguments are based on their own inaccurate beliefs, I am going to talk about something more concrete that even they cannot deny about the USA.  I was going to say our country, but liberals do not see the USA as “our country”.  They tend to put their faith in the United Nations and an “our planet” mentality.  

 

            The USA is the only country on the planet that is not a race of people.  Americans as an ethnic group do not exist!  I can hear liberals crying already.  There are the Native Americans, indigenous peoples, or whatever the PC phrase of the weeks is for Indians.  The only problem is that they forget there were/are many different tribes/nations in North America.  So it has to be insulting for the Sioux to be grouped with the Apache or vice versus.  Liberals never think about how they insult people, because they are blinded by their belief in what is right.  ...but I digress.

            So how could a country that has no ethnic group of its own become the greatest power on the face of the Earth?  It is very simple, the Melting Pot philosophy.  The USA accepted immigrants from all over the world.  I have no doubt that in the USA every single ethnic group on this planet has some representation in our blood.  Yet we are not 5,000 plus different countries in one land.  We are one united people (or rather one country divided between two interests, pro-American and anti-American).  All of these immigrants assimilated to the culture that has developed and added their own mix to help create the American experience.  Within a few generations the family line no longer thought of where their ancestors came from, but considered themselves Americans first.  There is still ethnic pride, look at various communities and you will see Irish pride, Italian pride, etc... but people thought of themselves as Americans.  The USA has been influenced by all of these immigrants as well.  Just think of our love of Chinese food, it is Chinese American food really.  They do not eat food like our Chinese food in China!  Think of Tex-Mex cuisine.  We can also consider our music.  Jazz and blues were founded by African American culture in the South and that gave birth to rock and roll.  Even rap has merged with rock and roll in bands like Rage Against the Machine.  The point is that the melting pot helped to create this.  Anyone that cooks will tell you that as you add spice to the main course you change the taste, you create a new dish.  This is our USA and why we are so different, but still one people (one dish).

            Now multiculturalism creates a divide in our people (even greater than the philosophical divide of liberal vs conservative).  Multiculturalism is what happens when politically correct morons get a hold of ethnic pride and screw it up!  I am personally 13 races, half Greek plus 12 others.  I am proud of my Greek heritage, but I have no connection or loyalty to Greece.  My grandfather came over from Greece in the 1920s, my father was born here, but the only Greek I speak is a few phrases and swear words (the important stuff).  Now according to multiculturalism my loyalty should be to my Greek heritage over American citizenship.  I should be concerned how Greek immigrants have been wronged over the centuries and demand that all these dead ancestors be given justice.  I should expect to have the right to create a community here that resembles what Greece is like.  The problem with all of this is not only that it is anti-American, but that it is the direct opposite of what made the USA the greatest country in the world!  If you really did not want to become an American, then why come here in the first place?  If you hate this place and think your “homeland” is so much better, then go back!  Fight your battles to make your country a better place there and not here.

            There are other problems with multiculturalism.  Pundits believe that Muslims should be allowed to practice Islamic Sharia law in their community.  Sorry but no!  There is the US Constitution, which says that state law cannot supersede federal law.  States in turn say that local law does not supersede state law.  I am not aware of all the ins and outs of Sharia law, but I will bet that much of it comes into conflict with state and federal laws.  Even the oath of citizenship in the USA is under attacks.  Do you realize that someone who wants to become a citizen does not have to swear to take up arms against our enemies?  If someone is not willing to take up arms against our enemies, I do not want them given citizenship!  In countries where the liberal left is even more entrenched than here (like Norway) the oath of citizenship is optional.  That is correct; a citizen to be does not even have to swear an oath to their new country.  Why is this such a big deal, a terrorist (like the Boston bomber) would not care about the oath and not hesitate to swear to it.  The problem is that it does not create a solid connection of the immigrant to the new homeland.  

            Multiculturalism is an effort to create 5,000 different countries here in the USA.  It is an effort to destroy us from within.  It will lead to greater violence and not more tolerance.  In the liberal effort to create a utopia they forget human nature.  People fear the other.  That other is any immigrant that is different and holds on to their culture fanatically, shunning the norm of society.  Every successive wave of immigrants in the USA has been persecuted to various degrees.  They have been used as cheap labor; they lived the lowest standard of living.   They were subject to racist attacks and given irrational associations based on that bias.  This is not hate of the American people; this is the nature of the human race.  Sometimes people are persecuted because they will not conform to the norms or society, other times it is an effort by a group to reject them as citizens.

            The history of multiculturalism proves my fear of the goal to destroy the USA.  It started in liberal controlled universities.  Here in the USA we have a great system to help the next generation become Americans (and add to our culture), it is called public education.  When children are all thrown together in the mixing pot, they tend to adopt many of the positive aspects of their peers (sometimes the negative as well).  When these teens graduate high school they saw themselves as Americans first and foremost, no matter how many generations their family has been in this country.  Yet when those same children went to college they were reconnected to their heritage and told that they did not have to conform or become American.  That America could and should change to suit the culture their family came from.  The result is that a lower percentage of college graduates see themselves as Americans than those who graduate from high school.  Now liberals are trying to get multiculturalism put into our public education system.  It is indeed an effort to indoctrinate future generations and destroy the USA.

            I will not continue to drone on for another 1000+ words.  I will just say that we need to fight multiculturalism.  It is the complete opposite of what made the USA great and it promotes racism and hate in our country.  I do not want a country where my neighbor is the other, but one where we are all Americans!