Bob Barr gets it right on immigration
Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr is the only candidate still in the race for the White House in 2008 that truly understands the issue of immigration. While the other two candidates insist on blowing smoke up the collective skirts of the American people, Barr’s unique grasp of this essential national security issue should put his candidacy at the forefront of American politics.
Barr understands that the borders need to be protected, but he also accurately pinpoints the availability of social services as one of the main driving forces behind the illegal immigration problem.
He writes on his campaign web site:
… we must end government benefits and services for illegal immigrants. Many local communities and states have begun to reduce payments to those who come here illegally, but a 1982 Supreme Court decision mandates that we provide education to the children of illegal immigrants. This detrimental ruling should be overturned through another Court challenge or a constitutional amendment.
Barr continues by attacking birthright citizenship and adds that publishing election ballots and other official documents in multiple languages needs to be ended, which contributes to the comfort and relative ease of living that illegal immigrants enjoy in the United States.
Both John McCain and Barack Obama keep a safe distance from this issue because neither want to be seen as the candidate who wants to take “benefits” away from illegals, which they naturally attribute to a net reduction in available votes come November. They are selling out American in favor of their own political future, something Mr. Barr clearly is not prepared to do.
Barr gets it, and he is one of the few who’s not afraid to say it.
Compare Barr’s stance on the issue of illegal immigration with John McCain’s, a co-sponsor of an “immigration reform” bill that drew fierce backlash by members of both political parties that would provide citizenship to those who are here illegally – so long as they stand in line and pay a fine. Now McCain says he wouldn’t even vote for his own bill. Or Barack Obama, who supports the so-called “Dream Act” that will provide citizenship for some long-term illegal immigrants and voted in favor of continued federal funds to “sanctuary cities” that provide aid and comfort to illegals.
We need our borders secured and our immigration laws enforced. We don’t need more regulation, but we do need the regulations that we currently have in place applied. The politically correct “solutions” offered by John McCain and Barack Obama simply will not cut it. They will enable illegal immigration and turn their back on the issue, like George W. Bush has done for 8 years.
If you want our immigration problem addressed, then we need Bob Barr’s ideas.
I think that it is also important for our candidates to talk about over population and how it affects our country. If we got rid of 20 million illegals in this country and start curbing legal immigration, we can keep our country culturaly the same. It makes me mad that our governor of Ca wants to hike up our taxes becasue we are in a deficit. IF we got rid of the over 2 million illegals we have in this state, it would free up our roads, water, hospitals, schools and the state government curbs their spending, it would ease the growing problems. California use to have wonderful roads and excellent schools. Now, we are paying more taxes and the roads don’t get any better. If they were serious about water shortages, they would try to decrease our population were they can, and I wouldn’t resent conserving. All of the stress of motorists on our roads are ruining our infrastructure that we can’t repair. I want my country back.
Everyone needs to be contacting their Federal,State and Local reps at least once a week. With emai it is easy, though a phone call is pretty fast too. Our reps need to know that no one is above the law, not even illegal aliens. We want our laws enforced. We will never accept amensty and immunity for illegals for their crimes.
This could turn out to be a big winner for Barr. We all know Obama and McCain position AMNESTY.
Barr’s immigration stance.
http://www.bobbarr2008.com/issues/border-security-immigration/
This coming from an Alexandria Virginnia source. Well, I don’t blame this Southern racist attitude, which is still prevalent today. After all, it was in Virginia and it’s southern neighbors in which Blacks were hung on a tree branches for what whites perceived as an infringement on their rights. And now the same treatment, according to these racists, must be targeted to the Mexicans.
Mexicans don’t scare me. I am secure in my job and don’t have trouble with other races, white or black or hispanic.
Is that why you are so mad, because you may lose your jobs?
Pisces2008 It isn’t a matter of the ethnicity or losing ones job. It is the fact that these people invaded this country, leech off social programs and do not have enough gratitude to learn to say thank you America in English,
They need to go home and PRONTO
Thanks for your comments thus far on the article. I have found that you can quickly pinpoint those who don’t understand the argument being put forth when they accuse those who are concerned over illegal immigration of being “racist”. That’s the easy way out of this argument, and one that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense when you take a few minutes to actually consider what’s being said, rather than reacting in the typical emotional fashion that, quite frankly, contributes to the problem that we’re trying to fight.
I personally don’t have a problem with immigration, or Mexicans. I have plenty of Mexican friends, but they are all legal, and that’s the boundary that needs to be drawn here. Sneaking into this country is illegal. It’s a criminal act. That’s the bottom line of this argument.
BTW, this is not an Alexandria, VA source – that’s an old citation on the Google News service. We are currently in southern Arizona, and we deal with the issue of illegal immigration on a daily basis.
The problem is that these laws are racist and xenophobic in intent .
Congress indeed is responsible for creating this monster.
If you remember, in 1996 congress passed the anti- terrorism and effective death penalty act (AEDPA) and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsiblity Act ( IIRAIRA). AEDPA was passed in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing and was meant to prevent the immigration of terrorists and increase the likelihood of their deportation once they got here. Despite the discovery that the OC bombing was the product of an American and not a foreigner, there was enough anti- immigrant hatred emanating from other terrorist incidents to push the legislation through. IIRAIRA played on a fear even more widespread than that of terrorism, it provided a vehicle for certain aspects of xenophobia existing then and now in America by claiming to correct the perception about the burden immigrants placed on social service resources and employment. These perceptions, met with very little opposition in congress.
And the most unamerican thing about this is that the monster congress has created can not be checked by the Judicial Branch. And why not? Because for close to a hundred years now, the Plenary Power Doctrine, a doctrine that urges judicial deference to the political branches of government on immigration matters has dominated federal court review of immigration laws and it’s enforcement. This plenary power doctrine was set a precedent in a series of cases in which courts defended RACIST legistion passed to cure the nation of its perceived problem with Chiness Immigration. A supreme court ruling in the so-called Chinese Exclusion Case a century ago paved the way for today’s congress carte-blache legislation regarding immigrants and deportation.
It doesn’t help matters either when the head of ICE, Mrs. Myers is caught in a photo in an ICE sponsored Halloween party posing with a handcuffed white man who painted his face black and had a dreadlocks wig.
I’d remind Pisces2008 that Mexico is not a race and Mexicans were not coerced in any way. In fact, Mexicans aren’t even a very well defined ethnicity because if you dress them up in contemporary American clothing, they pass for legal visitors. Ah, but she knew that and doesn’t want to face the fact that her pals are illegal aliens who broke the law and who now face the wrath of 200 million Americans who want them out.
I’d also remind her that “Hispanic” is an American term derived from the Spanish word Hispanohablantes, which merely means “Spanish speaker” encompassing Spain, The Philippines, et al. “Latino” also is an American term derived in 1945 from the term Latinoamericano or Latin-American and it denotes citizenship the same way that the terms Black and Amerind denote citizenship.
“Immigrant” defines people who came to America legally. Thus, the term “illegal immigrant” is oxymoronic and the term “legal immigrant” is redundant. Often hidden behind the term “immigrant,” is an illegal alien. It means neither Hispanic nor Latino.
Mexicans commingle illegal aliens with these three groups to create confusion and enhance illegal alien survival. It’s the same way that birds enhance survival by flocking together. Such amorphy makes it difficult to focus on them. Obscured is the fact that illegal aliens are neither citizens nor immigrants. But Mexico hates any clarification because it removes their camouflage. Perhaps, deep down, she considers the term “Mexican” offensive.
And what about this fence that’s being built. Jeez, wasn’t it Ronald Reagan who chastised the Soviets for building the Berlin wall and in exasperation and to the cheers of red blooded Americans exhorted Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.”
That wall represented undemocratic principles like Communism. And the border is beginning to look a lot like Berlin and will look even more so after it’s built. Said Reagan during his speech:
“Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, part of a vast system of barriers that divides the entire continent of Europe. From the Baltic, south, those barriers cut across Germany in a gash of barbed wire, concrete, dog runs, and guard towers. Farther south, there may be no visible, no obvious wall. But there remain armed guards and checkpoints all the same–still a restriction on the right to travel, still an instrument to impose upon ordinary men and women the will of a totalitarian state”
Be careful what you give up in the name of security, it could very well your liberty under the veil of patriotism.
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Actually, Barr is as wrong as BHO and McCain. His grand schemes are just there to fool you, they have little chance of being enacted in the current environment. And, considering that Barr supports legalization of some kind, they have no chance of being ever enacted. Note that Barr’s page on this doesn’t say anything about current illegal aliens. And, he’s used the same misleading language as BHO and McCain.
Details on the above at my name’s link.
The bottom line is that Barr is trying to fool you.
Pisces2008, the Berlin wall was built to keep people from leaving Communist rule. The border fortification along the USA-Mexico border are there to keep illegal aliens from sneaking into the USA. There are plenty of open gates along the border for the convenience and safety of migrants flowing both directions. Only a fool would cross the desert during Summer heat.
You are right borderraven. It’s just that the fence is so anti-american. I guess the statue of liberty is no longer the symbol of what America is all about – now the symbol is a 700 mile fence.
Sad.
I’ve heard estimates as high as 9 million per mile to build it and with a total cost estimates of 49 billion. That together with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is a lot of taxpaying for years to come.
Hey, congress mandated it so it’s all yours and good luck with it.
Unfortunate that some people are misinformed and yet I am impressed that there are a few who know exactly what they are taliing about. Funny how the misspellers generally are the ignorant ones.
If fences don’t work we should not have any around prisons , nuclear plants, electrical stations etc., What crap!
As for the Statue of Liberty, the poem that is so often quoted was foisted upon us by another country some time after the statue was placed on our shores.. IT WAS NEVER A CODE OF CONDUCT FOR AMERICA.
I am 75 and I have no problem with whatever happens to this country or any of you as a result of your being shamed into self-destruction. I won’t be here! Too many of you have been fooled into believing it is more important to have FEELINGS than the ability to save yourself. Hell, even a cockroach fights back when attacked. Only man has compassion and it is being used by the liberal psychologists to enslave you through your own emotions. Neat, huh?
Five step solution to the immigration nightmare;
1) Build a triple layer, 50 foot high wall along the entire southern border.
2) Task the military to defend it
3) Deploy land mines and snipers along the border
4) Revoke birthright citizenship for all US born children of illegal aliens…retroactively…to 1970
5) Encourage Americans to execute citizens arrest of illegal aliens, especially organizations like the minutemen!
Problem solved!
Barr is getting my support. I placed up my very first polical yard sign. Also have a Barr sticker on my car (and a Ron Paul)
We need to spread his name and tell the voters who don’t like the current two choices that they have options. Barr is my option.
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I concur with Iris, we must get a handle on this situation. I hate that people always try to align blacks with illegal immigrants, two very different races, two very different countries (America and Mexico) our history (American) has nothing to do with what is going on today regarding illegal immigration. Our Government and Corporate America has imported Mexico’s poor and it must be stopped. We must also put a stop to anchor babies. I want all people to be deported since the last amnesty (1986) and that includes the anchor babies they have had in the last 30 years as well.
Calling an illegal alien an immigrant is like calling a rapist one’s lover, a tresspasser an invited guest, or a bank robber one who has just received a bank loan. As far as our southwest belonging to Mexico, Mexico stole their land just as we did and must deal with their native peoples as we must deal with our native peoples. Mexico is turning our southwest into north mexico; after they finish their mission the US will suck as bad as Mexico itself.
The illegal alien argument comes down to one simple maxim:
Good fences make good neighbors.
Illegal aliens are criminal trespassers, period, and their race or country of origin are irrelevant to their actions.
Deport them when they are found, but don’t sit there and do nothing except amnesty, and don’t go door-ro-door to round them up, either–neither extreme makes sense.
And spend the bailout on the fence, and infrastructure, and enforcement instead!