May 16, 2006
Shots Fired in the Immigration War
Via Drudge, it looks like the immigration debate is heating up:
A parting gunshot from a vehicle leaving Waffle House in West Asheville shattered a window and caused a minor injury, police said.The shooting happened around 3:00 a.m. Saturday after a group of whites argued with a group of Hispanics at the 24-hour restaurant on Smokey Park Highway, Asheville police Lt. Wallace Welch said.
“The two groups were jawing back and forth with each other over citizenship issues and whatnot,” Welch said.
As the Hispanic group drove off, someone in the vehicle fired at least once into a large window near the front door, he said.
Whether from a ricocheted bullet or flying glass, Welch said, one man's arm was bleeding when police arrived. He declined medical treatment.
Police were looking for a white Dodge Intrepid that left the restaurant going west.
Most of the legal immigrants I've heard from in North Carolina (via my own conversations and local talk radio) are very strongly against illegal immigration, usually even more than native-born Americans. I'm be willing to go out on a limb and make the assumption that the shooter in this case was one of the millions of illegal aliens that this and previous administrations have allowed to come into this country. Asheville, by the way, is one of the most liberal cities in North Carolina.
This is not the first time shots have been fired over this contentious issue, and I fear that it will not be the last. It could get much worse. As the Heritage Foundation notes it almost certainly will get worse:
An immigration plan proposed by Senators Mel Martinez (R-FL) and Chuck Hagel (R-NE) would provide amnesty to 9 to 10 million illegal immigrants and put them on a path to citizenship. Once these individuals become citizens, the net additional cost to the federal government of benefits for these individuals will be around $16 billion per year. Further, once an illegal immigrant becomes a citizen, he has the right to bring his parents to live in the U.S. The parents, in turn, may become citizens. The long-term cost of government benefits to the parents of 10 million recipients of amnesty could be $30 billion per year or more. In the long run, the Hagel/Martinez bill, if enacted, would be the largest expansion of the welfare state in 35 years.
The vast majority of these immigrants will be low-skilled workers without even basic English language skills. It is nothing less than the mass importation of poverty from a foreign culture.
Have we learned nothing from the riots in Europe? Unskilled, uneducated immigrants will cluster in ghettos, become understandably outraged at their inability to have what they see others having. We will run the distinct risk of having riots in New York and Los Angeles on par with what we saw in Paris.
I cannot support a Republican Party or a Republican candidate that seeks to ensure the Balkanization of America, and frankly, few of the front-runners in either party are offering me much in '06. Sitting out '06 is a growing possibility.
For '08, give me a Tom Tancredo or based upon this article, a candidate like John Cox.
If the Republican Party won't do it, I'm sure we can create a conservative third party that will.
"Have we learned nothing from the riots in Europe? Unskilled, uneducated immigrants will cluster in ghettos, become understandably outraged at their inability to have what they see others having. We will run the distinct risk of having riots in New York and Los Angeles on par with what we saw in Paris."
This part just boggles the mind. It's apparent Americans don't read and learn their own history (liberals are to busy re-writing it and indoctrinating our kids). It's evident we don't know the history behind the riots in France recently and how it's beginnings are very similar to the lame excuses being used by the President to allow it to happen here.
It seems a lot of folks are contemplating sitting out in 06'. Tancredo is one of the only ones who has continually stood his ground on this issue without backing down.
Posted by: Renee at May 16, 2006 11:51 AMThe potential financial burden is enormous. For those who keep insisting that as citizens, these people would be paying taxes, I say: earned income tax credit.
What horrifies me, however, is how this country would be irrevocably changed by the influx of up to 200 million new people within twenty years, which would be allowed by all the inclusions in the Hagel-Martinez bill. We would not be able to assimilate that number; they would continue to assimilate us.
Posted by: Cindi at May 16, 2006 01:04 PMHells yes! A third conservative party based on a nativist political ideology. What a great idea! When the aptly named Know Nothing Party did the same thing in the mid 1850s it worked really well. Go for it, I’m 100% behind you. I’m all for another party that will be doomed to political obscurity or at best will divide American conservatives and lead to a Democratic victory in ’08.
Please, I beg you, create a new party.
Keram, you mean like the radical libs have done to the Democratic Party?
Posted by: Old Soldier at May 16, 2006 08:04 PM"once an illegal immigrant becomes a citizen, he has the right to bring his parents to live in the U.S. The parents, in turn, may become citizens. The long-term cost of government benefits to the parents of 10 million recipients of amnesty could be $30 billion per year or more"
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I hadn't even thought of this aspect.
And they are worried about Social Security now?
If aged, blind or disabled people who have never paid into social security are citizens, they qualify for monthly SSI checks, and a medicaid card. Disabled children over the age of 18 are in this category. The income of the parent does not disqualify them for a check.
Any alien with a severely handicapped child should head for the border, because at the age of 18, the child gets a lifetime pension from SSI and medical care via Medicaid.
You don't have to be a citizen only legal resident to qualify for these welfaRE NIGHTMARES. Worse one third of the total SS budget funds these programs. No wonder SS is going broke.
Posted by: Thomas J. Jackson at May 18, 2006 01:19 AM
