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    As House Republicans prepare to sell out the country on immigration this week, Phyllis Schlafly has produced a stunning report on how immigration is changing the country. The report is still embargoed, but someone slipped me a copy, and it's too important to wait.

    Leave aside the harm cheap labor being dumped on the country does to the millions of unemployed Americans. What does it mean for the Republican Party?

    Citing surveys from the Pew Research Center, the Pew Hispanic Center, Gallup, NBC News, Harris polling, the Annenberg Policy Center, Latino Decisions, the Center for Immigration Studies and the Hudson Institute, Schlafly's report overwhelmingly demonstrates that merely continuing our current immigration policies spells doom for the Republican Party.

    Immigrants -- all immigrants -- have always been the bulwark of the Democratic Party. For one thing, recent arrivals tend to be poor and in need of government assistance. Also, they're coming from societies that are far more left-wing than our own. History shows that, rather than fleeing those policies, they bring their cultures with them. (Look at what New Yorkers did to Vermont.)

    This is not a secret. For at least a century, there's never been a period when a majority of immigrants weren't Democrats.

    At the current accelerated rate of immigration -- 1.1 million new immigrants every year -- Republicans will be a fringe party in about a decade.

    Thanks to endless polling, we have a pretty good idea of what most immigrants believe.

    According to a Harris poll, 81 percent of native-born citizens think the schools should teach students to be proud of being American. Only 50 percent of naturalized U.S. citizens do.

    While 67 percent of native-born Americans believe our Constitution is a higher legal authority than international law, only 37 percent of naturalized citizens agree.

    No wonder they vote 2-1 for the Democrats.



    The two largest immigrant groups, Hispanics and Asians, have little in common economically, culturally or historically. But they both overwhelmingly support big government, Obamacare, affirmative action and gun control.

    According the 2012 National Asian American Survey, as well as a Kaiser Foundation poll, only 40 percent of the general public holds a favorable opinion of Obamacare, 42 percent unfavorable. Meanwhile, 51 percent of Asians have a favorable opinion of Obamacare, 18 percent an unfavorable one. Even Koreans support Obamacare by 57 percent to 17 percent.

    Overall, 69 percent of immigrants like Obamacare, according to a 2010 Cooperative Congressional Election Study.

    That same survey showed that only 35 percent of native-born Americans support affirmative action, compared to 58 percent of immigrants, including -- amazingly -- 64 percent of Asians (suggesting they may not be as smart as everyone thinks).

    Also surprising, a Pew Research Center poll of all Hispanics, immigrant and citizen alike, found that Hispanics take a dimmer view of capitalism than even people who describe themselves as "liberal Democrats." While 47 percent of self-described "liberal Democrats" hold a negative view of capitalism, 55 percent of Hispanics do.

    Pew also found that only 27 percent of Hispanics support gun rights, compared to 57 percent of non-Hispanic whites. According to Latino Decisions, large majorities of Hispanics favor a national database of gun owners, limiting the capacity of magazines and a ban on semiautomatic weapons.
    El Linko
    Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live...
    Robert Southwell, S.J.

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    How are Republicans going to square that circle? It's not their position on amnesty that immigrants don't like; it's Republicans' support for small government, gun rights, patriotism, the Constitution and capitalism.


    She left out apple pie and puppies.
    “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”

    ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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    • #3
      History shows that, rather than fleeing those policies, they bring their cultures with them. (Look at what New Yorkers did to Vermont.)



      According to a Harris poll, 81 percent of native-born citizens think the schools should teach students to be proud of being American. Only 50 percent of naturalized U.S. citizens do.

      While 67 percent of native-born Americans believe our Constitution is a higher legal authority than international law, only 37 percent of naturalized citizens agree.
      That is actually very surprising to me, and does not reflect my experience with naturalized citizens at all.
      It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
      In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
      Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
      Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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      • #4
        Odd thing to begin with.

        Why would you teach pride? Maybe the question is awkward.

        "Should schools teach kids to be proud of being American?"

        "No. They should teach kids fucking fractions."
        “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”

        ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Billy Jingo View Post
          Odd thing to begin with.

          Why would you teach pride? Maybe the question is awkward.

          "Should schools teach kids to be proud of being American?"

          "No. They should teach kids fucking fractions."
          When I was in school, we managed to learn both fractions and civics (though they called it "social studies" by then).
          It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
          In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
          Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
          Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Adam View Post
            When I was in school, we managed to learn both fractions and civics (though they called it "social studies" by then).
            I understand that. Civics, and teaching the mechanisms with which our system of government works, makes sense. That isn't really the same as teaching pride. Maybe I misunderstand the question.
            “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”

            ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Billy Jingo View Post
              I understand that. Civics, and teaching the mechanisms with which our system of government works, makes sense. That isn't really the same as teaching pride. Maybe I misunderstand the question.
              I don't think it takes a whole lot of effort to teach pride as part of a function of teaching civics.

              Perhaps "pride" isn't the correct word, but I can't really think of a better one than that to describe to schoolchildren that the United States has the best form of government in the world, and that they should be glad that they live here instead of, say, Myanmar.
              It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
              In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
              Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
              Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Adam View Post
                I don't think it takes a whole lot of effort to teach pride as part of a function of teaching civics.

                Perhaps "pride" isn't the correct word, but I can't really think of a better one than that to describe to schoolchildren that the United States has the best form of government in the world, and that they should be glad that they live here instead of, say, Myanmar.
                Or Bangladesh
                "Faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind : which, if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to anything but upon good reason, and so cannot be opposite to it."
                -John Locke

                "It's all been melded together into one giant, authoritarian, leftist scream."
                -Newman

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Adam View Post
                  I don't think it takes a whole lot of effort to teach pride as part of a function of teaching civics.

                  Perhaps "pride" isn't the correct word, but I can't really think of a better one than that to describe to schoolchildren that the United States has the best form of government in the world, and that they should be glad that they live here instead of, say, Myanmar.
                  If it isn't self evident, cloying praise won't really help.
                  “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”

                  ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Billy Jingo View Post
                    If it isn't self evident, cloying praise won't really help.
                    Most schoolchildren haven't a clue what things are like in the rest of the world.
                    It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
                    In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
                    Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
                    Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Adam View Post





                      That is actually very surprising to me, and does not reflect my experience with naturalized citizens at all.
                      Agreed. I have found that naturalized citizens, for the most part, are very proud of being citizens of this country.
                      Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live...
                      Robert Southwell, S.J.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by phillygirl View Post
                        Agreed. I have found that naturalized citizens, for the most part, are very proud of being citizens of this country.
                        +1. They should be proud. The process involved a bit more than walking across a river.
                        If it pays, it stays

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Frostbit View Post
                          +1. They should be proud. The process involved a bit more than walking across a river.
                          Yes. I've been to many naturalization ceremonies and I'm always struck by the oath and realize how much it would take for me to take a similar oath in a different country.
                          Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live...
                          Robert Southwell, S.J.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by phillygirl View Post
                            Yes. I've been to many naturalization ceremonies and I'm always struck by the oath and realize how much it would take for me to take a similar oath in a different country.
                            Never underestimate the value of a US passport. It gives a freedom of movement in the world that is not always understood by Americans.
                            “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”

                            ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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