{"id":29257,"date":"2016-09-20T22:35:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T02:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29257"},"modified":"2016-09-20T22:35:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T02:35:32","slug":"a-difficult-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29257","title":{"rendered":"A Difficult Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight I had the privilege of hearing two very knowledgeable speakers on the subject of immigration in America<\/a>–Jim Robb, Vice President of Operations at Numbers USA<\/a> and Ron Woodard, Director of NC Listen. It was a very informative evening, but I left with a realization that at some point in the near future, America was going to have to balance the interests of Americans<\/a> with the desire to help immigrants. Right now we are not balancing those two things–our current immigration and refugee programs (or lack of them) are hurting Americans and need to be reevaluated.<\/p>\n

One aspect of this problem is illustrated by two graphs at the non-partisan Center for Immigration Studies<\/a> website<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"centerforimmigration\"<\/a>There is something seriously wrong with this picture.So what is going on? There are two groups who are happy with the current situation–for very different reasons. Democratic politicians want to create a permanent dependent class that will continue to elect Democrats in order to get government handouts. It was President Lyndon B. Johnson<\/a> who stated as he worked to pass his expansive ‘Great Society<\/a>‘ program, “”I’ll have those n—–s voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” The other group is the Chamber of Commerce<\/a>. This group has put the idea of cheap labor above the welfare of Americans. Businessmen who support excessive immigration in order to pay workers less (both legal and illegal immigrants) in order to make a bigger profit are not ethical and do not have the best interests of American workers in mind. I think both the Democratic Party<\/a> and the Chamber of Commerce have lost their way.<\/p>\n

Sane immigration policy is possible. It begins with closing the borders to all but legal immigrants who have passed thorough background checks, tracking people who have overstayed their visas (a group that would include the 911 hijackers), and deporting anyone who is arrested, caught driving under the influence, or commits any illegal act. Sane immigration would also include the U.S. Government<\/a> determining who immigrates to the United States–not the United Nations. Right now the United Nations totally controls the American refugee program. We need to reclaim our sovereignty and our country’s borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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