Assimilation, not amnesty
Not one of those amnesties was associated with a decline in illegal immigration. On the contrary, the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. has tripled since President Reagan signed the first amnesty in 1986. The total effect of the amnesties was even larger because relatives later joined amnesty recipients, and this number was multiplied by an unknown number of children born to amnesty recipients who then acquired automatic US citizenship.
Obama’s amnesty-by-executive order will produce more of the same.
Better Get Out The Vote efforts and data-mining by Republicans won’t solve the root causes of new generations of Democrats’ collective alienation from a common civic culture, core American values, and the sanctity of individual rights over the collective.
Left-wing academics and activists spurned assimilation as a common goal long ago. Their fidelity lies with bilingualism (a euphemism for native language maintenance over English-first instruction), identity politics, ethnic militancy, extreme multiculturalism, and a borderless continent.
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Thank goodness the Left is going to help us understand our problems. The Tea Party is not defeated, only temporary set back.
Herb on November 12, 2012 at 3:12 PM
Hey remember when Democrats were b*tch slapped by a massive unexpected shellacking in the 2010 midterms and proceeded to immediately drop many of their core “values”?
Yeah, me either.
Kataklysmic on November 12, 2012 at 3:13 PM
Posted on wrong story….SORRY
Herb on November 12, 2012 at 3:13 PM
Assimliation would help immigrants and help America as a whole. But as long as we’ve got bi-culturalism, conservatives should take advantage of that fact to deliver messages in the native language of immigrant groups, who are largely conservative.
The Democrats use scare tactics to win. We should start fighting those scare tactics now, not in 3 years and 11 months.
hawksruleva on November 12, 2012 at 3:14 PM
“In Defense of Internment,” by Michelle Malkin
Dante on November 12, 2012 at 3:15 PM
Another person who led us to exactly where we are. Here’s an idea. Ignore every conservative pundit appearing on FoxNews in the past 3 years.
Start fresh.
Capitalist Hog on November 12, 2012 at 3:15 PM
They led us? What office did these people hold? What position in party leadership did they hold? How much PAC money did they control and choose who and where to send it?
Rocks on November 12, 2012 at 3:19 PM
You can’t make us.
ernesto on November 12, 2012 at 3:20 PM
What makes you believe that immigrants will vote Republican? Going to church does not a conservative make. Stop with that.
Remember how we were told that blacks don’t like gays or something. FAIL!
This pandering won’t work. Genuine outreach will.
Capitalist Hog on November 12, 2012 at 3:20 PM
So?
the_nile on November 12, 2012 at 3:21 PM
Change the word to “lied.” Does that help?
Capitalist Hog on November 12, 2012 at 3:24 PM
But as Malkin said, part of being American is believing in the sanctity of individual rights over the collective. How do you perform genuine outreach to a community so diametrically opposed to what you stand for? I mean, the importance of the general welfare is a core value in Latin America…
ernesto on November 12, 2012 at 3:25 PM
Is that why latin america is generally corrupt third world hellholes?
tom daschle concerned on November 12, 2012 at 3:27 PM
general welfare and all…
tom daschle concerned on November 12, 2012 at 3:27 PM
There is more than one way of life, and there is more than one system of opinions prevalent in the United States, so it seem some attention must be given to the way of life and the opinions to which immigrants come to be persuaded. Moreover, however important it may be to persuade immigrants to adopt the language of the host country, it also seems important to begin the work of persuading immigrants to adopt new ways and to consider new opinions as early as possible. Thus, it seems good, if possible, to begin persuading them in the language they already speak. If one does not do so, while others do, one’s own opinions and way of life may never get the hearing one thinks they deserve.
Marsili.us on November 12, 2012 at 3:28 PM
No – we have centuries of slavery and genocide to thank for Latin America’s modern difficulties.
ernesto on November 12, 2012 at 3:28 PM
No one prevents them to live in Latin America.
Schadenfreude on November 12, 2012 at 3:28 PM
MM is no squish…I thought freedom was the reason most immigrants come here? Where’s JPeterman?
d1carter on November 12, 2012 at 3:28 PM
Sweet sweet victimhood…
tom daschle concerned on November 12, 2012 at 3:29 PM
Like the blacks, you will never be free, fools.
Schadenfreude on November 12, 2012 at 3:29 PM
Got a chuckle out that one.
davidk on November 12, 2012 at 3:30 PM
The same way you do with your neighbors. Have you ever converted somebody to conservatism? It’s not hard. But it does require consistency and thick skin.
Capitalist Hog on November 12, 2012 at 3:30 PM
MLK died for nothing. He cries in his grave.
Starve the looters. They keep the moronic moochers in modern day plantations, just for votes. Leftists do nada for the moochers; they only enrich their own power/lives. See how well the Looter in Chief lives.
Schadenfreude on November 12, 2012 at 3:31 PM
We are certainly headed toward 3rd world status in warp speed…good times!
d1carter on November 12, 2012 at 3:31 PM
AmeriKa —–> Greece
Welcome one, welcome all.
Schadenfreude on November 12, 2012 at 3:31 PM
Favelas=general welfare.
tom daschle concerned on November 12, 2012 at 3:32 PM
But : Free Phones!
B3 = Burn, Baby, Burn
davidk on November 12, 2012 at 3:33 PM
I can tell you that this attitude in particular is one that will never win over anybody.
Schadenfreude, I’ve read some of your comments. I don’t think you’re genuinely interested in growing the party or expanding its reach. You are an angry person who uses peoples’ differences as a target.
I am not calling you a racist or anything like that. I think your ideas are less complex than that. You’re just a small man.
Capitalist Hog on November 12, 2012 at 3:33 PM
Lied? What did they lie about? You think Malkin is lying here? For what reason? Racism?
Rocks on November 12, 2012 at 3:37 PM
Yes, long term the only real solution to our issues with minorities is to better integrate them into conservative American culture. This is why dominating school boards and educational institutions is of such importance in the long term.
Lets not fool ourselves though. We cannot just write off the current generation of minority voters, and hope the next generation will be more amicable to our positions. This is not the same as boldly declaring we can win these blocks, but we really don’t need to win them as much as split off enough to muffle the democratic machines advantage at national level politics.
This means, removing wedge issues. We could’ve used social issues to split off a portion of Hispanics this election cycle, instead the democrats used their own wedge issues to keep us off our game so they could focus on things like registering Hispanic voters.
This does not mean we grand blanket amnesty, some path to citizenship is likely inevitable, but that doesn’t mean we have to suddenly grant millions of illegals social security cards. Some sort of path that grants a very limited number of illegals citizenship, might be sufficient to remove the wedge issue. The key word there is might, maybe. Removing wedge issues like these so we can get off defense is the very first step towards improving our share of the Hispanic vote, but any such moves like this must be carefully weighed.
Basically, something must be done, and soon, but that doesn’t mean we rush into the very first option presented to us.
WolvenOne on November 12, 2012 at 3:38 PM
Gingrich joined the stupid train today…wait, he just intensified its speed.
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Capitalist Hog on November 12, 2012 at 3:33 PM
You’re just a blind fool. You’re right, I will only help speed up the demise and laugh at you. It’s past time for your “growing the party” b/s.
Stupid free people always, always, always deserve the gov’t they ‘elect’.
On your racism insinuation, you are an even bigger fool. I have helped more black/Hispanic and other non-white people than will ever fit in this comment section.
To expect this little of the first half black president, then to re-elect him, is the ultimate form of racism.
True racists can all burn in Hades, pronto.
Hypocrits who use racism to devide a land, while fooling minorities, can also burn in Hades.
Idiots who don’t see it deserve to suffer.
You don’t live up to your nom. I do to mine, if you would understand its true meaning. I chose it with great care when Obama won the first time around.
Schadenfreude on November 12, 2012 at 3:40 PM
Complexity is indignant.
Schadenfreude on November 12, 2012 at 3:41 PM
s/b divide the land
Schadenfreude on November 12, 2012 at 3:42 PM
Wasn’t slavery abolished in Latin America mostly before if not the same time as the USA?
Rocks on November 12, 2012 at 3:42 PM
Yes, but they enjoy to be ‘enslaved’ by Obama now.
Schadenfreude on November 12, 2012 at 3:44 PM
English.
Teach it.
Facility with English is the difference between a Latino and a white guy with a tan. That’s from both their perspective and ours. You need to overwrite their culture with the American culture.
Racist and colonialist? Sure, why not. But there are no bicultural societies. Only one survives. If we can’t wash out the toilet colony that is Latin America political assumptions, we’ve become too effette and Carteresque to survive.
Teach them English, forcibly. We’ll make the money back several millionfold (a rate that only goes up as Obama spends money)
HitNRun on November 12, 2012 at 3:48 PM
Starve the looters.
They include the ones on the right.
Quit listening to Hannity and such lightweight cheerleaders.
If cheerleaders had brains they wouldn’t be…cheerleaders.
The R/C side needs leaders with convictions, principles and a set of steeely ones, alas.
Schadenfreude on November 12, 2012 at 3:48 PM
Fighting against the perpetual corrupt legacy media, observing a gyrations of a corrupt government, and watching the SCOTUS make a twisted decision on one sixth of our economy tends to make those on the other side somewhat cynical.
Some big changes are in our future. I hope they are positive changes but it doesn’t look good.
d1carter on November 12, 2012 at 3:48 PM
B3. Burn, Baby, Burn.
davidk on November 12, 2012 at 3:52 PM
My post seems much more courteous than some of the others in the thread, and really, I can’t think of a single thing in it that might have triggered its being put in “moderation,” yet it seems to have ended up there, anyway. I wonder if some adjustment in the filters needs to be made. In any case, I regret not having seen the comment posted in time actually to be read.
Marsili.us on November 12, 2012 at 3:54 PM
I agree with your sentiment, but let them choose. But not to choose is to forfeit “free stuff.”
I worked in a college learning center. A deaf girl complained that I wouldn’t let her write her essay using the same syntax Deaf use when signing. I explain that if she wanted to be successful, she had to learn Standard English.
Same with any culture.
davidk on November 12, 2012 at 3:57 PM
That was in the ’80s.
davidk on November 12, 2012 at 3:57 PM
The Boss: http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/September-2012-TheBlaze-Magazine-Michelle-Malkin-270×180.jpg
davidk on November 12, 2012 at 4:00 PM
They’re not opposed to what we stand for. When’s the last election that was really about real issues? We let liberals move the goalposts.
Bull Conner Democrats were able to convince minorities to vote for them in the 70s. I’m sure we can convince them to switch back.
It’s like watching football. For a long time, people assumed that women just wouldn’t watch football. Then somebody tried to cultivate female fans, and voila! the NFL’s growth among women has been a huge part of their continued success. If we try, with the right message, we can succeed.
hawksruleva on November 12, 2012 at 4:07 PM
Who said anything about pandering? I don’t think Asians are expecting a handout. I don’t think hard-working Hispanics are all looking for amnesty. I don’t think blacks prefer government schools and low-income housing.
The truth is, most immigrants believe in the American Dream. And most blacks have lived through the failure of liberal policies. All we have to do is help them see that our plans are the plans that will make their lives better.
hawksruleva on November 12, 2012 at 4:11 PM
It’s true, the socal areas are quickly being swamped and taken over by Hispanics. Down from over 80% white just five decades ago, according to City Data, whites make up only 29% of LA County, as Hispanic numbers have ballooned to 47%: http://www.city-data.com/county/Los_Angeles_County-CA.html
Surrounding counties have as much as 76% Hispanic (check City Data), and a paltry16% white. And a huge number of individual CA towns, like King City, suddenly have over 90% Hispanic now. It’s never assimilation, it’s not a mixing pot or even a salad bowl for these new fertile immigrants, it’s a takeover. First CA, next the rest of the country.
anotherJoe on November 12, 2012 at 4:17 PM
As long as a welfare subsidy is available, you do not reach them.
In the old days, you reached the children. American public school education was geared towards assimilation and patriotism. English only
Many immigrants came for bucks, not liberty, but the system forced them to sink or swim. Meanwhile their kids were re programmed. Both vectors now missing
If the differences include refusal to assimilate, that is a fatal difference.
The portions of American culture which lead to success have been rejected by many blacks, at the encouragement of the Left. The sense that society is rigged against you creates a population who want to tear down the society and replace it.
Ernesto is correct. Mexicans get a socialist friendly indoctrination in Mexico bring these values to the US. They gonna support someone who despises socialism? Catholicism doesn’t preclude socialism. Many Bishops are open borders redistributionists.
This is one reason for the divide between Cubans who left Cuba to escape socialism, and Mexicans who bring socialist hopes. It is similar to the black vs white chasm, as Cubans take credit for their own successes, and Mexicans think it was favoritism that gave the Cubans a head up.
This is why Rubio’s bio won’t gain much with Mexicans. The GOP thinks it is magic, but Rubio has to work as hard as a white trying to get a black city to vote for him
Freude as in Freude schoener gotterfunken tochter aus Elysium, deine tauber binden weider was die welt hat streng getrung, adopted as the anthem of the EU is Utopian fools gold. Schaden Freude on the other hand, condemned by most, may also be the result of cynicism, which is sometimes the result of broken dreams. ‘Binden weider’ Freude worshippers need to be de toxed, whereas Schaden Freuders often see what others miss
entagor on November 12, 2012 at 4:23 PM
Conservative principles work. The problem is the fools we choose to deliver them. I am sick and tired of so-called pundits. Maliki, Rove, Hannity etc. Live us alone.
Ordinary conservatives I know would do a better job communicating with their Hispanic and Asian neighbors than the hacks on TV. Hannity spent years railing against amnesty only to fold like a cheap w&&&e . It’s all about ratings and cash for them. We are all pons in their twisted game.
celticdefender on November 12, 2012 at 4:30 PM
entagor on November 12, 2012 at 4:23 PM
Why you are the truly erudite and beloved entagor!
Schadenfreude on November 12, 2012 at 4:30 PM
Forgot to add: I love Michelle Malkin. She is as precise as a neurosurgeon, in a class by herself
entagor on November 12, 2012 at 4:32 PM
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