Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi
A year-end Associated Press poll showed that the two top 2019 stories were, first, the House of Representatives’ vote to impeach President Trump and, second, the president’s immigration agenda. The media and the president’s critics refer to Trump’s immigration views as hardline when in fact they reflect his desire to enforce the laws as written and congressionally approved decades ago.
Incumbent Trump versus whichever pro-immigration Democrat survives the endless debate cycle sets up an interesting showdown. Another late December poll, this one taken by Rasmussen, found that Americans are becoming more aware of immigration’s effect on the qualify of life, and understandably so. The nation cannot add more than 1 million new immigrants year after year, as has been the long-standing practice, without societal consequences. Until the Immigration Act of 1965, immigration averaged 250,000 annually.
Included in Rasmussen’s findings: 47 percent of likely voters polled want to slow immigration-driven population growth, and 14 percent want no immigration-related growth. Further, 68 percent believe the federal government should limit legal immigration to no more than 1 million annually – a total it currently exceeds – and 36 percent want no more than 500,000 admitted each year. With regard to population-busting family reunification, also referred to as chain migration, 59 percent of voters think legal immigrants should only be allowed to bring their spouse and minor children with them, while 32 percent favor maintaining the current practice that allows them to eventually bring in other adult relatives, including extended family and their spouse’s families.
Americans have shown a growing concern about immigration-related quality-of-life issues. Once more or less limited to border states like California, Texas and Arizona, immigration has now added population to every state, with dire effects on housing and the environment. The impacts are visible in more and more sprawl, overcrowding and traffic congestion.
Consider Virginia, for example. Virginia’s three fast-growing counties – Fairfax, Arlington and Prince William, all located adjacent to Washington, D.C. – reflect immigration’s consequences on population growth. Since 1990, hundreds of thousands of Hispanics and Asians have moved into the area, and today account for 32 percent of the 1.8 million aggregate residents in the counties. This is triple their 1990 level. During Northern Virginia’s local elections in 2018, some candidates, in response to constituents’ concerns, considered imposing population limits in various affected regions.
The Census Bureau – the ultimate nonpartisan source – projects that if the immigration status quo remains unchanged, future net immigration, the difference between the number coming and number leaving, will total 46 million by 2060, and the total U.S. population will reach 404 million, up from today’s 330 million. Census Bureau data projects that immigration will account for 95 percent of population growth between 2017-2060. Readers can do their own informal poll by asking their friends and neighbors how they feel about adding 75 million more people in the coming decades. The likely result is that most would be overwhelmingly opposed.
Yet, the federal government continues on its current path, apparently unconcerned about the nation’s future or cowed by likely xenophobia charges or a combination of both. But ignorance and cowardice are not leadership qualities. Two years ago, senators Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) introduced the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy Act (the RAISE Act) that would, over a ten-year period, reduce immigration by 50 percent. The bill had only two cosponsors. Reintroduced in 2019, along with Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-Mo.) endorsement, the proposed legislation has only the original three signatories, plus Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.). In short, Congress is making little if any effort to comply with American voters’ wishes for less immigration.
In U.S. politics, nowhere is the divide greater between voters and elitist Congress than on immigration.
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People still believe polls ?
If white people don’t find someway to stop this invasion then we as a group are going to lose our nation in my life time.We have been lied to about Asians ,Hispanics Jews and other groups.They are and they vote for this liberal/ socialism bullshit that has destroyed countries and economic systems all over this planet.
And it will do the same here .We as people are not the same .Brown people vote against the interest of whites just like Jews.Whites tend to think these people are ” naturally conservative “. What ever that means because that’s what the media has told them. It’s a lie.
“Whites tend to think these people are ‘naturally conservative'”
this is because throughout the world people are family oriented, for exactly precisely the same reason they are tribal/nationalist/racist. conservatives think “family values” == conservativism, because the left has attacked the normal civic family for so long, so they see the tribals’ strong families and think “they’re conservative”.
There is no effective limit to immigration as long as those immigrants are not white. There is zero (none, nada, zilch) desire by anyone of note or import in the government of the USA to limit the immigration of non-white aliens to the USA for any reason at all. There is a vague wish the Mohammedans and some sub groups of violent mestizos would stay home, but no effort to make it so.
The borders of the USA are effectively gone, and will not be re established anytime soon. I don’t like that, but that is the way it is, and there is no sense in pretending otherwise.
Americans no longer have a representative government or nation to call our own.
Since the 1965 Immigration Act went into effect, more than 30 million immigrants, most from non-European, Third World countries have poured into the United States. Today, most of the U.S. population growth is due to these immigrants, and their offspring. These results contradict promises made to American citizens by the Act’s Congressional Sponsors, as revealed in their own words
https://vdare.com/articles/so-much-for-promises-quotes-re-1965-immigration-act
Truth be told. people flooding in here are takers not makers. Need more problems, accelerate the flood aka Obongo
I’ve come to the conclusion that Democracy’s fatal flaw was to allow women to vote.
Women will watch their once million dollar home in Fairfield county Connecticut go to $600,000 which in inflation adjusted terms is only $300,000. All to cling to status of women’s rights bullshit.
You see , so many women don’t give a shit about immigration as long as Status is NPC’d into their drone minds.
At the end of the game women will never be allowed to vote again.
It’s science.
Did Women’s Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~iversen/PDFfiles/LottKenny.pdf
Congress is a criminal organization and does not work for US. It’s a simple as that.
zero for a decade.
kick out all the illegals already here, declaring all their kids born here not citizens. kick out all the h1b’s. and kick out all the kids born here on “birth tourism” and declare them non-citizens.
then we’ll talk about “hardline” steps.
“Immigration is the weapon by which countries are stolen from its natives”.
https://pjmedia.com/election/battleground-ohio-sos-finds-hundreds-of-non-citizens-registered-to-vote-many-of-whom-cast-ballots-in-november/?fbclid=IwAR0R1ViKuyuSHhC1iWU8tRoxLsS2GpwaOb5lAfe0pAjkOUDyCtmUjyXkn6E
I think it’s obvious why. The democrats are getting themselves a permanent voting block to be in power permanently. It doesn’t help that the jew owned government wants to destroy white America through mass immigration/ soft genocide.