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Lying Liar

By Mark Andrew Dwyer -- March 18, 2006

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is currently debating a "comprehensive immigration and border security" legislation. Citizens who for years now have bombarded their senators with letters, faxes, and phone calls urging them to put mass illegal "immigration" to a stop must be really surprised to learn what kind of "solution" the Judiciary Committee is cooking for them. The senators want us to believe that the best way to secure American nation from million man invasion of unassimilating but assertive aliens is more immigration and legalization of those already, albeit illegally, here.

Those of us who watch what's going on in Washington, D.C., on the front of illegal "immigration" have a straightforward name for this kind of legislative measure: an amnesty. But according to Reuters (see [1]), one of the most vocal advocates of the measure, Sen. Edward Kennedy (Dem. - Massachusetts) told the Committee that the proposal was not an amnesty. "There is no moving to the front of the line, there is no free ticket," Kennedy said. "This is not amnesty."

Yeah, right.

Take, for instance, an amnesty for thieves, if one would consider such thing. It would offer offenders either an exempt from punishment or a lesser fine in exchange for their denouncement of the crimes that they committed and returning stolen property to the rightful owners. No one in his right mind would allow them (the thieves, that is) keep the stolen property, let alone promising them a legal title to that stolen property.

But that's exactly what Kennedy-McCain proposal debated by the Judiciary Committee will do. It will exempt illegal "immigrants", for a symbolic fine of $2,000, from punishment for violating America's border and her immigration laws and for stealing from us and our children the land that we and our ancestors cultivated and developed, improved with buildings, roads, and infrastructure, and made the most prosperous country on Earth. If that wasn't generous enough, the Kennedy-McCain proposal will let the illegal "immigrants" keep the part of America they (the illegal "immigrants", that is) stole already from us and promise them a legal title to it in a form of future U.S. citizenship. And the perpetrators will not even have to denounce their offenses as if they never took place.

To add an insult to the injury, Kennedy calls his proposal "not an amnesty". What a lying liar he has been during his way too long tenure in the federal legislature. Here is what he said in the U.S. Congress in 1965 on the occasion of passing Immigration and Nationality Act:

"What the bill will not do: First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same. [...] Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset. [...] Contrary to the charges in some quarters, S. 500 will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area [...]."

Nothing of what he had said turned true, and I have no doubt that he never believed in what he said, either. As of today, one country, Mexico, flooded our cities and suburbs with her immigrants, legal and otherwise, and upset traditional ethnic mix that our nation maintained in balance for generations. Now, Kennedy is attempting to drive the last nail into America,s coffin and blatantly denies doing so. I wish the voters in Massachusetts took a note of this.

REFERENCES

[1] "Senators near compromise on immigration reform"
By Donna Smith -- http://www.redorbit.com/news/general/431684/senators_near_compromise_on_immigration_reform

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