Immigration Facts

As I’ve noted before, when liberals say one thing, most often the opposite is true. For example, when the ’94 Republican-led Congress sought to balance the budget by lowering the amount of increases for certain welfare programs from previous years (a 7% increase instead of a 10% increase), the Democrats called these “cuts.” (For you liberals, who don’t quite understand math, a cut would have meant a reduction by some percentage, not an increase – that is, a 7% increase is still an increase, and not a cut).
When the Republicans thrice warned the Democrat-led oversight committees between 2004 and 2007 that government initiated and irresponsible lending programs would lead to a major financial crisis, the Democrats (Chris Dodd and Barney Frank in particular) called these warnings “typical Republican fear-mongering.”
The recently passed Healthcare “Reform,” is proving to be anything but a fix. In similar fashion the current administration is preparing to foist immigration “reform” upon us all. Of course, one can only guess what they mean by “reform.” Let’s take a look at some basic facts. I know liberals don’t like facts, but conservatives try to form opinions based upon them instead of pure feelings and political opportunism. Below is a chart depicting 2009 immigration numbers from the top 10 countries of origin (sources: Department of Human Services and the Office of Immigration Statistics).



Remember, these are the top 10 – if you add up the percentages they won’t equal 100%. I stuck with the top 10 to make this post as brief as possible. It’s interesting to note also that as a percentage of a source country’s population, the Hispanic nations on the list blow all other countries away.
Here is a pie chart representing the table above:



Mexico, despite its much smaller population is, by far, the largest exporter of humans to this country. And yet more pressure is being applied to the U.S., and its citizens to increase the percentages through an amnesty type “reform.”
If you look closer you will see that out of the top 10, over 51% of those immigrants come from countries with Hispanic populations. Maybe this pie chart will help:



This information should make it quite clear that current U.S. Immigration laws are in no way biased against Hispanics!!
So why does it take so long for people from other countries to become citizens of the U.S.? There are many good reasons, namely criminal background checks. And after 9/11, we would be criminally stupid if we weakened our security to accommodate anyone. Names of potential citizens are checked against multiple databases at the CIA, FBI, NSA and other agencies to make certain we aren’t giving terrorists, rapists, murderers, thieves, drug dealers and other undesirables unfettered access to the lives and property of our existing citizens who have every right to expect and demand such scrutiny in the first place.
The Obama Administration isn’t thinking about that. To them, the (cough and wink) 20 million illegals currently residing here represent a major block of voters that may help liberals turn the tide in future elections. This group is becoming more integral to the success of the Democrat party especially since ACORN has collapsed amid its voter-fraud, tax fraud, and prostitution-promoting scandals, not to mention the decline of the SEIU, the worsening employment outlook, the overwhelming national debt, and the passage of the increasingly unpopular healthcare “reform.”
Make no mistake about it; This is the reason the Obama administration failed to secure the border and opposed Arizona's immigration enforcement law. He and his cronies will politicize everything to retain power and control. Remember that come November!

Obama and the Religion Question

Poll after poll, the left-leaning media are quick to point out that the nearly 20% of the population who believe Obama is a secret Muslim are nothing but kooks from the fringe-right. In March of 2009 the number was 11%, so either the kooks are breeding more kooks, or there must be something compelling about all of the evidence. Such as:

He was born to a Muslim father who later became an atheist, his step-father was Muslim, his pastor for 20 years in Chicago, Jeremiah Wright, is a former Muslim, he practiced Islam as a young boy and attended a Muslim school, etc., etc.

Although I believe in my heart of hearts that Obama is partial to Islam, probably for nostalgic reasons, I don’t believe he is a Muslim. And I think the question of whether he is or isn’t a Muslim is not the right question to be asking. The real question is: Is Barack Obama a Christian as he claims?

It’s a difficult question, because there are over 12,000 “Christian” denominations in the United States alone, none of which seem to be able to agree on any particular body of doctrine and yet; most of them share a belief in certain core doctrines.

Fundamental to all Christian sects is a respect for innocent life, of which Obama has shown through word and deed he has none. His voting record has always sided with the pro-abortion crowd, even to the point that he voted against ending partial birth abortions. During the 2008 campaign when asked when human life begins, he stated that the answer was above his “pay-grade,” despite the fact that science has proven that life begins at conception, and that Christian doctrine says exactly the same thing.

On social issues Obama fails to even consider the Christian concept of ownership through work and earning. Instead, he prefers a more socialist (and anti-Christian) system of forced wealth redistribution. In all fairness to Mr. Obama, most Christian sects have fallen into this error over the last 50 years. But, by his own admission, it was this “social justice” that led him to convert to… Jeremiah Wright’s “church” in the first place, and not any of the fundamental Christian beliefs. It should come as no surprise that, as of this writing, Obama still has not found a church to regularly attend. Since going to Washington it appears he has attended more golf outings and vacations then any sort of Christian service.

I do not believe that he is a Christian, but I am convinced that he will begin attending services and paying lip service to the tenants of a faith, any faith, if doing so is the politically expedient thing for him to do.