{"id":445,"date":"2006-12-19T23:00:36","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T03:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=445"},"modified":"2006-12-23T00:18:04","modified_gmt":"2006-12-23T04:18:04","slug":"do-not-read-this-immigration-and-usurpation-elites-power-and-the-people%e2%80%99s-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/19\/do-not-read-this-immigration-and-usurpation-elites-power-and-the-people%e2%80%99s-will\/","title":{"rendered":"DO NOT READ THIS! Immigration and Usurpation &#8211; Elites, Power, and the People\u2019s Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I am down with what ever bug [ I HAD A FLU SHOT] it is that is making me feel like this,<strong> DO NOT READ THE BELOW FROM THE <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cis.org\/topics\/guestworkers.html\">CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES <\/a><\/strong>on the true goals of the continued violation of the law and the Constitution by the American government.<\/p>\n<p>From CIS, <strong>Immigration and Usurpation &#8211; Elites, Power, and the People\u2019s Will<\/strong> By Fredo Arias-King &#8211; who worked for the Mexican government at one time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;&#8230;these legislators seemingly believed that they could weaken the restraining and frustrating straightjacket devised by the Founding Fathers and abetted by American norms. In that idealized &#8220;new&#8221; United States, political uncertainty, demanding constituents, difficult elections, and accountability in general would &#8220;go away&#8221; after tinkering with the People, who have given lawmakers their privileges but who, like a Sword of Damocles, can also &#8220;unfairly&#8221; take them away. &#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I hope you read the entire paper, but don&#8217;t miss this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bill Richardson, who had served in Clinton\u2019s cabinet and later became governor of New Mexico, kindly stopped to speak to our delegation at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. He commented favorably to us: &#8220;What do Hispanics want? Fully funded government programs!&#8221; The Economist mentioned about his state:<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico is a poor place, with one of the highest proportion of people living on food stamps \u2026 Its political tradition also long had a Latin American feel, based around a padr\u00f3n system of clients and bosses. The bosses ran grocery stores, gave you credit, helped you if you needed a job. And all you had to do was vote for the Democrats \u2026 New Mexican politics is still about jobs, contracts and personal loyalty, not ideology. And Mr. Richardson personifies this.6<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or this<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some legislators had also mentioned to us (oftentimes laughing) how they had &#8220;defanged&#8221; or &#8220;gutted&#8221; anti-immigration bills and measures, by neglecting to fund this program or tabling that provision, or deleting the other measure, etc. &#8220;Yes, we passed that law, but it can\u2019t work because we also\u2026&#8221; was a usual comment to assuage the Mexican<br \/>\ndelegations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<br \/>\nSamuel Huntington speculated that the American &#8220;creed&#8221; (values and beliefs) cannot be used to openly oppose mass immigration.16 That may change. So far, the immigration debate has centered on the immigrants themselves\u2014whether they are worthy or unworthy. This debate is a red herring, <\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cis.org\/articles\/2006\/back706.html\">the entire report<\/a>. Think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I am down with what ever bug [ I HAD A FLU SHOT] it is that is making me feel like this, DO NOT READ THE BELOW FROM THE CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES on the true goals of the continued violation of the law and the Constitution by the American government. From CIS, Immigration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}