REPUBLICAN CLUB
OF ROSSMOOR

Energy Committee News Click HERE to read a paper on the proposed direction of our newly created committee (by Clyde Bazell, Chair of the Energy Committee) IMMIGRATION THE LETTER BELOW WAS SENT RECENTLY BY OUR CLUB PRESIDENT January 25, 2006 The Honorable George W. Bush President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear President Bush: I am writing on behalf of the large number of California Republicans who consider illegal immigration to be the most urgent problem impacting all of the northern and southern border states, especially our own.  Our club is the largest Republican club in the eastern section of the San Francisco Bay area.  The enclosed statistics from both The Heritage Club and the Federation for Immigration Reform (FAIR) describe the magnitude of this problem. We urgently ask you to consider: Installing some form of physical fence along all or portions of our southern border and using the Army and/or National Guard to police it.  It could be supplemented by 24/7 lighting, 24/7 overhead drones, sensors, etc. to forestall fence climbers.  Making it crystal-clear to the President of Mexico that he has absolutely no say or influence over our decision to build this fence. Possibly urging Congress to revoke the Posse Comitatis Assisting Congressional lawmakers to draft legislation that mandates that English and only English is the official national language in all documents, both state and federal and at every government level. Actually enforcing the laws in place and having severe sanctions against American employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens.  We should be able to advertise that there are NO jobs available for illegal entrants. Encouraging border states to pass laws containing severe financial penalties for employers who flout the law.  Also, invoke severe federal sanctions against cities that presume to call themselves “sanctuary cities”, thus giving direction and encouragement to illegal aliens. Aggressively working for a change in the INS code to remove the provision that any American-born baby automatically becomes a US citizen (i.e., “anchor babies”) if even one parent is here illegally.  Also, to revoke the similar provision that gives benefits of any nature to elderly immigrant family members who have never lived or worked in the United States.  Our national debt is too much of a burden to give such benefits to persons who have not earned them. Attempting to find and categorize some of the 11-15 million illegals currently here.  We cannot have hoards of people within our borders about whom we have no knowledge at all.   That is a dangerous condition in this time of a war on terrorism. Mandate sufficient money and personnel to capture members of the lethal MS-13 gangs which have the absolute gall to operate on American soil.  As you are aware, they originated in Latin America and are in the business of torturing or killing anyone who gets in their way of importing contraband, drugs, illegal aliens or terrorists. Postponement or inaction on your part or on that of Congress exacerbates this urgent problem, is terribly demoralizing for our citizens, and is disrespectful to our laws, traditions, culture and national heritage.  It gives non-Americans the idea that we ourselves don’t respect or enforce our own laws to protect our national borders.   As you know, the President’s  first duty is our security, including the security of protecting our borders. We California Republicans are increasingly surrounded by people who don’t bother to learn or speak English, who behave as if they have the right to exalt their loyalty to their nations-of-origin above loyalty to the U.S. and who have no intention of assimilating. We are proud to be loyal Bush supporters and, as loyal Republicans, we want you to know that we do and will support any and all efforts to secure our wonderful homeland. Thank you for your attention to our petition and for understanding how seriously this issue impacts our lives and how impatient we have become of inaction at all levels of government. Respectfully, Diane Bordeaux President, Republican Club of Rossmoor   Enclosures:       The Heritage Foundation / FAIR (Federation for Immigration Reform) cc:  Arnold Schwarzenegger, CA. Governor  Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, U.S. Senator Ellen Tauscher, U.S. Representative Tom Torlakson, CA. State Senator Guy Houston, CA. State Assembly The following article was written by our March speaker, Yeh Ling-Ling, and published in the RECORD (Harvard Law School's independent newspaper) on February 9th. Examine Mexico's Real Intent Before Reforming Immigration By: Yeh Ling-Ling   Issue date: 2/9/06 Section: Opinion Article Tools: Page 1 of 1   President Bush and Congressional leaders of both parties are determined to achieve defacto amnesty in 2006 for millions of illegal migrants. Why should Americans concerned with racial harmony and national unity take a close look at the social and political impacts of massive Mexican immigration? Professor Samuel P. Huntington, chairman of Harvard University's Academy for International and Area Studies, warned in 2004: "Demographically, socially, and culturally, the reconquista (re-conquest) of the Southwest United States by Mexican immigrants is well underway.... No other immigrant group in U.S. history has asserted or could assert a historical claim to U.S. territory. Mexicans and Mexican Americans can and do make that claim." Huntington also said that "Mexican immigration differs from past immigration and most other contemporary immigration due to a combination of six factors: contiguity, scale, illegality, regional concentration [in the American Southwest], persistence, and historical presence." In May, 2005, the BBC reported: "The Latinization of California is nothing short of a revolution. California will become a predominantly Spanish-speaking state within the next few years. And, as the majority population, there is really no need, or incentive, for them to assimilate into mainstream American society as their predecessors have always done. Whether Latinos then decide to push for greater autonomy or to seek a political agenda of their own with closer ties to Mexico and Central America is very much up for grabs." In 2001, the pro-immigration New California Media reported that Mexico "continues to mourn the loss of half of its territory to the U.S. in the 19th Century." Mexico is pushing hard for amnesty and various benefits for millions of illegal Mexican migrants. Once naturalized, amnestied migrants could add tens of millions of people and future voters to the U.S. through births here and through immigration of extended families. U.S.-born children, even of illegal immigrants and guest workers, are American citizens and could vote at 18. Furthermore, in 2001 Ernesto Ruffo Appel, then-border czar of Mexico, reportedly advised Mexican migrants: "If the border patrol agent finds you, try again." In 2004, the Mexican government published a guide with safety tips for Mexicans who want to illegally cross the U.S. border. According to the 2000 Census, the U.S. population had increased by about 13% from 1990, but those who identified themselves as Mexican had increased by 53%. In 1997, Ernest Zedillo, then-President of Mexico, declared in Chicago that "the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important - a very important - part of it." Is Mexico using legal as well as illegal migration to extend the Mexican nation? To quickly expand the Hispanic electorate, activists across the country have campaigned to secure the right to vote for non-citizens and actively register voters. MEChA, an acronym for a Chicano student organization with chapters on many U.S. college campuses, has actively recruited Mexican-American voters. MEChA's founding constitution called for the "liberation of our land." It has had prominent political leaders among its members, including current Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who headed MEChA's chapter in Los Angeles when he was a student at UCLA; Cruz Bustamente, the lieutenant governor of California; and California State Senator Gil Cedillo, who has pushed legislation to grant driver's licenses to illegal aliens. The Mexican government and many Mexican American leaders have lobbied in tandem very effectively. For example, after California's voters approved Proposition 187, the 1994 ballot measure that would have denied public benefits to illegal immigrants, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund and other pro-illegal groups sued to overturn it. Parts of the initiative were ruled unconstitutional in a federal district court and the measure was taken up on appeal. Before the appeal could be, Mexican President Zedillo paid a visit to California Governor Gray Davis. Subsequently, Davis decided to settle the case "out of court" through mediation. But only the opponents of Prop 187 were invited to take part and the measure was shelved. Antonio Villaraigosa publicly thanked the Mexican president for his help in killing Prop 187. Many Mexican-American are patriotic. But many newcomers and their U.S.-born children can be mobilized by Mexico to vote according to Mexico's interests. U.S.-born Juan Hernandez, then a member of current Mexico President Vicente Fox's cabinet, has stated: "We are betting that the Mexican-American population in the United States...will think Mexico first." Indeed, many American citizens of Mexican descent have run for political offices in Mexico: Manuel de la Cruz wanted to make the U.S. a Mexican electoral district when he ran for Mexico's Congress. Americans who doubt the U.S. Southwest might someday secede should heed Charles Truxillo, a Mexican-American professor at the University of New Mexico. Truxillo noted that the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia also seemed far-fetched 50 years ago. "Throughout history, nations and empires rise and fall," Truxillo warned. "No nation's borders have been permanent." Yeh Ling-Ling is executive director of Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America, a national non-profit organization based in Oakland, CA.