SATP Immigration Stance Reiterated
Posted: Sunday, December 4th, 2011 at 9:03 am
By: SATP
As the rhetoric throughout the Republican presidential nomination campaigns heat up, we’re hearing charges from all sides … and these are about the “conservative” candidates!
So where does the San Antonio Tea Party stand on this volatile issue? Below are the main points of the SATP position. Click Here to read the original statement from December 4, 2010.
1. The United States of America is a nation of immigrants and we have benefitted from their contributions. As such, we welcome legal immigrants and encourage them to integrate, assimilate, and contribute the fabric of this great Nation. Thus, all legal immigrants become Americans first.
2. We are a Nation of laws, and therefore we cannot condone illegal immigration. We must enforce all current immigration laws, including employer sanctions.
3. Immigration is a national security and economic issue, and not one related to ethnicity, race, or national origin. Given legitimate concerns about terrorism, economics, illegal trade, and drug/gun/human trafficking, we must first secure the border and all points of entry into the U.S. This includes both the Mexican and Canadian borders, and all airports and seaports.
4. Laws apply to people on both sides of the border—those outside who might break the laws by entering illegally and those inside who break the laws by hiring them. Penalties should apply to both.
5. Recognizing problems with current immigration laws and procedures, the entire immigration system and process should be revamped.
6. Immigration policy must be based on the needs of this Nation and humanitarian grounds. For example, current preference must be given to scientists and engineers who might directly contribute to our national security and economics needs, since our educational system is not currently producing them in the quantities needed to sustain our security and growth.
7. We must institute a “guest worker program” that allows the illegal workers to come out of the shadows and register as guest workers. This program will also allow these undocumented workers to enter and leave the US safely, and get paid properly. These guest workers would not be entitled to vote or receive social welfare services.
8. Those illegal immigrants who desire to stay in the U.S. must pay a penalty and should go “to the back of the line” to follow the proper process which they should have in the first place. They should be classified as guest workers or temporary visitors and must avoid any misdemeanor during that waiting period.
9. As for the children of illegal immigrants, the law on anchor babies must be changed. Those children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants should not be able to emigrate their parents or relatives. We cannot allow illegal immigrants to have a path to automatic citizenship through their U.S. born children. Also, we cannot let the U.S. become an orphanage to world for illegal immigrants to come and “drop off” their children.
10. We believe it is very important that Hispanic conservatives speak out to defuse the accusations of liberals that solutions by conservatives, though applying these criteria, are racist. As stated, immigration is a matter of national and economic security, and we have previously and will continue to condemn immigration or other policies based on racism.
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San Antonio Tea Party
Wow—someone changed the numbers on this article.When I said I was against # 5 –that was the # 5 on the original article of Dec. 2010. Now it it appears as # 7 in this article. I am against any temporary or permanent guest worker program–and if they change the number on it again–just remember–no guest worker programs. Secure our borders with armed military–deport all illegals–and repeal the birthright law–that allows children of illegals born in the USA to be USA citizens.
I agree with both of the two previous postings here.
That being said, I think that the SATP position is a realistic one and one that we can live if we first get secure borders and a revision of the “anchor babies / chain migration”. These need to be done before we agree to the rest or once again we will be back addressing this in 5 years.
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Juan Reynoso’s Blog – TeaParty.org
http://www.teaparty.org/
December 7th, 2011
Fellow Americans, the millions of Americans of Hispanic origin are patriotic Americans and loyal to our country the United States Of America; many of us served our country with honor in the second world war, Korea, Vietnam and the undeclared wars. Today many are questioning our loyalty, because the work of the Mexicans organization that seek political power and money for their organization, using civil rights tactics to pressure corporations and our Government to obtain their support.
[THIS ARTICLE EDITED BY SATP WEBMASTER BECAUSE IT IS A CUT & PASTE FULL ARTICLE FROM THE AUTHOR. YOU MAY READ HIS BLOG AT: http://www.teaparty.org/ ]
We are Americans and proud to be Americans.
God save our country from this self destruction.
I am 100% against # 5 on this list.With an unemployment rate of almost 10% in our nation we do not need any guest worker program at all.I say a great big “no” to all guest worker programs.USA citizens will do every job–if they are given a living wage.If a business refuses to pay a living wage or they cannot pay a living wage to USA citizens–then they should simply go out of business and someone else will take their place.
This is the same as the way the 2ond amendment is being treated. If the existing laws were followed we wouldn’t have a problem with either one.