Cali-Fornicating Oregon

Gallup polls, one after another, seeking to determine the No. 1 most important issue facing the United States in the 2008 general election, report that Americans consistently put "immigration" in the top three.

If you were to ask which state has showed the least strain of the lack of immigration law enforcement, you might choose Oregon. In reality, Oregon would be a prime example of how the U.S. Senate is using immigration to systematically destroy much of what is wonderful about America. Until 2006, Oregon was widely touted as having the most advanced efforts to control urban sprawl in the nation. But, in fact, sprawl is everywhere. When huge numbers of people attempted to move into Oregon, they created an unstoppable demand for housing, transportation, employment, commercial and recreational opportunities that requires more and more land to be scraped and paved. For years, the population growth in Oregon has been Cali-fornicating the landscape, and the quality of life for Oregonians has been diminishing with each passing acre. While the same thing has happened in every other state, liberals ignored the human and ecological carnage solely to facilitate replenishing their dwindling demographic base.

While immigration was part of the population boom affecting all of the United States, Oregon suffered twofold, both from rising human migration and migration to the State of Oregon. The biggest part of the Oregon influx was the exodus of Americans from other states and localities (especially California) where 40 years of mass illegal alien migration created a gridlock congestion and catastrophic deterioration of lifestyle (crime and drugs) that Americans (and even immigrants) wanted out.

It was not an overstatement in 2006 to say that every community in America was in grave danger. Since then, the U.S. Senate, and Senator John McCain in particular, have succeeded in adding nearly 3 million people a year (new illegal alien migrants and births to migrants) in addition to the pre-existing 12-20 million illegal migrants, in a veritable tidal wave of humanity en route to participate in amnesty programs. California, Arizona, Illinois, Texas, Florida, New Jersey, New York and Washington DC, the prime destinations for immigrants, simply will no longer be able to provide the quality of life that most Americans crave. American citizens and immigrants will both seek relief in places like Oregon. In the process, states like Oregon have already deteriorated to the point that they no longer exist in a form that would be familiar to somebody who lived there at the time of the first Earth Day in 1970. The environmental trajectory in Oregon, and all other states as a result of unrestrained immigration, is that of a gliding anvil.

One only has to drive down the Oregon central valley during the middle of a weekday, or drive the highways of Phoenix, Arizona and experience clogged traffic and endless new subdivisions. If you have not visited Oregon for some time, imagine Portland, Salem and Eugene being connected into one long suburban mass, like the ugly megalopolises of California and the Mid-Atlantic corridor.

If you are of an environmental persuasion, you would be incredibly saddened to see the march of sub-divisions in Oregon that is as breathtaking in its scale as are the timber clear-cuts that are part of your view from the highway much of the time. It should be relatively clear to anyone that was not born brain-dead at birth that Oregon will continue to lose its heritage, if it isn’t already gone.

Make no mistake, the population of Oregon, and the population of every other state, will continue to explode as long as the federal government “forces” massive legal and illegal immigration into the country “into the face” and “onto the backs” of American citizens. It is a mathematical certainty, as is the environmental and quality of life outcome.

What may be the most amazing is, like Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Oregon’s two Senators enthusiastically back their own state’s environmental destruction. Oregon’s two Senators act as if they have no concept of the connection between the environment and immigration. Putting names to the faces, Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR) has done almost nothing that would slow immigration-fueled population growth. Similarly, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) is no better. Sen. Wyden twice voted for procedural motions designed to pass bills that would allow around 30 million permanent green cards to foreign workers, immigrants and dependents over the next decade alone, compared to the 10 million that would be extended under current obscenely bloated numbers.

A sad thing about Oregon’s Senators and John McCain (R-AZ) is that they all tout themselves as ardent protectors and champions of environmental resources. Yet, all have been part of the process of forcing massive increases in the current level of immigration. The result is the destruction of around 1 million acres of natural habitat and farmland each year in Oregon. But this level of destruction apparently is still not high enough as Wyden has been pushing these giant increases of immigration that would force today's 300 million population over the half-BILLION mark around mid-century.

In fact, Oregonians have overwhelmingly chosen representatives in Congress who will hasten the destruction of the very qualities they claim to love about their state. The roll call of shame includes Rep. Blumenauer (D-OR), Rep. Wu (D-OR) and Rep. Hooley. The only officials working to protect Oregon from the population explosion are Rep. DeFazio (D-OR) and Rep. Walden (R-OR). Even so, there is not a true environmental champion among the whole delegation. When time permits, Oregonians should pause long enough to thank Senator John McCain for what he and Senator Kennedy have helped to inflict on their once pristine State of Oregon.

For years, commentators have accurately said that no matter how many Americans get worked up about out-of-control immigration, politicians would be unlikely to respond to them. The reason given was that immigration wasn't one of the top three issues named as the No. 1 concern by Americans in nationwide polls. Immigration for years barely made it into the top ten concerns mentioned. Unfortunately, politicians have used poll numbers to deflect and manipulate the issue and conceal from the public the reality that increases in both legal and illegal immigration only serve the self-interest of politicians, buying votes for re-election by selling American citizenship (which should not be for sale at any price), and buying those votes with every imaginable form of income redistribution from tax-paying American citizens.

Never-the-less a month ago, 6% of Americans (about as high as it has ever risen) finally named it as the nation’s No. 1 most important issue. Last week, 19% of Americans said "immigration" is their top concern. Only the Iraq war at 25% was mentioned by more people. "Fuel cost" also shot up out of nowhere to place third with 11%. "General economy" concerns were mentioned by 10%; "Dissatisfaction with government" by 8%; "Unemployment" by 6% as were "Education," "Terrorism," and "Health Care."

Immigration is the second most important No. 1 issue among:
• Whites
• Non-Whites
• Easterners
• Midwesterners
• Southerners
• Urbanites
• Suburbanites
• Rural Residents

Immigration is the top No. 1 issue among Westerners. Immigration should have been the No. 1 issue among Congressmen for 30 years. Even so, Senators still defiantly refuse to protect the needs of American citizens and resources of America, choosing instead their own self-interest. Once again Congress has proven irrefutably that self-interest is all that counts and far more important than either polls or their own American citizenship.
Senators know only too well that Americans are not nearly as educated and prepared to know what they should do about immigration.

If media integrity were not an oxymoron, the polls showed for years that the majority of Americans supported some kind of path to citizenship for illegal aliens, while at the same time saying we need to get tougher on illegal immigration. Those polls were a sign of how the news media, with an agenda, primarily gave only carefully contrived options between mass roundups and deportations on the one hand and some kind of amnesty on the other hand. Professional polling (that hasn't gotten much media publicity) has always shown that most Americans oppose amnesty when the poll questions were worded in a more legitimate way.

Most Americans don't understand that most of our nation’s most serious problems stem from immigration and are related to the fact that since 1990 the Unites States has averaged about 1 million legal immigrants a year -- compared to only about 250,000 a year traditionally (from 1776 to 1976) and fairly recently (the 1950s and 1960s).

It is true that legalizing illegal aliens won't solve the problem, but that depends on the definition of the problem which tends to be different to those who are selling citizenship for votes. Certainly, increasing legal immigration won't solve the problem. While stopping illegal immigration dead in its tracks would bring some relief, even that won’t be enough to save Oregon and most other states. So what is the real “problem?”

The natural resources and the human quality of life in this country won't get any relief until Congress first stops illegal immigration and then begins dramatically cutting permissible immigration numbers. That’s right, not only stopping illegal immigration, but reducing currently ridiculous levels of legal immigration. In addition, legal immigrants should meet a variant of the standard once set out by President John F. Kennedy - ask not what the country can do for immigrants, but what each individual immigrant can do for America. Getting a job does not cut it. What exceptionally desirable education, knowledge or skill does each immigrant bring with him or her that would differentiate that person from all others who want to come to America? America should be selective and decide who becomes the "immigrant." The decision of who becomes an immigrant should not be the choice of the immigrant, the media, the pandering church or any political party. The Constitution is quite clear on the issue, assuming that still means anything.

The interests of the United States should come before the needs of any potential individual immigrant. To do otherwise would place the interests of the immigrant ahead of American citizens, which is the case today. And the interests of the citizens of the United States should come before the self-interests of Congressmen, which is not the case today.

The Census Bureau projects that even if we are successful in moving “net illegal immigration” to zero, current legal immigration numbers will still add another 100 million people to our communities over the next several decades – 100 million more people who reject assimilation, mostly indigent and unskilled, and all candidates for social services funded by taxpayers. Put this into perspective by considering that Americans today struggle with 12-20 million illegal immigrants.

Try not to be confused by rhetoric intended to sway the most ignorant among us. What America needs is not only no illegal immigration, but no immigration increases of any kind. What America needs in addition to elimination of illegal immigration is huge reductions of legal immigration.

Members of Congress who are insisting on using immigration to force population growth that is scraping and paving more than 1 million acres of open space a year have no environmental ethic or a concern for future generations. If you get a chance, ask Senator John McCain (R-AZ) why he so despises future generations of Americans?

It appears true that on any given day, there is always a Congressman on sale, willing to sell out his birthright and the rest of America for self-interest.

Red State Patriot

Posted April 24, 2006 01:42 PM
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