Biden’s Immigration Plans Disregard the Preservation of Our Culture

Article author: 
Jeff Davidson Jeff Davidson
Article publisher: 
Townhall
Article date: 
1 February 2021
Article category: 
National News
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With lightning speed, the White House, presumably under the direction of Joe Biden, sent a bill to Congress claiming to “restore humanity and American values to our immigration system.” Is there any truth to such a statement? 

Here is a quiz. Which U.S. Republican president said these words verbatim at one of his early State of the Union addresses? Reagan, Bush Sr., Bush Jr., or Trump?

"All Americans, not only in the States most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens."...

President Clinton, a proud Democrat, took this stance, which is completely adverse to today’s Democrats. Roughly 61 million immigrants, for an overall increase of 18 million since the year 2000, currently reside in the U.S. including their American-born children, based on analysis of U.S. Census data....

Our longstanding immigration pattern changed after 1970. Back then, the 13.5 million immigrants represented one in 15 U.S. residents. Since 2000, with rising and largely uncontrolled numbers of immigrants, the pattern has changed. Today, nearly one of every five U.S. residents are immigrants....

Cultural Preservation is Not Xenophobia...

In the words of the late Barbara Jordan – the first African-American woman elected to the Texas Senate, and the first woman to serve Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives – “It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.”

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