Perpetual Foreigners. This year's White House Correspondents Association Dinner will be hosted by comic/impersonator Rich Little. Rich Little is CANADIAN. He has lived in this country for DECADES but REFUSES U.S. CITIZENSHIP. Far from being honored with the distinction of being the featured performer at a dinner in this Nation's capital at which the President of the United States is 'roasted', Rich Little should be DEPORTED, as should all foreigners who live here, make LOTS of money here, but absolutely refuse our citizenship. Deport them all, every last one, starting with Rich Little — before the correspondents' dinner April 21st.
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It's bad enuf that we allow millions of illegals to work in this country, taking jobs not all of which, by any stretch of the imagination, Americans wouldn't take. Mexicans and other illegals have produced depressed wages in the construction industry, among others, which used to provide very good jobs to Americans. But when the very best jobs in this country are also taken by foreigners, what's left for Americans?
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This is our country, but we seem to have no pride in our citizenship. We let just anyone march in and take jobs away from us, then refuse our citizenship because tho our money is good enuf, our citizenship is not. The hell with that, and the hell with them.
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We need to get tuf on immigration. It's one thing to allow people to come here and make a new life. It's quite another to do nothing when they refuse to heed the requirements of our laws but just march across the border as of right, and live here for decades without taking citizenship.
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The United States is an "immigration society", unlike most countries. Altho I see a claim online that Germany is in actuality an immigration country, because 10.4% of its population (at any given time) is foreign-born (as compared to only 11.7% for the U.S. — but one wonders if that correctly figures in illegals), the German statistics apparently include people of German ancestry who were expelled from other parts of Europe to Germany after World War II. Moreover,

Foreigners do not stay permanently in Germany. There is quite a bit of outmigration to their former home countries. Thus, in the boom year 2000, immigration was at gross 841 000, whereas gross emigration ran at 674 000 so that net immigration was 167 000. Net immigration in the period 1995-2002 was 211 000 annually; this is 2.5 persons per thousand of the population.3 The average duration of stay in Germany is 15.6 years (end of 2002). This means that in contrast to a traditional immigration country like the United States or Australia part of the immigrants return to their home countries.

Germany revised its law on citizenship only in the year 2000 to permit the children of foreigners who are born in Germany to have German citizenship. Before then, it was difficult or impossible for foreigners to become naturalized citizens of Germany, because that right was restricted to people of German ethnicity. A Turk born in Germany was still regarded as a Turk. Many other countries have now or have in the past had similar laws based on "jus sanguinis", Latin for "right of blood".
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The U.S., by contrast, provided in the original Constitution, in 1787, for naturalization of foreigners. Our laws have always been generous, as compared to the rest of the world. But there's a difference between being generous and being played for a sap. What we did not do in 1787, so need to do now, is tell immigrants that if they want to stay here long-term, they must become citizens, or they will be expelled after some reasonable period.
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What would be reasonable? Immigrants can apply for citizenship after 5 years' residence. If they have not done so within 6 years, they should be notified that they will be expelled, permanently, if they do not apply for citizenship within 1 more year and pass all the requirements within 1 additional year. That would allow them to be here a maximum of 8 years without taking U.S. citizenship. That is more than generous.
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Once expelled, foreigners who refuse U.S. citizenship should be barred even from visiting this country, for life. I don't care if they want to visit a dying relative, they can't. Get in or get out. And stay out.
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Reside in Canada if you want to be Canadian, Mr. Little — and all you other resident Canadians. We'll let you visit for a couple of months in the dead of winter, sure. But if you want to live here year-round, become a citizen. If you're so proud of being Canadian, live in your beloved Canada. If you actually prefer to live in the United States, take our citizenship. Either/or. Not both.
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Canadians are not the only gross offenders. There are hundreds of thousands of other foreigners who live here for decades but refuse our citizenship without end. Deport them all. Every single one.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 3,075 — for Israel.)




- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 6:48 PM