David Duke Quotes

For another of his immigration quotes and that of another labor leader, see {639891} and {639896}.

Magazine of the Council of Conservative Citizens

He was referring to North African and other third world immigrants. France’s second largest ethnic group had become Muslims from North Africa. But they were only 10 percent of the population.

Not all segments of the Republican Party perceived that they needed immigration reform. Some greatly feared more non-whites coming into the country and ending the traditional majority of whites. After the 1964 Civil Rights Bill was passed, almost all the racist Democrats of the “solid South” switched to the Republican Party and the last thing they want is to allow the 11 million mostly Hispanic and/or Black undocumented immigrants to become citizens and vote.

This is a very important historical quotation. When the anti-Asian racists first organized into a League, their racism was offensive to most national politicians and Eastern business and political leaders. However, this changed quite rapidly. It illustrates the constant vigilance that has to be maintained to condemn racism whenever it erupts last that was anathema becomes fashionable. The extremes become the norm. These minutes were taken when the League was still operating under the name of the “Japanese and Korean Exclusion League”.

In many cases, one spouse is a citizen and the other is not; or the parents might be but not the children; of the children were born in the United States but the parents were not citizens and had no documentation. Under the broken immigration system then, the government would actually deport one family member. Sometimes it was the breadwinner and the legal wife and children would then be forced onto welfare, the taxpayers would have to pay for a family that was doing fine until the government intervened; worst, the children would be kept apart from their father who could not even visit them thereafter. It was the only circumstance in the American system where government would actually destroy families when “family friendliness” was the official policy.

“Blue” and “Red” were the color codes for Democratic and Republican controlled states. This Congressman, part of the extreme conservative Tea Party wing of the Republican Party tended to somewhat paranoid about President O’Bama—the first Black President, who although a moderate Democrat was far to left for them and they suspected him of evil motives whatever he did. What was silly about this theory was that the “illegals” could not vote, and even if Texas were swamped with undocumented aliens, they could not change the political balance of power one bit. But conspiracy theories are never based on serious analysis and scientific logic.

At the time, many people referred to immigrants who had entered the United States without the proper documentation or by contravening our laws were referred to as “illegals” or “illegal immigrants”. Bank robbers and rapists were never referred to as “illegals”—only immigrants. Carroll and others pointed out that there was no such thing as an “illegal person”—only illegal acts.

This is often true despite the fact that the majority of people think that the immigrants are costing more in service provision that they contribute on taxes. In addition the immigrant spend most of their earnings which further benefits the economy. Despite that the British voted to withdraw from the EU so that they could control and reduce the immigration. A similar situation existed at that time in the United States. However, in America the financial tradeoffs are more complex. Each immigrant worker and his employer pay about 15% of his earnings in taxes, but that money goes to the Federal Government. The sales and other taxes that the immigrants pay when they spend their earnings generally go to the state government. Meanwhile, almost all the services, especially education are paid for by the local governments . So typically on each new immigrant the Federal Government has a positive cash benefit, the State government a smaller one, but the local government is cash negative. This anomaly is mostly caused by the fact that the vast majority of the funds that pay for American education come from local property taxes and the immigrants rarely can afford to by property when they first arrive,