Orlando J. Rodriguez Quotes
The current basis for apportionment—total population—creates an incentive for states to either encourage or tolerate illegal immigration.
Orlando J. Rodriguez, Geographer & Demographer, Vote Thieves: Illegal Immigration, Redistricting, and Presidential Elections, 2011
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It is an open secret that Obama is trying to flood Texas with illegals to make it into a blue state.
“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.
The quote is often misreported as “I am, you know, adamantly against illegal illegal immigration."
Statement made during televised debate with Walter Mondale, October 21, 1984 (see citation).
JOUAM was a nativist workingmen's organization founded in 1853 to resist the competition for jobs from immigration. See related quote for membership criteria. At its peak it had over 200,000 members. “Mechanics” was the term used for a wide variety of skilled craftsmen from plumbers to bricklayers. JOUAM is the oldest fraternal order in America.
Canada’s immigration policies have tended to be more liberal than those of the United States.
The illegal alien problem had vexed Republican and Democratic Administrations for over 50 years and is one of the most complicated of all the problems facing the nation. She offered the voters a simple solution.
For every illegal immigrant working in the United States, there is at least one company or individual who is also breaking the law by employing him/her.
At that time the Republicans had adopted a political strategy of not passing any significant legislation so that they could claim the Democratic President Barack Obama could not lead or do anything. They were committed to limiting Obama to one term. The Republicans controlled the House and had enough Senators to filibuster anything that happened in the Senate. During that period, there was hardly any legislation passed—one of the lowest points of Congressional paralysis and partisanship in American history.
Clyburn was the Democratic whip of the House. He was opposed to his party’s initial position on Immigration Reform. What he and many others who opposed “amnesty” did agree to was a scheme where undocumented immigrants who had broken the law were declared guilty, paid a fine, and had their application for citizenship delayed for some years. Others who opposed amnesty saw this alternative as amnesty if citizenship would ever be granted to an “illegal alien”. The latter group were all Republicans who also believed that immigrants tended to vote Democratic once they became citizens.
