Pat Buchanan
Kiss The Old America Good-Bye
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February 16, 2004 issue
Copyright © 2004 The American Conservative

Kiss The Old America Good-Bye

by Pat Buchanan
http://www.amconmag.com/2_16_04/buchanan.html

The Bush amnesty for 8 to 12 million illegal aliens is more than a dereliction of his constitutional duty to enforce America’s laws. It is an admission by President Bush that the Third-Worldization of America is inevitable and unstoppable.

For what Mr. Bush is saying is this: We cannot stop the invasion. We can no longer defend the borders. It is hopeless. So let us make the best of it by pardoning the lawbreakers and gate-crashers, legalizing the coming invasion, and welcoming the entire family of any “guest worker” who can find a job.

Mexican President Vicente Fox may be yowling for open borders. Bush is delivering them. Amnesty means not only that all the millions of illegals already here stay, but also millions more will be coming now that they know America’s gates are unguarded and no one gets sent back. By 2050, America will be a different country.

What will she look like? Like the California of today—only much more so. Americans of European descent will be less than half the U.S. population and a rapidly shrinking minority. As late as 1960 they were about 90 percent.

America’s southern border will be effectively erased. In the border states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, Latinos with roots in Mexico, whose first loyalty is there, will be the new majority, as is already true of California’s public schools.

With near-zero immigration from Europe, with birth rates among immigrants the highest in the nation, with every child of a guest worker entitled to U.S. citizenship and all the benefits of our welfare state, America will be a Third World country not only in its ethnic and racial composition but also in the socioeconomic profile she presents.

We will look less like the Affluent Society of 1957 of which J.K. Galbraith wrote, than like Brazil with its huge disparities of wealth. For, as with California, the native-born who are pouring out of the Golden State each year are taxpayers, and the immigrants, legal and illegal, who are crowding in are tax consumers.

With their wages at or near the minimum, these immigrant poor will depend on government for health care, food stamps, earned-income credits, welfare, rent supplements, legal services.

Mass immigration, and its social and economic ramifications, is what has bankrupted California and why she may have reached a tipping point from which there is no return. For her taxpayers are fleeing for two reasons, neither of which is likely to change.

First, the state no longer looks like the golden land in which they grew up. The social change has been too rapid, too radical. So they pack up and move to places where they feel more at home.

Second, the influx of immigrant poor and the exodus of the middle class means repeated hikes in tax rates and continuous cuts in social services, making life ever harsher for middle-class folks who stick it out. So they too soon head for the highways out.

In Bush’s last budget, he was forced to include $20 billion to help states balance their books. Just as many Third World nations would go belly up without regular transfusions of IMF and World Bank money, many states may come to depend on federal bailouts.

Consider education. Americans are puzzled as to why test scores fall each year, no matter how much we spend to improve schools. There is no secret to it. The students entering those schools are less and less equipped to succeed academically.

In California, a majority of the children in public schools are now of Hispanic descent. They come to school less proficient in English. Many come from immigrant families with no tradition of learning. Their aptitude for educational achievement, measured by test scores, is far below that of the average American school kid.

As these children make up ever increasing percentages of the entering classes in our public schools, average test scores will continue to fall, no matter how much we spend.

Then, there is growing potential for the disuniting of America of which Arthur Schlesinger wrote.

The old immigrants came here to become Americans. The tough-love country to which they came demanded they do so. In those melting pots of Americanization, the public and parochial schools of the early 20th century, the young were immersed in our language, literature, history, heroes, traditions, customs, faith, myths—and came to know and love them.

Nothing like that takes place in multicultural America, where the old heroes are trashed as genocidal racists, the old history has become one long recital of America’s sins, Christmas and Easter become winter and spring break, and July 4th gives way to Cinco de Mayo.

Courtesy of Bush and the Big Tent Republicans, it is Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie.

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Increasing Your Safety: Full Faith and Credit for Protection ...


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Press Release: April 2, 2002
National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
http://www.nccusl.org/nccusl/pressreleases/pr040202_UIEDVOA.asp
211 E. Ontario St., Suite 1300, Chicago, IL 60611
tel 312-915-0195, fax 312-915-0187

For Immediate Release

Uniform State Law Better Serves Needs of Victims of Domestic Violence

April 2, 2002 — A uniform state law recently enacted in Idaho and introduced in nine other legislatures this year represents an important step in improving the enforcement of domestic violence protection orders from other states. The Uniform Interstate Enforcement of Domestic Violence Protection Orders Act, drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) and approved by that organization in 2000, enables courts to recognize and enforce valid domestic protection orders issued in other jurisdictions.

The legislation provides a uniform set of procedures and rules to facilitate the interstate enforcement of civil and qualified criminal domestic protection orders, as stipulated in an important provision of the 1994 federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Referred to as the "full faith and credit" provision, it directs states, Indian tribes and U.S. territories to honor valid protection orders issued by other jurisdictions and to treat those orders as if they were their own.

VAWA signified the importance of full faith and credit protection orders, but the interstate enforcement provision left important questions unanswered, and left states to their own discretion as how to set up procedures to effectively implement enforcement. While some states have enacted their own enabling legislation, these statutes vary greatly both in the method and the extent to which the enforcement of other states' protection orders actually occurs. The Uniform Act, if enacted nationwide, should eliminate existing problems.

"Victims of domestic violence need protection, regardless of where the orders protecting them are issued," says John M. McCabe, Legislative Director of NCCUSL. "Uniform passage of the new Interstate Enforcement of Domestic Violence Protection Orders Act will enable law enforcement officers and courts around the country to respond immediately and effectively to the needs of domestic violence victims."

The new Act has two purposes. It defines the meaning of full faith and credit in the context of the enforcement of domestic violence protection orders. It also establishes uniform procedures for their effective interstate enforcement.

Under the Uniform Act:
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Courts must enforce the terms of protective orders of other states as if they were their own, until such time as the expiration of the order, regardless of which state the victim has entered.
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Enforcing states must enforce all the terms of the order, even if that order provides relief that would be unavailable under the laws of the enforcing jurisdiction.
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Terms of orders that concern custody and visitation matters are enforceable, if issued for the purpose of protection. Terms that concern support are not enforceable under this Act, but are enforceable under the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, the law in every state.
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Enforcement mechanisms must be applied to orders issued before the effective date of the Uniform Act.

The Act also allows nonjudicial enforcement of protection orders. Law enforcement officers may rely on the terms of a protection order presented to them from another state, and act quickly to enforce that order, thereby safeguarding the protected person. Law enforcement officers, as well as other government agencies, will be encouraged to rely on probable cause judgments by the Act's inclusion of a broad immunity provision. No enforcing officer or agency is liable when acting in good faith when enforcing an order.

The Uniform Act, again filling a gap in VAWA, does not require registration of protection orders with the enforcing state, and jurisdictions cannot make registration a condition for full faith and credit. But the Act does include an optional registration process to make it as easy as possible for the protected individual to register the order and facilitate its enforcement.

The Uniform Interstate Enforcement of Domestic Violence Protection Orders Act has been enacted in California, Idaho, Indiana, Montana, and Texas. It has been introduced in the legislatures of Alabama, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, South Dakota, Virginia, and West Virginia.

The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws is now in its 111th year. The organization comprises more than 350 lawyers, judges, and law professors, appointed by the states as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, to draft proposals for uniform and model laws and work toward their enactment in their legislatures. Since its inception in 1892, the group has promulgated more than 200 acts, among them such bulwarks of state statutory law as the Uniform Commercial Code, the Uniform Probate Code, and the Uniform Partnership Act.

For further information, please contact John McCabe, Michael Kerr, or Katie Robinson
at 312-915-0195, or Gabrielle Bamberger at 212-333-5222.