If asked for one’s position on “immigration reform” one could reply: I am opposed to any immigration policy which makes it harder for the unemployed to find jobs and easier for employers to keep pay low. If by “immigration reform,” you mean helping the unemployed return to the workforce, limiting work visas so wages can rise, and establishing firm control over entry and exit in the United States, then I am for it. Which do you mean?
Conservativism is by its nature at odds with the extreme, the untested, the ahistorical.
The last large-scale flow of legal immigration (from approximately 1880–1920) was
followed by a sustained slowdown that allowed wages to rise, assimilation to occur, and the
middle class to emerge.
The 114th Congress opens under the shadow of President Obama’s recent
immigration orders. President Obama has declared null and void the sovereign immigration
laws of the United States in order to implement immigration measures the Congress has
repeatedly and explicitly rejected. His order grants five million illegal immigrants work
permits, Social Security, Medicare, and free tax credits—taking jobs and benefits directly
from struggling American workers.
U.S. citizens have been stripped of their protections they are entitled to under law.
President Obama himself once admitted that only an Emperor could issue such edicts. Yet here we stand today in 2015, living under imperial decrees that defy the will of the people, the laws their government has passed, and the Constitution we took an oath to uphold.
Elections are not the end, but the means tothe end. Why were we elected if not to protect our constituents and their Constitution? Why
are we here if not to serve the citizens who sent us here?
The following explanation [report click below] will provide you with the facts, figures, messages, and
polling data to prepare you to fight the most well-funded and powerful network of special
interests you will ever confront. I encourage you to read on; the American people are
counting on us.
