The Anti-Immigration Crusader

[Gerald]

A demonstration this month in Atlanta against legislation favored by groups opposed to illegal immigration. The bill passed.

WASHINGTON — Three decades ago, a middle-aged doctor sat outside his northern Michigan home and saw a patch of endangered paradise.

A beekeeper and amateur naturalist of prodigious energy, John Tanton had spent two decades planting trees, cleaning creeks and suing developers, but population growth put ever more pressure on the land. Though fertility rates had fallen, he saw a new threat emerging: soaring rates of immigration.

Time and again, Dr. Tanton urged liberal colleagues in groups like Planned Parenthood and the Sierra Club to seek immigration restraints, only to meet blank looks and awkward silences.

“I finally concluded that if anything was going to happen, I would have to do it myself,” he said.

Improbably, he did. From the resort town of Petoskey, Mich., Dr. Tanton helped start all three major national groups fighting to reduce immigration, legal and illegal, and molded one of the most powerful grass-roots forces in politics. The immigration-control movement surged to new influence in last fall’s elections and now holds near veto power over efforts to legalize any of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/us/17immig.html?hp


Note: April 17, 2011

[tater]

Anti ILLEGAL-Immigration Crusader.

Americans who are against ILLEGAL immigration are not "anti-immigration," we are anti-illegal-immigration."

The headline is like calling someone against robbing banks, "anti-banking."

[Takeda Shingen]

^^ This. I have no problem with immigrants. Hell, we're a nation of immigrants. What I have a problem with are people that come to this nation illegally and expect to be given the same benefits and privileges that legal citizens have.

[Gerald]

And newspapers want to sell their news,hence the difference in the "headlines"

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

^^ This. I have no problem with immigrants. Hell, we're a nation of immigrants. What I have a problem with are people that come to this nation illegally and expect to be given the same benefits and privileges that legal citizens have.

It is something that the U.S. shares with many other countries.

[NeonSamurai]

Well according to what Vendor posted the guy wants to limit legal immigration as well, so the title would be correct.

[gimpy117]

I apologize for Petoskey's silllyness. Tell you what Next time I'm home ill take a day off and drive over there and tell him what i think. it's only about an hour from Traverse City. I'll be home in 2 weeks.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Vendor

The immigration-control movement surged to new influence in last fall’s elections and now holds near veto power over efforts to legalize any of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States.

Holds veto power? How does he figure that?

The only people who have veto power are governors and the president. Veto power is a binary state, either you have the power or you don't.

[gimpy117]

may I also add a touch of irony stating that the Cherry Industry in Northern Michigan Is very reliant from cheap labor by Illegal and or Migrant farm workers.