We have already witnessed the punishment by
process of the Tea Party groups by the IRS, the EXECUTIVE BRANCH -
executed against WHAT THEY CONCEIVE OF AS TRUE DOMESTIC ENEMIES. This
MAY have affected the outcome of the 2012 election. It CERTAINLY chilled
the growth and the stability of the Tea Party groups, not because
anyone was afraid of jail, or being taken away, because they were afraid
their lives would be turned into shit by endless battles in and out of
offices, court and the press and public battles.
Repression - American style
And
now … a different tactic in the strategy to destroy the fabric of a USA
based in the fabric of checks and balances, and done via the lack of
vigilance and care of the Congress to RESTRAIN the executive.
More green cards issued in year than entire population of original 13 colonies…
The
birthplace and final resting place of George Washington, James Madison,
Thomas Jefferson—and once one of the most reliably-red of red states—is
being rapidly turned into a progressive stronghold.
These changes
are not the result of an inside agency, or a natural evolution in
political thinking, but rather the result of one of the most impactful
yet least-discussed policies of the federal government.
A
middle-aged person living in parts of Virginia today will have
witnessed more demographic change in the span of her life than many
societies have experienced in millennia.
A census study entitled
“Immigrants in Virginia,” released by University of Virginia (UVA)
researchers, documented the phenomenon: “Until 1970, only 1 in 100
Virginians was born outside of the United States; by 2012, 1 in every 9
Virginians is foreign-born.”
Fairfax Connection, a community newspaper, offered more detail:
In
the span of one generation, Fairfax County has seen an explosion in its
immigrant population. In 1970, more than 93 percent of Fairfax County’s
population was white and middle-class. In the fall of 1970, a white
6-year-old child beginning elementary school in one of the county’s
developing towns… could look to his left, or look to his right, and see a
classroom full of children who, at least 90 percent of the time, looked
like him and who spoke English. By 2010, a child entering elementary
school in Fairfax County would almost certainly encounter a classmate
who did not speak English as a primary language, and whose parents or
grandparents immigrated from places such as Vietnam, India, Korea or a
country in Africa.
UVA’s report explains that more than three out
of four of Virginia immigrants (77 percent) are coming from either Latin
America or Asia—immigration from Europe, the report writes, “lag[s] far
behind” representing only 10 percent of Virginia’s immigrant
population. This is consistent with trends nationwide. According to the
2013 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Immigration Yearbook, only
8.7 percent of green cards issued by the federal government went to
immigrants born in Europe
1 comment:
Makes me glad that I decided to major in Spanish.
When I made that decision in 1970, everyone said, "Stupid major! You'll never be able to use it."
Post a Comment