Immigration (Illegal) 

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PUA Position Statement

Note: Currently, Position Statements have been drafted by the PUA Staff as an initial starting point. However, in the future, PUA Position Statements will be created with the direct input of the majority of PUA Card Carrying Members (public voters) and it will reflect the majority opinion. Therefore, your input as a PUA Member can change, often dramatically, the PUA Position Statements in the near and distant future so if you do not see your ideal opinion reflected here, remember, you can work to change it--the PUA is ruled by majority vote.

It is important to the PUA that Americans understand that we support all legal immigrates and their families, regardless of our stance on the issue on immigration. However, when it comes to the issue of illegal immigration, we see a clear distinction that many others refuse to recognize:

Illegal Immigration

We believe illegal immigration is:

1) A violation of our laws,

2) A disrespect and affront on all law abiding Americans and those who await legal immigration without the need to violate our laws or cut to the front of the line,

3) Not a right or an entitlement,

4) Should NOT allow access to tax payer paid services of any kind (except for life and death emergency medical care),

5) Should be harshly dealt with to ensure sound government and civility,

6) Should be harshly dealt with to ensure the best work or wage opportunities are first made available to US citizens,

7) Should be harshly dealt with for those who endanger the lives of children in crossing seas or borders illegally (an issue of child abuse, neglect, and endangerment),

8) Should be severely frowned upon in any legitimate or legal immigrate community, as well all communities,

9) Should be abated through the removal of the illegal alien from US soil at first possible moment and by whatever means necessary to ensure the integrity of our laws and to send a clear message to the world that illegal behavior or illegal trespass onto US soil will not be tolerated,

10) Should have such a sound and harsh and working enforcement system that potential terrorists can not remain on US soil effectively of their own volition, or remain undetected from law enforcement,

11) Should NOT affect the rights, needs, respect, or life aspects of legal immigrates (those who can provide proof of citizenship during this critical transition stage and beyond, as may be required (ID proof to be provided free of charge by the US government, if qualified),

12) Should NOT be an issue confused with that of legal immigration for the purposes of policy making or legislation or grass roots discussion or work.

13) Should NOT punish or reward children who have been pawns and victims of their parent's criminal behavior.

14) Should, as with all laws and their respective punishments, no be concerned with the issue of family break-up for those who knowingly violated our laws (for how many criminals would prefer to avoid prison for robbing a bank by making the claim that such prison time will break up their family),

15) Should have any and all steps taken to reduce cost impacts to American tax payers regarding this issue.

Having stated the above main positions, we also feel that there are two areas where compromise can be made:

Agricultural Jobs:

1) We believe that agricultural workers who are in the US illegally must be made to leave the US as adequate punishment for their crime,

2) That the US government should provide for a temporary agriculture harvesting permit that is good for no more that six months from date of issue (Yellow Card),

3) That once said Yellow Card expires, the alien must return to their home country or stand in violation of immigration laws requiring up to one year in prison,

4) Should not allow the bringing of any family member to US soil or be given to pregnant women or revoked for women who become pregnant,

5) Should not allow the involvement or partaking of any tax payer paid program or social or welfare services or other services or entitlements, including Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security (nor shall such a tax be levied),

6) Should provide for free transportation to and from a major transportation hub so that the person can return to their country of origin,

7) Should be made available to all countries or origins from which the US has cleared from terrorist ties or has designated acceptable to receive immigrants from,

8) A renewable Yellow Card but only for a total of 5 sessions (each 6 month term must be rested with a 6 month term off to complete a single session--to allow for a greater number of workers to partake in the system),

9) Shall entitle the worker to all the wages and benefits normally received by US citizens for such jobs, excluding retirement packages (other than taxation, there shall be no distinction between a US citizen's pay and treatment to that of a Yellow Card worker---all shall conform equally to the law),

10) Yellow Cards shall not be valid for jobs outside of the agricultural industry.

11) Shall not entitle the user to any privilege toward seeking legal immigration (time spent in program shall be apply to any naturalization program).

12) Shall be even awarded to a diverse workforce of diverse country applicants and based on the provide a fair balance in regards to racial diversity. 

13) Shall only be issued to those who pass a medical and criminal background screening.

14) All employers of Yellow Card workers shall be made entirely responsible for the health, welfare, and wellbeing of their workers, and shall include barracks style housing and sanitation for each person employed.

Dream Act

As children have no legal intent to commit a crime typically in the cases of illegal immgration, which is chiefly spured by their parents (who we believe should be punished), we do not condone punishing the children. As they might otherwise be left in limbo, we support the Dream Act in a limited fashion:

1) Shall only apply to those not exceeding the age of 21 years as provided by a valid birth certificate from any country of origin.

2) Shall not apply to any person who enters the US after Jan. 1, 2006.

3) Shall not extend benefit in any way to family members.

4) Shall not be applied to children age 5 or lower.

5) Shall not be applied to any child whose parents renounce the child's claim to US citizenship.

6) Shall not apply to those who have not graduate from high school in the USA and who can demonstrate the ability to fluently read and write English.

7) Shall not apply to any person who refuses to formally renounce their heritage country's citizenship or allegiance in lieu of US citizenship and allegiance.

8) Shall be revoked from anyone who exercise a right of citizenship in another country in which they are entitled (whether granted or not) dual citizenship thereof.

9) Shall not be given to terrorists or to those with ties to terrorism or to those in gangs affiliations or who have criminal records.

10) Shall not entitle the student to any special privileges that are not normally afforded all other students, in special regards to education funding, grants, scholarships, or the like.

11) May not be applied to more than 3 million total applicants.

12) That this act may not be instituted until all US borders and ports have been declared by the DHS to be substantially secure (92% effectiveness level) from all forms of illegal entry.

Overpopulation

Due to the fact that overpopulation has become a significant threat to America (and around the world) and its environments, and is overly straining scarce resources like fresh water, as well as the impacts of illegal immigration that has become a de facto form of immigration and anarchy, the PUA believes that all immigration should be halted at once and moratorium instituted.

We need to find, identify, and remove those who are on US soil illegally, secure our borders, ports, and waterways and shores, and control ingress and egress of foreigners into the US (including tracking) for the purposes of anti-terrorism and US national security, as well as controlling immigration. Once this has been achieved, we need to reexamine legal immigration with a cold hard look at its impact on American workers and jobs and then decide the optimum levels for future immigration and by what criteria we should select all future immigrants (not by family relations, but by what they bring to America is the form of wealth, new jobs, or invention and know-how).

Under our current system of both legal and illegal immigration, we are importing Latin America into the US at break neck speed and we will create a new Latin American country (USA) by the year 2040. This is unacceptable, given the fact that not one Latin America country is a First World country because they thrive with cultures and socialisms that embrace pro-corruption systems and against rule-of-law---America is importing mass poverty, ignorance, and anti-First World cultural drives while supplanting the American Dream and opportunity---extremist liberalism in the US favors bringing American boat by overfilling it the world's poor (poor in every sense of the word).

Until America can control it's immigration and understand the tragic future it is making for itself, we support zero immigration in all its forms.

Background

Maintaining Law and Order or Supporting Anarchy?

Legally controlled and regulated immigration is the backbone of the United States. We are a country of legal immigrants and nobody can deny this fact.

However, sociologist, anthropologist and innumerable studies dictate that cultures can only absorb a limited number of new cultural elements (people from different cultures) before they risk transforming their cultures into that of the injected culture. Translation---if you add three Martians to a population of only ten Plutonians over too short a time span, the Plutonians  will begin acting like Martians. Actually, both groups will try to assimilate each other's group into their culture but a new cultural model will either be built or animosity will rise in both groups until released through acts of aggression.

If the numbers are more dramatic, say 8 Martians and only 10 Plutonians , then it safe to assume that a new cultural model will emerge, taking on both the positive and negative aspects of each culture. However, history tells us that more than likely the two cultures will struggle with each other for dominance and eventually violence will devolve into revolution or war under the pressure of "culture clash." For each culture will usually entrench and seek to protect themselves from the other culture's onslaughts.

Ingrained in any culture is a person's approach, belief, and interaction or action with government and how it should function. In cultures where government is a corrupted processes operated by highly corrupted politicians and administrators and law enforcement, that cultural value system will be projected onto the host country government through the immigration process when done in sufficient numbers. In another words, if you come from Mars where government officials are very corrupt, you are more likely to accept government corruption in your new host country and even promote such corruption (i.e. I bribed the cops on my planet, why not on this planet, too?). Such imposing cultures may even perpetuate the corruption growth in their host culture by adapting to the mainstream culture superficially (e.g. on the surface they appear assimilated while intrinsically they embrace their primary or root culture, which they hide from public view). As a new member to the existing mainstream culture and its value system, they will begin to naturally look for ways or exude their root values and culture and outwardly project these aspects in their new professions, thereby affecting slight but negative changes on  predominate culture and its value system.

If you are from Pluto and the Martians impose themselves on your culture in large enough numbers, at some point Pluto will begin to look and act more like Mars rather than Pluto as the invading culture assumes deeper penetration in society and imposes it root culture through an ever widening footprint. This can be a good thing and a bad thing. For example, if the Martians are great with finances, then Plutonians may become better with their finances. On the other hand, if the Martians embrace corrupt society and government, then Plutonians will eventually adopt such a value system and digress their society. 

Generally speaking, the Plutonian does not have the same cultural biases as the Martians simply because the Martians have their own unique history, language, fights, values, and more that make up their society and culture and the same goes in reverse. Neither group is able to fully appreciate the other's position and root culture and the more divergent the cultures are from one another, the more likely they will never assimilate each other---in fact the more likely they will struggle against each other for dominance.

Legal immigration throughout the world is largely designed to apply strict controls that regulate against such over-powering and derisive attacks on the mainstream culture of the country by not exposing it to excesses of foreign culture influences or impacts on society. Countries rightfully use a strict regulation process that ensures that small numbers of immigrants are allowed to enter the system who are properly screened, educated to its history, and the values of its mainstream culture, its language and principles, in order to preserve both order and its culture or value systems--all toward full assimilation. 

Illegal immigration, in contrast, seeks to erode and defile this orderly and proven process and it is actually an act of aggression that must, by its vary nature, end in a polarized struggle between the two opposing cultures. This is something that all countries must protect against, for their very sovereignty lies in the balance.

PUA Philosophy

The PUA supports legal immigration at pre-1970 standards in the US (about 300,000 per year) and feels that the US should maintain is current population on a completely flat growth projection (that is, ensure that the population level does not fall or rise significantly). As the world struggles with overpopulation and drains against its environmental resources, overpopulation will become an ever increasing threat to US society and its ability to sustain itself while other countries deplete their natural resources and turn toward America. America should not follow in the footsteps of China, India, Japan, and Africa and others whose populations are out pacing their resources and infrastructures and their ability to not only survive in the future, but to thrive under a well maintained quality of life.

Contrastingly, the PUA opposes illegal immigration as an aggressive, criminal act that plagues society with a host of untold ills, such as over-population that exerts terrible pressures on society, including impacts to our tax systems, Social Security, national debt, local, state, and national infrastructures (i.e. environmental pollution, water supplies, roadways and congestion, and more) or are deleterious to our tax base (i.e. black market enterprises that pay untaxed labor or buy and sell goods without taxation), or that erode rule-of-law and thereby promote anarchist forms of government---all of which may result in an eventual "culture-based war" (i.e. culture clash) and may likely have violent outcroppings, if world history is any indication of what can be expected.

Only through the imposition of the rule-of-law and sound immigration policies can America hope to survive into the 21st Century and beyond. For overpowering forms of mass immigration, particularly when most new illegal immigrants live below the poverty line and must impose themselves on society's social and welfare systems to survive, can only hasten the demise of the US and its sovereignty. 

In his book State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America (Thomas Dunne Books, August 2006), Pat Buchanan  states (page 245):

The crisis of the West is of a collapsing culture and vanishing peoples, as a Third World that grows by 100 million people -- the equivalent of a new Mexico -- every eighteen months mounts the greatest invasion in the history of the world. If we do not shake off our paralysis, the West comes to an end.

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The PUA is pro-legal immigration and anti-illegal immigration for these reasons and many more. Learn more in the Operation Safe America report.

Related: Illegal Immigration 

Over Population