Highlights from January 22nd CAPAC Meeting William Gheen, President and founder of Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC), was the guest speaker at the January Conservatives, Arise! meeting at the Golden Corral in Greenville.  He began his presentation with the statement that the ALIPAC website has the largest illegal immigration archive in history.  It receives 3.2 million hits a month.  That is where he spends the major part of his time—keeping the website current.

He reminisced a little about starting out in Greenville in 1995.  He was the President of the senior class at ECU and a fervent Democrat.    As time went by he became more aware of where the liberal element in the Greenville government was taking the city—especially in the area of crime—and he didn’t like it.  Eventually he re-registered as a Republican and learned how to get his conservative ideas past the media.  He continues to this day to by-pass the media by using the internet as a tool.  ALIPAC now has over 25,000 supporters.

 

These are some of the facts that were of special interest:

 

• 1 out of 17 people in North Carolina is an illegal alien.  This comes out to one-half million persons.

• 12 to 25 Americans are being slaughtered every day by illegal immigrants.

• 20 to 30 Republican members in the North Carolina legislature are very concerned about the illegal immigrant problem in this state.

• ALIPAC supporters have been helping out mainly in the Paul, Tancredo and Hunter campaigns.   The field has gotten very narrow in the last few weeks.

• Virtually every candidate has stated that he is for border security.

• Illegal immigrants are making our country “unravel” because the present laws are not being enforced.   Law-abiding businesses are suffering from the competition of those businesses that are unethical and “hooked on cheap labor.”

• When the McCain Amnesty Bill was being considered, the calls against the bill were running from 50 to 75 to one.  The capitol telephone system actually collapsed from so many calls coming in.  The bill was defeated but will come back.

• The number of illegal immigrants is slowing down because the word is out that the border states are doing what the federal government should be doing—enforcing the laws that are already on the books.

• 80% of Americans want immigration laws enforced.

 

Mr. Gheen ended his talk with the observation that “Americans have lost their street smarts.”  We need to wake up and see what is happening around us before it is too late.  The United States is definitely in a spiritual battle—a statement for which Pat Buchanan was vilified many years ago.   The truth of Buchanan’s statement is more apparent every day.  To find out more about ALIPAC go to www.alipac.us.

 

Before Mr. Gheen spoke there were three candidates who gave brief presentations:

 

Rep. Louis Pate, a fourth-term State House member now running for the State Senate, said that one of his main issues is economic development in North Carolina.  His concern is that the state is not using rails enough to get goods away from our ports and to the consumers.  Now North Carolina takes care of only 2% of the shipping on the east coast. This percentage would increase greatly with a better rail system. Leon Bonner, right, listens intently to Louis Pate.

Dean Stephens , a candidate for the U.S. Congressional seat in District 1, said that he will be stressing three areas in his campaign:  improved education, fewer taxes and immigration reform.  At 10:00 a.m. on Monday, January 28, he will be at the Court House in Greenville to announce his official candidacy.   Greg, pictured left, appears to be having a good time with Dean Stephens. Greg is a former candidate for the 1st district seat.

Greg Dority , a candidate for North Carolina Lt. Governor, praised Louis Pate for being such a good State House member.  Dority said that Rep. Pate could have remained in a “safe seat” but instead chose to help out the party by running for the State Senate.  “We need a Republican State Senate and this seat may be the key.”

 

Judy Colbert, Chairman of Pitt County Right to Life, gave a brief over-view of what has happened to the Pro-Life movement since 1973.  She said that the movement lost a wonderful friend when Congressman Henry Hyde died.

 

Rachel Sturz, January 24, 2008

 

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