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Howard Phillips Last Updated: March 3, 2000 |
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REDUCE OVERALL IMMIGRATION - SUPPORTS Mr. Phillips agreed with the question asked in the year 2000 Vote Smart questionnaire: "Decrease the number of immigrants allowed into the country." The platform of the Constitution Party makes it clear that the group advocates a moratorium on immigration, particularly for economic reasons. It emphasizes the costs to taxpayers caused by the inflow of more than one million legal and illegal immigrants per year. The party regards the system of sponsorship to be broken and recommends that full financial responsibility be accepted by sponsoring persons by agreeing to "post appropriate bonds to seal such covenants." Furthermore, the platform states that immigrants should be rejected if they are unsuitable based on "health, criminality, morals, or financial dependence." |
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CHAIN MIGRATION Information not yet available. E-mail us anything you have. |
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VISA LOTTERY Information not yet available. E-mail us anything you have. |
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AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS -OPPOSES The Constitution Party platform states, "We oppose any extension of amnesty to illegal aliens." Clear enough. http://www.ustaxpayers.org/ustp-99p1.html#Immigration |
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ANCHOR BABIES - OPPOSES Howard Phillips indicated
approval for the following idea from the current Vote Smart questionnaire:
"Children of illegal immigrants, born in the U. S., should not automatically
receive U.S. citizenship." |
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IMPORT WORKERS - OPPOSES The
Constitution Party's platform states that the stresses placed on the social
fabric and on the economic well being of American workers by mass immigration
are important policy issues: "The mass importation of people with low
standards of living threatens the wage structure of the American worker
and the labor balance in our country." |
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BORDER CONTROL - SUPPORTS The party's platform
speaks somewhat generally about the importance of maintaining border integrity,
but the intent is clear: "We affirm the integrity of the international
borders of the United States and the Constitutional authority and right
of the federal government to guard and to protect those borders, including
the regulation of the numbers and of the qualifications of immigrants
into the country." |
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WORKER VERIFICATION Information not yet available. E-mail us anything you have. |
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INTERIOR ENFORCEMENT Information not yet available. E-mail us anything you have. |
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FEDERAL FORCED DOUBLING OF U.S. POPULATION - Information not yet available. E-mail us anything you have. |
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GENERAL INFORMATION Howard Phillips is the Presidential candidate for the Constitution Party, which was originally organized as the Taxpayers Party in 1992. The name change was made in 1999 at its Presidential nominating convention. According to its platform, the Constitution Party regards the U.S. as a "nation governed by a Constitution that is rooted in Biblical law." Its important issues include embryo protection, tax reduction, a strong national defense and returning religion to the schools. Mr. Phillips was also the party's candidate in 1992 and 1996. His political resume is one of activism in conservative causes. He left the Republican Party in 1974 after being Director of the US Office of Economic Opportunity under President Nixon. He has written several books, among them "Moscow's Challenge to U.S. Vital Interests in Southern Africa (1987) and "The New Right at Harvard" (1983). He has an BA degree from Harvard College (1962), is married and has six children. |
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PARTY PLATFORM We affirm the integrity of the international borders of the United States and the Constitutional authority and right of the federal government to guard and to protect those borders, including the regulation of the numbers and of the qualifications of immigrants into the country. Each year some 972,000 legal immigrants and hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens enter the United States. These immigrants -including illegal aliens - have been made eligible for various kinds of public assistance, including housing, education, Social Security, and legal services. This unconstitutional drain on the federal Treasury is having a severe and adverse impact on our economy, increasing the cost of government at federal, state, and local levels, adding to the tax burden, and stressing the fabric of society. The mass importation of people with low standards of living threatens the wage structure of the American worker and the labor balance in our country. We favor a moratorium on immigration to the United States, except in individual hardship cases or in other individual special circumstances, until the availability of all federal subsidies and assistance be discontinued. We also insist that every individual group and/or private agency which requests the admission of an immigrant to the U.S., on whatever basis, be required to commit legally to provide housing and sustenance for such immigrants, bear full responsibility for the economic independence of the immigrants, and post appropriate bonds to seal such covenants. The Constitution Party demands that the federal government restore immigration policies based on the practice that potential immigrants will be disqualified from admission to the U.S. if, on the grounds of health, criminality, morals, or financial dependence, they would impose an improper burden on the United States, any state, or any citizen of the United States. We oppose the provision of welfare subsidies and other taxpayer-supported benefits to illegal aliens, and reject the practice of bestowing U.S. citizenship on children born to illegal alien parents while in this country. We oppose any extension of amnesty to illegal aliens. We oppose bilingual ballots. We insist that those who wish to take part in the electoral process and governance of this nation be required to read and comprehend basic English as a precondition of citizenship. We support English as the official language for all governmental business by the United States. |
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