- Nevada has a new political party based on the principal
that many of the country's problems would be solved if some people would
simply leave. The Emigration Party headed by Donald E. Pauly of Henderson
filed its "certificate of existence" with the Secretary of State's
Office on Friday. The party platform begins with the question: "Are
you sick and tired of illegal aliens taking our jobs and ruining our wages?
Join us and help do something about it."
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- "Emigration will solve each and every problem I
know of in the United states right now," Pauly said in a telephone
interview Saturday. "If we sent all the illegal aliens back to Mexico,
we would have about 20 million people less. The problem, as we see it,
is uncontrolled immigration and the way to solve that is carefully controlled
emigration." Pauly said his comments are his personal opinion but
he blames illegal immigrants for much of the nation's crime and drug problems
as well as the load on the welfare system.
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- He said one of the biggest problems is lawyers. "Lawyers
are what brought this country into the ruin it's in right now," he
said. Lawyers are specifically prohibited from joining the Emigration
Party. "All members must be of high moral character and lawyers are
therefore prohibited as members," say the bylaws filed Friday.
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- Pauly said the Emigration Party doesn't want to close
the doors to America for legal immigrants who can contribute to the economy.
"We're saying some people need to leave, starting with the ones who
are here illegally," said Pauly, an electronics engineer. The way
to do that, he said, is to make it illegal under Nevada law to hire an
illegal alien and impose a two-year prison sentence on anyone who does.
He said the party will also ask the Legislature to offer a $1,000 bounty
to anyone who turns in an employer hiring illegal aliens.
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- "The Republican and Democratic parties are behemoths,
non-functional dinosaurs that can't move," he said. "They are
deliberately paralyzed to serve the interests of the people pulling the
strings. We are going to be a single-issue party endorsing candidates as
we see fit." Pauly said his previous political experience was as
a volunteer for Ross Perot. He said the experience taught him people are
willing to volunteer and get active but feel they have no outlet to do
so. "People are sick and tired of Republicans and Democrats but they
have no alternative," he said.
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- The documents filed Friday list Pauly as executive director
and five other officers. He said at this point there are "probably
a dozen" members and another dozen more involved in some way with
the project.
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- http://www.nevadaappeal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a
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