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help secure the future of our Social Security system.
Saving Social Security is more than a challenge. It
is our moral obligation to those who trusted in the
government’s word.
Protecting Internet Freedom
The survival of the internet as we know it
is at risk. Its gravest peril originates in the White
House, the current occupant of which has launched
a campaign, both at home and internationally, to
subjugate it to agents of government. The President
ordered the chair of the supposedly independent
Federal Communications Commission to impose
upon the internet rules devised in the 1930s for the
telephone monopoly. He has unilaterally announced
America’s abandonment of
the international internet by
surrendering U.S. control of
the root zone of web names
and addresses. He threw the
internet to the wolves, and they
— Russia, China, Iran, and others
— are ready to devour it.
We salute the Congressional
Republicans who have
legislatively impeded his plans
to turn over the Information Freedom Highway to
regulators and tyrants. That fight must continue,
for its outcome is in doubt. We will consistently
support internet policies that allow people and
private enterprise to thrive, without providing new
and expanded government powers to tax and
regulate so that the internet does not become the
vehicle for a dramatic expansion of government
power. The internet’s independence is its power.
It has unleashed innovation, enabled growth, and
inspired freedom more rapidly and extensively
than any other technological advance in human
history. We will therefore resist any effort to shift
control toward governance by international or
other intergovernmental organizations. We will
ensure that personal data receives full constitutional
protection from government overreach. The only
way to safeguard or improve these systems is
through the private sector. The internet’s free
market needs to be free and open to all ideas and
competition without the government or service
providers picking winners and losers.
America’s immigration
policy must serve the
national interest of the
United States . . .
Immigration and the Rule of Law
Our party is the natural home for those who
come in search of freedom and justice. We welcome
all to the Great Opportunity Party.
The greatest asset of the American economy is
the American worker. Our immigration system must
protect American working families and their wages,
for citizens and legal immigrants alike, in a way
that will improve the economy. Just as immigrant
labor helped build our country in the past, today’s
legal immigrants are making vital contributions
in every aspect of national life. Their industry and
commitment to American values strengthens our
economy, enriches our culture, and enables us to
better understand and more effectively compete
with the rest of the world.
We are particularly grateful
to the thousands of new legal
immigrants, many of them not
yet citizens, who are serving
in the Armed Forces and
among first responders. Their
patriotism should encourage
all to embrace the newcomers
legally among us, assist their
journey to full citizenship, and
help their communities avoid isolation from the
mainstream of society. We are also thankful for the
many legal immigrants who continue to contribute
to American society. To that end, we both encourage
the preservation of heritage tongues and support
English as the nation’s official language, a unifying
force essential for the advancement of immigrant
communities and our nation as a whole.
America’s immigration policy must serve the
national interest of the United States, and the
interests of American workers must be protected
over the claims of foreign nationals seeking the
same jobs. With all our fellow citizens, we have
watched, in anger and disgust, the mocking of our
immigration laws by a president who made himself
superior to the will of the nation. We stand with
the victims of his policies, especially the families of
murdered innocents. Illegal immigration endangers
everyone, exploits the taxpayers, and insults all
who aspire to enter America legally. We oppose
any form of amnesty for those who, by breaking the
law, have disadvantaged those who have obeyed
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