FOX News is three stories into a five-part series on the detrimental effects of illegal immigration. It’s a good reference to use when faced with naysayers who try to insinuate you’re a racist or claim that illegal immigration has no negative impact on the United States, as ridiculous as such charges are.
Part I: Illegal Immigration Influx May Compromise Security - I don’t know why FOX soft-peddles it with the title. Illegal immigration obviously compromises national security. Other than that, the story’s good. And beginning the series with national security sets the stage for the others.
Part II: For the they-just-come-here-to-work crowd, read Border States Grapple With Aliens. Get this: “In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding homicide warrants and 60 percent of outstanding felony warrants are for illegal aliens.” (Emphasis added)
Part III: L.A. Emergency Rooms Full of Illegal Immigrants. A healthcare worker came onto this blog and tried to argue that the “system” could easily absorb uninsured aliens. Half the country’s uninsured are illegal aliens, yet a system that’s weakening under the burden of…finishing the sentence is a waste of time, isn’t it?
Watch the videos, too.
Related posts: California’s $9 Billion Albatross and Pro-Enforcement, Not Anti-Immigrant.
Correction: Parts IV and V are also available - Education Taxed By Non-English Speaking Kids and Cheap, Illegal Labor Comes at Some Cost. Also see Digger’s post on the series.
Actually La Shawn, all 5 parts are up. I’ve been covering them as they are released.
see here for links
Comment by Digger — 03.21.05 @ 7:55 am
FOX News Does Five Part Series On Illegal Aliens [Update Part 5]
Fox News is running a five part series on illegal aliens. For each of the parts I link to below there is a video link on the page so you can watch the report. The first in the series focuses…
Trackback by Diggers Realm — 03.21.05 @ 7:58 am
Again, thanks for keeping up on this! I’ll check out those Fox pieces asap.
Comment by Lornkanaga — 03.21.05 @ 9:30 am
Mexicans and “migrant hunting groups”
Seems as though the Mexicans are none to happy that some Americans have taken it upon themselves to draw attention to the issue of illegal immigration and DO something about it…if even just locally. Mexican El Presidente Fox is a…
Trackback by bennellibrothers.com — 03.21.05 @ 9:59 am
If anyone is doubting the illegal immigrant criminal statistics, just talk to an interpreter who works in the courts.
Comment by mj — 03.21.05 @ 1:57 pm
Fort Worth Star Telegram chronicles the problem here in Texas (reg. req.):
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/11200352.htm
I linked to the story and your blog in the post, Chris. Over an hour ago.
- Admin
Comment by Chris Roberts — 03.22.05 @ 9:01 pm
Your link “Cheap illegal labor comes at some cost” link La Shawn ends with this statement:
“Although hiring undocumented workers is illegal, the law is rarely enforced. Three out of four foreigners that enter the United States do so illegally and half are paid under the table, so they don’t pay taxes.” The bottom line is that businesses are benefiting from the cheap labor,” Oltman said. “They’re making extra profits and they’re shifting the whole benefits package over on to the taxpayer.”
This is what we as Americans, not conservatives or liberals, but legal Americans have to agree on. It is not fair to Mexican Americans, Irish Americans, English Americans, African Americans, etc etc…… to compete with illegal workers, while at the same time having to subsidize their legitimate social needs while here.
Business owners and their investors profit while their legal employees are paying the social bills associated with illegal low wage labor.
Our elected representatives have to represent all of us, and is time to expect them to do they part!
Comment by Jim R — 03.22.05 @ 11:53 pm
Illegal Immigration via the Friendly Skies
We’all down here in Raleigh don’t make the news that much but I imagine this may not make the national headlines anywhere but at least the blogs will pick it up.
Trackback by Shared Daily — 03.30.05 @ 4:05 pm
Here in San Diego, our representatives, Cunningham and Hunter, are in the process of getting a bill passed, which will finish the border fence in the city. The 14 mile fence stopped several miles from the Pacific because of opposition by environmentalists. This left a large hole where illegals could still “shoot the gap.’ In addition, Sen. Feinstein is calling for more security at the ports and a better distribution of Homeland Security funds. Wyoming (read Cheney) gets about $28 per capita, New York $15 and California $8.
Also, 200 of the 500 Border Patrol agents which are going to Arizona will be taken from CA and TX, making those states borders more vulnerable.
Finally, 4 Iraqis were stopped in Mexacali, just a few miles from the border. The Feds say that they’re not terrorists. The Iraqis say they had planned to stay in Mexicali permanently (ha). Mexican officials are said to give our Feds a heads-up when they encounter Middle Easterners. They sometimes charge them with illegal entry into Mexico.
All this was in the San Diego Union-Tribune this morning, along with an opinion piece or two. You might want to check the paper out on-line as we have been dealing with this issue for years and years and years.
Comment by stan — 03.30.05 @ 5:02 pm