Update III (4/14): You know, I’ve been thinking about that “play the race card” statement. I don’t think I will. If I ever criticized someone else for doing it, I’d be a hypocrite. I’ll just do what I’ve always done: blog about why illegal immigration is bad for all Americans.
Update II: Katherine Kersten says, “Start immigration reform with those who follow the law…Obviously, many illegal immigrants are good folks, striving to better their families. But they have broken the law to get here. That’s why many Americans find it unsettling to see them pumping their fists and shouting grievances in the streets — cheered on by their American ’social justice’ allies.”
I’m often subjected to e-mail sermons from Christians chastising me for speaking out against border-jumpers. I long to hear some of these same people tell me how they’ve also chastised Christ-professing illegal aliens for disregarding another nation’s laws for their own gain. Just one such anecdote will do. You know how to reach me. If you’re a Christ-following illegal alien, I eagerly await your response/defense.
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It is in a strong nation’s best interest to maintain its culture and heritage, and that largely depends on who that nation allows to cross its borders and why.
America is strong and great for good reasons, but many of us act as though it sprung fully formed from the earth, with freedom fully intact. America’s graveyards are filled with people who helped build this nation into what it is today, people who fought and bled and died to make sure we remained free and for the rule of law to prevail.
“Rule of law” is a western ideal, one that has allowed us to be a beacon of justice and a land where the poorest of the earth can fulfill his dreams and live his life in peace.
But the rule of law is eroding. Fast. We can’t even begin to imagine what allowing millions of criminals to go unpunished will mean to something as mundane as our daily lives or as profound as the principles that distinguish us from the rest of the world.
It may seem hard to believe now, but there was a time when America dictated its own immigration policy and limited the number of immigrants from certain countries. You don’t need to be a rocket surgeon to understand why we were selective about immigration. A potential immigrant’s national origin was a consideration, as were his skills. But with the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s came a liberalization of our immigration policy. Important factors like national origin and marketable skills were “dumbed down.” We still had rules, but lawmakers apparently failed to realize that with lax standards, people would take advantage. Why they didn’t anticipate the inevitable influx of illegal immigration caused by permissive and lax policies is beyond me.
Most of today’s immigrants (including illegal aliens) are usually relatives of immigrants and/or from Third World countries. Third World immigrants may not be a problem in themselves; it’s Third World, low-skilled, illegal immigrants who inexplicably want to retain their Third World culture.
This is it, folks. Politicians have set the tone of the debate, from George Bush on down. Our president, for whatever reason, wants illegal aliens to remain in the United States, and he has the power to make it so. Bush knows very well that it is illegal immigration that most Americans oppose, not immigration per se. Whenever he talks about this issue, however, he emphasizes the “nation of immigrants” meme, failing to make the obvious distinction.
Since humans have walked the earth, they’ve packed together in groups based on mutual interest: survival. With each passing millennium, this survival has taken many forms, each more sophisticated than the next. We form political alliances based on whatever is important to us: race, sex, education, etc. Some groups are more powerful than others.
I loathe race and class envy, but because I have a human nature, it takes effort to resist the urge to join in class war games. To make my point, I must “go there” today. There is a class of people in this country who want illegal, low-wage aliens to remain right where they are. Illegal aliens raise their children, cook their food, clean their toilets, and landscape their valuable property. Imagine what it would cost them to employ legal citizens to do these jobs. This class doesn’t compete with the alien class, whose very presence depresses wages, and probably never will.
They have no regard for the damage illegal immigration causes. They can afford to live in gated communities devoid of illegal aliens, shop at exclusive stores, and visit private doctors. They can afford to insulate themselves from non-assimilating, poor English-speaking aliens, while taking advantage of their dirt-cheap labor.
They can afford private schools for their children, including college, while middle-class Americans send their children to government schools with illegal aliens or the children of illegal aliens, who bring down standards and burden the taxpayer. To add insult to injury, these same children are rewarded with in-state tuition while legal citizens have to follow the rules and pay out-of-state tuition.
Whenever I start ranting about illegal “immigration,” I have this picture in my head: the elites are sitting on high, laughing while the peasants fight over scraps. I don’t like that image. I don’t want to be a peasant, fighting over scraps. I want to be insulated from the effects of illegal immigration, just as the elites. I admit it.
I’ve got the right kind of job for it. I’m a writer and a consultant. There aren’t too many illegal aliens competing for space in print publications and online or going after book deals. This intellectual property that pays the bills is less vulnerable to market fluctuations caused by a glut of low wage workers. Unfortunately, too much of my hard-earned income goes toward a system that bears the burden of uninsured, off-the-books, poor English-speaking foreigners, but until someone writes and passes a new law, my options are severely limited. (Obeying the law? What a novel idea!!!)
The illegal immigration “debate” is a race and class issue, no matter how you frame the argument. In a way, this may be good for black Americans used to a fat entitlement system catering to their every whim. People who have no legal right to be in this country are asserting themselves, with the complicity of politicians, and blacks will be disproportionately harmed.
The ancestors of illegal aliens were never enslaved in this country, yet they’re fighting for rights that are not theirs. Black Americans are full and legal citizens of the U.S. with all the privileges and rights this entails, and our ancestors fought and died for those privileges and rights. They are ours by birthright. Yet, illegal aliens and their liberal handlers have the nerve to compare their “revolution” with ours. I have to force myself to stay calm even as I type this.
This is my declaration:
No longer will I view the immigration debacle as a put-upon peasant. I won’t view it as an elitist, either. I will try, as difficult as I know it will be, to see it simply as a concerned citizen, not a ranting, angry blogger. There are millions of criminal aliens here, and thanks to permissive government policies, they aren’t going anywhere. At every opportunity, I will play the race card until black Americans understand what’s going on and how offensive it is that foreign invaders are co-opting our cause for their crimes. Just as homosexuals equate perversion with our fight for freedom, illegal aliens equate their border-jumping and unlawful presence in this great nation with our struggle to be recognized as first-class citizens.
If I sound defeatist or vindictive, I don’t mean to. I’m just trying to be realistic. I’ll continue to oppose the amnesty bill and illegal immigration. I’ll continue to advocate the deportation of illegal aliens and speak out against a government that refuses to enforce its own law for the convenience of the elites. Always.
This post was inspired by America’s greatness, my gratitude for being born in this country, Ann Coulter’s latest column, Brown is the new black, etc.
(Photo credits: top photo by AFP; flag desecration bydoyoulikeit/Buzznet; Nazi sign by Bryan Preston)
See the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s pages on:
Update: Does this mean I’m authentically black now?
A commenter writes:
It’s a slap in the face to everyone who comes here legally, like Erbo said. There are several immigrants in my family — all here legally. My sister-in-law had to wait until almost a year after she married my brother before she could join him here in the same country! What a fun way to start a marriage. But she did it.
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Very thought provoking post La Shawn. I think I have mentioned in the past how we failed to read the fine print of the civil rights movement (we became more focused on man and didn’t weigh the negatives, which have come to cost us more that we can pay). We left God (and gave Him lip service) and turned to man (and our families paid the price).
This just proves that point, another negative nail in the coffin from that movement. We place our trust and freedoms in man and man’s laws and not the Lord. Man (on his own) will sell out to the highest bidder.
BTW,
It makes my stomach turn as much as yours when illegal criminals and homosexuals are compared to blacks and the struggles and animistic treatment our ancestors went through. They may as well come out and say being black is a crime and a sin (because that is the analogy no matter how much our President and “progressive” who push that argument says that’s not what they mean).
La Shawn,
Get used to it. I don’t mean that in a rude way, but all of us better get used to it. Or we must adopt the tactics we’ve seen used by the criminal aliens and their handlers.
Because most of us work and are compassionate toward others, we let them rant and rave and don’t notice these events influence our leaders. It seems the only way to make our leaders accountable to us is take to the streets, burn, pillage and destroy because the fear of our votes doesn’t seem to be enough to get them to do their jobs. We’ll get outvoted by criminals given the right to vote and the “elites” won’t care, because they’ve given them the vote to keep us from exercising our rights. Rights in their arrogance they deem not fit for us.
That’s the way it seems and there doesn’t appear to be anything we can do about it.
Our politicians are concerned about one thing, their freaking jobs and who will vote for them. Unless we make as much noise as illegals and those who support them, we will lose. Since we won’t organize enough to have our own mass demonstrations for whatever reason (no leadership, jobs, apathy), the only other thing we can do is assail our glorious leaders by phone, e-mail or by personal visit.
The Democrats think they have the Black vote bagged, and they probably do, and they have the opportunity to secure the Hispanic vote..it’s a win/win for them. The Republicans know they need the Hispanic vote, have little chance of picking up the Black vote no matter what they do on the illegal immigration issue and so they think they have little choice but to go after the Hispanic vote or they will lose control of the House and the Senate and the Presidency.It’s a lose/lose for them.
The only other thing I can think of that will influence either party is an all out revolt by the Black community. Go for it LaShawn. I only hope your message is broadcast far and wide enough to make a difference.
Great post – thought-provoking and well-written (although I don’t agree with much of it).
You seem to assume that most illegal immigrants work as servents (housekeppers, baby sitters, etc.) for the elite class, and so elitists have an interest in illegal immigrants.
But my understanding is that most of undocumented aliens are employed by small businesses and farms (picking fruits, etc.). Therefore, setting aside questions of legality, an argument can be made that we all profit from this practice of below-minimum-wage labor, since it keeps the price of consumer goods down, and helps the “little guy” start-up business owner (with whom I think you can identify).
Also, I have a problem with the term “illegal immigrant”. To my mind, that’s like calling someone who doesn’t come to a full stop at a stop sign an “illegal driver” and a “criminal”. Technically, the driver is a criminal, but it’s not like he’s some crazed lawbreaker.
Same with “illegal immigrants”. Are they here illegally? Sure. But so what? I jaywalked this morning. I think we need to separate the stuff from the stuff.
And in fact, most “illegal immigrants” are quite law-abiding since if they get caught committing real crimes, they get “discovered” and eventually deported.
I’ll have to consider the issue further in light of what you wrote, but to be honest, I like the idea of “amnesty”. First of all, it will create more taxpayers and lighten the burden on the rest of us. Second of all, there’s no alternative, since deportation of 12 million simply cannot be done logistically. Mostly though, it’s as American as apple pie, and there’s a statue in New York harbor that agrees with me.
I just hope that “amnesty” is accompanied by some reasonable immigration policy going forward so we don’t find this issue popping up again in 20 years.
Your approach is a good one, La Shawn, and I think you’re right in pointing out exactly who will suffer from unrestricted illegal immigration.
I’ve been coming at this issue from another angle…I have a friend, Irene, who came to America from Singapore in 2003 to marry a man in the state of Washington. She has played by the rules throughout, and been put through the wringer by the requirements of INS/ICE. Last month, she was finally issued a proper green card, allowing her to find work here and help with household expenses. (She’s previously been a lawyer and a schoolteacher.) For our government to propose amnesty for the hordes of people that don’t play by the rules, that just barge on in and expect to be handed a place in our society, is a slap in the face to Irene. And to Stig, the husband of a former coworker of mine, who came here from Norway and encountered similar bureaucratic struggles. And to my wife’s friends in Turkey, who patiently apply for the “green card lottery” year after year, despite the fact that only one of them has made it thusfar. And to everybody else who has endured the process of convincing the U.S. government to let them in and let them stay. Why should these criminals get to jump the queue, just because they can stage mass riots in our major cities?
The two arguments both have a likelihood of being effective, maybe yours more than mine, because you are, after all, speaking to and about actual citizens of this country. However, it’ll probably take both of these arguments, and many more similar ones, to get the people who are supposed to be in charge to listen.
I hope you saw what ted the swimmer kennedy and hanoi john kerry were spewing at the rally on the Mall in DC.
please dont sink to the level of the “RACE CARD”. also they are not illegal immigrants they are undocumented/illegal ALIENS. just thumb through your thesaurus. otherwise keep up the good work your blog is one of my daily reads
>>Also, I have a problem with the term “illegal immigrantâ€. To my mind, that’s like calling someone who doesn’t come to a full stop at a stop sign an “illegal driver†and a “criminalâ€. Technically, the driver is a criminal, but it’s not like he’s some crazed lawbreaker.>>
Wrong analogy. A legal driver who doesn’t come to a full stop at a stop sign is a traffic violator. If the driver doesn’t have a driver’s license, he’s an illegal driver. Immigrants who come here illegally are illegal. If they break the law here besides being illegal, they are also criminals.
We need a wall – or some means of effective border protection. Then maybe we can address the xx million who are already here. Plug the leak, then start bailing.
As for “But my understanding is that most of undocumented aliens are employed by small businesses and farms (picking fruits, etc.).”, many of those small businesses are themselves illegal, I suspect. I’m in an area that has a high hispanic populaion…both legal and illegal. I personally know one Mexican (American) who has a house painting business. He deals with other Mexican families, speaks virtually no English, hires only other Mexicans. He owns a house in a $500K neighborhood, has recently bought another property that cost $800K. I have no idea how much he owes on them, but we’re talking fairly major bucks no matter whether he owns them outright or has huge mortgages. I’d be willing to bet he doesn’t have his business properly licensed with the state, doesn’t pay income taxes, doesn’t pay SS on himself or his employees, doesn’t pay unemployment insurance or medical insurance or worker’s comp. In my family owned business of fairly small size (Mom, Pop, 3 employees), the amounts paid to the Federal Goverment and the State government each month is like having two extra employees and they get paid better than any of the rest of us. Too many Mexicans come here for the free benefits – this man is earning his way, but he if he isn’t paying the same taxes I do, then he isn’t pulling his weight.
If you’re born here, you have a SS number. If you are ever employed by a US company, you have to file a tax return. If you have a bank account, you have to have acceptable ID, and the bank will pass on your numbers to the Feds. You(your number, at least) get noticed. But. If you aren’t born here, start your own business (business cards are $10 at Office Depot, and their employees speak Spanish), do a cash only business, pay employees in cash, don’t use banks to store your cash, don’t have the kind of business that people need to identify by number on _their_ Federal or State returns (like you have to do for a Child Care deduction) a person can stay beneath the radar. Think about it. I suspect there’s a whole level of cash transaction economy that is below the radar.
When we were looking for a business to buy, we looked at a couple of businesses that had very odd and significant differences in their current and their prior years annual statements. The realtor explained it by the fact that those companies were businesses that had a lot of cash transactions. They reported their check and credit transactions, but nothing that went into the cash drawer. Another used the cash income to pay home maintenance employees. Until they wanted to sell, of course. Then everything went on the annual statement so it would look good. Very interesting.
La Shawn,
The greatest ally the black community has is the conservative white middle class. The reason this is considered unthinkable is the obsession over “vindication” of the past rather than progress through the strenghth of unity.
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“I personally know one Mexican (American) who has a house painting business. He deals with other Mexican families, speaks virtually no English, hires only other Mexicans. He owns a house in a $500K neighborhood, has recently bought another property that cost $800K. I have no idea how much he owes on them, but we’re talking fairly major bucks no matter whether he owns them outright or has huge mortgages. I’d be willing to bet he doesn’t have his business properly licensed with the state, doesn’t pay income taxes, doesn’t pay SS on himself or his employees, doesn’t pay unemployment insurance or medical insurance or worker’s comp.”
Something about this simply doesn’t ring true.
While it is possible to have a small house painting business and avoid licensing, it’s pretty hard to make “fairly major bucks” at it, since most clients (except the poorest) will insist on licensing. Furthermore, you claim that he “deals with other Mexican families”, not typically the most wealthy segment of society.
Obviously, I can’t say for sure with this particular guy, but one of the drawbacks of trying to conduct business “under the radar” is that you CAN’T get too successful.
Anyway, he’s an American, not an (American).
I have always respected you, now, I think I love you…
I think that black people need to wake up and realize what is happening to them. Illegal aliens are depressing wages and causing working class citizens their jobs. I am a firsthand witness to this. I work part time for a local cleaning company. The company has lost two major contracts in the last year because of illegal aliens. The company is a good company to work for part time. The schedule runs from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The work force is made up of most working class and lower middle class people trying to make a little extra money to get ahead. They pay above minimum wage and a new employee will bring home around $300.00 dollars a month after taxes. This is not much but it is able to bay all the utilities of a small house or the utilities and a couple of weeks of groceries for a two bedroom apartment. $300.00 dollars extra cash a month makes a big difference to a family. All part time workers are required to go through a criminal background check. They are also required to be either retired or working another job to qualify for employment. This company’s workforce is about 80% black, 10% white, and 10% brown. They lost these contracts to large companies that subcontract out to companies that pay workers minimum wage and require their workers to work longer hours. No big surprise that when the change over was taking place and the new workers came in they were 100% brown and only 10% could speak any English. Just these two contract losses have turned over 100 good part time jobs that allowed working class legal citizens a little financial relief over to 50 illegal aliens.
>>Something about this simply doesn’t ring true.>>
It’s true as far as my knowledge goes. I’ll readily admit that I may not know pertinent facts. In fact, I don’t know if he’s legal or not, licensed or not. I’d disagree with you on the “clients insist on licensing” bit, though. Customers may look for a number that says the company is licensed, but how many check out the number with the state? As for “other Mexican families – not typically the most wealthy segment”…also agreed, but housing in our area is outrageous, and if you’ve owned a house for anything over 10 years, the dollar value may be 3-5 times what you paid for it originally. I couldn’t afford my own house if I didn’t already live there!
In any case, if you are in an all cash environment, you buy “stuff” because it isn’t safe to hoard cash. You can always cash out if you need liquidity.
>>…he’s an American, not an (American)>>
Well, that’s kind of one of the questions here…! I don’t know the status of his citizenship. For example purposes though, it doesn’t matter. The “under the radar” situation could be real even if it isn’t in this particular case.
Thank you, La Shawn. You are saying what I am so angry I can barely articulate.
It’s a slap in the face to everyone who comes here legally, like Erbo said. There are several immigrants in my family — all here legally. My sister-in-law had to wait until almost a year after she married my brother before she could join him here in the same country! What a fun way to start a marriage. But she did it.
A co-worker of mine is here legally from India. He’s a great person. But he’s been here 5 years, with no green card, which means he basically can’t change jobs (he’s legal at his current job, but would need a special sponsor to change jobs). He works as a contractor for a company that KNOWS he can’t change jobs. He’ll never get a raise, a vacation, health care, or anything else from that company, I’m sure. They know they don’t have to.
But maybe 11 million other people will become legal in an instant and leap frog past him? Screw that.
It would seem simple that illegal immigrants would start by showing respect to the flag that they claim to honor.
Hello? “Illegal” aliens are not standing in line. They deserve “oriental” respect. Let me clarify: Many oriental countries see a foreigner who is (for instance) hit and injured by a local citizen as the core problem. By definition, if the foreigner were where he was supposed to be (i.e. at home) he would not have been there to be hit!!! Ergo, it is his fault for being where he shouldn’t be.
We now face the situation of harassing immigrants who play by the rules while throwing in the towel who over those who pushed their way past the laws.
What next? Why not send a bus to poor a village in Mexico (or a plane to Dafur) and deliver those who want to escape their poverty to various 7-11’s across the US? Why should we insist that they pay so much and risk their lives to get here?
Why not require every American citizen with a spare couch to house a foreign national who would like to live in the United States? How many empty couches does John Kerry or Michael Moore have? Or you!
What are our standards, people? Every “first world” country has an underground economy and these people only feed it (see: suek’s comments above). High taxes on those who cooperate with the tax code only encourages further non compliance.
As Shakespeare so aptly put it: “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when we practice to deceive.” Our “illegal” immigrant response is a tissue of lies and it is sending us into the whirlpool of the flushing toilet.
My father is Jamaican. He came to the country in the 50s. With today’s immigration standards, he wouldn’t be let in because his family is poor.
The legal immigrants who make it to the this country, are mainly of means and/or educated. My father had a high school education.
Greater than 95% of the “Black” immigrants that I know, come from families of means and are well educated.
So, I disagree with this: But with the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s came a liberalization of our immigration policy. Important factors like national origin and marketable skills were “dumbed down.†We still had rules, but lawmakers apparently failed to realize that with lax standards, people would take advantage. Why they didn’t anticipate the inevitable influx of illegal immigration caused by permissive and lax policies is beyond me.
The rules were changed in the past 10-15 years to favor means and education.
At every opportunity, I will play the race card until black Americans understand what’s going on and how offensive it is that foreign invaders are co-opting our cause for their crimes.
In all seriousness, how are you going to do this?
You have a blog history that many Blacks would find “troubling” and probably wouldn’t listen to a word you say.
In this post, you wrote: In a way, this may be good for black Americans used to a fat entitlement system catering to their every whim
Now, this is demonstratable to be false but it makes for a good copy. (When you “take it there” and I disagree, it’s generally facts that I disagree with. For that reason, you’ve labeled me a liberal).
In your I.Q. series, you wrote that, as a group, Blacks have a lower I.Q. than whites. If you believe in “g”, which you said you did, unless I misread, that would be true. Given your stance, it would be easy to say that you think that Blacks are genetically inferior in mental abilities. That’s what the I.Q. measures, right?
In your posts about affirmative action, you say that you believe it is discrimination. That’s fine. But you say and imply that Blacks are lazy. Or am I just inferring it? If so, if I do, others likey do as well.
So, why should a Black person care what you say on the matter?
It is about time that my fellow Americans have gotten angry over this issue. As a Mexican-American whose family has been in this country for about 100 years, I can tell you that we have been angry for years. “We” were the first to feel the effects of cheap illegal or “guest worker” labor. I come from a former migrant family. My Dad at 83 still talks about how little he earned picking cotton in Arizona because the braceros would work for cheaper. Eventually we settled in Idaho because my parents wanted better for their children. My parents knew that education was our salvation and sent us (9 kids) to a parochial school instead of public school. My parents were proud people and wouldn’t accept free tuition. We instead hoed beets during the summer to pay our way. We watched as local farmers would hire illegals to work for less. Non-Hispanics were perplexed why we complained about this situation. In time we learned that our complaints fell on deaf ears. Even today I keep my opinions to myself. Though the race card can’t be used against me, the “sell-out” card is the next alternative. You would be surprised by how many Hispanics are opposed to illegal immigration. In fact, it was none other than Cesar Chavez that bitterly opposed the use of illegal laborers in his battle to secure fair wages and humane working conditions for migrant workers. Please do not think that all Hispanics support illegal immigration – We Do Not!!!
And, to be clear, I’m against illegal immigration, against the media appointed “leaders” backing amnesty, and I think that Americans, including Blacks, will work jobs “that even Blacks don’t work” if the pay were worth it.
“In all seriousness, how are you going to do this?
You have a blog history that many Blacks would find “troubling†and probably wouldn’t listen to a word you say.”
This is the kind of thinking that signals a green light for math teachers to use “Condi Rice with a watermelon” math problems in class and feel like they’re not doing anything wrong.
My 80 year old mother has been very vocal about the illegal immigration issue. She could not understand how millions have been allowed to cross the border while black Haitians come in boats and are sent back. Yes its a race thing with her. My mom wants what she views as mostly Mexican sent back. Anybody especially terrorists can cross the border.
My Mom has been a democrat all her voting life. The only voting exception is Arlen Spector. My Mom
is now identifying with those on the right and the house republicans. She agrees with Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter. Up until now, she always thought Coulter was a nut case.
La Shawn
Ditto on everything. Unfortunately, the Dept. of Homeland Security does not have the resources or will to deport anyone, much less all.
But look who is joining in with the illegals –
The group who has basically ignored the “rule of law” so loudly shouted from the Federal rooftop:
The group who have been treated with “kid gloves” by those fearing to “offend” anyone.
The group who have NOT been prosecuted for Hate Crimes when THEY target others.
The group who believe THEY are “above the rule of law”.
YOUR FORMER SELF
BLACK LIBERALS
Every time I read blogs or news about the immigration, my mind immediately goes to the following thoughts which are actually 2 issues: illegals receiving free medical care and legal immigrant’s (consider making all the illegals legal?) elderly parents receiving benefits without ever having paid a dime into our systems.
Working in the medical field, I see a lot of “free” care going to these people. However, I also see a lot of Medicaid funds being spent on non-speaking individuals, who have come to the U.S. because their “children” are here – legally! These legal immigrants bring their elderly parents here, who have no assets. They apply for Medicaid, get it, and are eating up resources. These elderly individuals did not grow up here, work here, or pay into any programs to deserve these services. I know of a middle-Eastern medical physician whose parent is now here and receives Medicaid benefits. Many middle-Eastern immigrants receiving Medicaid have renal disease and are getting all of their dialysis services – for free! One nursing student took care of an illegal immigrant in ICU seizing and in a coma from an unknown “bacterial” infection. This 18-year-old Mexican came out of his comma, got up, and left the hospital – becoming untraceable. Many Mexicans have TB and are bringing this into our country. If you research school systems with large numbers of Mexican students and check for incidents of TB, the incidents are increasing in numbers.
If we give amnesty and legal status to those protesting, the government had better prepare for even more influx – the rest of their families. What will politicians do when what we middle-class Americans pay in taxes is not enough to take care of these people?
Wake up America. If we lose this fight and the politicians give these illegals legal rights, then I surely hope the rules stipulate that they can NEVER bring the rest of their families here nor EVER receive ANY social benefits.
Other countries will not allow anyone to live in their country without first showing and verifying that they will not drain or use any of their social programs or health benefits. America must follow this trend.
It’s not law MAKERS that are the problem–we already have immigration laws on the books.
It’s law ENFORCEMENT.
Politicians that get all the face time are in the legislative branch. Who’s in the executive branch? Why aren’t we seeing them? Why aren’t they being hounded? Constantly? How come they live their lives in relative peace while the rest of us bear the emotional burden of how we’re going to raise families in a land where nobody wants to do the right thing anymore because they’re afraid they’ll look mean, and people won’t like them?
Please go to La Voz de Aztlan and read what MEXICO has in store for the United States IF another Amnesty is passed. They have planned a long time to take back the states we won in the war and they said this time it would be by immigration. This is aided and abetted by that economic parasite Fox. Also, go to http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/media/aztlan_high.wmv and see what Jose Angel Gutierrez, Professor at the University of Texas and founder of LaRaza has to say. There is hate in his voice as he says “THIS IS OUR LAND NOT THEIRS AND WE ARE HERE TO TAKE IT BACK.” There is an article that says he has also said “If worst comes to worst we have got to KILL the GRINGOS.” That is WAR talk! There was a site at http://www.wehategringos.com that showed the illegal aliens marching carrying Mexican flags and ugly signs with the four letter F word directed to us GRINGOS. The ONLY REASON they stopped in this last march was because Lulac and LaRaza told them it was hurting their CAUSE. Their HEART has NOT changed! They have been plannng these marches since Congressman Joe Baca met with them on January 12 and told them about our pending legislation on amnesty and how it would affect them. To me, BACA is a TRAITOR to this nation. The Bible says ‘A house divided against itself cannot stand and nation is FORMING within OUR nation and a nation cannot stand division either. If Germnay or another nation came over here marching and DEMANDING their RIGHTS I feel sure ALL our SENATORS would be yelling WAR! This is NO DIFFERENT. We are IN WAR with Mexico. TJ Bonner, president of the Border Patrol agency said “It’s clear we are dealing with a large number of incursions by bona-fide MILITARY units” This is WAR for MILITARY from another nation to enter our soil for illegal purposes. there should be NO welfare, No free schooling, NO food stamps, NO college tuition, No reduced housing, NO MEDICARE, NO ANCHOR BABIES for these GATE-CRASHERS and SOME of the BORDER problems would CEASE!
Erbo is right about who will suffer from unresticted illegal immigration.
So I propose we end the suffering and have unresticted (well very few restrictions) legal immigration.
America and Mexico are integrating. It will not be easy. It will be painful. It will be done.
Travel is too easy and the economic differentials are too great.
Say. I thought Republicans understood economics. Supply curves (hungry – will work cheap) demand curves (lower priced labor means profit or even staying in business against Chinese imports etc.)
Well given you do not understand the absolute strength of economics (look at Drug Prohibition or Labor Prohibition ) it is no wonder you propose “solutions” that will either not work or make things worse.
Suppose “Immigration Reform” is equivalent to “Smoot-Hawley”. Is it worth wrecking the American Economy to get rid of the illegals?
I hope so. Because you may soon get your wish.
I’m not 100% on board with the idea that Mexico and the U.S. are integrating.
If that were really the case, I’d be down there right now, scouting beachfront real estate–without fear of some corrupt government official trying to seize my property, or burning the place down if the courts rule against him.
I would have no problems moving my family–or in my case, my pets–down there, because I’d have no fear of the horribly substandard health care I might incur. And if it’s bad for humans, imagine veterenary care!
And lastly….I’D BE ABLE TO DRINK THE FREAKIN’ WATER!!!
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