As long as idiot business owners and the elite continue hiring illegal aliens, the demand for illegal aliens and their urgency to cross the border by any means necessary aren’t going away. But enforcing the law certainly would make a dent in the supply.
But for reasons unknown to this American, the federal government will not enforce immigration law.
It’s shameful, especially in the age of terrorism, that our borders are unguarded and unprotected. It’s criminal that people not only get away with violating our laws and impinging on our nation’s right to protect itself from invasion, but too many of them have the gall to use our own (suicidal) generosity against us, taking advantage of the same system of laws they spit on!
But there’s no point in getting upset. 
Larger cities have been able to absorb crime and overburdened social services better than small towns. The federal government has abandoned small town America. But these citizens are not rolling over and playing dead. They’re doing what Americans have always done: trying to protect themselves and their way of life. A few examples:
Herndon, VA — The northern VA town voted out its open-borders council and applied for Section 287(g) training, which will allow local law enforcement to “help” carry out federal immigration law.
Hazleton, PA — This northeastern Pennsylvania town passed ordinances prohibiting landlords from renting to illegal aliens and businesses from hiring them. Open-border plaintiffs took the matter to a federal court, and the judge issued a temporary injunction. Several factors are weighed when determining whether a court should grant an injunction, and one is “irreparable injury.” A pair of fools/hispanic store owners said running illegal aliens who shop at their stores out of town will harm their businesses. Can you believe it? Obviously, the judge agreed. Read the sorry memo (PDF) for yourselves.
There ought to be a law against…oh, wait…there is!
Farmers Branch, TX — Enacted ordinances that prohibit landlords from renting to illegal aliens and established English as the town’s official language. Utterly silly and incomprehensible that people really need to pass such ordinances, but open-borders Bush ain’t interested in protecting Americans and preserving America. Illegal “immigration” is the #1 reason my support for the Iraq war is waning.
Taneytown, MD — A town in central Maryland, of all places, had to make English the official language. Can you imagine how bad the language problem must be for small towns to pass “English only” ordinances?
Pahrump, NV — Banned illegal aliens from receiving publicly funded benefits and passed an “English only” ordinance.
Arizona can’t be described as “small town,” but it’s worth noting that while this state rejected the pro-enforcement Congressman J. D. Hayworth, voters passed anti-illegal alien measures, including blocking them from receiving in-state tuition and publicly funded child care and adult education classes.
You want to break our laws and get free child care? Call a charity, not the government. By the way, this article should be titled, “Initiatives protecting American citizens win majorities” or “Initiatives penalizing illegal aliens win majorities.”
But when liberals run newspapers, that’s the way they frame the story and that’s the kind of headline you get.
If you live in a small town that’s doing something to curb the damage caused by illegal “immigration,” let us know.
Addendum: Not all people of hispanic descent support an open-borders and polyglot culture.
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Add Cherokee County, Ga to the list. They passed a law prohibiting landlords from renting to illegals. The Atlanta Journal & Constitution editorializes today as how this is a bad thing.
The AJC regularly calls for “frog marches” for businesses that hire illegals and sees no contradiction in it’s position.
Add Altoona, PA to that list: http://www.wrtanews.com/artman/publish/article_5293.shtml
For those people reading this blog and who support the ACLU, realize that the ACLU is the organization that is suing to stop all these communities from enforcing the laws they have passed. Think about it. The AMERICAN civil liberties union is suing AMERICANS in the interests of NON-AMERICANS. It makes me furious. I hope more and more communities continue to pass anti-illegal immigration laws so that the ACLU has to fight on so many fronts that their resources are drained dry!
Cheap labor–has always been a priority, always will be.
Calling illegal aliens cheap labor is a bit of a misnomer. The cost of illegal aliens is not cheap, it’s just that the cost is borne by the average taxpayer, so people don’t think of it as “cost”. Free schooling (complete with English as a second language programs), free lunches, free health care, free social services, and increased crime cost somebody and that somebody is the American Taxpayer. So while the labor may be cheap for the lawbreaking employer, the American People foot the real bill. I for one am sick of it.
“Cheap labor” is indeed a misnomer. In addition to the reasons given by Belle, I must point out the myth that illegals are paid very little. In my personal experience, they are not. When I lived in a certain western state, I worked as a waitress in a restaurant that hired many illegals from all over the world, including the South Pacific and Europe. They were paid, in cash, exactly what all the rest of us were paid. The difference is that we were on the books, and had income and payroll taxes taken out of our checks. They did not, and the employer profited by not having to pay his share of social security and medicare taxes, or unemployment and worker’s comp insurance on those employees. The ones who got the rotten end of the deal were the legal workers.
Eyesontheborder.org is purchasing airplanes for Texas border sheriffs to use in patrolling.
Funding is all via private citizens, since our elected officials are simply not doing the job.
The problem with enforcing the ban on hiring illegals is twofold:
– first, illegals tend to work for small businesses. Most can’t pass the background checks a major employer’s HR department would have (i.e. a Fortune 500 company). They are clustered in cash/day labor oriented companies (food service, construction), often hidden as subcontractors of subcontractors. There are so many of these places that we can’t afford to police them all directly. You would need to have a way to track employment. This leads us to …
– second, there is no way to quickly check the ID of someone in a day labor type job and see if they have citizenship or a work visa. This is one of the areas that the enforcement types tend to ignore in their debate, concentrating only on building the fence. (NB: the fence is a good idea. It is, to borrow a math phrase, necessary but not sufficient to attack the problem.)
Look, we can’t deport all the illegals here without putting ahuge shock on the economies of the border states. For example, it is estimated that 80% of the construction labor in Houston, where I live, is made up of illegals and there are a lot of them doing cleanup and rebuilding in New Orleans. There aren’t enough unemployed in the area to fill those jobs, so it would dramatically hurt the economy.
I think that the Hutchison/Pence plan of border control followed by hiring from centers outside the US would be the best compromise I’ve seen.
>>”There aren’t enough unemployed in the area to fill those jobs, so it would dramatically hurt the economy.”
Are we sure about that? (not trying to accuse; just thinking aloud; I don’t know the statistics) How many legal welfare recipients could fill those positions? I agree there might be a temporary sting, but I think it would stabilize, and the long term benefits would far outweigh the initial jolt.
Regarding your first point of small businesses not having the same resources as big ones, that’s exactly where a smart & useful gov’t could help enforcement by subsidizing the cost of those background checks and ID verifications. I generally dislike subsidies that typically waste our money, but I can support ones that actually benefit citizens and work toward our security as a nation.
On point number 2, just because there isn’t a system now doesn’t mean that one can’t be developed.
We can’t all just say, “Well, enforcing the laws already on our books could cause some temporary problems so let’s give up.”
Please don’t interpret Hayworth’s defeat as a referendum on immigration. His opponent, Harry Mitchell, spent the entire campaign attacking Hayworth on immigration from the right. Four anti-illegal immigration propositions on the same ballot passed.
So, will the town of Pahrump have to change its name, now, because of the new ‘English only ordinance’?
Pahrump, (pronounced: pa-rump) is a Paiute Indian language word roughly meaning ‘Big water mouth’, (Pahrump, NV, about 75 miles west/northwest of las Vegas, NV, sits atop one of the largest water aquifers in the USA.
What jobs are they doing that are sooo important?
I look around and see them either carrying a bottle of Windex, or irritating me with their loud leaf blowers.
Do we really need leaf blowers in society? And, I can do my own Windex.
I would challenge the idea that these are essential jobs.
About construction jobs being filled by illegals:
>>How many legal welfare recipients could fill those positions?
I checked some numbers at the Federal Reserve site. Houston unemployment is about 4.7%. Taking the stats there on construction employment in the state (629k jobs of 10150k jobs in the state), the number of unemployed is about 80% of the construction jobs in the Houston area. This probably understates the number of construction jobs in Houston, which is still in a building boom. So, it would take every unemployed person in Houston to fill just the construction jobs of illegals.
>>On point number 2, just because there isn’t a system now doesn’t mean that one can’t be developed.
True, never said that it couldn’t, but without one now, you can’t be sure anyone you hire is legal – I’ve seen the fake IDs out there and they look just as good as real ones. Development of a new ID system is part of what the president and the Hutchison/Pence plan have called for. But much of the rhetoric about the problem is only focused on two aspects – closing the border and throwing the rascals out.
The federal goverment is not going to halt illegal imagration becuase its all the unscruploius plans to create the NORTH AMERICAN UNION. Its time to oppose the NORTH AMERICAN UNION and GET OURSELVES OUT OF THE UN AND DRIVE OUT THE CFR
i recently retired from the staffing industry. I can tell you with absolute certainty that we need this labor force. Whites routinely turned down jobs that Hispanics did not flinch at taking. They would then proceed to out work their counterparts. Not in all cases certainly but in most.The system for checking ID’s is spotty. You can call Soc Sec and confirm certain things but a determined worker will find a way. This debate is sadly much like the war in Iraq. We have come to a point and there is no going back. We have to arrive at realistic solutions
If you don’t like that they use our social services without paying then tax them. If you want to dispose of the criminal element within their community then you have to establish who is in that community. Realism is paramount in this debate.
Just remember, you like cheap stuff.
What it all boils down to is this: We are in the middle of a slow motion type of economic warfare. Kinda like the death of a thousand cuts. The Mexican government is well aware of what they are doing. What a deal, ship all the poor who can walk, because the foolish gringos are willing to take care of them. One of things that I know for certain is that America was formed on the principle of applied physical violence, and that is what this situation requires before the mexicans will leave. If enough are terrorized, then they will go. Anyone who doesn’t understand this clearly hasn’t read about our history. I expect “death squad” type violence, and the tipping point will be when average americans see that this is the only solution that works.
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“I expect “death squad†type violence, and the tipping point will be when average americans see that this is the only solution that works.”
I expect in order for you to enjoy murdering the ’shipped poor’, that you will have to force this ‘tipping point/solution yourself. Why? Because even the most vocal paleoconservative nationalists and white-pride advocates seem to lack the ’stomach’ for death squads.
So, may I ask,who will form a death squad to do this ‘violence’ that you claim is fundamental to America’s foundation and ongoing success?
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