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New wrinkle on illegal immigrationView MessagesViewing posts 251 to 300 of 581 messages posted.
Jump to Page << prev   | 1   | 2   | 3   | 4   | 5   |  6 | 7   | 8   | 9   | 10   | 11   | 12   |  next >> “If border security is so important, why wasn't he looking to do this four-and-a-half years ago? And fox rolls stright into prison break.......” 7:19:12 PM 5/15/06 “DeadNBloated got it right with a band aid solution on Bush's plan to solve a problem that Bush himself allowed to grow to crisis proportions. Last night's speech was nothing, but snake oil. Bush has his lips so tightly super glued to Vicente Fox's arse that you can't tell where Fox's ass stops and Bush's face begins. Mexico puts their military on their border, but Fox cries when we put a couple thousand guard troops on ours that won't do much anyway since the number is far too low.” 7:14:09 AM 5/16/06 “Bush's Message: I Won't Enforce Laws We Have Until I Get the Laws I Want by Mac Johnson Posted May 16, 2006 Bush: 'To Secure Our Border, We Must Create a Temporary Worker Program' Senate Bill Would Allow 100 Million New Legal Immigrants Over Next 20 Years President Bush tonight gave a hopeful speech on immigration reform. And by that I mean he hopes you believe his speech. Unfortunately for Mr. Bush, and for our nation, the American people no longer trust the leaders of either party to make an earnest effort to enforce the law when it comes to stopping the corruption of illegal immigration. Perhaps trust is so totally lacking because Mr. Bush has been President now for five years and has done nothing to seriously address the issue of uncontrolled borders until tonight. Indeed, illegal border infiltration and visa fraud have gotten far worse during his presidency. Yet these problems did not seem to bother Mr. Bush until backlash against them threatened his long-desired “temporary” guest-worker program and a stealth amnesty for the 10 million to 20 million immigration criminals already here. (And bear in mind that legalization, whether we call it “amnesty” or “earned citizenship” or any other name, will allow these 10 million 20 million to bring their extended families into the United States under family reunification laws, so we are really talking about legalizing around 40 million persons, most of whom are not yet in the country at all.) Or perhaps mistrust of our leaders over “comprehensive” immigration reform is so total because we’ve been sold that bridge once before. In 1986, we were told that simply enforcing our existing immigration laws was an unrealistic approach and so we had no choice but to allow Congress to pass a comprehensive reform bill—one that included both increased law enforcement and an amnesty of the 3 million immigration criminals already in America. Common sense dictated a “carrot and stick” approach, we were told. Congress gave away the carrots just fine, but somehow it never got around to using the stick. As a direct result, today our illegal immigration problem has grown from a quaint 3 million to at least 11 million—and by some estimates 20 million. Far from bringing people “out of the shadows” as was promised, “comprehensive” reform spread the shadow of illegal immigration across the entire nation. What was mostly a border state problem is now a truly national problem. Does anyone really believe that applying the same approach today will produce a different result? The President’s promise of enforcement as part of a “comprehensive” plan is thus simply unbelievable in light of past performance. But worse yet, it is now just plain irresponsible. Every one of the President’s proposals for increased security could be passed quickly, if they were not tied to a guest worker amnesty. Indeed, all of them could have already been passed and signed into law if they weren’t being used as sugar to coat the bitter pill of legalization for millions of illegal aliens. But the President and Senators John McCain and Teddy Kennedy (as well as others) want the amnesty giveaway so badly that they refuse to allow the Senate to vote on the enforcement measures as a separate bill, as the House of Representatives has done. Essentially, they have offered the American people a take it or leave it deal: give us our guest worker amnesty, or we will let the whole world across our open borders until you do. Give us the laws we want, or we will not enforce the laws we already have. Every month that increased security measures are held up by this game of political chicken, another 30,000 to 50,000 illegal aliens sneak or lie their way into the country. This number includes the proverbial hardworking and honest laborers, and it also includes fugitives escaping foreign courts, drug smugglers, thieves, rapists, murderers, aspiring welfare defrauders and, very probably, potential terrorists. Yet the Bush-McCain-Kennedy axis has chosen to allow the dangerous unchecked flow to continue, creating the crisis atmosphere they know is necessary to force through a guest worker amnesty they believe they need to buy the votes of former illegal aliens and the industries that profit from their cheap labor. If a guest-worker program and amnesty are such good ideas, then why can they not be passed as separate bills, as the increased enforcement measures easily could be? If increased enforcement, by itself, is doomed to failure, then why do open borders advocates fear it so much? Shouldn’t they simply pass an enforcement bill and show everyone how right they were? An amnesty could then easily be added later. The simple fact is that an enforcement-only approach would work better than any comprehensive bill promising legalization to lawbreakers. And this is why every proponent of amnesty and guest worker shenanigans is working so hard to see that an enforcement-only bill will never pass—even if that means leaving America’s borders wide open as long as it takes to frustrate voters into accepting a comprehensive bill. The illogic of the comprehensive reform scam can be seen in the numerous self-contradictions the president uttered in support of it in a mere 16-minute speech. Deporting the 11 million to 20 million illegal aliens already here is simply impossible we are told. But then in tonight’s address the President bragged that we have deported 6 million illegal aliens in just the last five years. Why is 6 million possible and praiseworthy, but 11 million is a ludicrous impossibility? The President bragged tonight of his commitment to deporting every illegal alien caught crossing our border. And then reasoned that we cannot deport those that have been here illegally for a few years. Why is it good to deport those caught at the border, but wrong to deport those that make it inland and buy a fake ID? How is the criminal transformed by this illegal stay? How can the President promise to use all manner of technology—motion sensors, drones, cameras, fences, vehicle barriers—to keep dangerous illegal aliens out, and then argue that those same criminal aliens become indispensable and honorable once past the gizmos? Why bother to keep out anyone, if they all become wonderful by the time they reach Dallas? Why, in short, would he have us believe that enforcing immigration laws at the border is a good thing, but we must not enforce immigration laws just a few miles north of the border? Because you cannot simultaneously argue for earnestly enforcing the immigration laws in our interior and also argue for a guest worker amnesty of the millions of illegal aliens already hiding there. And the guest worker amnesty is the only part of the allegedly “comprehensive” bill that the President is actually interested in. If we support the President’s plan, all we can be sure we’ll get is the amnesty part—just like 1986. The only way we can secure our borders is to pass an enforcement-only bill, and then see to it that it is actually enforced. Our nation’s security cannot be held hostage to the politics of amnesty any longer.” 10:46:56 AM 5/16/06 “Like he said, it's only a temporary program... until November 8, 2006.” 10:54:52 AM 5/16/06 ““Boyscouts on the border the army's in Iraq the democrats are hiding and congress smoking crack real americans are waiting for the Bushman plan to work but the fly in the ointment is that Vicente jerk”” 11:15:43 AM 5/16/06 “The mighty right is over talking about success pools in Iraq.” 11:18:11 AM 5/16/06 “Maybe this is Bush's motivation to push the Senate plan. United States of North America by Steven Yates May 1, 2006 "Elitists in the United States, Mexico, and Canada are plotting to merge these three nations into a single regional government similar to the European Union. In 1787, 13 former British colonies that had briefly been independent states agreed to create a free trade zone inside a shared security perimeter. People, goods, and capital would move freely throughout that region, ignoring previously existing borders. The union thus created was christened the United States of America. In the early years of the 21st century, elites in three nations — the United States, Canada, and Mexico — are busy creating a new political configuration called the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). It would broaden and deepen the relationship between the three nations created in 1994 through the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in dramatic ways. The new architecture would include a free trade zone protected by a common security perimeter, within which goods, people, and capital would move freely across what had once been firmly established international borders. First of all, it would require that U.S. citizens effectively surrender their citizenship in the independent constitutional republic founded in 1787. Unlike the USA, which was an organic outgrowth of a political system rooted in Anglo-Saxon laws, customs, traditions, and language, the political entity created through the SPP — in effect, the United States of North America (USNA) — would be a forced three-way marriage of wildly incompatible cultures and political systems. The U.S. and Mexico are separated by language and have fundamentally incompatible political systems. Canada, riven with linguistic and regional conflicts, is hard-pressed to maintain its own unity, without the additional complications that would arise from an effort to join with the United States and Mexico. Lacking the natural affinities that led the original 13 states to create a constitutional republic, the USNA would likely be held together only through corrupt alliances among ruling elites, backed by undisguised force. "Integration" This past March, President Bush met in Cancun, Mexico, with Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canada's newly elected Prime Minister Stephen Harper (shown above) to discuss the year-old SPP, which was formally inaugurated a year ago in a similar trinational summit in Waco, Texas. To judge from the official rhetoric emanating from various governmental sources, the SPP is a collection of harmless or even commendable multilateral initiatives. A March 23 White House press release observed: "The SPP will complement, rather than replace, existing bilateral and trilateral fora and working groups that are performing well." The "working groups" casually referred to in that statement were created at the March 2005 Waco summit to create common policies for the United States, Canada, and Mexico in various economic and security areas. Those groups are already laying the foundation for a European Union-style integration of the SPP member nations. Though the leaders gathered at Cancun spoke in measured terms in describing this process, President Fox came close to giving away the game. His remarks underscored the demand for a new U.S. law ensuring "safe and respectful migration, respecting the rights of people." Migration, unlike immigration, is the unhindered movement of whole peoples within national borders. Similar movement across a national border is either immigration, or emigration. Significantly, President Bush, too, said that the talks in Cancun often centered on "migration," tacitly endorsing the same subversive assumption that the border between the U.S. and Mexico is as inconsequential as that dividing Utah from Nevada. Devil in the Details The joint statement on the SPP issued on March 23, 2005 described it as an initiative to "establish a common approach to security to protect North America from external threats, prevent and respond to threats within North America, and further streamline the security and efficient movement of legitimate, low-risk traffic across our shared borders." Eight trinational SPP "working groups" were then created to deal with different subject areas and instructed to report back within 90 days. Three months later, the working groups presented an array of ideas for new bureaucracies and "public-private partnerships," which were formed almost at once. From the beginning, security — not liberty — has been one primary focus of the SPP's architects. The "security" agenda provides for three priority areas with these mandates: (1) secure North America from external threats; (2) prevent and respond to threats within North America; and (3) further streamline the secure movement of low-risk traffic across our shared borders. Regional Insecurity The idea that the SPP will provide Americans with additional security is absurd. Washington's efforts to secure our present borders are a spectacular failure — and yet, through the SPP, it would assume a large share of the responsibility for defending a much larger "perimeter" encompassing all of North America. Representative Katherine Harris (R-Fla.), a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a close political ally of President Bush, has introduced a bill into the U.S. Congress called the North American Cooperative Security Act. This bill would begin a process of integrating Canadian and Mexican defense institutions with those of the United States, expanding "consultations on defense issues," and "exploring the formation of law enforcement teams that include personnel from the United States and Mexico." Repeating in places, almost word for word, the security strategy of the SPP, that measure is clearly intended to begin the process of bringing the military and security institutions of the three nations under a central authority, with a single chain of command. The implications of that merger are profoundly troubling, to say the least. Mexico is ruled by a political establishment intimately connected to that nation's narco-terrorist syndicates. A 2004 United Press International investigative report into the estimated 3,000 kidnappings in Mexico each year noted: "Mexico has a history of complicity between law enforcement and actual kidnappers." In a March 31 Houston Chronicle op-ed column, Judge Michael McSpadden of Texas' 209 District Court described some things he learned five years ago while he served "as part of a contingent of Texas judges [who met] with then President-elect Vicente Fox's transition team in Mexico City to discuss possible changes in Mexico's justice system." "Jury trials were not allowed, even though guaranteed by Mexico's Constitution," wrote Judge McSpadden. "There was no live confrontation of witnesses — the judge decided the case upon the written 'declarations' of witnesses. No bonds were allowed in cases considered serious — such as a false report to a public official." While Canada's law enforcement system is cleaner and more competent than Mexico's, that country presents a different set of potential security risks. Thanks largely to that country's devotion to multiculturalism and political correctness, Canada is becoming a haven for Muslim refugees, a growing population in which terrorists can take cover. Corporatism, Not "Prosperity" The goals of the "prosperity working groups" are similarly misleading. The prosperity agenda originally announced a year ago promoted three broad agendas: improving productivity, reducing the costs of trade, and enhancing the quality of life. But what will their practical effect be? One useful illustration of the SPP's "prosperity" agenda is the proposed Automotive Partnership Council of North America, which would "help identify the full spectrum of issues that impact the industry, ranging from regulation, innovation, transportation infrastructure, and border facilitation." This calls for integration of both business and government throughout the region through networks of public-private partnerships. "Public-private partnerships" are better described as "corporatism" — the merger of big business with big government described by Mussolini as the foundation of fascism. In such partnerships, government is always the senior partner. The SPP's "partnership" will offer incentives to businesses to help further integration because they'll get preferential treatment by government. This system will actually circumvent marketplace competition, leading to fewer choices for consumers. It will also permit the emerging regional government to exert more control over business. International Tribunals The SPP is the product of the same minds that devised NAFTA, a sister-agreement and predecessor of the SPP. The basic treaty of that supposed free-trade accord is laid out in thousands of pages of dense regulations creating scores of unaccountable bureaucratic bodies, including several trade tribunals whose rulings are binding on the citizens of the three NAFTA nations. Law professor Peter Spiro of Hofstra University said that the implementation of the NAFTA tribunals was "a fundamental reorientation of our constitutional system. You have an international tribunal essentially reviewing American court judgments." And elected officials in the United States have begun giving precedence to NAFTA rules over the interests of Americans. For example, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was told by advisers in 2004 that a proposed tax incentive package encouraging Californian road builders to recycle 32 million used tires from California's vehicles would violate NAFTA rules by favoring American recyclers over those of Mexico and Canada. Schwarzenegger dutifully vetoed the bill. Globalist Disclosures As if the history of NAFTA didn't provide enough clues as to where the SPP is taking us, there is still more evidence — the unguarded words of politicians and their associates in the know. Following his election in 2000, Mexican president Vicente Fox told an audience in California that his government would "use all our persuasion and all our talent to bring together the U.S., Canadian and Mexican governments so that in five or ten years, the border is totally open to the free movement of workers." Fox was similarly candid in a 2002 address to an audience in Madrid: "Eventually, our long-range objective is to establish with the United States, but also with Canada, our other regional partner, an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union." The actions and statements of some U.S. politicians have been similarly telling. The Bush administration's proposed "guest worker" program, which is amnesty for illegal immigrants, is a key part of this trinational integration scheme. Many of President Bush's staunch supporters, who see him as a flinty-eyed custodian of our national security, are puzzled over what they see as his uncharacteristic squishiness on the issue of protecting our borders. They don't understand that George W. Bush has long been a proponent of amalgamating the United States with Mexico, and is an unabashed proponent of regional integration as well. The SPP, the instrument of that betrayal, does not have any broad base of public support beyond the tiny cluster of political, corporate, and bureaucratic elites that gave us NAFTA and CAFTA. Americans by the millions have been infuriated by the spectacle of illegal aliens marching in the streets of our cities demanding they be given a fast track to citizenship. Our fellow citizens must be educated about the real design behind the drive for illegal-alien amnesty, and mobilized to defeat both amnesty and the ongoing drive to create the SPP."” 11:56:13 AM 5/16/06 “That's is a complicated rationalization for a Bush family intercultural marriage.” 12:08:32 PM 5/16/06 Flashback: “Houston Chronicle Wednesday, February 9, 2005 Washington -- The law signed by President Bush less than two months ago to add thousands of border patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border has crashed into the reality of Bush's austere federal budget proposal, officials said Tuesday. Officially approved by Bush on Dec. 17 after extensive bickering in Congress, the National Intelligence Reform Act included the requirement to add 10,000 border patrol agents in the five years beginning with 2006. Roughly 80 percent of the agents were to patrol the southern U.S. border from Texas to California, along which thousands of people cross into the United States illegally every year. But Bush's proposed 2006 budget, revealed Monday, funds only 210 new border agents. The shrunken increase reflects the lack of money for an army of border guards and the capacity to train them, officials said. Retired Adm. James Loy, acting head of the Department of Homeland Security until nominee Michael Chertoff takes over, said funding only 210 new agents was a "recognition that we need to balance those things as we go on down the road with other priorities." The White House referred questions about the border agents to the Homeland Security Department. The law signed by Bush had a caveat that went virtually unreported at the time. A summary, published by the Senate Government Affairs Committee, required the government to increase the number of border patrol agents by at least 2,000 per year, "subject to available appropriations." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/02/09/MNGOKB837T1.DTL” 1:53:37 PM 5/16/06 “What process did many of our ancestors go through to get here? From: http://www.ellisisland.org/genealogy/ellis_island_history.asp ...First and second class passengers who arrived in New York Harbor were not required to undergo the inspection process at Ellis Island. Instead, these passengers underwent a cursory inspection aboard ship; the theory being that if a person could afford to purchase a first or second class ticket, they were less likely to become a public charge in America due to medical or legal reasons. The Federal government felt that these more affluent passengers would not end up in institutions, hospitals or become a burden to the state. However, first and second class passengers were sent to Ellis Island for further inspection if they were sick or had legal problems. This scenario was far different for "steerage" or third class passengers. These immigrants traveled in crowded and often unsanitary conditions near the bottom of steamships with few amenities, often spending up to two weeks seasick in their bunks during rough Atlantic Ocean crossings. Upon arrival in New York City, ships would dock at the Hudson or East River piers. First and second class passengers would disembark, pass through Customs at the piers and were free to enter the United States. The steerage and third class passengers were transported from the pier by ferry or barge to Ellis Island where everyone would undergo a medical and legal inspection. If the immigrant's papers were in order and they were in reasonably good health, the Ellis Island inspection process would last approximately three to five hours. The inspections took place in the Registry Room (or Great Hall), where doctors would briefly scan every immigrant for obvious physical ailments. Doctors at Ellis Island soon became very adept at conducting these "six second physicals." By 1916, it was said that a doctor could identify numerous medical conditions (ranging from anemia to goiters to varicose veins) just by glancing at an immigrant. The ship's manifest log (that had been filled out back at the port of embarkation) contained the immigrant's name and his/her answers to twenty-nine questions. This document was used by the legal inspectors at Ellis Island to cross examine the immigrant during the legal (or primary) inspection.” 2:03:13 PM 5/16/06 “So… wealthier immigrants were granted automatic admittance. Those without money, skills, job prospects or relatives in the US were detained up to half a day. Is this anything like what a modern immigrant has to endure?” 2:05:28 PM 5/16/06 “I have no problem with taking the person that shows they have something to offer before taking the general drain on the state person.” 2:12:49 PM 5/16/06 “So you are taking a stand against cheap produce and affordable landscaping?” 2:16:59 PM 5/16/06 “Add illegal immigration to the list of things Violin is for.” 2:23:06 PM 5/16/06 “I especially like the cheap produce that is fertilized with human crap. What about cheap fireworks from slave labor factories in China. That really blows!!” 2:25:00 PM 5/16/06 “Not even the most basic health inspections take place now with people crossing at will. Some of the health implications from illegal immigration. Illegal Immigration And Public Health From Patricia Doyle, PhD 5-5-6 "The risk to the US population and Public Health is of utmost importance regarding Illegals. A country has an obligation to its citizens to protect the health of all of its people. In my opinion, the US is not protecting the population. At what point must compassion for our fellow human beings end and protection of a legitimate populaton begin? When we have facts, such as shown below, that infectous diseases are spreading due to illegals aliens, it is time for the government to stop the influx of people carrying those infections. I would have no objection to Doctors Without Borders or other international and US organizations helping infected people around the world in their own countries, but I do object to those infected being allowed to simply walk in to the US and freely spread disease...and bankrupt much of our public health care infrastructure in the process. Humanitarian help is wonderful and most Americans favor the efforts of those who go abroad and help the millions of afflicted people. We are only objecting to infected people entering the US illegally and putting the US population at risk. Our health care is in crisis and many people who become infected in the US as a result of contact with illegals cannot afford health care themselves. What happens when a US citizen contracts an illness like TB or HCV and cannot afford to seek treatment? How many middle class Americans will lose everything they own, homes, cars etc. to pay for health care and expensive medication for diseases that they contract from illegals? Patricia Doyle Illegal Immigration And Public Health Fairus.org 5-4-6 The impact of immigration on our public health is often overlooked. Although millions of visitors for tourism and business come every year, the foreign population of special concern is illegal residents, who come most often from countries with endemic health problems and less developed health care. They are of greatest consequence because they are responsible for a disproportionate share of serious public health problems, are living among us for extended periods of time, and often are dependent on U.S. health care services. Public Health Risks Because illegal immigrants, unlike those who are legally admitted for permanent residence, undergo no medical screening to assure that they are not bearing contagious diseases, the rapidly swelling population of illegal aliens in our country has also set off a resurgence of contagious diseases that had been totally or nearly eradicated by our public health system. According to Dr. Laurence Nickey, director of the El Paso heath district "Contagious diseases that are generally considered to have been controlled in the United States are readily evident along the border ... The incidence of tuberculosis in El Paso County is twice that of the U.S. rate. Dr. Nickey also states that leprosy, which is considered by most Americans to be a disease of the Third World, is readily evident along the U.S.-Mexico border and that dysentery is several times the U.S. rate ... People have come to the border for economic opportunities, but the necessary sewage treatment facilities, public water systems, environmental enforcement, and medical care have not been made available to them, causing a severe risk to health and well being of people on both sides of the border.1 "The pork tapeworm, which thrives in Latin America and Mexico, is showing up along the U.S. border, threatening to ravage victims with symptoms ranging from seizures to death. ... The same [Mexican] underclass has migrated north to find jobs on the border, bringing the parasite and the sickness"cysticercosis"its eggs can cause[.] Cysts that form around the larvae usually lodge in the brain and destroy tissue, causing hallucinations, speech and vision problems, severe headaches, strokes, epileptic seizures, and in rare cases death.2 The problem, however, is not confined to the border region, as illegal immigrants have rapidly spread across the country into many new economic sectors such as food processing, construction, and hospitality services. Typhoid struck Silver Spring, Maryland, in 1992 when an immigrant from the Third World (who had been working in food service in the United States for almost two years) transmitted the bacteria through food at the McDonald,s where she worked. River blindness, malaria, and guinea worm, have all been brought to Northern Virginia by immigration.3 Contrary to common belief, tuberculosis (TB) has not been wiped out in the United States, mostly due to illegal migration. In 1995, there was an outbreak of TB in an Alexandria high school, when 36 high-school students caught the disease from a foreign student.4 The four greatest immigrant magnet states have over half the TB cases in the U.S.5 In 1992, 27 percent of the TB cases in the United States were among the foreign-born; in California, it was 61 percent of the cases; in Hawaii, 83 percent; and in Washington state, 46 percent. The Queens, New York, health department attributed 81 percent of new TB cases in 2001 to immigrants. Costs of Medical Care Immigrants are often uninsured and underinsured. Forty-three percent of noncitizens under 65 have no health insurance. That means there are 9.4 million uninsured immigrants, a majority of whom are in the country illegally, constituting 15 percent of the total uninsured in the nation in the mid-1990s.6 The cost of the medical care of these uninsured immigrants is passed onto the taxpayer, and strains the financial stability of the health care community. Another problem is immigrants, use of hospital and emergency services rather than preventative medical care. For example, utilization rate of hospitals and clinics by illegal aliens (29 percent) is more than twice the rate of the overall U.S. population (11 percent).7 As a result, the costs of medical care for immigrants are staggering. The estimated cost of unreimbursed medical care in 2004 in California was about $1.4 billion per year. In Texas, the estimated cost was about $.85 billion, and in Arizona the comparable estimate was $.4 billion per year.8 One of the frequent costs to U.S. taxpayers is delivery of babies to illegal alien mothers. A California study put the number of these anchor baby deliveries in the state in 1994 at 74,987, at a cost of $215 million. At that time, those births constituted 36 percent of all Medi-Cal births, and they have grown now to substantially more than half or the annual Medi-Cal budget. In 2003, 70 percent of the 2,300 babies born in San Joaquin General Hospital,s maternity ward were anchor babies. Medical in 2003 had 760,000 illegal alien beneficiaries, up from 2002, when there were 470,000.9"” 3:10:02 PM 5/16/06 “MEXICO CITY—As dozens of major American corporations continue to move their manufacturing operations to Mexico, waves of job-seeking Mexican immigrants to the United States have begun making the deadly journey back across the border in search of better-paying Mexican-based American jobs. "I came to this country seeking the job I sought when I first left this country," said Anuncio Reyes, 22, an undocumented worker who recrossed the U.S. border into Mexico last month, three years after leaving Mexico for the United States to work as an agricultural day laborer. "I spent everything I had to get back here. Yes, it was dangerous, and I miss my home. But as much as I love America, I have to go where the best American jobs are." Reyes now works as a spot-welder on the assembly line of a Maytag large-appliance plant and earns $22 a day, most of which he sends back to his family in the U.S., who in turn send a portion of that back to the original family they left in Mexico. Like many former Mexican-Americans forced by circumstance to become American-Mexicans, Reyes dreams of one day bringing his relatives to Mexico so that they, too, may secure American employment in Mexico. - theonion.com” 3:03:35 PM 5/17/06 “can't we turn illegal immigrants into biodiesel? I seem to recall a thread where the amount of biodeisel a cat would yield was discussed. Even if the illegals are really skinny and undernourished they could yield a few gallons I think. Multiply that few gallons by 10-12 million, thats a bunch of free imported oil.” 3:22:04 PM 5/17/06 “Illegals are bad but eartworms are OK?” 3:25:06 PM 5/17/06 “earthworms are more valuable than illegals” 3:28:47 PM 5/17/06 “Have you ever seen an illegal squirm when to try to put em on a fish hook, its enough to make you wanna stop fishing.” 3:33:05 PM 5/17/06 “I've fished with all kinds of people but never a Mexican.” 3:36:55 PM 5/17/06 “LOL! The US is the largest importer of worms. It might be the only species not inspected/watched/governed http://www.archbold-station.org/abs/staff/pbohlen/publications/Hendrix&Bohlen_Bioscience_2002.pdf” 3:38:34 PM 5/17/06 “I saw a funny piece on The Daily Show about the Minutemen (man) on the Canadian border. It was one old guy in a lawn chair with binoculars who sat out for two hours a day watching the border for illegal Canucks. LOL!” 3:40:15 PM 5/17/06 “Red Wriggler - the cadillac of worms” 3:40:30 PM 5/17/06 “370 miles of fence was approved today. Of course Vincente Fox's goon, Juan Hernandez will likely soon appear on TV to protest. Mexican Foreign Secretary Derbez is threatening lawsuits if National Guard troops detain illegal aliens on the border. "Fence far cheaper solution than alternatives May. 17, 2006 12:00 AM Have you seen this guy Juan Hernandez on The O'Reilly Factor? He's described as being a former member of the Vincente Fox cabinet in Mexico. He reminds me of a fox in a henhouse with that silly grin he constantly wears. And when he speaks, it gets worse, spouting off about how illegal Mexicans in the United States are the backbone of the country. If American politicians had a backbone, they would demonstrate it by finally authorizing construction of what I'd like to call the Steel Patriot: a state-of-the-art fence to provide defense against border incursions from the south. Once the fence is in place, Hernandez might just have to concentrate on fixing Mexican economic and security policies, not dictating ours. How much will the Steel Patriot cost? Well, what is the cost of illegal immigration to the nation - $10 billion, $20 billion per year? How much do taxpayers pay in the education and emergency medical costs for illegals? How about the costs for the criminal justice system? What about the cost of drug smuggling on American society? And what of the cost of terrorists crossing the border with nuclear, chemical or biological weapons? Building a fence is not a new idea. In fact, it was the Clinton administration that launched Operation Gatekeeper in 1994. This operation called for fences to be erected in California and Texas. It has succeeded in funneling illegal traffic to the largely unprotected borders of Arizona. The current administration was given an ultimatum by the Minuteman Project to add troops on the open border here or they would construct fences on private land starting May 27. Arizona's politicians are split on what to do about the problem. Democrats and U.S. Sen. John McCain consider the illegal influx into the state as something to celebrate. (Who else would pick lettuce in Tucson?) Republicans are on the "other side of the fence" from their left-of-the-aisle foes. U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl and U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth have voted for increased border security measures, including the building of fences. Here's what Kyl said in a press release in March: "Nearly half of illegal aliens crossing the southern border of the United States enter through Arizona in the Tucson and Yuma sectors . . . Fencing works. The construction of a triple-layered fence in the San Diego Sector has clearly done a great deal to reduce the flow of illegal immigration and drug smuggling in California." Hayworth had this to say to Fox's opposition to the fence: "President Fox should shut up . . . He should shut up about all of this because he is only fanning the flames of poor relations between our two nations. He needs to cease and desist." It's time for Juan Hernandez to head back to Mexico and Fox to save Americans from any more of his silly declarations. And it's time for the Steel Patriot to save Americans, period. As Arizonans, it's time to support candidates who will uphold their constitutional oaths to protect this great country from all enemies."” 7:22:27 PM 5/17/06 “You put the fence around the factory where they work. Then raid it. A fence across the border and one across the pacific to keep the Kiwis out. You all need some drugs to wake your idiot axxes up.” 11:10:36 PM 5/17/06 “I figured again and it's gona take 200,000 gay guys in tights with swords and those funny little mask to provide fencing for the border.And I'm the idiot???” 11:17:25 PM 5/17/06 “With a pack of reds and a couple bottles of night train each ,Atila the huns' guys wouldn't go near that fencing.” 11:43:56 PM 5/17/06 “The hybrid model would have the hobin rood dudes sitting backwards on the cows with a sword in one hand and a fly swatter in the other and dual holsters for the night train.” 11:59:27 PM 5/17/06 “Revision to the hybrid. Convicted employers of illies would replace every other Hobin Rood Dude. Not just tights here, but those long johns with the little door in the back.” 12:35:55 AM 5/18/06 “Senate maginot fence comming soon to restock your nearest day work center.In an effort to finally catch up to the French a 370 feet long maginot fence will be constructed ,they think, along the US /Mexico border.Details on the contracts will not be available till after the Nov. elections.” 8:20:38 AM 5/18/06 “ ”8:39:56 AM 5/18/06 “Did it wake you to the truth, Non? You would look good in those longies.” 8:49:32 AM 5/18/06 balance “19 box knives----- 24 million illies trillion dollars-- couple rolls chain link and a couple of bent post.” 9:06:23 AM 5/18/06 “Illies and illemies. illegal imigrates and illegal employers. Supply side blame the illie. Demand side blame the illemie. Build a big compound in the hottest desert and throw both together with all the great law makers from DC.” 9:14:21 AM 5/18/06 ??????????????????????? “LetsGoGetKrunkDawg = salebored ?????????????” 9:14:40 AM 5/18/06 “LetsGoGetKrunkDawg = salebored ?????????????” Sarge 11:14:40 AM 5/18/06 Uh-huh.....methinks it's evolution at work.” 9:17:22 AM 5/18/06 “To quote Sailboard ,aka Clipboard ,'erred thinking is not a great american secret.'” 9:24:40 AM 5/18/06 “You dudes remind me of the always present guy who, on every hike, is always sitting on a rock playing with his pack suspension and of course willingly gives you all the secrets.” 9:46:47 AM 5/18/06 “Is that the guy who's always sitting giving presents or the guy who's always present giving secrets?” 9:50:00 AM 5/18/06 “No, I always gave them a present ,a joint that wouldn't burn their $80.00 yuppie shorts. last edited: 5/18/06 10:12:24 AM” 10:08:25 AM 5/18/06 “Hey noncom, you've got mail.” 10:12:31 AM 5/18/06 “Doesn't the use of 'always' twice and 'every' make you tired of the guy before you know the out come?” 10:16:55 AM 5/18/06 “Yes, always and every time.” 10:18:41 AM 5/18/06 “When the illemies run south to escape arrest a solar electric fence would illeminate them.” 1:12:55 PM 5/18/06 “Ann Colter first too get into employer sanctions on TV news. Mio my,she's, on Kudlow&co.CNBC, I thought I was listening to myself (yes I have shorts on and looked) word for words. What's up ,she went through Reagan Mistakes and other things I can't believe she would . Did someone slip her a moderate pill. last edited: 5/18/06 4:16:29 PM” 4:10:39 PM 5/18/06 “Some words from a Border Patrol agent. "I am writing this on illegal immigration and to give you my views if your care to listen to an American Law Enforcement Officer. I am a 20 year veteran Border Patrol Agent and just last week I was stopping at a store here in (the united states)when a hispanic female came out and in her exact words, said to me "viva la raza, your the illegal and we're taking over" and yes I was in uniform. I just laughed at her until she saw my name tag which is a hispanic last name." She then proceeded to call me a traitor to the race. I just smiled and went on about my business even though she and her brother wanted a confrontation with me and told me I wasn’t allowed in THEIR parking lot. It was a small strip mall with about 10 different stores and they owned the Mexican restaurant there. And they continued their cursing at me stating that people were calling their business wondering why I was there and that I was the reason people were not coming into their restaurant. I politely stated that it is a public parking lot and advised them that maybe the people were not coming to their business while I was there is probably self explanatory. The reason I was there, several of the businesses there (not the Mexican restaurant) had called and told me about how every day there are hundreds of possible illegals that crowd the parking lot and throw trash everywhere and harass the women going into some of the businesses. Anyway, while I was there (Lunchtime) I did notice several vans and trucks that were heavily loaded with people attempting to drive into the parking lot and after seeing me there, drive off rapidly. After working on the Mexican border for over 14 years as well as other places, I can honestly say that these vehicles are loaded with illegal aliens and are working and living here with forged or counterfeit documents. I know, I arrest them everyday. But our policy now is that there are no funds for detention and removal. So we process them and set them up for a court date, usually averaging about 6 months away and then they are released that same day from custody to go anywhere in this country they want. Many have arrests for other crimes in the states unrelated to immigration. My comment to you is where do most Americans stand on ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. And how would you assist law enforcement in doing the job they were hired to do. And do most Americans think about the government’s “catch and release” policy? That was just one incident of how immigrants these days confront Border Patrol agents. In regards to sending 5000-6000 National Guard to the border, To me personally it’s not enough, (more like 20,000) especially if they are not allowed to at least detain illegal aliens, their mere presence might halt or slow the massive flow of illegals into the country. Also it’s sad when another country (Mexico) dictates to the American people who should be here and how our laws should be applied to them and call the American people racist when they (the American people) don’t agree. I consider this to be an insult to all Americans and I hope the American people don’t buy into the Presidents' AMNESTY scheme. And we already have a guest worker program in place. I was also in Nogales, Arizona where the Mexican Consulate was allowed to have an office and question every alien to see if they were in any way abused by agents. This was all on US Government property. The laws are there, they just need to be enforced. On another note, about the presidents' speech, he brought up that tearful, heart-warming story about the immigrant serving in the Marines (in which I do myself admire) that wanted to be a US Citizen. He had lived here for over 25 years and could have applied for citizenship in that time but hadn’t. Anyway people who serve in our armed forces should be allowed some degree of first in line or close to it legalization. BUT WHAT DISTURBS ME IS THAT THE PRESIDENT DIDN'T MENTION THE SHERIFF DEPUTY THAT WAS SHOT BY 4 ILLEGALS FROM EL SALVADOR, OR THE HOME INVASIONS BY ILLEGALS FROM GUATEMALA, OR THE CAR THEFTS FROM MEXICANS WHO RACE TO GET TO THE BRIDGE AND ARE HOME FREE, OR ALL THE PEOPLE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES WHO OVERSTAY THEIR VISAS THAT IVE ENCOUNTERRED, all by the way were "caught and released". NOT ONCE DID HE MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT ALL THE CRIMES THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE SUFFERED AT THE HANDS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS, SOME OF WHOM HAVE BEEN DEPORTED SEVERAL TIMES ALREADY AND ARE BACK HERE COMMITTING MORE CRIMES. It seems the President’s logic is that these are all honest hard working people who only want a better life. Well who doesn't. Will my kids and grandkids be able to get a college education and a job, probably not if they don’t know Spanish, or that all the guest worker children will get their freeby tuition and scholarships. WHAT ABOUT YOUR CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN. WHAT DOES THEIR FUTURE LOOK LIKE? What do you think about the protest in our American streets by illegals from other countries showing allegiance to THEIR country and demanding rights? A lot of agents as well as myself are very frustrated at our American government not standing behind the law enforcement agent trying to protect the border. The agent is tired of getting shot at and rocks thrown at in the front while the U.S. Government is behind you stabbing you in the back. Where do you stand? Respectfully, A Border Patrol Agent"” 6:26:22 AM 5/19/06 “I wish I knew the source for this so proper credit could be given --- Anyhoo.... check it out: Canada is busy sending back Bush-dodgers. The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal immigration. The unflinching arrogance of the Bush Administration is prompting the exodus among liberal citizens who fear they'll soon be required to hunt, pray, and agree with Bill O'Reilly. Canadian border farmers say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, animal-rights activists, and Unitarians crossing their fields at night. "I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn," said Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose acreage borders North Dakota. The producer was cold, exhausted, and hungry. "He asked me if I could spare a latte and some free-range chicken. When I said I didn't have any, he left. Didn't even get a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?" In an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected higher fences, but the liberals scaled them. So he tried installing speakers that blare Rush Limbaugh across the fields. "Not real effective," he said. "The liberals still got through, and Rush annoyed the cows so much they wouldn't give milk." Officials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet liberals near the Canadian border, pack them into Volvo station wagons, drive them across the border, and leave them to fend for themselves. "A lot of these people are not prepared for rugged conditions, an Ontario border patrolman said. "I found one carload without a drop of drinking water. They did have a nice little Napa Valley cabernet, though." When liberals are caught, they're sent back across the border, often wailing loudly that they fear retribution from conservatives. Rumors have been circulating about the Bush administration establishing re-education camps in which liberals will be forced to drink domestic beer and watch NASCAR. Liberals have turned to sometimes-ingenious ways of crossing the border. Some have taken to posing as senior citizens on bus trips to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a half-dozen young vegans disguised in powdered wigs, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior-citizen passengers. "If they can't identify the accordion player on The Lawrence Welk Show, we get suspicious about their age," an official said. Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating an organic-broccoli shortage and renting all the good Susan Sarandon movies. "I feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can't support them," an Ottawa resident said. "How many art-history majors does one country need?" In an effort to ease tensions between the United States and Canada, Vice President Dick Cheney met with the Canadian ambassador and pledged that the administration would take steps to reassure liberals, a source close to Cheney said. "We're going to have some Peter, Paul & Mary concerts. And we might put some endangered species on postage stamps. The president is determined to reach out."” 8:29:28 PM 6/08/06 “It seems it is time to recognize what our immigration policy is and what this last effort to secure our borders is…a stalling tactic. While we cuss, fuss, and discuss illegal immigration Bush is working at completely erasing our borders and giving away our sovereignty through his plans of establishing the North American Union by the year 2010. We would be under an umbrella government rather than doing things for ourselves. This isn't a maybe situation either. The agreement has already been signed by Bush, Fox and Paul Martin badck on March 23 in Waco, TX. INR interview with Jerome R. Corsi PhD, Harvard Poli Sci. Official Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America site Be sure to read fact sheet. Article on subject” 7:08:53 AM 6/13/06 Jump to Page << prev  
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