Immigration Agitiation

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By Robert Farrow

Well,. The MSM demonstrated once again a deficiency of basic journalism skills with their coverage of the illegal immigrant boycott and march today. Notice how the ?journalist? downplays the fact that these immigrants are illegal immigrants in the reporting.

LOS ANGELES – Hundreds of thousands of mostly Hispanic immigrants walked off the job and rallied in cities across the United States on Monday, wielding their economic clout to demand rights for illegal immigrants. Factories closed, day labor jobs went begging, children skipped school and cargo was left on docks in what the organizers called “A Day without Immigrants.”

So Tom Tancredo, a Republican congressman from Colorado, decided to take them up on their offer with this imaginary exercise, A Day without Illegal Immigrants.

On May 1, millions of illegal aliens working in meat-processing plants, construction, restaurants, hotels, and other ?jobs Americans won?t do? are supposed to stay home from work to show the importance of their labor to our nation?s economy. Doubtless, there will be some inconvenience if that happens, but there is another side to the story that is not being reported.

We are talking about illegal aliens, not mere ?immigrants.? If legal immigrants stopped working for a day, we would miss the services of physicians, nurses, computer programmers, writers, actors, musicians, entrepreneurs of all stripes, and some airline pilots?as well as the CEO of Google. That would be more than an inconvenience, but it won?t happen because legal immigrants are not out marching angrily for rights that are already protected by our courts.

But if illegal aliens all took the day off and were truly invisible for one day, there would be some plusses along with the mild inconveniences.

Hospital emergency rooms across the southwest would have about 20-percent fewer patients, and there would be 183,000 fewer people in Colorado without health insurance.

OBGYN wards in Denver would have 24-percent fewer deliveries and Los Angeles?s maternity-ward deliveries would drop by 40 percent and maternity billings to Medi-Cal would drop by 66 percent.

Youth gangs would see their membership drop by 50 percent in many states, and in Phoenix, child-molestation cases would drop by 34 percent and auto theft by 40 percent.

In Durango, Colorado, and the Four Corners area and the surrounding Indian reservations, the methamphetamine epidemic would slow for one day, as the 90 percent of that drug now being brought in from Mexico was held in Albuquerque and Farmington a few hours longer. According to the sheriff of La Plata County, Colorado, meth is now being brought in by ordinary illegal aliens as well as professional drug dealers.

If the ?Day-Without-an-Immigrant Boycott? had been held a year earlier on May 8, 2005, and illegal alien Raul Garcia-Gomez had stayed home and did not work or go to a party that day, Denver police officer Donnie Young would still be alive and Garcia-Gomez would not be sitting in a Denver jail awaiting trial.

If the boycott had been held on July 1, 2004, Justin Goodman of Thornton, Colorado, would still be riding his motorcycle and Roberto Martinez-Ruiz would not be in prison for killing him and then fleeing the scene while driving on a suspended license.

If illegal aliens stayed home?in Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, and 100 other countries?the Border Patrol would have 3,500 fewer apprehensions (of the 12,000 who try each day).

Colorado taxpayers would save almost $3,000,000 in one day if illegals do not access any public services, because illegal aliens cost the state over $1 billion annually according to the best estimates.

Colorado?s K-12 school classrooms would have 131,000 fewer students if illegal aliens and the children of illegals were to stay home, and Denver high schools? dropout rate would once again approach the national norm.
Colorado?s jails and prisons would have 10-percent fewer inmates, and Denver and many other towns would not need to build so many new jails to accommodate the overcrowding.

Our highway patrol and county sheriffs would have about far fewer DUI arrests and there would be a dramatic decline in rollovers of vanloads of illegal aliens on I-70 and other highways.

On a Day Without an Illegal Immigrant, thousands of workers and small contractors in the construction industry across Colorado would have their jobs back, the jobs given to illegal workers because they work for lower wages and no benefits. (On the other hand, if labor unions continue signing up illegal workers, no one will be worrying about Joe Six-Pack?s loss. Sorry, Joe, but you forgot to tell your union business agent that your job is as important as his is.)

If it fell on a Sunday, Catholic Churches in the southwestern states might have 20-percent fewer parishioners at Mass if all illegals stayed home, but they would be back next Sunday, so the bishop?s job is not in danger. The religious leaders who send people to the marches and rallies will never fear for their jobs, because illegal aliens need their special ?human-rights? advocacy and some priests and nuns seem especially devoted to that cause. The fact that most Catholics disagree with the bishops? radicalism doesn?t seem to affect their dedication to undermining the rule of law.

All of this might be a passing colorful episode in the heated national debate over immigration policy if it weren?t for an odd coincidence: The immigration-enforcement agency responsible for locating and deporting illegal aliens is also taking the day off today. Of course, they didn?t call it a boycott. It is just (non)business as usual.

Yes, this country was founded on immigration, but it was founded by Legal Immigration, by people wishing to assimilate into our culture and learn our language.

The fact is that illegal immigration and open borders are:

  • A security concern during a war.
  • Strains our services by having a whole population group take out of the tax system and not put back into the tax system.
  • Threatens our sovereignty, and weakens the rule of law. Do you really expect people coming into this country illegally to follow our laws when they broke the law in the first place?
  • Many of the immigrant groups have talked openly about the reconquest the land lost in the Mexican War. Even if this is a small minority, having a large segment of the population that are not citizens, that does not want to be citizens, and owe their allegiance to another country cannot strengthen the bonds that hold this country together. Those that think illegal immigration does not endanger this country I believe are rather foolish.

Take this letter sent to Tennessee Senator Bill Frist from a retired border patrol agent, and it has more common sense than all the bull being spewed from the Senate, with the exception of a few sensible representatives.

Dear Senator Frist:

There is a huge amount of propaganda and myths circulating about illegal aliens, particularly illegal Mexican, Salvadorian, Guatemalan and Honduran aliens.

#1. Illegal aliens generally do NOT want U.S. citizenship. Americans are very vain thinking that everybody in the world wants to be a U.S. citizen. Mexicans, and other nationalities want to remain citizens of their home countries while obtaining the benefits offered by the United States such as employment, medical care, in-state tuition, government subsidized housing and free education for their offspring. Their main attraction is employment and their loyalty usually remains at home. They want benefits earned and subsidized by middle class Americans. What illegal aliens want are benefits of American residence without paying the price.

#2. There are no jobs that Americans won?t do. Illegal aliens are doing jobs that Americans can?t take and still support their families. Illegal aliens take low wage jobs, live dozens in a single residence home, share expenses and send money to their home country. There are no jobs that Americans won?t do for a decent wage.

#3. Every person who illegally entered this nation left a home. They are NOT homeless and they are NOT Americans. Some left jobs in their home countries. They come to send money to their real home as evidenced by the more than 20 billion dollars sent out of the country each year by illegal aliens. These illegal aliens knowingly and willfully entered this nation in violation of the law and therefore assumed the risk of detection and deportation. Those who brought their alien children assumed the responsibility and risk on behalf of their children.

#4. Illegal aliens are NOT critical to the economy. Illegal aliens constitute less than 5% of the workforce. However, they reduce wages and benefits for lawful U.S. residents.

#5. This is NOT an immigrant nation. There are 280 million native born Americans. While it is true that this nation was settled and founded by immigrants (legal immigrants), it is also true that there is not a nation on this planet that was not settled by immigrants at one time or another.

#6. The United States is welcoming to legal immigrants. Illegal aliens are not immigrants by definition. The U.S. accepts more lawful immigrants every year than the rest of the world combined.

#7. There is no such thing as the ?Hispanic vote?. Hispanics are white, brown, black and every shade in between. Hispanics are Republicans, Democrats, Anarchists, Communists, Marxists and Independents. The so-called ?Hispanic vote? is a myth. Pandering to illegal aliens to get the Hispanic vote is a dead end.

#8. Mexico is NOT a friend of the United States. Since 1848 Mexicans have resented the United States. During World War I Mexico allowed German Spies to operate freely in Mexico to spy on the U.S. During World War II Mexico allowed the Axis powers to spy on the U.S. from Mexico. During the Cold War Mexico allowed spies hostile to the U.S. to operate freely. Today Mexican school children are taught that the U.S. stole California, Arizona, new Mexico and Texas. If you don?t believe it, check out some Mexican textbooks written for their schoolchildren.

#9. Although some illegal aliens enter this country for a better life, there are 6 billion people on this planet. At least 1 billion of those live on less than one dollar a day. If wanting a better life is a valid excuse to break the law and sneak into America, then let?s allow those one billion to come to America and we?ll turn the USA into a Third World nation overnight. Besides, there are 280 million native born Americans who want a better life. I?ll bet Bill Gates and Donald Trump want a better life. When will the USA lifeboat be full? Since when is wanting a better life a good reason to trash another nation?

#10. There is a labor shortage in this country. This is a lie. There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of American housewives, senior citizens, students, unemployed and underemployed who would gladly take jobs at a decent wage.

#11. It is racist to want secure borders. What is racist about wanting secure borders and a secure America? What is racist about not wanting people to sneak into America and steal benefits we have set aside for legal aliens, senior citizens, children and other legal residents? What is it about race that entitles people to violate our laws, steal identities, and take the American Dream without paying the price? For about four decades American politicians have refused to secure our borders and look after the welfare of middle class Americans. These politicians have been of both parties. A huge debt to American society has resulted. This debt will be satisfied and the interest will be high. There has already been riots in the streets by illegal aliens and their supporters. There will be more. You, as a politician, have a choice to offend the illegal aliens who have stolen into this country and demanded the rights afforded to U.S. citizens or to offend those of us who are stakeholders in this country. The interest will be steep either way. There will be civil unrest. There will be a reckoning. Do you have the courage to do what is right for America? Or, will you bow to the wants and needs of those who don?t even have the right to remain here? There will be a reckoning. It will come in November of this year, again in 2008 and yet again in 2010. We will not allow America to be stolen by third world agitators and thieves.

David J. Stoddard
U.S. Border Patrol (RET)
Hereford, Arizona

If you feel the same way and want to help, let your Senator or Representative know how you feel or contact the Grassfire.org Alliance, They are planning a series of ?Stop the invasion? billboards across the country.

Our first billboard is scheduled to go up in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday of this week. This is a very bold statement that we?re making on behalf of concerned citizens across the nation. And I have some great news ? we are asking our team members to sponsor this effort ?one square foot at a time? and our Texas friends have just about completed sponsoring the Dallas billboard. In the next 48 hours, I expect to announce additional billboards in Texas as well as California, Florida and possibly some states with Senators who are on the fence on this issue.

Steve Elliott, President
Grassfire.org Alliance

It?s your country, fight for it!

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Wow! I am quoting some of this and linking you on my blog tomorrow. Really, really, good post!

C-Span has been replaying today’s National Press Club remarks from members of the “You Don’t Speak for Me” Coalition of American Hispanics.

“http://dontspeakforme.org/index.html

I can find no transcript online, but the remarks of each speaker deserve a post in themselves.

These people, either born here or emigrated legally are PROUD to be AMERICAN. They place value on our flag, our national anthem, our Constitution and history.

And yet, the views of these AMERICANS are being ignored in a rush to legalize a new underclass in this country with all the problems for the future that will entail.