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He is one of the few people who are willing to stand up against the vocal group of liberals who don't care if millions of people are trying to break our laws.
What if millions of people from every country of the world were allowed to break our laws, and enter America illegally???
Let's start to 'THINK'.
I respect this writer, but she is seriously misleading us.
As most people realize, we need to crack down HARD on the illegals. We need to catch them, prosecute them, and then lock them up with a few years of hard labor before deporting them. And we have to go after their enablers.
The tide is turning against them, and we can only hope that it continues.
Immigration is a good and necessary influx of people for every nation. All sovereign countries have rules for ordered immigration, immigrants that follow the rules and show a desire to become American are and should be welcome. American immigration process does need to be streamlined, but scrapping the whole process and dissolving the border is not the way to go.
People that cross borders illegally to work under the table, or with fraudulent, or stolen Identification are criminals. Immigrants have rights, illegals who invade and colonize in hopes of a mythical reconquista are not immigrants. Why should illegal border crossers get a pass to the front of the line while those true immigrants who follow the rules be shunted aside?
The bleeding hearts who wish so desperately to FIX Mexicans and their problems should gather their forces and work thru the MEXICAN government to organize programs to assist their poor and needy millions.
Then the people who feel the need to shell out the big bucks can take it from their own pockets instead of mine.
The fact that Rep. Tancredo could never get traction for his national campaign against legal and illegal immigration is a sign of hope that even Republicans support practical, common-sense approaches to reguilating legal immigration as opposed to Tancredo's vision of eliminating legal immigration (thereby making all immigration illegal and outside of our control).
It boggles my mind that people from Mexico are willing to swim a river and cross a desert to come here but are not willing to stand up to their government in their own country.
Everybody knows if the United States Citizens went to Mexico and behaved the way the Mexicans do here it would not be tolerated.
The United States has the most generous immigration policies on the planet and yet that is not good enough for many and our nation is collapsing under their weight.
Most of us have NO problem with legal immigrants - including Mr. Tancredo (and believe me, I disagree with him on so many other issues this is hard for me) - in point of fact, Tancredo has apparently often gone to "swearing in" ceremonies for new citizens, shaken their hands and welcomed them as new US citizens.
The reason that neither states nor the Feds have done what the constituents have requested - which is to get rid of the illegals if at all possible, and going forward, make it difficult if not impossible for illegal immigrants to keep entering the country, is that it would not benefit BUSINESS. The average citizen in this country understands that when businesses choose to hire illegal immigrants (and anyone who thinks that the former Swift company didn't realize that the majority of their work force was illegal is either incredibly naive, or is dumb as a stump).
As far as Mexico (as near as the statisticians can figure, Mexico "provides" over 50% of the illegals, with another 35% coming from further south of the border) not taking care of their own - SHOCK! Why should Mexico deal with its own social/economic problems when remittances sent "home" by both illegal and legal immigrants (by the way, for at least the last 5 years, Mexico has provided the highest number of legal immigrants) is their second largest "cash crop" - to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars per year.
I find it amazing that people are willing to condemn the US for wanting to control immigration - while accepting that every other country, including those south of our border - control their immigration. The EU within the last year determined that they also had an illegal immigration issue (some 500,000 illegals per year). The EU chose to go after the illegal EMPLOYERS, with meaningful fines and jail time, which seems to have helped their problem. (An example of a fine which was not meaningful was the fine levied against WalMart. I know that $11 million sounds like a lot, but when compared to the money WalMart made that year, it was less than .03%. Meaningful fines would make it more cost effective to hire legal workers.) Why shouldn't the US be able to do the same thing?
Virtually every country EXCEPT the US has and enforces laws to protect its legal workforce. Why should the US be any different?
The world bank list 130 countries with GDP per capita lower than Mexico, and only 78 higher. These people from the other 130 countries deserve a chance. Shouldn't we close our borders to Mexico and invite them in instead.
Now why do Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador get to have their citizens run across the border to seek a better life here? Most of the world wants a better life! Are we truly obliged to impoverish our country to try to take care of the world's poor? There is no way we could. Are brown-skinned people better qualified to be immigrants? How about the black-skinned people in Haiti who are eating mud cookies to survive? How about yellow-skinned people in China? Don't call us racists if the vast majority of illegal aliens in our midst are not white-skinned - we have plenty of European illegals, too.
The attitude I confronted in Latin America was essentially that America is heaven, and you can't fence heaven. This comes from a continent where even the most impoverished carefully fence in their homes with sharpened metal bars, barbed wire, or adobe with broken glass set in concrete. They understand that to preserve what they consider valuable, it must be protected. They constantly laugh at us for what they consider stupidity, but they expect we should keep letting them in. Naomi, how big is your house?
The welcomed immigration of people to this land in the past century, when there was plenty of land to be populated and plenty of work to be done, is irrelevant to the situation today, when people coming into this country without permission are taking employment from those who are already here.
Those who advocate limits on immigration, by people of any race, are not necessarily ”spouting hatred”, but those who want unlimited access by people of their own race, certainly are.
http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/007616.html
If you think NPR and the letter writer are promoting good and humane public policy, read the link.
The immigrants that are here are just trying to their best for thier families; anyone of us would do the same if we were in thier position. As for breaking laws, we made the laws, how we can we accuse them of finding loopholes, when we all do the same regarding taxes etc. The laws are just another example of the institutions that are in place in this "free" country to allow a few to excel at the expense of the many.
The way things are going, America will be brown in the next 100 years, so it is in the best interest of the future white geritocracy to look into the best interests of thier minority neighbors and brothers. We will be collecting our social security from their paychecks.
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Ally I have not seen any reference, euphemism, or outright twisting of describing the act of illegally crossing a border, a loophole. Immigrants already have rights, illegal border crossers have the right to remain silent. Why should illegals get a pass to the front of the line? Why should criminals get the advantage over those true immigrants who follow the rules?
The newspeak from the "Immigrant" Rights Activists at work here, pernicious in it's ignorance, helps with the dissolution of our republic. Without secure borders, our country is not sovereign.
Many well intended folk seek a world without borders, a humanity without racism. Well, warm and fuzzy tends to lead to tyranny. The power elite is doing exactly that, the plan unfolds for a totalitarian global state, controlling masses as little more than chattel slaves for the power elite.
Don't believe it? Look up Jay Rockefeller and the CFR, Read quotes by Otto Schmidt, view Aaron Russo on Google video.
Enjoy your day!
Just stop and think, without the politics, of what these poor people go though every day, and how lucky you are that you were born in a place where you have opportunity.
Well said, Naomi. More power to you!
Tancredo has the courgae to stand up against the wave of pearto rican mexicans, and I support him all the way