County Commissioner Bills Mexican Government For Illegal Aliens

KCBI-TV, Boise, Idaho ^ | 21 April 2004 | Jon Hanian

[JackelopeBreeder]

Thousands of migrant farm workers are here legally but many are here illegally. It was that portion of the migrant labor population that Canyon County Commissioner Robert Vasquez singled out for special attention today suggesting that the Mexican government should reimburse local taxpayers for their expenses. "My fellow American's, constituents, friends and neighbors expect their county commissioner to spend the taxes on services for American's not on illegal alien's healthcare, education or detention."

That is why Vasquez today showed off a $2 million bill he is sending to the Mexican consulate in Salt Lake City. Vasquez says Canyon county has tallied up $1.4 million in housing illegal aliens in the county jail, and $575,000 on welfare services for illegal aliens over the last two years. "The reality is we are securing the borders of Iraq but we are not securing the borders of the United States, that is the reality."

But officials with the Idaho Migrant Council say Vasquez is missing the point. They say without illegal aliens a lot of the crops here in this country would end up rotting in the ground, according to Dr. Albert Pacheco, the council's director. "They would, because no native born American wants to work for those wages to work for those conditions and I think historically if we look at it America it has been built and has prospered based on illegal immigration."

Pacheco also suggests that Vasquez' use of words like "fight" and illegal "invasion" is subtle hate speech. "I think he is trying to pander to the racism and the ignorance that still exists in this country."

But at the Canyon County Jail illegal aliens are creating a financial burden according to Canyon County Sheriff George Nourse who is careful to point that many migrants (legal and illegal) are hard working decent people. Still, he says a good number of them end up in his jail funded by local taxpayers. "We had about 1200 illegal aliens go through our jail last year. And it does create a hardship and a burden on the justice system on our courts, the prosecutors office and the Sheriff's office."

[JackelopeBreeder]

I wonder if we can make this a trend?

[JackelopeBreeder]

Ping!

[Commander8]

Too bad we don't see that kind of common sense in California.

[First_Salute]

I like it.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

Vasquez says Canyon county has tallied up $1.4 million in housing illegal aliens in the county jail, and $575,000 on welfare services for illegal aliens over the last two years.

Yeah, sure Pacheco! Not wanting to subsidize that cheap labor is nothing but racism! LOL

[SandRat]

We need to get this to the two trustworhty (non-Bisbee) County Commissioners and to the City Council.

Once we get Randy Graf elected to congress to replace Kolbe we need to make sure he has a copy of it two so that he can send a bill for the congressional district. Might start a real trend.

[JackelopeBreeder]

Tonight just gets better and better. American Border Patrol's flight team is out tonight with the UAV that has the infrared video on board. This was just supposed to be system testing, but the bird almost immediately found and tracked a large group of illegals and the target has been passed to the Border Patrol.

It works -- it works really well! Expect major shrieking from the usual suspects beginning tomorrow.

[truth4]

Disease epidemics 'likely'

April 22, 2004
A GROWING global population and unprecedented international travel have put humankind at risk of uncontrollable outbreaks of potentially hundreds of new diseases, a virus expert has warned.

The deadly SARS virus has largely been controlled and international bird flu containment efforts continue, but Professor Frank Fenner said further animal-to-human epidemics were "inevitable".

"With population growth of another three billion (projected) in the next 30 or 40 years, that's putting enormous pressure on the environment," Prof Fenner said.

"People are moving into areas where they didn't live before, or living in conditions where they do come into contact with either insects transmitting these viruses from wild animals or contact with wild animals themselves.

"Now there's such an enormous amount of air travel, and all these diseases have got incubation periods of at least a couple of days, so that's enough time for any person to get to any part of the world."









Since 1970, Prof Fenner said 35 different viruses have leapt from animals to humans then been spread to distant parts of the world.

"West Nile was the last one - that disease was confined to Europe and Asia but it got to the United States," he said.

"It's now well established in north America and it's killing off birds and human beings."

In a recent study of the viruses carried by domestic animals including dogs, cats, cattle and horses, Prof Fenner found at least 20 groups of viruses in every species.

"It's likely that wild animals are just the same," he added.

The 89-year-old academic, who was involved in the global eradication of smallpox, early World War II malaria research, and the rabbit virus myxomatosis, is to speak tonight at Melbourne's Monash University about the threat of bioterrorism.

However, he said the next disease epidemic WAs much more likely to come from nature than terrorists.

"The bioterrorism threat has been around for a long time but the only successful example of it being used was the recent anthrax scare in the United States," Prof Fenner said.

"There were under a dozen deaths and anthrax cannot be passed from one human being to another."

Despite his dire warning, Prof Fenner said the World Health Organisation's (WHO) management of SARS was encouraging.

"Containment is necessary in the case of a disease that's contagious and ... the handling of SARS shows how well it can be done," he said.

"Just as air travel puts a new dimension on spread around the world, so now we've got electronic communications and I think the WHO did a splendid job in organising communications so that people knew what to expect, knew what to do."

[JackelopeBreeder]

I also posted this article to the front page of the Southeast Arizona Republican Club website. This could be more fun than playing with a whole box full of matches.

[Carry_Okie]

Has the grubbamint got their IR-UAV-IADS flying yet or have the preliminary study and environmental impact report burned up all the funds?

[SandRat]

This could be more fun than playing with a whole box full of matches, in a box of firecrackers and bottle rockets.

[xrp]

Pacheco also suggests that Vasquez' use of words like "fight" and illegal "invasion" is subtle hate speech. "I think he is trying to pander to the racism and the ignorance that still exists in this country."

Maybe I'm just a stupid white man, but isn't Vasquez a name of Latino origin? So how can this Vasquez be racist against Latinos? Wouldn't that be self-racism? For example, if I beat myself up, could the government file hate crimes charges against myself for white-on-self-white crime?

[HiJinx]

This could be more fun than playing with a whole box full of matches.

Ooooohhh....that's a whole lot of fun!

[rolling_stone]

...They say without illegal aliens a lot of the crops here in this country would end up rotting in the ground, according to Dr. Albert Pacheco, the council's director. "They would, because no native born American wants to work for those wages to work for those conditions and I think historically if we look at it America it has been built and has prospered based on illegal immigration."....


Well without illegals, wages and working conditions would rise to meet the supply of legal workers, benefiting those in this country legally....and I think historically if we look at it America is declining and its standard of living is going down based on illegal immigration. IMO Legal immigrants who pay their own way are another story.

[Nephi]

They say without illegal aliens a lot of the crops here in this country would end up rotting in the ground, according to Dr. Albert Pacheco, the council's director. "They would, because no native born American wants to work for those wages to work for those conditions

True. Americans aren't willing to live 12 in-a-one-bedroom apartment in order to make the wage liveable. Since Mexicans are willing to live 12 to a one room apartment, they are lowering our standard of living.

I also have to ask, what kind of men leave their wives and children at home and sneak across a border to work? Americans have demonstrated that there would've been a revolution back home, by now.

[B4Ranch]

Hurrah for the UAV detection system!!

[c-b 1]

This could be more fun than playing with a whole box full of matches.

I just sent it to my City Councilman, he is so busy maneuvering to get the liberals, and clueless moderates on the council pointed in the right direction, he may not have time to do much with it.

[JackelopeBreeder]

Has the grubbamint got their IR-UAV-IADS flying yet or have the preliminary study and environmental impact report burned up all the funds?

Last I heard they had obtained two Hermes 450 UAVs from the Israelis. They still have to be trained on how to fly and maintain them. I don't expect to see them operational for while yet. If they don't crash both of them in training...

Dumb solution considering that Fort Huachuca is DoD's training base for UAVs. They could have turned the Army students loose on the problem as a very realistic training exercise and the GIs would have eaten it up with a spoon. But nope, let's do it the dumb way.

Besides, I suspect the Border Patrol's UAVs will be relegated to the more politically correct mission of looking for illegals in trouble out in the western desert. Cochise County will probably have to be content with ABP's UAVs.

[B4Ranch]

ping to an elected official who has some steel in his spine.

Does anyone have contact telephone numbers for Canyon County Commissioners. I want to call them in the morning and let them know I support them.

[Carry_Okie]

Tragicomedy hath gained a new dimnsion.