[pfflier]

Then you hear the argument "Who will pick the strawberries"?

I for one will go out back and pick some right now. I don't need juan gomez to do that.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Why hire an American for $15/hr (plus all the other costs involved) when you can hire an illegal alien for less than half as much and pay them under the table?

[BobL]

(this is from a story last night, but worth a re-post, have a look)

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“A report from the Congressional Research Service concluded that “the vast majority of UNAUTHORIZED IMMIGRANTS do not fit in the category that fits Trump’s description: aggravated felons, whose crimes include murder, drug trafficking or illegal trafficking of firearms,” the Washington Post reported.

The American Immigration Council also reported that, based on analysis of data from the FBI, US Census Bureau and other agencies, “IMMIGRANTS are less likely than the native-born to engage in either violent or nonviolent ‘antisocial’ behaviors.””

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Look at the the above 2 paragraphs, and the words that I capitalized - they are together, with one right after the other, just as above, but they are referring to two entire different groups of people - in the first case ILLEGALS, in the second ALL IMMIGRANTS.

For the first case, I would just use the analogy of blacks. The VAST MAJORITY of blacks are honest, hard working, people that simply want to provide for their families (that may not quite be true for black males aged 15-30, but it is true for all other categories of blacks)...yet black are half the population of our jails.

[Vince Ferrer]

What do former convicts do when they get out of jail? We have a larger obligation to them to integrate them back into society than we do immigrants.

[wjcsux]

As always Mark Levin nails it.

[rbg81]

The biggest lies is the 11M number (of illegals). That number has been around for at least 15 years and is way small. IMHO, the real number is between 40-50M.

[lewislynn]

This is the stuff Ted Cruz should be saying instead of WE introduced (bipartisan) legislation blah, blah, blah.

[DoughtyOne]

There is so much smoke and mirrors to address in the Republican party (and in the Democrat party and the federal government, and the states, and counties and cities too, it’s difficult to address all of it in a short concise presentation.

Mark actually comes close to rambling here, but it’s because one thing leads to another, and that to another, and that to another, and on and on it goes.

You can’t stay on topic, because every topic is merely a new worm-hole for galaxies of potential corruption to address.

How do you address all that? When you talk illegal immigration, you have to address the border, jobs, crime, gangs. prisons, illegal housing, illegal commerce, children, the Constitution, and that’s just getting started.

You start another topic and it’s flourishing in the exact same manner. Good luck.

Mark did a good job there, so don’t get me wrong. It’s tough to talk to folks without their eyes glazing over, because there’s do much detail that has to be covered, you can’t help but nod off after seven or eight hours with nothing repeated.

[Yosemitest]

Check out Ann Coulter: ‘immigrants…are window dressing for left-wing activists’ campaign to destroy America’ .

One of the author’s more contentious arguments concerns Coulter’s overarching belief that immigration — legal and illegal — is being used to consciously undermine the country,
in a formula that she describes in shorthand as
“Third World immigration + massive welfare state + political correctness = The End of America."

In a section of her book titled “Proud to be Un-American,” Coulter expounds upon this argument, writing:
Immigration is how the Left decided to punish American.
The anti-American crowd used to dash off to fight with Communist insurgencies in Third World jungles.
But the fun of being self-righteous was sometimes cut short when they ended up in prison,
like Lori Berenson who was arrested for her activities with the Túpac Amara Revolutionary Movement in Peru.
Rather than hating America from abroad, today’s radicals can hate it right here at home
by bringing the Third World to America! Google immigrant rights group files suit and you’ll get 20 million hits.

Even after the country had twice elected the angel Obama, only 40 percent of liberals told Pew Research they were “proud to be American”–
compared with more than 70 percent of conservatives.
Our recent immigrants agree with liberals!
… According to a Washington Post poll, a majority of second-generation immigrants from Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Vietnam, and the West Indies did not refer to themselves as “Americans”
and said America was not the best country in the world.

Coulter continues:

Sending undesirable immigrants to an enemy nation is a war tactic,
such as, in 1980, when President Jimmy Carter idiotically offered to take any Cubans who wanted to come to America
and Fidel Castro responded by emptying Cuba’s prisons and mental institutions onto the Mariel boat lift.
Today, immigration is again being used as a war technique by America’s enemies:
Democrats.
Instead of Communist dictators conniving to send their headaches to the United States,
American liberals are conniving to bring them here
and then hand them voter registration cards.
Third World immigration is a win-win for the Left.
They can instruct immigrants on hating the country and get their housework done at the same time!

… To its dismay, the American Left is utterly bereft of working-class members–
the very proletarian masses they hoped to champion!
Instead, their meetings are jammed with college professors and feminists.
But you know where liberals have finally found a working class amenable to left-wing politics and violent political demonstrations?
Take a look at Latin American politics for your clue.

The immigrants themselves are window dressing for left-wing activists’ campaign to destroy America.
Foreign names go on the masthead, but left-wing zealots lead the team.
Michele Waslin, for years the spokesman for “La Raza"
–meaning “a race other than hers”
–denounced a legislative proposal to encourage immigrants to learn English and American history, saying
“patriotism and traditional American values” are “potentially dangerous to our communities.”
Leftists have no trouble adopting the persona of an oppressed Third World person.
The only identity they have difficulty assuming is: “American.”

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Holy moly! Mark's going nuclear on Hannity right now!

Check it out. Awesome!

[MinuteGal]

The biggest LIAR in throwing out FALSE illegal immigration/crime statistics is Whorealdo whose big mouth overpowers everybody else on The Five and the other panelists just give up or they're ill-prepared with the true figures.

Between Whorealdo and Juan Peron Williams this program is just too plain sickening to watch any more.

Leni