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Posted on 10/02/2003 11:24:36 AM PDT by HiJinx
This letter to the editor was written by a co-worker, a software engineer, who wishes to remain anonymous. To locals, though, she is anything but. She comes from a long line of hunters and conservationists – the real kind! She has an abiding love of a land that she considers God’s gift to us. She lives here in the shadow of the Huachuca Mountains by choice, as she says in her letter.
The letter is an amalgamation of thoughts that have been percolating up from the depths of her soul over the last few months. She confided in me that she no longer leaves her house to get in her car without looking all around…she is never sure who or what is waiting for her there.
You will see that there is no link to the letter; it was not posted in the Sierra Vista Herald’s on-line version. I consider that a bit of a travesty, and with my friend’s permission, am providing her letter to a larger viewing audience. To wit:
To the editor:
On this eve of Sept. 11, I wonder how many terrorists have come across the border between the United States and Mexico today. Normally, September brings a dramatic slowdown in the invasion that has been constant since January, but not this year. This is when we can relax for a few months, relieved that the fire season is over, and our homes still are here. We can breathe a sigh of relief that most of the aliens are already in the United States, and we can enjoy the peace and quiet that drew us to this canyon almost 20 years ago.
But the invasion has not slowed down based on my observation, which also is the opinion of the Border Patrol personnel I have spoken with. Why should it slow down when there is a promise of amnesty by our own elected officials? Those who have earned their citizenship should be outraged too, as I am. Because of big business greed and political aspirations, our government has allowed this problem to be virtually ignored. Our government is aiding and abetting known criminals, many felons. And as they cross our border they say, “Stupid Americans.”
Our Border Patrol has been tasked to do an impossible job – like asking a boxer to go into the ring with his hands tied behind his back. How can one agent guard 12 or 15 washes that cross the border at one time? Impossible.
Our public lands have been trampled and trashed beyond recovery in my lifetime. Our forests and grasslands have been burned far beyond what is acceptable by trespassers, criminals, and invaders. And it will only get worse after many years of drought and a poor monsoon. Maybe this year we will face fall and winter fires. “Stupid Americans.”
Hikers and backpackers beware. You might be confronted by habituated bears in the high country of the Huachuca Mountains, who want what is in your pack more than anything growing in the wild. Or if you are really lucky, you might encounter a group of 50 or even 80 illegal aliens or drug smugglers, who could care less that you are an American citizen on your own soil. Or even worse than that, you might encounter terrorists who hate Americans and who want to harm or kill you. If the terrorists haven’t figured out how to get into this country undetected, it won’t be long before they do – the Huachucas, the San Pedro, Cochise County, Arizona. “Let’s go kill those evil Americans, stupid Americans.”
I wonder why my godson, who is fighting terrorism abroad, isn’t right here in Cochise County guarding these very vulnerable borders of ours – open borders. Many people who live in Cochise County, especially those in the city of Sierra Vista, are oblivious to what the rest of us are dealing with on a daily and a nightly basis. Helicopters hovering over your house in the middle of the night, watchdogs barking wildly as the invaders march across your driveway and mangle your fences, dumping their dirty clothes, backpacks, water bottles, excrement, and toilet paper in your yard or in your favorite hiking places. Border Patrol vehicles in your driveway when you step out of your garage, apprehended coyotes claiming they are in your driveway to visit with you because you are their friends; coyotes nearly running you off the road so they can escape and deliver their human cargo; 30 aliens trying to get into your car because they think you are a coyote; or aliens pounding on your doors to get water or use the telephone.
What has happened to our rights? Mine have been violated practically every day for nearly five years now.
What about your endangered, threatened, and protected species? U.S. Fish and Wildlife, Arizona Game and Fish, and our “beloved” environmentalists, why do you not protest?
What about our destroyed public lands? U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Park Service, and BLM, why do you not protest?
What about our tax dollars being used to care for and promote these criminals instead of caring for our poor and elderly U.S. citizens? What about it, taxpayers? Why do you not protest?
What has happened here? I am confused and frustrated. Why haven’t we as Americans stopped this travesty? We are at war, yet we are turning the other cheek day after day, and reelecting politicians who want to give criminals and perhaps terrorists amnesty for breaking our laws? Why do we have laws we are going to reward people for breaking? What stupid Americans we are. Pull your heads out of the sand and think about what is really happening here – our borders are open – why do we not protest?
Under the RICO statutes, it is illegal for criminal activity to be moved across state lines. So why did the federal government conspire to and succeed in moving the UDA problem out of El Paso and San Diego into the remote southern parts of Arizona? Perhaps it all boils down to votes. A lot less people, hence a lot less votes. Why are my rights to live in peace in a rural environment less important than a San Diego or an El Paso urbanite? It is not right, nor is it just, nor is it legal. If we do not protest, there will be nothing left to protect.
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That's the kind of hyperbolic rhetoric used by the pro-invasion forces to keep any kind of control off the border. You are so right...we don't need medieval fortifications, we just need to stem the flood and return them from whence they came.
I'm not talking about Hermosillo or Naco or Agua Prieta. I mean, if an illegal is found with an airline ticket from Rio De Janeiro to Hermosillo (and this has happened), his happy butt gets returned to Rio and the Brazilian gov't is billed for the cost.
A big earthquake with the strength of 8.1 on the Richter scale has hit Mexico.Two million Mexicans have died and over a million are injured. The country is totally ruined and the government doesn't know where to Start with providing help to rebuild. The rest of the world is in shock.
Canada is sending troopers to help the Mexican army control the riots.
The European community (except France) is sending food and money.
The United States, not to be outdone, is sending two million replacement Mexicans.
God Bless America!
Don't know where you are but anywhere I go "they" can't understand half of what I say.
They cost much more than they contribute. Many illegal aliens pay no taxes at all by working for "under the table" wages. Many others do not come here to work, but only for the free medical care they can get since hospitals are required by law to see anyone who comes in for help. Those who do work for wages do so at minimum wage jobs. People who work for minimum wage in this country pay no federal taxes, and minimal medicare and ss.
The government is not bringing them here to pay the baby boomers SS as this excerpt from an article on www.fairus.org shows
officials at the State Department and Social Security Administration (SSA) are preparing a plan that would pay benefits to illegal aliens who have returned to Mexico.Even if a Mexican citizen had not worked in the U.S. long enough to qualify for benefits, the number of years worked in Mexico would be added to the total, thus making him or her eligible to receive a monthly check from the U.S. government
In its first year alone, the SSA expects that the plan will trigger 37,000 new claims.
Such an agreement would further strain Social Security at a time when concerns about a shortfall are rising and would add hundreds of thousands of Mexican citizens to the rolls just as the baby-boom generation is about to begin retiring in droves.
“Under the terms of this proposal, an alien who entered the U.S. illegally, violated our employment laws, worked fewer than the required number of years to be eligible for Social Security, and then returned to Mexico could collect full U.S. Social Security benefits—while living in Mexico,” says Dan Stein. “All the while, our children are being told that the Social Security system may be drained dry by the time they retire.”
In 1996, Congress barred illegal aliens from claiming Social Security benefits, but this treaty would invalidate that law.
Another analysis of NAS report shows:
Among the NAS study findings are:
Immigration is the driving force behind rapid population growth.
Immigration has a negative impact on lower-skilled, less-educated Americans.
Immigration is exacerbating the wealth gap.
Immigration has contributed to the increase in high school dropouts.
Immigrant-headed households use more in government services than they contribute in state and local taxes.
Immigration is a substantial tax burden to native households, especially in states with large immigrant populations, and, on average, for the nation as a whole.
Those who read the report (and do not rely on the headlines used to herald it) will discover that the NAS report notes that, on average, immigrants earn lower incomes than natives, but have larger families, pay less in taxes, and receive more in public assistance. The report also contains Orwellian double speak, aimed at disguising reality. For instance, it says that African Americans are not suffering economically from the effects of immigration, except for those who happen to live in areas with high immigration.
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