Posted on 02/08/2005 7:32:26 AM PST by newsgatherer
... This was a major problem when I worked in law enforcement in Los Angeles County. The illegals would come to Los Angeles to work. Several of them would then join together to buy an old junk car. If they were involved in an accident they would simply abandon the car and flee. I investigated numerous vehicular manslaughter cases where the driver would flee back to Mexico.
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A perfect example of how this affects American citizen tax payers would be Salinas, California, which has a large population of illegal workers working in agriculture there. Due to a 3 million dollar budget deficit the city has closed all its libraries. They have cut back as far as possible on all city services, even going as far as selling a city owned golf course. However, they are still required to spend well over 3 million dollars on medical, educational and other services for the illegal workers.
I know all the arguments about the illegal alien problem. I know that some people say they are only taking low wage jobs that American workers won't do. My answer to that is that if they were not available for those jobs that perhaps the employers would be forced to provide higher wages and benefits, so that American workers would take the jobs...
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I can not help but wonder how long it will be before border state residents start taking the security of the border into their own hands.
Do those wetback Canucks take "jobs that Americans won't do?"
I didn't think so.
When Bush talks about aliens doing "jobs that Americans won't do," he's talkinng about Mexicans, but if immigration is liberalized, the big influx will be from India, and THOSE people will be taking jobs that Americans DO want, but they'll be willing to do them for much less.
Canadians crossing illegally? Nonsense, that never happens! /sarcasm
Ping your lists, I'm just trying to remember names off the top of my head ;-)
Good morning ping!!! Another day, a few thousand more illegals to welcome in!!
If the liberals would leave the US as quickly as they promised after the election, this might not be a problem. But they reneged and stayed and we still accept illegals. Maybe if we offer the illegals free passage to Canada and Europe.
Trade ya two liberals for one conservative illegal. Canada should go for that. Everyone would be happy.
"Trade ya two liberals for one conservative illegal. Canada should go for that. Everyone would be happy."
Sounds good to me. All conservative illegals from Canada are welcome. Please come to Massachusetts to help balance things.
<< Do those wetback Canucks take "jobs that Americans won't do?" >>
Don't laugh yet.
Those criminal-alien canadians/chinese/pakistanis/algerians/tunisians/libyans/vienamese/koreans etceteras are causing a huge problem for and disquiet among the criminal alien community of
Los Angeles where they are busy running around stealing all of the criminal-alien jobs and cluttering up hospital emergency rooms!
/sarcasm
No, I still like the idea of treating illegals as armed invaders.
Where I live in northern Maine, one doesn't even have to USE a border to get in here. Plenty of wooded areas around for the illegals to come across.
Lou Dobbs,aired 2/07/05
DOBBS: As we reported, the president's budget calls for only 210 new border protection agents instead of the 2,000 new agents that were supposed to be added. My guest tonight says we are shortchanging immigration enforcement and leaving our country vulnerable to terrorism through the policies we're pursuing in both immigration and border security. Michael Cutler is a former special agent in the Immigration and Naturalization Service joining us here in New York. Michael, this is a seemingly small number to add to add to our border protection.
MICHAEL CUTLER, FMR. INS SPECIAL AGENT: It's an almost negligible number. Congress talked about adding 2,000 more special agents for each of the next five years. We're talking about a 10 percent increase that doesn't address the problem of attrition, agents who leave, and the agency does have a high attrition rate. DOBBS: How many agents do we need? We've got about 2,500 along the border, right now, right, north and south?
CUTLER: Well, there's 10,000 and change altogether, but then you have shifts and days off and so forth.
DOBBS: About 2,500 on a daily basis?
CUTLER: Probably on a daily basis. Maybe a little bit more. We need many more than that.
DOBBS: Give us an estimate as to how many.
CUTLER: Goodness gracious, we probably could use five times as many, but you know what we also need that no one really talks about is interior enforcement. The Congress had said we were supposed to get 800 new special agents to enforce the laws from within the interior and no one is even talking about that.
DOBBS: Maybe the reason they're not talking about is they're overcome with laughter and just numb at the absurdity of even that number. How many criminal aliens are in the country right now at any one time?
CUTLER: The estimates that I've read runs at 80,000 to 100,000. I think it might even be higher. So what we are doing is encouraging more people to come here and violate the laws. You get one opportunity for first impression. The immigration laws are supposed to be instructive and show people how seriously we take our laws. What's the message?
DOBBS: The estimated 100,000 illegal aliens -- and by that, criminal illegal aliens...
CUTLER: Drug traffickers and so forth.
DOBBS: People who have committed crimes in this country and who are also illegal aliens, how many do we have in interior enforcement as it is so delicately put?
CUTLER: Right now about 2,000 people dedicated to that mission. I've made the analogy before, we have 38,000 cops policing New York, which is why the 8 million people who live here live in the safest big city. We should have a comparable number of special agents to cover the interior of the United States.
DOBBS: The idea that illegal aliens some 3 million estimated entered the country last year, an estimated 20 million at the higher end of the range but 20 million illegal aliens, the fact is no one wants to say straightforwardly, there is no way in the world the United States government can enforce its immigration laws even if there was a will in the U.S. Congress and at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to do so.
CUTLER: No resources, no mission, no motive. You know, it's just crazy. DOBBS: Let me show you something that may strike you -- if you did not see this at the beginning of the broadcast -- if we could show everyone again and Michael Cutler what the prime minister of the United Kingdom had to say today on immigration.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
TONY BLAIR, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: The public concern about this is very simple. It's a play by the rules concern. It's a concern that people, for example, who come in to claim asylum should be genuine refugees, that people who come in to work or study here should genuinely be coming in to work or study, and therefore what you need in place are strict controls that work in the interest of the country that mean that only the people who play by the rules come in, and those that don't, don't.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0502/07/ldt.01.html
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Personally, I don't think our lawmakers could care less of what we think. Surely they have known for a long time how we feel about this issue.
We keep screaming but nothing is being done. The lawmakers just thumb their noses at us!
Keep screaming till you keep them awake at night. And get your friends and relatives to scream also. Elections are coming. Make some real noise!!!
The only thing with this is: the lawmakers promise the moon to get our vote, then once they are in office, they go along their merry way, and we are stuck with them for another 4-6 years. I'm tired of it.
Thanks for keeping this at the forefront!
Attention California residents: Only 3 more days to mail in your signed petition for California ballot initiative denying drivers license and benefits to illegals.
Download PDF petition at:
www.saveourlicense.com
Petition needs to be signed & mailed by Thursday (2 days)
http://www.saveourlicense.com/pdfs/SOL_Petition.pdf
While it is not nealy as bad as the Mexican borders, unlike Texas and California, Maine only has 1.3 million people so every job is important.
And they vote, democrat of course.
We would be willing to help them pack too.
We used noisy old snowmobiles and never saw a Border Patrol agent or cop. One time a couple of guys out poaching in the North woods, almost shot us though. Turned out they were both poachers and Maine State Militia.
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