Posted on 10/24/2003 11:35:28 AM PDT by VU4G10
It is this reporter's opinion that all too few of our elected officials understand the threat we face in dealing with immigration, both legal and illegal. One exception is Congressman Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. This modern Paul Revere is going to be honored by us at a giant rally in Los Angeles on Nov. 1.
You remember Tom. He was warned that because of his strong stand against the invasion of illegal aliens, his constituency in Colorado would not support him for re-election. Tom took a stand and his people re-elected him 2 to 1. Tom asked his people and all Americans, "WILL WE STILL BE A NATION?"
He pointed out that mass immigration – both legal and illegal – combined with multiculturalism represents the greatest danger this country has ever faced. He warned that the government and the media have failed to confront the national security, economic, and even health consequences of unrestricted immigration.
Tancredo said, "The government is ignoring the 70 percent of Americans who polling data show favored tightening U.S. borders." He says that the concept of secure national borders is rapidly becoming an anachronism, especially in Washington.
Shockingly, many of his colleagues on Capitol Hill believe that market forces and globalization will erase national borders, an idea supported by multinational corporations, which view the "global village" as their marketplace and support tearing down national borders. Tancredo believes that corporations are simply seeking cheaper sources of production.
Strong words from Tom Tancredo – so strong, in fact, that when he visited the White House and spoke out against the illegal invasion, presidential adviser Karl Rove, told our Tom, "Leave now and don't darken our doorstep again."
This reporter has spoken repeatedly of the costs of immigration.
Illegal aliens have cost U.S. workers $133 billion in job losses.
Mexicans have sent home $10-12 billion annually.
In 2002 foreign workers sent back $25 billion to Latin America, $16 billion to Asia.
U.S. unemployment has jumped to 6.8 percent – 20 million of our people are out of work.
Our country is $6.8 trillion in debt – and that number is climbing as our corporations outsource to India and China.
We're forced to pay $8 billion to educate children illegally here.
More than 890,000 hold H-1B visas (for aliens given temporary working status).
So-called immigrants are a full 75 percent more likely to use food stamps, medical benefits and housing assistance, at a total cost of $68 billion annually. Let's talk about crime.
More than 75 percent of all illegal drugs come across our unguarded borders.
More than 25 percent of prisoners in federal prisons are illegal aliens.
These prisoners cost us $900 million per year to feed and house.
We've talked about the diseases they are bringing into America: 7,000 new cases of leprosy in three years that have crossed over from Mexico, India and Brazil; 16,000 new cases of multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis; and God knows how many cases of venereal diseases – some of them incurable.
That is only the tip of the iceberg! And yet our public officials, including the newly elected governor of California, send out mixed signals on immigration.
Here are the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger when he supported a bill sponsored by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that would grant temporary working permits to allow illegals to travel to and from the U.S. and loosen the requirements to apply for visas (and hear this): "I want to make all undocumented immigrants documented and legal in this country. It's all part of the package."
Doesn't Schwarzenegger, who came here as an immigrant, understand the peril we face? Is it any wonder that Congressman Tom Tancredo asks, "Will we still be a nation?"
It'll be my privilege to act as Master of Ceremonies on Nov. 1.
It's changing, but it isn't going off the deep end like it was before Reagan. He saved the country.
Also Tancredo Fan, I think.
It’s a tragedy that the Republicans are not holding primaries.
Makes voting for these bought and paid for currs rather a waste of time.
That does not mean that immigrants may not become part of the body of a nation. But they do not do so merely by arriving and taking up residence; neither by taking a job nor going on welfare. There is far, far more involved in becoming a part of an existing nation.
It is so far past the time when Americans should have woken up to all of this, that one feels stupefied in trying to understand why (as a group) they have not. Granted, the theorists on the Academic Left have been trying for three generations to promote an internationalism that denies the validity of ethnicity and lines of descent. Granted, corrupt business intersts want an endless supply of cheap labor and new consumers. Granted, most politicians are terrified lest they offend some voting block, and the mainstream American does not like to feel a part of a voting block, and consequently is ever ignored in favor of the minorities being exploited by manipulators and demigogues. Still, what has been happening is so obvious, even the densest among us, should have gotten the message.
Maybe the proposed rally will start that very much overdue awakening.
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site
"Jackelope Breeder tried to tell us about what is happening on the Arizona border, but alas, he got banned for it here at FR"
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Surely....there's more to that story than you are revealing here?
Would you, could you elaborate?
Thanks-
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