FRN Columnists' Corner - "On Illegal Immigration" By Pat Baska

Free Republic Network ^ | 11-7-03 | Pat Baska

[Bob J]

Columnists' Corner

"On Illegal Immigration"

By Pat Baska

The Bush administration is spending millions of our tax dollars to train border patrol and customs personnel and build border outposts in Iraq, while our own borders, particularly the southern, remain wide open two years after our worst terrorist attack. An estimated 1,000 illegals pour into this country daily via just the Organ Pipe National Monument. According to U.S. Park Ranger Bo Stone "We have caught people from China, Pakistan, and Yemen coming through. If 1,000 illegal immigrants can walk through the desert here, so can 1,000 terrorists."

Even without the terrorist threat, illegal immigration poses another, and just as serious, threat. Illegal immigrants are moving into many areas and bringing their culture with them, refusing to learn English and assimilate into ours. No nation can stand without a common culture, and ours is being diluted to the point it is unrecognizable in far too many areas.

This situation is bad enough, but there are those who are trying very hard to make it worse. Senator John McCain and Congressmen Jim Kolbe and Jeff Flake introduced bills designed to reward illegal immigrants currently working in the United States by granting them amnesty, although the word "amnesty" is not mentioned. This legislation (S. 1461 and H.R. 2899) would basically give every illegal alien the chance to apply for permanent legal residency and remove all limits on "guest workers" allowed in.

Rewarding those who have violated the immigration laws and opening our borders completely is not what I would call an intelligent move to safeguard our people and maintain our culture. Senator McCain, in seeking a way to make this less than popular legislation sound better, has tried to frame it in terms of national security, saying it would eventually make federal agents freer to focus their attention on individuals who "pose a threat to national security." As far as I am concerned, they are posing a threat to our security just by breaking the immigration laws.

President Bush has reportedly told these three Arizona Congressmen he is "enthusiastic" about this legislation, however it appears he is lagging behind to allow whatever political backlash arises to be directed at others. His enthusiasm is not surprising as he arguably started the whole thing two years ago with Mexican President Vicente Fox. They were "on the verge of a breakthrough.on a package that would have combined an expanded guest-worker program with amnesty for undocumented workers" according to the L.A. Times. September 11th stopped that with a horrible example of what can and probably will happen again if we do not regain control of our borders.

There is much more information available at http://www.thenewamerican.com/focus/ftaa/ along with suggestions of what you can do to help force Congress and the White House to take our border security a lot more seriously.

(c)2003 Pat Baska. pbaska@gulf1.com

[joesnuffy]

Globalists wont be happy until the whole world is one big happy family
The fusion of the USA & Mexico while the two "parties" compete to give away the farm
to garner enough votes to stay in power the over the course of the next twenty years
as the old America and old Americans fade away..

[VU4G10]

La Torre de Babel

[international american]

It is interesting to note that the problems endemic to the US (vis a vis illegal immigration) hold true all over the free world. In Malaysia, almost all of the violent crime is directly attributable to the illegal Indonesians (as they have a govt as corrupt as Mexico) The more I travel, the more things stay the same. Best regards, IA

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

FR columnist ping.

Bush is enthusiastic.

Ugh.

[Vigilanteman]

You are right. But Malaysia doesn't wink at them the way we do and give them freebies from the taxpayers. Chronic illegal entrants are even caned before being sent home.

I'm not so sure caning would be such a bad custom to bring into the U.S.A.

[JustPiper]

What bothered me was hearing in "W's" speech we 'all' deserve Freedom and I got his answer right there!

[FITZ]

Bush needs to tell Fox that "we all need freedom" and tell Fox to end the corrupt oligarchy in Mexico which is destroying the lives of so many that they would die by the hundreds leaving by the millions. Something is obviously very seriously wrong when people leave their homeland in such extreme numbers and things are getting worse.

There is no excuse for a wealthy country like Mexico to have such dreadful conditions. Some serious arm-twisting of the elites has to be done.

[FITZ]

US prosperity should be moving south into Mexico rather than the current situation where Mexican poverty is moving north into the USA. It's President Fox who needs to make some changes in that country's laws ---- allow Americans to buy land in Mexico, build vacation homes, build up tourism, develop the oil industry ---- show the Mexicans how they can prosper in their own country. Maybe Fox should offer every American dual citizenship in Mexico.

[independentmind]

build vacation homes, build up tourism

Societies dependent upon an economy built around tourism usually don't establish a robust middle-class.

[FITZ]

I don't know --- I think tourism helps Las Vegas, it helps people in many resort areas of the USA --- a Mexican waiter could easily make $20-$30 a day in tips but working at a maquila would make that much in one week. Tourism brings in a lot of money ---- construction jobs, restaurant jobs ---- many jobs. I don't mean just tourism though ---- they should be bringing in American type prosperity into Mexico ---- let Americans come in --- invest, build businesses, second --- or first homes there.

[FITZ]

Anyway --- an economy built around it's people leaving the country and hopefully sending some money back for a while certainly isn't the answer at all. Mexico sits on the second highest oil reserves in the western hemisphere ---- but they seem pretty incapable of building that up --- maybe if Americans could vote in Mexican elections --- instead of the reverse situation where they're voting in ours only --- there could get to be some changes.

Instead of sending millions of indigent uneducated people into the USA, let millions of wealthy and middle class Americans start building up Mexico. Mexico should be our frontier --- not us being theirs.

[JustPiper]

oligarchy= kewl now you're like Ann Coulter with the gentleman's english and yet another word I do not know -g-

I got sick listening to Fox talk about how well their economy is doing Fitz. Check CSpan's schedule, catch this monster if you can.

[FITZ]

Yes --- you just have to consider that Fox is one of the oligarchs. And yes he's a liar who will say he's done wonders for Mexico but then out of the other side of his mouth he's denouncing us for the hundreds of his citizens who are dying trying to escape his evil reign. Millions of people don't flee an improving economy --- only when all hope is gone do people abandon their homeland on such a massive scale.

[FITZ]

Another thing to keep in mind about Fox --- all the former ex-presidents of Mexico get a pension of $5 million a year --- ten times more that what US ex-presidents receive. If Fox cared about the poverty stricken Mexican people, he could put an end to this practice --- insist that $5 million a year he expects to get when his reign is over be returned to the Mexican people.

[international american]

Ha! You are right on.....there is virtually no crime in the big city of Kuala Lumpur.The reason being that the punishment is so overwhelming in relation to the crime.
Also, the people there do not seem to be predisposed to doing crime anyway.

[JustPiper]

He needs to pay us back then at say 5 million annually -g-

[richtig_faust]

Visit Russia - they don't put up with ANY of this crap.

[richtig_faust]

He needs to pay us back then at say 5 million annually -g-


ACtually, illegals cost the taxpayers in the United States over 65 Billion a year in emergency medical and police alone. Over 50% of the inmates in the S. California prisons are illegal. Cali. spends 3 Billion annually on medical for illegals. Everytime an illegal steps over the border it costs the taxpayers $85,000 per head. They send over 10 Billion a year back to mexico - thus not helping our economy as some would have you believe.

DEPORT THEM ALL.

[JustPiper]

Thanx for this FYI!