Posted on 12/10/2003 1:28:20 PM PST by Klickitat
The country needs your faxes and phone calls immediately and steadily over the next few days.
Tom Ridge, the head of the new U.S. Department of Homeland Security, yesterday advocated legalizing (giving amnesty) to 8-12 million illegal aliens.
Click here to read the story titled: "Homeland security
chief endorses legalizing undocumented immigrants."
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This creates an immediate crisis that must be met with massive outcry -- like the outcry in August of 2001 that stopped Pres. Bush's July proposal for a massive amnesty for some 3.5 million illegal aliens from Mexico.
The most important thing is shoot this trial balloon down as fast as possible. Show the White House that this suggestion is outrageous and will be met with contempt from the majority of Americans.
More in a minute, but first the action.
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SEND FAXES NOW
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We just learned of this article in the last hour. Anne Manetas is at the computer writing text for faxes as I write this. Over the next two hours, you will start to see various faxes to Sec. Ridge, to the White House and to key congressional leaders who can put a stop to this nonsense.
Please send these faxes from:
"Send Fax"
If you go mid-afternoon today (Wednesday), they may not be up yet, but be sure to come back and send this evening.
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CALL SEC. RIDGE AND THE WHITE HOUSE......NOW....and for a week
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Your actions are the most powerful when they arrive immediately. I am sure that Sec. Ridge made his statement yesterday toin a fairly small audience in to a fairly inconsequential audience in Miami never dreaming that the whole nation would seem to be calling and faxing his office by 3:00 this afternoon. The faster the phones are ringing the better.
But if you are reading this after 6 p.m. EST Wednesday, please call Thursday. For that matter, some of you may want to call again on Friday and again next week. If you are reading this next week, your calls will still be great.
It will be important for Sec. Ridge and the White House to see that this is not a flash-in-the-pan protest but one that grows and continues over time.
Our Capitol Hill team will be working with key staffers over the next 24 hours to begin getting their bosses to send letters to Ridge asking him to recant. And those of you who are regular letter-to-the-editor writers will be called on to fire one to all newspapers that ran this story today.
What apparently is going on here is that the open-borders side is trying to regain some momentum after basically losing everything in Congress this year -- even though its PR machine repeatedly persuaded the NY Times and other commentators to declare that people of all sides were part of a growing, powerful movement that indicated some major amnesty would pass this year.
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THE PHONE NUMBERS
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Secretary Ridge, Secretary Tom
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC
20500
(202-282-8000)
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President Bush, President George W.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC 20500
(202-456-1414)
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WHAT RIDGE SAID
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Your calls to both the White House and to Ridge's office should refer to Ridge's outrageous endorsement of amnesty as being a terrible signal from the Administration.
Obviously, it is important to give Ridge the ability to back down gracefully. Because of the confused, garbled thinking in his statement last night, he has room to do so.
The first good sign is that Ridge did not make his comment in a prepared statement or before an influential audience. It was in a Q and A. Second, his actual description of what legalization would look like is full of contradictory ideas. To quote the news story:
"A man who identified himself as Miguel Arroyo of Aventura asked Ridge whether he supported immigration legalization and whether he thought it would benefit national security."
Ridge answered:
"The bottom line is, as a country we have to come to grips with the presence of 8 to 12 million illegals, afford them some kind of legal stus some way, but also as a country decide what our immigration policy is and then enforce it.
The story said that Ridge "said he thinks the body politic is about ready to address the issue of the illegal immigrants, who he said contribute to communities and Social Security and pay taxes. He referred to a growing number of bills that would grant residency to some of those living here illegally. He said one of these, which would require all illegal immigrants to leave the country before applying for residency, is 'not workable.' "
Ridge went on to say:
"I'm not saying make them citizens, because they violated the law to get here. So you don't reward that type of conduct by turning over a citizenship certificate. You determine how you can legalize their presence, then, as a country, you make a decision that from this day forward, from this day forward, this is the process of entry, and if you violate that process of entry we have the resources to cope with it."
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YOUR PHONE MESSAGE
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You won't get much time to talk. Have one or two things that you absolutely want to convey and say them. Be prepared to say more if given the chance.
I'm sure that from reading Ridge's statement, you already have thought of a number of things you want to say. I'm going to offer several points for you to choose from if you don't have your own. These are not in any particular order.
1. This talk of legalization of lawbreakers from the top security man in the nation is an insult and a threat to safety of every federal official charged with protecting our borders. It gives illegals the incentive to do ANYTHING to get across and claim this prize. And it may insight millions of new people to storm the borders.
2. Ridge has thrown in the towel on law enforcement and says nothing can be done about illegal aliens. In fact, Congress has passed a major law each of the last two years to deal with this problem. These laws have not yet been implemented. When they are, they will make it far more difficult for illegal aliens to live in this country and begin to force many to move back home. Why is Ridge pre-emptorily undermining the very laws he is charged with carrying out.
3. Ridge's solution seems to be that you give all illegal aliens now amnesty but change our enforcement so that any person who comes illegally in the future will be dealt with. If you can deal with future illegals, why not just start dealing with the ones already here? In fact, the 1986 amnesty of 3 million illegals was said to be a one-time-only amnesty under the exact idea that Ridge is suggesting. There was supposed to never be another million illegals living in this country. Instead, another 8-12 million have come in hopes of another amnesty.
4. Ridge's statement sounds like two different people were controlling his mouth. One person sounded like a top law enforcement official who said, "As a country (we have to) decide what our immigration policy is and then enforce it." But somebody from the cheap-labor lobbyists or radical, leftist open-borders groups got Ridge's mouth to say that all the illegal aliens here right now should become LEGAL. The fact is that 80% of the people in this country and the majority of the U.S. Congress knows what immigration policy is -- if you don't have a legal right to be here, you should leave -- and they want the head of the Department of Homeland Security to enforce that policy.
5. Unless Sec. Ridge backs away from these statements immediately, there is no reason for Americans not to lose full faith and confidence that he has their security at heart. He is supposed to be the man above all others who will enforce our laws to protect our borders and protect us from terrorists, criminals and masses of uninvited labor that steals from the wages and jobs of the American people. In this speech, he sounds like the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Insecurity. He is a chief law UNenforcement officer. He is saying that somebody ought to enforce immigration laws someday, but not now. He is saying that he believes he is incapable of enforcing those immigration laws entrusted to him and that the only solution is to reward all the lawbreakers with legal status.
6. Sec. Ridge seems to suggest that illegal aliens should be made legal but not have the right to citizenship. Is he proposing a new legal status that allows people to work and live permanently in the U.S. but with never a chance at citizenship? What is he suggesting?
7. Last week the Department of Homeland Security announced it was killing the NSEERS program that caused tens of thousands of illegal aliens from terrorist-sponsoring countries to leave our country voluntarily rather than appear at DHS offices to register. Now, Ridge says that he actually wants all illegal aliens to stay permanently and be welcomed as contributors to the Social Security system. Has the DHS decided that it no longer will enforce immigration laws.
8. 18 million Americans cannot find a full-time job, yet Sec. Ridge wants to keep 8-12 million illegal-alien workers and their families in this country working. What does he have against unemployed and underemployed American workers. Why does he seem to be waging a war against American workers instead of against foreigners who illegally enter our country and threaten our livelihoods?
Agreed. Also, there's already a group admitting they're here to take over parts of the U.S. militarily, and return the land to Mexico. They're not hiding it, either.
My facts are straight. Perhaps you need to review yours.
Eisenhower reluctantly activated the National Guard and otherwise did nothing to secure the rights, especially voting rights, of millions of his constituents. Constituents which had no political power of their own. Little money and no voice. Had Ike been more forthcoming in his support of the Constitution, Blacks would still be voting for the "Party of Lincoln" today.
Ike dropped the ball which LBJ picked up and ran in for a political Touchdown (voting rights act).
Of course not. But then again we are not discussing genocide.
We have been talking about mass arrests and deportation of illegal aliens en masse. Both of which are also very Hitleresque.
By sending in General Winfield Scott and winning the Mexican War?
Talk about revealing.
You look at that, and then hear President Bush's Homeland security chief say yesterday that he wants to legalize 12 *million* illegal aliens.
I'm telling you, this is down right scary sh*t.
Exactly how many terrorists have come in through Mexico? What is your estimate. I can guarantee you that at least twenty times as many came in through JFK, Logan, and LAX airports. More have come in through Canada as well. We've caught terrorists driving across the border to the North. I've never heard of a self respecting terrorist who would waste time taking the scenic route through the dessert when they can fly in or drive across the border with impunity.
Another member of the Hitler Youth.
It seems to me that civilized people do not react to what amounts to trespassing by shooting the intruder.
After taking into consideration all the information that I have gathered over the course of years about immigration, both illegal and legal, the seeming fact that the politicos, both Democrat and Republican, have no intention of enforcing our nation's laws in regards to immigration, and "The War on Terror" TM, the only logical thing to do with the illegals in this country is to grant them some type of status, concurrent with registration and identification, so that we know who and where they are.
Wishing that they were deported, or better yet, stopped from entering the country in the first place is just that, wishing. If wishes were fishes no one would starve. The government is not going to enforce the existing laws and there is nothing you, I, or anyone else can do about it. You are not going to convince 80% of the electorate, 1/2 of which cannot read, that it is ok to treat these immigrants any differently than they would like to be treated. If this is made into a BIG issue you can kiss the (sort of) Republican Congress and the RINO Presidency goodbye and say hello to Howard Dean, Tom Dashle and Nancy Pelosi, two of which are left of Hillary.
It's not worth it. Let the Suramericanos in and let them provide cheap labor. Give them a Social Security number and let them work their asses off and send money home to Mama and Papa. They will make better citizens than many who were born here.
My parents never taught me that breaking the law is ok, or that those who break the law should be rewarded. What did your parents teach you about breaking the law?
That's all part of my point. We don't need a massive and growing criminal subculture inhabiting our neighborhoods, towns, and cities. They will have to be assimilated into the mainstream legally or they will assimilate themselves illegally at our expense. They will either become taxpayers or continue to cost us our tax money.
Remember, we are talking in the millions of people, not a few thousand. Amnesty and access to the mainstream is the steep price we all hve to pay for generations of open borders. It can not be undone.
Thats easy. THOUSANDS
Heres a few hundred. Pull your head out, and take a hard look at this before you go shooting off your mouth. And yes, these terrorist are no different than any other dangerous criminals. Wake up.
http://www.lapdonline.org/get_involved/most_wanted/0alpha_most_wanted/a_wanted_index.htm
I don't remember Hitler's Germany gathering up suspected illegals and deporting them en masse.
And how many of the criminals are in this country illegally? How many are not citizens? A foreign sounding name and a dark complexion does equate to a foreigner except in the eyes of Tancredo butt kissers. Seems the ones that I looked at had drivers licenses and CA didnt start giving them out until a month or so ago if they ever did.
BS
Thats easy. THOUSANDS
So now you are cheapening the word terrorists by including run of the mill criminals. Hell using your standards, arent 40% of Californians criminals anyway, what difference does it make if you have a few more. With all the driving you have to do in California I cant imagine fewer than 40% having received a traffic violation making them criminals, perhaps of the lowest order, but criminals nevertheless. Maybe we ought to take away their gun rights, after all they are criminals. Jaywalk and turn in your 9mm.
All of these illegal immigrants are LAWBREAKERS who have no respect for the laws of the United States. The promise of America would be kept if these people came to the United States LEGALLY.
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