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?
Going a couple hundred miles back to Mexico is not workable, yet requiring someone who wants to immigrate legally to show a clean criminal record, a compelling reason to be in the United States and the means for self-support or sponsorship is standard practice. Go figure. </ sarcasm>
Most of the latino criminals are recent arrivals or the offspring of them. This is a different breed from the long-term US hispanic, you actually don't find all that many criminals in the SW hispanics descended from Spaniards and North American Indians --- New Mexicans or Tejanos, nor in the previous batch who immigrated (escapted) during the Mexican Revolution.
Check the crime rates in cities like Ciudad Juarez and Mexico City --- and you won't need to wonder how many of these are long-generationed US citizens or the recent arrivals from Mexico.
And to the socialist dictatorships for which it stands
One World, under the Dollar, indivisible
With slavery and injustice for all!
Recite this 3 times a day while facing New York, and be a good world citizen!
Yes --- we won't deport all --- and we don't really need to. Some of them lay pretty low, they aren't committing other crimes that could get them deported. They aren't registering kids at our schools expecting the taxpayers here to provide that or anything else. We don't need to bother with or worry about them.
The illegals who need to be deported ---- and can easily be deported ---- no road blocks, no door-to-door searches, etc, can be easily found by cleaning up the Social Security number databases and deporting all the felony crime committers who are illegally using them, deporting those accessing government services, who obtain health care but won't pay their own bill, are found driving without insurance, in DWIs, shoplifting and any other crimes.
Right. Let's hand the war on terrorism over to the whimpy America hating left over one domestic issue.
Real smart.
From your keyboard to God's ear!!!
This seems politically motivated, but I find it hard to believe that anyone thinks this huge bloc of illegals (mostly Mexicans) will reward Bush and the Republicans with their votes (oh yes, the next step, and already in sight, will be citizenship and the right to vote.
Well if we start a write-in Tancredo movement you never know. For those of us fed up with the government's acquiesence to this invasion what choice do we have?
1. Thousands of illegal are deported or blocked daily already. So there will be ZERO cost for this. Preventing their re-entry by things already in place would also have a negligible cost. If starting today, we enforced our border, in a few years we could clean out this country quite easily just by the current in-place, already paid for system. Every arrested illegal, every green-card raid, every application for welfare, driver's license etc. could be used just they way they are to catch these law-breakers who disporportionately commit violent crimes, go on welfare and vote for socialists.
2. Lots of easy new ways. How about using our current monitoring technology (yes, even now, even this conversation, is monitored by our government already and is already paid for) to arrest every criminal (and all illegal aliens are CRIMINALS by definition) who transfers money to Mexico. Notice all those money transfer places popping up in every downtown in America? You know, downtowns where there used to be businesses, small manufacturers and stores? Who do you think uses them?
3. Make the criminals pay for their own deportation. Seize their money, credit cards, property, and bank accounts and make them pay their own way home.
4. Get rid of that idiotic being-born-on-this-side-of-the-rio-grande-makes-you-an-instant-citizen law like European and many other countries.
5. Not too many years ago I remember how to cross the border you needed notarized documents and proof of money to support yourself. Canada does that to US citizens going to Canada. Easy to institute that. No money needed. How about charging Mexicans (and all the others including THOUSANDS from countries we are currently at war with) 100 bucks a pop to cross the border? Ridiculously easy to enforce our border. (And by the way, I'm not going to respond to any more chicken-little hand wringing scenarios of "It costs too much" or "it would hurt someone's feelings")
I think your last point was that we should check the criminals (remember by criminal I mean all ILLEGAL aliens who are, by definition, CRIMINALS) and deport the ones we don't like. Don't you realize how much cheaper it is to block entry in the first place? And that waiting for these CRIMINALS to commit violent crime is unthinkingly stupid. I think all you CRIMINAL supporters should be forced to put up signs on your businesses and property that say WE SUPPORT CRIMINALS so that those of you who support this idea will be the ones whose families and property are damaged so we can tell the "bad" ones from the "good" ones.
Anyway, assuming that you are sincere, I hope that the above was enough to convince you to join the rest of us Americans in protecting our country.
Do you know the ironic thing about all this? If the U.S. does become a Mexico Norte or Aztlan, where will the illegals go next after they have destroyed our economy and constitution? Mexico couldn't last without the illegal looting of the American economy. It is in their best interest to help us seal the border.
Actually I didn't call you either of those things. But by all means if the shoe fits wear it.
Pardon me sir, but my loyalty is to Jesus Christ, Country, and family only! I do not serve those who are not men of God.
Boy, you sound like a fun person to be around. Really.
Our dear dear lovely Commander in Chief is sending our men and women in uniform overseas and many of them sent overseas are protecting foreign borders for God's sakes. WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ALL ABOUT? WE NEED TO PROTECT AMERICAN BORDERS!
Oh, so you agree with Howard Dean that we should pull back from our war on terrorism, run away from Iraq and hide within our own borders. And just hope nobody we let in doesn't like us. That is what gave us 9-11.
And yes, unless this current administration gets its' act together to fix this illegal immigration problem, it WILL cost Bush his re-election in 2004. Americans have just had it.
Americans have "had it" with single issue zealots who constantly threaten Bush when he doesn't meet their standard of perfection.
If ya'll want to help elect an Al Gore, or Hillary, then go ahead. But don't annoy us with these "puritan" political standards for Republicans.
For us all -sigh-
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