Posted on 01/08/2004 5:25:19 AM PST by AbsoluteJustice
Well Freepers our President has sold us up the river and hopefully this is a wake up call to conservatives. The guest worker program is a DISASTER waiting to happen. One of President Reagan's mistakes in 1986 was to give blanket amnesty to illegals prior to sealing up the border and overhauling INS. It was stated that by doing this it would curb and put an end to illegal immigration. Since then it has doubled. Now we are seeing the same thing all over again.
O'Reilly pulled current numbers from the census bureau and foun the following. It costs this country 20 billion dollars a year in illegal immigration. 35% of LEGAL immigrants are on welfare or receive some form of government assistance. Like O'Reilly said if I were a Mexican living in Mexico I would be on the next bus here to America. When is America going to wake up and understand that current immigration brings unskilled, uneducated workers who NEED government assistance. Do they want to work? Yes and no. Yes there is no doubt about it that those who wish to work bust their butts in working but for below average wages. This myth that they pay taxes is also false. Those in the lower tax brackets pay no federal income taxes. Most have no health coverage and use hospitals for common illnesses. Guess who picks up the tab? I say also no they do not want to work because current numbers would support this, the 35% LEGAL immigrants currently on welfare. O'Reilly also stated that Vicente Fox is probably jumping for joy over this. He gets to dump his unskilled poor labor force on us and then reap the rewards when these people dump money back into his economy. It is a win win for this guy. I still do not understand why America appeases this guy.
This myth that immigrant workers take jobs the rest of Americans would not is totally false. Remember the great depression in the 20's? A time in which American workers were killing each other to find work? There is also a myth that immigrants are paying their share of taxes. This is also false. Illegal immigrants do not pay taxes. Furthermore, of those immigrants, LEGAL immigrants cost this country more in services rendered than what they put into the system. To save myself making such a broad accusation without proof I will provide you links of these facts. I will first provide you a quote from this website and then you may click on the link to read the website further. "For instance, in 1996 legal immigration alone cost Floridians $6 billion, up 77% from 1992. Legal immigration cost Texans $7 billion, New Yorkers $14 billion and Californians an amazing $28 billion. These are the compounded costs of Public Schools, Bilingual Education, Medicaid, AFDC, Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, Housing Assistance, Criminal Justice, as well as job loss by Americans and other programs, for a total cost to American taxpayers of $136 billion dollars." http://www.carryingcapacity.org/100000.html
I will provide you with one more quote and link. I hope that you take these facts seriously. "research suggests that "between 40 and 50 percent of wage-loss among low-skilled Americans is due to the immigration of low-skilled workers. Some native workers lose not just wages but their jobs through immigrant competition. An estimated 1,880,000 American workers are displaced from their jobs every year by immigration; the cost for providing welfare and assistance to these Americans is over $15 billion a year." http://www.cairco.org/econ/econ.html
As a solution we need to make abled body Americans currently on the government dole (welfare) take those jobs that people claim only illegal immigrants will take. Our entire INS dept. needs an overhaul. We should start mass deportation of those immigrants that do not belong here. Many would say that we do not have the money for this. This is not true. Stop services, it is that simple. Stop the medical care, stop the welfare, stop other related services and dump it into immigration reform, border agents backed up by the National Guard, and deportation. My tax dollars are going to people that 1)Do not belong here and 2)Going to those that have been placed into a legal status because the defunct INS gives legal status to those that have nothing to offer this country in the way of professional services or real job production. For example; remember that LEGAL citizen that came from Europe, I believe he may have been Croatian, who lived in California? He killed his child some 3 years ago and placed the child into a dumpster. He then wrote to police where they could find the child. Want to know what this legal citizens' profession was? He was an unemployed shoe repairman. How was this individual granted legal status? Was this a man that was considered a contributor to society? Because of current immigration policy, these are the types of individuals that my tax dollars pay for.
I encourage ALL to write their Congressmen and Senators. I already have. This is the collective end to America as we know it.
"Inferior," as in unsophisticated in all the arts; science; language; manners; cleanliness; repressive regarding opportunity and freedom; discouraging and degrading regarding mental, physical, spiritual, and economical enrichment.
Does that clarify for you what an "inferior culture" is?
Yes, I think everybody wins on this but plain Americans and America.
Even the rich looking for slaves will live to regret this. My hope is that Congress will knock it on its ass and instead come up with something a lot less destructive.
Thats pretty optimistic. Methinks, in order to court the Hispanic vote...this will NOT happen.
Surely you could figure out that I was talking about the border. And just how am I a hypocrite? By pointing out the obvious...that the President does not make laws, Congress does?
All I can think of is - what did our families fight for? So that one little jerk can assert that he has the right to give it all away, so he and his buddies can get some oil money, or whatever the goddamn payoff is? FTAA passage, etc...
It's very simple for me. My fridge recently started leaking water and it damaged my hardwood floor. Would it have made sense for me to replace the floor and NOT fix the leak? How is our porous border any different? You can't effectively deal with the illegals here, by granting them special work right, citizenship, etc., until you fix the border problem.
Bush has lost my vote. I will NOT continue to pander to the fake-conservative movement. The oligarchy has too much control. We've got to SPLIT the power and get the Republicans and Democrats fighting again. That's the best way for us to prolong the evident decay and death of our society.
Well, we had BETTER. Any Nation that can't control immigration is a Nation on the way out. History is clear on this.
The Real Story in all this is that the money-sucking, Treasonous Beltway Elite would LIKE to have us believe that any efforts to retain a Sovereign America are futile. It is, of course, not futile at all. We are at this sorry stage in American History precisely because of these One-World Sellouts.
The solution to our immigration crisis is to remove the Traitorous Cabal of One-World Socialists from power once and for all. The rest will take care of itself. The alternative is to watch America become Balkanized out of existence. The Choice is Ours to make.
Good for you. Vote for candidates because they represent your positions, not because they can attract socialists by marketing socialism even though they brand themselves as "Republican" or "conservative."
Of course this a disaster for America and I do think Vicente Fox is a crook.
I don't like what I posted. I just believe it is true. I understand why Fox is ecstatic. Bush in essence is going to give him even more dollars. Remittances are Mexico's #2 source of revenue behind oil, IIRC, so it only makes sense the more Mexicans sent to America the better. FOR HIM. What I don't understand is why Bush made such a proposal.
Look, I'm not a great communicator, but I hope this is clear.
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