Illegals Are Destroying America - A Letter To Rep Tom Tancredo

Congressman, Tom Tancredo | 1-9-4

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

"The big lawsuit lottery will be coming to your town soon."

I think it started here in L.A. My son is an attorney for a law firm that represents a company in L.A. against workman's comp. claims. As my son is bilingual (3 years of high-school spanish qualifies), so he often gets the cases involving spanish speaking lawsuits. They usually settle out of court, but it is clearly a well organized and growing racket.

[Rome2000]

Your life is not going to change one little bit because the illegals are not being deported and will not be deported.

Changing their status one way or the other does nothing for you, but if it makes you feel any better, maybe Bush can charge them all with trespassing instead of giving them legal status.

Your life will still be the same, but at least the Mexicans would still be illegal.

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This stuff sounds like a load of hooey.

Just what sound does a load of hooey make? And I'm also against illegal immigration.

[Rome2000]

I am told I'm a racist, which is of course the lefties first and only response

Its not like the debate is whether to deport 8 million people or not, they are here to stay anyway, so whats it to you if they get registered and are at least trackable?

If they were Swedish and wore bikinis I am sure you would not have a problem with it at all.

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

"When it was my turn, I had to show ID. I was told to leave."
LOL!

[Kenny Bunk]

Once got a ticket for an illegal turn or something, and whilst I was being written up, a pickup went by making the same turn, blowing blue smoke like a Jap destroyer, going about 80 (?) with a mob of unsecured kids loose in the truck bed.

The cop (Santa Monica, CA) just shrugged his shoulders and handed me back my papers. He told me they were under "instructions," not "orders," to leave the illegals alone, as they took all day to process, had no ID, DL, or Insurance, and would just disappear, without paying the fines into the city's coffers.

Santa Monica is the city where a an illegal Nicaraguan, a Sandinista of course, arrived in town Friday night and was on the City payroll Monday morning.

If you need to place blame on someone for the illegal alien mess, you need look no further than Ted Kennedy, whose team of left-wing wonks wrote the Immigration Reform Act of 1965. (He of course being far too drunk to write anything himself.)

It is the fervent wish of the elites that we take out our anger and rage on the illegal aliens themselves. This is so the elite can point to us as rednecks, racists and xenophobes (most unfashionable, don't you know). But lemme tellya, if I and my family were living in a cardboard hut on the slopes overlooking Guadalajara, and I knew I could get a better deal in California, I'd be off in a heartbeat. Ditto Managua, Hong Kong, etc.

It ain't the fault of the campesino with the leaf-blower that we can't run the country correctly. It's not too late to follow our own laws ... just almost. It's our party, the Republicans who must take most of the blame. The Democrats would give Aztlan back quickly. Our Party is hypocritically watching it happen while making futile noise. Get on the bastards.

[Rome2000]

They usually settle out of court, but it is clearly a well organized and growing racket.

I'm for deporting all the lawyers to Mexico.

You blame Mexicans for using a system created by and for lawyers, but hold the lawyers harmless?.

Makes no sense whatsoever.

[DCPatriot]

Recently in Gaithersburg, Maryland, a stone's toss from DC, my girlfriend had the unfortunate opportunity to be hit by an uninsured, illegal Hispanic female driver.

Her Mazda Milennium was totaled, she sustained no physical injuries.

The illegal had no insurance. My girlfriend's insurance company paid off her $30K loan.

She went and purchased another $35K auto...only to have her insurance company (Liberty) raise her insurance from $2K per annum to $6K per annum.

Is that right? Is it fair? She would have had to go into a high risk pool (Progressive). To get around it my company leased her new car from her...I added the vehicle to my insurance and then listed her as an additional driver.

[dirtboy]

Its not like the debate is whether to deport 8 million people or not, they are here to stay anyway, so whats it to you if they get registered and are at least trackable?

If you legalize 8 million illegals, there will be 16 million more in a few years, just as Reagan's amnesty increased the rate of illegal immigration. A funny thing happens when you reward illegal behavior - you tend to get more of it.

If they were Swedish and wore bikinis I am sure you would not have a problem with it at all.

I am opposed to Irish illegal immigrants. And Chinese. And Indian. However, the illegal immigration from Mexico causes serious problems along the border and is an additional problem above and beyond the legal rot that is this country's unwillingness to enforce its own immigration laws.

[hellinahandcart]

But -- but -- this woman's story sounds like something out of "Queen For A Day."

Thank you! It's a bubble bath of bathos, isn't it?

Somebody tell me this isn't really on Tancredo's website...

[crz]

Most likely doesnt know.

[NoGrayZone]

This may be true, however, I know a few American people who have fallen through the cracks. I also know first hand about these "safe havens" they built for these illegals, in my neighborhood as well as friends. Is this not supporting the breaking of our laws???? Why can they work w/out paying taxes, but I and everyone else get to hand over a big chunk of our paychecks??? This is obviously a sore subject for me.

[Kenny Bunk]

I have no problem with a legal guest worker program provided (a) they are not entitled to welfare and other government handouts, (b) they cannot bring kids with them to burden the public school system, (c) they cannot marry a U.S. citizen without a rigorous background check (at their expense) to ensure that the marriage is not a fraud, (d) any children born in the U.S. are not entitled to automatic U.S. citizenship, (e) a guest worker cannot bring either friends or family to the U.S., (f) there is a 25-year moratorium on non-English speaking immigrants while assimilation occurs, (g) there is an effective deportation system in place, and (h) immigration is based solely on what the immigrant can bring to the U.S. in terms of education, skills, and assets. As for the guest worker program, I'd require Mexico to abandon Spanish as its official language and make English a mandatory second language in its school system. I'd also require Mexico to abandon its no-extradition policy that it uses with glee to harbor fugitives from U.S. justice.

From your lips to Bush's ear. Seriously, young fellow, who would disagree with this? So why ain't it happening.

BTW, I was going to work this morning, but Burger King is having a two-fer special, and so is Bud Lite on the 12-pack. Jerry Springer is coming on cable, and I have to wait for a call from my lawyer about that hot coffee I spilled in my lap, Darlene is coming over with some dyn-o-mite ganja and then driving me to down to the junkyard to pick up a starter for the Malibu.

Jesus! Some damn Mexican just won the Lotto!!!

[dirtboy]

Somebody tell me this isn't really on Tancredo's website...

It is. Which makes me wonder just how carefully his staff checks this stuff.

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

" rednecks, racists and xenophobes (most unfashionable, don't you know). "

You forgot 'tribalist'. That's what a 'globalist' called me once when I suggested that borders are important.
Fortunately, I haven't heard racist remarks regarding this issue, except maybe from the more wacky hispanic groups.

[sarcasm]

the guy who wanted to see an honor student deported

The "honor student" is an illegal alien.

[speedy]

Thank YOU. At some level we are responsible for our own situation in life, aren't we? This kind of unremitting misery sounds like something that should have starred Barbara Stanwyck. How did she even afford the stamp to send the letter to Tancredo? Maybe somebody at the church felt sorry for her and lent her a pen so she could write her letter. We have millions of sound arguments to use against illegals without bringing in the melodrama. Reminds me of an old Ray Charles song called "Busted."

[dmz]

but it would make a great country song...

[NoGrayZone]

First of all, I'm not a lesbian, so Swedish girls in bikini's don't do a thing for me. So on that note, no I would not be. Secondly, if you came here illegally, you should be exported. I am not a believer in rewarding law breakers.

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

Who said I don't blame the lawyers? The ambulance chasers who defend these people collect half of the settlement.
Companies must hire attorneys just to defend themselves against fraudulent cases. These attorneys do not collect half of any settlement, they just make a living wage; a big difference. That said, this is the system we live in.
California's workman's comp is incredibly high and I believe this may be one reason; same for our automobile insurance, health insurance, fire insurance (a lot of suspicious fires), etc.