Posted on 01/10/2004 6:13:48 AM PST by from this machine
The following letter was received by the heroic Congressman, Tom Tancredo, and posted on his site as part of 'Tom's Mailbag'...
My story.
I live in a world where I do not count. I am White. I am poor. I don't have coalitions rallying for what I feel is important. I don't have news reporters writing about "poor me". But, I have views. I vote. I pay taxes. And, I know there are millions of people in America just like me.
I live next to a shelter built by politicians who are afraid to have an opinion about closing the border. Daily, 1,500 illegal Mexicans visit that shelter. It was supposed to keep these "poor" people from urinating and defecating on the streets. It didn't. If I defecated on the street, I would get fined.
My home and vehicles have been broken into 22 times in 5 years. I stopped calling the police each time now, because they don't come anyway. Instead, we bought a gun. Scared off the last illegal trying to steal our truck. He knew enough English to say, "Sorry", as we pointed it at him. 3 months later, we still have a towel over the smashed driver's side window. Last week, I was ordered to pay a $85.00 fine for a false alarm. Police showed up for THAT hearing. The police couldn't find any criminal at my home when my home alarm sounded. I am curious how long police think bad guys "hang around" after an alarm has been triggered.
When I was rear ended in my car, the policeman said I would have to wait while he called for back -up. My baby was screaming. The police had no film in the camera. The back- up police had no fingerprinting ink, or film. The illegal had an ID, but the police said there was nothing that could be done. The illegal would just get another fake ID and would never show for court. He didn't have insurance. The illegal who hit me said, "Sorry", as he was walking away. He was free to go. I was free to pay the deductible on my car, and the chiropractor bills for my children and myself. If I drove without insurance and hurt someone or their possessions, I would be forced to pay for the damages.
My husband works 6 days a week as a framing contractor. He pays FICA, Social Security, State taxes, Federal taxes, General liability insurance, Workman's comp insurance, and probably others that I don't remember. His Workman's Comp. just skyrocketed from $5,000 per year, to $28,000 per year. Now I ask you... WHERE are we to come up with an extra $23,000? We had NO CLAIMS! Should I take it from my food budget? We often go weeks without meat! Should it come from our clothing budget? We buy our clothes at thrift sales and Savers. How about our entertainment account? Does seeing a movie every month qualify?
My home insurance costs me $100.00 more yearly because I live on a border state. How long until Kansas becomes a border state?
I have had no medical insurance for years and years. I can't afford it. At 33, I got cancer. My doctor told me to go to ACCHS. I don't remember how to spell the state's medical system, since they declined me. My husband 's company had no profit in 6 months, due to theft, and lack of laws at the time to force general contractor's to pay . Without studying my receipts, I was declined. Interesting that the hundreds of illegal Mexicans standing in line, were being given food stamps, and medical care. They did not have social security numbers, and did not speak English. If you don't believe me, look at the application DES uses yourself, spend 5 minutes at DES and remind yourself why you pay taxes. You won't leave smiling.
Taxes. We fell behind 1 year. I contacted IRS and told them we want to make arrangements to pay. We now show the IRS EVERY thing we buy. From tampons to chewing gum-they see the receipt. For the next year, we will be scrutinized. For the next 5 years we will be audited. Maybe I should never have "done the right thing" and told them. Maybe I should change my name to Garcia.
My son cries nightly because his legs and arms hurt. He has cried for almost 7 years. My husband often walks on one leg because his back and leg pain is almost unbearable. Monthly, I have mini strokes. During those times, I lose the ability to speak well, and have seizures until I lose consciousness . We don't really know what is wrong with any of us. We may never know. WE can't afford a doctor. God forbid we need emergency services. 30% of the time, hospitals are on divert status, because there is no room. The illegals take their kids to ERs for colds and sore throats. I would only go if I lost a limb, or my heart gave out.
2 years ago, I announced to my family there would be no turkey for Thanksgiving. We would eat pasta and be thankful we were a family. My Catholic friend made arrangements for me to get a food box from her church. I went, reluctantly. I drove up in my broken old van, and saw a lot full of new (stickers still attached), suburbans. My van was the worst vehicle there, and it hit me that I really was poor! I stood in line for 20 minutes amazed at the number of Mexicans taking box after box of food. When it was my turn, I had to show ID. I was told to leave. There wasn't enough food for me to take a box. I looked around- there were boxes of food everywhere! For a minute I forgot I was White, and in their eyes, not deserving.
At church, our pastor reminds us to stay hopeful. I struggle to make sense of a system that has taken from me, and given to those who have more than I do.
Who will be my voice? Where is my coalition? I thought it was the leaders of America. I was wrong. They have sold out me and millions like me out. What's worse...I don't know why.
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Rep Tom Tancredo
DC Office 1130 Longworth HOB Washington, DC 20515 (202) 225-7882
District Office 6099 South Quebec St., Suite 200 Centennial, CO 80111-4547 (720) 283-9772
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thank you! It's a bubble bath of bathos, isn't it?
Somebody tell me this isn't really on Tancredo's website...
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!!!
It is. Which makes me wonder just how carefully his staff checks this stuff.
The "honor student" is an illegal alien.
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