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Illegals Are Destroying America - A Letter To Rep Tom Tancredo
Congressman, Tom Tancredo | 1-9-4

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.

_____

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico
KEYWORDS: aliens
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To: freeangel
"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.
21 posted on 01/10/2004 6:47:44 AM PST by LibertyAndJusticeForAll
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To: from this machine
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.

22 posted on 01/10/2004 6:48:00 AM PST by Rome2000 (Ban "Jihad", not smoking)
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To: dirtboy
This stuff sounds like a load of hooey.

Just what sound does a load of hooey make? And I'm also against illegal immigration.
23 posted on 01/10/2004 6:51:14 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: NoGrayZone
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.

24 posted on 01/10/2004 6:51:25 AM PST by Rome2000 (Ban "Jihad", not smoking)
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To: TheOtherOne
"When it was my turn, I had to show ID. I was told to leave."
LOL!
25 posted on 01/10/2004 6:51:44 AM PST by LibertyAndJusticeForAll
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To: LibertyAndJusticeForAll; TheOtherOne; BeerSwillr
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.

26 posted on 01/10/2004 6:54:11 AM PST by Kenny Bunk
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To: LibertyAndJusticeForAll
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.

27 posted on 01/10/2004 6:55:08 AM PST by Rome2000 (Ban "Jihad", not smoking)
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To: from this machine
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.

28 posted on 01/10/2004 6:55:49 AM PST by DCPatriot
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To: Rome2000
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.

29 posted on 01/10/2004 6:56:13 AM PST by dirtboy (Howard Dean - all bike and no path)
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To: speedy; dirtboy
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...

30 posted on 01/10/2004 6:59:18 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: John H K
Most likely doesnt know.
31 posted on 01/10/2004 6:59:29 AM PST by crz
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To: John H K
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.
32 posted on 01/10/2004 7:01:15 AM PST by NoGrayZone
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To: Young Rhino
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!!!

33 posted on 01/10/2004 7:02:11 AM PST by Kenny Bunk
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To: hellinahandcart
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.

34 posted on 01/10/2004 7:02:18 AM PST by dirtboy (Howard Dean - all bike and no path)
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To: Kenny Bunk
" 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.
35 posted on 01/10/2004 7:05:43 AM PST by LibertyAndJusticeForAll
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To: elli1
the guy who wanted to see an honor student deported

The "honor student" is an illegal alien.

36 posted on 01/10/2004 7:06:02 AM PST by sarcasm (Tancredo 2004)
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To: hellinahandcart
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."
37 posted on 01/10/2004 7:09:16 AM PST by speedy
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To: dirtboy
but it would make a great country song...
38 posted on 01/10/2004 7:11:05 AM PST by dmz
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To: Rome2000
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.
39 posted on 01/10/2004 7:13:05 AM PST by NoGrayZone
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To: Rome2000
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.
40 posted on 01/10/2004 7:13:08 AM PST by LibertyAndJusticeForAll
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