Illegals Are Destroying America - A Letter To Rep Tom Tancredo

Congressman, Tom Tancredo | 1-9-4

[Atlas Sneezed]

DONT you just want to scream at these people that get on the tube and say these are jobs that AMERICANS WONT DO

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Yes. Americans used to do them. And Americans would do them. Maybe lettuce would cost more, or maybe there would be less lettuce consumed, or maybe we'd buy more produce from Mexico. Maybe an advanced nation wasn't meant to be quite so agrarian. I am happy to import produce, instead of importing criominals and a cultures that does not comport with American principles of work, law and liberty.

[Dan Evans]

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

But they aren't Swedish and they aren't wearing bikinis and they are wrecking our country so we do have a problem with it.

[Reagan79]

Yeah I am a little skeptical about a Church refusing people food. I volunteered at Church food banks and we even gave food out to people in suits.

[Owen]

There are entirely too many DU mantras floating around these immigration threads. No question many feel strongly about the issue and fancy themselves conservatives (and conveniently ignore the fact they want government to solve this problem for them -- real conservative, that), but this issue is being perceived by DU as a way to create a Ralph Nader on the right and they are getting involved.

People had better recalibrate themselves and recognize that this issue was not even on the radar screen two weeks ago. I have yet to see anyone produce numbers on how many illegals were stopped at the border since Bush took office versus before he took office. That is the ONLY data that would indicate he takes fewer steps to stop illegal immigration than previous presidents.

[Missouri]

It's not Christmas vacation, it's Winter Break.

Our company calender stuck "Winter Break" in. Alot of us have been raising hell about it since last years calender didn't mention either one. Its like there are trying to shove this do our throats. I'll always call it "Christmas".

I hear its mighty cold up in Maine right now. I have to wonder how the Somalis in Lewistown like sub-zero temps.

[Owen]

Also, people, note that there is nothing new under the sun. Germany has had difficulty absorbing East Germany and the EU in general faces a mass immigration problem from the poor countries of eastern Europe. The individual EU countries also have the occasional internal cries of "destruction of culture" and things of that sort.

How does what is happening differ from the enormous influx of Italians and Irish in the late 1800's and early 1900's? The proportion was about the same for the population as a whole then. Perhaps one might claim the difference was that by boat, they arrived legally vs Mexicans arriving illegally. I think the numbers are what, 8 million illegals and 60% are Mexican? Legality is a matter of passing a law so that can be waved away. What really matters is the mathematics. The proportion to today's 300 million would seem very similar to Irish/Italian influx to the US population of that time.

The point being, "the country" survived just fine.

[Happy2BMe]

Take the FReeper Poll

After hearing President Bush's speech, do you approve of his immigration reform plan?

Yes
415 votes - 22%

No
1,234 votes - 65%

Undecided
237 votes - 12%

1,886 votes total; you voted "No"

[jocon307]

"This stuff sounds like a load of hooey..."

The part about the food basket certainly seems questionable.

[JamesA]

I feel the same, "This is My America" illegals must go, they are illegal. The ACLU should go with them followed by our politicians who are in the game for all they can get. Sooner I think rather than later there is going to be one hell of an uprising in this country to set things straight.

[Happy2BMe]

"I think the numbers are what, 8 million illegals and 60% are Mexican? Legality is a matter of passing a law so that can be waved away."

Study: Immigration Biggest Contributor to Sprawl (87% of Growth Attributed to Immigrants)

[speedy]

I lived several years in the Middle East. It was commonplace for pregnant women to fly over here to have their baby, thereby conferring US citizenship on it, before returning back home. Why do we give it away so easily? Why was this whole citizenship/immigration issue never put to some kind of public debate instead of rammed down our throats? And when they changed the immigration laws in the mid-1960s to move us away from European-based emigres, why was that not a bigger issue at the time? It had among the most profound affects on our society of any law in our history -- in essence, a conscious decision to change our demographics, our culture, our values -- and yet I never hear of it being the result of years of public debate. And why is it not permissible for us, even now, to change our immigration laws to permit only the most talented to come here? It is as if we are dealing with a force of nature rather than a legal issue we can control. I realize the issue of illegals is a separate one -- I guess as a nation we have decided, by default, that there is nothing we can do in either case.

[NoGrayZone]

Actually, that's not true. Long Island created it's Sachem Quality Of Life organization years ago to stop the illegal hiring halls. They were founded in Farmingville, where they wanted to build one of those hiring halls. Because the people banned together (although the media referred to them as racists) this hiring hall was not built.

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

Not all those who applied to enter the U.S. were allowed in, but those that did learned to speak ENGLISH; another difference between that wave of immigrants and this one. There was no special treatment that favored the Irish or Italians (just the opposite).
Today a non-citizen receives health, education and welfare for free. There are many cases of Americans being denied medical care (because they could not afford it), but would have had they not been citizens. And, the police often look the other way, and in fact are told to look the other way in many cases when an illegal breaks a traffic law, because the processing takes all day. And, uninsured illegals mean that your insurance pays for all the damages in a traffic accident. The costs keep going up.
The early German immigrants (including their children) often became indentured servants for several years just to pay for their passage here. Of course, they came here to escape religious persecution not to milk the American system for every dime they could and send it back to Mexico. The early immigrants became a part of America and assimilated in every way.
There really is no comparison.

[MissAmericanPie]

The bible says those that won't work should not eat. Nothing like an empty belly to motivate.

[Catspaw]

And that she had cancer. From what I'm able to gather, she didn't get treatment--is she dead, is she barely alive, did the cancer spontaneously cure itself? And, although she couldn't figure out which agency to go to to get medical assistance, she could remember its acronym for this letter.

[navyblue]

Take another gulp of the Kool Aid and repeat after me!

Illegal aliens are good for America!

[Rome2000]

they are wrecking our country so we do have a problem with it.

OK Adolf.

Why don't you vote for somebody who will implement the "Final Solution"

[NoGrayZone]

Ummmmm, is it cherry???

[NoGrayZone]

Hitler killed his own people. These are not our people.

[SheLion]

Seriously, I agree with everything you said. I like that driver's license too!

I know when we spent 5 years in Germany with the Air Force, we were taught their ways and their traditions. We were to "respect" them because we were "guests" in their Country.

But it just seems that we American's are supposed to welcome everyone with open arms and let them do to us what ever they want.

Also, a lot of Germans could speak English, but refused to talk English to us. WE had to learn DEUTCH. I just can't understand why America is to cow tow to every immigrant that comes in here today.

THEY are guests in OUR Country. Now, why can't they respect OUR ways? I'm just a little tired of it. If we let this continue, we won't HAVE an America anymore.