[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

Although I don't know who wrote this, I do know people who have experienced some of these things. Particularly the uninsured motorist, the inability of the police to contain and control the areas where illegals live, and the most outrageous bit; illegals get free medical that American citizens are denied (but must pay through their taxes for the illegals' free care). Also, illegals have a well organized network that gets them housing, government assistance, jobs, etc.
Many poor American citizens often don't even know where to go to sign up for the little that they are eligible to receive.

[hershey]

Some years ago there was a sign up on the wall at the main airport in Puerto Rico, directing people to the welfare office in Fitchburg, MA., complete with details on what freebees you'd get. But that was when Dukakis was gov. and handing out thousands of social security cards to illegals. Hey, wait a minute. Isn't that exactly what the feds are heading toward? Where did we go wrong???

[freeangel]

Interestingly enough we were sued by an "immigrant" when my husband rearended him going about 5 miles an hour at "rush hour" in Atlanta even though he was making an illegal turn. He had a lawyer the next morning and claimed huge wage losses until they asked for last years tax return which he couldn't produce. Fortunately, the suit had to be brought to our county which is very conservative and the jury told him to take a walk. The big lawsuit lottery will be coming to your town soon.

[TheOtherOne]

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.

[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.

[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"