Posted on 09/05/2004 8:35:20 PM PDT by 11th_VA
The lower eschelons of the Border Patrol say they catch 1 in 5. That means nearly 80,000 came across this month alone. Anyone still buying the numbers?
And how about this for incentive:
http://projectusa.org/ezine/2004/09-01-bush_divider.html
Exerpted:
Immigration moderates, concerned that unrelenting mass immigration threatens to balkanize the nation, have long been criticized as alarmist or worse.
Appeals to common sense or history against the country's blind and irreversible plunge down an unknown path have often gained moderates little more than an insulting dismissal as "cultural nativists," as Sam Freedman put it in a column in yesterday's New York Times.
A visit to the Spanish-language version of the Bush-Cheney campaign's website, however, should make even the most benighted we-are-the-world egalitarian stop for a minute and wonder about the long term consequences of current immigration policy.
Visitors who click on the "En Espanol" link on the Bush-Cheney website are taken to the campaign's Spanish-language site, where they are greeted by a Mexican flag prominently displayed on the home page.
Call me a cultural nativist, but there is something very wrong with an American president asking voters to entrust him with another four years as the nation's leader, while dividing the nation's voters into two groups and appealing to one under the flag of some other nation.
The distinction is more than symbolic.
Near the top of a page on the Spanish-language website listing translations of the president's speeches is a link to the famous January 7, 2004 speech in which President Bush floated his wildly unpopular temporary guest worker amnesty.
But on the English-language site, the page listing the speeches from January 2004 does not contain the president's January 7 amnesty speech.
Americans have been practicing democracy long enough to know that the leader of a united country leads one people, and a good leader leads straightforwardly in the best interests of one people and in accordance with the will of one people.
Unfortunately, President Bush and his administration have squandered a great deal of good will over immigration policy, but it's not too late to regain much of it by ending the game playing -- by dumping Karl Rove and whichever political science majors were responsible for the attempt to mislead voters with the incongruent campaign websites.
The president should also dump the Republican National Committee chairman he appointed, former Enron lobbyist, Ed Gillespie, since the RNC's website, too, contains a Spanish-language version that does not carry the same message as the English-language version.
It's worse than that ~40,000 in Arizona (x 5 = 200,000) ...(sigh ...)
Looks like there a problem down there. Think Washington knows about this?
Call the ICE man.
...ok...enough with my wise cracks...
I'm on business in So Cal right now - feel like I'm in another country - by the way, what's a 'Hate free zone?' - I keep seeing that sign here alot ...
I have no doubts that Kerry would be just as bad. What is it about the two parties that they deceive us this way? This is the major reason I'm voting third party. I've had enough.
"what's a 'Hate free zone?'"
As opposed to what? A "it's okay to hate zone"?
Good greif.
Are the signs pink?
Nevermind, I don't want to know.
Actually it's 651 per day. The fiscal year doesn't end until 30 September. It should reach 237,800 for Cochise County by that date. And as the agents say, they're lucky to nab one in five, so 950,000 will make it through to the interior of the good old USA.
We only account for 84 miles of the border -- guess what's happening along the other 1,900 miles?
so 950,000 will make it through to the interior of the good old USA.
Yep. Another million ripping the taxpayer off. I can hardly wait until they have their average 5.2 kids.
Read later.
That figure is only for Cochise County. I'm projecting not quite 1.2 million apprehensions for the entire border.
So make that 4.8 million brand new "residents".
And that does not count the large but unknown number who will enter legally from all points and conveniently forget the expiration date on their visas.
Haven't they heard that there are no jobs here and the economy is bad. Go figure.
Haven't they heard that there are no jobs here and the economy is bad. Go figure.
I'll have to stand on the southern entrance to Vegas with a big sign. I'll tell them to go to DC. They want them, let them have them. :0)
We just can't take anymore here. We're building 12 new schools now.
INteresting that no one has commented on the Mexican flag being on the Bush Cheney website nor the presence of the January 7, 2004 amnesty speech on Hispanic language ONLY.
As long as I'm in a math mood, lets look at some other numbers and projections.
The 2000 census had no real clue how many illegal aliens were in the country and just gave a range of 8 to 12 million.
Since that time, and by 30 September of this year, apprehensions in Arizona alone have amounted to 2,609,459. (Give or take a few dozen.) Multiply that number by 4. That's 10,437,836 new illegals. Double that figure to get what came across the rest of the border -- 20,875,672 new arrivals since the 2000 census. At least.
So how many wetback welfare chiselers are really in our country? Kind of explains why so much of our public infrastructure is on the point of collapse, doesn't it?
Los Angeles needs to build over 100 right now. And English isn't real important on the curriculum.
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