Posted on 05/11/2005 1:54:29 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Posted: May 11, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Out here in Southern California, a local Spanish-language TV station caused a stink recently by putting up several billboards reaching out to potential viewers in Los Angeles, Mexico. Predictably, as soon as outraged gringos complained, they were accused of being racists.
How is it, I keep asking myself, that it's only the biggest racists in America who are given carte blanche to condemn others for being what they are themselves?
Who but a racist would conclude that America's sovereignty is merely a minor inconvenience they are free to ignore for no other reason than that they are members of La Raza, and they are therefore entitled? I mean, it's not as if the folks sneaking across our border are – like so many other people around the world – trying to escape bloody tyrants or religious intolerance. They simply want the opportunity to make a better living. Well, who doesn't? But that's no reason to give them special treatment.
Among their other entitlements, we are given to understand, are schooling, medical attention and a higher minimum wage. In addition, they, along with his eminence, Vicente Fox, believe they should be allowed to vote in our elections as well as Mexico's, even if they know less English than I know Greek.
It's been estimated that there are 10 million illegals in America. The number must be higher than that if only because that's the same number I've heard bandied about for several years. For that number to be even close to accurate, it would mean, one, that the border has been securely sealed for all that time, which we and the Minutemen know is absurd, and, two, it presumes they haven't had babies in the United States. And, yes, I understand that the Constitution states that any child born within our borders is a citizen, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. After all, in no other instance is a person allowed to benefit from the commission of a crime. How is it that sneaking into America is the single exception to that rule?
It's no secret why President Fox goes so far as to provide illegals with tips on how best to avoid detection by our Border Patrol. At my local post office, most of the people in line with me are Latinos mailing postal orders to their relatives. I'm not suggesting that all those people are here illegally, but if only 10 million of them mail only $20 a week back home, it amounts to $10 billion a year. That's a hell of a lot of pesos. Is it any wonder that Fox is in no rush to turn off the golden faucet?
What confounds me, though, is that, instead of displaying some amount of gratitude for our taking millions of unemployed Mexicans off his hands, he tweaks our nose by refusing to extradite cop killers and serial rapists because Mexico – which has raised police and political corruption to levels reminiscent of Chicago in the 1920s – doesn't happen to believe in capital punishment or even life imprisonment!
Some of my fellow conservatives don't believe in foreign aid. It so happens that I do. But I don't believe in offering up our tax dollars with no strings attached. For instance, however much we currently give Mexico, I suggest we deduct a large amount for every illegal we catch and an even larger amount for every killer who finds sanctuary south of the border. And, furthermore, when we catch one of them committing felonies on our turf, we deduct the cost of his trial and incarceration from all future assistance.
Finally, it's not racism when you resent people sneaking into your country simply because, by reason of geographical proximity, they're able to get away with it. In fact, that's why the idea of simply deporting illegals has never made any sense to me. It's not like sending scofflaws back to Europe or Asia. Our border, after all, is nothing but a line in the sand.
If you actually believe that Mexicans are entitled to be here simply because they want to be here, it's you who are a racist. Furthermore, I'd like to know where you live so I can sneak into your house and help myself to whatever I find lying around.
And, remember, no fair calling the cops.
You put up some outstanding posts.
I noticed on O'Reilly last night that only 400,000 people have signed the "secure our borders" petition he has on his web site.
I wonder if there's any statistical data about how many citizens live within 20 miles of the border and how it may correlate to the numbers who have signed the petition?
Excellent article. Last night tv news mentioned that the northern border of the US was becoming a 'problem'. Specifically, Pakistanis smuggled into Vermont by Russian mobsters who'd just stolen hundreds of thousands from personal accounts in New England ATM machines. Maybe the Pakistanis wanted a free lunch and not to blow us all to kingdom come. The joys of open borders and one hemisphere/globalization/PC thinking.
Illegal Immigrants Poem
I cross ocean,
poor and broke,
Take bus,
see employment folk.
Nice man treat me
good in there,
Say I need to
see welfare.
Welfare say,
"You come no more,
We send cash
right to your door."
Welfare checks,
they make you wealthy,
Medicaid it keep
you healthy!
By and by,
I got plenty money,
Thanks to you,
American dummy.
Write to friends
in motherland,
Tell them 'come
fast as you can.'
They come in turbans
and Ford trucks,
I buy big house
with welfare bucks
They come here,
we live together,
More welfare checks,
it gets better!
Fourteen families,
they moving in,
But neighbor's patience
wearing thin.
Finally, white guy
moves away,
Now I buy his house,
and then I say,
"Find more aliens
for house to rent."
And in the yard
I put a tent.
Send for family
they just trash,
But they, too,
draw the welfare cash!
Everything is
very good,
And soon we
own the neighborhood.
We have hobby
it's called breeding,
Welfare pay
for baby feeding.
Kids need dentist?
Wife need pills?
We get free!
We got no bills!
American crazy!
He pay all year,
To keep welfare
running here.
We think America
darn good place!
Too darn good for
the white man race.
If they no like us,
they can scram,
Got lots of room in
Pakistan.
--from an e-mail
I would take your idea to a higher level. Instead of withholding foreign aid money I would like to see the following:
Submit a bill for all costs incurred AND cut off all foreign aid so they don't pay the bill with our money.
If they fail to pay the bill, seize all Mexico's/illegal Mexican assets in the US and start liquidating them to satisfy the debt.
If our law enforcement agencies can seize cars, boats homes etc involved in commission of crimes, why can't we do the same to stem the hordes of unarmed invaders?
"Furthermore, I'd like to know where you live so I can sneak into your house and help myself to whatever I find lying around.
And, remember, no fair calling the cops."
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