Posted on 04/23/2006 5:58:39 AM PDT by Crackingham
About 100 people rallied against illegal immigration Saturday, waving U.S. flags and holding signs such as "Remember the Alamo" and "Texas Isn't A Mexican Colony." The protest outside the Mexican Consulate south of downtown came in response to massive demonstrations in Houston and nationally earlier this month in support of amnesty for illegal immigrants.
"It is a sad day in this nation when people here illegally can storm the streets of our cities and demand U.S. taxpayers continue to provide them welfare, social service programs, free health care and the education of their children," proclaimed Curtis Collier, president of U.S. Border Watch. "If elected officials cannot fulfill their oath of office to defend this country and the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic, I demand they resign."
The rally, staged to fall between San Jacinto Day Friday and the U.S. Senate's expected resumption on Monday of deliberations on immigration reform, brought no counter-protest. Some passing motorists honked their horns in seeming approval.
Immigration legislation in the Senate and the House of Representative has inflamed passions around the nation. The House bill calls for a crackdown on illegal immigration that focuses on tightening border security, while the current proposal in the Senate combines more enforcement with temporary worker visas and an "earned" path to legalization for illegal immigrants.
With Toby Keith and George Strait blaring from the sound system, speakers at the rally blamed Mexico for fueling the illegal immigration. One speaker referred to its "industry aiding people across our border."
"You know you have a problem when white-haired women show up for rallies," said Louise Whiteford, eliciting cheers and laughter. "We need to boycott the businesses that support illegal immigration."
The speakers called for Bush to issue an executive order to close the Texas-Mexico border and complained that more than 50 percent of U.S. immigrants are from Mexico, even though it is not as poor as many other underdeveloped countries and represents only 7 percent of the world's population.
Because it comes easy to pinkos, commies, crooks, and rabble to roam around streets and protest perceived injustices, though they aint done a whit of worthwhile work in their lives.
Hell, its easy to show up in your numbers and protest, when the only job you have to go to, is to walk up to the social security office and pick up your government check!
How did the doc know? the doc has inside connections to the SSA?
I know, it was a rhetorical question. After all, as I admitted myself, I've never been to a demonstration in my life and would be shy to start.
If you are not permitted to ask applicants for citizenship papers then they can receive all the benefits that a state offers such as;
Pre-natal care 100% FREE, hospital bed for birthing 100% FREE, EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTOR care 100% FREE, 12 years public schooling 100% FREE, Translator when dealing with police, fire or other state bureaucracy 100% FREE, food stamps 100% FREE, public housing 100% FREE, etc. </p>
Let's just say you have an incorrect understanding of how things work.
Well, okie-dokie. Tell me how WIC works? Because I have inside knowledge how it works and how easy it is for illegals to get... no, rake in the bounty.
Is the kid legal?
Not inutero.
Some states give benefits upon whether or not the kid is legal.
AZ doesn't.
oops based on whether or not they believe the kid will be legal
The law considers the unborn child eligible. And legal pregnant mothers get more WIC money.
"Mama and baby get the bounty once baby arrives."
Only if both the mama and baby are legal.
Mama becomes legal when baby is born.
Illegally here, mama has no rights. Being pregnant does NOT grant her any citizen status or privileges. She should be deported. That's the LAW.
It is sickening to have 12, 13, 14, 15 year old girls being impregnated simply to anchor them in the USA.
"Mama becomes legal when baby is born."
That's incorrect.
"Being pregnant does NOT grant her any citizen status or privileges."
That too, is incorrect. In some states if a worker believes the child will be born here, the child becomes eligible.
"Because I have inside knowledge how it works...."
From who? Your employer? If so, you are doing your employer an injustice by your apparent lack of knowledge.
Until 1965, people admitted to the country legally had no automatic right to bring their families. After 1965, minor children of immigrants had the right to sponsor immigrants. This is what produced the chain migration that has emptied entire Mexican villages.
And that makes it above the law?
Any citizen can sponsor anybody they want. They still have to go through the legal process to become a citizen. So what's your point?
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