Bush set for immigration speech

WRIC News ^ | 5-14-06 | AP

[JustPiper]

BUSH SET FOR IMMIGRATION SPEECH WHITE HOUSE President Bush is getting set for a prime-time speech on immigration tomorrow night. Aides note the 8 p-m, Eastern Time, speech will be the president's first from the Oval Office that does not involve Iraq and the war on terrorism. And they say that reflects Bush's "passion" on immigration. He's speaking as the Senate is poised to clear a compromise measure including his idea for a guest worker program. However, a rival House bill is limited to a border crackdown, and meshing the two won't be easy. Stand Up For America !

"We have room for but one flag, the American flag...
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...
And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

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[TheLion]

What our wonderful Senators are not comtemplating is that we are rapidly becoming a nation without laws....and therein lies our distruction.

[TigersEye]

Border Patrol agents point out the illegal immigration problem is a simple issue to solve: Shut the border down to illegal aliens crossing into the US, then begin "hammering" the greedy employers who hire them. "It's not complicated, folks," they stress.

It sure as heck isn't. Calling the border and illegals issue complicated is just more phony baloney and it really ticks me off. I think we need to put an illegal alien in the WH to do the job that no American will do.

[TheLion]

Illegal aliens threaten U.S. medical system
Articles

by WorldNetDaily.com, March 13, 2005

Cristobal Silverio emigrated illegally from Mexico to Stockton, Calif., in 1997 to work as a fruit picker.

He brought with him his wife, Felipa, and three children, 19, 12 and 8 – all illegals. When Felipa gave birth to her fourth child, daughter Flor, the family had what is referred to as an "anchor baby" – an American citizen by birth who provided the entire Silverio clan a ticket to remain in the U.S. permanently.

But Flor was born premature, spent three months in the neonatal incubator and cost the San Joaquin Hospital more than $300,000. Meanwhile, oldest daughter Lourdes married an illegal alien gave birth to a daughter, too. Her name is Esmeralda. And Felipa had yet another child, Cristian.

The two Silverio anchor babies generate $1,000 per month in public welfare funding for the family. Flor gets $600 a month for asthma. Healthy Cristian gets $400. While the Silverios earned $18,000 last year picking fruit, they picked up another $12,000 for their two "anchor babies."

While President Bush says the U.S. needs more "cheap labor" from south of the border to do jobs Americans aren't willing to do, the case of the Silverios shows there are indeed uncalculated costs involved in the importation of such labor – public support and uninsured medical costs.

In fact, the increasing number of illegal aliens coming into the United States is forcing the closure of hospitals, spreading previously vanquished diseases and threatening to destroy America's prized health-care system, says a report in the spring issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.

"The influx of illegal aliens has serious hidden medical consequences," writes Madeleine Pelner Cosman, author of the report. "We judge reality primarily by what we see. But what we do not see can be more dangerous, more expensive, and more deadly than what is seen."

According to her study, 84 California hospitals are closing their doors as a direct result of the rising number of illegal aliens and their non-reimbursed tax on the system.

"Anchor babies," the author writes, "born to illegal aliens instantly qualify as citizens for welfare benefits and have caused enormous rises in Medicaid costs and stipends under Supplemental Security Income and Disability Income."

In addition, the report says, "many illegal aliens harbor fatal diseases that American medicine fought and vanquished long ago, such as drug-resistant tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, plague, polio, dengue, and Chagas disease."

While politicians often mention there are 43 million without health insurance in this country, the report estimates that at least 25 percent of those are illegal immigrants. The figure could be as high as 50 percent.

Not being insured does not mean they don't get medical care.

Under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985, hospitals are obligated to treat the uninsured without reimbursement....

According to the report, between 1993 and 2003, 60 California hospitals closed because half their services became unpaid. Another 24 California hospitals verge on closure, the author writes.

"American hospitals welcome 'anchor babies,'" says the report.... Anchor babies are citizens, and instantly qualify for public welfare aid: Between 300,000 and 350,000 anchor babies annually become citizens because of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside."

Among the organizations directing illegal aliens into America's medical systems, according to the report, are the Ford Foundation-funded Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Immigration Law Center, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association's Commission on Immigration Policy, Practice, and Pro Bono, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, the National Council of La Raza, George Soros's Open Society Institute, the Migration Policy Institute, the National Network for Immigration and Refugee Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center....

Many illegals entering this country have tuberculosis, according to the report.

..."TB's swift, deadly return now is lethal for about 60 percent of those infected because of new Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis. Until recently MDR-TB was endemic to Mexico. This Mycobacterium tuberculosis is resistant to at least two major anti-tubercular drugs.... Latent disease explodes later....

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ascribed 42 percent of all new TB cases to 'foreign born' people who have up to eight times higher incidences apparently, 66 percent of all TB cases coming to America originate in Mexico, the Philippines and Vietnam."

Other health threats from illegals include, according to the report:

Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis or "kissing bug disease," is transmitted by the reduviid bug, which prefers to bite the lips and face.... The disease also infiltrates America's blood supply... No cure exists....
Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease... is endemic to northeastern states because illegal aliens and other immigrants brought leprosy from India, Brazil, the Caribbean and Mexico.
Dengue fever is exceptionally rare in America... Recently, according to the report, there was a virulent outbreak of dengue fever in Webb County, Texas, which borders Mexico....

Polio was eradicated from America, but now reappears in illegal immigrants as do intestinal parasites, says the report.
Malaria was obliterated, but now is re-emerging in Texas.
The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons report includes a strong prescription for protecting the health of Americans:

Closing America's borders with fences, high-tech security devices and troops.
Rescinding the U.S. citizenship of "anchor babies."
Punishing the aiding and abetting of illegal aliens as a crime.
An end to amnesty programs.

http://www.theamericanresistance.com/articles/art2005mar13.html

[TheLion]

Disease, unwanted import


By Joyce Howard Price
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

http://washingtontimes.com/specialreport/20050212-112200-6485r.htm

[TheLion]

Senate Rejects Border Security
By Joe Mariani (05/17/2006)


Securing our southern border should be a priority, not a political ploy. It's telling that those who favor amnesty insist on a "comprehensive" bill. They know that most Americans do not want amnesty granted to foreign criminals and invaders, and they know that if such a bill stood on its own, it would be defeated. Studies have shown that mass legalisation would result in nearly 200 million uneducated, unskilled, disease-ridden immigrants pouring over our border in the next two decades, forever altering our country beyond recognition.

A paltry 6,000 National Guard troops or extra border patrol is an insult when five times that number are clearly needed, along with a physical wall and strict punishment for knowing employers of illegals. Illegals should be given six months during which to leave on their own, after which unlawful presence in the US should become punishable by permanent banishment. If more than half the illegals currently living in the US didn't make a run for the border in that six months, I'd eat my hat. Then they could truly get in the "back of the line" for citizenship -- since that line actually forms on the OTHER SIDE of the border.

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http://americandaily.com/article/13575

[TigersEye]

What our wonderful Senators are not comtemplating is that we are rapidly becoming a nation without laws....and therein lies our distruction.

It almost seems like that is the aim. (picking up tinfoil shield) That was my main concern when Algore almost snatched a lawful election out of the winner's hands. That would have been the end of the rule-of-law here and it is shocking how many people of repute and power were working hard for that. (it doesn't mean much that the Al Frankens and Micheal Moores wanted that although it's depressing that a quarter of America did too)

How can border security even be a debate after 9/11? It is also inconceivable that any politician can be oblivious to the history of "immigration reforms" and their direct consequences or the fact that a large majority of Americans are not.

(pulling up tinfoil a little tighter around the collar) Speaking of the coming fruits of international treaties; this July 4th the UN is meeting to work out their plan to disarm the citizens of the world. Just skimming an article on that today I noticed the mention of an accumulated effect of past treaties that the UN is counting on, unrelated to firearms laws, to leverage their agenda.

Is it possible that the our politicians are trying to foment a breakdown of law and order? It would go a long way toward explaining why public rhetoric has become so bizarre and inflammatory. Take someone like Murtha for example; he's absolutely unbeleivable and he's just one of many. And there's so much more that makes little sense going on in DC that is just feeding dissent and division on our country. George Bush not explaining anything and thereby allowing the left to trash the WoT when it's more than possible to make it a radioactive issue for critics.

Here's another example of inexplicable government behavior: The Mecha marches in March were promoted on the numerous Spanish TV and radio channels for weeks ahead of time. As much as two months if memory serves. We all know they weren't the least shy about calling for the return of the southwest to "Atzlan" and other wild demands. Are we to beleive that the gov. was unaware of this and if aware had no concerns about it? If they were unaware then I'm not terribly confident that they are actually capable of finding and Al Queada phone call.

[La Enchiladita]

Comment du jour:

The 1986 IRCA legislation prohibited employment of illegal aliens. President Bush has not enforced that law. He could start that enforcement at once, w/o waiting for Congress or the Supreme Court. If SCOTUS wants to ramp up RICO, let them use it to take on the ACLU.

115 posted on 05/18/2006 8:04:33 PM PDT by ntnychik

Court Considers Use of RICO to Attack Hiring of Illegals

[TheLion]

I don't think it has a direct purpose by politicians. Bush is just plain stubborn, imo and has swayed a lot of people. He is reportedly excellent, one on one and has probably met with every senator. He has stood firm on everything he has backed....mostly to the nations benefit and that is admirable. Sometimes you need to change course when a train wreck is just over the horizion....illegal immigration.

By not supporting the rule of law, we basically don't even respect the idea of law and can't ask a third world illegal to parse the difference.

[La Enchiladita]

Excellent rant!

Is it possible that the our politicians are trying to foment a breakdown of law and order?

This question has pushed all other questions out of my mind. Because the apparent answer is YES.

[TigersEye]

By not supporting the rule of law, we basically don't even respect the idea of law and can't ask a third world illegal to parse the difference.

That's a bottom-line statement if there ever was one.

[TheLion]

The are at least indirectly fomenting it by their actions.

The reason, imo that we have so many incarcerated illegals is that their first impression, when entering our country, is that we are easy pickings and don't care about laws. There are probably suprised as hell, when arrested and put away.

[TheLion]

Before Gore, we didn't apply the "rule-of-law" to Clinton. The breakdown has been incremental and steady.

[investigateworld]

I'm beginning to suspect something is going on under the surface ... Sinkspur used to have a intriguing tagline that made me wonder.

[TigersEye]

I share TheLion's skepticism and that's why I mentioned 'tinfoil' a couple of times. But other adequate rational explanations for the repeated disregard for the rule of law, the Constitution and just simple accountability to the people are getting thin.

Even just the accountability of respecting the emotional limits of the people which is routinely violated by outrageous statements that undermine confidence in the government. On the other side of that coin there seems to be no recognition of those limits in the WH or Republican Congress either and it is they who hold the reins and therefore carry the responsibility to lead, and lead in a clear and understandable way, which is the foundation of confidence.

[Kimberly GG]

Did you see our "Joe" is here on our daily? ;)

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[Kimberly GG]

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Awesome!

[TigersEye]

The reason, imo that we have so many incarcerated illegals is that their first impression, when entering our country, is that we are easy pickings and don't care about laws.

That is undoubtedly true. But there is also evidence that many of those who come here were criminals from way back and looked at the U.S. as fresh hunting grounds before they got here. Mexico doesn't exactly inspire its citizens with respect for the law, ours or theirs. Mexico has been rotting from the head down for a long time.

[TheLion]

Isn't it ironic that we have lost 10 fold more people in the last few years to illegal immigrant crime and highway accidents than we have lost in Iraq since we have been there.

Someone posted the annual numbers and I was amazed.

[TigersEye]

Before Gore, we didn't apply the "rule-of-law" to Clinton. The breakdown has been incremental and steady.

That's true and it could be documented with incidents going back to the founding. Whether the case could be made that it has been nothing but a steady decline since then or not is subject to debate and endless speculation I would think. But even the Clinton years were sufferable because, one there was an end to it coming, two the crimes were personal and even though giving the Chinese our most advanced missile and A-bomb tech was suicidally treacherous the act didn't change anything fundamental about our nation.

Even his getting away with it and the MSM covering for him didn't change our founding principles. He was just scum and the people who support him are scum. Disgusting and terrible but not Constitution altering. At least not in a way that couldn't be parsed and concealed.

But Algore's attempted coup would have breached the rule of law at the top, with support from the top and in full view of a nation that knew exactly what had happened. The leftists saying it was OK doesn't mean they don't know the truth. They do.

[TigersEye]

Did you hear Rush yesterday or the day before? When he did a little riff on violent death rates in Iraq compared to other countries and U.S. cities? It was very funny and sad too. In Iraq is was about 23.5 deaths per 100 thousand. In pre-Katrina New Orleans it was something like 59 per 100K. Even DC was 35 or 45. Columbia was very high and so was South Africa. All substantially higher than Iraq and it included insurgent, civilian and military deaths. Iraq is far safer than Jamaica based on the death rate.