1. They’re not “criminal invaders.” They’re Mexican truck drivers. Despite some popular opinion around here, I see a huge distinction. And our elected representatives made it legal for them to cross our border. Personally, I support that policy and doing so does not make one “anti-American.”
2. I agree with ulm1’s position that it’s the unions, particularly the Teamsters Union, that is trying to spread fear in order to maintain their monopoly on trucking. I say, screw the Teamsters and support non union workers.
Well you are wrong and need to take off your rose colored glasses too. Note, I bet you and the other n00bie have as much experience in dealing with problems on the border as you have here on FR.
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Yes, we must punish the independent owner operators for Mexicans./s
The liberal U.S. Media has avoided reporting speeches by, and interviews with, Mexican officialdom on this subject. The first I realized the extent of this was in 1994 when sitting in Harbin, China, listening to the BBC by short wave radio (Voice of America is really lousy for news and views). The BBC carried a report of illegal immigration across the border near San Diego at that time. The BBC interviewed the Mexican General Consul to the Pacific Northwest (USA), who openly told Americans that it was useless to try to stop the movement of Mexicans to the USA - “...JUST GET USED TO IT” he said! He criticized American efforts to keep its borders closed.
I jumped up and immediately wrote a letter to the BBC and got the tape of the interview in the return mail. I made a transcription of the entire interview and sent it to my elected representatives. RESPONSE? Only general comments on immigration policies. NO comment on the interview itself! NO direct statement on the Consul’s remarks, nor any word that they might investigate the Mexican official position.
Wolfinator, are you somehow in the dark, and believe that our elected “representatives” are today really representing us? Our “representatives” are basically ignoring us! They generally lie to us through their teeth(!) - while they’re running for office and while they sit in their congressional or other legislative seats.
My wife and I are very REGULAR correspondents to our elected representatives on all levels, local, state and federal. We keep the replies and have large stacks of them filed by subject. We home school our children, and in composition, history and government classes we teach them to write to elected representatives. And they see us do it and they read our letters. They read the replies. Our kids can see easily from comparing their letters with each others that our elected reps are a pack of lying dogs. They deceive the American people with obvious intent!
Another example of this is our voluminous letters on the subject of the military draft. I have written to and received responses from our state and federal “representatives,” Selective Service and the Department of Defense. ALL OF THEM LIE ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF WOMEN IN COMBAT ROLES The LIE THROUGH THEIR TEETH!
All of the above have said that a draft, if needed, would be to supply combat troops, and since BY LAW WOMEN DON’T SERVE IN COMBAT ROLES, women would not be subject to being drafted. Why, even the recent photos of President Bush in Iraq, posted on Free Republic, document females in Marine COMBAT units. I have, in the last week, sent the unit designation, shown in those photos, to our elected representatives, and am asking, then , why the Marine Corps are BREAKING THE LAW by including females in those COMBAT units. Any military officer would have to tell you that any individual in a combat unit, placed in a combat zone, is in fact filling a combat role.
But my point is that you seem to express that our nation, our borders and our nation’s sovereignty are somehow protected by the good auspices of our elected representatives. NO, THEY ARE NOT. We now have an elitist Congress (especially the Senate) and Presidency, that are perfectly willing to mislead us and outright lie to us.
I am not a fan of Unions, but I am less a fan of open borders. I am at war in my mind and heart against Mexico’s officialdom with regard to the sanctity of our borders, having seen and heard the evidence that they do not respect U.S. sovereignty at all.
I have come to fully believe that it is the intent of Mexico, with the aid of many of OUR own elected "representatives" to further erode our borders and our sovereignty, and to FORCE US TO JUST GET USED TO IT.
I will stand with those who believe that the trucking scheme is all part of a larger plan to destroy U.S. sovereignty and to force a “North American Union” upon the U.S. and Canadian Citizenry. The planners are using a communist-style “two steps forward — one step backward” approcah to shove this down our throats.
these elected reps don’t represent us but the majority of the people don’t really care, even those few that vote. but if you think it’s ok to have jobs taken from americans if a foreigner can do it cheaper then what do you say when your job is up to bid to the lowest bidder? and where does this stop? when wages are brought down to have parity with mexico, then it’s o.k. to bring in haitians or brazilians that will do it cheaper? the big boys sure protect their territory. e.g. bill gates and the pharmaceuticals... no free trade there