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This article is SPOT ON esp. this quote...Polls show that more than 70 percent of Americans object to illegal immigration, and we run a serious risk of a backlash against all immigrants if we don't reach some consensus on this issue.

I am a first generation American. My father came from Italy many moons ago, and my mother came to the US in the Sixties as part of a British West Indian guest worker program. There is a definate growing backlash against IMMIGRANTS. Please there is a difference between illegal aliens and legal immigrants. Let's get that straight for the 'freedom bus riders' going around the US right now.

I wish the government would do its job, and tell Vicente Fox to shove it up his ethnic cleansing 'I hate indians' a$$.

Subsidizing illegal immigration

Posted: September 19, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

Americans concerned about our nation's increasingly serious illegal immigration problem – and that's most of us, by the way – are suffering another insult, but it's one you may not have realized. Already overtaxed to support a voracious U.S. government that refuses to get serious about securing our borders, Americans are also subsidizing the country responsible for sending most illegals north: Mexico.

Last week the Mexican central bank made a startling announcement. Officials there reported money sent home from U.S.-based "migrants" – read "illegal aliens" – topped foreign investment and tourism dollars, and is now second only to oil revenues.

In all, foreign investment south of the border amounts to about $5.2 billion thus far in 2003, while tourism amounts to $4.9 billion. But aliens living and working illegally in the U.S. sent $6.3 billion home to relatives, and all at a time when the U.S. economy is stagnant, at best.

Other reports have suggested the amount may be as high as $10 billion. In all, say some analysts, "migrants" in the U.S. illegally earn about $60 billion a year.

Whichever figure is most accurate may be a moot point because now it should make sense why U.S. leaders aren't clamoring to close our borders. It's a matter of economics. Rather than have to bail out Mexico with American tax dollars – excuse me, with International Monetary Fund dollars – a la 1995, U.S. leaders have obviously decided it's better to let "migrants" siphon off what they need from the U.S. economy instead. Yet in doing so, they are saying to hell with American workers and local economies desperate for an infusion of the billions in cash being sent south of the border.

As Americans are being forced to support another failed Third World economy, suffice to say it comes as no surprise to longtime open-borders foes – we have known for some time that south-of-the-border leaders have neither the ability nor desire to improve the lives of their own people. Meanwhile, the hue and cry in the background are the open-borders proponents, who will still have the gall to argue that illegals are boosting the American bottom line. Don't you believe it.

But that's not all. The bleeding of the American taxpayer continues in other ways, thanks to millions of illegal aliens.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau and the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the cost to educate the children of illegal aliens alone is nearly $7.5 billion annually, or roughly the amount of money it would take to provide every student in the country with a computer.

It costs another $3 billion annually to provide medical care to illegals, though many hospitals – especially those along the border – can't do it much longer. Southwestern medical centers have lost hundreds of millions of dollars treating illegals while others have closed altogether. Closures, of course, mean American citizens – for whom these facilities were intended – are now going without.

But rather than oppose these obscenities, many of our so-called "leaders" exacerbate the subsidization with lunatic policies born of blatant political pandering.

For instance embattled Gov. Gray Davis just signed a bill allowing illegal aliens to obtain California driver licenses, becoming another in more than a dozen states which do so. Forget the fact that the written tests are going to have to be administered in Spanish. Once they have licenses, how are these illegals going to be able to read state road signs, which are written in English? Will the heavily indebted California government spend billions more to erect multilingual road signs?

That Mexico is allowed to export its poverty to the United States is bad enough. But purposely allowing such poverty proliferation to be placed on the backs of American families, workers and taxpayers – especially at a time when their burden is becoming too heavy to bear – is unforgivable.

American leaders should be working overtime to thwart illegal immigration, not reward and subsidize it. If they won't, maybe they should be looking for work come next November.

Why not blame Mexico?

Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

The Republic demonstrates the truth of this statement with its stand on the issue of illegal immigration. No amount of facts will change the Editorial Board's point of view.

The tragedy of illegal immigration is all the fault of "Uncle Sam." According to official INS figures for the year 2000, Mexican nationals constitute 69 percent of the total illegal alien population of 7 million in the U.S.

The Mexican National Bank reported that the $10 billion Mexican immigrants remitted back home this year was the second largest source of foreign exchange for that country. Only petroleum revenues provided more foreign exchange for our southern neighbor.

Inquiring minds might ask why Mexico is unable to provide a decent standard of living for its own people. Or why we don't hold the Mexican government responsible for putting profit ahead of humanity?

Massive immigration is only helping the elites of Mexico hang on to the corrupt system they have in place, it's delaying the inevitable ----- they must change. Mexico is unraveling very fast.

Actually if you look at the welfare rates of legal immigrants you will understand why there is a backlash against legal immigrants as well. Legal immigration should be severely curtailed IMHO. The future of this country is in the balance.

It could very well be that we'll have to buy Vicente Fox.

Over the past months I have read over and over again that Mexico's illegal border bounders send back $9Billion from the US to Mexico. Classic case of going from a Mexican Standoff on the issue, to an arrangement for a mordida to start handling the problem on the Mexican side of the border. These endless stories of the money Mexico makes off its overseas working poor could be just the well-orchestrated beginnings of a deal.

This post says "70% of Americans object to illegal immigration" I don't believe it. I think 60% of Americans don't give a rat's patoot about it (or anything else, for that matter)and won't, until they lose their job. Or, what is more likely, they wake up enough to see their children's future harmed.

Even in California, swamped to the gunwales with Mexicans, illegal immigration isn't even on the radar in the biggest news story in the country, Schwarznegger vs. Davis. MeCHA-member Bustamante even has the goddammed gall to say that if "he gets all the immigrant vote" he'll win!

As far as the immigrant backlash factor goes, surely you have noticed that the average NASCAR-brained among our fellow citizens think all foreigners are (a) alike, and (b) are from something or somewhere like Mexico. The immigration issue is discussed among a minority group in America: the intelligent wing of the Republican Party. Unfortunately, on this issue that includes none of the party leadership.