Posted on 03/19/2002 10:49:48 AM PST by FreedomSurge
Right on!! These people should not be in America in the first place. Simply detain and deport all of these illegal aliens that have broken U.S. law. What's so hard to understand about that?
I notice that the article said that this money was contributed to the North American economy and not to the American economy, meaning that most of the money was mailed to relatives in Mexico by the illegal aliens. This isn't helping the economy of the United States very much.
How do they do that? How does one that does not have documents (no SSN, no green card i.e. un-documented) pay taxes. Oh, I forgot that they like to donate to our nat'l debt by way of annon. contribution. They just figure out, at the end of the year, how much they made (illegally) and send 20% to the gubment?
Or are their employers paying it for them? Yah, I've got 20 immigrants working for me and I pay them 1.50 a day. I'm defiantely going to make sure and file those W-2 forms on them.
I'm sure, what a crock of BS.
EBUCK
LOL. Is that like "drunk drivers are only drunk drivers in the sense that they drive drunk"? LOL>
EBUCK
Considering criminals as heroes sure doesn't reflect very favorably on Vicente Fox, does it? Fox is just a con artist, a flim-flam man, a snake oil salesman. American politicians are suckers if they fall for his sales pitch on amnesty for Mexican illegal aliens in the United States.
How else can the Democrats stay in office? They have bought votes for years. But now most voters are onto the Dems, and know them for the sleaze bags they are. So the Dems need new blood, and always ready to do a good turn for the Dems, the Bush administration is going to hand them millions of new voters through ammesty.
Bush asks the Senate to pass H. Res. 365 [245(i)]:
Bush claims that "family values are important to us", and that he wants to take this illegal alien reward to Mexico with him on 3/22 to show Mexico that we are "compassionate".
Just one question to Mr. Bush:
What about compassion for the families of the victims on 9/11? They died because of an already overburdened and imcompetent INS and an Administration along with Congress who refuse to enforce the law.
Another amnesty is not "compassion", it's a slap in the face to the victim's families and all the American people.
--- Clemenza (who is typing these words a block away from Univision's studios)
Put ME in charge for a year and I'll show you how.
Believe me, it would be over.
--Boris
Bump!!
There is not the smallest doubt that these immigrants contribute enormously to North American economy -10 billion dollars a year, according to the Academy of Sciences of United States and to the immigrants countries of origin.
There is no "North American economy." The writer is using rhetorical sleight of hand, to distract the reader from the fact that illegal immigrants are taking from the American economy, and enriching the Mexican economy. He is also ignoring the fact that the illegals cost the American economy billions annually in unpaid health and educational costs.
For example, the Mexicans who live in this country send more than 8 billion dollars annually in remittances to families in Mexico; this is the third foreign currency source for the country after the tourism and petroleum.
Well, bully for Mexico!
The undocumented immigrants in the United States - 8 million, according to the National Office of the Census- pay taxes, keep inflation under control, are a cheap source of manual labor for agriculture and the service sector, and sustain economically a population that is aging very fast.¨
In other words, the immigrants are a magnificent business for the United States and Latin America. But what is bothersome is that many North Americans continue considering them criminals.
The SOB won't show us the respect of calling us "Americans." But if someone said to him, "So, Mexicans consider illegals criminals?" he'd blow his top. Mexicans are just as much North Americans as are Canadians and Americans, but he's playing word games. (I know what he'd say, "But Latins are also 'Americans.'" Right. I have yet to hear a Latin introduce himself as an "American." They only play that "We're Americans, too," crap, when they want to insult Americans.)
Note that Vincente Fox, for whom illegal Mexicans in America are heroes, ruthlessly stamps out illegal immigration INTO Mexico.
I am not sure this is follow the money for Univsion. The audience is coming - there is not much that the US government is doing to prevent it. Jorge is a Mexican national. It is very important for Mexico to keep sending its people northward. Ramos is just defending this point of view.
In seeking a better life the quality of my school district is going down and my property taxes are going up. Shouldn't I be allowed to vote on whether the border should be open or not.
That is one of the problems. The other is that our new guests will also vote overwhelmingly democrat. The senate is in democrat control right now because of illegal voters.
IMHO, if the Republicans make hugh outreach to the Hispanic voter, the Hispanic vote will go 65% democrat as opposed to 87%.
I agree, for every positive anectdote about "hard working, good people" I could probably tell you a counter example about a scammer trying to take advantage of the system.
Isn't this how the Mafia obtained great power in the United States - by providing illegal services at huge markups?
I believe that there is a large and vastly unreported element of criminals. Keep in mind that any good criminal, like a good businessman, grows and diversifies. I think we will wake up one day with a large organized crime problem which got its start with the false document business.
Doesn't this sound a little bit like a threat???
If they are not so limited in their comprehension, as that would imply, they have chosen to deliberately put their perception of their own self-interest over the legal rights of the American people.
Whether their lack is of intelligence or morality, no long term good can be expected from allowing them to remain. Those who for the sake of cheap labor--for a perceived advantage of the moment on this side of the border--would rationalize amnesty, are sewing the seeds for a future disaster. A nation is not a game of musical chairs. And this attempt to justify the present chaos is terribly misguided.
For a serious look at the whole question of future immigration, see Immigration & The American Future.
William Flax
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