Posted on 11/29/2005 5:25:04 AM PST by conservativecorner
Yesterday, George W. Bush strode to a podium in Tucson, Arizona (I love Tucson!) and against a backdrop of law enforcement officers, announced his latest plan to crack down on illegal aliens. There was nothing in his speech we haven't heard before, and his new immigration policy is just as contradictory as the old one. Among the initiatives announced:
We should build more jail cells to hold illegal aliens. Good idea. The speeding up of deportations, a crackdown on fraudulent identity papers, and a hardening of the border with more surveillance. So far, so good. Then the nonsense started to flow. The president urged Congress to pass his guest-worker amnesty program and repeated the nonsense that the illegal aliens are here "to fill jobs that Americans will not do."
Same old, same old. It is impossible to stand there and say you're going to crack down on illegal immigration while at the same time say that you are going to reward people who broke our immigration laws. The president says it's not amnesty. Ok, now we've finally caught the president in a lie. OF COURSE it's amnesty! When you tell someone who has broken the law that you are not only going to ignore their illegal conduct, but you are actually going to reward them for it, then you have more than plain old garden variety amnesty, you have amnesty with perks!
As for the oft-repeated line that the illegal aliens fill jobs Americans won't, that's also a load. Companies may not be able to fill those jobs with Americans at the same low wages they pay Mexicans, but there are plenty of people in this country that would do the work at the right price. OK .. so the price of headless chickens, landscaping and construction might go up, but at least the people receiving those paychecks would be law-abiding residents of this country, most of whom would be citizens. There is something wrong with the idea of celebrating lower home prices when those lower prices are brought with disrespect for the laws of our country. It gets worse than that. We are threatening our very security by singing the praises of illegal aliens in our workforce. Just two weeks ago we were interviewing a Texas congressman who was telling us that U.S. intelligence agencies have knowledge that Al Qaeda terrorists have moved to Mexico, adopted Hispanic identities, learned the Spanish language, and then moved right into the United States across our porous borders.
George Bush failed to address the problem appropriately yesterday, but this isn't strictly a George Bush issue. There is absolutely no willingness on the part of either political party to crack down on illegal immigration. There are simply too many votes to be had in the Hispanic community. So as a result, our security as a nation is threatened and our cities and states are overrun with illegal aliens.
I'm sure representatives of Al-Qaeda are preparing to apply for their guest-worker permits as we speak.
Dr. Donald Huddle, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Rice University, found that in 1997 immigration cost the American taxpayer a net (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) $70 billion per year, and if current trends continue, the costs for the 1998-2007 decade will be a net $932 billion. Americans are already suffering heavy levels of taxation, much of which is used for social services and related infrastructure costs associated with accommodating the newest members of our society.
According to Dr. George Borjas of Harvard University native born workers lose $152 billion annually because of job displacement and wage depression caused by immigration.
http://www.carryingcapacity.org/aa3.html
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>>>> TRY AGAIN, MR. PRESIDENT -- THOSE WERE EMPTY WORDS [The Presidnet's Amnesty Program]
# In 1986, Congress granted amnesty to 3.1 million illegal aliens
And Ronald Reagan signed that true amnesty.
Yes and he later said he regreted it...
I've already stated that Reagan's amnesty program didn't work; otherwise, we wouldn't be trying to do it all over again.
What does your defending and support of illegals have to do with Reagan's already proven unsuccessful amnesty position/plan?
Just have to throw this fact in on every immigration thread I can:
The 'eleven million illegals in this country' figure that is regularly thrown around by pro-open borders pols and media types is utterly bogus. It originally came from an open borders source.
There's at least that many just in CA and the Southwest alone.
The national figure is in all likelihood well over thirty million.
It is an invasion.
Legal immigrant criminals work with illegal immigrant criminals all the time. No one is very picky about the other guy's immigration status.
The legal immigrant criminals usually are fairly recent arrivals.
We should be keeping these parasites out of here in the first place. The bar to entry is far too low
Thanks and you're right, of course. We have been invaded.
Amnesty for illegal aliens
An amnesty for illegal aliens forgives their act of illegal immigration and implicitly forgives other related illegal acts such as driving and working using false documents. The result of an amnesty is that large numbers of foreigners who illegally gained entry into the United States are rewarded with legal status for their breaking the law. In January, 2004 President Bush Proposed an earned legalization program for illegal aliens. This is an amnesty under another name.
http://www.theamericanresistance.com/issues/amnesty.html
Pray the House GOP stops Bush Jr.'s permanent Mexico Merger.
Well I have to agree with you it is at least 20 million and well could be thirty million, its unbelievable they are everywhere....How can politicians ignore this?
Sandblasting rich socialist Emma Lazarus's poem would be a great pleasure for me! It does not supersede the laws of the United States of America. Our Congress makes law, including immigration law, and those laws should serve the desires and interests of American citizens.
While I agree with the poem in spirit -- there's no denying the importance of *legal* immigration to the U.S. -- I have a hunch even Ms. Lazarus were she alive would heartily object to your suggestion her writing condones illegal 'immigration.'
INVASION USA
Illegal aliens threaten
U.S. medical system
Docs journal reports hospitals being closed, previously vanquished diseases being spread
* * *
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."
[snip]
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43275
" However this country is not going to turn into a paradise once we fix the illegal immigration."
No, it's not, but it is going to improve. And it's something that can be done without drafting a lot of laws. Most of them are on the books - just not enforced.
And that was wrong then as this shamnesty is wrong now.
It would seem your observation is correct. But some of the construction project managers I know in the area are involved in a mega-development going up I-15 in Southern California from Rancho Cucamonga toward Wrightwood.
These homes are small, built on smaller lots, very close together, all selling for over $1 million and all pre-sold. The project managers are under the gun to get the development done for this very reason.
Don't know who's got all this cash to sink in to a million dollar cracker box, but it's nobody I know.
I think you mean that the bootlicker corner is waving the pom-poms for the 10,000th time. Keep cheering, you might be able to drown out the demands that the President enforce the law without trying to pass another amnesty.
It is already illegal to hire them. However, the Bush administration refuses to properly enforce those laws. We don't need new laws, we only need to enforce the current laws. If an employer hid a few thousand dollars from the IRS, they'll track it down and hunt him down years later. They'll get it back with stiff penalties too. However, if the same employer hires a few thousand criminal invaders, he can just keep on doing it. If he gets caught, he gets a slap on the wrist and doesn't have to pay anyone back. Look at the interior enforcement record since Bush took office:
Employer Investigations Conducted by
U.S. Immigration Authorities, 1997-2003
Source: Dept. of Homeland Security, 2003 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics,
Year
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
Arrests
17,554
13,914
2,849
953
735
485
445
Investigations
Completed
7,537
7,788
3,898
1,966
1,595
2,061
2,194
Number of
Fines Levied
778
535
297
180
78
13
124
September 2004. Table 39.(1997-2003)
Yes it was.. He wasnt impeached..
Thats why Clinton served out his term and pardoned OTHER bad guys..
His real crimes have YET to be indited.. and he still is NOT HANGED for them..
don't forget Presidente Bush's idea for totalization which will further damage OUR
Social Security at the expense of benefits to foreigners:
http://magic-city-news.com/article_3631.shtml
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/back904.html
if this happens I'm packing my bags...
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