Snort---"hyphenated Americans"---my favorite rant. Why don't we tell it like it is: real Americans don't use hyphens.
The immigrant-illegal con game is so predictable: They whine about coming here b/c they want only to get menial jobs to help out their poverty-stricken families in "underdeveloped countries."
Then, before you can say "hasta la vista, baby," working class born-American taxpayers are footing the bills for immigrants' medical needs, welfare, food stamps, housing, all levels of schooling including college, child care, maternity benefits, and so on.
Taxpayers are subsidizing immigrants' daily food intake, housing, reduced mortgages, free medical, education, reduced in-state tuition and out of state tuition fees.
We also foot the legal bills when they start suing if we don't provide these goodies pronto.
Lastly, and more ominous, is that they become hyphenated voting blocs, demanding representation in the US Congress, state legislatures and beyond so that they can get even more government benefits.
They bring with them their utter contempt for our efforts to maintain a civilied society under our Constitution.
Oh, did I hear you say "underdeveloped countries?"
The government of Mexico---with all of its oil revenue----needs to be taking care of its own people, not "outsourcing' them as wards of American taxpayers. Mexico can well-afford it. Mexico has more "Forbes" billionaires, 11, than all but eight other nations. It has more billionaires than Saudi Arabia, Switzerland or Taiwan.
It also has more than 85,000 millionaires. According to a CNN report, Mexico sits on oil reserves worth about $400 billion, but Mexico's state-owned oil company, Pemex, doesn't have the investment funds to tap those reserves, and Mexico's Congress refuses to allow foreign investment in Pemex.
However, some observers say this is due to Mexican gov't corruption, and the obsession to line their own pockets. Adding insult to injury American taxpayers are subsidizing foreign aid transfers to Mexico.
According to Visa International--which is now clamoring for a share of the transfer fees--American money sent South of the Border by illegals constitutes $38 BILLION this year alone constituting Mexico's second largest most profitable industry.
America should mandate proof for all cash transfers out of the US and/or force all transferring agencies -- banks, credit unions, Amex, Western Union to collect a substantial withholding tax -- 50%, say -- on every unexplained foreign remittance.
Mexico is a wealthy oil-producing neighbor of the US forces its poor people to flee to the US to work and then send money back home.
Mexico has no welfare safety nets, health insurance for its people and no Social Security System.
More pointedly, the US provides the defense umbrella to protect Mexico like we do for Canada. So they have no real defense expenses.
America needs to seal our borders and let Vincente Fox know that we will cut off every penny in aid he gets from the United States.
This unmitigated contempt for America, and working-class, tax-paying Americans, cannot go unchallenged.
And yet it does.....where's our BACKBONE??
Always glad to oblige with a gentle nudge in the ribs. :}
Secretary Snow and The Wall -- Earlier this month, U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow paid a friendly visit to Mexico. He met with his Mexican counterpart, Secretary of Hacienda Francisco Gil Díaz.
Snow and Gil Díaz talked about the importance to Mexico of the earnings remitted to home communities and families by migrants in the United States. The two secretaries announced that they had reinforced their commitment to reduce the costs and to facilitate the sending of those family remittances.
Snow said that success hinged on the introduction of private competition to the remittance market, which had reduced the cost of sending money from the U.S. to Mexico by two-thirds since 1999.
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This unmitigated contempt for America, and working-class, tax-paying Americans, cannot go unchallenged.
Our government doesn't really give a sh__.