William Kristol Wonders (Seriously) What Harm Illegal Aliens Have Done....

The American View ^ | John Lofton

[Jeremydmccann]

On a recent edition of the nationally-televised TV show “Fox News Sunday” (4/2/06), neoconservative warmonger William Kristol, Editor of the “Weekly Standard” magazine, admitting that he is “soft on illegal immigration,” said: “I’m a liberal on immigration. I mean, I think the Bush approach is right.” Regarding the millions of illegal immigrants who have violated the law and invaded our country, he added: “What damage have they done that’s so great in 20 years?….What’s happened that’s so terrible in the last 20 years? Is the crime rate up in the United States in the last 20 years?….And they’ve been contributing to the U.S. economy and not damaging U.S. society.”

[GarySpFc]

I would first say Mr. Kristol simply does not have a sense of right and wrong. How can anyone by so blind as to offer amnesty to 12 to 25 million illegal aliens when 4 million have been waiting in line to legally immigrate here for up to 23 years. But just so he knows:

What we get in return for massive illegal immigration:

Closing hospitals

10,000 MS-13 members with machetes

Increased health care costs.

Overcrowded prisons

An underground economy

Increased crime

Identity Theft

Higher taxes

More police and schools

Increasing rate of unemployment of Americans

Lower standard of living for many Americans

Draining off of our social benefits

Gangs

Increased terrorism risks

Devaluation of our citizenship

Erosion of our national identity.

Lower tax revenues, since much of their work is off the books.

Unlicensed, uninsured, untaught and often drunk drivers causing havoc on our roads

Smuggling

Increased drug flow

Human slavery and trafficking

Legal immigration for relatives of citizens taking a back burner

Once nice neighborhoods now turned into barrios

Lowering of our educational standards

Massive welfare fraud with fake ID’s

Dissolving of our borders

Loss of sovereignty

Blurring/loss of culture

Loss of language

Billions of dollars sent out of the country by illegals

Lower wages

The worst pollution in the Northern Hemisphere is right on our southern border, from mountains of refuse being left there by border crossers.

Closing hospitals that go bankrupt treating illegals. 84 California Hospitals have closed because of this. Illegals are breaking the back of our medical system. Many illegals come to the US just to get treated for their diseases....and it is free. This also causes increased healthcare costs for Americans.

Diseases we had all but eradicated....multi drug resistant (MDR) TB, Leprosy, Chagas Disease(1 in 3 die), malaria, plague, polio, dengue, head lice, hepatitis A, B, and C.

Each illegal with MDR-TB coughs and infects 10 to 30 people, who will not show symptoms immediately. Latent disease explodes later. MDR-TB has a 60% death rate. It can be treated over 24 months at a cost of $250,000 and toxic side effects.

Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, was so rare in America that in 40 years only 900 people were afflicted. Suddenly, in the past three years America has more than 7,000 cases of leprosy. Leprosy now is endemic to northeastern states because illegal aliens and other immigrants brought leprosy from India, Brazil, the Caribbean and Mexico.

Increased crime, gang activity, particularly MS-13, identity theft, drug flow. smuggling, humand trafficking and slavery. Overcrowing of prisons....30% of federal inmates are illegals.

Higher taxes to cover costs of schools, police and law enforcement and maintenace of higher prison populations.

Refusal to adapt to the English language and forcing some school districts to think of hiring Mexicans from Mexico to teach the children of illegals in American schools

Increasing rate of unemployment of Americans who are displaced by illegals.

Depression of wages and a lower standard of living for many Americans hitting hardest at minority workers and those without high school degrees

Draining off of our social benefits....36 to 42 percent of illegal aliens are on welfare.

Higher housing, food and energy costs.

Illegals are living 20-50 people in a single home times an unfathomable number of homes in neighborhoods across America. They are breaking in unoccupied residences and living in boathouses.

Numerous neighborhoods have been reduced in value because of overcrowing by illegals.

Increased terrorism risks

Devaluation of our citizenship

Erosion of our national identity.

Lower tax revenues, since much of their work is off the books. Much of the economy is underground. Illegals send billions of untaxed dollars back home each year....It is Mexico's 3rd largest source of income.

Contributes to the dramatic population growth overwhelming communities across America--crowding school classrooms, consuming already limited affordable housing, and straining precious natural resources like water, energy, and forestland.

Substantial harm to American citizens and legal immigrants, particularly those in the most vulnerable sectors of our population--the poor, minorities, and children.

The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the average Mexican illegal alien costs U.S. taxpayers a whopping $55,000 each. Some bargain, eh?

To name just a few. Let me know if you can think of any more to add to the list.

[NormsRevenge]

Anyone who refutes his idiotic stances is deemed 'far-right'.

and here I do that with aRnold and get accused of being a dhimmi.. damn! ;-)

[DoughtyOne]

When Arnold ----s up, he needs to be called on it. And his phone should be ringing off the hook these days.

Go for it with my blessing.

[RegulatorCountry]

“I’m a liberal on immigration. I mean, I think the Bush approach is right.”

Well, thank you very much, Bill Kristol. It actually IS liberal, isn't it?

[Chgogal]

Since Idiot Bill has decided that he's soft on these particular set of laws, maybe he, Kennedy, McCain, et al. won't mind tens of millions of LEGAL Americans not paying their taxes because these LEGAL Americans find it inconvenient to follow those particular set of laws. After all, the government couldn't possibly round up tens of millions of law breakers. It would be awkward and where would you put them all? /s

[Mike Darancette]

Regarding the millions of illegal immigrants who have violated the law and invaded our country, he added: “What damage have they done that’s so great in 20 years?

They invaded our country?

Imagine what this country would be today if those millions were the best and the brightest?

[Nachum]

What have illegals done? Where does this guy live, the moon?

[Bush gal in LA]

No damage?!..... Two illegals mugged my good friend and put him in the hospital for a month. Now he is afraid to go out at night! Another illegal totaled my car and ran away cause he was drunk as a skunk and had no insurance. I could go on and on ....No DAMAGE MY A-S!

[samadams2000]

Its a sea of illegals here in the bay area. TB is back, roads are clogged with people that cant drive, hoods are well..now hoods, millions of future "citizens" that will dip into the welfare state/ social security trough....Its over folks. Pack up the flag...time to head west...er..nevermind..its just over.

[DoughtyOne]

Limbaugh keeps pointing out that if 4th to 8th grade undereducated adults were such a boon to the economy, then Mexico's economy would be second to none. That's a rather astute point IMO.

[samadams2000]

Its like Delay saying there was no more government waste to cut...hahahhaa....man it's time to break a few eggs with leaders like this.

[kimosabe31]

Great list.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Great list. Great bible excerpt in your sig line too. :-)

[TigersEye]

That pretty much nails the Country Club elitist that Kristol is.

[AmericaOne]

What harm have illegals done? For one thing, massive identity theft; like stolen SSN's used to obtain employment.

Check out the link from an earlier post and read it for yourselves:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619970/posts

[peggybac]

Let's bus hundreds of illegals into their neighborhoods and then see what they do.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Can we deport butt-boy William Kristol while we're at it?

[hdstmf]

Portrait of a total jerk

[Brian Allen]

<< William Kristol Wonders (Seriously) What Harm [Criminal] Aliens Have Done.... >>

Even if 90% of America's illegal drugs weren't handled by them nor were they more than thirty per cent of our prisons' populations, Kristol's question is far off the point.

This topic is not "illegal" aliens but is America's Sovereign Borders and Rule of Law from discussion of which those who would insist on talking about criminal aliens seek to distract us and to split us along the lines created by mention of what liberalism's loathesome and fearsome bigot activists call "racism."

[Bommer]

“What damage have they done that’s so great in 20 years?….What’s happened that’s so terrible in the last 20 years?

Prisons are packed with illegal alien!
Public schools are at a breaking point trying to educate children that don't speak english!
Hospitals are going broke taking care of illegals without medical insurance!
MS13 gangs are the most vicious in the nation
The majority are uneducated and unskilled labor
Oh and one other little thing

THEY ARE BREAKING UNITED STATES LAWS AND FLYING THEIR FLAG IN OUR COUNTRY!!!!

Idiots like Kristol should be asked if they would be sooo tolerant if the country south of the boarder was Saudi Arabia!