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You Can't Stay on the Fence About Immigration
Human Events ^ | 5-29-06 | Donald Lambro

Posted on 05/28/2006 7:16:03 PM PDT by JustPiper

YOU CAN'T STAY ON THE FENCE ABOUT IMMIGRATION

The bitter battle over the immigration bill has become a legislative minefield in this election year, though it's still unclear whether November will see any heavy political fallout as a result.

To put it mildly, this issue is a thorny wilderness, festering intra-party divisions and brewing voter backlashes. It could inflict additional wounds on George W. Bush's battle-scarred presidency, shrink the GOP's congressional Republican majority and, possibly, hurt some vulnerable Democrats.

Let's slice up some of these pitfalls.

Stand Up For America !

"We have room for but one flag, the American flag...
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...
And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."


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KEYWORDS: aliens; immigration; namericanunion
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To: JD-Texas

Looking around and found this from last year. More folks with alternate ideas I hadn't been aware of.....


Rep. Ed Pastor, D-Ariz., said the caucus decided on Thursday to evaluate the bill's provisions and implications, and eventually may issue a statement.
Pastor is chairman of the caucus' Labor Task Force.
As for himself, Pastor said he already has endorsed a competing bill proposed in the Senate by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and is a co-sponsor of its companion bill in the House sponsored by Reps. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz.; Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.; and Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill.
That plan would allow undocumented workers to apply for guest-worker status, or even permanent legal status, without returning home.
It would require them to pay fines and back taxes and fulfill a six-year worker requirement before they could get on track to become a permanent citizen.
"That's a more reasonable way to deal with the problem - it's more humane, deals with border security and also deals with legal transition (of undocumented immigrants)," Pastor said.


221 posted on 05/29/2006 12:39:23 PM PDT by Kimberly GG
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To: Smartass
No Compromise on 'Amnesty'

Sensenbrenner BTTT, heard him on am radio yesterday he is NOT buckling! No matter what Rove begs! No matter what Frist says!
222 posted on 05/29/2006 12:39:34 PM PDT by JustPiper ("I have one voice, one vote to make a difference.")
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To: Smartass

Excellent link!

http://www.newsmax.com/hottopics/Immigration!Borders.shtml


223 posted on 05/29/2006 12:41:04 PM PDT by JustPiper ("I have one voice, one vote to make a difference.")
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To: Brad's Gramma

I am glad to and your welcome Gramma!


224 posted on 05/29/2006 12:41:31 PM PDT by JustPiper ("I have one voice, one vote to make a difference.")
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To: JustPiper

Why not email him one of those "report cards," and give him an A+?


225 posted on 05/29/2006 12:42:56 PM PDT by Larousse2 (Like June Carter Cash, "I'm just tryin' to matter.")
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To: davidosborne
The net is your addy?
Tried going to your website I LOVE your letter, saved it!
226 posted on 05/29/2006 12:44:51 PM PDT by JustPiper ("I have one voice, one vote to make a difference.")
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To: JD-Texas

Yes sir I am with you! We need tens of thousands of troops on the border now until walls get built and border patrol can catch up!

No Compromise, No Quarter!

On this of all days. We may have been sleeping but do "they" think we forget where we come from? Do "they" think we will willing piss on the blood of true patriots and say "oh well, Do what you want to"??

They forget themselves!


227 posted on 05/29/2006 12:46:12 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: TheSpottedOwl
Clapping hands yah we're contagious, many of us lose sleep here Owl, glad to have you aboard!

We're not frivolous in our mission being Freeper's Against "Illegal" Immigration

If there is a news story to be had we post it

If there is a Freeper story to tell it is summarized here with all Freeper Threads

If it's action we need to take we're very dedicated

We are FAII!!! :)
228 posted on 05/29/2006 12:47:13 PM PDT by JustPiper ("I have one voice, one vote to make a difference.")
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To: JustPiper

:-)


229 posted on 05/29/2006 12:47:23 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Please pray for Logan's Mommy and LadyX!!!)
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To: spectre

Thanks wife I've accomplished what I wanted to then -g-


230 posted on 05/29/2006 12:52:52 PM PDT by JustPiper ("I have one voice, one vote to make a difference.")
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To: Altura Ct.
Thanks Altura Ct....


God Bless America and
Our Great Military

 

231 posted on 05/29/2006 12:52:58 PM PDT by Smartass (Vaya con Dios - And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets)
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To: JustPiper
Thanks JustPiper...


God Bless America and
Our Great Military

 

232 posted on 05/29/2006 12:54:03 PM PDT by Smartass (Vaya con Dios - And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets)
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To: JustPiper; All
From another FR thread:

Recently, Rep. King (R-IA) published a scathing condemnation of the illegal alien marches and denounced the "invaders" who are pouring over our borders.

In that statement, Rep. King gave the following statistics on the number of Americans killed every day by illegal aliens. I've added the annual totals in for effect:

"What would that May 1st look like without illegal immigration? There would be no one to smuggle across our southern border the heroin, marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines that plague the United States, reducing the U.S. supply of meth that day by 80%.

The lives of 12 U.S. citizens would be saved who otherwise die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day [4,380 Annually].

Another 13 Americans would survive who are otherwise killed each day by uninsured drunk driving illegals [4,745 Annually].

Our hospital emergency rooms would not be flooded with everything from gunshot wounds, to anchor babies, to imported diseases to hangnails, giving American citizens the day off from standing in line behind illegals. Eight American children would not suffer the horror as a victim of a sex crime. [2,920 Annually]

233 posted on 05/29/2006 12:57:33 PM PDT by Larousse2 (Like June Carter Cash, "I'm just tryin' to matter.")
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To: All

THE UNITED STATES IS GOING TO DIE

By Frosty Wooldridge
May 29, 2006
NewsWithViews.com

“The commies of the ACLU are not going to let us do “Attrition through Enforcement.” The courts that are under their control will go along with them and force the illegals down our collective throats. Sorry, they win, we lose! If we are lucky, we may find a remote island somewhere, but face it, the United States is going to die and we can't stop it,” said Bob K., retired US Army.

Doesn’t that curl your ears? When letters arrive like this one, I roar! We don’t teach Americans to lose. Not a baseball game! Not in basketball! Not a tennis match! Not in football! Not a soccer game! It’s un-American to expect to lose.

Of course, it’s a bit tougher to win a game when Coach Bush sabotages you and the umpires (Senators) cheat in favor of Mexico. It’s a bit tougher when U.S. fans sit quietly in the bleachers doing nothing more than yawning while the Mexicans climb the fence and run the bases at will.

“We can’t do much more than sit back and watch our country self-destruct,” another retired couple wrote.

How could Americans win? How could they stop a blanket amnesty?

"I know how to kill the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill and the illusions that inspire it. We need every citizen to spend a day at John and Pat King's Anvil Ranch in southern Arizona. The experience would create an overnight revolution in America's view of this domestic crisis. The Kings live every day with barking dogs, vandalism, guns at their bedside, trash on their land, and most tragically, human remains. The bodies of seven illegals were found on the 50,000-acre Anvil last year. During their April watch, Minutemen spotted 1,501 illegals on the Anvil, and of these the Border Patrol arrested 500. But it turned into a circus. ACLU volunteers showed up every day to monitor and harass the Minutemen, at times sounding car horns and flashing lights to alert the illegals that the Border Patrol was coming.

This is the border crisis in microcosm—confused Americans rush to defend lawbreakers while ignoring, even demonizing, law-abiding citizens who suffer daily affronts to basic liberties on land their family has tended for 115 years. Ask yourself: Would the Altar Valley be a war zone if McCain lived here? If Kennedy's Hyannis Port compound were magically transplanted to southern Arizona, how long do you think it'd be before he rewrote his bill? The first time Kennedy saw 30 illegals dashing across his property, he'd trip over his Guatemalan lawn guy rushing to the Senate floor to demand enforcement. That's one of the American tragedies at play here, the abandonment of ordinary citizens by our country's elites, and most strikingly, the abandonment of the very laws they themselves have written."—Leo Banks

“I just read your article “Where is the outrage" and I agree totally with you. I don't have a platform from which to speak, if I did, and IF anyone would listen, I would have an earful to say, but no one is going to listen to me. I was born in California, and lived there for 63 years.

“I moved to a town called Watsonville, Santa Cruz County, California, in 1959, it was a very nice small town by 1967 we started feeling the influence of the illegals in Watsonville, they actually stopped the normal interaction of social life there by starting fights, often with knives, at everything that used to be fun to do, so people quit doing those social functions, when they weren't invited to a party, they would shoot through the building and kill people inside. Now the town is not fit for Americans, they have a Mexican town government, they no longer have 4th of July parades, but they have sinko de mayo celebrations for sure. Now there are 35,000 Mexicans there.

“I have since moved from that area, as have many others I knew, what else can a person do, but move away from it, no one is looking out for us, and no one will listen to us. Everyone is afraid to go against the Mexicans, because they are very big on retaliation, and they have very little to lose. I absolutely hate them. If I had my way, every Mexican who came hear since 1965, born here or not, would be rounded up and shipped back to Mexico, and we would have a wall like the Berlin wall along the entire border. This country is in very big trouble. Our next stop is Australia.” Bill Miedecke in Arizona

Does anyone wonder what a day without illegal aliens would be like? After you read the statistics from only one day, perhaps Americans would like to see Mexicans boycott our country for a decade!

Do these letters from fellow Americans disturb you? Remember the lawlessness of May 1st? As a result of the boycott by illegal aliens, also known as “The Day without Illegal immigrants,” national retailers reported 4.2% lower sales for the day. These figures arrived over the Internet. Are they true? Since we have 630,000 illegal alien convicted felons in our federal and state prisons, these figures may represent the ones still at large.

There was a 67.8% reduction in shoplifting!

The Immigration March in Los Angeles was a success! According to data from the Los Angeles County Sheriff, on the day of the march, Los Angeles had a reduction in the following:

82% reduction - auto theft
28% reduction- murders/ violent crimes/ rapes
73% reduction- vandalism / tagging
54% reduction- drug related offenses (excludes the march area)
31% reduction - domestic violence cases
64% reduction- misdemeanor cases (shop lifting, etc)

The California Highway Patrol (CHP) reported that day was a record low in the least amount of traffic accidents on Los Angeles area freeways.

As Americans yawn in the bleachers, “A friend told me over the weekend that under the new "guest worker" program, if passed, his company, a major firm with hundreds of drivers are going to fire the majority of drivers and hire "guests" for a third of the cost,” Bill H. said. “He said while he would have to fire many of the friends he's made over time, that his supervisors have said, this is just business. I think the Teamsters should have a field day with this one.”

When Rome’s Emperor Valens opened up his country’s borders to the Goth’s in 375 A.D., it took until 476 A.D. for the immigrants to take down the Roman Empire. With what we’re seeing today, America is dying and it’s a slow death. With Alabama Senator Jeff Session’s estimate of adding 217 million Mexicans and other Third World immigrants to this country by 2026, our death shall be much faster than Rome’s.

Our president and politicians turn America into the next bi-lingual, low wage Third World country on the planet. Will America die?

It depends on how long a ‘bleacher-full’ of American citizens keeps sitting quietly in the stands as their team keeps getting drubbed by the Mexicans. It’s highly un-American.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty157.htm


235 posted on 05/29/2006 1:00:27 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: spectre

VETERANS, HEROES, AMERICA PAST AND PRESENT

http://www.newswithviews.com/Slagle/john1.htm


236 posted on 05/29/2006 1:05:07 PM PDT by JustPiper ("I have one voice, one vote to make a difference.")
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To: Larousse2

Sure my son can, just put a list of names you'd like
I thought of A for either Amazing or Awesome


237 posted on 05/29/2006 1:06:42 PM PDT by JustPiper ("I have one voice, one vote to make a difference.")
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To: Larousse2

BTW I got this in email today so the CamPAIN is spreading, I've also emailed it to Mlakin and ABI and several of the Coyote's, cannot wait to see their faces when their aides tell them LOL
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Hundreds of us will be mailing these to the offending


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238 posted on 05/29/2006 1:08:40 PM PDT by JustPiper ("I have one voice, one vote to make a difference.")
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To: Larousse2

Your welcome and thank you for coming into this fullthrottle!!!


239 posted on 05/29/2006 1:11:07 PM PDT by JustPiper ("I have one voice, one vote to make a difference.")
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To: Larousse2

JD posted it on our last thread


240 posted on 05/29/2006 1:11:47 PM PDT by JustPiper ("I have one voice, one vote to make a difference.")
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