Our next/44th President of The United States of America
Tom Tancredo for President 2008: “Our Last and Only Hope to Save AMERICA”
Posted on 12/30/2004 1:24:14 PM PST by nanak
The recent action by Arizona citizens that passed legislation allowing that state to block taxpayer services to illegal aliens was long over due. I applaud their efforts and endless work. The voters of Arizona sent the perfect message: Foreigners who break into the US illegally don't receive freebies from Arizona citizens. They will be reported and deported. The loud and clear message sent by Arizona taxpayers means the money in their wallets will no longer subsidize border jumpers. EVERY STATE in the country needs to implement their own initiative and send out a clear warning that their "Bank of Entitlements" will no longer fund illegal aliens.
Throughout this country, complaints grow on a daily basis. Our shopping malls and parking lots explode with illegal aliens who dump garbage, are drunk and urinate in public while seeking work "Americans won't do" (which is known as the big lie created by corporate crooks). This creates a fearful situation that turns citizens away from entering businesses they once supported. Our hospitals bankrupt, our schools cascade into overrun classrooms and unemployment bursts at the seams in unemployment lines.
EVERY STATE must consider the consequences of this massive invasion by illegals. Why? The line never ends. According to Time Magazine's September 12, 2004 issue, "Who Left the Door Open?" three million jumped U.S. borders in 2004. More are expected in 2005. It is imperative for ALL STATES to follow Arizona's lead in denying services to these lawbreakers. Contact your state legislators and hold their feet to the fire. Demand your U.S. House representative join the Immigration Reform Caucus. Further, any elected official who supports President Bush's amnesty legislation needs to be reminded that citizens will no longer tolerate deviation from the truth regarding his "guest worker" sham.
We must bypass national politicians and bring issues before the voters. Look for numerous groups, including Georgians for Immigration Reform and Defend Colorado Now -- currently pursuing effective action.
Recently, Senators Kennedy and McCain joined forces to "work" the illegal alien problem. Worse, their contemporaries assist them in perpetuating their insidious propaganda that misinforms and misleads Americans. We must expose government mismanagement and corruption. Unfortunately, career politicians prolong this national crisis. Greedy elected officials need to be reckoned with as they have been hijacked by lobbyists. We must get to the bottom of the cesspool since our federal government offers little, if any, help. We must start at the local government level and manage "OUR" money.
It's time our elected officials represent "We the People." They swore on the Bible to uphold the Constitution and serve American citizens. Nowhere did it say they serve illegal aliens from other countries over American citizens. It's time they follow through on their sacred trust as a majority of Americans are "mad as hell and are not going to take it anymore."
No. But I cut my grass with it. It's never let me down, except that one time I forgot to put more gas in it....but that was my fault.
Good job - thanks.
a. The cartoon you posted begged for debate. You got it.
b. Coffee beans... wake up and smell the coffee... who is gonna pick it... debate, again you got.
c. FOCUS: Americans Taking Action Against Illegal Immigration State-by-State. We aren't going away. You want to find us back in the same situation we were in under Clinton concerning who gets voted in? This is a serious issue to many of us. Maybe you aren't feeling the consequences of it yet, but there are a whole lot of us out here who are. I am banding together with likeminde people on this issue. I will challenge MY PRESIDENT on this issue, because I absolutely disagree with him on this issue.
But all it got was false allegations regarding it's origin.
The coffee bean line WAS A JOKE.
I will challenge MY PRESIDENT on this issue, because I absolutely disagree with him on this issue.
Ok.
What a dumb post; are all your posts that dumb?
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I think the illegal alien issue is going to be one of THE
big issues by the time of the next presidential election -
it's already been fueled by the failure of congress to make
it part of the Intelligence Reform bill. And do you know
what shrewd and popular politician is taking the issue more
seriously than party-line Dems and Republicans? You may not believe it but it's HILLARY Clinton. She's taking a
position more to the right of Bush! Give the devil her due-
she can identify a potentially "hot" issue and make it a
winning issue.
Our next/44th President of The United States of America
Tom Tancredo for President 2008: “Our Last and Only Hope to Save AMERICA”
Why must these stories be posted constantly?/sarcasm
Utter drivel.
No it is not.
Bush is not going to do anything about illegals.
Mexicans Have Plans
for the American Southwest
They vow to take it over
Reconquistas plant Mexican flag
Our southern neighbor is not shy about expressing its intention to conquer the American Southwest, which Mexico regards as territory lost in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo in 1846. Mexican children are taught in school that the United States stole that land, which they call “Aztlan.” Absurd rantings of political extremists? Consider…
• In 1997, then-President Zedillo proclaimed that “I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders.”
• Mexican American Legal Defense Fund founder Mario Obledo stated, “California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave. Every constitutional office in California is going to be held by Hispanics in the next 20 years.” People who don't like such demographic changes “should go back to Europe.” (Incidentally, Mr. Obledo was also the California Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Gov. Jerry Brown.)
• Mexico's President Fox has been unrelenting in his brazen demands on the United States, starting with open borders even before he was elected. He has called for the border to be “a joining line.” His visits to the U.S. have been filled with endless requirements for Mexican citizens illegally in this country — free healthcare, taxpayer-subsidized in-state tuition for illegals at state colleges and universities, guestworker programs and amnesty for all.
Incidentally, we shouldn't be surprised at such shenanigans. The world is full of revanchist fantasies, namely that some vague territorial claim from centuries before should form modern national boundaries. The Chinese invaded Tibet in 1949, with the excuse that an eighth-century marriage had made Tibet a part of China. (Is there a Chinese word for lebensraum?) Chinese flowing into Siberia argue that the Amur region is actually part of China. (More on the Chinese demographic invasion of Russia.) The Balkans have been a recent example of the power of warmed-over nationalism, when Milosovic whipped Serbs into a murderous frenzy by summoning the ghosts of the Battle of Kosovo (600 years ago) as he urged them to “take back” what had been stolen from them. In the case of the former Yugoslavia, revanchism was the excuse for genocide.
Encouraged by their leaders in both countries, the 20 million Mexicans in America are similarly emboldened to insist that the United States surrender to their demands, particularly amnesty which will speed the acquisition of political power. And when California becomes majority Mexican around 2028, will those people call for political unification with their cultural homeland? Their leaders are planning for such a scenario.
It's hard to fathom how America's elected Congressional leaders, those who swore to uphold the Constitution and to protect the nation, are prepared to give it away for some perceived short-term political gain, if that. The front man for globalist corporations who currently occupies the White House is allowing Mexico City to dictate America's immigration policy, while few in his party object. Does anyone think that Vicente Fox cares about what happens to America? He sees the United States as a full refrigerator and he is hungry, very hungry.
Normandy cemeteryWhy do American public officials value so little what thousands have fought and died to protect? A foreign power has stated its plans to conquer this nation by demographic warfare, but in Washington, apparently no one cares. One wonders what Secretary of State Colin Powell thinks about surrending American sovereignty to a foreign power. He was a general in the U.S. Army and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, after all. Doesn't it bother him to be following the wishes of a foreign leader? Why does the most powerful nation in the world cower before the third-world country to the south?
— by Brenda Walker
Last year Mexico deported 147,000 illegal immigrants in all, some 20% more than in 2002. Over 90% came from just three Central American countries (Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua), almost all of whom are likely to have entered through the southern border. In Tapachula, immigration officials concede that the higher figure represents not their success in stemming the flow, but evidence that more are making the journey.
http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubj
Many of the migrants already have families or friends and promised jobs in the United States, where more than 500,000 Central Americans are thought to live illegally (and another 900,000 legally). A Honduran says he is going to work on a building site at $13 an hour (the minimum wage at home is $3 a day). “American workers are lazy and smoke dope...we work,” he says. Roberto, from El Salvador,
Mexico's president, Vicente Fox, has long badgered Mr Bush over immigration reform. But as some Mexican officials now acknowledge, their own country also lacks a coherent immigration policy. Just like the Americans, Mexico's government treats the human traffic across its border as a security problem. It is, but largely because of the crime that the incomers attract and are victims of. There is also much official sympathy for the plight of the Central American migrants, and a common understanding of the poverty that they are trying to escape.
The result is somewhat schizophrenic. While police try to send the migrants back, officials from other branches of Mexico's government patrol the border to help advise the migrants of their human rights as they pass through the country. They even hand out the odd jumper to keep them warm. Immigration officials know that the vast majority of the migrants are only in transit though Mexico to the United States, like many of their own compatriots.
That means that in the end the solution to the chaotic carnage in Tapachula lies beyond Mexico's control. It is yet another argument for Mr Bush's proposed immigration reform. Meanwhile, Mexico would do well to try to think more creatively about how to provide rights of transit while attempting to regulate the flow through its southern back door.
I would vote for Tancredo and have tremendous respect for
him. But he won't get the nomination for the same reason
he's NOT welcome at the Bush White House. Being realistic,
Hillary has the popularity and recognition to pull it off.
But most mainstream Dems and Reps are too PC - they either
want the votes or the cheap labor. Believe it or not, I
think that perhaps only a liberal Dem like Hillary could
pull it off. You and I as conservatives must admit she's
RIGHT on the issue -- among all the popular contenders!
10 posted on 12/30/2004 1:42:09 PM PST by RushCrush (It's called Free Speech, and it's what we do) >>
Now there's a post that could maybe have done with a little more -- um -- thought?
And -- I dunno -- perhaps a shade less hypocrisy?
Don't give in to defeatism. It's still very early.
<< Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free .......
This is not written in the U.S. Constitution so it has little meaning when it come to enforcing the law of the land. >>
Oh.
Just like everything that IS written in our Constitution, then?
[Afer seven decades of "Democratic" potty control of the courts and the various other machineries of state]
VERY good question!
I see even better option - let the service providers (including hospitals) be allowed to pursue the employers and charge them with the interest! It would work very simply - you are an illegal alien and come to the emergency - you should be able to provide your employer as the party owing to the hospital. Etc, etc ... I would also add whistleblower protection to such alien.
Employers of illegal aliens should be the main payers for the medical and ALL other services of their employees.
Are you saying that we have got a monarchy back and that we should love King George and to be loyal to him in order to be subjects in good standing.
Maybe you are right.
Mexico's Forgotten Southern Border
Does Mexico practice at home what it preaches abroad?
.........Echoing U.S. employers' claims about Americans, these finqueros insist that Mexicans will not do the hard work of planting, cultivating, and picking. The ranchers have two options when hiring Guatemalan jornaleros.
http://www.stoptheinvasion.com/borders2.html
MEXICO ALERT
Mexico’s Southern Flank: A Crime-ridden “Third U.S. Border”
George W. Grayson
OVERVIEW
· The 600-mile Mexico-Guatemala border serves as an irresistible gateway for smugglers of illegal aliens, drugs,
prostitutes, weapons, contraband, archeological treasures, and exotic animals.
· Central Americans and others who cross into Mexico's southern state of Chiapas take their lives in their hands as they
run a gauntlet of corrupt officials, exploitative ranchers, and predatory criminal gangs.
· Among the victims are participants in a joint Mexico-Guatemalan governmental guest-worker program.
Introduction
Mexico’s southern flank constitutes a porous, crime-ridden
third border of the United States. The problem is that both
President Vicente Fox and Homeland Security Secretary
Tom Ridge concentrate on the U.S.-Mexican frontier,
while neglecting the Mexican-Guatemalan interface that
provides an open sesame for narcotraffickers, illegal aliens,
prostitutes, smugglers, and terrorists.
For instance, in an early November 2003 speech to the
New Mexico legislature, Mexican President Vicente Fox
cited “an urgent need to guarantee respect for human
rights on our borders, prevent more deaths in the desert,
and wage an all-out battle against those who threaten,
extort or attack migrants.” More strident advocates for
aliens who either enter the United States illegally or are
apprehended and deported excoriate American law
enforcement officials and U.S. immigration policy as
“cruel,” “inhumane,” “racist,” “xenophobic,” and nativist.
The chorus of jeers soars to a crescendo when poor
Mexicans, often abandoned by human smugglers known
as coyotes, perish in the sizzling Arizona desert or suffer
abuse at the hands of overzealous Border Patrol agents.
Only a modern-day Simon Legree could remain indifferent
to the 371 deaths at the border reported this year by
Mexican authorities, and any law-enforcement officer who
abuses an immigrant should be held strictly accountable.
Yet even as Fox and Ridge hone in on the U.S.-Mexican
border, they ignore the dangerous conditions besetting
Mexico’s frontiers with Guatemala and Belize--especially
along the 600-mile-long Mexican-Guatemalan boundary.
What are the geographic and socio-economic conditions
along Mexico’s southern perimeter? What dangers confront
Central Americans and others who cross into Mexico
unlawfully? What are the results of a Guatemalan-Mexican
guest worker program? Will the Fox-initiated Plan Puebla-
Panamá (PPP) spur development in Southeast Mexico and
Central America? How successful has the Fox administration
been in combating wrongdoing in the South?
Geographic and Socio-economic Conditions
Chiapas abounds in oil, natural gas, water, hydropower,
archeological treasures, grazing land, and fertile soil. At
the same time, this South Carolina-sized state is among the
nation’s lowest in per-capital income (US$6,253), highest
illiteracy rate (22.9 percent), most dwellings without
electricity (21.1 percent) and with earthen floors (40.7
percent), and number-one on the index of
“marginalization” calculated by Mexico’s respected
National Institute of Statistics, Geography, and
Information.
The poverty, which besets many of the 4 million
Chiapanecos, is especially harsh among descendants of the
Mayans who make up one-fourth of the population.
Conditions are even worse in the Guatemalan departments
of San Marcos, Huehuetenango, and Retalhuleu that lie
cheek by jowl with Chiapas. Ethnically similar to
Chiapanecos, Guatemalans often take advantage of some
200 crossing points that perforate their nation’s 600-milelong
border with Mexico to enter their neighbor to the
north. Like other Latin Americans (and people from
scores of countries), some Guatemalans steal into Mexico
as part of a journey to reach the United States. Whether
for employment or migration, these newcomers take their
lives in their hands.
Dangers Facing Illegal Aliens in Chiapas
Aliens, their embassies, nongovernmental organizations,
international agencies, and Mexico’s migrant-protection
Beta Groups find that most abuses suffered by immigrants
entering Mexico take place along its zigzagged,
mountainous border with Guatemala, with far fewer
crimes committed on the frontier between Quintana Roo
and Belize. The ubiquitous violence has prompted local
business leaders to call the zone “a land devoid of law.”
A study conducted in the Tenosique area of Chiapas found
that three groups--criminals (47.5 percent), the local police
(15.2 percent), and migration agents (15.2 percent)--
accounted for most of the exploitation of migrants arriving
from Central America. The 100 or more criminal bands
that prey on interlopers run the gamut from petty thugs to
coyotes to mafia-style squads to vicious street gangs.
The most notorious of these predators are the several
varieties of Mara Salvatruchas, street gangs often
compared to the Crips and the Bloods of Los Angeles.
They are composed chiefly of former members of the
Salvadoran army who have been deported from Los
Angeles and other American cities and have established a
presence in Mexico as part of the El Salvador-U.S.
corridor. These tattooed hoodlums, who prize themselves
as "migrant hunters," lie in wait for indocumentados when
they jump off the slow-moving trains as they approach
checkpoints. These bloodthirsty desperados also carry out
car thefts and kidnappings, according to a Catholic
immigrant-aid committee.
Rather than engage in crude violence, unscrupulous
offic ials typically exact bribes. The payments may be a
few dollars to allow a single person to scurry across the
border or thousands of dollars to permit the passage of
drugs, weapons, stolen automobiles, prostitutes, exotic
animals, or archeological treasures. Individuals and
professional smugglers often endure shakedowns from
both Mexican and Guatemalan officials before
encountering private-sector bandits.
The presence in El Carmen, Guatemala--just across the
bridge from Talisman, Mexico, and a stone’s throw from a
Guatemalan immigration post--of a large, open lot packed
with vehicles bearing California, Texas, and Arizona license
tags highlights the impunity with which malefactors carry
out their trade. Equally visible from the bridge joining
Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, and Tecún Umán, Guatemala, are
the ubiquitous balsas, boards perched on truck tires that
serve as precarious ferries for migrants and locals willing
to pay a few pesos to cross the slow-moving Suchiate
river. The largest number of complaints of wrongdoing in
Guatemala is lodged against that country’s National Civil
Police, which may be even more corrupt than Mexican
authorities.
Individual smugglers, who charge $5,000 or more to guide
one person 1,500 miles from Central America to the United
States, can earn as much as $100,000 per year--an amount
almost as large as that paid by single Mideasterners or
Asians determined to reach the United States. Meanwhile,
professional criminal organizations--some of them
headquartered in China, Korea, or the Philippines--can
amass Croesus-class fortunes. Experts assert that the
smuggling of humans is the most lucrative illegal activity in
Mexico after narcotrafficking and commerce in stolen
automobiles.
Legal Guest-Worker Program
While ignored in Mexico City, Chiapan finca owners
frequently make the local news for their despotic treatment
of workers. The wealthy growers prefer Guatemalans
over Mexicans to work on their plantations, where they
raise mangos, bananas, coffee, and dozens of other crops
in the fertile, steamy ambiance of southern Chiapas.
Echoing U.S. employers’ claims about Americans, these
finqueros insist that Mexicans will not do the hard work of
planting, cultivating, and picking.
The ranchers have two options when hiring Guatemalan
guest workers. They may take advantage of a program
operated jointly by the Mexican and Guatemalan labor
ministries or they can contract workers directly from
makeshift employment offices in Tecún Umán, a rapidly
Much more at:
http://www.csis.org/americas/pubs/hf_v11_32.pdf
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