Posted on 01/31/2005 5:17:39 PM PST by ovrtaxt
Rush with his bully pulpit has been on the air for how many years?
After ignoring this for so long, why now?
I don't blame the illegals so much. But it is not just small business people hiring them. Large billion dollar farming coops hire them. Tyson Chicken hires them. Major restaurant chains hire them. Major homebuilders hire them.
Those are "Welfare Illegals". Three of em went together with their "welfare checks", and bought a house in San Fernando. Realtor didn't want to sell; court ordered him to.
"Without a large supply of illegal (lacking legal status) workers, the farm economies of California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Florida and most of the Southeast would collapse. It's not that Americans won't do the jobs that illegals do--we just won't do them for $2 an hour."
This is the big lie being perpetrated on the public.
1)We have 10 times the illegals we need here in California to farm
2) They are paid 500-700 a week, not 2 dollars, but with no benefits.
Yeah, but Hillary is lying. I have the slightest idea as to why Bush is the way he is on immigration.
LOL. Both Hillary and Rush are now anti illegal immigration after all these years.
*Vomit*
...murderers
...rapists
...disease carriers
...gang members
...drug dealers
Guess it just hasn't affected your family or friends yet?
i don't know what part of the border you're talking about.
obviously we're limited by our experiences.
in socal i crossed the border at san ysidro/tijuana for 15 years at least once a month. the u.s. border patrol is very obvious there.
it used to be easy to cross the border. no longer. it used to be in arizona on the i-10 at night occasionally you'd see a border patrol guy in his car, high beam lights pointed at you, as you drove across a wash. his lights lit up your face.
after 9.11 the border patrol has a stop point on the i-10 in the mountains east of alpine which is east of san diego.
there's a border patrol stop point on i-10 about 70 miles east of yuma, az. this one's scary at night. young recently-discharged military guys probe your car and your brain looking for the least amount of anxiety. you are lit up by powerful lights aimed in our face, the electricity generated by engines.
meanwhile a vw-like dune buggy with a wheel spread of about 10 feet is on and ready for the drive to chase down anyone that makes a run for it.
there's another stop on i-10 about 100 miles into texas.
the chp west of yuma at night scares me. this is a war zone. they'll come out of no where at 90 mph, focus a light on your license, type it into ncic, and pull around you and take off.
even befoe 9.11 it was very difficult for illegals to hike around the border checkpoints. there are 2 in north san diego county:
1. i-15 at rainbow in the mountains. the mountains are very difficult to hike in. between march and october (or whenever the nighttime temps = 50 degrees) you have to deal with rattlesnakes. they get very large because there are few roads to allow cars to run over them. consequently, many illegals get bitten by rattlesnakes along the california border. rattlesnakes are nocturnal and hunt. the rainbow border patrol point is in a high mountain pass; the mountains have huge round boulders.
2. the other border check point is near the san onofre nuclear reactor. no one is going thru' that! period. 1-5 is next to the beach of the pacific ocean and surrounded by steep mountains and camp pendleton, a u.s. marine base. no one is going to get around that check point. when i lived in san diego a neighbor of mine was a young marine who worked police security on the base at night. he reported always catching illegals. the u.s. marines have the latest night vision equipment. again, the mountains are steep, rocky, and habited by lots of rattlesnakes. i don't think rattlesnakes within a mile or so of the pacific ocean hibernate, altho' they do in the mountains. i've seen rattlers next to the ocean in january. inland at 300-400 ft elevation levels, such as vista and san marcos i frequently have seen rattlesnakes while hiking february thru' november.
east of san diego is mountainous. in the winters some illegals die in snow storms. when it rains in san diego, it snows in the cleveland national forest.
there was once a lot of mexicans crossing these mountains, but i believe the ins has cracked down--that's why the action is in arizona. oh boy. nogales. the indian reservation. the ranches. and the mountainous areas around douglas. and the mountainous area near deming new mexico, along the i-10. these are the hot spots.
And you chose to spend your money in Mexico? Rewarding the country that has engendered your outrage?
Yes, we have to individually make sure contractors are hiring only legal help. I demanded that of my contractor and told him if they cannot speak and understand English, they cannot work on our land.
Businesses must pay the price of their cheap labor. You know they live somewhere, but when they go to the hospital they cannot speak English and have no SS# or address. Taxpayers get the bill and it's going higher as hospitals are FORCED to close down and WE pay inflated hospitalization costs.
Congress has their heads in dry cleaner bags and haven't taken the stamped warnings!
Another problem is the real estate prices in Kalli.
Oxnard has homes with garages converted into living space. Every now and them they'll find 30 or more ag workers living in one.
I don't think President Bush has figured it out yet either. The good thing about Rush talking about it is that he is really just a reflection of what us down here in the masses are asying to each other. Unlike us though, his voice is heard and paid attention to.
As for that rubbish about illegals performing a necessary service by taking jobs that Americans won't do, I say stop paying able bodied Americans to sit on their butts and those jobs will start looking a lot more attractive.
Si.
I mentioned in another post that Rush should not get
too much credit for his ideas about the illegals. The
12/31/04 edition of the National Review had on its cover
"How Bush may ruin the Republican coalition because of
his views on immigration" by David Frum. Rush listeners
know that he often quotes from N.R. Online and the magazine. He has also criticized Bush for his massive
prescription drug entitlement and his position on the
steel tariff (which he reversed). As Rush has said many
times, he is FIRST a conservative, not Republican. And
we as conservatives should also criticize Bush for his
excessive spending -- of which there has been far too
much.
Rush could use this to leverage a pardon-promise from Jeb should the need arise.
I know, I know, I'm so cynical...
Didn't want you to miss the fun...
for those of you not near the southwest and you wonder what it's like, take a look at my post #48.
there i attempted to explain a bit of driving around california, arizona, new mexico, and texas.
There is a simple solution to our problem. Build on the border: A truck terminal. Keep our trucks on our side of the border; and they can keep what ever on theirs.
I.C.E. can do medical and criminal checks right there.
County Ag Commissions can arrange transport to and from work areas; simular to the old "bracero program". They can live in their own cultural community; get Mexican tv and radio broadcasts.
They won't have to spend $$$ on rent, cars, gas, insurance...
They'll be able to take much more $$$ home to their families.
"...murderers
...rapists
...disease carriers
...gang members
...drug dealers
That comprises 1/3 of the LA County Jail.
The contractors make an extra 100,000 in their pockets per year(small contractors, that is).
We have had 5 major hospitals in LA County close just in the past year.....all due to illegals.
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