Posted on 04/06/2005 2:21:30 PM PDT by Spiff
Thanks very much!
BTTT
Interesting that the guy from Canada thought there was a border problem there and was hoping the MMP would go to the Canadian border sometime!
But the part about the Mexican gangs trying to confront the Minutemen and attack their compound is scary. Thank God they are armed and have security measures in place, because it doesn't look like our federal gov. cares at all what will happen to the LEGAL U.S. citizens who are trying to protect our land.
Gee, just a few guys and a couple of days......can you spell GOVERNMENT FRAUD....
66,000 in one month....unbelievable.....that that many were actually caught.
And if they only catch 1 out of 5....or 1 out of 10....the President and his supporters of not enforcing the borders is gonna have a problem....
LA is hideous. It makes Santa Ana look like a gate-guarded community. I went to my local city council meeting last night in Orange County where a council member was trying to reverse a decision from the last meeting to close the illegal alien job center. The place was packed, "day laborers" were in tow, a guy sitting beside me asked me why I was there and feigned surprise I was there in support of the closure. He said he thought everyone was there to support the center remaining open. A Hispanic broadcasting outfit was there shoving a camera in the face of those deemed outspoken enough to give them an earful. The job center closure was one of the last items on the agenda, and I couldn't remain there long enough to hear the issue out ... neither could some of the day workers and neither could the OC Register (for press time). I waited for bus, with five "day laborers," to escort us back to the supposed "migrant" part of town.
There weren't that many there even though it was reported that "day laborers" would be there "in droves." I'd guess about 35 ... most likely hand picked for their superior "paperwork." In my area, the sham contractors like to press an argument something like "How do YOU know who's illegal and who's not." I attended a townhall meeting attended by my Congressman some time back when one of these phonies pulled the same crapola ... "Gee, how am I supposed to know ... blah, blah, blah."
Now they are claiming it's "safer" to hire "workers" at the center than on the street. They should serve time with their cabal in Mexico.
You're correct, unless the President gets his house in order, both he and the Republican party will be in deep trouble come 2006, 2008 and beyond. A good first step would be for him to build the damn fence.
--Boot Hill
It's also safer to hire a hooker in a whore house than on the street. Should the government pay for building and maintenance of whore houses? I mean, whores make money that could/should be paid into Social Security. They're just...ahem...doing the...er...jobs no one else wants to.
You make an excellent point!
Nice Pic.
Blue Sky....Big Sky.
I've forgotten what that looks like.
This is no longer a sovereign country, and the law is being ignored by those who swore to support those laws, and this disgrace goes right up to the top.
It's heck and being poor and hired out. I wish I could afford to go to so many of these things, from the D.C. meet up, to taking my fair share of abuse with the Minutemen.
And this is during a time of War! Shame (or sham?) on our President.
And don't forget the costs of building schools as well.
Most grain farmers are heavily subsidized by the US Taxpayer to the tune of about $20 billion per year. I expect the farmers could use a little bit of THAT money to pay a decent wage.
But instead the farmers are hiring illegals and that amounts to a second massive subsidy by taxpayers. We get stuck with paying for the health care, education, prisons and social services for all that cheap farm labor.
Exactly where do you get that information from? I won't argue one penny of the subsidies - I know about them ... BUT - If you know farmers who are getting rich from the subsidies, it must not be around here. The VAST majority of farmers here are struggling to stay afloat. In fact, farmers around here are exploring ways to keep the books at least close to in-balance including hunting leases and other alternate uses for the "off season".
Now - maybe the vegetable farmers out west are making a killing from the immigrant labor, but the imported labor around here make the same or more than the American workers - and that's not a lot. In addition, most farmers have continued to do more with less employees.
Now, there is a very small handful of farmers I know who are doing fairly well financially, but there are suspicions of other "cash crops" to bolster their bottom line. IN fact, a few of those have been caught in the last couple of years.
Of course, we could also open the can of worms related to foreign competition for farm products. Particularly heavy are the South American producers - they have FAR fewer regulations and Can pay workers $5 per day. Consumers demand cheap. We already see the cost of that to our manufacturing sector.
And I would love to see the end of farm subsidies. But these subsidies are the "welfare system" for farmers. And much like the welfare system, the farmers don't know how to live without it (and I don't know how they possibly could unless prices go WAY up).
even if you remove the whole economic argument, as the country becomes increasingly populated by Mexicans, the country inevitably will become more Mexican, so there will be more corruption and dishonesty and less respect for rule of law; more apathy or antipathy toward the democratic ideal and other ideas which have made this country what it is. These are corrosive effects on society that you can't put a price on but that we surely will be paying nonetheless.
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