Posted on 05/12/2006 5:47:27 PM PDT by ohioWfan
I’m going to try something entirely new to Free Republic………..start a thread restricted to practical, positive. pro-active things that this huge forum filled with good people who love this country can actually DO about helping to solve the illegal immigration problem, and how we can ‘encourage’ our leaders at all levels to get their acts together.
This is not a thread for venting or attacking (Heaven knows, that‘s been done plenty around here!). Let’s keep it entirely positive……..no attacks on the President and ‘Bushbots’ or the GOP………or on each other, from EITHER side. No threats to ’kick the GOP bums out’ …….we all know that the risk of having Dems in power is too great for that irresponsible threat. NO name-calling from EITHER side……..’Jorge‘ and ‘El Presidente‘ both qualify as disrespectful name-calling. (Perhaps we can all just ignore anyone who tries to turn this into a hostile thread, and punch the abuse button, but NOT engage in battle with him/her). Disagree, but be respectful about it.
What we really need are practical things we can do……with links to key Senate and Congressional offices, the White House, as well as STATE and LOCAL government offices, examples of THOUGHTFUL and POSITIVE letters to our leaders that will actually be read, and responded to. Phone numbers, and ideas for THOUGHTFUL and POSITIVE phone calls to leaders. What we also need are specific PRAYER requests for you, so that those of us who believe that our God is the God of the impossible can be on our knees in prayer for the details of this immense problem. We need fervent prayer for the President and Congress, as well as our State and Local authorities. And we need Freeper creativity!
We are LEGION, and together, I believe we can make a difference in moving this engine down the track more rapidly.
There are people who are very angry with the President and the Republicans in Congress, and people who still respect and admire the President greatly, and are angry with the Republicans in Congress……..and even some who are NOT angry with the Republicans in Congress (OK……..maybe not..... :)………..but we ALL want to end this invasion, and help our brothers and sisters in the Southwest to have their safe and normal lives return, and prevent the invasion from moving further.
Those of us outside the region may not understand what things are like, but we want to, so if those of you in the affected states could give us more details about how bad this is, without belittling us because we don’t live there, it would be much appreciated. We know it‘s bad, and we care about it, even though we cannot fully appreciate it from where we sit.
There is a great work force of pro-Bush people out in freeper lurker land who have been shoved out of the discussion by bashers. There are lots of us who want to know what’s going on, but wouldn’t go on a standard immigration thread if our lives depended on it, because the disdain for us there is palpable. We may agree with the idea of a guest worker program, or we may not, but we don‘t want to be labeled just because our ideas are different.
So…… LET US HELP YOU, PLEASE! We are activists, and we are willing to work.
Tell us what we can do. Let’s band together on this important issue to do whatever we can do to put pressure on Congress, the White House, state and local governments………polite, respectful pressure……….as well as encouraging them when they do make good decisions, and see what happens.
What do you think? Can we be pro-active and actually get something done? Can we discuss this without rancor, but with the common goal in mind to rescue our beloved country from invasion?
If you think so, please ping those who will, without personal attacks, tell us their stories, and let us get involved in getting something done. This thread is not to place blame, but to come up with solutions.
This is America………..and we are Freepers! Let’s ROLL!
Is there anything about deportation of visa violators in the House bill?
Great idea.
1. Us TODAY'S TOONS to influence miderates and thinking liberals. Encourage them to speak up for sanity about immigration. A surprising number of them have strong feelings about protecting our borders.
2. When in line at WalMart, make thoughtful, humorous, thought-provoking comments about the issues which will result in folks hearing moving toward the sane position.
3. Print FR articles and give or email to those who's minds might be changed by them.
4. If you have a business, and can get away with it given your customer base . . . have a stack of such articles available at the counter.
5. Encourage the Minute Men with notes and/or donations and speak up for them inletters to the editor and in your social networks.
6. Be alert to any teacher's hostility to protecting our borders and speak up quickly and forcefully to the principal and school board.
7. Host neighborhood Bar-B-Q's and brainstorm about how our borders could become better protected. One can identify liberal idiots and serve them notice with with, humor and cleaverness that their position is suicidal to the country.
8. Speak up at townhall meetings etc. and insure that listeners realize the crucialness of protecting our bordders for the durability and health of our Nation, Neighborhoods and families.
--Qx borrowing Jocko's computer as mine is having serious problems today.
BUMP!
*haven't thought about Dual citizenship, Lib.
Any thoughts, anyone?*
Since most already have their allegiance to Mexico and
will not learn English, that would just reinforce the problem.
So the pressure has to be both on the Congress AND the President to improve ID's, then.
LOL! And then, pass a law saying they have to enforce the law saying they have to enforce the laws they passed. And then...
There is room for common ground here. If the Dems wouldn't be so divisive on every issue (for nothing more than to score "hit" points with the kook fringe), just think of the possibilities!
It was bleak.
ME TOO!!
"Good post! Ending the anchor baby incentive would certainly be a deterrent. There's certainly nothing in your post I wouldn't agree with 100%!"
ID's are issued by states....Fed can push for more common ID's, but the states have to be willing to implement. Otherwise we have to push for a federal ID, which the Dems are against.
Kum Ba ya my lord ....
Kum Ba ya
BTTT!
Excellent post, NewLand!
The only way I survived was to rent that house out for as much as I could and bundle the family up and head to Saudi Arabia. The whole family lived there for about a year and then they went back to the states and I stayed off and on for 6 more years.
Repeating this excellent question.
Are these state laws or Federal, and who do we go to in order to end social welfare to illegals??
Anyone??
Pardon my not knowing this, but does say, Ohio, have different ID requirements than California?
That was part of our AZ Prop 200 voted into law in 2004 and 9th Circuit ruled it's legal, yet to be implemented by Janet Napolitano.
I will say this is one of the issues of the 1986 law that should be revisited, along with the Social Security Administration inadequacies, because right now Doctors cannot refuse to provide service and cannot inquire if a patient is legal or illegal -- the Hippocratic oath precludes the first and the law takes care of the second. Right now Medicaid (you and I) pays for a whole lot of medical care for illegal immigrants.
The great majority are state laws. Some benefits have been mandated through the Federal Courts I believe but each state controls it's own welfare programs.
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