Posted on 05/20/2003 8:43:51 AM PDT by BeerSwillr
I've had it with illegal aliens, illegal immigration, and the complicit attitude of US immigration policy!
My 16 year old has been looking for a summer job for the last 3 months, what he's found has been surprising. Not only are there no summer jobs available, there are no jobs available, period, for someone with no experience.
So you say he's not looking hard enough? That the jobs are there, you just have to find them. HA!
All the entry level, low skill jobs that would normally be taken by teenagers and young adults during the summer are being taken by illegal immigrants, at least here in Texas. The few places that don't hire illegals have to contend with 10 or more applicants for each open position.
So who is this hurting you ask? Just a few teenagers who will be back in school in a couple of months? Just a few teenagers that will contribute little to the overall economic picture? WRONG!
You know the answer. It's hurting everyone. Teenagers would spend almost every penny they earned, contributing immensely to the overall economic health of the US. They would be in the malls, movie theaters, and restaurants spending their hard earned pay, leaving their parents free to spend their money on something else.
The illegal aliens? They used to maintain a low profile. Now, they don't bother. They can be seen everywhere; mowing lawns, planting trees, roofing & framing houses, working at the lube shack, pouring concrete, gathering at several official and unofficial day worker hang-outs in the mornings (when it would be extremely easy for immigration to swoop in and arrest them.)
Where you don't and won't see them is out spending their money (except for at Wal-Mart.) You don't see them at Bennigans, Chilis, Tony Romas, Cinemark, the mall, car dealerships, etc.
Know why?
They don't have any money to spend on the US economy because they're sending everything except a small subsistence back to Mexico.
The illegals are not here to help us or the US economy. Anyone that says they are here to take jobs that US citizens don't want is being disingenuous.
They're siphoning off millions of dollars a year from the economy. Not only by taking jobs, but a host of other ways; education benefits, medical assistance, government assistance, thievery, robbery, drug dealing, you name it, they're involved in it.
And what is the Department of Homeland Security™ doing about this? They're putting on a dog and pony show.
They're outlining major new methods of monitoring ports of entry, airports, etc. with biometrics, fingerprinting, radar, facial recognition technology, and who knows what else, while at the same time doing nothing to monitor thousands of miles of open space where, apparently, it is relatively easy to cross into the US.
It seems to me that simple reconnaissance flights over that vast unmonitored territory would be able to identify these border violations and put a stop to, or at least slow, this illegal invasion of our country.
The Department of Homeland Security™ is largely ignoring the issue. Illegal entry into the US continues unabated across our borders.
It makes me sick.
What can we do about it? Other than mew weakly and post articles like this on the large wasteland that is the internet?
Contact your elected officials and let them know what you're thinking. Let them know you will hold them accountable. It's all in our hands.
http://www.senate.gov/
http://www.house.gov/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Um, this is not ancient Israel, Tiffany. This is the modern United States of America.
Okay, now we've established where we are geographically and historically. It's time to ground yourself intellectually as well.
"Undocumented" is illegal. These people have not gone through the proper process to enter and be assimilated into our society. They need to stay in their own and improve it, or else follow the rules already laid down for becoming part of ours. Circumventing that is illegal and immoral as well. We are under no Biblical injunction to aid lawbreaking, especially for such reasons. Our country gives untold billions in foreign aid to every country imaginable, including Mexico. We are not lacking in compassion by insisting they follow our laws.
It took 16 years for us to finalize the American citizenship of our daughter whom we adopted while living in Brazil in the late 80s. 16 years! While "undocumented"--I mean, illegal--aliens were running roughshod over the very generous system set up in this country to help our own people in need, and while Arab terrorists were entering on student and visitors' visas to murder and maim.
Your ill-advised clamor for open borders is all emotion and demonstrates an obvious lack of considering the consequences. But then, liberals are famous for acting upon emotion and impulse, and leaving conservatives to clean up the mess.
Well if you don't like FR, why are you here?
Trying to improve my reading comprehension skills.
Lighten up, Flyer. I get called a racist almost every day -- I'm a conservative Republican.
I do believe that you are in the wrong place for that sort of thing....LOL.
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