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/
What is with these dumb, juvenile questions. Is this suppose to be an intentional distraction or diversion from the this real crisis?
Hubby and I own a business, and we've only had one hispanic worker. Now our crew consists of a son and son-in-law.
But re: sending the $$ back home, we purchase all our inventory from a company in B'ham, and one of their employees does just that -- he works here most of the year, and supports his wife and 7 children and his parents in Mexico with what he makes in Birmingham. He's got a green card, so it's not just illegals which have this practice.
"Yes there are a lot of Hispanics in Al & Ga.Are they all illegal? No. They are honest hard working people.Many are buying homes and starting buisnesses.When the economy turns back up most of the places they work will be begging for workers.You could not build a house or plant a ball field in Atlanta without Hispanics.They are the only ones willing to work 12hrs a day in the sun. "
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IMO....you should have stopped after your first three sentences. Your last sentence is painting with as big and broad a brush as the poster who say's "all hispanics are illegally here".
Maybe you could buy a smaller brush?
Just an observation.......BWDIK??
FRegards,
I'll join a private boarder patrol for a few weeks a year if all of you will help!
Yip-n-&-Yap-in will not get it done!
We need 1 million new volunteers of america and forget the Senate.
"So why did your account sit totally unused for over two years, only to be activated to attack people on this thread?"
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Appears like you caught a mole..........
Nice work.
FRegards,
As someone born and raised in Georgia and who has spent many a 12 hour day working outside during he summer, let me just call BS on your assertion that only Hispanics are willing to work for a living. There are plenty of people here in Georgia that were earning a living doing work that has been supplanted by cheaper* illegal and immigrant labor.
* Cheaper because they are willing to live 12 to a house in many cases ... is that what we want America to become?
I guess I can't blame business owners for wanting people who will probably work longer than two months. Too bad for us parents. Too bad for the kids who need a little humility working at a usually crappy job making sandwiches or washing dishes.
P.S. I noticed last night that my daughter's math book has a spanish glossery. I thought that was interesting.
I remember fondly my summer hire jobs. One summer I worked as an assistant at a plumbing & sanitation company. They had a contract with restaurants around town cleaning out their grease traps and guess who's job it was to insert and remove the suction tube at each job site. Man I'll never forget that smell.
You honestly believe that? You have seriously misread the man I think. IMO, the only action GWB will take on illegal immigration "after 2004" (and it could be before) will be to exacerbate the crisis with amnesties and more Hispanic Welfare programs.
GW "wants" to do this. He has proven this point time and again with statements that openly condone Illegal Aliens coming across our borders and his strong arm tactics last year to ram through the 245(i) Amnesty bill---Tactics that left many in the republican house leadership befuddled and angry.
Legal or illegal, any attempt to fix the problem will influence legal minority voters to vote against GWB, and Rove's plan is to make bigger dents in conceded D voting blocs like Jews, Hispanics, and Blacks.
So it’s come down to this: To retain “political power” a republican president must cave into every minority demand even though it would do great harm to the country? I don’t think so.
Did you know that OVER half of Mexican/American "Citizens" are against Illegal Immigration and want something done about it? So exactly whose vote is GWB actually going after by conveniently forgetting his constitutionally mandated duties to uphold the U.S. Constitution and laws of this nation particularly as it relates to protecting our borders, sovereignty and enforcing our immigration laws?
I'd like to know, because it seems to me that the Hispanics Voters who would react favorably to leaving our borders open to this invasion and want more taxpayer financed welfare programs do not exactly fit the political profile of a conservative or a republican for that matter.
Yes--for the most part and Yes. Social Planners, for largely governmental/political purposes, conjured up the general term “Hispanic” years ago. It has little basis in reality today.
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