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/
In both cases the staff was 100 percent hispanic, (100 percent hispanic or 100 percent illegal immigrants?) and on both visits I had to repeat my order twice due to the tenuous grasp of the English language. (That's always frustrating.)
Both places were in upscale suburban neighborhoods. (THE HORROR!)
Specifically, it's the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Wrong!
You wont find anything in the history books about this, epic, titanic invasion of literally millions of illegals that are pouring into America.
It's lawlessness on a *nationwide* scale. No, this has not been going on since the beginning of time. The last 20 years? Yes.
But that was a nice attempt to try and minimize this crisis.......
They have these places in Houston, too.
Did you see the thread a couple of weeks ago about how they're bulding a "pavillion" at taxpayers' expense for the illegals to wait for day labor trucks to pull up? This is in Arlington, VA. It just keeps getting worse.
Most of the "legals" that have been in the country less than 20 years are in fact prior "amnestied" Illegal Aliens or relatives of amnestied illegals (Read: chain immigration). It appears that the current bumper crop of Illegal Aliens are, like their kin before them, waiting for the NEXT amnesty. And George Bush is doing everything he can to deliver on this.
That's the quandery in a nutshell. Concerning the illegals that are already here, no party is going to send out thousands of INS or military to round up and deport illegals from all over the US (and break up families with children who are citizens and parents who are not) and put illegals on cattle cars headed for Mexico (political suicide), etc. Do we grant amnesty to avoid a bigger underground economy? To create more eventual tax payers?, etc....Or do we leave them as fugitives to hide and become criminals and push drugs and steal to eat from you and me, and grow a subculture that hates us, etc. Which of those alternative is best for us in the long run?
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