Frankly, I don't care if our so-called "leaders" fail to act.
More than a few of these entrenched incumbents will feel the voters wrath when we arrange primary challenges.
Posted on 07/03/2007 4:01:40 AM PDT by theothercheek
In a classic application of bottom-up management denizens of small towns let their elected representatives in Washington D.C. know exactly how they expected them to handle the compromised immigration compromise bill that neither secured our borders, nor was any more enforceable than previous legislation it was meant to "fix."
Earlier waves of immigrants – legal and illegal – flocked to CA, , FL, IL, NJ, NY and TX ("gateway" states) but have been dispersing across a wider swath of the U.S. since 2000. The foreign-born, non-English speaking populations of DE, GA, IN, NE, NV and SC have exploded, say demographers, with the "newcomers" (as President Bush is wont to call them) preferentially settling in (some say, overrunning) small towns and sleepy suburbs. And people who live in these places saying, "enough!"
Here’s what Stephanie Usrey, 39, a stay-at-home mother who lives in Gainesville, GA, tells The Washington Post about the "aha" moment she had at a local Wal-Mart about five years ago:
"That was the first time I looked around and said, 'Man, I didn't realize how many Mexicans there were here.' And they don't seem to feel any discomfort when they're, like, six inches from your face and talking to each other in their language, either. I just felt very encroached upon. . . . It was like an instant feeling of 'I'm in the minority, and if we don't get control over this, pretty soon all of America will be outnumbered.'"
Spurred into activism by talk-radio Usrey and tens of thousands others like her in small towns all across the U.S. "bombarded their senators with phone calls and e-mails decrying the bill as an unacceptable amnesty for the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants," says the WaPo. And they didn’t let up till they got results:
Nowhere were the bill's opponents more influential than here in Georgia, whose two Republican senators, Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss, originally helped craft the legislation. Two days after its unveiling in May, Chambliss was booed at his state's Republican convention. Isakson's office received more than 21,000 calls from opponents of the bill, compared with 6,000 from supporters.
[B]oth Georgia senators voted to kill the bill they once supported.
Another example of bottom-up management: With the federal government unable or unwilling to enforce existing immigration laws, small town governments, like Hazelton, PA, and Framers Branch, TX, took matters into their own hands by enacting local ordinances against businesses that hire illegal labor. And some local enforcement officials have decided to, well, enforce immigration law.
Panama City, FL, Sheriff Frank McKeithen, for one, has been targeting construction sites, and has arrested more than 500 illegal aliens and reported them to immigration officials since November. The Miami Herald reports:
The sheriff's department has developed a remarkably effective - and controversial - way of catching illegal immigrants: Deputies in patrol cars pull up to a construction site in force, and watch and see who runs.
Those who take off are chased down and arrested on charges such as trespassing, for cutting through someone else's property, or loitering, for hiding out in someone's yard, or reckless driving, for speeding off in a car.
U.S. immigration authorities are then given the names of those believed to be in this country illegally.
Immigrant advocates say the technique is repugnant, and the ACLU says its constitutionality is questionable. …
The sheriff said the raids are justified under a long-standing Florida law prohibiting employers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.
Such local initiatives are not going unnoticed by state legislatures, which are now going even further in attempting to curb illegal immigration, according to The WaPo:
By the time most legislatures adjourned in May, at least 1,100 immigration bills had been submitted by lawmakers, more than double last year's record total, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. This year's total is expected to grow as the issue continues to dominate debate in statehouses still in session.
These laws limit illegal immigrants' ability to obtain jobs, find housing, get driver's licenses and receive many government services. They also empower state law enforcement agencies to inquire into an immigrant's legal status and hold for deportation those deemed to be here illegally. The idea is to make life so difficult for illegal immigrants that they will leave the state -- if not the country. …
At least 18 states have enacted laws concerning illegal immigrants. Most of the legislation is seen as punitive, and it reflects legislators' anger at the federal government's inability to seal the southern border and at provisions in the Senate bill that would allow the 12 million illegal immigrants already here a path to citizenship. …
[M]any states are increasingly frustrated at having to provide expensive services for illegal immigrants.
In a repudiation of the "sanctuary city" trend, local police in OK now train with federal authorities to learn how to find and capture illegal immigrants, and AZ is considering allowing officers to ask people they arrest whether they are U.S. citizens and to seize them if they don’t have valid documents to prove it.
OK also bars illegal immigrants from receiving public assistance, VA approved a proposal to withhold state and local funding from any non-profit group that uses the money to provide services to illegal immigrants and MA rejected a proposal that would have allowed illegal immigrants to pay in-state college tuition.
The Masters Of The Universe and the business community might not like it, but when marshaled, the will of the people is a force to be reckoned with.
“These ivory tower types have no idea how frightened Americans are.
Illegals are coming into upscale residential areas-——strolling our streets like they owned them.
The illegals look at us with strange, hooded eyes, lusting after our cars, our property. Americans wonder if they are coming to rape or kill us.
Americans cannot ask what illegals are doing in our neighborhoods-—a NYC actress spoke up, and was strangled and hung in her shower. The murder was staged to look like a suicide by the 19-year old killer (an illegal). God knows how many other crimes he committed-—so practiced was he at staging his brutal murder of this young woman.
Americans want this to stop. We want our gov’t to do something about this. We want our government to act to protect us.
Illegals who broke the law sneaking into our country feel they have the right to takeover our streets and frighten, murder rob and rape law-abiding Americans?
This has to end.”
Our leaders will do nothing, so it is up to local police
and lawsuits to stop this.
Frankly, I don't care if our so-called "leaders" fail to act.
More than a few of these entrenched incumbents will feel the voters wrath when we arrange primary challenges.
Trent Lott..............”Proudly caving in to my liberal collegues for over 25 years”
Five traitors in search of a clue : )
"Five traitors in search of a clue" (by stephenjohnbanker)
" Ole, amigos, let's ind Trent and go have a
horchata and a churros in the Senate tacoteria ....
Viva Mexico."
LOL!
I guess they will just have to wait for that in house taco stand : )
Here’s an interesting site to cut/paste in to browser.
http://www.city-data.com/top34.html
(Sorry... haven’t learned the linking thing on FR yet.)
It's good to be prepared. And just because I am so darn nice,
I am sending each Senator who voted for amnesty my personal gift:
But I know they love "surprises," so I am relabeling the gallon "Tomato Juice."
Thank God for Small Town America!
I raised in small town America with a population of less than 500. No politicians and no lawyers=no crime. Small town America law abiding and determined to stay that way.
You should see Smyrna, GA. It is wall to wall Mexicans and the Marietta Wal-Mart should be called a Mex-Mart. Several months ago when I went in the Marietta Wal-Mart one of the people there caught one of the Mexicans shoplifting. Of course, the Mexican tried the “no habla ingles” routine. The Wal-Mart employee screamed “Speak English. This is not Mexico!” I don’t know what happend to the Mexican. Probably nothing.
Chamblee and Doraville are full of illegals as well. Thanks to the damned elites, we are being turned into a third world rathole. Ann Coulter is entirely right in talking about turning the country into a roach motel.
This invasion of our country must be stopped, and it will. If the elites don’t get in touch with the reality of what is happening, it wouldn’t surprise me to see a violent reaction to it. Americans are growing increasingly fed up with the Mexican invasion, and fed up with seeing no benefit for anyone but the political elites, the chamber of commerce, the carpet mills, and the chicken houses. The politicians and big business are offloading the problems and costs of this illegal invasion onto the productive taxpayers and law abiding citizens.
Just think, we could change damn near everything if we get behind it.
Next up, scapping the income tax and abolishing the IRS.
It's time to flex even more muscle and take our country back!
Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders!
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Courtesy of a pro-amnesty group, no less!!
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Take a look at their hidden agenda: http://www.mexica-movement.org
ROTFLMBO!!
Becky, shortly after 9/11 the Mexicans here in Green Bay, WI still held their little parades & independence celebration (Sept 17 or 18, I believe) without any consideration of what just happened a week ago. There were dozens of them, driving their “low-rider” cars and kids riding tricked-out bicycles. It was completely demoralizing.
These invaders care nothing about us!
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