Border Crossing: Problem- Illegal Immigration

I am a natural born citizen of the United States of America. My parents and their parents before them were born in this country. I was educated here and I speak English. If you want to live and work in my country, then get in line and learn about my country; learn to speak the language and pay taxes like the rest of us. I have no problem with you wanting to live here, I just require that you go about doing so legally. If you want to live here, become a citizen, learn our history and language. Don't try to make the rest of us adapt to you. This country was founded by English speaking people. I do not recall any Mexican National signatories on the Constitution, nor was it drafted in Spanish.

I am an American citizen. I am not responsible for the sins of my ancestors, I live here now, not centuries ago. I was born in the 20th century. I am not proud of what my ancestors have done to the natives of this land, but I had nothing to do with it. I can however, speak out against what foreign nationals would do to this country now.

My great grandfather watched as his friends died in the Civil War, my father watched as his friends died in WW II, and I watched as my friends died in Vietnam.

None of them died for the Mexican Flag.

Everyone died for the U.S. flag.

Just this week, here in Texas, a student raised a Mexican flag on a school flag pole; another student took it down.

Guess who was expelled...the kid who took it down.

Kids in high school in California were sent home this week on Cinco de Mayo becausethey wore T-shirts with the American flag printed on them.

Enough is enough.

The below e-mail message needs to be viewed by every American; and every American needs to stand up for America .

We've bent over to appease the America-haters long enough. I'm taking a stand.

I'm standing up because the hundreds of thousands who died fighting in wars for this country,and for the U.S. flag can't stand up. If you agree, stand up with me.

If you disagree, please let me know.

I will gladly remove you from my e-mail list.

And shame on anyone who tries to make this a racist message.

Sandy Tucker

Bulverde, Texas

THIS IS MY COUNTRY!

And, because I make this statement THAT DOES NOT mean I'm against immigration!!!

YOU ARE WELCOME HERE, IN MY COUNTRY!

Welcome to come here legally:

1. Get a sponsor!

2. Get a place to lay your head!

3. Get a job!

4. Live By OUR Rules!

5. Pay YOUR Taxes!
And
6. Learn the LANGUAGE like immigrants have in every other country in the past!!!

AND

7. Please don't demand that we hand over our lifetime savings of Social Security Funds to you.

When will AMERICANS STOP giving away THEIR RIGHTS???

We've gone so far the other way... bent over backwards not to offend anyone.

But it seems no one cares about the AMERICAN CITIZEN who's being offended!

Let me make this perfectly clear!

Back in the 80's when illegals were given amnesty, it just opened the doors for more illegals. Now you want to do it again? Again, I ask, are you insane?

The only way to stop illegal immigration is to enforce the laws we have on our books, not to give a free pass to those who have already broken the law.

Your plan will be a determent to our economy. As soon as all the illegals you want to give amnesty to receive it, a new flood of illegals will pour through the borders, expecting that if they can manage to stay here long enough they'll get amnesty too. Learn from our past mistake, don't repeat it.

OBAMA 2012

I, Tina Griego, journalist for the Denver Rocky Mountain News wrote a column titled, "Mexican Visitor's Lament"- 10/25/07.

I interviewed Mexican journalist Evangelina Hernandez while visiting Denver last week. Hernandez said, "illegal aliens pay rent, buy groceries, buy clothes. What Happens to your country's economy if 20 million people go away?" Hummm, I thought, what would happen, so I did my due diligence, buried my nose as a reporter into the FACTS I found below.

It's a good question it deserves an honest answer. Over 80% of Americans demand secured borders and illegal migration stopped. But what would happen if all 20 million or more vacated America ? The answers I found may surprise you!

In California , if 3.5 million illegal aliens moved back to Mexico , it would leave an extra $10.2 billion to spend on overloaded school systems, bankrupt hospitals and overrun prisons. It would leave highways cleaner, safer and less congested. Everyone could understand one another as English became the dominant language again.

In Colorado , 500,000 illegal migrants, plus their 300,000 kids and grand-kids would move back 'home', mostly to Mexico . That would save Coloradans an estimated $2 billion (other experts say $7 billion) annually in taxes that pay for schooling, medical, social-services and incarceration costs. It means 12,000

gang members would vanish out of Denver alone.

Colorado would save more than $20 million in prison costs, and the terror that those 7,300 alien criminals set upon local citizens. Denver Officer Don Young and hundreds of Colorado victims would not have suffered death, accidents, rapes and other crimes by illegals.

Denver Public Schools would not suffer a 67% drop-out/flunk-out rate because of thousands of illegal alien students speaking 41 different languages. At least 200,000 vehicles would vanish from our gridlocked cities in Colorado . Denver 's 4% unemployment rate would vanish as our working poor would gain jobs at a living wage.

In Florida , 1.5 million illegals would return the Sunshine State back to America , the rule of law, and English.

In Chicago , Illinois , 2.1 million illegals would free up hospitals, schools, prisons and highways for a safer, cleaner and more crime-free experience.

If 20 million illegal aliens returned 'home', the U.S. Economy would return to the rule of law. Employers would hire legal American citizens at a living wage. Everyone would pay their fair share of taxes because they wouldn't be working off the books. That would result in an additional $401 Billion in IRS income taxes collected annually, and an equal amount for local, state and city coffers.

No more push '1' for Spanish or '2' for English. No more confusion in American schools that now must contend with over 100 languages that degrade the educational system for American kids. Our over-crowded schools would lose more than two million illegal alien kids at a cost of billions in ESL and free breakfasts and lunches.

We would lose 500,000 illegal criminal alien inmates at a cost of more than $1.6 billion annually. That includes 15,000 MS-13 gang members who distribute $130 billion in drugs annually would vacate our country.

In cities like L.A. , 20,000 members of the ' 18th Street Gang' would vanish from our nation. No more Mexican forgery gangs for ID theft from Americans! No more foreign rapists and child molesters!

Losing more than 20 million people would clear up our crowded highways and gridlock. Cleaner air and less drinking and driving American deaths by illegal aliens!

America's economy is drained. Taxpayers are harmed. Employers get rich. Over $80 billion annually wouldn't return to the aliens' home countries by cash transfers. Illegal migrants earned half that money untaxed, which further drains America 's economy which currently suffers an $8.7 trillion debt.
$8.7 trillion debt.

At least 400,000 anchor babies would not be born in our country, costing us $109 billion per year per cycle. At least 86 hospitals in California , Georgia and Florida would still be operating instead of being bankrupt out of existence because illegals pay nothing via the EMTOLA Act.

Americans wouldn't suffer thousands of TB and hepatitis cases rampant in our country-brought in by illegals unscreened at our borders.

Our cities would see 20 million less people driving, polluting and grid locking our cities. It would also put the 'progressives' on the horns of a dilemma; illegal aliens and their families cause 11% of our greenhouse gases.

Over one million of Mexico's poorest citizens now live inside and along our border from Brownsville, Texas to San Diego, California in what the New York Times called, 'colonias' or new neighborhoods. Trouble is, those living areas resemble Bombay and Calcutta where grinding poverty, filth, diseases, drugs, crimes, no sanitation and worse. They live without sewage, clean water, streets, roads, electricity, or any kind of sanitation.

The New York Times reported them to be America 's new ' Third World ' inside our own country. Within 20 years, at their current growth rate, they expect 20 million residents of those colonias. (I've seen them personally in Texas and Arizona ; it's sickening beyond anything you can imagine.)

By enforcing our laws, we could repatriate them back to Mexico . We should invite 20 million aliens to go home, fix their own countries and/or make a better life in Mexico . We already invite a million people into our country legally more than all other countries combined annually. We cannot and must not allow anarchy at our borders, more anarchy within our borders and growing lawlessness at every level in our nation. It's time to stand up for our country, our culture, our civilization and our way of life.

Interesting Statistics!

Here are 14 reasons illegal aliens should vacate America, and I hope they are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them:
1. $14 billion to $22 billion dollars are spent each year on welfare to illegal aliens.(that's Billion with a 'B') -http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2. $2.2 billion dollars are spent each year on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

3. $7.5 billion dollars are spent each year on Medicaid for illegal aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4. $12 billion dollars are spent each year on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they still cannot speak a word of English! http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

5. $27 billion dollars are spent each year for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

6. $3 Million Dollars 'PER DAY' is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. That's $1.2 Billion a year. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

7. 28% percent of all federal prison inmates are illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

8. $190 billion dollars are spent each year on illegal aliens for welfare & social services by the American taxpayers. - http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

9. $200 billion dollars per year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US . http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

11. During the year 2005, there were 8 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our southern border with as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from other terrorist countries. Over 10,000 of those were middle-eastern terrorists. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine, crack, Guns, and marijuana crossed into the U.S.from the southern border. http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

12. The National Policy Institute, estimates that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion, or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period and nbsp; -http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute./.org/publications.php?b=deportation

13. In 2006, illegal aliens sent home $65 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin, to their families and friends. http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

14. The dark side of illegal immigration: Nearly one million sex crimes are committed by illegal immigrants in the United States ! http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

Total cost a whopping $538.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!

You have two families: "Joe Legal" and "José Illegal"..
Both families have two parents, two children, and live in California .

Joe Legal works in construction, has a Social Security Number and makes $25.00 per hour with taxes deducted.

José Illegal also works in construction, has NO Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash "under the table".

Ready? Now pay attention...

Joe Legal: $25.00 per hour x 40 hours = $1000.00 per week, or $52,000.00 per year. Now take 30% away for state and federal tax; Joe Legal now has
$31,231.00.

José Illegal: $15.00 per hour x 40 hours = $600.00 per week, or $31,200.00 per year. Jose Illegal pays no taxes. Jose Illegal now has
$31,200...00.

Joe Legal pays medical and dental insurance with limited coverage for his family at $600.00 per month, or $7,200.00 per year. Joe Legal now
has $24,031.00.

José Illegal has full medical and dental coverage through the state and local clinics at a cost of $0.00 per year. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal makes too much money and is not eligible for food stamps or welfare. Joe Legal pays $500.00 per month for food, or $6,000.00 per
year. Joe Legal now has $18,031.00.

Joseé Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for food stamps and welfare. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal pays rent of $1,200.00 per month, or $14,400.00 per year. Joe Legal now has $9,631.00.

José Illegal receives a $500.00 per month federal rent subsidy. Jose Illegal pays out that $500.00 per month, or $6,000.00 per year. Jose Illegal still has $ 31,200..00.

Joe Legal pays $200.00 per month, or $2,400.00 for insurance. Joe Legal now has $7,231.00.

José Illegal says, "We don't need no stinkin' insurance!" and still has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal has to make his $7,231.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, etc.

José Illegal has to make his $31,200.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, and what he sends out of the country every month.

Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.

José Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.

Joe Legal's and José Illegal's children both attend the same school. Joe Legal pays for his children's lunches while José Illegal's children get a government sponsored lunch. José Illegal's children have an after school ESL program. Joe Legal's children go home.

Joe Legal and José Illegal both enjoy the same police and fire services, but Joe paid for them and José did not pay.

Do you get it, now?

If you vote for or support any politician that supports illegal aliens...

(You are) or (are You not) part of the problem!

It's way PAST time to take a stand for America and Americans!

What are you waiting for? Pass it on.

Recently large demonstrations have taken place Across the country protesting the fact that Arizona Is addressing the issue of illegal immigration.

Certain people are angry that The US might protect its own Borders, might make it harder To sneak into this country and, Once here, to stay indefinitely. Let me see if I correctly understand The thinking behind these protests. Let's say I break into your house. Let's say that when you discover Me in your house, you insist that I leave. But I say, 'No! I like it here. It's better than my house. I've made all The beds and washed the Dishes and did the laundry And swept the floors. I've Done all the things you don't Like to do. I'm hard-working And honest (except for when I broke into your house).

According to the protesters: You are Required to let me stay in your house You are Required to feed me You are Required to add me to your family's insurance plan You are Required to Educate my kids You are Required to Provide other benefits to me & to my family (my husband will do all of your yard work because He is also hard-working and honest, except for that Breaking in part).

If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your House carrying signs that proclaim my RIGHT to be there.

It's only fair, after all, because you have A nicer house than I do, and I'm just Trying to better myself. I'm a hard-working And honest, person, except for well, You know, I did break into your house And what a deal it is for me!!!

I live in your house, contributing only a Fraction of the cost of my keep, and There is nothing you can do about it Without being accused of cold,

Uncaring, selfish, prejudiced, and Bigoted behavior.

Oh yeah, I DEMAND that you learn MY LANGUAGE!!! So you can Communicate with me.

Why can't people see how ridiculous This is? Only in America .

I don't know how everybody else feels about it, but to me

I think Hispanic people in this country, legally or illegally, made a huge public relations mistake with their recent demonstrations.

I don't blame anybody in the world for wanting to come to the United States of America, as it is a truly wonderful place.

But when the first thing you do when you set foot on American soil is illegal,

it is flat out wrong and I don't care how many lala land left heads come out

of the woodwork and start trying to give me sensitivity lessons.

I don't need sensitivity lessons, in fact I don't have any-thing against Mexicans!

I just have something against criminals and anybody who comes into this country

illegally is a criminal and if you don't believe it try coming into America

from a foreign country without a passport and see how far you get.

What disturbs me about the demonstrations is that it's tanta-mount to saying,

"I am going to come into your country even if it means breaking your laws

and there's nothing you can do about it."

It's an "in your face" action and speaking just for me,

I don't like it one little bit

and if there were a half dozen pairs of gonads in Washington

bigger than English peas, it wouldn't be happening.

Where are you, you bunch of lily livered, pantywaist, forked tongued,

sorry excuses for defenders of The Constitution?

Have you been drinking the water out of the Potomac again? And even if you pass a bill on immigration, it will probably be so pork laden and watered down that it won't mean anything anyway.

Besides, what good is another law going to do when you won't enforce the ones on the books now?

And what ever happened to the polls, guys?

I thought you folks were the quintessential finger wetters.

Well you sure ain't paying any attention to the polls this time because somewhere around eighty percent of Americans want some thing done about this mess, and mess it is and getting bigger everyday.

This is no longer a problem, it is a dilemma and headed for being a tragedy.

Do you honestly think what what happened in France with the Muslims can't happen here when the businesses who hire these people finally run out of jobs and a few million disillusioned
Hispanics take to the streets?

If you, Mr. President, Congressmen and Senators, knuckle under on this and refuse to do something meaningful, it means that you care nothing for the kind of country your children and grand-children will inherit.

But I guess that doesn't matter as long as you get re-elected. Shame on you. One of the big problems in America today is that if you have the nerve to say anything derogatory about any group of people (except Christians), you are going to be screamed at by the media and called a racist, a bigot and anything else they can think of to call you.

Well, I've been pounded by the media before and I'm still rockin' and rollin' and when it comes to speaking the truth, I fear not. And the truth is that the gutless, gonadless, milksop politicians are just about to sell out the United States of America because they don't have the intestinal fortitude to stand up to face reality.

And reality is that we would never allow any other group of people to have 12 million illegal in this country and turn around and say, "Oh it's ok, ya'll can stay here if you'll just allow us to slap your wrist."

And I know that some of you who read this column are saying "Well what's wrong with that?" I'll tell you what's wrong with it.

These people could be from Mars as far as we know.

We don't know who they are, where they are or what they're up to and the way the Congress is going, we're not going to.

Does this make sense? Labor force you say?

We already subsidize corporate agriculture as it is.

Must we subsidize their labor as well? If these people were from Haiti, would we be so fast to turn a blind eye to them or if they were from Somalia or Afghanistan? I think not.

All the media shows us are pictures of hard working Hispanics who have crossed the border just to try to better their life. They don't show you pictures of the Feds rounding up members of MS 13,
the violent gang who came across the same way the decent folks did.

They don't tell you about the living conditions of the Mexican illegal that some fat cat hired to pick his crop.

I want to make two predictions:

No. 1:

This situation is going to grow and fester until it erupts in violence on our streets while the wimps in Washington drag their toes in the dirt and try to figure how many tons of political hay they can make to the acre.

No 2:

Somebody is going to cross that border with some kind of weapon of mass destruction and set it off in a major American city after which there will be a backlash such as this country has never experienced and the Capitol building in Washington will probably tilt as Congressmen and Senators rush to the other side of the issue.

I don't know about you but I would love to see just one major politician stand up and say, "I don't care who I make mad and I don't care how many votes I lose.

This is a desperate situation and I'm going to lead the fight to get it straightened out." I don't blame anybody for wanting to come to America,

but if you don't respect our immigration laws, why should you respect any others? And by the way, this is America and our flag has stars and stripes.

Please get that other one out of my face.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

Back in the day, when people wanted to start a new life by coming to the United States, they followed a procedure. They came to Ellis Island and stood in line to be processed into this country. They found a job and learned the language. It didn't matter where they came from, they did whatever it took to become a United States Citizen. They didn't demand that everyone else acclimate to them, they worked hard to become legal citizens of this country, their new country; to acclimate to their new home.

They did not sneak across the boarder, breaking the law of the land they wanted to call their own. They did not beg for hand-outs from the government, because they knew they wouldn't get any and they had an honest work ethic. They found work, worked hard and played by the rules.

Back then we did not have massive corporations sending our manufacturing jobs over seas, making it difficult to find work, nor did we have businesses willing to pay cash under the table to migrant workers without documentation either. This was a land of opportunity for all Americans. Now it has become the land of opportunity for illegals, not American citizens.

Those of us who were born here can't afford a decent education, and can't find work because all of the jobs that are left are being handed to non-citizens of this country in the name of corporate profits. In this land of opportunity and free enterprise, Capitalism has become nothing more than a system of the rich getting richer off of the labor of illegal immigrants, while the American citizen goes hungry looking for work. You have to know that things are bad, when illegals start going home.

It chaps my ass that I was born in this country, but I have no health care, I can't find a job, living below the poverty level, I do not qualify for food stamps, but anyone who sneaks across the boarder can get those things without question. The government will even house them for free, while I worry about my mortgage payment each month.

The solution to the problem is pretty clear; even I can see it... Enforce immigration laws and do not allow corporations to hire illegals, nor send jobs over seas. These days, you'd be hard pressed to find a product here that was made here. My son once asked me if everything was made in China, after looking over his toys. I say, if the Chinese want to sell their stuff here, make them build it here, using our native workforce.

To those who whine and complain about this country, I say this: It is still the best place to live, or why would so many people risk their lives to come here illegally. If you don't like the way this country is run, you have two choices:
1) Stand up and be heard.
2) Go live some place else.

What do we American's have to do to be treated better than we are? Must we become Mexican Nationals and sneak back here?

I mean really... We coddle these people, sending out every piece of paper generated by the government in five different languages, so no one has to learn OUR language, denying American's jobs because they are not bilingual. Spanish was an elective in the American high school I graduated from; I never knew that not taking that class would keep me from getting a job in this country. (I took French.)

When was the last time anyone visited a jail? They are full of Mexicans. Our jails, particularly in the southwestern United States are filled with non-English speaking people. The best part is that they get fed and housed while the government tries to find translators for them to process them through our criminal justice system. Either way, illegals get what they're after, whether they are caught or not. They get government services, or they get put up in one of our jails, but regardless, they are fed and sheltered.

While making an appearance in traffic court, I was amazed to see seven Mexican men in jail jumpers, being told that they could not have a hearing that day because there were no translators available, so the bailiff was instructed to take them back to the jail. Shouldn't judges be required to speak Spanish? Who but a judge would be the perfect person to explain the proceedings to the defendant?

There is something fundamentally wrong when the only job creation in an area is in linguistics. The only way to get a job is to speak another language and become a translator for the court, so that illegals can get a fair hearing? What if you were to claim that you don't speak English if you're ever arrested. Hey, there is a free meal and a bed in it for ya.

I am all for the person who genuinely wants to better their life by coming to America; I am not into those who would do it by breaking the law straight from the get-go, and refusing to learn the language. I am an American tax payer and I have a problem with illegals who are healthier and eat better than I do.

I was born here, I speak English and I am unemployed. Do I have a right to be angry? I think so.