The Danger of Illegal Immigration
Posted on: Wednesday 6/13/2007 at 09:43:45 ET
Those ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it...
I have been paying attention to the illegal immigration problem here in the USA of late and honestly it makes me sick. Especially after recieving an email about the handouts that we the people bestow upon these illegals. Now, yes I know the subtitle to this article is a cliche but an appropriate one, as I am reminded of the history of Rome when I read about the immigration problems in the south western United States.
Consider the Visigoths...
"In 376, the Huns forced the Visigoths (western Goths) to leave their homeland near the Danube River in modern Austria. The Visigoths asked Emperor Valens permission to settle inside the Roman Empire. Valens agreed, but charged the Visigoths [what they considered to be] unfair prices for food and other supplies. When the Visigoths protested, Valens ordered them to leave. The Visigoths refused, and formed an army that defeated and killed the emperor in 378."
While not a complete analogy, allowing masses of foreign citizens to settle within our borders, without a naturalization process is a dangerous practice. Which Valens learned all to well...
Rome became weak, so stronger tribes took it over...the Anglo-Saxon's in Britain, the Franks in Gaul (the Frankish tribe is where "France" gets it's name from), the Goths in Spain, the Vandals and Lombards in present day Italy, and other tribes like the Visigoths, Huns, and others in the Germanic, eastern European and Baltic regions.
If the United States were to force illegal immigrants to naturalize or leave what will happen? Would they leave, or would they band together like the Visigoths and demand their right to stay? Haven't they done so already? Remember the protests of 2006 against illegal immigration enforcement and reform. Can you imagine any other country where persons in the country illegally came together en masse and were not rounded up and deported, or at least cited for their crime?
Not only does it seem that our governments are content in tolerating the blatent defiling of our sovereign soil, not to mention all the security and possible terrorisim issues, but we continue hemorrhaging our tax dollars into a broken system that the Californian teacher below describes...
Cheap Labor . . Cheap Tomatoes . .. . This should make everyone think, be you Democrat,
Republican or Independent !
From a California school teacher - - -"As you listen to the news about
the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:
I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern
California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students
average lower socioeconomic and income levels.
Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens, Huntington
Park, etc., where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.
Title 1 schools are on the free breakfa st and free lunch program. When I say free
breakfast, I'm not talking a glass of milk and roll -- but a full breakfast and cereal
bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is
monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten. (OUR TAX
DOLLARS AT WORK)
I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately
overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The school also provides day care
centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend
class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family
watch their kids. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the
upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my budget was already
substantial. I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of
which, one month l ater, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students
who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America. (OUR TAX
DOLLARS AT WORK)
I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes
consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less then 3 months who
raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them "Putas" whores and throwing
things that the teachers were in tears.
Free medical, free education, free food, day care etc., etc., etc. Is it any wonder
they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and
entitlements?
To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our
society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for
tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE
costs.
Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, high er medical costs, more crime, lower
standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases etc., etc, etc. For
me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.
We need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won't have
the guts to enforce it.
Does anyone in their right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and return?
There are many hardworking Hispanic/American citizens that contribute to our country
and many that I consider my true friends. We should encourage and accept those
Hispanics who have done it the right and legal way.
It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third-world culture that does
not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school
by 15 and that refuses to assimilate, and an American culture that has become so weak
and worried about "politically correct" that we don't have the will to do anything
about it.
If this makes your blood boil, as it did mi ne, forward this to everyone you know.
CHEAP LABOR?
Isn't that what the whole immigration issue is about?
Business doesn't want to pay a decent wage.
Consumers don't want expensive produce.
Government will tell you Americans don't want the jobs.
But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase "cheap labor" is a myth, a farce, and a
lie. there is no such thing as "cheap labor."
Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wi fe and five children. He takes a job for
$5.00 or $6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at
the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, he gets an "earned income
credit" of up to $3,200 free.
He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps.
He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.
His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.
He requires bilingual teachers and books.
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI. Once qualified
for SSI they can qualify for Medicare. All of this is at (our) taxpayer's expense.
He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.
Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.
He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills
and his.
The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and tr ash clean-up.
Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people. THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE
ADDRESSING TO THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR EITHER PARTY. AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US
AND DON'T DO AS THEY SAY, WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM AT ONCE !
THIS HAS GOT TO BE PASSED ALONG OR WE WILL ALL GO DOWN THE DRAIN BECAUSE A FEW DON'T
CARE !
How much longer are we going to allow radical-liberalism, political correctness, feel-good policy, and politicians more interested in winning elections and garnishing power than doing the people's business override our Borders, Language and, Culture?
In fact I'm more convinced, listening to the 2007 presidential hopefuls, that both of the political parties are only concerned with winning elections...and we let them get away with it. Candidates from both parties for all offices pander to the more radical or reactionary parts of their base supporters during the primary races, however they all run to the middle...or simply say what we want to hear during the run up to the general election.
It seems like nothing ever gets done because they're all too afraid of loosing their jobs than doing the peoples business. It's all about getting re-elected. It also seems that instead of the legislators legislating the judiciary legislates for them. I don't care where you stand on an issue, but the legislators should have a fair vote on public policy and make law. For example, I am pro-life but I think the legalization of abortion should be decided by the people of each state and the law should be legislated by their state congress. Roe v. Wade was an interesting case, however it's use as a federal mandate for abortion legalization is not how our country was designed to work, it simply set precedence in judicial case law for allowing abortion under the circumstance of the case.
Fortunately the people are more heads-up on immigration, and the assault on the recent amnesty bill in congress shows that people really care about this issue. I mean, the federal government doesn't enforce the immigration laws now, they haven't even built the fence they said they would. Therefore why would new laws get enforced by the bureaucratic morass (fat-ass)? In any case The outpouring of sentiment against that legislation is exactly what more people need to do when something isn't right, or what they want from their government, at all levels.
Remember the Constitution begins "We the People..." not "We the Congress..." or "I the President..." or especially "We the Judiciary..." We are the Sovereign Citizens of the United States, and WE are the boss, the governments are under our employ. We the people must be vigilant to ensure the public will be done.