In Arizona, Illegal Immigrants are clogging the court system. With all of the Illegal Alien criminals, border state courts don’t know what to do with rapists, bank robbers and murderers! The courts are telling the Border Patrol to stop sending Illegal Immigrants into the court system, and to just send them back home, with no consequences or record of their criminal activity.
The city of Green Bay Wisconsin is taking a stand on stemming the tide of Illegal Immigration! City leaders plan to start a city initiative that seeks to revoke licenses of businesses that knowingly hire Illegal Aliens and Illegal Immigrants. Illegal Immigrants steal jobs that Americans at the lower economic scales would otherwise take, as employers fail to comply with wage laws when paying Illegal Aliens.
Not to be outdone, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against US Immigration and Enforcement. In its suit, the ACLU alleges Nancy Alcantar, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement San Francisco field office director, and officers under her command violated the constitutional rights of the child of a detained Illegal Immigrant.
Finally, Chuck Hagel, R-Nebraska, is seeking to give citizenship to Illegal Aliens already here, if they agree to pay a $2000 fine. I didn’t realize US citizenship was so cheap. Maybe Hagel and his Open Border Buddies should foot the bill for the destruction his non-US constituency is doing.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackbackwe should give citizenship to illegal and solve the problem immdi and iam usa citizen i think we have to do something within 30days thats my opinon thank u
You unfairly characterize Hagel’s proposal as citizenship for a mere fee. I just found this site while trying to read more about the proposal. I am not necessarily endorsing Hagel’s plan, but from the few articles I have read so far, it is clear that Hagel’s proposal requires much more than you make out, including, among other things, a thirteen year waiting period for immigrants to prove themselves worthy of citizenship.
My thanks to I.C.E!
I’m from Marin County and I see the recent raids challenged by the ACLU…because a boy 6 yrs old was caught up in the immigration raid of an illegal alien from Mexico who received deportation orders and didn’t leave. Well, the parent knew this and knows he’s here’s illegally, knew he received a deportation notice - where’s the surprise? I question the responsibility of such a parent who knows he’s here illegally and chooses to stay, breaking the law and not making arrangments to go home.
Sorry, my compassion is with American citizens (who are burdened by the depletion of social services, hospitals, education by illegal aliens who are lawbreakers; Americans who see their wages being driven down by looking at their paychecks and/or seeing their jobs disappear)…. and victims like myself who was targeted in a retail store when I wrote one sole check so I know the who, I know where, my ID was handled by an Hispanic manager which resulted in the theft of my ID, a drive by of my house by four latino men who came to my house, then returned driving slowly looking for my mailbox. All the money was stolen by my “impersonator” who went into two out of town Banks and took it all, leaving me without funds to pay my real estate taxes; I was asked to leave the Bank for fear it would happen again. After hearing fake documents are $50 and a half hour’s drive away and the Sheriff changes his credit card numbers every 6 months, I closed most of my charge accounts, lowering my credit rating. Now a year later, I got a call from a thickly accented Hispanic man to my unlisted, unpublished number - he wouldn’t give me his name nor leave his number, he wanted to discuss my medicare.
I’m grateful to finally hear I.C.E. is in the area and shame on Mayor Newsom for going out of his way to re-declare SF as a sanctuary city…..Mayor Newsom thinks he’s excused from obeying the law, circumventing the law - picking and choosing which laws he’s willing to obey. I hope San Franciscans stand up to him and show him who’s paying his salary.
Thanks.
I think Fairlane is grossly misguided. It doesn’t matter the father of the boy was here illegally (by the way he didn’t have a deportation order. He was part of was is called “collateral damage” on the immigration rallies) the fact remains the boy is an American Citizen which grants him all the protections of the Constitution. If you don’t agree with that then you probably need to start pushing for a constitution reform so the rights thereby granted only apply to certain people, of certain color and certain race. If you think the immigrants are driving down the wages you also are misinformed. The problem is that there are industries they can’t afford to pay more than minimum wages because people don’t want to pay more for their vegetables, their cleaning, etc. Now if you want to pay more for your salad then you also need to find able and ready american citizen to do the job of picking your vegetables under 100 degrees sun fro over 10 hours a day. You’ll find that “oh, surprise” there aren’t many willing to do that. This without consideration that if the prices went to high we probably would start buying our vegetables from offshore… then we would also start blaming indians, chinese or whoever else for “stealing” our jobs when in fact we were the ones pushing those jobs overseas because we didn’t want to expend more money in our salad or whatever else.
Let’s also not ignore the fact that a great number of immigrants are here paying taxes, even with fraudulent papers. Taxes like Social Security and Medicare that there are not going to be able to get back. They are contributing to a system that most experts agrees would be bankrupt in a couple of decades and therefore helping the retirees to keep collecting their retirement money. Funding a Medicare system than less than 1% of them use (Yes, you are right they don’t have a right to use any of it, but they still funding it for people that have the right to use it like you).
I’m sorry about your experience with Identity Theft but I think you portray your situation like something Hispanics do in a daily basis. Identity-Theft is the fastest growing crime in America, almost 10MM people suffered last year. If you do a little research you would find no many people reported being abused by Hispanics. If you are so certain of who did it to you, turn them in to the police. Don’t just complain, act on it.
America was founded by immigrants. We took them when we need it and now we are just going to sit and look the other way until somebody else find a solution to this problem. This is not the way we were taught. We need to find a solution that is fair to the legal immigrants here and to the American citizens and at the same time that’s fair and humanitary to the people that’s here illegaly, becuase they are here only because we allow them to came here and stay, because we wanted our cheap salads, our affordable houses, our nice home improvements, economic child care, affordable house cleaning, cheap service. Yes, we are responsible for the situation too. We have a need that the market took care of fullfil and now we need to deal with it. Just remember that before we send them back home we need to figure out who we are putting out there on the field to cover all those jobs, because believe me, most of these jobs are the ones you wouldn’t take.
Why doesn’t the media come right out and specify which groups are using our emergency rooms and using up the beds in hospitals? All one has to do is visit any hospital and they are full of people at all hours of the day and night seeking medical help because they have no insurance. They keep closing hospitals and emergency rooms and keep writing about ll the poor who have no insurance. Well, that is easy to figure out when we have nothing but the poor being sent to America so taxpayers can support? The media again does not specify which groups of students are those that quit school before graduation. It is a known fact that Mexican parents would rather have their 16-yr olds working at miimum wage jobs (more than what the parents made in their country) to hlep support their large families they keep having even though they were poor when they had the first one. It is not their teenager’s responsibility to help support all these siblings they keep having. Both mom and dad ought to get out and work like the rest of us.
Emergency rooms are full of people that don’t have medical insurance and they are not only Mexican. In this country the cost of health insurance is so outrageous that not only the poor can’t afford it. Many middle class families can’t afford health insurance. The cost of health insurance is not related to the immigrants as much as it’s assigned to the mounting lawsuits and costs of insurances for doctors. What about the pharmaceuticals companies charging in other countries for the same products 10 times less than they charge here ? Is easy to assign blame but it as easy to forget facts like the United States is an aging country. People lives longer and have fewer children than a few decades ago. This of course will cause a dramatic shortage of labor in industries that depends in younger people like: construction, agricultural, etc. Without the immigrants we would be facing a big problem to fill those jobs and then we will be praying for the “Mexicans” or whoever else to have more kids. It’s also obviuos that you don’t know too many Mexicans because the ones I know would rather their childrens go to college than work for minimum wage. Supporting their families only talks about the strong family ties they share not of some kind of pervasive support system and believe me, mom and dad work, oftentimes, more than the rest of us for a lot less money.
Illegal is illegal. People who came into this country illegally, knowingly and willingly breaking the law shouldn’t be given a free pass or any rewards for their breaking into our sovereign country, a federal crime. Amnesty didn’t work in 1986 and shouldn’t be considered until the onslaught invasion is stopped and controlled, along with the border, and verified. One can easily see how the amnesty was “taken’, but the enforcement was “stripped” from the Bill in 1986…..No more Amnesty! Anyone desiring to become a citizen needs to return to their country of origin and fill out an application to do so, without exception without preferential treatment no matter their mode of illegal entry, whether through the border, fake documents or visa overstayers and no matter their country of origin. The federal government needs to step up and strengthen immigration enforcement efforts. Any legalization of illegal aliens will only encourage more illegal aliens to do the same - anyone can see that as a “wink and a nod” to the problem, then continuation of the existing problem no matter what contrived name you call any Bill - same-o same-o.
I hope that everyone who wrote a comment here also took the time to write to their elected officals in the house and the senate to tell them “SEND THESE LAWBREAKERS HOME!”. If you look in the “government” section of your local phone book, you will find a toll-free number to make comments to the White House (and I can’t believe the phone is actually answered by a human, not a machine). Call this number and give them a piece of you mind.
1 - the argument that illigal immigrants “do the work no one else wants” is simply false. supply and demand says that the bigger the supply of labor the less that labor is worth, so having millions of people added to the labor pool undermines the value of everyone in that labor pools labor, period.
2 - If there wasn’t cheap immigrant labor available to work the fields, slaughterhouses, resteraunts, janitorial positions, etc those jobs would not simply dissapear into thin air. The employers would be forced to raise wages and improve working conditions to attract local workers and the living conditions of poor and working class americans would be dramatically improved. That’s a fact, you don’t have to like it but you can’t ignore it. We live in a market-based economy, you can’t just wish the market away or pretend it doesn’t exist. This is a function of capitalism. If you like capitalism you have to accept it.
3- patterns of seasonal migration from mexico through the southwest pre-date the mexican-american war and go back to the time when the southwest was part of mexico. thinking those patterns can be stopped by building a wall is just stupid. The actual result of the tightening of border control has been to INCREASE the number of illegal immigrants in the US. Since the costs and erisks of entry are so much higher it takes a longer stay to make it worthwhile, so now - instead of coming and working for a year and then going home - people from mexico and elsewhere come, find a job, and stay. and then invite their friends and relatives to come too. So border control has actually made the situation worse and is the real reason why the illegal population has gotten so incredibly big in the last ten years.
4 - The people who gain the most in a climate of mass illegal immigration are the owners of the business that violate the law & exploit and abuse people seeking a better life. That’s why the government hasn’t - and probably won’t - take serious action to resolve the issue. Illegal immigration is good for business and bad for working class people, and the government is far more interested in protecting the interests of business then they are of protecting poor people of any nationality. By framing the issue as “immigrant rights” wealthy people co-opt leftist rhetoric to protect a fundamentally right-wing agenda that enriches a minority at the expense of the majority. The actual “illegals” are being used and manipulated as pawns.
4 - The people who suffer the most are the immigrants who spend decades living in fear and uncertainty working obscene hours in obscene conditions. The other big losers are poor americans, especially african americans (who used to perform the low-wage jobs but are now suffering from chronic unemployment).
5 - so this IS an issue of class and race, it’s just that most of the so-called radicals have their analysis completely backwards. Fighting for the rights of poor people and supporting immigrants wouldn’t mean supporting continued mass immigration through amnesty programs, it would mean putting in a system where seasonal migration is allowed and regulated and where businesses that hire illegal immigrants face MUCH stiffer penalties. Like maybe all their assets are seized and sold at auction. That would dry up the demand for illegal labor in about 10 seconds flat - and with no jobs to attract them the people who are coming here would stay at home and contribute their ingenuity, intelligence, and work ethics to build up their local economies. And maybe even organize to overthrow the despicable puppet governments that the US has set up in their home countries.
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