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Jun 17, 2007
  • This should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent.

    I DON’T CARE IF THIS LETTER WAS WRITTEN BY A REAL TEACHER, A JOURNALIST, A BLOGGER OR WHOEVER. IT CONTAINS A GREAT DEAL OF TRUTH THAT MOST OF US ARE AFRAID TO ADDRESS PUBLICLY FOR FEAR OF BEING BRANDED A BIGOT, A RACIST, AN ISOLATIONIST OR WORSE.

    THERE IS NO SHAME IN FIGHTING TO KEEP OUR COUNTRY’S IDENTITY INTACT AND NO SHAME IN ENFORCING OUR EXISTING IMMIGRATION LAWS. - Cate

    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 breakfast and free lunch program.  When I say free b reakfast, 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% 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 without having family members 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 later, 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 than 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 gardeners, housekeepers, babysitters etc. 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, med ical facilities closing, higher 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 illegal aliens will voluntarily leave and return?

    There are many hardworking legal immigrants that contribute to our country and many that I consider my true friends. We should encourage and accept the people who have come to America the legal way.

    This issue has everything to do with culture: By and large illegal aliens come from 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.    We have an American culture that has become so weak and worried about being politically correct that we don't have the guts to do anything about it.

     
     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, except for the businesses that employ these illegals.

Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5 or $6 an 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.

He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps.
He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pa y) health care.
His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.
His family 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 the American taxpayer's expense.

The illegal alien doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.

Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.The illegal alien and his or her family receive the equivalent of $20 to $30 an hour in benefits. The average working American is lucky to have $5 or $6 an hour left after paying their bills and his.

Cheap labor?  YEAH, RIGHT!

Wake up, people. THESE ARE THE ISSUES WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO EVERY PRESIDENTIAL AND CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE, REGARDLESS OF THEIR OR OUR POLTICAL AFFILIATION. AND WHEN SOMEONE IS ELECTED AND LIES TO US, WE SHOULD RECALL OR IMPEACH THAT PERSON AT ONCE!

THIS HAS GOT TO BE PASSED ALONG OR THE AMERICA WE LOVE WILL GO DOWN THE DRAIN. MOST PEOPLE SEEM AFRAID TO BE POLITICALLY INCORRECT - TO RECOGNIZE AND ADDRESS THE TRUTH.


If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, share this with others.

P.S. from Cate: Do you know that America actually imports most of her oil from Canada? And the second largest supplier of oil to America is Mexico?

WHY ISN'T THIS PROMINENTLY MENTIONED WHEN THE GODDAMNED NORTH AMERICAN UNION IS DISCUSSED?
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Posted: Jun 17, 2007 10:49am
The proposed and secretly-planned North American Union
Sep 30, 2006
From WorldNet Daily:

WASHINGTON 
In another example of the way the three nations of North America are being drawn into a federation, or "merger," students from 10 universities in the U.S., Mexico and Canada are participating annually in a simulated "model Parliament."


Under the sponsorship of the Canadian based North American Forum on Integration, students met in the Mexican Senate for five days in May in an event dubbed "Triumvirate," with organizers declaring "A North American Parliament is born." A similar event took place in the Canadian Senate in 2005.


The intentions of organizers are clear.


"The creation of a North American parliament, such as the one being simulated by these young people, should be considered," explained Raymond Chretien, the president of the Triumvirate and the former Canadian ambassador to both Mexico and the U.S.


Participants discuss draft bills on trade corridors, immigration, provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement and produce a daily newspaper called "The TrilatHerald."


The 10 universities taking part include Harvard, American University, Carlton University, Simon Fraser, Universite de Montreal, Ecole nationale d'administration publique, Monterrey TEC, CIDE, Monterrey University and Instituto Mexicano de la Juventud.


Officials taking part have included James Williams, the former U.S. ambassador to Canada. The North American Forum on Integration says the annual event enjoys the support of the U.S. Embassy in Canada, the Canadian Embassy in Mexico and the North American Development Bank. It also has been supported by at least one U.S. news organization, the Houston Chronicle.


NAFI says it is "a non-profit organization devoted to developing North American dialogue and networks and at publicizing issues raised by North American integration."


The board of directors of NAFI include Robert A. Pastor, professor and director of the Center for North American Studies at American University and vice chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on North America. He has testified before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the idea of merging the United States, Mexico and Canada in a North American union stretching from Prudhoe Bay to Guatemala.


"What we need to do," Pastor instructed, "is forge a new North American Community. ... Instead of stopping North Americans on the borders, we ought to provide them with a secure, biometric border pass that would ease transit across the border like an E-Z pass permits our cars to speed through tolls."


Pastor is the author of "Toward a North American Community," a book promoting the development of a North American union as a regional government and the adoption of the amero as a common monetary currency to replace the dollar and the peso.


As vice chairman of the May 2005 CFR task force, he is an architect of the Building a North American Community" plan that presents itself as a blueprint for using bureaucratic action within the executive branches of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada to transform the current trilateral Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America into a North American union regional government.


The CFR report is a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter." Some see it as the blueprint for merger of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. It calls for "a common economic space ... for all people in the region, a space in which trade, capital and people flow freely."


The CFR's strategy calls specifically for "a more open border for the movement of goods and people." It calls for laying "the groundwork for the freer flow of people within North America." It calls for efforts to "harmonize visa and asylum regulations." It calls for efforts to "harmonize entry screening."


In "Building a North American Community," the report states that Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin "committed their governments" to this goal March 23, 2005, at that meeting in Waco, Texas.


Pastor believes the U.S. and Canadian government should divert significant new taxpayer funding to solving the problems of the poor in Mexico.


"If Canada and the United States contributed just 10 percent of what the European Union spends on aid for its poorest member, and if Mexico invested it wisely in infrastructure and education, then Mexico could begin to grow at twice the rate of its northern neighbors, and North America would have found the magic formula to lift developing countries to the level of the industrialized world," he said in 2002.


The next Triumvirate model parliament conference will be in the United States? in either New York or Washington, according to a spokeswoman for the North American Forum.


It's not just the mock "parliament" sessions involving students of the three countries that raises concerns among those suspicious about political and social "inertia" moving the U.S. into a European Union-style merger with its northern and southern neighbors.


Earlier this month, a high-level, top-secret meeting of the North American Forum took place in Banff, Canada with topics ranging from "A Vision for North America," "Opportunities for Security Cooperation" and "Demographic and Social Dimensions of North American Integration."


Pastor was listed as a confirmed participant in that meeting, along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of State George Shultz, former Central Intelligence Agency Director R. James Woolsey, former Immigration and Naturalization Services Director Doris Meissner, former Defense Secretary William Perry, former Energy Secretary and Defense Secretary James Schlesinger and top officials of both Mexico and Canada.


Opposition is mounting to such meetings, policy papers and presidential directives leading to what some critics characterize as "NAFTA on steroids." The concerns began in earnest March 31, 2005, when the elected leaders of the U.S., Mexico and Canada agreed to advance the agenda of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.


Perhaps the most blistering criticism came earlier this summer from Lou Dobbs of CNN, a frequent critic of President Bush's immigration policies.


"A regional prosperity and security program?" he asked rhetorically in a recent cablecast. "This is absolute ignorance. And the fact that we are ? we reported this, we should point out, when it was signed. But, as we watch this thing progress, these working groups are continuing. They're intensifying. What in the world are these people thinking about? You know, I was asked the other day about whether or not I really thought the American people had the stomach to stand up and stop this nonsense, this direction from a group of elites, an absolute contravention of our law, of our Constitution, every national value. And I hope, I pray that I'm right when I said yes. But this is ? I mean, this is beyond belief."


No one seems quite certain what that agenda is because of the vagueness of the official declarations. But among the things the leaders of the three countries agreed to work toward were borders that would allow for easier and faster moving of goods and people between the countries.


Coming as the announcement did in the midst of a raging national debate in the U.S. over borders seen as far to open already, more than a few jaws dropped.


Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. and the chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus as well as author of the new book, "In Mortal Danger," may be the only elected official to challenge openly the plans for the new superstate.


Responding to a WND report, Tancredo is demanding the Bush administration fully disclose the activities of the government office implementing the trilateral agreement that has no authorization from Congress.


Tancredo wants to know the membership of the Security and Prosperity Partnership groups along with their various trilateral memoranda of understanding and other agreements reached with counterparts in Mexico and Canada.


Why the secrecy?


Geri Word, who heads the SPP office, told WND the work had not been disclosed because, "We did not want to get the contact people of the working groups distracted by calls from the public."


The concerns about the direction such powerful men could lead Americans without their knowledge is only heightened when interlocking networks are discovered. For instance, one of the components envisioned for this future "North American Union" is a superhighway running from Mexico, through the U.S. and into Canada. It is being promoted by the North American SuperCorridor Coalition, or NASCO, a non-profit group "dedicated to developing the world?s first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America."


The president of NASCO is George Blackwood, who earlier launched the North American International Trade Corridor Partnership. In fact, NAITCP later morphed into NASCO. A NAITCP summit meeting in 2004, attended by senior Mexican government officials, heard from American University's Pastor.

I say NO to this absurd plan. I am an American, and I want our country to be free and independent as our forefathers and foremothers planned it. I have no interest in this bullshit that will benefit only illegal aliens and businesses. Don't let our country be given away! Write or call your Congressional legislators and say NO with me.
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