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The Policies, Plans and Politics of Immigration

US Politics & Gov't  (tags: constitution, candidates, americans, elections, obama, usa, freedoms )

Cal
- 75 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Do voters want illegal immigrants to be deported or naturalized?
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Carol W. (119)
Wednesday July 23, 2008, 11:42 am

Since our Govt. will not read the laws already established in our country, and positively love how the middle class is being desimated, why don't we just get this silly distraction over with and adopt Mexico's Constitution.
Especially their rules on immigration.
 

Carol W. (119)
Wednesday July 23, 2008, 11:49 am

Mexico's constitution is easier to read, written in plain language for no misinterpretation, it is short, and in large print.
 

Louise L. (34)
Wednesday July 23, 2008, 1:23 pm
What a hot button topic this is here in Texas. I only know one thing is true: if the Hispanic population is not putting money into public services, they should not be using them. So, either: let them work and pay taxes, OR let them work tax-free BUT no food stamps, HUD, schools or hospitals that are county run. We cannot afford to continue to support all these people that are not paying in, and that is just a fact, not my personal feeling. I don't even know what my personal feeling is: too many conflicts. Thanks, Cal.
 

Ombretta LittleShadow (401)
Wednesday July 23, 2008, 7:05 pm
Free bus fare home.
 

Carol W. (119)
Wednesday July 23, 2008, 9:44 pm

Is Mexico’s Constitution of Blood Coming Here?

By Chilton Williamson Jr.

[Previously by Chilton Williamson: Do Illegal Immigrants Have More Rights Than Americans? The Case of John Petrello and Lighting the Powder Train]

In July 2004, First Data Corporation, a major Wall Street company, [contact them] hosted one of a series of around-the-nation seminars on immigration “reform” in Denver, where the company is based. Among First Data’s affiliates is Western Union, whose wires transmit tens of billions of dollars in remittances sent home by illegal aliens residing in this country, thereby generating enormous profits for First Data.

Needless to say, by “immigration reform” First Data means “open borders”--as do the aggressive Hispanic “activists” it invited to participate in the seminar, while excluding bona fide reformers like Fred Elbel and Mike McGarry of the Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform.

In the event, a number of immigration non-enthusiasts—including McGarry and Elbel—showed up to claim their place at the audience’s microphone. Among them was Terry Graham. She was later reported as having protested: “This is illegal, what about the law?”

Scarcely had she uttered the vile challenge when one Julissa Molina, a 31-year old social worker who instructs the inhabitants of Denver’s Little Mexico in hepatitis prevention, attacked the woman, knocking her to the floor and inflicting real injury.

Molina was arrested by the city police and led away in cuffs—to the anger of the crowd that shouted “You deserve it!” at the victim and “Go back to Ireland!” at McGarry.

It was later assured by a female Hispanic attorney (and former state senator) that she, personally, would “take care of the [attacker] and [see that] nothing would happen to her.”

This minor episode in the annals of multicultural America is significant, for two reasons.
bullet First reason: what it has to tell us about the way whitebread American natives are viewed by the brownbread aliens from south of the border.

bullet Second reason: what we can learn from this occurrence—and similar ones—about the political culture of the people we are currently importing, by the tens of millions, from the Republic of Mexico.
 

Carol W. (119)
Wednesday July 23, 2008, 10:02 pm
"Starting in the late 1980s, the social Security Administration received a flood of W-2 earnings reports with incorrect---sometimes simply fictitious---Social Security numbers. It stashed them in what it calls the 'earnings suspense file' in the hope that someday it would figure out whom they belonged to.

The file has been mushrooming ever since:

...the mismatched W-2's fit like a glove on illegal immigrants' known geographic distribution and the patchwork of jobs they typically hold. An audit found that more than half of the 100 employers filing the most earnings reports with false social Security numbers from 1997 through 2001 came from just three states: California, Texas and Illinois."

As shown by this information, the federal bureaucracy clearly knows which companies employ probable illegal immigrant workers, and it even knows which workers are likely illegals.
 

Blue Bunting (754)
Wednesday July 23, 2008, 10:06 pm
Cate, you don't seem to realize that millions of "illegals" here in the U$A are "taxe" and paying into the Social Security system but not receiving benefits and yet the Congre$$ "borrow$" these "extra fund$" and never pays back what they borrow ...

so, Cate ...

you're targetting the wrong population ...

the "criminals" are actually $itting in Congre$$ and you voted for them ...

 

Sandy V. (39)
Thursday July 24, 2008, 11:27 am
Don't kid yourself. George Bush let these people come in to rebuild New Orleans and paid nothing, charged them $10.00 a night to sleep in cars. One woman contractor fought like hell to get these people their wages. Native Americans from the Rez were also brought in to work it. Low Pay. Look at the money. Who doesn't want to pay help a real days wages. Mexico has never threatened this country or blown up a building. They have families just like us. Don't judge all of them the same. Complain about us ruining their country with toxic spills, children born without brainstems and die later. Nafta didn't help this country. They make less than a dollar working for our big companies. Brownsville Tx is overrun with Mothers trying to deliver in that town so their children will have a chance to just live, but they are going bust with these poor children. Mexico is our neighbor. I have lived in AZ, NM, TX and southern CA, so please don't think I am a northerner spoutin crap. We need a system that helps all Americans and illegals. They need to help with economy and pay taxes. Please don't blame them for the drug problem. Again look at our own government and the CIA. The Canadian border doesn't get 1/10th the press on drugs coming into this country. I don't have a problem with pot but the rest of that crap is killing our citizens plus we have our own cook kitchens in every town in this country. I am very old and not naive. We all have a problem but we don't have to hate. Just in case everyone forgot. All of you are illegal according the Native Americans and that didn't stop anyone from stealing their land, culture, religion and language. I'd rather have Mexicans than others that are out to kill us and destroy our country.
 

Carol W. (119)
Thursday July 24, 2008, 11:50 am
True Sandy & Blue However,

Illegal immigration into the United States is a highly profitable proposition for both employers and the U.S. government, and it also benefits Mexico's vast Elite through not protecting their own country men/woman, and Mexico's economy as Am. money is the Mexican Countries largest source of revenue.

Mexico's massive privatizations in 1994-95 also created a new privileged class of home-grown millionaires and billionaires. As of 2002, Mexico ranked fourth in the world in billionaires, behind the US, Japan and Germany.

For USA; cheaper labor costs and lesser working conditions equal greater profits for business owners.

Mexico is not a poor country, and the corruption should not be assimilating within our economy & borders as is being done.

Of course legal immigration is even a larger problem.
However this article and issue is illegal's.
Why do we have laws?
How many reading this have illegal servants and chefs?

Q. Who is paying the price of this nod & a wink?

The only benfactors are Mexico & USA Elite, and growing fatter by the day.

Are we really doing these people a favor having them live 2 & 3 families to a single family home? Or is it a foreshadowing of what 'full-assimilation or Reform' means?
 

Elle J. (222)
Sunday August 3, 2008, 2:47 pm
Did you know that if you enter Mexico illegally, you are immediately deported? Pretty interesting. Sorry I don't have a link to post. I was surprised at that.
 

Carol W. (119)
Sunday August 3, 2008, 6:24 pm

Didn't know that Elle.
Americans are retiring there, buying homes, and can never vote.
Also if an American is caught up in a protest they will be arrested, & jailed.
 
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