Comments From Indiana Regarding Illegal Immigration

As promised, here are just a handful of the 400 plus comments from Indiana residents in response to the illegal immigration article we previously discussed.

I know of a man that was recently fired along with other “white American employees”, all to cut costs.. Right! But all the Mexicans were kept on the job. This company, on the northside, does electrical work, and my question is” are they at least paying taxes(?), or paid cash “under the table”. The wife of this man has tried to report this but no one will listen.

“Economist Philip Martin of the University of California likes to tell a story about the state’s tomato industry. In the early 1960s, growers relied on seasonal Mexican laborers, brought in under the government’s “bracero” program. The Mexicans picked the tomatoes that were then processed into ketchup and other products. In 1964 Congress killed the program despite growers’ warnings that its abolition would doom their industry. What happened? Well, plant scientists developed oblong tomatoes that could be harvested by machine. Since then, California’s tomato output has risen fivefold.”

As a nurse, I’m seeing lots of illegals - hispanics and samoans show up in ER’s and guess who is paying the bill? You and I with our tax dollars. Then they can’t understand English so we are paying for interpretors, and they don’t have anything, so the social worker is involved. Some now have a pretty good system — know they can ask for cribs and car seats, etc. Your hospital costs are going up because of illegals.

People working minimum wage jobs pay income taxes? Really? Don’t they get MOST if not all of that back at the end of the year? Besides, the ones that pay income taxes are doing so under a FALSE SSN. Does theft not count as a crime either?

You fail to realize that illegals artificially DRIVE DOWN the wages for AMERICAN works by bypassing the federal minimum wage laws. It’s nice to see you support a “lesser” form of slavery.

As I sit in my office I can look at 10 of these hard working, family oriented Hispanics. They are on the most wanted list of Crime Stoppers of central Indiana. The hardest working are wanted for forgery, murder,and dealing cocaine and the family oriented are wanted for rape, and child molesting. And there are 6 there for child molesting.

Check out the Lebanon business park, nothing but Mexicans! You could be born and raised in Lebanon and can’t get a job there. They take tax subsidies to build there but the tax payers can’t get a job.

And……..a lot of the freebies are being passed out by the Catholic Church. Notice who had an advertisement on the second page of this story? So touching, I could vomit. With multi-million dollar judgements, resulting from pedophile priests, a new source of money had to be found. The illegals are given sanctuary within the church in return for generous offerings each pay period. Take away the church’s tax exempt status.

The U.S. is one of the most racially diverse countries on the planet yet we are called “racists”. The really fun thing is that the people who call us racists are often from countries that have very little racial diversity. Nor do they come from countries that tolerate illegal immigration let alone give free benefits out to illegals.

(In response to another commenter)
I agree 100 percent BUT ILLEGALS CANNOT VOTE!! Otherwise everything you said I agree with…I live in Frankfort and our CURRENT MAYOR AND HIS PREDECESSORS opened our town to these ILLEGALS…now it’s time for a change!! I know first hand our town is beyond fedup with ILLEGALS, and the hispanics will freely tell you the first thing they do when they get here is get (typically) a white girl pregnant so they can STAY!! NEWSFLASH!! Just because they get someone here pregnant they can still be deported…one of my best friend’s “boyfriends” was illegal was in a wreck and deported!! My friend is TEXMEX and a great person…she just made a bad choice!! OH yeah, and she has a little girl by this ILLEGAL!! Our town Requires a NEW MAYOR who thinks INDEPENDENTLY AND ISN’T A MEMBER OF “THE GOOD OLE BOYS CLUB” HERE. That’s why I am voting for Chris Pippenger..HE HAS COMMON SENSE AND WILL OPENLY TALK WITH ANYONE WHO WANTS TO SPEAK WITH HIM ABOUT ANYTHING!!! Thanks

(In response to another commenter)
Hmmm….they DON’T vote? Really?..? That’s awesome you backed up your claim too…
“Voter fraud committed by illegal immigrants who actually cast election ballots in one Texas county is more widespread than originally thought and federal authorities have launched investigations into neighboring municipalities.”
http://www.corruptionchronicles.com/2007/06/i…

To measure the specific impact of illegal immigration we rely on state estimates prepared by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), which indicate that almost seven million illegal aliens were counted in the 2000 Census. The report shows that many low-immigration states that might seem unaffected by immigration are in fact experiencing a significant erosion of their political influence in Washington.

Among the report’s findings:

• The presence of illegal aliens in other states caused Indiana, Michigan, and Mississippi to each lose one seat in the House in 2000, while Montana failed to gain a seat it otherwise would have.

• Illegal immigration not only redistributes seats in the House, it has the same effect on presidential elections because the Electoral College is based on the size of congressional delegations.

• The presence of all non-citizens in the Census redistributed a total of nine seats. The term “non-citizens” includes illegal aliens, legal immigrants, and temporary visitors, mainly foreign students and guest workers. In addition to the four states that lost a seat due to the presence of illegal aliens, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Kentucky, and Utah each had one fewer seat than they otherwise would have.

• None of the states that lost a seat due to non-citizens is declining in population. The population of the four states that lost seats due to illegal immigration increased 1.6 million in the 1990s, while the population of the five states that lost seats because of other non-citizens grew by two million.

• Immigrant-induced reapportionment is different from reapportionment caused when natives relocate to other states. Immigration takes away representation from states composed almost entirely of U.S. citizens and results in the creation of new districts in states with large numbers of non-citizens.

• In the nine states that lost a seat due to the presence of non-citizens, only one in 50 residents is a non-citizen. In contrast, one in seven residents is a non-citizen in California, which picked up six of these seats. One in 10 residents is a non-citizen in New York, Texas, and Florida, the states that gained the other three seats.

• The numbers are even larger in some districts — 43 percent of the population in California’s immigrant-heavy 31st district is made up of non-citizens, while in the 34th district, 38 percent are non-citizens. In Florida’s 21st district, 28 percent of the population is non-citizen, and in New York’s 12th district the number is 23 percent.

• The large number of non-citizens creates a tension with the principle of “one man, one vote” because it takes so few votes to win these immigrant-heavy districts. In 2002, it took almost 100,000 votes to win the typical congressional race in the four states that lost a seat due to illegal aliens, while it took fewer than 35,000 votes to win the 34th and 31st districts of California.

• Although the number of naturalizations increased in the 1990s, the number of non-citizens still increased dramatically to 18.5 million in 2000, up from 11.8 million in 1990 and seven million in 1980.

• The political stakes for low-immigration states are enormous. The presence of all foreign-born persons in 2000 (naturalized citizens, non-citizens, and illegal aliens) redistributed 16 seats, up from 12 seats in 1990