Texas Immigrants Rally Against the Border Wall
If you check out the message boards at the ALIPAC website (American-Latino Immigrants Proudly Assisting the Community) you’ll find they don’t like websites like this one. The members of the website and discussion board are supposedly all legal immigrants who are contributing to our country. If that is the case, then the members and/or contributors to the website and message boards are due respect. They wanted a better life, legally came into this country and are expressing their opinion about anti-immigration websites. No problem with that.
However, there may be a hidden problem with the recent rallies popping up against the new border wall. (You know. . . that wall they’re going to build to improve the security of our borders and help prevent illegal immigration?)
Betty Pérez, who appears to reside in or near Roma, Texas, is organizing a paddling event this weekend to protest the border wall. The organizer of the rally against the border is angry the view of the Rio Grande may be obstructed. The information was posted on the ALIPAC forums.
Scenic views are nice. Canoeing can be fun.
However, therefore, please do note . . . could this be another “excuse” to allow illegal immigration? Just like the misleading “America is a nation of immigrants” line . . . used to promote the agenda of a political party appealing to voters (or potential voters) who need them.
Will the border wall completely ruin the canoeing experience? And is the scenic view more important than keeping our country safe and trying to enforcing our laws?
A better question would be: What are we supposed to do?
Are we supposed to fight for scenery over keeping terrorists out of our country? Are supposed to continue to allow illegal aliens to cross our borders, take our jobs, pay less taxes, get free hand outs and commit crimes?
If they could sensibly answer those questions, we could possibly look into making a see-through wall for that area. Unfortunately, the only answer for those questions is to secure the border and enforce our existing immigration laws.
Here is the press release for the rally against the border wall:
PRESS RELEASE
RALLY AGAINST THE BORDER WALL TO BE HELD IN ROMA, TEXAS
What: A community rally to oppose the building of a wall on the Texas/Mexico border
When: Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 10 a.m.
Where: Roma Bluffs overlooking the Rio Grande just in front of Roma City Hall, 77 Convent Street, Roma, Texas
Everyone is invited to the first in a series of Lower Rio Grande Valley community rallies to oppose the building of a wall on the Texas/Mexico border. The event is scheduled for Saturday morning, July 14, in Roma, Texas. Saturday’s rally will take place at 10 a.m. on the historic Roma Bluffs overlooking the Rio Grande. To get there, just follow the signs to Roma Bluffs and the World Birding Center.
Paddlers opposed to a wall that would limit access to the river for recreation are invited to bring their canoes or kayaks to the riverside in Fronton, Texas at 8 a.m. before the rally on Roma Bluffs. Fronton is a few miles west of Roma. This group will paddle as a flotilla to a take-out point below the international bridge between Roma and Ciudad Miguel Alemán and join in the 10 a.m. rally above. The paddle trip will take approximately two hours.
Founding Fathers Realized Need for Immigration Laws
Michelle Malkin writes a great article on National Review Online with several good points. Now that the amnesty bill is dead, it’s time to discuss assimilation. After all, even founding fathers such as George Washington realized we needed to “get assimilated to our customs, measures [and] laws.”
The most interesting point is her argument regarding America being a “nation of immigrants.” As she brilliantly explains, this is completely misleading and just used by liberals to promote their agenda.
“The inflection point can perhaps be traced to the moment when politicians were permitted to invoke the “America is a nation of immigrants” platitude as a mindless justification for open borders.
The fact is: We are not a “nation of immigrants.” This is both a factual error and a warm-and-fuzzy non sequitur. Eighty-five percent of the residents currently in the United States were born here. Sure, we are almost all descendants of immigrants. But we are not a “nation of immigrants.”
Even if we were a “nation of immigrants,” it does not explain why we should be against sensible immigration control. And if the open-borders advocates would actually read American history instead of revising it, they would see that the founding fathers were emphatically insistent on protecting the country against indiscriminate mass immigration. They insisted on assimilation as a pre-condition, not an afterthought.”
- George Washington, in a letter to John Adams, stated that immigrants should be absorbed into American life so that “by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, laws: in a word soon become one people.”
- In a 1790 speech to Congress on the naturalization of immigrants, James Madison stated that America should welcome the immigrant who could assimilate, but exclude the immigrant who could not readily “incorporate himself into our society.”
Health Care Challenged by Illegal Immigrants
From the “International Herald Tribune” is a nice and cheery story about hospitals around Maryland adding employers and infrastructure for illegal immigrants. This is just one example, in one rural area of the country. Here is the most important information from the article:
“Hispanics are projected to become the largest rural minority by 2025, according to a U.S. Agriculture Department analysis of census data. Their population nearly doubled from 1.4 million to 2.7 million in rural towns between 1980 and 2000, when the last census was held. In that period, Hispanic representation among rural residents rose from 3 percent to 5.5 percent.
A major factor behind the growth of Hispanic residents is tighter border security — particularly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — that makes traveling between the U.S. and Mexico more difficult for illegal immigrants.”They discover that crossing back and forth … no longer is easy and no longer is cheap, and they tend to bring their families with them,” said William Kandel, an Agriculture Department sociologist. “There are a large number of children being born here.”
Some of the most acute problems caused by the Hispanic population boom are along the U.S.-Mexico border, where impoverished border towns lack basic services, said Amy Elizondo, vice president of program services for the National Rural Health Association.
“You see a lot of overflow in emergency rooms” in the border communities, Elizondo said. “You’re looking at Third-World country type problems.”
Third-World country type problems, yes that’s right folks, in the United States.
Link to Full Article
Fred Thompson on Illegal Immigration
Fred speaks candidly, honestly and to the point about the illegal immigration problem.
On Independence Day, it is refreshing to hear someone who cares about the future of our country regarding immigration.
Phoenix Arizona Discovers Idea for Illegal Immigration
Here is another email we received, and with recent actions of the Arizona Governor it kinda seemed appropriate. Have a little laugh on the 4th of July:
The mayor of Phoenix was very worried about a plague of pigeons in Phoenix. He could not remove the pigeons from the city. All of Phoenix was full of pigeon poop, the people of Phoenix could not walk on the sidewalks, or drive on the roads. It was costing a fortune to keep the streets and sidewalks clean. One day a man came to City Hall and offered the Mayor a proposition.”I can rid your beautiful city of its plague of pigeons without cost to the city. But, you must promise not to ask me any questions. Or, you can pay me one million dollars and ask one question.”
The mayor considered the offer briefly and accepted the free proposition. The next day the man climbed to the top of City Hall, opened his coat, and released a blue pigeon. The blue pigeon circled in the air and flew up into the bright blue Arizona sky. All the pigeons in Phoenix saw the blue pigeon and gathered up behind the blue pigeon. The Phoenix pigeons followed the blue pigeon as she flew southward out of the city.
The next day the blue pigeon returned completely alone to the man atop City Hall.
The Mayor was very impressed. He thought the man and the blue pigeon had performed a wonderful miraculous feat to rid Phoenix of the plague of pigeons. Even though the man with the pigeon had charged nothing, the mayor presented him with a check for 1 million dollars and told the man that, indeed, he did have a question to ask and even though they had agreed to no fee and the man had rid the city of pigeons, he decided to pay the 1 million just to get to ask ONE question. The man accepted the money and told the mayor to ask his question.
Do you think he asked where the pigeons went?
Do you think he asked where the blue pigeon came from?
Do you think he asked why the Phoenix pigeons followed the blue pigeon?
Noooooooo!
The mayor asked: “Do you have a blue Mexican?”
Arizona Disses Wapner and Takes the Law into Their Own Hands
State governments are starting to take the law into their own hands. Forget about Judge Wapner, Doug Llewlyn and The People’s Court (otherwise known as the U.S. Government) – we’ve already waited too long for them to do anything. The Governor of Arizona, Janet Napolitano, approved the bill on Monday after a long three year debate. Governor Napolitano is a Democrat, yes that’s right, a Democrat. The illegal immigration issue is really turning into a non-political issue for those who have their states or countries best interest at heart.
The bill will prohibit businesses from hiring illegal immigrants and will also require verification of employment eligibility. It’s a shame that a state is forced to do this as we already have federal laws to prevent the hiring of illegal aliens. Not surprisingly, 10 other states are considering a similar law.
“Immigration is a federal responsibility, but … it is now abundantly clear that Congress finds itself incapable of coping with the comprehensive immigration reforms our country needs,” explained Gov. Napolitano. “I signed it, too, out of the realization that the flow of illegal immigration into our state is due to the constant demand of some employers for cheap, undocumented labor.”
It is estimated that one in 10 workers in the Arizona economy are illegal immigrants. That’s 10% of all workers in Arizona for those of you in Broward County.
Mexican Immigrants Purchase iPhones With Glee
For those of you playing at home, we’re going to take a wild guess and assume that these are illegal immigrants. Look at all five of them with their shiny new iPhones. A couple of them even bought the maximum limit of two iPhones, maybe to send one back to Mexico!
With the tax dollars they don’t have to claim, the more hours they can work as they are illegal, the money saved from free government handouts . . . . Apple should raise that purchase limit of only two iPhones for our happy amigos!
This photo was taken on June 29, 2007 inside the Apple store at The Grove in Los Angeles.
Thumbs up illego amigo!
What Next? Rush Celebrates and Gives Advice
Rush gives a hip-hip hooray for the defeat of the immigration bill. He confirms it was a victory for legal Americans. He really hits the head on what to do next.
“You’re going to be tarred and feathered as a vocal and loud minority and racists and all that, but they can’t say you don’t count. When the rubber hit the road, that’s why one of the reasons I was fairly confident about this and not panicking yesterday, one of the reasons, when the rubber hit the road, they listened to you. They listened to the polling on this. You shut down Washington’s whole phone system today. Passport offices, everything was shut down. In the Senate I think they shut down the phone system, Jeff Sessions said something like that, just to avoid having the whole thing get shut down. They had to limit access to it because you were being heard. American people in this country, on balance, not in every instance, but they get what they want. In this case, this bill is dead for two years now because Dingy Harry says he can’t bring this up next year, it’s the presidential election. Well, fine and dandy. This debate needs to be part of the presidential race, folks. Make it a national debate and have it out in the open, not behind closed doors with amendments that nobody read, amendments that did not have a chance.”
Making it a national debate, let’s say second in importance to defeating terrorism, would not only make great strides for the immigration problem . . . it would also greatly help the conservative members of the Republican Party for next election(s).
What is Next for Illegal Immigration?
Michael Barone, of Real Clear Politics, writes an intelligent article summarizing why the immigration bill was not passed, and more importantly - what now?
“We have to start by recognizing why the voting public was strongly against the bill. “We have met the enemy, and he is us,” the comic strip character Pogo said, and the enemy here is the us that have not enforced the law — the executive and legislative branches, which have let the promise of the 1986 immigration law to become a dead letter and the voters who have not punished elected officials for doing so. The 1986 law purported to penalize employers who hired illegal immigrants. But because of the ease of obtaining forged identification documents, that has long been a dead letter. The 1986 law envisioned strict border security. But for too long the border remained a sieve.
As pollster Scott Rasmussen has shown, the opposition to the bill was fueled less by anger at “amnesty,” the idea that illegals would be rewarded for breaking the law, than it was by an astringent skepticism that it would provide real border security. Americans may be willing to forgive those who were, by the actions of government and the inactions of voters, effectively invited to violate the law. But they don’t seem to be willing to trust a government to enforce the law when it hasn’t seemed to.”
His point about the outdated 1986 immigration law is a great one. I would bet that not one police officer in the USA enforces this law. They aren’t allowed to!
Letter to Our Local Senator Richard Lugar Regarding Illegal Immigration
Here is the letter we sent to our local Republican Senator Richard Lugar regarding his vote for the amnesty bill. Unbelievably, our Democrat Senator Evan Bayh voted against it. It just goes to show you how even long time and important politicians have taken the exact opposite stance against illegal immigration . . . versus the opinions of the people who have voted for them for many years.
Dearest Senator Lugar:
I have been a long time supporter of yours and voted for you for every election. Your support of the amnesty bill has frankly been one of the worst decisions of your political career.
We need to enforce the existing immigration laws. We cannot give amnesty to 12 million ILLEGAL immigrants. We need a separate bill that just addresses securing our borders, plus enforcing the existing immigration laws. It’s common sense. Once we have curtailed the influx of new illegal immigrants, we can address what to do with the current 12 million illegal aliens that snuck into our country.
I live in a town of over 70,000 residents in Indiana and am very involved with local politics. I’m a member of the Town Advisory Committee, a graduate of the Town Government Academy, and also support local Republicans 100 percent. However, I cannot and will not support your next campaign for re-election. In fact, I will do everything I can to make sure you are not re-elected.
As this is such an important issue, I have recently started a website: www.saynotoillegalimmigration.com
As a side note, the fact that Senator Bayh (D) voted against closure and you voted for it, is amazing and disgusting at the same time. I rarely agree with Senator Bayh and have never voted for a Democrat. But he actually listens to 70% of the country (or probably 90% of Hoosiers) and I will consider voting for him, and whoever your opponent is, next election.
This is by no means a “threatening email”. I am writing to you so you will hopefully realize that the majority of Americans do not support amnesty for illegal immigrants.
I urge you to make enforcing our existing immigration laws, and securing our borders, your top priority during the rest of your tenure as Senator.