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[Doc Farmer]

Immigration Amnesty? No, Mr. President, No!
Written by Doc Farmer
Friday, January 09, 2004


(My Letter to the President)


To: President George W. Bush
White House

Subject: Your Proposed Immigration ''Reform'' Proposals

Mr. President,

As a native-born American citizen, I offer my respectful dissent to your proposal of 07 January 2004.

I watched your speech on Wednesday, and was immensely dismayed by your action. You are, in effect, legalizing the millions of illegal immigrants (not ''undocumented aliens'' or other such euphemism) who broke American law to enter this nation. I know you stated that you oppose amnesty. Yet, this is exactly what you are doing, sir. In effect, you are telling illegals that their lawbreaking has been rewarded by legal recognition and rights. Rights that they are NOT fairly eligible to receive.

You spoke of the great period of immigration, in which 18 million people came to America in a thirty-year span, to make this nation the preeminent country on earth. What you didn’t say, but should have, was that they came to America legally. They followed the rules. They took the time to learn the language, learn the Constitution, and learn the history of our nation before they became citizens.

None of the illegal aliens in America today did that. And the number of illegals today is getting quite close to the number of legals of yesteryear.

You spoke of ''Americans by choice'' of which there were many in your audience that day. And I’m sure some of them told you how illegal aliens were the downtrodden, the abused, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Well, if that were true, they should’ve come knocking at the FRONT door, not sneaking in a back window and hiding in the basement.

We are a nation of compassion, and a nation of welcomers. This much is true. But America is also a nation of LAW. And these people have violated the law. They do not deserve the right to work in America or, for that matter, to be allowed to become Americans.

You stated that illegal aliens would only be taking jobs that American citizens ''didn’t want.'' How do you know? You’re implying that there are some jobs beneath Americans, but not beneath immigrants. I was always taught that no job is beneath a man if it is done honestly and to the best of his ability. Whether that’s digging a ditch, picking tomatoes, flying a 747, or running a nation, all of them are equal in the honor and the dignity of wholesome labor.

We have around three million people who are unemployed. We have anywhere from 10 to 15 million illegal aliens, perhaps more still than that. Assume one third of those are the breadwinners of the family (the proportion is probably higher, but bear with me here). You’d wipe out unemployment in a single stroke. You’d increase the income tax roles, which would have a positive effect on the budget. You’d reduce the welfare roles, both for the American citizens who would now have jobs, and for the illegal aliens who would no longer be in America.

Because they’d be arrested and deported post haste.

Yes, deported. Give them the old heave-ho. Common sense and fairness, as well as U.S. law, states that people who are in America illegally have broken the law, and deserve a swift trip back to wherever they came from. Are they going to have problems because of this? Yes. However, when people break the law, they automatically must accept the consequences of the illegal action. That means a boot to the backside hard enough to carry them across the border.

I know there’s an election coming up. And I’m sure you’ve been told that this is the only way to get the immigrant vote. But it’s a Pyrrhic victory for you. Because you’d be getting only a handful of votes in exchange for handing far more of them to your opponents. Lib/dem/soc/commies will garner the lion’s share of immigrant votes. Legal immigrants, illegal immigrants, dead immigrants, pet immigrants, etc., seem to vote primarily for lib/dem/soc/commies. Often. Get rid of the illegals and you’ll lose a few votes, true. But your opponents will lose far more. Because some of their voting base will have been put on a bus with a box lunch and a ''don’t call us, we won’t call you'' greeting card.

As mentioned before, we’ve got a lot of illegals here. How many are potential terrorists? You don’t know. Nobody does. But even one of them is one too many. You are, with your proposal, giving the opportunity for some terrorists already here illegally to continue to plan against, and potentially act against, the safety and welfare of American citizens. Citizens you have sworn to protect. Explain to me, please, how letting illegals stay here is a good thing for Homeland Security.

I know you want to stem the tide of illegal immigration. There’s a way to do that. It’s simple, effective, legal, and direct. It also has an incredible deterrent effect, and is well within America’s right to control its borders.

Shoot to kill. Harsh? Yes. But illegal aliens, breaking the law, don’t have constitutional rights as far as I’m aware. If they know the penalty for illegal entry into America is not necessarily a boot to the backside but a bullet in the brain, there’s a very good chance that the flood of illegals could be stemmed to a mere trickle. And we have the technology to monitor the borders with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s) over wide areas at a relatively low cost. We’ve used it against our enemies in Afghanistan and Iraq. Perhaps it’s time to apply this concept closer to home.

If you really want to protect America, you should remember the old adage that ''good neighbors make good fences.'' You should also worry less about what your counterparts north and south of us think, sir. They weren’t exactly helpful in the recent War to Liberate Iraq. Why the heck should you help them now? By legalizing illegals, you’re helping their economies more than our own.

Please, Mr. President, reconsider this immigration policy that you’ve announced. The potential short-term political gains are far outweighed by the long-term risks for America. And we, as a nation, deserve better than that.

Yours sincerely,

Doc Farmer

cc: Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN)
Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN)
Representative Mark Souder (R-IN)
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Mr. Vicenté Fox (President, Mexico)
Mr. Paul Martin (Prime Minister, Canada)
Secretary John Ashcroft (Justice)
Secretary Colin Powell (State)
Secretary Tom Ridge (Homeland Security)

This Article Was First Published In ChronWatch At: http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=5540
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[lthrneck]

I have an idea, after a recruit completes training at the rifle range they then put them on 30 days of border duty prior to graduation. If they get a kill they can go on and graduate. No kill no Eagle Globe and Anchor. Women and children only count for partial kills.
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[PhantomSgt]

[PhantomSgt]

I rest my case.

L.A.: End of the American Dream?
By Nicholas Stix

As the sayings go, as Los Angeles goes, so goes California; and as California goes, so goes the nation. If the deterioration of the Left Coast’s multicultural paradises is permitted to continue apace, all of America will soon look just like them.

For the past 15 years or so, radical multiculturalists have gleefully predicted that by the year 2050, whites will be a minority in America. Actually, with the 80 percent increase in illegal immigration since Pres. Bush’s December, 2003 announcement of his amnesty proposal, whites could be a minority as soon as 2030. In Los Angeles, they already are.

At present, L.A. is only 29.7% non-Hispanic white. (And only 10.9% black; the black middle class is engaging in “black flight.”) Only 59.1% of its residents were born in America, an increasing proportion of whom are the “anchor babies” of young Mexican women, who entered the U.S. illegally for the sole purpose of giving birth, in order to exploit social services.

To read the entire article go here: http://geocities.com/nstix/cal.html
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[tony54]

Thank God we still have the Second Amendment,
some day we all may realize why our forefathers gave us that all important right in the first place.

“GOD, GUNS AND GUTS made America free! (Let fight to keep all three!)”
(quote from a bumper sticker)

[highwayman]

the focus of this topic seems to be the influx from south of the border, my question is what about the people that came to this country legaly, wether through a school or visitar visa and allow the visa to lapse but stay...

to begin with, in my opinion, the illigles that come up from down south do the work that able body americans won't do because it is beneath them, wether it is pay or other reasons..

what i don't like, in fact i find distasteful, is that these illigles come up here and during there "visit" someone becomes pregnat and if the child is born in this country the child is automaticly an american citizen, iregardless of the nationality of the mother, intitled to welfare and medicaid. then after the birth the mother applies for and gets welfare, then skips back down south and lives like royalty on american tax payers behalf..

to begin with there should be a better or at least improve the system so to have a way to keep track of the resident legal alians so as not to allow the visa's to lapse and the now illegal alien to stay... good example would be the 911 pilots...

that's my 2 cents...

[PhantomSgt]

[ScottyDog]

[highwayman]

[ScottyDog]

highwayman:

Guess what, Americans mow lawns in Wyoming and many other states that have not been invaded by Illegals that are willing to work for what they get in their own corrupt country.

I just moved back to California to take care of my aging mother and am appalled in how much So Cal has changed in the 15 years I was away. It literally has become little Mexico.

I guess we will have to disagree but there many Americans being driven out of the jobs that "they will no longer do".

In Wyoming, a white neighborhood kid mowed my lawn to make money to save for his first car.

Not a grand but 100 bucks a month.

Think about it next time you think you can save a buck employing an Illegal Alien. Whose job are you giving to somebody that owes no allegiance to this country or our way of life.

Semper Fi

[PhantomSgt]

Does anyone remember paper routes? I had one with 170 customers and I delivered everyday before school when I was 12 years old. Christmas tips were excellent. Now somebody no one knows, driving by at 50 MPH tosses one in the general direction of the house.

Cutting grass in the summer and shoveling snow in the winter was another source of income for me and I worked my butt off, but I never asked for an allowance or money from anyone in the family. My kids didn't have these same opportunities and the chance to learn what it was like to earn. So we are now creating generations that only know what is given to them not how to sweat and earn it.


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Independent that leans right of center.

[coldwarvet]

In the long term the ability to be free and pursue happiness within ones homeland is the key for securing our borders. However several countries are not free or the pursuit of happiness has been drowned out by the pursuit of essential elements of survival.

It will not be until all people of all lands are free and have the basic needs of human existence met will America be free from the burden of taking in people from less fortunate circumstance.

Since it is unlikely that America will ever be able to turn away all those who would like to live here we at the very least need to identify any evil doers and keep them from entering into America and we also need to identify all alien evil doers and expel them.

CWV
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[blue9t3]

Hey Scottydog, I deserted Calif. about 10 years ago and the day I left it was at its best (in my rear-view mirror). Cal. was real, and it was fun,but it wasnt real-fun!
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