Sunday, August 16, 2009

AN AMERICAN WITNESSES this NATION GIVEN AWAY TO ILLEGALS

Do something with taxes you have paid: Guest workers are loitering
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Bush claims that Guest Workers do work that legal
Americans won’t. If that were true, then in the 35
states with few illegals (87 percent of illegals
reside in just 15 states), lawns wouldn’t get mowed,
hotel rooms wouldn’t get cleaned, buildings wouldn’t
get built, and crops wouldn’t get picked. In those
states, employers simply have to pay a living wage and
provide decent working conditions to get people to do
that work.



As mentioned earlier, John Kerry proposes an even more
radical plan. He has promised—without specifying
details—that within 100 days of his inauguration, to
forward a “path to legalization” for nearly all
illegals



Gutted unions. Unions protect workers against
exploitation. Flooding the job market with illegals
erodes unions’ power to negotiate. Bush’s Guest Worker
proposal and Kerry’s “path to legalization” would add
millions of non-unionized workers. That would, of
course, exacerbate the problem.



Worse public schools. America’s public schools already
suffer under severe budget constraints, causing large
class sizes, textbook shortages, and leaky ceilings.
Yet, US law requires that all illegals receive free
public education K-12. The Federation for American
Immigration Reform estimates that this costs $7.4
billion dollars each year.



The birthrate among illegals is more than double that
of legal US residents. The Pew Hispanic Center
calculates that within seven years, the children of
immigrants, legal and illegal, will account for one in
nine school-age children in the US. The Urban
Institute estimates that already, 15% of all school
children in California are illegals, many of whom
speak little English. These students are usually
mainstreamed in classes with native English speakers.
This means that teachers must slow down instruction,
denying native English speakers their right to an
appropriate-level education.



The challenge is even greater because not all those
students’ native language is Spanish: For example, in
my nearest major school district, San Francisco, it
would not be unusual to find a class that had native
speakers of Chinese, Russian, Tagalog, Spanish, and
English. Imagine the challenge of trying to educate
them all. If your child were in that class, would you
be confident that he or she would receive a quality
education?



Immigrant children pose less obvious challenges to the
schools. Barbara Nemko, the Napa County Superintendent
of Schools, points out examples: “Unless she speaks
Spanish, we have a hard time justifying hiring an even
an excellent teacher… So much of our staff development
time must now be allocated to dealing with the needs
of ‘English Language Learners.’ Our immigrant kids
also come to school with serious health problems that
we must address. For example, dentists now visit our
high-immigrant schools providing dental services at no
cost to the student.”



Immigrant advocacy groups such as the Mexican-American
Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) and La Raza have
additionally burdened the public schools by demanding
that schools provide special controversial programs
such as bilingual education, in which students are
taught in Spanish for much of the day. Bilingual
education programs exist throughout California even
after longitudinal research has not demonstrated their
effectiveness and after a voter-approved ban on those
programs.



MALDEF and La Raza also pushed through legislation
that allows, in 19 states, illegal immigrants to not
only attend any public university in those states, but
to pay in-state tuition, while legal residents of
neighboring states must pay the out-of-state rate
which is three to eight times more. It’s quite an
injustice, for example, that a legal resident can be
denied admission to taxpayer-supported Berkeley and
must attend community college so an illegal foreign
national can attend Berkeley—at in-state rates! And
often, because of reverse discrimination admission
policies, the illegal is admitted with B grades while
the rejected legal resident may have A grades.



And Senator Dick Durban (D-Illinois) is spearheading
legislation to extend the in-state tuition privilege
to illegals in all 50 states.



MALDEF’s and La Raza’s lobbying and legal power is
remarkable.

§ Worse health care. US law
states that all illegals and their families are
entitled to free emergency health care, and many
jurisdictions provide non-emergency care to illegals
for free.

Our health care system is already overwhelmed. For
example, thousands of Americans die each year because
of lack of adequate nursing and other medical care.
Illegal immigrants, coming from poor countries, have
great health care needs.

And in addition to common diseases, illegals bring
challenges not normally faced in the US, for example,
7,000 new cases of leprosy in the past three years
came in from Mexico, India, and Brazil, 16,000 new
cases of multiple-drug-resistant, incurable, and
communicable(!) tuberculosis. The Centers for Disease
Control reports that illegal immigrants account for
over 65 percent of communicable diseases (TB,
hepatitis, leprosy, AIDS, etc.,) in the US.
Immigration officials are supposed to screen out
immigrants who are carrying diseases, but there is no
health screening for illegal immigrants.

Illegals’ further burden the health care system
because they disproportionately do heavy physical
work, which causes their bodies to fall apart faster,
and because the violent crime rate among illegals is
staggering (See below).

The burden of providing health care to illegals
extends beyond disease and saving crime victims. For
example, because of illegals’ high birthrate, in
Colorado, which has a mere (?) 100,000 illegal
immigrants, taxpayers in 2003 alone paid for 6,000
illegals to have their babies. That’s 40% of the
births Medicaid paid for in the state. To get
immediate care, the illegal only must say “I am
undocumented."

The Washington Times reported that dozens of hospitals
in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California have
either closed their doors or face bankruptcy because
of losses caused by uncompensated care given to
illegal immigrants. Heretofore, most of the closings
have been in hospitals near the Mexican border. But
the problem is extending northward as illegals move
northward. This week, a hospital in San Jose (400
miles north of the Mexican border) had to close
largely because it was overrun by illegals who would
not pay for services.

Brenda Walker, in the same publication writes, "More
than 40 million American citizens do not have health
insurance while they pay in their tax bills for free
medical care for Mexican nationals, many of whom are
illegally working at American jobs - a double-dip rip
off. Furthermore, hospitals closing and emergency
rooms crowded with illegal aliens mean that an
American needing speedy treatment may have to wait far
longer to receive it. Such delays can mean the
difference between life and death."

US House of Representatives member Mark Foley has
persuaded the General Accounting Office to study the
financial costs that illegals impose on hospitals. He
says "we need to remedy this problem before we can no
longer afford to take care of Americans."



The impact of legalizing millions of illegals, their
spouses, and children, to our already creaking health
care system would be devastating.

I wonder what George Bush or John Kerry would say to a
legal resident whose family member died because of an
overwhelmed health care system: “Sorry, we allow the
illegals because it enables corporations to avoid
raising wages.”?



§ More Dishonesty. Bush and Kerry
would give legal status to millions of people whose
first act in this country was to commit a
crime—sneaking into the US to evade immigration
laws--and who soon committed a second crime-- applying
for a job when only legal residents are allowed to.
Countless illegals soon go on to commit yet another
crime: obtain false documents so they can, from US
taxpayers, steal (that is the correct albeit
unvarnished word) food stamps, housing subsidies,
unemployment insurance, Medicare, and other government
benefits intended for legal residents.

Obtaining false documents couldn’t be easier. A fake
identity package including birth certificate, Social
Security card, passport, green card, and driver's
license is widely available on the street for $50 to
$70. For a similar price, illegals can borrow the real
thing. Legal immigrants simply rent their IDs to
illegals who want to apply for a job, welfare, or
Social Security.

Can we ask legal residents to be honest--for example,
to pay their income taxes—while we reward lawbreaking
illegals with legal status, an array of services for
themselves and their families, plus full US
citizenship for all subsequent offspring? In
officially welcoming millions of acknowledged at-least
two-time lawbreakers into the US, we would exacerbate
America’s already declining honesty.



And the impacts of a dishonest society are profound.
Already, we hear of endless examples of rampant
dishonesty from corporate malfeasance to welfare
fraud, from student cheating to elder scams. A viable
society requires that we able to trust what people say
and do.

§ More violent crime. The violent crime rate
among illegals is horrific. I wish I could present the
most germane statistic: the violent crime rate for
legal versus illegal residents, but for reasons I
can’t understand, most law enforcement agencies are
prohibited from collecting those data. Nevertheless,
related statistics are available.

According to the US Transportation Department, nearly
half of California's drunk driving arrests in 2001
were Latino men. (Data for later years is not yet
available.)



An article in City Journal reports, “In Los Angeles,
up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants
(17,000) are for illegal immigrants. A confidential
California Department of Justice study reported in
1995 that 60 percent of the 20,000-strong 18th Street
Gang in southern California is illegal; police
officers say the proportion is actually much greater.
The bloody gang collaborates with the Mexican Mafia,
the dominant force in California prisons, on complex
drug-distribution schemes, extortion, and drive-by
assassinations, and commits an assault or robbery
every day in L.A. County.” One in seven inmates in
California state prisons are illegal immigrants,
serving time for crimes other than being in the US
illegally. California taxpayers alone spend $500
million a year on incarcerating illegals.

Astonishingly, because of so-called sanctuary laws,
police in illegal-saturated cities such as L.A., San
Diego, Houston, Austin, Chicago, and New York are
prohibited from reporting even felons’ immigration
violations to federal authorities.

Even an illegal alien who has committed murder rarely
gets deported! According to statistics from the former
Immigration and Naturalization Service and Immigration
and Customs Enforcement, 80,000 illegals who have
served prison time for felonies including murder,
rape, drug smuggling, and armed robberies, are roaming
our streets. This is frightening indeed because,
according to Bureau of Justice statistics, within
three years of prison release, 62% commit another
crime.

I wonder what Bush or Kerry would say to the family of
a person who was murdered by an illegal.

And if Bush or Kerry’s legalization proposals are
enacted, the violent crime rate among illegals will
worsen further. Because most illegals have physically
demanding jobs, when they reach their 40s, their
bodies are typically no longer capable of doing that
work. At that point, with no experience other than in
manual labor, most of these people will not be able to
earn a living wage, and hopeless people (or their
children) disproportionately turn to crime. So, as
time goes on, the already devastating crime rate among
illegals will rise further.

§ Endangered national security.
All 19 of the 9/11 terrorists were in the US
illegally. Peyton Knight, Director of Legislative
Affairs for the American Policy Center, a Virginia
think tank, writes, “At a time when America is under
attack by Islamist holy warriors, the Census Bureau
estimates that as many as 115,000 illegal immigrants
from Middle Eastern countries are living in the United
States.



§ Higher taxes. Many illegals are
paid off-the-books. Most others earn low salaries and
therefore pay little or no tax. Yet illegals are heavy
users of tax-dollar funded programs: education, health
care, and the criminal justice system, for example.
According to US Census data, immigrants [1] are 75%
more likely to use food stamps, medical benefits, and
housing assistance at a cost of $68 billion per year.
(Compare this with the estimated $84 billion one-time
cost of the war in Iraq.) A recent report by the
Center for Immigration Studies finds that illegals
cost the taxpayer $10 billion more than they
contribute in taxes.



Some argue that illegals contribute to our economy
through their spending. In fact, because illegals’
salaries are low, they have little to spend. In
addition, while American-born workers spend most or
all of their earnings here in the US, creating more
jobs and in turn, more tax revenues, illegals send
much of their earnings back to relatives in their
native country. For example, according to a study by
the Pew Hispanic Center and Inter-American Development
Bank, Latino immigrants in 2002, despite the soft
economy, sent a record $23 billion to relatives and
others in their home countries.



California is already almost bankrupt. Adding millions
more illegals into legal status would likely push
California over the edge. Other states with large
numbers of illegals would likely soon follow, causing
illegals to move to states that still had money to
provide them with services. Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV)
called the Bush plan, “lunacy.” The Kerry plan would
legalize far more illegals.



§ Ever more illegal border
crossing. If I were a poor citizen of a poor country
and learned that the US government is not deporting
illegal aliens but instead, providing them with free
health care and education, and that with
easy-to-obtain fake ID, I could get many additional
services, my family and I would be ever more tempted
to sneak into the US.



And a majority of Mexicans, with whom the US shares a
1,000-mile border, believe there’s nothing wrong with
doing so. According to a Zogby poll, 57 percent
believe “Mexicans should have the right to enter the
US without US permission” and 58 percent agreed that
“the territory of the U.S.’ southwest rightfully
belongs to Mexico.”



Many Mexican leaders also hold these beliefs.
Co-founder of MALDEF, Mario Obledo, to whom President
Clinton awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of
Freedom, boasted, “California is going to be a
Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn’t like it should
leave." He added: "Every constitutional office in
California is going to be held by Hispanics in the
next 20 years.” Jose Pescador Osuna, former Mexican
Consul General in Los Angeles, said, "Even though I’m
saying this part serious and part joking, I believe we
are practicing 'La Reconquista' in California." Past
Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo, in 1997, speaking
before the national council of La Raza, was not
half-joking when he said: "I have proudly affirmed
that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory
enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are
an important – a very important – part of this." And
Mexico’s current president, Vicente Fox has marched La
Reconquista forward by having convinced President Bush
to provide legal status for millions of illegals.

In Sum

As I mentioned earlier, I am far from an American
flag-waver. But despite its flaws, America has,
heretofore, been a land of exceptional opportunity and
innovation. As I get older, I especially appreciate
that America has spawned more life-saving medical
advances and quality-of-life improvements than any
country in the world. America has also provided
trillions in foreign aid, and is the only country in
the world with a worldwide Peace Corps, a tremendous
service to the people of the developing world.

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