In light of this recent outbreak, a moratorium of six months to a year on ALL Mexican produce wouldn't be out of line. But thanks to disasters like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), that's never going to happen.

Naturally, Mexican officials are backpedaling, and have called the FDA's findings "premature." Enrique Sanchez, service director of Mexico's National Sanitation and Farm Food Quality, even sent a letter to the U.S. government "expressing our concern and most forceful complaint against this decision."

The unmitigated gall of the Mexican government never ceases to amaze me. It reminds me of when their president yelled at our president because we had the "nerve" to send the illegal immigrants from Mexico BACK to Mexico!

Sanchez said the FDA "has no scientific proof to make a decision that will harm Mexico enormously." Sanchez and the rest of the so-called Mexican government just don't get it: the FDA doesn't NEED to have any proof, scientific or otherwise, to issue a statement to protect the health of American citizens. Quite frankly, I don't care a whit for what kind of harm is done to Mexico! I'd rather see a dozen Mexican farms suffer than to have one American citizen be sickened by tainted Mexican produce.

Don't forget that when this outbreak first started, it was American tomato farmers who felt the brunt of FDA warnings - even though their product was not, ultimately, found to be at fault for the outbreak. If the U.S. government has the power to make its own farmers endure a crop ban, how can the Mexican government believe that their farms are somehow immune from this treatment?

The problem is that the Mexican government doesn't really take U.S. national sovereignty seriously. They figure that the U.S. and Mexico are essentially the same country, and that Mexican labor and goods should be able to flow freely over the border (in a northerly direction only, of course) with complete impunity. And Sanchez's outrageous assumption that the U.S. government needs to take into account what effect FDA safety measures will have on Mexico's economy just underscores this point.

Let's also remember that since the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak was detected, upwards of 1,200 people have been infected with the virus, across 43 states, Washington, D.C., and Canada. As many as 242 have been hospitalized as a result of the infection. According to the CDC, there are usually only about 25 reported cases of this strain of salmonella per year.

Hopefully now that the source of this outbreak has been found, it will put the brakes on this latest scourge from Mexico. This incident is yet another object lesson in the dangers of allowing elements of the Third World to creep into the U.S. and endanger the health and welfare of our people. We should be shutting our southern border not only to people, but to fruits and vegetables, too.

Never picking a peck of Mexican peppers,
William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

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Of course, the illegal immigrant groups like La Raza and others had no facts to counter what they called the "anti-Latino falsehoods" in the CBS report. I guess we have to assume that it's just not fair to point out the negatives about the growing illegal population in our country.

Here's the most outrageous part: I looked into the Rand Corporation (a non-profit global policy think tank) study that the CBS report was based on, and La Raza is right - the CBS report was inaccurate. In fact, the report UNDER ESTIMATED the size of the financial kick-in-the-teeth that the American taxpayer is getting from illegal Mexican immigrants.

According to the statistics that appeared on-screen during the CBS report, the $1.1 billion per year was what taxpayers were paying for "all undocumented men, women, and children." However, the Rand study said the $1.1 billion tally was the healthcare costs ONLY for "non-elderly participants - those between 18 and 64."

So the TRUE cost of illegal immigrant healthcare in this country is likely SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER than the $1.1 billion claimed in the report. Take, for example, the child born during that emergency C-section mentioned in the CBS report. He or she will have 17 years of healthcare (not to mention the cost of postnatal care at the south Texas hospital where she was born) that won't be factored into Rand's figures.

Bob Knight, director of the Culture and Media Institute, called the CBS report a breath of fresh air, considering that most media coverage is largely biased heavily in favor of illegal immigrants.

"The mainstream media has pretended that there is no cost or downside to the millions of people coming over the border illegally," Knight said. "So these groups are trying to intimidate Couric and her colleagues at the major networks."

Knight rightly points out that America's left-leaning media essentially approves of the massive influx of illegal aliens as a way to increase the Democratic voter base. According to Knight, liberals think that once illegal aliens are enrolled in liberal welfare programs and government subsidies, they will eventually become what he calls "a new generation of Democratic voters."

Which is true enough. But I think it's wrong. Because if these brazen illegals have proven one thing, it's that they care little for American citizenship. All they want is American rights and jobs. I'm sure they'd happily accept the right to vote too, but they won't bother to attain citizenship to get it. They believe they're entitled to it. And liberals are not bothering to disabuse these criminals (yes, CRIMINALS - that's what they are) of the notion that they're not deserving of these privileges. After all, California came close to giving ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS LEGAL DRIVERS LICENSES. I wish I could believe that this won't happen. But some day, I'm sure it will.

Quite frankly, groups like La Raza make me ill. These people routinely have the gall to march through the streets of American cities carrying MEXICAN FLAGS while they are demanding the rights and privileges that are afforded only to AMERICAN CITIZENS. What's more, when protesting the CBS News report, a group similar to La Raza called the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) threatened the network by saying, "If CBS is playing to immigration hawks to boost its sagging ratings, the network risks being tuned out by the expanding Latino community. Advertisers know that by 2011, Hispanic buying power will total $1.2 trillion, almost 10 percent of all U.S. purchasing power."

So, ignore the facts or else? Charming. Isn't it nice that people like this have graced our nation with their presence? We can only hope that someone in our government will seal the borders before it's too late.

One mad Americano,
William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

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The basic theme of the curriculum was that Mexican-Americans were and continue to be victims of a racist American society driven by the interests of middle and upper-class whites. In this narrative, whites are able to maintain their influence only if minorities are held down. Thus, social, political and economic events in America must be understood through this lens.

This biased and sole paradigm justified teaching that our community police officers are an extension of the white power structure and that they are the strongmen used "to keep minorities in their ghettos." It justified telling the class that there are fewer Mexican-Americans in Tucson Magnet High School's advanced placement courses because their "white teachers" do not believe they are capable and do not want them to get ahead. It justified teaching that the Southwestern United States was taken from Mexicans because of the insatiable greed of the Yankee who acquired his values from the corrupted ethos of Western civilization. It was taught that the Southwest is "Atzlan," the ancient homeland of the Aztecs, and still rightfully belongs to their descendants - to all people of indigenous Mexican heritage.

As an educator, I refused to be complicit in a curriculum that engendered racial hostility, irresponsibly demeaned America's civil institutions, undermined our public servants, discounted any virtues in Western civilization and taught disdain for American sovereignty. When I raised these concerns, I was told that I was a "racist," despite being Hispanic. Acknowledging my heritage, the Raza studies staff also informed me that I was a vendido, the Spanish term for "sellout."

The culmination of my challenge to the department's curriculum was my removal from that particular class. The Raza studies department and its district-level allies pressured the Tucson High administration to silence my concerns through reassignment to another class during that one period. The Raza studies department used the "racist" card, which is probably the most worn-out and desperate maneuver used to silence competing perspectives. It is fundamentally anti-intellectual because it immediately stops debate by threatening to destroy the reputation of those who would provide counter arguments. Unfortunately, I am not the only one to have been intimidated by the Raza studies department in this way.

The diplomatic and flattering language that the department and its proponents use to describe the Raza studies program is an attempt to avoid public scrutiny. When necessary, the department invokes terms such as "witch hunt" and "McCarthyism" to diminish the validity of whatever public scrutiny it does get. The proponents of this program may conceal its reality to the public. But as a former teacher in the program, I am witness to its ugly underbelly.

Arizona taxpayers should ask themselves whether they should pay for the messages engendered in these classrooms with their hard-earned tax dollars.

The Raza studies department has powerful allies in TUSD, on its governing board and in the U.S. House of Representatives and thus operates with much impunity.

Occasionally there are minor irritations from the state superintendent of public instruction and the Legislature.

Ultimately, Arizona taxpayers own TUSD and have the right to change it. The change will have to come from replacing the board if its members refuse to make the Raza studies department respect the public trust.

John A. Ward is a former teacher at Tucson High Magnet School.
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Typically, NPR sees the world through red-tinted, Marxist glasses; the poor and downtrodden must be helped and given every possible advantage, whether or not they legally deserve it or not. And NPR will shamelessly pluck at your heart-strings until your heart bleeds as much as theirs does. I was so incensed about this story that I went to the NPR website to find out more (glutton for punishment that I am) and discovered that the story I'd heard was actually just the first of a three-part series!

Part two of the story told of one Salvadoran deportee's "near-death trip" to the U.S. The hombre in question was "Julio," a 45-year-old diabetic. His story is littered with all the well-worn clichés you've come to expect from an illegal immigrant story. He was cheated by the smuggler he paid to get him to the States; he spent two days in the desert without food or shelter - blah, blah, blah. Well, I'm as compassionate as the next guy, but if Julio had stayed at home where he belonged, or better yet, TRIED TO ENTER THE U.S. THE LEGAL WAY, he wouldn't have experienced any of the "horrors" of his "near-death trip."

I appreciate that Julio and others like him are seeking a better life. And I hope they find it. But I refuse to believe that it's incumbent upon the U.S. government and the U.S. taxpayer to pick up the tab. Clearly, the immigrants that come here are not averse to hard work; I implore them to stay in their respective homelands and put their efforts into bettering the future of their native countries.

And as for the folks at NPR, all I have to say to them is, what are you thinking? You're as subtle as a sledgehammer to the head about where you stand on all this. You think only compassionless meanies would deny people like Julio their shot at the American Dream?

But then, what can I expect from a bunch of people who work on a non-profit radio station? People who've never had to compete for listenership, and who can spew their liberal tripe without even one thought to needing to make it profitable. Naturally, they believe that you should be free to do whatever you want and let the government pick up the tab: the taxpayers have been footing the bill for over a third of NPR's annual operating costs for decades.

NPR's thought process goes something like this: while you're taking out your checkbook to pay taxes to keep NPR in the black, why not include some more of your hard-earned cash so that Julio can have his insulin taken care of, decent healthcare for his family, an education for his kids, and everything else that a citizen of the United States can have. The fact that Julio isn't citizen shouldn't matter, should it?

Well, I'm here to say it should. It matters a lot. U.S. citizenship is a privilege, not a right. It's not something you give away like care packages. It's something that has to be earned. Legally.

Publicly calling out what's wrong with National Public Radio.

(If that were not enough,) with disturbing regularity, I seem to be telling you about more and more third world diseases and ailments that are popping up right here in the U.S. This is not good. I believe that these increases of tropical diseases are directly related to the increased number of illegal immigrants here in the States from all manner of unhygienic parts of the globe.

The parasitic worm disease called schistosomiasis is yet another example. Like many of these third world diseases, schistosomiasis is actually one of the most common parasitic infections in the whole world, infecting 207 million every year. Of course, the majority of these people are in the Asia, South America, Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean (and no, I don't mean Club Med).

Schistosomiasis is caused by flatworms that live in snail-infested fresh water; this water is contaminated by worm eggs when infected people urinate or defecate into it. Schistosomiasis is contracted when people swim, bathe, fish or rice farm in the contaminated water.

"This is a disease of poverty," McGarvey said. "If you had proper sewage disposal systems for humans and animals, you wouldn't be contaminating the environment with the [worm] eggs."

The good news – if there is good news in a story like this – is that the disease has merely increased worldwide; there's been no mention of a significant uptick here in the States….yet. But I wouldn't breath a sigh of relief. Researchers say we need more resources allocated to beating it back. One of the authors of the study, Steven McGarvey, director of the International Health Institute at Brown University, said, "We're basically ringing the bell; attention must be paid."

In other words, if we're not careful, this parasite could be coming to a town near you.

Yet another reason to build that fence!!

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.
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Child labor laws have drastically decreased the economic value of children, (except as child actors and celebrities); accordingly birth rates have dropped even in industrialized Second World nations with child labor laws. With children less able to contribute to the family and with an increasingly prolonged educational process that now culminates anywhere from ages 18 to 22 to a high of 26, high birth rates become increasingly difficult to support. Consumerism itself drastically raises spending on children and by children, making larger families all the more economically trying.

When Third World cultures enter First World nations, they enter an industrial economy whose birth rate they quickly exceed. These multiple births however are out of place in an industrial economy which is no longer meant to accommodate them. Supporting such a birth rate therefore becomes a problem that is foisted onto social services. Once a family becomes dependent on social welfare programs, it can often decide to milk the system for all it can get, creating endemic fraud. Even if does not go this route however, the children are often put to finding extralegal means of contributing to the family income, which generates crime and creates a criminal culture within the family and the community that can then last for generations.

There are a number of ways for First World nations to cope with this situation.

First of all set immigration quotas by birth rate. While some immigrants are needed, immigrants who out-reproduce you are not, since they create radical change that a nation's own culture cannot sustain. The melting pot only melts so far until it explodes.

If immigration quotas are set by family size and by the average birth rate of the country of origin, a country can better accommodate the collision of birth rates, taking in those immigrants whose birth rate is more compatible with their adopted country.

This would for example mean more Polish (10/1000), Chinese (13/1000) and Irish (14/1000) immigrants and less Pakistani (27/1000), Mexican (20/1000) and Somalian (45/1000) ones. Note how this compares to the American (14/1000), Canadian (11/1000), British (10/1000), French (13/1000) birth rates -- and decide for yourself which groups are more compatible birth rate wise.

The advantage of this is obvious. Large birth rates are more taxing and require heavy investment in schools and social services infrastructure. This diminishes the value of the immigrants to their host society and creates a heavy burden.

Secondly, increase native birth rates to better match those of the incoming populations. The common approach has been to do this through tax incentives and similar programs, but that has been demonstrated to be unsatisfactory. First World countries have adopted economies that make childbearing a burden, even with incentives and generous maternity leave and similar programs, all that is accomplished is to make the burden a little more manageable.

It is important to recognize that the entire economic structure in the West, from consumerism to high tax rates to heavy debt to extended educational processes that primarily serve as an advanced educational form of babysitting, effectively make large families difficult to sustain. Restoring the birth rates we used to have will require deemphasizing consumerism and the debt economy, reducing the tax burden significantly on native born families and enabling the return of the extended family, trimming the extended educational process and accepting a larger role for children and teenagers in contributing to family finances. While none of this is likely to happen, it is worth noting in order to contemplate what it would take to compete in terms of birth rates with incoming immigrant populations.

Thirdly the economic structure of the population in the target country and the country of origin must be heavily weighed in considering prospective immigration. People from a country of origin who are not capable of properly functioning in a Western economy without becoming a burden on social services should not be admitted. Western countries have no shortage of shopkeepers that we constantly need to be importing more and more of them.

Taking in immigrants who cannot function economically and demographically in a way that contributes positively to the country without excessive negatives, is unhelpful both to the host country and to the immigrants themselves.

The real problems of immigration stem from its unplanned and chaotic nature as random rules and a complete lack of oversight make no coherent attempt to plan the flow of immigration with a view to integration.

Sultan Knish
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In truth, the battle over the Senate's guest worker-amnesty plan is really a battle over attempts to open the border as called for in programs such as North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). Both plans call for open borders and economic integration of North America. Open borders are required to fully implement the plans.

The Bush Administration and those promoting illegal immigration were frankly stunned at the force and determination of U.S. citizens to reject the Senates immigration plan. Proponents played a very heavy hand in attempting to force the scheme on a resisting citizenry. Such powerful forces are not used to losing. Today they continue to seek new ways to work around the opposition and pass the legislation, as a whole or incrementally.

However, the anti-illegal fervor refuses to abate and in fact, dramatic new developments are taking place in local communities across the nation that may well stop the unpopular Federal schemes.

Meanwhile, in an attempt to weaken the resolve of opponents, they are called fringe fanatics. A common tactic employed by immigration proponents is to accuse opponents of racism. They charge that opponents want to deny a new breed of immigrant the chance to become Americans as many of our immigrant forefathers did. They paint a Norman Rockwell-type picture of honest, hard working immigrants, planting gardens, working in fields, doing the work "no Americans want to do."

So, in town after town across the nation the battle rages. And that is really the point. Illegal immigration is not just a border issue. It is a national issue affecting every large city and almost every small town. It must be understood that illegal immigration is not just a matter of some unhappy peasants hoping to seek a better life. It is a $300 billion a year industry, combining the interests of multinational corporations with those of drug cartels and Latino street gangs. Caught in between are American communities and the American way of life. Some cities, especially those along the points of entry at the border have become dangerous no-mans lands, where no property is safe, no American citizen is able to leave their home unarmed and some politicians turn a blind eye as they profit under the table. As a result American civilization is beginning to break down. That is why so many Americans refuse to back down on the issue, continuing to demand a crack down, no matter what name calling they must endure.

THE ECONOMIC COST OF ILLEGALS

Federal law (the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act) mandates that all hospitals with emergency-room services must treat anyone who shows up - including illegal aliens. In most cities across the nation, illegal’s now use the emergency rooms as free primary care. And the hospitals have to keep taking them.

Health Care

The annual cost for uncompensated emergency care to Mexican Border States (California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas) is $200 million. California taxpayers paid $79 million for illegal alien health care. Four major Los Angeles hospitals were bankrupted and shut down in 2004. Texas paid $74 million. Georgia ran a $63 million deficit for 64,000 unpaid doctor visits in 2002. Cochise County, Arizona spent 30% of its annual budget on uncompensated care to illegal aliens. University Medical Care in Tucson, Arizona spent $10 million on uncompensated care to illegal aliens. 77 hospitals in the four Border States now face financial emergencies. Legal citizens are forced to fly emergency patients to other cities for treatment. Taxes are going up to compensate.

Meanwhile, as a result of the Federal Emergency Medical Act, Mexican ambulance drivers are transporting hospital patients unable to pay for medical care in Mexico to facilities in the United States. The ambulances are driving through unguarded potions of the border with "little resistance" at the instruction of Mexican officials.

Education

Federal laws and a Supreme Court decision mandate that schools cannot deny free education to illegal aliens. Over 300,000 pregnant women enter the nation illegally every year. Taxpayers pay for food, housing medical care and school. The average annual cost per child for education is $7,161, totaling $109 billion to educate illegal aliens annually. The average cost of bilingual education is $1,200 per illegal student. U.S. schools annually educate 1.1 million illegal children. Schools have become over crowded and unruly. Teacher shortages (especially those who speak Spanish) are a growing problem for local school districts.

One teacher has reported what it is like in the classrooms in schools where federal tax dollars pay for free medical, free baby sitters for student mothers as young as thirteen, and free breakfasts (where "the waste of food is monumental, with trays and trays of being dumped in the trash uneaten"), new computers are "carved with graffiti by students." "I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less than three months who raise so much hell with the female teachers, calling them "Putas" (whores) and throwing things that the teachers were in tears" she reports. Such is the atmosphere in today's schools which are overrun by illegal aliens who speak no English and there is no ability to control or discipline.

Moreover, state run colleges and universities are being forced to allow illegal aliens to receive in-state tuition discounts that are supposed to be reserved for residents of that state. In California, a law, (Assembly Bill 540) allows undocumented high school graduates who have been in residence for three years to enroll in community colleges and the California State University and University of California systems without paying nonresident tuition. The same is true in many other states across the country.

The Jobs Americans Don't Want

In 2003, illegal aliens displaced American workers at a cost in excess of $133 billion, while American college and high school students can't find summer jobs in yard care, landscape, fast food or service jobs - because illegal aliens work those jobs at a third of the wage - often under the table.

Crime

Crimes committed by alien criminals, such as rape, murder or drug distribution costs U.S. taxpayers $1.6 billion in prison costs alone. The figure doesn't include the cost of lost property, medical bills of the victims, time lost from work to recover, higher insurance costs, etc. Today, illegal aliens make up twenty nine percent of the U.S. prison population - or 500,000 illegals.

Latino gangs like Mara Salvatrucha 13 (MS13) constitute most of the crime from the ranks of the illegals. They originated in El Salvador and today their U.S. leadership still comes from there. They steal cars and use them to run drugs over the border. They terrorize local citizens with violence. They are the chief source of drug sales for the cartels. And they are racists.

MS13 is the largest and most violent of all gangs in the US today. They have overtaken the Crips and the Bloods both in size and violence. MS13, which began its operations in Los Angeles has now moved east and is prominent on the East Coast.

In Los Angeles, Mexican gangs declared "ethnic cleansing zones" in specific parts of the city. They kill whites and blacks. In New Jersey, recently, MS13 gang members killed three college students in execution style.

NO MANS LAND AT THE BORDER

No legal citizen of the United States of America, living under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights should have to live as those who reside near the U.S. / Mexican border. Here there are no property rights, no ability to be safe in their homes, and no peace. One dare not go to the movies, the grocery or visit a relative without carrying a weapon for protection. Through out the community the streets are teaming with drug dealers, loiterers and gangs bent on violence.

The illegal’s flood across their property having just crossed the border. As they pass over the ranches and private property they leave a trail of trash, human waste and dead farm animals and pets. Found in the trash that is dropped all along the trail are pieces of paper containing contact phone numbers. Also found are Korans dropped by obvious Muslims who have made their way across the border.

Sometimes the illegals walk right in to the living rooms and steal what they want. Many homes on the border are now little more than prisons for the residents, surrounded by barbed wire, searchlights, with loaded guns at the ready.

The Tucson, Arizona area is one of the prime crossing points for illegals. The organization for transporting illegals is almost a precision military operation. On the Mexican side of the border is a landing strip where planes fly in on a regular basis with their cargo. Some of it human; some drugs. It's all the same to those providing the transportation.

The planes land and the cargo is loaded onto busses with the windows whited out. Young girls prepare for the trip by taking birth control, for they know what awaits them on the trip across the border from their "travel assistants" - rape. It's just part of the price for crossing the border into the promised land of America.

The busses drive to a specific location on the border. Here the cargo is unloaded and the process of walking across the border begins. Each of the human cargo is given information on what to do once they reach the other side, including a phone number of someone to call. The number is not necessarily a local number. It may be a location in Virginia, or Maine or Utah. Anywhere in the U.S. The person on the other end gives instructions on how to gain transportation to their location where they will be brought into the illegal community in that city.

And so the journey across the border begins. Somewhere in the middle, between Mexico and the U.S. is a tree. From the branches of that tree hang women's panties. It's called the panty tree. Why? Trophies from the raped women of previous journeys. It's just the cost of doing business with the "Coyotes," the murderous thugs who run the illegal immigrant trade. They don't care who lives or dies. These are the ones who will leave illegal’s locked in trucks without food or water or ventilation. They charge enormous fees - up front. To them the cargo is all the same. They carry the drugs with the humans. They make deals with terrorists for the same trip. They rape, maim and kill. And go back for another load. Business is booming. For part two click below.

Once the cargo is inside the U.S., more buses are there to pick them up and transport them to drop off points. Here the phone calls are made for arrangements of more transportation across the nation. And in that highly organized manner, illegal aliens make their way into American cities.

Some are "Sanctuary Cities" where politicians have decided its good for the community to encourage illegal’s to live. In such communities (such as Phoenix, Arizona) no one can ask for the country of origin, even if a crime as horrible as murder is committed. The sanctuaries permit 20 million illegals, drug smugglers, child sex rings, ID forgery networks, and an assortment of run of the mill criminals to live lawlessly inside the United States. They are provided with income, identification, driver's licenses, credit, housing, education, and medical care at taxpayer expense.

As stated, it's a $300 billion a year industry. That buys a lot of politicians. Along the Border States no one talks about it. And, no surprise, a lot of politicians do nothing to stop it. Our fear and their greed are destroying the American dream.

MEANWHILE IN YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY...

How a community treats the illegals is key as to how many come there. The main magnet is the establishment of a day labor center. The nation-wide illegal network knows where to send them. If a community opens its arms, of course they flock there. If a community stands up to them, they leave.

But that is easier said than done. First, federal laws or lack of enforcement hampers efforts against the illegals, no matter the sentiment of the community. Federal courts strike down local laws, such as just happened in Hazleton, Pennsylvania when a federal judge degreed that laws the community had passed to crack down on illegal’s were unconstitutional. Federal agencies say it is illegal for local police to ask if anyone is an illegal. The federal government argues that immigration is a federal issue and for local communities to take action interferes with U.S. foreign policy.

On the local level too, there is great pressure on elected officials to do nothing. Strong lobbying arms protect the illegals. The ACLU, of course, threatens lawsuits. But many Americans would be surprised to learn of the Hispanic forces behind much of the pressure applied to their local officials.

Many immigrant groups are joined together through the La Raza movement. These are the groups which organized the massive demonstrations in cities across the nation last year. It is past time for all Americans to know what is at the root of those demonstrations and the extent to which our nation is at risk to the La Raza movement.

One of the most prominent Hispanic organizations pushing for "immigrant rights" is the National Council of La Raza - the Council of "the Race." The mainstream media and most members of Congress depict La Raza as little more than a Hispanic Rotary Club. In 2005, La Raza received $15.2 million in federal grants, of which $7.9 million was in U.S. Department of Education grants for Charter Schools, and undisclosed amounts to get-out-the-vote efforts supporting La Raza political positions including lobbying for open borders and amnesty for illegal’s. Had the Senate's immigration bill passed, several million more dollars were budgeted for La Raza.

Behind the respectable front of the National Council of La Raza lies the real agenda of the La Raza movement. This radical agenda, pushed by secondary groups contains the reasons behind the demonstrations and the strong lobbying efforts in our communities.

Key among those secondary groups is the radical racist group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Astlan (MEChA). MEChA seeks to carve a racist nation out of the American West. MEChA opposes assimilation into American society. MEChA is a leader in the effort to "Reconquista" or reconquest our western states.

MEChA's founding principles state: "In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the brutal gringo invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlan from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating the determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of our blood is our power, our responsibility, and our inevitable destiny...Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and no to the foreign Europeans...For La Raza to do. Fuera de la Raza nada." That closing two-sentence motto is chilling to everyone who values equal rights for all. It says: "For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing."

These words don't come from a fringe radical element. These come straight from the official MEChA sites at Georgetown University, the University of Texas, UCLA, University of Michigan, University of Oregon, and many other colleges and universities around the country.

Another leading Hispanic group involved in community organization, promoting the pro illegal position is Mexicanos Sin Fronteras. The translation of the name means "Mexicans Without Borders." This group is active throughout the country and many times works with the "Zapatista Army of National Liberation." These groups seek to radicalize the Latino community. The official website of the Mexicanos Sin Fronteras states that it is "anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist in the capital of the most terrorist country of world-wide history" (Washington, DC). It goes on to say it pledges its support to "other campaigns" of the radical illegal Hispanics with material and financial assistance.

In Manassas, Virginia the Mexicanos Sin Fronteras and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation are the two most prominent "pro-Hispanic" voices. In fact, these two groups are spearheading the illegal alien lobby in Prince William County, where Manassas is located. This is the "mainstream opposition" to efforts to curb illegal immigration in that community. Together, these groups are holding rallies and calling for boycotts and even the violent overthrow of the United States. Again, these groups are not fringe radicals. They are the most prominent voices for the illegals.

FIGHTING BACK

While Congress fiddles and the Bush Administration issues meaningless pronouncements on "get tough" programs it never intends to enforce, local communities and state legislatures are beginning to fight back. And they are meeting with success.

State Legislatures, forced to deal with the failure of the federal government to fix the immigration laws, have considered 1,404 immigration bills this year and enacted 170 of them. These laws are aimed at curbing employment of illegals and making it more difficult to obtain state identification documents like driver's licenses.

In May, Oklahoma passed the "Taxpayer and Citizen protection Act" which denies illegal’s state identification, and requires all state and local agencies to verify citizenship status of all applicants before authorizing benefits.

On the local level incredible success is being achieved in Northern Virginia. Last year two residents of Herndon, Virginia, with no prior political experience, began an effort called Save Herndon. The issue was the establishment of a day labor center in the community. The center would give illegals a gathering place in the community to help them get jobs, identification and benefits from the community.

The two began a campaign that at once made a major issue out of the establishment of the center. When the mayor and the city council moved forward and voted to establish the center over the objections of a majority of the citizens, Save Herndon began a campaign to assure these representatives were not re-elected. They succeeded beyond their wildest expectations, helping to out the mayor and everyone on the city council who voted for the center.

Now the movement is growing across the Northern Virginia area. There is now Help Save Manassas, Help Save Loudoun (County), Help Save Fairfax, Help Save Virginia and Help Save Maryland. Together these purely grassroots movements have succeeded in enacting legislation in Loudoun County (the nation's fastest growing county) and in its neighbor, Prince William County which stops county tax-payer services to illegal’s.

Incredibly, under challenge from federal and state officials, the members of county commissioners are holding tough behind the laws.

The key, as stated earlier, is the day labor centers. If your city has one, then the message has gone out to the illegal infrastructure that your community welcomes them. Get rid of it and send the message that they are no longer welcome. If faced with lawsuits from the ACLU and La Raze, welcome them. Tell them you will gladly have a news conference to discuss their suit in front of the cameras. Do not be afraid.

Here are a few guidelines to help organize locally and face the coming onslaught of charges of racism.

DON'T express anger at what is happening to your community. DON'T express annoyance because illegal’s refuse to assimilate into your community or abide by your customs. DON'T make the issue economic and safety issues. Overcrowded housing and commercial vehicle zoning violations or that specific individuals are illegal aliens.

The pro-illegal’s will try to tell the public that there is uncertainty as to who is illegal, creating doubt. They will talk about how impossible it is to check everyone's legal status. It will be easy to charge racism.

Instead, make the issues about the abrogation of law. Focus your efforts against the individuals, businesses and politicians who create this problem and cheat honest business owners and workers by allowing illegal hiring practices under the table. In short, make the issue about enforcement of the law, cost and corruption. It's working in Virginia.

Today, we have the chance to not only stop the flood of illegal aliens, but in the process, deflate the size and power of the federal government in the process. It's time to organize Help Save America.

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You can expect an added eight to 10 million more immigrants by 2012 with another two million of their children. You can expect 20 to 30 million illegals to become legal American citizens with FULL voting rights. You can expect our English language to shatter like glass across the pavement and conflict in communities throughout America. You can expect downgrading of our educational standards to fit third world levels. You will see a profound degradation of the American Dream into the American Nightmare.

You will witness a cultural upheaval in America that rocks the foundation of this nation off its moorings.

Today, California sloshes knee deep in its 37.5 million population overload. It grows by 1,650 people daily! (Source: www.capsweb.org) By 2050, if this immigration-driven population phenomenon continues, California explodes to 79.1 million people. Source: “Projecting the U.S. Population to 2050” by Jack Martin and Stanley Fogel, March 2006.
If you think Los Angeles’ smog, traffic, water and power shortages create problems today, hold on to your girdle because you ain’t seen nothing yet!

In Dr. Otis Graham’s “Unguarded Gates: A History of America’s Immigration Crisis”, he writes, “Most Western elites continue urging the wealthy West not to stem the migrant tide, but to absorb our global brothers and sisters until their horrid ordeal has been endured and shared by all--ten billion humans packed onto an ecologically devastated planet.”

In literary terms, it’s called ‘hubris’ or false pride. Many of Shakespeare’s protagonists suffered this self-destructing trait. Today, Obama, Hillary and McCain maximize ‘hubris’ through their actions.

Hillary, McCain or Obama will not only legalize up to 30 million illegals, they will support doubling legal immigration to 2.1 million annually. They already voted for it in 2007. That’s like seeing your child with his clothes on fire running out of a burning building, but instead of spraying him with water, the firemen spray gasoline on your child. In this case, Hillary, McCain or Obama pour more ‘gasoline’ onto the fire by adding millions of immigrants into our country.

What astounds me stems from the fact that most Americans sit on the sidelines watching it happen, but don’t raise their voices in protest!

What are some of the results? We gang-tackle our civilization by adding incompatible cultures, religions and languages. We kill our educational system. We overload our infrastructure. We demean citizenship. Assimilation cannot occur. We fracture our identity. We devolve our nation. For a simple example: France burned in December 2006 when immigrants firebombed 10,000 cars, burned houses, killed French citizens and caused three weeks of mayhem.

With that child on fire illustration, what’s burning in this country? For starters, we’re burning the foundation of our society by destroying our most precious bond—our English language. Without a single language, we shall cease to continue as a cohesive civilization.

Samuel Huntington wrote the best seller: “Who Are We?” He stated, “By 2001 Congress appropriated $446 million for bilingual programs, supplemented by huge amounts of state funding.” Ironically, so many legal and illegal immigrants find they don’t have to speak English because none of their friends speak it. Koreans, Vietnamese, Hmongs, Middle Easterners, Russians and dozens of other immigrants can’t speak English and won’t invest in becoming Americans.

Thus, these new immigrants live in America, but they cannot speak and don’t think like Americans. What’s more, they don’t care. They’re not invested. They enclave themselves into their separate groups. Los Angeles stands as a polyglot of seething anti-American bias by Mexicans and their children. One look at Detroit’s growing Muslim population illustrates what happened to Paris, France, i.e., complete separation from the host country by new immigrants.

When you add millions of immigrants that can’t speak our national language, they emotionally, physically and intellectually separate. A nation cannot long survive when its citizens cannot speak to one another.

Dr. Vernon Briggs of Cornell University said, “Efforts in the United States to reduce the incidence of poverty have been hampered, since 1965, by the parallel revival from out of the nation’s distant past of the phenomenon of mass immigration.”

As these people pile up on our shores, can’t speak English and possess no skills, we engender separation. They succumb to a profound racism and distrust against their host country. “Immigrants devoted to their own cultures and religions are not influenced by the secular politically correct façade that dominates academia, news-media, entertainment, education, religious and political thinking today,” said James Walsh, former Associate General Counsel of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. “They claim the right not to assimilate, and the day is coming when the question will be how can the United States regulate the defiantly unassimilated cultures, religions and mores of foreign lands? Such immigrants say their traditions trump the U.S. legal system. Balkanization of the United States has begun.”

For example, Muslims practice female genital mutilation. It’s 6th century Dark Ages barbarism in the 21st century. It’s occurs today in Detroit and Colorado and wherever Islam grows in America. Seven years ago, so many cases of infected little girls’ genitalia from razor and glass cuts, landed in Colorado hospitals from the ritual that lawmakers passed a new law to stop it. The practice didn’t stop; it torpedoed underground. What happens when Muslims become the majority and vote it into legal practice? What happens when Mexicans vote horse tripping, cock fighting, bull fighting, Santeria (animal sacrifice already occurring in Florida) and dog fighting into law?

Have you seen a country devolve? In the Middle East, Muslims stone women to death for adultery. They won’t let women drive. Women can’t go out in public without a male relative at their side. They demand separate swimming pool times for men and women. They make women hide their faces via a burka into “non-beingness.” Unfortunately for most people, Islam is a very aggressive religion with a prime directive to become “THE” world religion.

As to the “lifeboat” metaphor for America, how many people does it take to sink a lifeboat? Short answer: the last one to come aboard that overwhelms the craft’s ability to remain afloat. (emphasis added)

As we degrade our ability to maintain our civilization by adding disparate cultures, languages and the least educated and poorest of the planet, we reduce ourselves into the same kind of conditions they fled. At the same time, not one, single core problem has been solved in their countries. We import their dilemmas into our country. On top of that we add 100 million people to our country. And we stand around picking our noses and scratching our butts while Obama, Hillary and McCain flush our country into a miserable future.

As my grandfather said, “Those dang politicians keep serving us more outhouse soup, but we don’t have enough sense to close the door.”

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It is undeniable that Mexico faces major challenges. Endemic corruption and the power of violent drug cartels still dominate everyday life across Mexico. Beyond the headlines, Mexico has deep institutional maladies. Mexico’s absurdly antiquated Napoleonic-inquisition styled legal system and the squandering of robust energy-industry opportunity by a poorly managed, state-run Pemex monopoly are just two examples of the kind of self-inflicted wounds that hobble your troubled nation.

I understand that you are attempting to resolve some of these problems and applaud your leadership in trying to do so. But what would contribute more to the long term stability of your economy and your country would be to focus more energy on addressing your domestic challenges and less on lobbying the U.S. to provide amnesty for Mexicans who have illegally entered this country with the blessing of your government. In doing so, you might be able to keep Mexico’s “best and brightest young men” in Mexico – where they can contribute more to Mexico’s economy than remittance payments. Unfortunately, your recent comments indicate that Mexico will continue its policy of encouraging illegal immigration and treating the United States as little more than a dumping ground for your social and economic problems.

In your speech yesterday to the California State legislature, you lectured the American people on how to improve our immigration policies. Why did you not propose that we model our policies on Mexico’s own policies toward illegal entry across your own southern border? Mexico expends enormous resources to prevent Guatemalans, Hondurans and Salvadorans from entering the country illegally, but you castigate the United States for wanting secure borders. Mr. President, in my neighborhood that is called hypocrisy.

You proposed in your Sacramento speech that “migration” be made “legal, safe and organized.” Mr. President, we already have such a program and it is called legal immigration. Over one million legal immigrants come through our ports of entry each year, not across our border fences. The American people set limits on the number of legal immigrants through our immigration laws, and it is not the job of the Mexican government to revise or expand those limits.

President Calderon, you are insulting the American people when you tell us that fifteen to twenty million illegal aliens in our country bring only benefits and no costs. I challenge you to give one concrete example of how the enforcement of our existing immigration laws violates anyone’s human rights. The people of Oklahoma are not anti-Mexican for passing laws to require verification of employment eligibility. The people of Indiana are not anti-immigrant for passing laws to require photo identification for voting. The people of California are not anti-Mexican for denying driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. The people of Arizona are not anti-immigrant for passing laws that deny welfare benefits to people who are in that state unlawfully.

It is no secret that the purpose of your visit is to influence the American election, and in fact your trip has been billed as a high-stakes effort to shape the immigration debate underway in the U.S. presidential race. What is perhaps more disappointing, however, is your attempt to insinuate that anti-amnesty sentiment here in the U.S. is the same as anti-Mexican sentiment. I am referring to your statement, “I need to change in the perception that the Americans are the enemy, and it is important to change the perception that the Mexicans are the enemy.”

It is both disingenuous and dangerous for you to inject this kind of xenophobia into this debate. The fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans support the enforcement of our immigration laws and take issue with the notion that we should reward illegal behavior, hardly qualifies as ethnic animosity or international enmity. What you must understand is that a treasured aspect of our national foundation is a respect for the rule of law. Perhaps if corruption were not so widespread and commonplace in Mexico, it would be easier for you to understand this.

President Calderon, in many ways your trip thus far has been a long series of mixed messages. You accuse the United States of recent protectionist trends, yet you heavily restrict foreign entry into Mexico’s energy sector through a massive, state-run Pemex monopoly. You assure American politicians that an open flow of cheap Mexican labor is not only benign but vitally necessary, but you take great care in securing your own southern border with Guatemala. You come to the United States purportedly to promote better political and economic ties with the U.S., but then issue a thinly veiled threat that Mexicans will regard the U.S. as an enemy if we refuse to provide millions of illegal aliens with unconditional amnesty.

President Calderon, I respectfully suggest that the next time you visit our country, rather than trying to influence U.S. policymakers or our election process, you take time to listen to Americans rather than lecture them. If you want to make changes in government policies, apply your energies to Mexico’s laundry list of problems rather than meddling in domestic American politics.

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Because I am a contrarian, and cynical of human behavior (derived from three decades in federal law enforcement, and another decade on Arizona streets as a police officer, and repeated disappointments as a political observer in Washington, D.C.), it is a huge cause for concern when normally conservative and articulate Internet commentators appear desperate to find the smallest crumb of hope from Congress. While some sense of desperation from the rule-of-law contingent is understandable, considering the war zone on the borders, the question still remains: Why are so many people blindly embracing the SAVE Act as if it were the Holy Grail of immigration reform?

Think like a contrarian. What might be missing from this picture? What remains unsaid?

It is important that every citizen recognize at the outset of any discussion of immigration that the phrases "immigration reform," and particularly “comprehensive immigration reform,” represent ‘code words’ that mean only one thing – a consistent and defiant refusal by Congress and the Bush Administration to enforce existing laws.

The congressional solution to "open borders" and epidemic illegal alien lawlessness across the United States, and the threat of mind-boggling terrorism, is not enforcement of existing laws, but to rewrite immigration law turning previously lawless behavior retroactively into legal behavior - with amnesty given for the crimes committed by millions of illegal alien migrants.

The Bush Administration is either oblivious and insensitive to life and death on the streets of our cities, and along our dangerous border, or it is literally refusing to defend the country in a war being waged by Mexico against the United States. The latter suggestion begs the question, "Is the Bush Administration, in concert with Congress, consciously aiding a self-declared enemy to defeat the United States of America?" What other choices are there?

As for amnesty for illegal aliens in the United States, arguably it would be less of an atrocity, but equally insane, to grant amnesty to the September 11th Islamic highjackers since they've killed less than five percent of the number of United States citizens that have died at the hands of illegal aliens during the last two decades. Both ideas are beyond delusional and are equally insane - except to the politician who is willing to sell their soul.

Pause and reflect on a sobering fact. The United States Congress, and the Bush Administration, and many who aspire to become President of the United States of America, absolutely refuse to enforce the law – and not just immigration laws, but any laws. As a direct result of failed leadership and vacant moral values, lawless behavior now permeates political behavior from the President, down through the federal government’s administrative agencies (DHS, CIA, State Department) to Congress, to Governors, to state legislatures, to mayors, to police chiefs, to homeowners associations, and riddles the courts. Endemic lawlessness has ravaged the illegal alien community.

There exists no apparent respect for the law - all the way from the top of our national political and law enforcement structure, to the bottom. It follows logically that there will be less and less adherence to any rules of law at lower influence and income levels of society, and particularly in minority/illegal alien communities. At some point, laws that exist on paper will become meaningless from Massachusetts to California. We seem perilously close to going over that national cultural precipice today.

Justifiably, why should any United States citizen believe - ever again - that ANY law, whether newly crafted or already ‘on the books’ will be enforced, except for when it serves the agenda of ‘the government,’ or a special interest group or a minority interest?

From the perspective of a citizen soldier who has served in the trenches on the front lines in Southern Arizona, it appears far more likely to this observer that the SAVE Act is a giant Trojan Horse, intended from the outset to be a lethal strike against the combined efforts of all citizen border-enforcement advocates. Incredibly, this legislation is being willfully perpetrated by a dangerous coalition of some of the most corrupt and the most ignorant in Congress.

Let’s begin making the case with a quote from the Eagle Forum email:

“Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC) introduced the Secure America with Verification and Enforcement (SAVE) Act, H.R. 4088, and it already has over 100 cosponsors. The Senate version, S. 2368, was introduced by Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR) and it is identical to the House bill. The SAVE Act tackles illegal immigration from three different directions: First, it increases technological surveillance and the number of Border Patrol agents. Second, it requires employers to use the E-verify program so they can be assured they are not hiring illegal aliens. Third, it will give the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) greater resources to strictly enforce current immigration laws and to better facilitate deportation when necessary.

How the SAVE Act Increases Border Security and Internal Enforcement:
• Increases the number of Border Patrol agents by 8,000 over five years.
• Employs the newest technology available, including satellite communication and aerial surveillance.
• Expands and mandates the use of E-verify, a free and effective program administered by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) so employers can confirm the legal status of their workers. The bill will phase in all employers over four years.
• Allows for information sharing between DHS and the Social Security Administration so as to close the loophole of mismatch letters going unresolved.
• Expands detention capacity and resources for ICE.
• Increases the number of Federal District Court Judges so as to expedite deportation hearings.

The SAVE Act is a great piece of bipartisan legislation ….”

There were currently 133 cosponsors of the SAVE Act at last count. The list of names is too long to reprint here. Many of the names of the cosponsors would cause any reasonable political observer to question whether the co-sponsors had actually read the proposed legislation and comprehend the unintended consequences – but that’s nothing new.

In a vain attempt to keep this critique reasonably short and to the point, permit me to point out the obvious. Every illegal alien currently in the United States, whether for the first time, or after repeated deportations and re-entry, is a serial criminal, many of whom are guilty of multiple unconscionable violent crimes, over fifty percent of all property crimes over the previous two decades, drug importation, human trafficking, domestic violence, gang affiliation and associated criminal behavior, document and identity fraud, and disorderly conduct in every conceivable manner.

If that were not enough, add vehicular mayhem on United States highways as illegal aliens operate motor vehicles within our nation’s borders with reckless abandon, without driving privileges, and most without valid registration or insurance (quaint requirements in state law applicable only to United States citizens).

The Department of Homeland Security and the State of Arizona have recently gotten together and chosen a novel way to facilitate the unlawful transportation needs of millions of illegal aliens who commute to illegal jobs – jobs that United States citizens once held. With DHS sanction, Governor Napolitano of Arizona plans to begin issuing legal identification in the form of federally-sanctioned driver’s licenses with radio identification chips. These legal documents will be issued to alien migrants (from anywhere in the world) without proof of United States citizenship, legal immigrant status, and/or even a fraudulent birth certificate.

Since the public outcry was so great when New York attempted to issue driver’s licenses and other forms of legal identification to illegal aliens, the innovative “work around” solution now is that the illegal alien driver’s license will be a federal identification, and only the administration of the program and distribution of the driver's licenses delegated to the states. The clever scheme has all the appearances of the same game, same objective, same deceit, and same amnesty – just a different day.

Governor Napolitano and the Department of Homeland Security envision that a driver’s license should be accepted in lieu of, and will suffice for, a passport at the U.S.-Mexico border. Subsequently, these same driver’s licenses will be used to convey legal work eligibility because those who possess the federally-sanctioned driver’s licenses would be presumed to be in the country legally for employment purposes. Ask yourself, why would the Governor of the State of Arizona issue driver’s licenses to illegal aliens (which becomes a form of legal identification and a government sanction to use United States roadways to commute to jobs - jobs they are not legally entitled to have)? The SAVE Act and Governor Napolitano’s issuing of driver’s licenses to illegal aliens seems to be the groundwork for permanent legal residency, nothing less.

Governor Napolitano signed the agreement regarding driver’s licenses with Homeland Security Department Secretary Michael Chertoff on December 6, 2007. Apparently she did so without consultation with the Arizona State Legislature. Does Governor Napolitano have the authority to bind the State of Arizona in a federal agreement that violates federal immigration laws, contains state obligations to the federal government and relinquishes state sovereignty? Doubtfully, but we have yet to hear that the Arizona Legislature intends to repudiate the agreement.

Illegal alien's recklessly ricochet around the State of Arizona, and the country for that matter, committing a laundry list of crimes, both felonies and misdemeanors. When finally caught, refusing to be identified by using a myriad of Hispanic surnames, the combination of police, courts and detention facilities simply send them home to Mexico or Central America.

The SAVE Act does nothing to change any of that. In fact, the SAVE Act ups the ante in favor of the illegal aliens. To make the point crystal clear, when an illegal alien returns to the United States, aided by the Mexican government or MS-13, and is unfortunate or reckless enough to be apprehended for the umpteenth time, experience has taught the illegal aliens (and US citizens) that the Border Patrol/ICE will simply package them up and ship them home again at taxpayer expense, often in a luxurious bus or aircraft. Who pays for the deportation costs? Who pays for the carnage left behind from crimes committed and crimes yet undetected? Not the illegal alien, not the U.S. taxpayer-funded lawyers, and not the Mexican government.

How many lawyers will it take to represent 20 million illegal aliens? Who will be expected to pick up that tab?

If you have any doubts, read the legislation yourself, H.R. 4088, The SAVE Act of 2007 (Secure America with Verification and Enforcement). While it 'sounds good on paper,' the SAVE Act requires ONLY the development of a national strategy to secure the borders and all ports of entry to the United States by December 31, 2010. Specifically, the hypothetical strategy must: assess unspecified future terrorist threats years in advance without creditable intelligence; make risk assessment at ports of entry; address staffing needs; describe border security roles between federal, state, and local government; assess existing efforts and border technologies; ensure free flow of lawful travel; assess the need for additional detention facilities and beds; outline performance metrics to ensure accountability, and schedule implementation of the strategy’s objectives. That’s the SAVE Act in a nutshell.

In the meantime, sanctuary cities such of New York City, Phoenix and Houston continue to be a safe haven, a secure base from which illegal aliens can commit all forms of mindless violent and property crimes with seeming impunity. United States citizens and businesses continue to face withering accusations of racism as illegal aliens defiantly demand from city government’s to be insulated as a protected class of miscreants from all community responsibilities or criminal accountability.

At the state level, governors and courts are actively protecting illegal aliens by stalemating citizen initiatives or legislation that would curtail illegal alien social benefits or limit cross-border migration. At the municipal level, mayors and chiefs of police are actively providing physical, economic and criminal sanctuary to illegal aliens at the brutal expense of lawful United States citizens and business owners.

Unfortunately for U.S. citizens, Hispanic and Muslim activists and their checkbooks have undue policy influence because politicians are amazingly competent in selling their votes - if nothing else in life! Wise men have always understood that everything has a price. It would appear that politicians have been having an integrity fire sale and patriotism melt-down for decades. Bottom line: with very few exceptions, your elected congressmen are selling out your country.

In recent years, Congress has knowingly gone so far afield as to vote to fund an assortment of anti-American special interest groups. One example will suffice, i.e., the funding of La Raza by Congress with over a million dollars of taxpayer money. LaRaza, an admittedly racist Hispanic-supremacy organization, reportedly is subsidized not only by the Mexican government and the U.S. Congress, but by criminal enterprises with funding that flows through legally constituted special interest groups.

Enforce the laws? Sure, whatever you say. And Americans should believe the SAVE Act will be an exception. Forget the SAVE Act. Enforce existing immigration laws. Legislation that purports to do anything else is a sham.

After all is said and done, state and federal immigration policy for twenty years has been and continues to be, regardless of protestations to the contrary, "catch and release" – not enforcement. Enforcement implies accountability for crimes, and clearly there is NO accountability of any consequence.

Just how ridiculous is the SAVE Act? The SAVE Act clearly proposes to add additional layers of border bureaucracy, but what will it ultimately accomplish? Maybe a metaphor will help. With 8,000 new border agents and more taxpayer money for technology, the SAVE Act “pretends” to be putting more fishermen on the pond and more high-tech fish sensors on the boat. The premise is that more fishermen and better technology will catch more fish. But the problem is that we don’t want any more fish. This business of illegal alien migration isn’t a sport and it isn’t funny. In fact, we don’t want ANY illegal fish in our pond. The illegal fish are destroying the natural habitat of the native fish. The solution is to remove the illegal fish from the pond, by incentive preferably but by force if necessary, in order to preserve the beautiful natural habitat – and not to introduce more illegal fish and then hire more anglers (agents) at taxpayer expense and issue more fishing licenses.

Congress has betrayed the trust of so many Americans so often for so long, how can there ever be trust in legislation like the SAVE Act? How many instances of political infidelity for how many years by how many congressmen must Americans suffer before citizens throw the bums out of the ‘house’ into the street? These elite bullies have garnered their power and influence, passed laws to protect their position, surrounded themselves with law enforcement agencies for their own protection, voted themselves a king’s ransom of a retirement system and benefits, and now they’re laughing in our face! They’re literally challenging you and me! What are we going to do about it? It's not Left v. Right anymore, it's the State v. you.

In the vernacular, a schmuck is a stupid person, a jerk, a fool, or a gullible dolt - at the very least. We are perceived as schmucks by our elected representatives in Congress, and worse by an assortment of Mexicans, Europeans and Muslims, all of whom are gaming the “democratic system” and our naivety to further their own self-interests. The abuse of United States citizens has got to stop, both by Congress and by illegal aliens.

And so the cycle repeats, and the SAVE Act stands as credible evidence that politicians intend that the cycle of abuse will repeat endlessly. Sadistically, it also appears to be the wizard’s (President Bush’s) intent. Careful reading of the SAVE Act provides more than an ample justification to speculate that the real intention of the SAVE Act is to make it impossible to remove illegal aliens from the United States. If there was any intention – ever - to enforce immigration laws and deport illegal aliens, then just enforce the current laws and eliminate access to the taxpayer-funded social benefits. No SAVE Act would be needed.

So let’s agree up front that there is still no intention to enforce immigration laws regardless of new legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by the president. Its simply another fraud, not unlike a shell game or 3-card Monte. When you encounter such games on the street, you would probably be unaware that most of the persons standing around a game are in league with the operator. The cosponsors of the SAVE Act are also in league, make no mistake.

Possibly the one aspect of the SAVE Act that should worry citizens the most is that the DHS seeks by this legislation to broadly expand their authority, power and reach. The SAVE Act authorizes the federal government to permanently seize substantial sovereign power from the States just when power should be flowing in the other direction.

United States citizens find themselves in quite a bind because Congress’ votes have been bought and paid for by foreign and domestic special interests. Regular old fashioned law abiding patriotic play-by-the-rules United States citizens, having elected their representatives in good faith, now realize they’re going to have to compete with special interests and well-funded activists and try to buy representation from their own representatives.

Has anybody stopped to consider that none of the top-tier candidates for President of the United States in 2008, in either party, has gone on record regarding what they would do with the 20-40 million illegal aliens currently in the United States, or whether they would build the double-layer border fence, or whether they would continue to extend unearned taxpayer-funded medical care, education and social benefits to non-citizens and their children? Duncan Hunter was on public record claiming he will build the fence, however candidate Huckabee has changed direction so many times even he must feel dizzy. No current candidate has said he will enforce existing immigration laws. Not one Republican or Democrat candidate has said they will actively prosecute those responsible for identity theft or fraudulent use of Social Security numbers.

With the SAVE Act, policing social security fraud permanently becomes the function of the Homeland Security Department. The criminal misuse of Social Security numbers by illegal aliens, and employers who accept, utilize and report fraudulent Social Security earnings is already a secret held more closely than nuclear technology. Identity theft remains a serious, pervasive and unresolved problem. What person is typically victimized by identity theft? Who in many cases is financially devastated? Not the illegal alien. When was the last time you heard of the prosecution of anyone for fraudulent use of a Social Security number to illegally obtain employment?

It’s time for some serious sole-searching. Are you finally willing to acknowledge, based on past performance, that the status quo suits Congress just fine, otherwise Congress would have stopped the social security fraud? Are you finally willing to acknowledge, based on past performance, that the status quo in illegal alien migration also suits Congress just fine, otherwise Congress and/or the Bush Administration would stopped it long ago? Does anybody seriously think Congress or the Bush Administration have had an epiphany and the SAVE Act somehow represents a “compassionate” change of conservative heart?

Here is another sobering thought: Has anybody stopped to ponder that the only people in the entire world who do NOT benefit from paying United States income taxes are the people who pay them? If all men were created equal, why are so many people, both in foreign countries and in the United States, still on some form of U.S. welfare and more illegal aliens are applying for benefits daily?

Moving on, what about the touted E-verify system of work eligibility? Consider for a moment that businesses are incorporated in a particular state and function according to the state laws in which they conduct business. While we would hope that employers would not hire illegal aliens, any decisions to limit employment eligibility reside in the sole jurisdiction of the individual state. If the state legislature and governor want to mandate use of a federal E-verification system as a prerequisite to hiring in Arizona, so be it, but nobody in Washington, D.C. has the constitutional jurisdiction or authority to mandate the E-verify program contained in the SAVE Act. E-verify may become a welcome adjunct to business law at the state level, but not immigration law at the federal level. Who is offered or denied employment in the State of Arizona is no business of any administrative agency, politician or civil service employee in Washington, D.C.

Do you really want a United States government administrative agency to begin deciding who gets a job and who doesn’t? Be very, very careful what you wish for because the day will soon come when United States citizens who fail to curry liberal favor begin to find their name on the “no-job” list – without recourse – or on the “no-fly” list or “no-gun” list, both of which already exist.

As for lists, you’ve probably heard about the government’s terrorism watch list … the list they won’t tell you who’s on, who’s not, how they got there or how to get off. The government’s terrorism watch list grew by 200,000 people in 2006 to more than 750,000 names. There are terrorists in this country, without a doubt because of open borders and lax enforcement, but does anyone really believe there are three-quarters of a million terrorists in this country?

If that were not enough, Senator Lautenberg of New Jersey is relentlessly pushing legislation that would terminate a citizen’s 2nd Amendment gun rights if their name just magically happened to turn up on that terrorism list. If you think it couldn’t happen, the history course(s) were lacking or non-existent in the public school indoctrination curriculum you experienced. Disarming citizens has always been the first priority of every eventual tyrant or ruling class throughout recorded human history.

We learned from the Washington Post in the week before Christmas, 2007 that the Department of Homeland Security (FBI) is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad.

One more time for emphasis - please be very, very careful what you wish for. The Department of Homeland Security has no right under the Constitution or law to access Social Security records. There is no justification for such a massive invasion and probable future misuse of personal information. Arguably, we have in the making an American version of the infamous Soviet KGB, an intelligence organization that will keep a detailed computer database dossier on every aspect of the life of every United States citizen – from medical records to parking tickets. If you want to live in a political system that resembles the defunct Soviet Union, why not just move to Russia – but be sure to take your passport and a copy of George Orwell’s novel, ‘1984’.

Back to the point - because the unshakeable intent of Congress is now, and always has been, to grant amnesty to tens of millions of illegal aliens in exchange for campaign contributions, and the “Hispanic vote” to shore up the dwindling demographics of the liberal establishment, it is unlikely that Congress will make any effort to save United States citizens from the SAVE Act. As if more proof were needed, without any explanation, Congress has already stripped away the $3 billion in funds intended to build the double-layer border fence that was approved last year. Without telling the public, Congress pulled the plug on the U.S.-Mexico Border Fence that it voted to build with such enthusiasm and grandstanding (just before they asked voters to re-elect them). So what is the point of the SAVE Act except to try to scam the American public for the twentieth time into accepting the existence of an ever increasing number of illegal aliens in the United States? Many of these very same congressmen that defunded the border fence are touting the SAVE Act?

There is still one more small nagging detail. What about justice for past or present criminal acts committed by illegal aliens, criminal acts that accumulate year after year without justice? What about all the past deportations that were simply ignored or never enforced? What happened when the alien returned defiantly and reentered the United States? Where is the accountability for repeatedly crossing the border illegally, not to mention the crimes recklessly committed while in the United States?

Is there anybody (that is both awake and conscious) that does not believe that United States citizens deserve justice for what they have had to suffer - for the fraud, the violent crimes, deaths at the hands of illegal aliens that continue at the rate of 5,000 citizens per year, human trafficking, drug importation and property crimes – all facilitated for 20 years by elected representatives, such as Senator John McCain who is chief among men who seek to rule rather than govern, i.e., to become Caesar. If John McCain is unresponsive to 80-90 percent of his own state’s registered voters who want illegal alien migration into Arizona stopped, and has done nothing but pander to special interests for 20 years, is John McCain participating in governing as a representative of Arizona, or attempting to rule?

Maybe justice should begin with our elected representatives. Maybe Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano should be named as an unindicted co-conspirator on every homicide committed by an illegal alien in the State of Arizona.

Maybe Senator John McCain can explain why his refusal to enforce existing immigration laws is not a form of gross malfeasance in public office, and why facilitating illegal alien migration is not a cruel form of torture on every United States citizen?

Have you ever asked yourself, “How many United States crime victims at the hands of illegal aliens will finally be too many, even for a heartless politician?” Will 1,000,000 be too many? That sad milestone was passed a long time ago. Maybe Arizona Senator Jon Kyl has the answer? What are his “reasonable carnage” limits – otherwise known as acceptable collateral damage? If one rape in Iraq is too many, how many thousands of rapes of our cherished wives and daughters should be acceptable?

It should not be lost on voters that Senator Jon Kyl has just been promoted to the #2 position of Senate Republican leadership responsibility (Asst. Minority Whip) by his peers. This is the man who voted for construction of the border wall before he voted against funding it. Clearly, Republicans who voted for Senator Kyl to become Asst. Minority Whip proudly share his vacant value system – a belief system that says there are no limits on collateral damage suffered by citizens at the hands of illegal aliens in the United States. These are the very same men and women who are now among the 133 sponsors of the SAVE Act.

It may be a novel concept to liberals, including Democrats and liberal Republicans, but when someone says “enforce the laws,” THAT INCLUDES ACCOUNTABILITY, not just picking up illegal aliens off the street, filling out the paperwork and putting the alien on a bus back to Mexico. Enforcement includes accountability - or it is not enforcement. What part of ILLEGAL don’t American liberals and illegal aliens understand? Are we to assume that liberals in general and illegal aliens in particular will pick and choose which laws, if any, are applicable to them? So much for the SAVE Act.

United States citizens (except female teachers who rape young male students) are usually held accountable for crimes committed under state and federal laws. They do hard time. They are taken off the streets for extended periods of time both to protect society and to create a deterrent. They don’t get celebrity status and a “get-out-of-jail-free card” simply because they’re illegally in the United States. They’re not deported to their homes in a neighboring state or foreign country. They can't flee across an imaginary border to escape prosecution. Why should illegal aliens and potential terrorists be too good for the Rule of Law? Why not ask your congressman for an explanation why the potential Mexican votes are more important than those of United States citizens?

You already know the cynical answer. Hispanic activists, corporate interests, attorneys, and those who profit from the criminal enterprise of illegal alien migration, are buying congressional votes. You’re not. Pushing the SAVE Act through Congress is akin to putting more Congressmen in Washington, D.C. as if more congressmen will somehow lessen the political corruption.

There is only one thing that will ever stop illegal alien migration into the United States. Do you want the migration of illegal aliens to stop, or don't you?

Illegal aliens just like every other human being, including and exemplified by United States politicians, act with few exceptions in their own self-interest. Illegal aliens cross the border for only one reason – self interest. Illegal aliens must be made to fervently believe that they do not want to endure what they are going to find in the United States if they are found to have committed a crime as an illegal alien.

Besides, what illegal alien would want to come to the United States if there were no jobs readily available or social benefits waiting for them? Think about it; only a terrorist or a serial criminal would enter the United States illegally in the face of probable hardship.

The only solution to illegal alien migration, assuming that United States citizens have both the desire and the stomach to make it stop, is to create a credible disincentive to “illegal” migration - to make it socially and economically painful to be an illegal alien in the United States – of any ethnic origin or religious affiliation. If we as a nation (our congressmen) are not willing to strip away the taxpayer funded benefits lavished on illegal aliens, and protect United States jobs, American culture and the environment, why not just start printing and distributing engraved invitations?

Maybe we are all missing the point. Maybe Governor Napolitano’s DHS-sanctioned illegal alien radio-chip driver’s licenses are intended as an engraved invitation.

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