Friday, July 28, 2006

Bring Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Ignorant

The Los Angeles Times has an article about a Mexican family who has lived in an immigrant enclave for years. It is heart-rending & you have to feel sorry for them. Then again, no you don't - it is their own damn fault.

The husband & wife are illegals from Mexico. The husband works as a carpet installer for $400 a week. They live in a 1-bedroom apartment for $600 a month. The kicker is that they have 10 children. 9 live with them - 2 teenagers, 3 year old triplets & just recently a set of quadruplets.

They were struggling mightily before the quadruplets. Now they must seek a larger & costlier apartment, as well as a larger vehicle to seat all the children.


Because all 10 children are American citizens, being born in the USA, the family is entitled to subsidized, i.e. free, school lunches, healthcare bills for the children covered by Medi-Cal & $700 a month in Social Security payments to help with the medical needs of one of the triplets. He has had 3 state-funded brain operations & will need more. That's basically their story.

But let's give it a critical eye. 10 children?? They are living in poverty or near poverty & they think it's smart to bring 10 children into this? The mother said she stopped using a birth-control patch because it nauseated her. She used fertility drugs to conceive the triplets.

She brings 10 children into the world to share in her poverty & misery. She brings taxpayers into her world to pay for the childrens' healthcare, lunch & other state or federal programs they are eligible for. And if her husband leaves her, as husbands sometimes do, she & the taxpayer are lifetime partners.

The parents show little regard to improve their lot or the childrens' lot. The mother has been in this country illegally for 22 years, the father for 28 years illegally. Yet neither can speak English! Their two teenage daughters speak mostly Spanish, with a limited English vocabulary. This is absolutely pathetic. Not only have they failed to assimilate into an English-speaking society, but have burdened their children with that failure as well.

The mother's existence contrasts sharply with that of her younger siblings, who followed her to Los Angeles but then left. They have settled in Lexington, Ky., had no more than two children each and built better lives than they had known before. Four bought houses. Their children speak English fluently.

The plight of the above family can be multiplied by the tens of thousands. Huddled in immigrant enclaves, these illegal immigrants come here poor & uneducated. They perpetuate a permanent poor class of workers. They don't have the wherewithal to get themselves out of it & they compound the misery by bringing into the world children they can't afford, & not just one or two children - but a gaggle of them. These children in turn create their own family of poor & so the cycle continues. They live in crowded 1-bedroom apartments of 12 people. Hell with the housing codes. They don't even have the ambition to learn English. They choose not to assimilate into the general population.

Unlike past & lesser waves of immigration, these illegals are failing to or refusing to assimilate into American society. Spanish-speaking compounds dot the map across the USA. A walk into these areas is like a walk into a foreign country. And the government "compounds" the problem by allowing voting in 52 languages, driver tests in 26, press 1 or 2 or 3 for whatever language, bi-lingual education. It goes on & on.

The backs of the taxpayers bear more of these families each year. We see overcrowded schools, overcrowded emergency rooms, hospitals going bankrupt for the no-charge services they provide to illegals & their families. A greater demand on social services is made each year by illegals - services that could be better spent on US citizens.

It is not just happening in Los Angeles. It is happening in every state in the Union. And the problem will continue to grow exponentially as the unbridled flood of illegals enters the USA each year. American society is in a sea-change right now, for the worse. We will all wake up one day & wonder how it all happened seemingly so suddenly.

Well, thank the Congress for failing to do anything about controlling the border. They are the villains in this mess. The US taxpayers & citizens are the victims.

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Senate Refuses To Fund Fence It Voted For

Two months ago the Senate voted for & approved a 370 mile fence & 500 miles of vehicle barriers along high traffic areas of the southern border. The fence & barriers were part of a comprehensive immigration reform bill. Mind you, 370 miles of a 2,000 mile border is small indeed.

In a vote the other day to fund that fence & barriers, the Senate voted no.

It's John Kerryesque - they voted for the fence before they voted against it.


This is another sad example of just how worthless your elected Senators are, how they are playing politics with a serious national issue & how unserious they are about securing our borders. They are too busy salivating over what pork they can get with your tax dollars. They can find the money easily enough to fund wasteful pork projects, but when it comes to control of the borders, well that's another story. They are pathetic. But that is nothing new.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Trashing the border

A USA Today article:

Every time I go down to the Mexican border, I'm struck by a down and dirty realization: This beautiful land looks like a dump. Recently I was at a waist-high border vehicle barrier in a valley northeast of Tecate, Baja California. As far as the eye could see, strewn past barbed wire or collecting knee-deep in culverts, were water bottles, food wrappers, used paper products such as toilet paper and maxi pads, even felt shoe covers designed to obscure tracks.

"This was a beautiful refuge 10 years ago," Mitch Ellis, manager of Arizona's Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, says. "Just stunning." Now, he says, it looks like a "war zone." The refuge shares just 5½ miles with the Mexican border but is a staging point near the Sasabe border crossing and is crisscrossed by highways that serve as pick-up routes. The sheer amount of foot and vehicle traffic — at least 200,000 to 300,000 crossers a year on the 118,000-acre refuge — makes endangered species conservation a losing battle.

Last year, 500 tons of trash was strewn across the Buenos Aires refuge, as well as human waste and about 100 abandoned vehicles. Wild animals are choking on plastic or getting tangled in trash, and crossers' campfires have sparked wildfires. Aerial photos, Ellis says, reveal a shocking web of 1,300 miles of illegal trails cut through the refuge. Read the rest of the article
here >>

Remember, this is just one wildlife refuge. Multiply this by all the others & it is sickening. The same is being done to private ranches along the border. Amazingly, the major environmental groups blame the USA & its border fences & policies, rather than putting the blame on the illegals who are destroying pristine areas of the US. Go figure.

For a related article with a link to photos,
go here >>

Also check out this site,
Desert Invasion - USA: It goes deeper into the damage done to the environment by illegals.

Thank the Congress & the President for doing little to protect the environment from this destructive on-slaught. Vote out of office those who do not put a strong border-enforcement policy first, before there's any talk about "citizenship" for the 12-20 million illegals who broke US law to get here. Also thank the hypocritical environmnetal groups.

Monday, July 10, 2006

Over a Million Pounds of Narcotics Seized on Border in 9 Months

They are not just your poor, tired, hungry, yearning to be free & to work. That is the image pro-illegal advocates like to cast on illegal aliens. As the above headline demonstrates, more is coming into the country then just the po' illegals.

US Border Patrol agents seized more than 1,154,000 pounds of narcotics in the last nine months starting in October, according to a US Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection report.

Border Patrol agents seized over 1.1 million pounds of marijuana, nearly 8,000 pounds of cocaine and 157 pounds of heroin. The combined value of the narcotics is almost $1.2 billion, according to CBP officials. During the same time, Border Patrol Agents made 901,428 apprehensions...Almost one million in 9 months! Other-than-Mexican apprehensions totaled 89,059...meaning Chinese, Iranians, Syrians, you name it. That's an awful lot of "others" caught.

Let's not forget the convicts, the murders, the rapists, the thieves, the pedophiles & the diseased.

We wonder how many got through without being apprehended & how much narcotics got through without being seized. And we wonder how many terrorists in the "other than Mexican category" slipped through.

Thank Congress & the President for doing absolutely nothing to stop this onslaught of our southern border. They have failed the citizens of this country.