Index for posts concerning Immigration

Your Mexican stats! by Darth B'strad
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Another Obama Post! by Darth B'strad
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Sarkozy says get outta’ my country by Darth B'strad
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It’s the kill the Republican Party Bill by Darth B'strad
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A Solution *for* Mexicans in America (and the American job market) by Bieren Skidels
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Your Mexican stats!

Posted on March 26th, 2009 by Darth B'strad.
Categories: Immigration, Race, Comedy.

I just thought it would be a good time to lighten up the mood around here so I deiced to post up this e-mail that’s been going around for you to “Sheck your Mexican status.” You know how thous chain e-mail things go, you just meet some people that like them and then they’re always sending them to you all the time! But I thought this one was funny but if you get offended– I didn’t write it!

Sheck your Mexican status

If you can run and play any sport while wearing chanclas….You’re a Mexican!!

If your late Tio [uncle] left you a van and you turned it into a taco vending business…Yes, you’re a Mexican.

If you pronounce words beginning with the letter ‘S’ by putting an ‘E’ in front of it, (estop instead of stop or esprite instead of sprite)…big time Mexican.

If you call a chair, a sher, you got it…. Mexican.

If you have ever hurt yourself and your mama rubbed the area while chanting, ‘ Sana , Sana , Colita de rana…..’ You’re Mexican, big time!!!

If you have your last name in old English lettering anywhere, your car, truck, or tattooed on your back…Yes, you ARE a Mexican (proud one too).

If you refer to your wife as your ruca, your hina, your wifa, your old lady, mija or your vieja, guess what?…Not only are you a Mexican, you’re a cholo.

If you throw a ‘Grito’ every time you hear Vicente Fernandez…then not only are you a Mexican, but you are a drunk Mexican.

If you have ever been pinched in church and been told ‘pobrecito de ti si lloras’ or ‘ Vas a ver horita que salgamos.’ …Yes, you’re definitely a Mexican.

If you grew up being called ‘chamaca or chamaco’ ..Mexican.

If you grew up scared of La Llorona, or fear the dark because of El CuCuy)! …Yes! Mexican!

Si te persinas (cross) with a lotto ticket in your hand before every drawing….You’re in the Mexican Zone!!!

If you ask for something by ‘dame esa chingadera’ instead of calling it by its name…Yup! Mexican!

If you constantly refer to cereal as ‘con fleys’ or cake as ‘kay-ke’…You’re a Mexican.

If you use manteca (lard) instead of vegetable oil and can’t figure out why your butt is getting bigger…….You might be a Mexican.

If you have some Tias that dress up in their prom dresses to go to a birthday party at ‘el parque’… Guess what? You are a Mexican.

If your Tias and Abuela dress up in their Sunday best with heels and all to go to the ‘pulga.’ (AKA the Flea Market) …Then, yes, you are a True Mexican.

If most of the houses on your block are painted bright pink, mint green, and lavender. …Mexican.

If you use the bushes in front of your house, the fence, or the top of an old car to dry laundry…Yes, you’re a Mexican.

If you’re congested and your mamasita rubbed ‘Bicks’ on you…You’re Mexican.

IF YOU DON’T NEED ANY EXPLANATIONS FOR ANY OF THE ABOVE, YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE A TRUE MEXICAN. VIVA LA RAZA!!!

You know you’re laughing your head off. It’s all in fun, so don’t get all ‘adolorido.’

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Another Obama Post!

Posted on July 8th, 2008 by Darth B'strad.
Categories: Political, Immigration, Energy, Environment, Abortion, Party System, War, Law, Constitutional Law, Terrorism, Republicans, Democrats, Iraq, Israel, Economics.

Yes yes, that’s right! I’m posting on Obama again because this is just too important to pass up. Townhall.com has had two of my favorite talk show hosts: Hugh Hewitt and Dennis Prager. I’ll start with Prager’s article first:

My bottom line is this: The gulf between John McCain and conservatives is miniscule compared to the gulf between John McCain and Barack Obama. This is true regarding virtually every issue of significance to America. The America that a President Barack Obama would shape, with the help of a Democratic Congress and a liberal Supreme Court, would be very dissimilar from the America shaped by a President John McCain.

Conservatives who will not vote for McCain are well-intentioned utopians. They are comparing McCain to a consistently conservative candidate. The reality, however, is that McCain is not running against a consistently conservative candidate. He is running against a consistently left-wing candidate. And America cannot afford to have its first leftist president ever. It can afford liberal presidents — such as Bill Clinton, or Jimmy Carter (who governed as a liberal but became a leftist after leaving the White House), or John F. Kennedy, or Lyndon Johnson, or Harry Truman — i.e., all the Democrats who have been president since World War II. But the Democratic Party has moved well to the left of liberalism. And Barack Obama is at the left of that left-wing party.

Furthermore, given the strong possibility of a Democratic House, a Democratic Senate, and a liberal Supreme Court for decades to come, given the number of Supreme Court appointments a Democratic president will be able to make, an Obama victory will move America more radically leftward than ever in its history.

The Supreme court is good reason in it’s self! It’s taken a long to just to get it to a swing court. An Obama presidency will ensure that it stays a swing court and possibly reverse what we have wanted all along. The next president has the possibility of picking the next six supreme court justices.

That is why the argument that an Obama administration will be so destructive that Americans will reject the left and then elect a real conservative to undo the damage done in an Obama presidency is deeply flawed.

First of all, other than impeachment, there is no way to undo Supreme Court appointments, two or three of which a President Obama would likely make. And given how active most liberal judges are, it won’t matter much if the country has some conservative epiphany and then elects a Republican president and Congress. Because even if the Congress and the president will not pass liberal legislation, a liberal Supreme Court will. On almost any social issue that matters — the right to bear arms, late-term abortion, the definition of marriage, capital punishment, and many others — a liberal Supreme Court will rule on these issues, and there will be nothing that a post-Obama Republican president, even with a Republican congress, will be able to do about them.

Moreover, the argument that Americans will have a conservative epiphany after four years of an Obama presidency is predicated on America being greatly damaged by his policies. What kind of mindset welcomes such damage to the country it loves for the sake of potentially gaining politically after the damage is done? Is it, for example, really worth a considerably weakened economy (which Barack Obama’s tax and other economic policies would likely lead to), with its widespread suffering and unforeseeable social and political consequences, just to — hopefully — get a conservative into the White House four or eight years later?

And the damage won’t necessarily be undone. Even Ronald Reagan, the most popular conservative to ever serve as president, could not roll back most liberal creations. He never could get rid of the useless Department of Education, for example. Nor could a then-popular President George W. Bush do a thing about Social Security even when he had a Republican House and Senate. And how will Barack Obama’s successor undo the damage done to Iraq, the Middle East, the War on Islamic Terror, and the credibility of America’s assurances to allies once Iraq slides into chaos as a result of America’s precipitous withdrawal from Iraq?

Therefore, as well meaning and sincere as many conservatives are, this mode of thinking — let the country suffer under a left-wing president, Congress, and Supreme Court and then it will come to its conservative senses — will likely lead to a downward spiral from which it is hard to see the country escaping for a generation, if it is lucky.

There is one person who can prevent this unhappy future — John McCain.

He will not raise taxes, the last thing we should be doing in a weakened economy.

He will reduce government spending, and thereby prevent the state from controlling even more of American life.

He will ensure that America wins in Iraq. That will make one of the biggest and richest Arab states the freest of the Arab states. And it will hand Islamic terrorists the biggest defeat they have ever suffered. It will teach potential enemies not to attack America (whether Iraq did so directly is irrelevant to the point). And it will reassure America’s allies around the world, many of whom, as in Iraq, risk their lives for America and liberty, that America will never abandon them.

He will appoint conservatives to the Supreme Court and to federal benches, thereby depriving the left of its most powerful weapon in reshaping America in its image.

He may attract enough Hispanic votes (while securing the borders) to prevent that critical constituency from identifying with the Democratic Party, something that would ensure left-wing victories for decades to come.

He will develop nuclear power, environmentalist (read leftist) opposition to which has been morally indefensible. We would all love to have a solar powered or wind powered country. However, on planet earth at this time, nuclear power may be the cleanest source of energy we have. That is why France, not heretofore known as politically conservative, relies on nuclear power for nearly 80 percent of its electricity.

Now to Hugh Hewitt’s bit:

The key: McCain will pursue victory in the war, deter our enemies because of his reputation for strength and defend the country via aggressive pursuit of terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan and wherever they are, and get most of the judicial nominees right. He’ll keep taxes where they are if he can.

Obama, on the other hand, is just now coming into focus for other than the already committed Obamians. He had a stumbling, bumbling close to his primary campaign, and the opening weeks of his general campaign have been marked by flip flops and lurches left.

Here’s the core of Obama:

He’s hard left.

He wants the marginal rate on total federal taxes, including his social security tax hike, to immediately rise at least 57% on the highest earners. Obama wants to raise taxes even in a weak economy, though this is a recipe not just for recession but worse. Obama also wants to raise taxes on dividend income and to return the death tax to its highs of eight years ago.

Obama has proposed more than a trillion dollars in new spending.

Obama is going to absolutely destroy this economy even worse than it is.

Obama wants to cut and run from Iraq, with withdrawals of crucial forces beginning immediately upon his entry into office. Obama has never met one on one with General Petraeus and has not been to Iraq in more than 900 days. He is indifferent to the incredible progress made by our troops and the Iraqi Defense Forces and the Iraqi government in the last 18 months.

He supports the decision extending habeas rights to Gitmo detainees and he thinks the most liberal member of the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is a great model for future Supreme Court appointments.

Obama supports gay marriage, and opposes the California constitutional amendment to restore marriage to the definition overturned by a 4-3 vote of the California Supreme Court in May. He supports abortion on demand, including partial birth abortion.

If any of you care about abortion and gay marriage, Obama’s going to shove it down your through.

Obama has the slightest grasp on history, and routinely makes the sort of errors about basic facts that shock knowledgeable observers, like arguing the Kennedy-Khrushchev summit in Vienna was an example of the benefits of one-on-one diplomacy.

Obama is not a strong friend of Israel. He spent 20 years in a church that was openly hostile to Israel, and he reversed himself on Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel after one day of criticism by Palestinians.

Obama is running a dirty campaign, and the serial assaults on John McCain’s service, most visibly by Wesley Clark but by many others closely associated with Obama, is repulsive. These are not hits by independent 527s but by close associates and advisors of Obama.

Michelle Obama’s campaign rhetoric has been very divisive, is full of anger and resentment about “moving the bar,” and not being proud of the country, and has led to her high negatives with the public.

Obama’s close friends, mentors and associates are deeply troubling: the radical pastor Jeremiah Wright, the unrepentant terrorists William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, the convicted swindler Tony Rezko, and now a long line of “public housing developers” who took the money and failed to deliver on promises of safe and secure housing for Obama’s poorest constituents.

Obama’s judgment on key appointees is suspect, and he has had to fire the head of his vice presidential search team because of ties to the subprime mess and dump numerous “foreign policy advisors” for their hostility to Israel.

Obama’s deal with the Teamsters to end federal oversight of the union smells very bad indeed and telegraphs the sort of cronyism we could expect from an Obama Adminsitration. Obama’s mentor and real estate partner is Rezko, who helped the Obama’s buy their home, a home on which the Obamas received a mortgage that looks to many like a sweetheart deal.

Obama, like the other leaders of the Triple D Democrats –the Don’t Drill Democrats– doesn’t care about the price of gas, and refuses every initiative to increase supply and thus bring that price down.

Obama has broken his word on his commitment to public financing of the campaign and to meet John McCain in frequent debates. Obama can’t be trusted to keep even high-profile promises he made even only weeks ago.

Away from a teleprompter Obama stumbles and stutters and lapses into a closed circle of cliches that betrays almost no reading or curiosity about the world around him,and a massive ignorance of the war in which we find ourselves. Even when he works from a prompter he says nothing at great length with wonder phrasing but zero substance.

His crowds are enormous and his coffers overflowing, the products of a highly energized and vitriolic left that expects –believes it will be owed, in fact– the spoils of the election. If Obama wins, the sharpest lurch left in American history is ahead of us.

Barack Obama is not only the most radical nominee of a major American political party in history, he is also the least prepared and the least informed. He has spent less than four years inside of the United States Senate, and much of those years have been spent away from his job and away from the capital he wants to lead. But he is protected and his campaign nurtured by a MSM that swooned for him long ago. The prolonged and serious scrutiny of his background and his proposals will not be forthcoming in any consistent way between now and November.

And that’s the argument against Obama. So what’s the argument for him? Oh, yea that’s right: he’s for change! Well if you are looking for big changes to where the government is in control of every aspect of your life then Obama is your man. I’ll pass on that! I’m voteing for McCain.

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Sarkozy says get outta’ my country

Posted on May 30th, 2007 by Darth B'strad.
Categories: Political, Immigration, Europe.

The New French President Nicolas Sarkozy Won the French presidential elections a couple of weeks back against a socialist woman. The most interesting thing about that election is that Sarkozy is a conservative that won in the most socialist country in the world. He said things during the election like “we’re going to put the French back to work.” (I’m paraphrasing so don’t quote me on this.) That sounds very Regan’esk, doesn’t it? (ummm, maybe some republicans can learn from this example.) He is also a major supporter of the US and he is anti the anti US people in his country. A Frenchey that likes us? That’s almost unheard of! But not only is he talking like one he is acting like one. This from spiegel online:

France is home to over 5 million immigrants — and the new conservative-led government doesn’t plan on making things any more comfortable for them. While the new regime in Paris is determined to curb illegal immigration, it is also looking to encourage legal migrants to reconsider their decision to stay in France — by paying them to go back home.

New immigration minister, Brice Hortefeux, confirmed on Wednesday that the government is planning to offer incentives to more immigrants to return home voluntarily. “We must increase this measure to help voluntary return. I am very clearly committed to doing that,” Hortefeux said in an interview with RFI radio.

Under the scheme, Paris will provide each family with a nest egg of €6,000 ($8,000) for when they go back to their country of origin. A similar scheme, which was introduced in 2005 and 2006, was taken up by around 3,000 families.

I’ll give you 8000 buck to get the heck on out of my country: awww, is there anything more conservative. Well the problem is that France’s birth rate is below the replacement rate. France’s birth rate is at 1.89, that’s better than Spain’s 1.10, but still that means that the next generation is going to be 1.1 percent smaller than the next. If you want to restart you economy it doesn’t help to be shrinking your population as well as paying people to get out! However on the other hand the people he is paying to get out do not want to be French anyway. So it might not be a bad Idea to get rid of the people that are there that just want a job (allowing French to get those jobs too) and then bring in people that want to become French. Only problem is that France has a very poor track record of assimilation. But it is still a very bold move by Sarkozy and we’ll just have to see if this “here’s 8 grand, now get the hell out” policy is going to work.

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It’s the kill the Republican Party Bill

Posted on May 26th, 2007 by Darth B'strad.
Categories: Political, Immigration, Mexican Border, Ethics, Crime, Law, Terrorism, Philosophy, Republicans, Democrats.

The new bill that the Senate is considering is one big massive monstrosity that is sure to kill the Republican party if it is not changed. I’m talking about the new immigration bill that he Dems tried to ramrod it through the senate in a day. “Here’s a 326 page bill chalk full of leaglise. Now have a vote on it by the end of the day!” Luckily, enough Republicans had enough sense to delay it until at lest the end of the week after the memorial day week. So there will actually be a debate on it. But on the the bill itself, this thing is a mess! But nobody has done a better job of reviewing this bill than Hugh Hewitt. In an 8 part post Hugh goes through all of the fine print, point by point. I’ll just give you the highlights of that post but to have a full understanding of it you really should go read it. Here are the important parts of the bill:

First part:

Except for those illegal aliens qualifying under Section 601(h), no illegal aliens can obtain new status until the Secretary of Homeland Security sends the president and Congress a letter saying all triggers have been met
The proposed bill goes on to detail the triggers which include the hiring of Border Patrol agents until 18,000 are on staff, the construction of at least 200 miles of vehicular barriers and 360 miles of fencing, the end of “catch and return,” the establishment and use of new enforcement tools designed to keep illegals from working, and the processing of applications of aliens for Z status.
The unreasonability of the schedule for debate on this bill is exemplified by the citation to Section 601(h), which begins on page 260 of the draft bill. Thus to even begin to review the draft bill you have to know how to read such a provision and be able to print off the bill or how to work the unwieldy online draft at NationalReview.com.

Section 601h:

Section 601(h)(2), (3), (4), (5), and (6) lay out additional provisions concerning this huge –indeed almost certainly 90% plus?– portion of the illegals currently in the country that are not subject to the “triggers,” and even notes in subparagraph (5) that if an illegal is arrested or detained prior to filing his or her application for Z permit status, “the Secretary shall provide the alien with a reasonable opportunity to file an application under this section after such regulations are promulgated.” Unless the computer spits out a no within 2 days of submitting the application, the illegal gets probationary Z status –before even one more mile of fence is built or a workplace verification system is constructed.

Title I:

*the proposed build-up in Border Patrol agents (Sec. 502),
*much discussion of biometric data,
*an odd amendment to the existing law that appears to allow catch and release to continue but only after the posting of a $5,000 bond (Sec. 113(4)),
*a section promising to study “border security on certain federal land” which invites the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service into the action –an ominous development for anyone wanting construction of the border fence to proceed quickly and free of the Section 7 consultation provisions of the Endangered Species Act,
*a long provision on the creation of a National Strategy for Border Security in Section 127 which leaves us wondering why not develop the strategy first and implement regularization later (answer: no one will care what the strategy is later),
*another study in Section 128 on the Border Patrol’s training and capacity (Section 128),
*instructions to train Customs and BP agents in fraud detection, a grant program of $50 million annually for law enforcement agencies in communities impacted by illegal immigration (but with no requirement that the grantee agencies cooperate fully with federal authorities),
*another study –Section 133’s “Port of Entry Infrastructure Assessment Study”, another plan, Section 134’s National Land Border Security Plan, a “demonstration project”
*Section 135’s “Port of Entry Technology Demonstration Program,”
*an instruction to the Secretary of Homeland Security to construct or acquire 20 new detention facilities in Section 137,
*and to top it all off in classic D.C. style, a new commission, the 17 voting member “United States-Mexico Border Enforcement Review Commission, with four appointees each from the governors of California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas, the purpose of which is to study the overall enforcement strategies, program, and policies of Federal agencies along the U.S.-Mexican border” and to “make recommendations” about those policies.

Title II:

By far the most interesting aspect of Title II is “Sec. 216: STREAMLINED PROCESSING OF BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR IMMIGRATION BENEFITS”
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1)IN GENERAL –The Secretary of Homeland Security and the Attorney General shall establish an interagency task force to resolve cases in which an application or petition for an immigration benefit conferred under this Act has been delayed due too an outstanding background check investigation for more than 2 years after the date on which such application was initially filed.”
The section also authorizes the FBI to receive “such sums as are necessary for fiscal years 2008 to 2012 for enhancements to existing systems for conducting background and security checks necessary to support immigration security and orderly processing of applications,” but does not begin to quantify what those sums are, or how the FBI –in a time of real terror threats such as the Fort Dix Six– is supposed to staff up for the deluge.
The section also wants a report six months after the convening of the task force which will provide (A) a description of the background and security program; (B) a statistical breakdown of the background and security check delays associated with different types of immigration applications; (C) a statistical breakdown of the background and security check delays by applicant country of origin and (D) the steps that the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is taking to expedite background and security checks that have been pending for more than 180 days.

Title III:

Section 302(e) (p. 116 of the draft released Friday night at just before midnight) spells out that each instance of hiring or continuing to employ an unauthorized alien will cost the employer $5,000. Employers previously fined for doing so fork over $25K per illegal alien, and three-strikers get hit for $75K each.
There are also record keeping violations of $1,000 per violation, which will send a shudder down the backs of honest employers who work hard to jeep the illegal aliens out of their workforce but who recognize in paperwork compliance penalties the ultimate blackjack for an out-of-temper bureaucrat.
Criminal penalties are available under 302(f) (p. 122) for employers engaging in a “pattern or practice of knowing violations.”
The ruse of using contractors to avoid the law is supposedly banished under Section 302(a)(3):
For purposes of this section, an employer who uses a contract, subcontract, or exchange to obtain the labor of an alien in the United States knowing that the alien is an unauthorized alien (as defined in subsection (b)(1) with respect to performing such labor shall be considered to have hired the alien for employment in the United States in violation of paragraph (1)(A).

Title IV:

Section 218A ADMISSION OF Y NONIMMIGRANTS provides in subparagraph (d)(5)(C) that the applicant must (i)certify by signature that he or she “has read and understands all the questions and statements on the application form, (ii)certify under penalty of perjury that all statements are true and correct, and (iii) agree to the release of any information in the application for law enforcement purposes.
So we have the assurance of every future Y Visa worker being literate and bound by their oath not to have perjured themselves.
There is also, in subparagraph (m) “EVIDENCE OF NONIMMIGRANT STATUS” the assurance that each “y nonimmigrant shall be issued documentary evidence of nonimmigrant status, which…(3)may be accepted during the period of its validity by an employer as evidence of employment authorization and identity under section 274A(b)(1)(B).” The Y Visa thus seems to allow the holder to change jobs once inside the U.S., which is contrary to my understanding –which could be wrong as the bill is 630 pages– that Y Visa holders were coming into the U.S. to perform a specific job.

Title V:

Title V “IMMIGRATION BENEFITS” is beyond the comprehension of a nonspecialist. What is clear is that the law is reshuffling the deck of get-out-of-jail-free cards, and the total number of visas it authorizes over the next few years –above and beyond the Y Nonimmigrant Visas and the Z Visas for illegals already in the country– is impossible for a layman to calculate.
But it is certainly a very high number.
Now that doesn’t necessarily mean it is a bad policy. On pages 240 to 241is an interesting grid of the point system that drives the “Merit-based Immigrant” visas, and which, for examples greatly prefers M.D.s and MBA’s over high school diploma holders (20 points for the former, 6 points for the latter.) High grades on English proficiency tests also provide a huge pop to the merit application, which will certainly increase the demand for ESL teachers in certain parts of the world.

Title VI:

Among the many surprises in Title VI “NONIMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES PERVIOUSLY IN UNLAWFUL STATUS” is the stipulation in Section 601(f) “Eligibility Requirements,” is subparagraph (7):

interview: An applicant for Z nonimmigrant status must appear to be interviewed.

Let’s use the low number of 12 million potential Zs, and assume that an average of 3 Zs will appear for each interview, which means the feds need to schedule, conduct and write-up 4 million interviews. Is it fair to allocate, say, 2 hours per interview set-up, completion and follow up? So we need 8 million federal manhours.

Good question by hugh, who’s going to do all that? but finally title VII:

Title VII is short, a sort of encore of common sense and humbug. The common sense is the recognition in Sec. 701 that aliens currently serving in the military don’t have to get fingerprinted again. But the rest is pretty much humbug. There’s a declaration of English as “the common language of the United States,” followed by the announcment that this status does not “diminish or expand any existing rights under the laws of the United States relative to the services or materials provided by the Government of the United States in any language other than English.” In other words, a no-effect bit of theater.
There’s a provision of illegal aliens over the age of 75 and some additional funding for the “Office of Citizenship and Integration,” followed by the high point of absurdity in the draft law, the establishment of the “Citizenship and Integration Councils” which looks very much like a Saturday Night Live skit. Money is to be made available “to states and municipalities for effective integration of immigrants into American society through the creation of New Americans Integrations (sic) Councils.

In it’s current form this bill is a massive monstrosity that will eventually kill the Republican party and will revolutionize the country in a much worse way. The reason I say that is because as soon as Bush puts his signature on this bill 12 million (and that is a conservative number) Illegal aliens are now legal. This is because of that temporary status while they are waiting for the interview process that allow them to have a job legally and that is before they build a fence. Now I know you’ll say “they’ll have to pay 5000 bucks to be legal.” Well I know as soon as Bush puts his name on it we will start hearing from the dems “your taking the food out of the mouths of starving babies.” And because we are such a compassionate society they will probably wave that 5000 bucks letting them get their “Z visa” for free. And most likely the republicans will go along with it because they have a lack of courage right now and they don’t want to look like they are taking the food out of the mouths of starving babies. So again it is going to be me and all of you out there that are going to have to pay for all this. But not only that but once someone obtains a “Z visa” then they can bring in their families. So in effect this is a massive import democrats bill. Now I know that there are some Republicans out their that think that these are hard working people and they will become republican voters when they become citizens. Well your right on the hard working part (for the vast majority) but republican voters:NO! Why would they vote for republicans when the Dems are going to give them all the benefits and start making outlandish promises to them. The whole point of this bill for the Dems is to create a new disenfranchised underclass that will vote for the Democrats because they are giving them all the goodies. And if you try to out Democrat the democrats then you will lose your base because we did not send you there to do that. And if that ends up destroying the culture of the United States, well, to hell with that the Dems are already “multicultural” and “world citizens” so they won’t care. Not only will this kill the Republican party but it will also kill the country as we know it and allow the Dems to greatly expand the welfare state so that the Dems can remake the country in their image. And there are way to many Republicans in congress that are too stupid to figure this out. One such republican is John MiCain. Now let me say right now that John MiCain is a great American and a war hero but he is a bad senator and an even worse republican. McCain was in with Kennedy on this bill trying to ramrod it through and when Cornyn called him on it McCain dropped the F-bomb. This from washingtonpost.com:

Things got really heated when Cornyn accused McCain of being too busy campaigning for president to take part in the negotiations, which have gone on for months behind closed doors. “Wait a second here,” Cornyn said to McCain. “I’ve been sitting in here for all of these negotiations and you just parachute in here on the last day. You’re out of line.”

McCain, a former Navy pilot, then used language more accustomed to sailors (not to mention the current vice president, who made news a few years back after a verbal encounter with Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont).

“[Expletive] you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room,” shouted McCain at Cornyn. McCain helped craft a bill in 2006 that passed the Senate but couldn’t be compromised with a House bill that was much tougher on illegal immigrants.

McCain is in full melt down mode here and I think that he knows that his campaign is done so he is going to make us stupid conservatives pay for not recognizing his brilliance here. However this is not just an issue on illegal aliens this is a national security issue as well. This is form the Center for Immigration Studies:

Of the 94 foreign-born terrorists who operated in the United States, the study found that about two-thirds (59) committed immigration fraud prior to or in conjunction with taking part in terrorist activity.

Of the 59 terrorists who violated the law, many committed multiple immigration violations — 79 instances in all.

In 47 instances, immigration benefits sought or acquired prior to 9/11 enabled the terrorists to stay in the United States after 9/11 and continue their terrorist activities. In at least two instances, terrorists were still able to acquire immigration benefits after 9/11.

Temporary visas were a common means of entering; 18 terrorists had student visas and another four had applications approved to study in the United States. At least 17 terrorists used a visitor visa — either tourist (B2) or business (B1).

There were 11 instances of passport fraud and 10 instances of visa fraud; in total 34 individuals were charged with making false statements to an immigration official.

In at least 13 instances, terrorists overstayed their temporary visas.

In 17 instances, terrorists claimed to lack proper travel documents and applied for asylum, often at a port of entry.

Fraud was used not only to gain entry into the United States, but also to remain, or “embed,” in the country.

Seven terrorists were indicted for acquiring or using various forms of fake identification, including driver’s licenses, birth certificates, Social Security cards, and immigration arrival records.

Once in the United States, 16 of 23 terrorists became legal permanent residents, often by marrying an American. There were at least nine sham marriages.

In total, 20 of 21 foreign terrorists became naturalized U.S. citizens.

So despite what I had said earlier I am willing to accept the regularization of 12 million Illegal aliens. I am not too worried about Speedy Gonzales from Mexico that came here to build houses but Ahmed the Jihadist from Saudi Arabia who came here to kill Americans. All I want is comprehensive border security. I want a Fence built and not just some of it, all 700 miles. I also want vehicle barriers in the flat desert that you can drive through as well as sensors and UAV’s to spot Illegals. We are already on our way to accomplishing this but we need much more of this. Simply put we need to secure the border! Now I know the objections I am going to hear here: “We can’t do that we don’t have the money!” Well when you consider how much money we waste on bridges to nowhere, failing school programs that produce higher dropout rates, and handouts to framers that don’t work, why can’t we find the money to do this? We find a way to fund every other stupid and outlandish project that the Dems can come up with and even republicans too. “They’ll just bring a ladder!” Such a plan is made very difficult when you have the double walled set up and of course the whole point of the wall is to discourage some and slow down others so that the border patrol has enough time to nab them. “It just won’t work.” Why can’t it? This is the United States of America. We defeated Hitler, we brought down communism, We put a man on the moon but we can’t secure our border? As time goes by this is going to become increasingly more and more important to do because there are Jihadist that are on their way here to kill us and the border is a vulnerability. We have to secure the border now. It’s long over due. Now I also think that the 5000 buck penalty hitting businesses that hire illegal aliens is a good Idea the only problem is if the illegals show fake SSN’s and other fake documentation. Kinda makes it a little worthless unless you have a national ID. Now I know that some of you have big concerns about a national ID because “now the government Knows how I am.” Well if you pay taxes and have a SSN the government already knows you. All I am suggesting is a simple tamper proof card that identifies you as an American citizen with a picture and you DOB and SSN. All you would need it for is to get a job and to vote. Now the Z visas and Y visas will have a different ID to allow them to get a job. If you do that then business will have no excuse and then it will be easier to find the ones braking the laws. I would also like to know who is going to do all of those 12 million interviews. It’s a massive undertaking! However Hugh was suggesting that we have ex-military veterans do it because they have good judgment of people. I think that is a good idea. Any ex-military veterans that are bored in their retirement would be a good choice to conduct the interviews to obtain the z visas. they’ll be able to sniff out the bad apples because they had to do it on a daily bases when they were in the military. Also I say NO probationary visas should be issued until all of the border security is built. We do not want to flood the system before security is ready. Again, build the fence! This bill needs to accelerate the process and have all 700 miles done in six years and also have all of the money appropriated to it as well as the increased border patrol and sensors and UAV’s. If this bill can do that then I will happily accept the regularization of 12 million illegal aliens. Until then this is a bad bill!

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A Solution *for* Mexicans in America (and the American job market)

Posted on November 19th, 2006 by Bieren Skidels.
Categories: Political, Immigration, Mexican Border.

the U.S. totally needs the “Mexicans” for the economy and many types of jobs (not to mention for their amazing Mexican food!).
In the words of my Dad (who grew up on a farm in the San Joaquin Valley) “I don’t believe that a single orange grove picker in the last 50 years in California was a white American”…. generally, not a single orange, cotton, almond, peach, grape, wheat, etc… in California would be harvested were it not for Mexican workers in that valley.

There’s a few things you should know about the San Joaquin Valley:

a. My dad, and his dad, and his dad lived on farms there most of their lives.

b. I grew up visiting farms there… riding on tractors, picking fruit, etc…

c. Historian Kevin Starr has referred to the San Joaquin Valley as “the most productive unnatural environment on Earth.” By some estimates, fully 25% of the United States’ agricultural production (as measured by dollar value) comes from California, and the vast majority of that is in the San Joaquin Valley.

d. The San Joaquin Valley is one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the United States–per-capita income is far below the national average. Most of the valley’s economic output comes from agriculture and from petroleum extraction and refining.

e. here’s a picture of the San Joaquin Valley