On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:59:25 -0700, martin wrote:

On Jul 12, 1:05Â*am, DemoRat Karma wrote:
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news153.htm

While the news media feverishly covered the untimely death of music
icon Michael Jackson and the sex scandal involving a Republican
governor in South Carolina, President Barack Obama on the same day
revealed his plans to reform US immigration policy. During the course
of his televised announcement, Obama used the term "undocumented
workers" and avoided using the terms "illegal aliens" and "illegal
workers."

"While watching President Obama, I kept thinking how we've been talking
and talking and talking about this issue for years and yet illegal
aliens -- many of whom are violent criminals, gang members and
terrorists -- continue to pour across the border. When will Americans
rise up and demand action instead of words and slogans?" asks New
Jersey political strategist Mike Baker

"To be sure, Obama and several powerful lawmakers are on the same page.
For example, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi called Immigration &
Customs Enforcement operations "Un-American," while fellow Democrat
Congressman Luis Guttierez called Border Patrol and ICE agents "the
Gestapo," said Baker.

Many critics noted that unfortunately for an America chock full of
potential crime victims, not once did the President mention
"undocumented criminals" or "criminal aliens" or even any mention of
crime committed by thousands and thousands of non- citizen criminals
who commit the murders, rapes, robberies and other offenses that
American citizens don't commit. [Read]

It's been widely reported that illegal aliens comprise upwards of 27
percent of the US prison and jail population. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection -- two agencies within
the Department of Homeland Security -- claim in several reports that
they've apprehended over 100,000 criminal aliens whose offenses go far
beyond violation of immigration laws and regulations.

Sadly, only about 25 percent of expenses for imprisoning criminal
aliens is reimbursed by the federal government to state and local
governments. This creates a hardship for taxpayers in states with high
incarceration rates for criminal aliens. In some states, there's even
talk of releasing criminal aliens without notifying the federal
authorities.

In Los Angeles, according to police reports, 95 percent of the arrest
warrants for homicides are for illegal aliens. Sixty-five percent of
overall warrants are for "undocumented criminals."

The proponents of open borders or lax immigration enforcement always
point to the benefits derived from illegal immigration such as the
amount of taxes they pay into the government system. Evidence, however,
exists that refutes those claims. For instance, there is an abundance
of anecdotal evidence that suggests a large number of illegal aliens
are paid "off-the- books" therefore those wages are not taxed.

The National Research Council has estimated that the net fiscal cost of
immigration ranges from $11 billion to $22 billion per year, with most
government expenditures on immigrants coming from state and local
coffers, while most taxes paid by immigrants who actually do pay taxes
go to the federal treasury. [Read]

The net deficit is caused by a low level of tax payments by immigrants,
because they are disproportionately low-skilled and thus earn low
wages, and a higher rate of consumption of government services, both
because of their relative poverty and their higher fertility.

This is especially true of illegal immigration. Even though illegal
aliens make little use of welfare, from which they are generally
barred, the costs of illegal immigration in terms of government
expenditures for education, criminal justice, and emergency medical
care are significant. And those who managed to steal the identities of
American citizens do in fact apply for welfare including food stamps.

Californian officials have estimated that the net cost to taxpayers in
order to provide government services to illegal immigrants approached
$3 billion during a single fiscal year. And even that figure is
suspected of being low-balled for political purposes. The fact that
states must bear the cost of federal failure turns illegal immigration,
in effect, into one of the largest unfunded federal mandates existing
today.

In addition, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, even with
free trade, the United States continues to enjoy a higher real wage
than other nations, due to the superiority of US technology. If taken
to an extreme and the US removed all barriers to migration, most
foreign workers would move to the United States, lured by the higher
wages available here; Foreign labor would essentially cease to exist.

However, with all labor now in the United States, the prices of goods
would return to their level of self-sufficiency, prior to the opening
of trade. That is, perfectly free migration entirely eliminates the
gains from trade that US natives had enjoyed. World income rose with
the migration, but the natives of foreign countries in this case
received more than all of this rise, since the income of US natives
declined. With the world's majority of low-wage workers in the US,
there would be tremendous damage to free trade and its benefits, with
US middle and upper-middle class workers suffering the brunt of
declining wages.

The urge for a utopian state of existence and a desire to make all
things equal by the American Left has given way to a desire simply to
make all things equal sans utopia. In their passion for a neo-Marxist
level for the masses, they've decided consciously or subconsciously
that if they could not bring the World's population up to the American
level of prosperity and wealth, then they will bring US citizens down
to the World's level of poverty and misery. For this is a result of
seeing free trade as a zero-sum entity, and self-alienation of the
American Left from their own country, the USA.

"The problem isn't about the need for new laws; the problem is about
the lack of enforcement of existing laws. The US Constitution provides
the executive branch with a number of inherent powers such as the
enforcement of immigration laws," said former NYPD Detective Ben
Cardozo.

"The Constitution also mandates that the President protect American
sovereignty and the American people. That is the number one priority
for our government -- of it should be. And congress is mandated to
provide domestic tranquility for Americans. Criminal alien gangbangers
do not add to our domestic tranquility," said the decorated police
officer.

"Why is it suddenly necessary for congress to pass laws on illegal
immigration when we haven't been enforcing the laws that already exist.
The executive branch has the power to add border agents, equipment and
other resources. The President has the power to use the military if
necessary to enhance border protection. Passing laws is an easy,
painless process. The trick is to enforce those laws," adds Mike Baker.

The University of Texas at El Paso recently conducted a study that
found the following: Treating illegal immigrants in hospitals accounts
for nearly one quarter of the uncompensated costs at border county
hospitals in Cochise County. That county in Arizona spends tens of
thousands of dollars just picking up trash left at campsites by these
illegals. Prosecuting and jailing illegals costs this county an
additional $5 million a year. And 25 percent of Cochise County's budget
is paid for health care for the uninsured, the majority of whom are
illegally in the country.

In another study of a sample group of 55,000 criminal aliens, it was
discovered they accounted for over 400,000 arrests and more than
700,000 criminal acts including felonies. Americans are being
hoodwinked by politicians who are squandering the legacy of future
American citizens in the name of charity. And the blood of citizens
killed, brutalized and raped by de facto invaders is on the hands of
our elected leaders. [Read]

Let your folks in Congress know how you feel about the "Immigration
reform" disaster shortly to be considered by the Senate.

contact Congress: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

The Senate can suck eggs. The House must agree to any supposed "plan"
and that is where the people have their voice. Screw the "bought and
paid for by the Chamber of Commerce" Senate. You should let your
representative in the House know that (S)he will be primaried out of the
congress should (s)he not vote to enforce the immigration laws of this
country by heavily fining and/or imprisoning those who hire under-
documented workers.

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