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[4/26/06]
[Bill
Leonard, contributor,
Member CA Board of Equalization] 12:03 am [permalink]
Studying the Mexican Constitution We
are engaged in a great national debate about illegal immigration
and we are searching for approaches to dealing with the
challenge that range from mass amnesty to mass deportation.
Michael Waller at the Center for Security Policy decided
to examine how one country integral to our debate, Mexico,
deals with their illegal immigrants. What he found in the
Mexican constitution was very specific and harsh treatment
of people in that country illegally. Waller summarizes
thusly:
- Immigrants
and foreign visitors are banned from public political discourse.
- Immigrants and foreigners are denied certain basic property rights.
- Immigrants are denied equal employment rights.
- Immigrants and naturalized citizens will never be treated as real Mexican
citizens.
- Immigrants and naturalized citizens are not to be trusted in public service.
- Immigrants and naturalized citizens may never become members of the clergy.
- Private citizens may make citizens‚ arrests of lawbreakers and hand
them over to the authorities.
- Immigrants may be expelled from Mexico for any reason and without due process.
Waller suggests
there are two policy options:
1. Mexico
should amend its constitution to guarantee immigrants to
Mexico the same right it demands the United States give to
immigrants from Mexico; or
2. The
United States should impose the same restrictions on Mexican
immigrants that Mexico imposes on American immigrants.
While Mexican laws are clearly anti-immigrant and biased, even if they changed
their system it would not alter the problems America has in not enforcing
its own laws. I say our laws recognize the great benefits of immigration
but that our laws must be enforced to be fair to those who actually follow
the law when they immigrate.
To read more
and see the citations to the Mexican constitution, go to this link.
[4/24/06]
[Sher
Zieve - New
Media Alliance] 12:05 am [permalink]
The War against US Border Security It certainly comes
as no surprise that Mexico’s President Vicente Fox is not in favor
of any US-Mexico border protections. He has called such protections “shameless”.
Fox and other Mexican presidents have been exporting their impoverished
people and criminals to the United States for decades. Two of the “positive” things
that these “exportations” have affected for Mexico are billions
of dollars sent back to the illegal immigrants‚ homeland of Mexico
(the 2nd greatest annual income source for
that country) and it has offered Mexican leaders a way out of being required
to address the serious and growing problems in their own country.
No, Mexico’s
export-our-problems policy and its war against US Border protection
is not a shock. Neither are the efforts of many of those exports
who are now actively and militantly claiming the United States
really belongs to Mexico. Two of the militant-revolutionary
Hispanic groups, MEChA (which states the US Southwest belongs
to their members and should be called “Aztlan”)
and the Mexica Movement (which claims that the entire North
American continent belongs to it -and should be called the “Anahuac
Nation”), are both demanding their “human rights” that
include a “reconquista” (or reconquering) of the
United States by and for Hispanics.
Note: I don’t
remember any first “conquering” do you?
Due to the
relaxed or non-existent US-Mexico border policies, Mexico’s
ambitions for the US are neither a surprise nor an unexpected
consequence of the US government’s non-action. However,
through this continuing debacle, an extraordinary revelation
has emerged: US businesses who employ cheap illegal immigrant
labor and US Senators who support them have placed said “cheap
labor” above national security and the real rights of
the US citizenry. And with the Marxist-inspired recent and
continuing illegal immigrant marches (demanding “rights” that
do not exist - under US law - for those entering our country
illegally) “our” Senators (the ones we voted into
office - remember?) are siding with the potential-illegals-voting-bloc
instead of legal US citizen-voters. Now, THAT is the real bombshell.
In the midst
of an environment that includes terrorists who have stated
they will destroy us, by whatever means necessary, our elected
officials are allowing them - along with any and all illegal
entrants from South of the border - to come into our country
at will. And they are also allowing illegals to stage massive
demonstrations in and on our streets, joined by our leftist-indoctrinated
children, to demand rights that don’t exist. Nobody tries
to stop them. Our lawmakers and law-enforces ignore their illegal
nature. Police have been told they cannot arrest the “protesting
illegals”. Further, during the recent illegal immigrants‚ demonstrations,
Democrats have been caught registering the illegals to vote.
US citizens are left with no representation-whatsoever.
Thus far,
US lawmakers have refused to support and protect the US citizens
and property owners who live along the US-Mexico border region.
These citizens contacted the Minuteman Project for help. Chris
Simcox, co-founder of the project, has offered his assistance
in building a barrier to protect them from the hordes of illegals
that cross their lands on a daily basis. Simcox advised, 20
April on Sean Hannity’s Radio program, that he has been “warned” by
the US government against building any protective barrier.
Some real, legitimate and crucial questions now come to mind.
Why is the US government trying to stop the protection of its
citizens? Why is the US government patently going against its
responsibilities to protect the nation and its citizens (both
native and naturalized) from foreign invasion? Are foreign
invaders more important to “our” government than
are its citizens?
As of this writing, the illegal aliens‚ “National Strike Day” is
still scheduled for 1 May˜the traditional Communist “May Day”.
And, as of this writing, a counter-action is still scheduled by US citizens
for 5 May. Isn’t it time that we the people US citizens showed our clout,
instead of ignoring the dissolution of our country? As just one US citizen,
I say it is: http://citizensonstrike.us.
References: http://www.limitstogrowth.org/WEB-text/aztlan.html - http://www.mexica-movement.org/ENTERHERETEXTONLY.htm
[4/20/06]
[Bill
Leonard, contributor,
Member CA Board of Equalization] 12:03 am [permalink]
Bragging Rights Assemblywoman Judy Chu, who is
also a candidate for the Board of Equalization in Los Angeles, put out a press
release bragging that she was known by 21% of the 8 1/2 million people (or at
least the voters) in that district. Her opponent, Assemblyman Jerome Horton,
responded that neither of them are that well known. I feel their pain. Jerome
is probably right since the Board is such a low profile position despite its
power. Yet even if Judy is right, here we are just weeks away from the June primary
that will determine which of them wins and 79% of voters have never heard of
one of the leading candidates. That’s not a lot to brag about. This is
the nature of many down-ticket races. With campaign laws limiting fund raising
and spending, combined with weak press coverage of these races, the voters are
left in the dark about the choices they are being
asked to make.[Leonard
Blog]
[4/19/06]
[Bill
Leonard, contributor,
Member CA Board of Equalization] 12:03 am [permalink]
Westly as Chief Auditor Controller
Steve Westly may have opened a door for his opponents when
he told the Sacramento Bee that he would balance the budget
by auditing $5 billion of savings out of state government
spending. The Bee (see http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/14243487p-15062268c.html )
rightly tagged him as seeking to be accountant in chief.
The problem is that this is precisely the job of the state
controller, the job he has right now. Has Westly audited
even one state agency and, if so, has he forced that agency
to spend less? If he had used the powers of his office
over the last four years to go after wasteful government
spending he would be very credible in arguing that he could
do even more as Governor. But after searching his website,
I could find only one audit instituted by Westly on a state
general fund agency. He announced in March of 2006 that
he would audit the Department of Corrections health care
spending. Considering that a federal judge has already
ruled that this spending is out of control, it seems like
a safe bet to audit. [Leonard
Blog]
[4/18/06]
[Jim
Kouri, contributor]
12:03 am [permalink]
Anti-Military Sentiment in San Francisco Is Nothing New It's
no secret that the beautiful, picturesque city of San Francisco probably
the nation's headquarters for anti-war sentiment. Not only are there anti-war
protests, civil disobedience and other actions aimed at furthering opposition
to the war in Iraq, but even elected officials are anti-military.
One city
supervisor even said that the United States should dismantle
its entire military. When asked how we'd respond to a terrorist
attack, he answered that the police and fire departments would
respond. Such is the reasoning of the left-wing of the Democrat
Party.
Not content
with just protesting the war with their shrill slogans that
have bored Americans to distraction, they have shown that it's
not only the Iraq war they oppose, they despise all branches
of the US military. In move after move, leftist groups, and
even some city officials, are trying to completely banish the
military from their city. When they prevented the battleship
USS Iowa from docking in San Francisco, the left's partners
in the news media barely noticed.
These left-wingers
in San Francisco believe they are on the cutting-edge of anti-war
activity. These are the intellectual giants of America imparting
their wisdom on the rest of us unkempt warmongers. But, that
is not the case.
To leftists
it doesn't matter whether the enemy is Saddam Hussein's Iraq
or Germany's Adolf Hitler, they have an agenda that always
spells anti-Americanism. The more damage they inflict on their
own country the better. Their agenda has nothing to do with
ideology, compassion or a love of peace -- it's all about power.
Just prior
to the US entry into World War II, the American left mobilized
to stop the US from fighting the Nazis. In fact, in an alliance
of convenience, the leftists joined the American Nazi sympathizers
in their anti-war activities. The feeling was that since Adolf
Hitler and the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin signed a peace
treaty, America was the enemy, not the Nazis and certainly
not the communists.
However,
the moment German troops invaded the Soviet Union, the lefties
changed their tune and were all for the United States joining
the Allies in fighting the Axis powers. Suddenly it was perfectly
okay for American blood to be shed -- in order to save the
Stalinists and their government from the Hun invasion.
In 1939 Britain,
according to Bruce Walker in his excellent book "Sinisterism:
Secular Religion of the Lie," as with today's San Francisco
and other American cities, most of the local governments were
governed by leftists.
British cities
and townships:
- denied
the British military the use of council halls for meetings,
- banned
recruitment marches,
- prohibited
the placement of recruitment posters in local government buildings,
- docked
the paychecks of men who volunteered to serve in the Territorial
Army,
- denied
the student Cadet Corps any recognition at schools,
- insulted,
even abused, those who wore military uniforms,
- forbade
the use of parade grounds for recruitment,
- raised
the old bogeys of class distinction and 'victimization' when
everything else failed.
Sound familiar?
When some
talk hosts at a radio station (KNEW) in the San Francisco-Oakland
market openly criticized the people and local officials for
some of their anti-military activities, the government officials
requested the Federal Communications Commission to "investigate" the
station's licensing records. So much for freedom of speech
with these phony patriots of the left.
I suspect
that the San Francisco government is using the Iraq war to
divert attention away from the rampant crime -- while most
cities have experienced reductions in crime, San Francisco
has witnessed an increase -- an out-of-control homeless problem,
and a number of other social pathologies.
Tony Bennett
might have left his heart in San Francisco, but where did the
San Franciscan left leave their brains?
[4/13/06]
[Bill
Leonard, contributor,
Member CA Board of Equalization] 12:03 am [permalink]
Voter
Verification Democrat leaders, including Senators Don Perata, and Debra
Bowen (who is also a candidate for Secretary of State), are decrying changes
to the voter registration system that they claim will result in thousands of
newly registered and even veteran voters being dropped from the rolls. As I understand
it, some people's registrations are being kicked back when they register for
the first time because they have failed to put in required identification such
as a Social Security number or Driver's License number. Some Democrats are attacking
this security process as evidence of Republicans suppressing votes. Of course,
the question that no reporter has asked is what happens when the Registrar of
Voters contacts any of the disqualified voters to find out why they submitted
an incomplete form. My guess is that most of the people just did not read or
understand the directions. Once your filter those out, then you are left with
those false registrations by people without legal authority to vote: felons and
illegal immigrants. If Democrats want to push for greater integrity in our voting
system, they should join Republicans who support requiring voters to show valid
ID at the polls before casting ballots. [Leonard
Blog]
[4/12/06]
[Jim
Kouri, contributor]
12:03 am [permalink]
Thousands of Illegal Alien Predators Target
Children Federal
agents and New York City probation officers arrested 47
criminal alien sex offenders in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx
and Manhattan as part of the Department of Homeland Security's "Operation
Predator."
Thirty-six
of those arrested were in the country illegally, according
to court documents.The immigrants arrested are foreign born
who've been convicted sex offenders guilty of rape, sodomy,
assault with intent to cause physical injury, sexual abuse
and sexual misconduct, endangering the welfare of a child,
reckless endangerment, course sex conduct and possessing a
sexual performance by a child.
The youngest
of the victims was three-years old.
"Predators
stalk and attack the most vulnerable segments of society, our
children," said Marcy Forman, Investigations Director
for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security recently revealed that
arrests for child sex crimes during the first two years of Operation Predator
have exceeded 6,000 and 85 percent of them are criminal immigrants. And our
political leaders appear to tell us,"We couldn't care less."
Operation
Predator is Immigration and Customs Enforcement's comprehensive
initiative to safeguard children from foreign national pedophiles,
international sex tourists, Internet child pornographers and
human traffickers.
Operation
Predator evolved out of ICE’s mission to find and deport
illegal aliens, particularly those with criminal records. The
majority of the arrests under Operation Predator - roughly
85% - have involved foreign nationals in this country whose
child sex crimes make them removable from the United States.
By matching immigration databases with state Megan’s
law directories, ICE agents have arrested more than 1,800 registered
sex offenders.
Since Operation
Predator began on July 9, 2003, the initiative has resulted
in 6,085 child predator arrests throughout the country - an
average of roughly 250 arrests per month and eight arrests
per day. While arrests have been made in every state, the most
have occurred in these states: Arizona (207), California (1,578),
Florida (255), Illinois (282), Michigan (153), Minnesota (190),
New Jersey (423), New York (367), Oregon (148) and Texas (545).
Operation
Predator also has an important international component, as
leads developed by domestic ICE offices are shared with ICE
Attaché offices overseas and foreign law enforcement
for action. To date, leads shared by ICE with foreign authorities
have resulted in the arrest of roughly 1,000 individuals overseas.
With an average
of nearly 250 child sex predator arrests per month, ICE's Operation
Predator has emerged as one of most successful efforts ever
launched to protect America's children. In enforcing the nation's
immigration laws, ICE is systematically targeting those who
pose the greatest threats, including criminal aliens who prey
on our children. Those captured are believed to be a drop in
the bucket when one realizes most sex crimes -- especially
those involving children go unreported.
Some recent
ICE arrests involving criminal aliens who committed child sex
crimes include Julio Cesar Rabago-Magana, a Mexican man who
raped a four-year-old child in the basement of Mercado Central
in Minneapolis, Minn. Rabago-Magana pleaded guilty Oct. 23,
2002 to first-degree criminal sexual conduct. After serving
his criminal sentence, he was arrested by ICE agents at his
St. Paul home on March 3, 2005, and deported six days later.
To date,
more than 2,100 of these foreign-born predators have been removed
from the United States to their home nations. As part of this
process, ICE advises the host nation governments about the
criminal histories of each sex predator it is deporting to
their nations. ICE also issues Green Notices through Interpol
in appropriate cases. The Green Notice provides information
on career criminals who have committed, or are likely to commit,
offenses in several countries.
[4/11/06]
[Bill
Leonard, contributor,
Member CA Board of Equalization] 12:03 am [permalink]
Capital Is Not the Problem Last
week, gubernatorial candidate and current state Treasurer
Phil Angelides, suggested that the California
Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) invest $15 billion, or up to five
percent of its assets, in transportation infrastructure projects
that generate income
for the state, such as toll bridges. Despite the common wisdom that we are
in need of more money to build new infrastructure, lack of
capital is not the problem.
The problem is that we lack the collective political will to make infrastructure
a budget priority. Our legislators lack the discipline to spend money on building
roads, schools, levees and prisons because they get more political benefit
from spending money directly on public employees and entitlement
programs than they
do from investing in construction projects that will not be completed until
after they leave office. If we really
wanted to “build it,” as the Governor says, we would take a percentage
of the annual budget and create a capital fund that could begin work on these
projects immediately. Yet our legislators cannot agree on which projects to
fund, in what order, or make the regulatory changes needed to have projects
designed
and approved quickly. If we could be united on that front, the money is there,
whether it comes from the taxpayers directly in the General Fund or from the
taxpayers indirectly through a PERS investment bond.[Leonard
Blog]
[4/10/06]
[Found
in the ebag-from Capitol
Resource Institute] 12:01 am [permalink]
Planned Parenthood Lures Teens with iPods and Free Movie Tickets It
appears that Planned Parenthood has stooped to an all-new low.
Planned Parenthood
Golden Gate (PPGG) has advertised that anyone who makes an
appointment at one of their facilities prior to April 30, 2006
is eligible to enter a drawing to win an iPod. This incentive
is clearly intended to lure young people into its doors.
Planned Parenthood
has also devised another scheme to attract minor children.
Its “Tell-A-Friend” program is advertised through
a poster picturing a teenage girl whispering to another teenage
girl: “Get free movie tickets? Yes – when you tell
a friend about Planned Parenthood.” The Tell-A-Friend
program distributes referral cards to teenagers. If a teenager
convinces their friend to go to Planned Parenthood, and their
referral card is turned in, the teenager will be mailed two
free movie tickets redeemable at any United Artist theater.
Planned Parenthood’s
services are listed on the referral card: birth control, annual
exams, pregnancy testing, STD testing and treatment, HIV testing,
and emergency contraception.
“Just
like any other business, Planned Parenthood utilizes programs
designed to bring in more customers. Just like any other business,
a key target group for Planned Parenthood is young people,” said
Douglas Scott president of Life Decisions International. “And
just like any other business, Planned Parenthood seeks to get
more young people in their doors to increase the size of their
already overflowing coffers—funds often provided by taxpayers.
And once a teenager is hooked, he or she can prove to be a
good source of income for many years to come.”
Scott said
a revenue source is not the only reason Planned Parenthood
is targeting young people. “Unlike any other business,
Planned Parenthood has an agenda. Once a young person enters
a Planned Parenthood facility, the group can preach its doctrine
of death without the interference of parents or other family
members.”
[4/6/06]
[Nick
Winter-Found
in the ebag from Senator Chuck Poochigian]
12:02 am [permalink]
Weakening
Three Strikes Could Lead to Release of Large Numbers of Career
Criminals "Three
Strikes has proven to be an extremely effective crime-fighting
tool that has led to the incarceration of some of our most
dangerous repeat offenders, while deterring others from committing
new felonies in fear of tough sentences. California’s
district attorneys and judges already have a significant amount
of discretion when prosecuting and sentencing criminals under
Three Strikes. SB 1642 is a solution in search of a problem.
It exempts many serious crimes from being eligible for third
strikes. Watering down Three Strikes could lead to a flood
of inmates previously convicted of serious or violent felonies
being released onto our streets." - Senator Chuck Poochigian
Public
Safety Committee Votes to Weaken Three Strikes
Tuesday,
the Senate Public Safety Committee approved SB 1642 (Romero)
which would alter California’s “Three Strikes and
You’re Out” law (Three Strikes), by limiting third
strikes to the state’s narrowly defined list of serious
or violent offenses that excludes many serious crimes. SB 1642
could lead to thousands of repeat offenders being potentially
released – all of whom have been convicted of two prior
serious and/or violent felonies (many with extensive criminal
histories).
Voting in
favor of the bill were Senators: Migden, Romero, Cedillo and
Perata. Voting against the measure were Senators: Poochigian
and Margett.
The Sacramento
and Ventura County District Attorneys, California District
Attorneys Association, California Police Chiefs Association,
and Crime Victims United opposed the measure. Opponents noted
that only 4.5% of the entire prison population are third strikers.
District attorneys testified that those who will benefit from
this law are life criminals, and noted that dangerous felons
who pose a grave threat to the citizens of this state could
be released.
Thousands
of Career Criminals Could be Eligible for Release
Judges and
prosecutors already have the discretion to avoid third strike
charges in the interest of justice. While there is a great
deal of rhetoric about minor offenders being wrongly prosecuted
as third strikers, the evidence does not bear this out. SB
1642 could open the doors to our prisons, and make many inmates
previously convicted under three strikes eligible for re-sentencing.
There are about 7,800 third strikers serving 25-years-to-life
sentences. Over 4,400 of them would appear to be eligible to
petition for re-sentencing and/or release under SB 1642.
SB 1642 Would
Eliminate Many Serious Third Strike Offenses
SB 1642 would
limit third strikes to the state’s narrowly defined lists
of serious or violent offenses. However, these lists do not
include many truly dangerous, violent or potentially violent
felonies. Under the Three Strikes Law, a career criminal previously
convicted of two serious or violent crimes (as defined in Penal
Code Section 667.5 and 1192.7) is subject to a third strike
upon the commission of any subsequent felony. If passed, SB
1642 would eliminate the ability to charge these offenders
with third strikes for many felonies which the public would
consider serious or violent, including:
- Felon
in possession of firearm;Solicitation to commit murder, rape,
robbery or arson;Sexual exploitation of a minor;
- Human
trafficking;
- Carrying
a destructive device on a common carrier (i.e. airplane);
- Child
abuse likely to cause great bodily injury;
- Hate crimes;
- Abduction
for prostitution;
- Domestic
abuse;
- Child
abduction;
- Making
child porn for profit;
- Solicitation
for rape and child molestation;
- Possession
of firearm on school grounds;Possession of a semi-automatic
weapon, assault weapons or machine guns;
- Possession
or transportation of explosives;
- Taking
a hostage to prevent arrest or act as a shield;
- Stalking;
- Most drug
offenses, even those involving manufacture and/or sale of
two pound or more of heroin, cocaine, or two gallons of liquid
methamphetamine;
- Most assault
and battery;
- Threat
to jurors;
- Domestic
abuse;
- and Felony
DUI..
[NOTE: This
is only a partial list].
Third strike
offenders currently in state prison based upon conviction of
one of these felonies would become eligible for resentencing
or release under SB 1642.
[4/5/06
Wednesday]
[Bill
Leonard, contributor,
Member CA Board of Equalization] 12:03 am [permalink]
Having the Taxpayers' Confidence I was honored
last week to receive the endorsement of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
PAC for my
re-election. HJTA President Jon Coupal said, "Bill Leonard has been one
of the strongest defenders of Proposition 13, and his work on the Board of Equalization
has proven his strong commitment protecting taxpayers." I am honored to
have the support of the state's leading taxpayer organization. I was first
elected to the state legislature the year that Howard Jarvis lead the successful
effort to reform property tax rates in this state, and I have spent my public
career fighting for the values that Jarvis embodied: lower, predictable taxes
that are administered fairly. [Leonard
Blog]
[4/4/06
Tuesday]
[Bill
Morrow - State
Senator, columnist]
12:05 am [permalink]
Morrow Throws Gauntlet Down on Exploitative Employers
and the Mexican Government [a press release sent out from
State Senator Bill Morrow's office - Ed.] Senator Bill Morrow (R-Carlsbad)
announced today that amendments to his Senate Bill 1194 would require all
employers, both public and private, to verify the legal status of all potential
employees.
Senate Bill
1194 mandates that employers participate in the federal “Basic
Pilot Program” to verify an applicant’s name, birth
date and social security number prior to hiring. Created in
1997, the “Program” is administered by the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration
and is designed to provide instantaneous verification of the
legal status of a potential employee at no cost to the employer.
Currently,
all states utilize this free program on a voluntary basis;
however, if field agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) determine that an employer has hired illegal immigrants,
and in doing so, made no good faith attempt to verify the legal
status of the illegal workers, then the extent of the fines
levied can be increased and future participation in the Basic
Pilot Program becomes mandatory for the fined employer.
Senate Bill
1194 would immediately make participation in the Basic Pilot
Program mandatory for all California employers, thereby greatly
reducing, if not eliminating, the number of workers illegally
hired in California.
“Most
California employers are honorable, but the practice of hiring
illegal immigrants is wrong, counter-productive and outright
illegal!” said Morrow. “To line their own pockets,
employers who knowingly hire illegal workers exploit the poorest,
most desperate people in the hemisphere. In doing so, they
pull millions of the neediest and their families here, where
they end up taking American jobs, suppressing American wages,
and causing taxpaying American families to subsidize the education,
health care, welfare and incarceration of illegal immigrants.
Some estimates put the costs of providing medical care, education
and incarceration alone at over $10 billion per year.”
“I
support a strong fence to secure our national border. But if
SB 1194 were enacted, it would reduce the pressure on such
a fence. More importantly, it would reduce the pressure on
the American worker and taxpayer.”
“During
the past week, I have been utterly stunned by the hundreds
of thousands of radical protestors around the nation who advocated
illegal hiring, open borders, illegal immigration, ignoring
our Constitution, the rule of law and the principles upon which
our nation was founded,” said Senator Morrow.
“In
Addition, I have been just as appalled by the apathy of our
government’s leaders in both parties who refuse to stand
up for the laws of this land and secure our borders against
trafficking of illegal labor, drugs and potential terrorists
weapons. SB 1194 is one surgical step toward putting some backbone
back into our government.”
“But
the ‘pull’ from unethical U.S. employers is only
half the problem,” said Morrow. The Senator also cited
the “push” caused by Mexico’s stagnant economy
that results from the massive inefficiency in California’s
southern neighbor.
“The
Mexican government continues to prop up and protect its wealthy
elites from the threat of true reform that might liberate the
Mexican people,” said Morrow. “Instead, they oppose
any policy that threatens to effectively secure the U.S.-Mexico
border that is the pressure valve for all their social and
economic problems.”
“The
hypocritical policies of Mexico’s government and its
leader Vicente Fox, who, while closing off Mexico’s southern
border against illegal immigrants from southern nations is
escorting their own citizens across the California border and
practically handing out job applications to boot,” said
Morrow.
Morrow added, “The
people of Mexico are our friends and neighbors, not our enemies – but
the relationship between friends and neighbors cannot be co-dependent
and must be managed properly.”
Morrow further
stated, “Besides, one of the great myths is that American
consumers get cheap agricultural produce, landscaping and home
construction from illegal immigrant labor. Actually, those
who allegedly benefit from cheap prices are actually paying
dramatically higher taxes in order to subsidize the government
programs that support the presence of the illegal workers.
The costs are hidden in a nasty little shell game that is kept
from the taxpayers and consumers.”
“Senate
Bill 1194 may not be popular with the exploitive employers
in the business community, but my oath of office was made to
the Constitution and the people of California, not to those
who knowingly break the law,” concluded Morrow.
[4/3/06
Monday]
[Found
in the ebag-from New Media Alliance - Sher
Zieve] 12:01 am [permalink]
No Borders-No Country It really is a pretty simple concept to understand.
Without viable, recognizable and protected borders, a country will not and cannot
maintain its sovereignty or its very “being” as a country. Said country
will not survive. But, that is what the majority of US Senators, both Democrat
and Republican, are now pushing.
Both US political party Senators are laying down the law to the American people—the
ones who are legal citizens. Their message is: “You will accept illegals!” The
McCain-Kennedy bill provides a “path toward citizenship” for those
already in the US illegally. We are told “it’s not amnesty”.
But, it is. “Republican” Senator Arlen Specter tells us repeatedly
that this proposal and the changes the Senate is making to water-down the approved
US House of Representatives’ immigration bill (the one with real “teeth”)
will not include amnesty for illegals. But, it does. Specter is also against
the US building any sort of obstacle (AKA “fence”) at our Southern
border, to prevent illegals (which also include terrorists) from entering. The
Republican Senators are now using a tactic from the Democrats ‘bag-o’-tricks”: “Tell
the lie long enough and speak it loudly enough and the stupid ‘we-the-people’ will
believe it.”
In fact, there are few-to-no US Senators who seem have the guts to speak out
on this issue for US citizens—that’s legal US citizens. Only the
illegal entrants are being heard and considered. One only need watch the videos
of the recent pro-illegal alien protests in Los Angeles last weekend, to understand
what is occurring. Mexican flags were carried en masse by illegal immigrants
to the US and their supporters. Radical MEChA is still calling for the “reconquering” of
the US Southwest for Mexico and the Mexica Movement is screaming for the entire
North American continent. Leftist teacher and school administrator-inspired student
walk-outs are being affected on an almost daily basis, now, to support the radical
elements’ pro-illegal protests.
Note: I have been warning parents about this leftist student-indoctrination for
years.
So, let’s take a real and honest look at what’s happening to the
almost-former USA. Protestors want to take it for Mexico and Latinos. But, leftist-indoctrination
doesn’t stop there. In the true spirit of “political correctness”,
we the people are also being told that we must understand the terrorists, who
have also vowed to destroy us. And with the US Senate’s (and even President
Bush’s) stance on allowing illegals to enter our country—virtually
unstopped—they are making the terrorists job a lot easier. A Quinnipiac
poll shows that 57% of US citizens surveyed believe that the illegal immigrant
situation is a serious problem. Other polls show this figure to be substantially
higher. Director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute Maurice Carroll
commented: “People think this is a horrible problem, and they are not being
very friendly to illegal immigrants.”
As we are now perceiving with our own eyes and ears, our elected Senators are
no longer listening to American citizens. Instead, we are being forced to accept “globalism” in
its most virulent form and, apparently, Mexican President Vicente Fox is now
calling the shots for the US. And this is the man who exports his impoverished
people to the US because he can’t—or won’t—correct the
problems within his own country! Will we also be forced to accept the violent
Mexican drug cartels, just over our “do-not-enforce” Border Region
in Texas?
This current and present danger to our country has nothing to do with being compassionate
to illegal entrants, folks. It’s about our survival.
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