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America's New Manifest Destiny: Rule of Law or Cheap Tomatoes?

by John W. Lillpop As America's war on terror president, George W. Bush is perfectly right to be obsessed with homeland security as a means for combating terrorism. Unfortunately, the president's concern applies only to borders in Iraq and Afghanistan, but not here at home. Although the president has ordered more than one hundred fifty thousand (and counting) American men and women to serve in harm's way 10,000 miles from home, and has spent nearly one half trillion dollars of ...

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May 6, 2008 09:26 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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February 27, 2007
That was a great piece.  Unfortunately, sometimes it seems there are only a minority of us that have correctly prioritized the issues.

We don't need new "comprehensive" immigration laws. We need widespread, well funded enforcement of existing immigration law, i. e. IRCA 1986. http://www.oig.lsc.gov/legis/irca86.htm ANYTHING ELSE IS JUST A BIG CHARADE! Remember the Alamo AND Agents Compean, Ramos, Brugman, Sipe, Rhodes, Deputy Sheriff Hernandez, K-9 Officer Mohr & Noe Aleman. ***Redress it all by repealing the 17th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution: http://www.articlev.com/repeal_the_17...
May 7, 2008 07:21 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Comment updated May 7, 2008 07:23 PM

 

Additionally, in response to the following quote from the original article:

*Over 67% of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal aliens.
(Mexican births paid for by U.S. taxpayers.)

Is it any wonder that the birth rate by legal Americans has dropped.  In addition to all the other things they must pay for, that illegal aliens don't, they must pay their own healthcare bills, and that of illegal aliens as well.

Of course, the impetus behind this is employers.  Have you ever witnessed, for example, a "human resource" manager in a company that hires mostly illegal aliens guide them along the welfare path?  Mahy of us have.  Until the mush that passes for brains in the citizenry begins to recognize the the real cause of illegal immigration (criminal employers), nothing wil change.  Also, keep in mind that the longer this continues without sanctions and jail time for these law breaking employers, the fewer honest ones will exist.



We don't need new "comprehensive" immigration laws. We need widespread, well funded enforcement of existing immigration law, i. e. IRCA 1986. http://www.oig.lsc.gov/legis/irca86.htm ANYTHING ELSE IS JUST A BIG CHARADE! Remember the Alamo AND Agents Compean, Ramos, Brugman, Sipe, Rhodes, Deputy Sheriff Hernandez, K-9 Officer Mohr & Noe Aleman. ***Redress it all by repealing the 17th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution: http://www.articlev.com/repeal_the_17...
May 8, 2008 12:56 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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February 16, 2007
If standards are left by the wayside and supplanted with greed, and the greed is not put in check, the standards will not regain the value they once had. We are a nation of laws and until laws are enforced against American employers and the illegals they employ, we will not be free of the nightmare. Excellent and detailed writing, JWL. Thank you.
May 11, 2008 12:24 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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May 20, 2007
As long as Americans allow our government to put the needs of Mexico and Mexicans/Illegals first they will. Sit down and stuff it Americans. Bush is building a trade bloc under the EU model. We must defer to Canada and Mexico -- especially Mexico because they are third-world and have more work to do to catch up so they can fit in.

Posted in good conscience after the great thread cleansing of November 2007 AD in which we stepped in unison to declare our good works.
May 14, 2008 04:49 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Well said. This is not about cheap tomatoes. It is about what will America look like in the future? The misguided or deceitful use of the ‘we need the workers’ argument is not really part of the equation. When cheap labor is not to be found we have a history of automating. Cotton was once picked by slaves and now a machine does it. After the depression and WWII the Great lakes region and the Midwest lost inexpensive farm labor and now virtually all crops are harvested by machine. To say that we must embrace criminals to keep the good times rolling is a defeatist attitude ignores our history of adapting to changing times.

I wonder what makes the illegals and their supporters think that this invasion will help anyone if left unchecked or enabled? There is no evidence that all the Mexicans in the world will do anything to this country but turn it into more Mexico.

Mexico and Mexicans squandered the last 200 years and now blame us for it. If we are getting the hardest working people in the world from Mexico, god help us. After 200 years Mexico hasn’t even developed a dependable postal system.

Ingratitude is one of the least enjoyable of all human traits. The ingratitude that Mexico and Mexicans and others show to this country is maybe what irks the rest of us more than anything. With ignorance, poverty and corruption flowing north unchecked we are all screwed including Mexico and Canada.

We anchor the whole of the Western Hemisphere. There is no way that we can help the poor people of the world by bringing them here. There are too many of them. If they were really looking beyond themselves and truly wanted to help the uneducated masses of Mexico and beyond they would work to make the rest of this continent more like the U.S. not make the U.S. more like Mexico.

 

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