1/5/07 California Governor proposes statewide health insurance for all children in the state, including illegals.

1/4/07 Whitehouse annouces the signing of some 2004 secret program of a shared Social Security benefits program that would extend to Mexicans in the U.S.  Simply put:  If a Mexican worker works 8-years in Mexico and then 2-years in the U.S., they will qualify for Social Security benefits at age 65 regardless of citizenship.  Who's side is Bush on?

originally written April 5, 2006

by Christine Gates

 
“Strike to support undocumented people for legalization,” is the rallying cry from the Immigrant Solidarity Network website I found last week.  That is nonsense!  I don’t know what exactly that means.  “Undocumented people” are who? 

 Do they mean some people are here in America without the proper legal documents allowing them to be here?  Does it mean they have not been invited to enter the country by our government? 

 Would that not mean those people are breaking American law?  Which then means we can call them aliens (foreigners) here illegally, thus illegal aliens and, finally, criminal invaders.

 Amnesty is bad no matter what it is called.  It rewards those who knowingly choose to break the law and, technically, invade this country.  This behavior cannot be rewarded.

 If we begin to enforce all of the immigration laws already on the books, we could go a long way to stopping this invasion.  Maybe later, with calm cool heads our politicians can draft some legislation with real meaning and purpose. 

 Some of the proposed bills in Congress allow the invaders to sign-up for benefits, how nice.  It is nice that we are going to “ask” these law-breakers to come into government offices to pay their fines and back taxes.  It is nice that we are not going to go out and actively search for these twelve million invaders, but we will ask them to come-on-in.  That is insane public policy.  What if they don’t come-by the office to sign-up, can we deport them then?  Well, no, that wouldn’t be nice.

 What kind of euphemism is “undocumented people for legalization”?  We have established what “undocumented people” means, criminal invaders, but “for legalization” of what?  Does that mean the aliens want to become something “legal”?  Legal workers or naturalized / legal American citizens.  They are very different. 

 Legal workers would fall under a guest worker program instituted when there are not enough people for the number of jobs offered.  Legal migrants would be those who come into our country as invited guests to work in taxed and regulated jobs and then go back to their country.  They would not be eligible for all the extraordinary right’s of American citizens.  They would participate in a guest worker program and go home.

 We have millions of people on welfare in America and millions more people on unemployment, a tremendous social burden.  And still, we are going to allow more documented people into America to take jobs away from those Americans.  Just because they are “documented” doesn’t make me feel any better about it.

 A guest worker program will not make this North Carolina job shortage any better.  A guest worker program will only drive the wages down for everyone in blue-collar jobs, because these wonderful hard-working “guest workers” will do any job for next to nothing. 

 They are thankful for the opportunity, but it doesn’t make invading and exploiting our country right.  They are willing to live 20 people to a house and spend virtually no money here in America. 

 They are satisfied to send nearly all of their untaxed income back to Mexico.  Making those money transfers collectively the largest source of money to the Mexican economy.  Mexico does not want to stop that free flow of money.  That is why no one in the Mexican government is interested in stopping the illegal border crossings.

 If all of those American people receiving Welfare benefits and unemployment benefits worked in the eight to twelve million jobs which the illegal aliens currently hold, we could eliminate a large portion of our federal and state social spending. 

 My solution is to deport all criminal invaders for additional fiscal savings to our country and build a wall to keep them out.

 Oh, and don’t forget to clear out the jails and prisons of the “undocumented people” or criminal invaders, too.  They cost us, the taxpayers, billions of dollars each year to feed, cloth, and provide legal services, because, unfortunately, they are not all hard-working people.

 So, these “undocumented people,” or criminal invaders, came to America for a better life, a better future, better wages, freedom, liberty, and justice without adhering to our most basic laws to reap the benefits?  Who can blame them for trying to get here, but are they not still invading this country and subverting the sovereignty of our country? 

 I am a granddaughter of an Italian immigrant and an Irish immigrant.  My husband is the grandson of a Mexican immigrant.  I am proud to be an American.  Our grandparents became naturalized American citizens.

 Our grandparents were extremely proud to become Americans.  My mother and my mother-in-law were not permitted to learn the native language of their parents, because they were in America now - Americans.  These people were proud of their struggle to learn English and have their kids learn better English.  They all became truly Americanized.  I thank them for acculturating the way they did.