Spin City: More on Illegal Aliens from Mexico

Spin City: More on Illegal Aliens from Mexico

More on Illegal Aliens from Mexico

April 25, 2006

Let’s face the fact. There are two types of politicians concerning illegal aliens from Mexico. Type one: Those who want a closed border, demanding legal immigration, and type two: those who want an open border, those who not only accept illegals, but would give them citizenship.

The type ones approve anything that will deter illegals from crossing the border. Included, but not limited to, a wall, the national guard and army troops on the border, increased border patrol agents, enforcement of employers hiring illegals, gradually rounding up all illegals already in the country and send them back to Mexico, discontinue all federal aid to sanctuary cities and states, eliminate all entitlements to illegals, and provide only emergency health care to illegals, and revoke the federal law that provides citizenship to children born in the U.S. whose parents are illegal.

Type two, mostly left wing pinko meatheads (as Archie Bunker would call them) would not approve of any of the above. They would disguise their disapproval by suggesting guest-worker programs, temporary work programs, provide them with an identification card that could not be copied ( that’s a joke), give treatment of illegals dependent upon their length of stay in the country(determined how?), allow them to work here for a specified time, and then send them back to Mexico to get in line for legal entry (Rodney Dangerfield could not have made a better joke than that one).

Type two are, for some reason, demanding we give up our country to the Mexican invasion. Why are they doing this to us? The president preaches that his duty is to protect the country. He is certainly not doing that on our southern border. So far, our congress is in bed with type two. And, what about the duties of our Arizona Governor? From her actions, she welcomes the State of Arizona to be turned over to Mexico.

I shudder to think of the country my five year old granddaughter must grow up in. She couldn’t even get into kindergarten because it was full of children from illegals. What’s next?

Please read the following article from Townhall contributor, Phyllis Schlafly:


Illegal immigrants in this country are threatening a massive boycott on May 1, purportedly to demonstrate they are so essential that the U.S. economy would shut down without their labor. On the contrary, such a boycott will expose the lie expressed by President George W. Bush in Cancun, Mexico, that they are "doing work that Americans will not do."

According to the Pew Hispanic Center, illegal immigrants make up less than 5 percent of the U.S. labor force. If every one of the 20 million illegal aliens in our country plays hooky from his job on May 1, the overwhelming majority of those same types of jobs will be worked by millions of U.S. citizens.

All over America, U.S. citizens will flip hamburgers in fast-food shops, wash dishes in restaurants, change sheets in hotels, mow lawns, trim shrubs, pick produce, drive taxis, replace roofs on houses, and do all kinds of construction work. Americans are quite willing to work unpleasant, menial, tiresome and risky jobs, but not for Third World wages.

An employment service in Mobile, Ala., recently received an "urgent request" to fill 270 job openings from contractors who were hired to rebuild and clear areas of Alabama devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The agency immediately sent 70 laborers and construction workers to three job sites.

After two weeks on the job, the men were fired by employers who told them "the Mexicans had arrived" and were willing to work for lower wages. The U.S. citizens had been promised $10 an hour, but the employers preferred Mexicans who would work for less. Employment agency manager Linda Swope told The Washington Times: "When they told the guys they would not be needed, they actually cried ... and we cried with them. This is a shame."

Swope said that employment agencies throughout Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi all face similar problems because an estimated 30,000 men from Mexico and Central and South America, many in crowded buses and trucks, came into those three states after Hurricane Katrina, willing to work for less than whatever was paid to U.S. citizens.

Meanwhile, President Bush signed the Katrina Emergency Assistance Act extending for 13 weeks the unemployment benefits to U.S. citizens displaced by Katrina. Thus employers get the benefit of cheap foreign labor while you and I provide taxpayer handouts to workers whom the government allowed to be displaced from the jobs they were eager to take.

There is no penalty on employers who replace U.S. citizens with illegal immigrants at lower pay. Homeland Security even announced it has suspended the sanctioning of employers who hire illegal immigrants, and President Bush suspended the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires local contractors to pay "prevailing" wages.

A study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research reported that the surge of immigration in the 1980s and 1990s lowered the wages of our own high school dropouts by 8.2 percent. The surge has accelerated since that report was issued. The Congressional Budget Office reported that 60 percent of Mexican and Central American workers in the United States in 2004 lacked a high school diploma.

The Kennedy-McCain-Bush guest worker plan would import more uneducated, unskilled workers, and thereby deny our own high school dropouts (of whom we have too many) the opportunity to get started in building their lives in the labor force. U.S. citizens are threatened that the cost of lettuce will rise precipitously if we don't continue to import Mexican agricultural workers. But a farm worker gets only 6 or 7 cents out of a $1 head of lettuce, so even if the pay doubles, consumers would hardly notice the difference.

On the other hand, the costs taxpayers are forced to pay for social benefits for low-paid workers are astronomical. The National Research Council reports that an immigrant to the United States without a high-school diploma consumes $89,000 more in government services than he pays in taxes during his lifetime.

Low-paid illegal immigrants obviously pay very little taxes, but they cash in on all sorts of benefits paid by other taxpayers, such as schooling for their children, emergency health care, housing subsidies, Earned Income Tax Credit and law enforcement. If the 20 million illegal immigrants are legalized, they will also become eligible for Medicaid, and that's a real break-the-bank prospect.

These figures don't even count the rapidly growing underground economy, in which millions of illegal immigrants are paid off the books in cash. That enables both employer and employee to avoid paying taxes, and enables employers to avoid paying workers' compensation, unemployment compensation, and assorted other taxes.

If the Internal Revenue Service collected all the taxes that should be paid by the underground economy, our current budget deficit would disappear overnight, according to a Bear Stearns study released in 2005. The Americans who pay taxes are giving a free ride to those who are not paying taxes, and a 7-cent increase in the price of lettuce should not be on our worry list.

Phyllis Schlafly is the President and Founder of the Eagle Forum.

Copyright © 2006 Copley News Service

Illegal Aliens

If our congress falls for the obvious ploy by the protesters waving American Flags, we should consider a movement to remove all incumbants from office. Most of these protesters cannot even speak English, and have no inclination to assimilate into the American way of life. There are so many polls being shown that are trying to spin Americans' attitude toward the illegal alien situation. Forget the spin and just use common sense.

This issue is only made complicated by the political, not the practical approach to the problem. First of all, the only consideration right now should be controlling the borders. If the American people could see results that congress and our president were serious about controlling the border, by constructing a wall and increasing the size of the border patrol, and perhaps providing additional assistance from the national guard, we would then have a better perspective to deal with the illegal aliens already in our ( not protesters) country!

No guest worker or any other program should even be considered until our border is secure. Our politicians, who are supposed to be protecting us, seem to be more concerned with votes, not preserving our traditions.

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Every American Citizen needs to read this!