“This letter sent to Senator Frist from a retired border patrol agent has more common sense than all the rhetoric being spewed from the Senate, with the exception of a few sensible representatives. Anyway, this guy has it together and shows the rhetoric for what it is.”
Wow, can't you feel the Fox flavor in this? The Hanshit, O'BS, Limpingwrist rhetoric spewing across the window. You really have to love the way these minute (long U sound, try it) puppets ditto back to their masters.
Dear Senator Frist:
There is a huge amount of propaganda and myths circulating about "Illegal Aliens", particularly "Illegal Mexican, Salvadorian, Guatemalan and Honduran Aliens".
One is of course supposed to forget about the few hundred thousands of others from other countries. Makes one think there must be some direct agenda (wait for it).
1. "Illegal Aliens" generally do NOT want U.S. citizenship. Americans are very vain thinking that everybody in the world wants to be a U.S. citizen. Mexicans, and other nationalities want to remain citizens of their home countries while obtaining the benefits offered by the United States such as employment, medical care, in-state tuition, government subsidized housing and free education for their offspring. Their main attraction is employment and their loyalty usually remains at home. They want benefits earned and subsidized by middle class Americans. What "Illegal Aliens" want are benefits of American residence without paying the price.
I would very much appreciate the documentation he claims that college and university students from other countries, who do not have the proper student visas are utilizing the benefits of in-state tuition. How long ago did this guy retire?? Valid US citizenship or proper visas are now thoroughly checked for such purposes. Oh wait, just because a student has a Hispanic name makes that person an illegal alien, right???? Must also be what drives the government subsidized housing, except that i am sure this guy is referring to the farm labor camps and the detention facilities.
2. There are no jobs that Americans won't do. "Illegal Aliens" are doing jobs that Americans can't take and still support their families. "Illegal Aliens" take low wage jobs, live dozens in a single residence home, share expenses and send money to their home country. There are no jobs that Americans won't do for a decent wage.
Yes, a living wage in the US would provide jobs that US workers would take, he is wrong that US citizens would do the work though. They would do the jobs that those who are living here without proper visas are doing, if they actually chose to do so. Or are our WalMart, HomeDepots, McD's, BK's etc. entirely staff with non-citizens??? Of course none of them pay benefits, but that doesn't seem to matter to these people does it?? I certainly think $10 to $15/ hour is well within the living wage scale, that is paid out by those contractors. The difference is that the contractor does not have to pay out payroll taxes, unemployment/workers' compensation, benefits,etc. on the non-citizen but can charge the developer or contracting agency those amounts for all workers and pocket generous profits.
Every person who illegally entered this nation left a home. They are NOT homeless and they are NOT Americans. Some left jobs in their home countries. They come to send money to their real home as evidenced by the more than 20 billion dollars sent out of the country each year by "Illegal Aliens". These "Illegal aliens" knowingly and willfully entered this nation in violation of the law and therefore assumed the risk of detection and deportation. Those who brought their alien children assumed the responsibility and risk on behalf of their children.
3. wow $20 billion gets sent out by these people. Sounds like a lot i guess to our border patriot. Too bad he doesn't read beyond the scope of his Fox News radio. Drug pipelines are shipping out upwards of $500 billion each year. Outsourcing and offshore corporate activites moves a lovely $1.5 trillion, and it is estimated at the moment that US citizens are hiding upwards of $11.8 trillion in assets outside the US. None of this counts the outflow of USD for energy resources and manufactured goods (trade deficit in March was $70 billion alone for China) or the need by the US to bring in a whopping $2billion each and every day from non-US citizen investors just to keep the economy propped up. But damn those bastards for sending $20 billion outside the US--of which 15% is swept up by US/Euro financial corporations just in the fees for transferring the $$.. oops
4. "Illegal Aliens" are NOT critical to the economy. "Illegal Aliens" constitute less than 5% of the workforce. However, they reduce wages and benefits for lawful U.S. residents.
How could he overstate this? The total number of persons living in the US who are not citizens and who do not have proper visas or other documentation has remained 4% of the total population for more than 40 years. There has been no expansion, nor contraction of that 4% number, only changes in where that total number lives.
5. This is NOT an immigrant nation. There are 280 million native born Americans. While it is true that this nation was settled and founded by immigrants (Legal Immigrants), it is also true that there is not a nation on this planet that was not settled by immigrants at one time or another.
The sneaky bastard. David Stoddard sure is an indigenous native name from a tribal group whose land was stolen by the genocidal conquering of the peoples. I will have to look that up, there must be a tribe that used Stoddard in the west, say a 110 years ago, before that part of the continent belonged to the US. I love idiots like this. There is also no record whatsoever of any tribe authorizing the legal rights to any of the colonists or other massive influx of subsequent invaders. The claim he makes here is repellent and vile.
6. The United States is welcoming to "Legal Immigrants. "Illegal Aliens" are NOT immigrants by definition. The U.S. accepts more lawful immigrants every year than the rest of the world combined.
If you have $10 million, regardless of your history (genocide, organized crime, crimes against humanity, etc.) you can automatically become a US citizen with no waiting. Other family members are cheaper at $5 million each. We don't have a standard, just an amount. Of course we can't let in people that are being persecuted by their governments who also happen to be our allies, regardless of the degree of inhumanity (can you say Darfur). The current number of US student visas is running in the 150k to 200k range each year. Farmworker visas are about twice that, and special employment visas (yes Oracle and Microsoft do that) were at 87K but they were raised to 94K due to corporate lobbying.
7. There is no such thing as the "Hispanic Vote". Hispanics are white, brown, black and every shade in between. Hispanics are Republicans, Democrats, Anarchists, Communists, Marxists and Independents. The so-called "Hispanic Vote" is a myth. Pandering to "Illegal Aliens" to get the Hispanic Vote is a dead end.
It is a wonder to me how this guy can listen to Fox and not get the message that the anti-Castro cubano constituency, and the Puerto Rican constituency, and the Colombian constituency are not fundamentally necessary GOP hispanic voting blocks that this administration desperately needs to maintain? Of course this guy also seems to have no clue whatsoever that of the 31 million US citizens living in CA more than 39% of them are of hispanic heritage, some living as 8th and 9th generation Californicos, who are a significant and necessary voting constituency, particularly in SoCal and in the election of governor, members of the US House and Senate, and of course the mayor of LA. But i guess this is all some fantasy in the minds of the dreaded liberal media.
8. Mexico is NOT a friend of the United States. Since 1848 Mexicans have resented the United States.
a) During World War I Mexico allowed German Spies to operate freely in Mexico to spy on the U.S.
b) During World War II Mexico allowed the Axis powers to spy on the U.S. from Mexico.
c) During the Cold War Mexico allowed spies hostile to the U.S. to operate freely.
d) The attack on the Twin Towers in 2001 was cheered and applauded all across Mexico.
e) Today Mexican school children are taught that the U.S. stole California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. If you don't believe it, check out some Mexican textbooks written for their schoolchildren.
I thought the topic was all "illegal aliens" or at least he said upfront he was directing his comments at those from North and Central Americas (making all these people Americans by the way). But now the agenda pops up, the vile stink of bile building from his hatred of Mexico. At least he could have gotten his first date correct, but that would be too much to ask now wouldn't it. I am guessing that he assumes the nation of Mexico loved us even after the Texas wars of the 1830s. And though given where he lives, he seems to have no recollection of something called the Gadsden Purchase, which must have really made Mexican mad since they sold it to us. I am sure the US corporations that have set up manufacturing companies and massive retail outlets (a McD's and WalMar in every single Mexican state) across the country cringe from the hatred. Gosh, if we had known they hated us so very much, i am sure Clinton never would have signed NAFTA, and Bush would not have loaned Fox billions or signed CAFTA.
9. Although some "Illegal Aliens" enter this country for a better life, there are 6 billion people on this planet. At least 1 billion of those live on less than one dollar a day. If wanting a better life is a valid excuse to break the law and sneak into America, then let's allow those one billion to come to America and we'll turn the USA into a Third World nation overnight. Besides, there are 280 million native born Americans who want a better life. I'll bet Bill Gates and Donald Trump want a better life. When will the USA lifeboat be full? Since when is wanting a better life a good reason to trash another nation?
This section is so loopy, i don't know where to begin or end. The latest research data on world wide hunger came in last week-- ten children die every minute from malnutrition causes. We aren't talking about living on a dollar a day here or a year, we are talking about millions of people starving to death each year. There are 6.4 billion people now, with that number climbing toward 8 billion or so before massive famines begin to kill 200 million per year. The Gates Foundation is at the forefront of this problem actually, trying to make the whole planet a better place to live, with deeply dividing philosophical debates ongoing in their Seattle offices about curing diseases that will allow more people to live and thus die of starvation. It is our own corporate overlords that desire for the US to become a thirdworld nation. China and India are the consumer economic engines of profit, not the US. In order for our economy to restabilize, the US must experience a drastic and nasty downturn that forces the end to all forms of entitlement and stabilization programs. This has nothing whatsoever to do with immigrants, but a whole lot to do with the transfer of energy resource funding from US dollars to Euros and Yuan. Can you say Iranian Bourse???
10. There is a labor shortage in this country: This is a lie. There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of American housewives, senior citizens, students, unemployed and underemployed who would gladly take jobs at a decent wage.
Clearly David has no working comprehension of the US economic system, wherein there must be a given minimum number of people not working, looking for work, capable of work in order to generate corporate profits and shareholder dividends. Labor is detrimental to profit. The numbers are staggering at the moment. Just engineering alone, as a field is so overheated that the 60,000 or so graduates are competing for less than 4000 jobs. And the corporations want to give those jobs to visa-bearing people because those people do not have rights!!!! This is critical.
11. It is racist to want secure borders:
a) What is racist about wanting secure borders and a secure America?
b) What is racist about not wanting people to sneak into America and steal benefits we have set aside for legal aliens, senior citizens, children and other legal residents?
c) What is it about race that entitles people to violate our laws, steal identities, and take the American Dream without paying the price?
hehehehhehehe. first he says he is talking about illegal aliens; then it is only those from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala (mm can you say Iran-Contra?). Then it is only Mexicans. And now he says he is a racist (It is racist to want secure borders). He seems to want to do everything he can to tell others that he is one--the guilty doth protest too much. "Damn "those" brown skinned Spanish speaking people for stealing my things." He would really love it up here in the North, where our biggest immigration problem comes from Russians being smuggled across the border. He would feel so much safer because they, of course, are not organized nor do they get involved in all those criminal activities-- cough cough, choke choke.
For about four decades American politicians have refused to secure our borders and look after the welfare of middle class Americans. These politicians have been of both parties. A huge debt to American society has resulted. This debt will be satisfied and the interest will be high. There have already been riots in the streets by "Illegal Aliens" and their supporters. There will be more. You, as a politician, have a choice to offend the "Illegal Aliens" who have stolen into this country and demanded the rights afforded to U.S. citizens or to offend those of us who are stakeholders in this country. The interest will be steep either way.
There will be civil unrest. There will be a reckoning. Do you have the courage to do what is right for America? Or, will you bow to the wants and needs of those who don't even have the right to remain here?
There will be a reckoning. It will come in November of this year, again in 2008 and yet again in 2010. We will not allow America to be stolen by third world agitators and thieves.
David J. Stoddard.
U.S. Border Patrol (RET).
Hereford, Arizona.
The threat is the classic call for violence. No where does he make a case that hispanics are agitators of any ilk whatsoever, but that is his final threat. This guy could watch Stephen Colbert and think that show is coming at him straight without irony, satire, parody, or comedy.
You have discovered arachnoanarchy
otter clan omarian otter oasis
