Threat and Response
Why illegal immigration is a threat to the United States and how local
communities are fighting back
By Tom DeWeese
>>"In June, 2007 a solid eighty percent of the American people let
Congress know they wanted the government to put the brakes on illegal
immigration; they turned thumbs down on the President's guest worker
amnesty plan; and they wanted tax-paid services to illegals stopped.
Most Americans understand that new laws are not needed to stop illegal
immigration. What is necessary is repeal of some laws granting
taxpayer-financed services to illegals along with enforcement of
existing laws. These two acts would be enough to stop the migration.
In simple fact, they are called "illegal" because they are breaking
the law.
In truth, the battle over the Senate's guest worker-amnesty plan is
really a battle over attempts to open the border as called for in
programs such as North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the
Security and Prosperity Partner****p (SPP). Both plans call for open
borders and economic integration of North America. Open borders are
required to fully implement the plans.
The Bush Administration and those promoting illegal immigration were
frankly stunned at the force and determination of U.S. citizens to
reject the Senates immigration plan. Proponents played a very heavy
hand in attempting to force the scheme on a resisting citizenry. Such
powerful forces are not used to losing. Today they continue to seek
new ways to work around the opposition and pass the legislation, as a
whole or incrementally.
However, the anti-illegal fervor refuses to abate and in fact,
dramatic new developments are taking place in local communities across
the nation that may well stop the unpopular Federal schemes.
Meanwhile, in an attempt to weaken the resolve of opponents, they are
called fringe fanatics. A common tactic employed by immigration
proponents is to accuse opponents of racism. They charge that
opponents want to deny a new breed of immigrant the chance to become
Americans as many of our immigrant forefathers did. They paint a
Norman Rockwell-type picture of honest, hard working immigrants,
planting gardens, working in fields, doing the work "no Americans want
to do."
So, in town after town across the nation the battle rages. And that is
really the point. Illegal immigration is not just a border issue. It
is a national issue affecting every large city and almost every small
town. It must be understood that illegal immigration is not just a
matter of some unhappy peasants hoping to seek a better life. It is a
$300 billion a year industry, combining the interests of multinational
cor****ations with those of drug cartels and Latino street gangs.
Caught in between are American communities and the American way of
life. Some cities, especially those along the points of entry at the
border have become dangerous no-mans lands, where no property is safe,
no American citizen is able to leave their home unarmed and some
politicians turn a blind eye as they profit under the table. As a
result American civilization is beginning to break down. That is why
so many Americans refuse to back down on the issue, continuing to
demand a crack down, no matter what name calling they must endure.
The economic cost of illegals
Federal law (the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act)
mandates that all hospitals with emergency-room services must treat
anyone who shows up - including illegal aliens. In most cities across
the nation, illegals now use the emergency rooms as free primary care.
And the hospitals have to keep taking them.
Health Care
The annual cost for uncompensated emergency care to Mexican Border
States (California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas) is $200 million.
California taxpayers paid $79 million for illegal alien health care.
Four major Los Angeles hospitals were bankrupted and shut down in
2004. Texas paid $74 million. Georgia ran a $63 million deficit for
64,000 unpaid doctor visits in 2002. Cochise County, Arizona spent 30%
of its annual budget on uncompensated care to illegal aliens.
University Medical Care in Tucson, Arizona spent $10 million on
uncompensated care to illegal aliens. 77 hospitals in the four Border
States now face financial emergencies. Legal citizens are forced to
fly emergency patients to other cities for treatment. Taxes are going
up to compensate.
Meanwhile, as a result of the Federal Emergency Medical Act, Mexican
ambulance drivers are trans****ting hospital patients unable to pay for
medical care in Mexico to facilities in the United States. The
ambulances are driving through unguarded potions of the border with
"little resistance" at the instruction of Mexican officials.
Education
Federal laws and a Supreme Court decision mandate that schools cannot
deny free education to illegal aliens. Over 300,000 pregnant women
enter the nation illegally every year. Taxpayers pay for food, housing
medical care and school. The average annual cost per child for
education is $7,161, totaling $109 billion to educate illegal aliens
annually. The average cost of bilingual education is $1,200 per
illegal student. U.S. schools annually educate 1.1 million illegal
children. Schools have become over crowded and unruly. Teacher
shortages (especially those who speak Spanish) are a growing problem
for local school districts.
One teacher has re****ted what it is like in the classrooms in schools
where federal tax dollars pay for free medical, free baby sitters for
student mothers as young as thirteen, and free breakfasts (where "the
waste of food is monumental, with trays and trays of being dumped in
the trash uneaten"), new computers are "carved with graffiti by
students." "I have had to intervene several times for young and
substitute teachers whose cl***** consist of many illegal immigrant
students here in the country less than three months who raise so much
hell with the female teachers, calling them "Putas" (whores) and
throwing things that the teachers were in tears" she re****ts. Such is
the atmosphere in today's schools which are overrun by illegal aliens
who speak no English and there is no ability to control or discipline.
Moreover, state run colleges and universities are being forced to
allow illegal aliens to receive in-state tuition discounts that are
supposed to be reserved for residents of that state. In California, a
law, (Assembly Bill 540) allows undo***ented high school graduates who
have been in residence for three years to enroll in community colleges
and the California State University and University of California
systems without paying nonresident tuition. The same is true in many
other states across the country.
The Jobs Americans Don't Want
In 2003, illegal aliens displaced American workers at a cost in excess
of $133 billion, while American college and high school students can't
find summer jobs in yard care, landscape, fast food or service jobs -
because illegal aliens work those jobs at a third of the wage - often
under the table.
Crime
Crimes committed by alien criminals, such as rape, murder or drug
distribution costs U.S. taxpayers $1.6 billion in prison costs alone.
The figure doesn't include the cost of lost property, medical bills of
the victims, time lost from work to recover, higher insurance costs,
etc. Today, illegal aliens make up twenty nine percent of the U.S.
prison population - or 500,000 illegals.
Latino gangs like Mara Salvatrucha 13 (MS13) constitute most of the
crime from the ranks of the illegals. They originated in El Salvador
and today their U.S. leader****p still comes from there. They steal
cars and use them to run drugs over the border. They terrorize local
citizens with violence. They are the chief source of drug sales for
the cartels. And they are racists.
MS13 is the largest and most violent of all gangs in the US today.
They have overtaken the Crips and the Bloods both in size and
violence. MS13, which began its operations in Los Angeles has now
moved east and is prominent on the East Coast.
In Los Angeles, Mexican gangs declared "ethnic cleansing zones" in
specific parts of the city. They kill whites and blacks. In New
Jersey, recently, MS13 gang members killed three college students in
execution style.
No man's land at the border
No legal citizen of the United States of America, living under the
Constitution and the Bill of Rights should have to live as those who
reside near the U.S. / Mexican border. Here there are no property
rights, no ability to be safe in their homes, and no peace. One dare
not go to the movies, the grocery or visit a relative without carrying
a weapon for protection. Through out the community the streets are
teaming with drug dealers, loiterers and gangs bent on violence.
The illegals flood across their property having just crossed the
border. As they pass over the ranches and private property they leave
a trail of trash, human waste and dead farm animals and pets. Found in
the trash that is dropped all along the trail are pieces of paper
containing contact phone numbers. Also found are Korans dropped by
obvious Muslims who have made their way across the border.
Sometimes the illegals walk right in to the living rooms and steal
what they want. Many homes on the border are now little more than
prisons for the residents, surrounded by barbed wire, searchlights,
with loaded guns at the ready.
The Tucson, Arizona area is one of the prime crossing points for
illegals. The organization for trans****ting illegals is almost a
precision military operation. On the Mexican side of the border is a
landing strip where planes fly in on a regular basis with their cargo.
Some of it human; some drugs. It's all the same to those providing the
trans****tation.
The planes land and the cargo is loaded onto busses with the windows
whited out. Young girls prepare for the trip by taking birth control,
for they know what awaits them on the trip across the border from
their "travel assistants" - rape. It's just part of the price for
crossing the border into the promised land of America.
The busses drive to a specific location on the border. Here the cargo
is unloaded and the process of walking across the border begins. Each
of the human cargo is given information on what to do once they reach
the other side, including a phone number of someone to call. The
number is not necessarily a local number. It may be a location in
Virginia, or Maine or Utah. Anywhere in the U.S. The person on the
other end gives instructions on how to gain trans****tation to their
location where they will be brought into the illegal community in that
city.
And so the journey across the border begins. Somewhere in the middle,
between Mexico and the U.S. is a tree. From the branches of that tree
hang women's panties. It's called the panty tree. Why? Trophies from
the raped women of previous journeys. It's just the cost of doing
business with the "Coyotes," the murderous thugs who run the illegal
immigrant trade. They don't care who lives or dies. These are the ones
who will leave illegals locked in trucks without food or water or
ventilation. They charge enormous fees - up front. To them the cargo
is all the same. They carry the drugs with the humans. They make deals
with terrorists for the same trip. They rape, maim and kill. And go
back for another load. Business is booming.
Once the cargo is inside the U.S., more buses are there to pick them
up and trans****t them to drop off points. Here the phone calls are
made for arrangements of more trans****tation across the nation. And in
that highly organized manner, illegal aliens make their way into
American cities.
Some are "Sanctuary Cities" where politicians have decided it's good
for the community to encourage illegals to live. In such communities
no one can ask for the country of origin, even if a crime as horrible
as murder is committed. The sanctuaries permit 20 million illegals,
drug smugglers, child *** rings, ID forgery networks, and an
assortment of run of the mill criminals to live lawlessly inside the
United States. They are provided with income, identification, driver's
licenses, credit, housing, education, and medical care at taxpayer
expense.
As stated, it's a $300 billion a year industry. That buys a lot of
politicians. Along the Border States no one talks about it. And, no
surprise, a lot of politicians do nothing to stop it. Our fear and
their greed are destroying the American dream.
Meanwhile in your local community...
How a community treats the illegals is key as to how many come there.
The main magnet is the establishment of a day labor center. The nation-
wide illegal network knows where to send them. If a community opens
its arms, of course they flock there. If a community stands up to
them, they leave.
But that is easier said than done. First, federal laws or lack of
enforcement hampers efforts against the illegals, no matter the
sentiment of the community. Federal courts strike down local laws,
such as just happened in Hazleton, Pennsylvania when a federal judge
degreed that laws the community had passed to crack down on illegals
were unconstitutional. Federal agencies say it is illegal for local
police to ask if anyone is an illegal. The federal government argues
that immigration is a federal issue and for local communities to take
action interferes with U.S. foreign policy.
On the local level too, there is great pressure on elected officials
to do nothing. Strong lobbying arms protect the illegals. The ACLU, of
course, threatens lawsuits. But many Americans would be surprised to
learn of the Hispanic forces behind much of the pressure applied to
their local officials.
Many immigrant groups are joined together through the La Raza
movement. These are the groups which organized the massive
demonstrations in cities across the nation last year. It is past time
for all Americans to know what is at the root of those demonstrations
and the extent to which our nation is at risk to the La Raza movement.
One of the most prominent Hispanic organizations pu****ng for
"immigrant rights" is the National Council of La Raza - the Council of
"the Race." The mainstream media and most members of Congress depict
La Raza as little more than a Hispanic Rotary Club. In 2005, La Raza
received $15.2 million in federal grants, of which $7.9 million was in
U.S. Department of Education grants for Charter Schools, and
undisclosed amounts to get-out-the-vote efforts sup****ting La Raza
political positions including lobbying for open borders and amnesty
for illegals. Had the Senate's immigration bill passed, several
million more dollars were budgeted for La Raza.
Behind the respectable front of the National Council of La Raza lies
the real agenda of the La Raza movement. This radical agenda, pushed
by secondary groups contains the reasons behind the demonstrations and
the strong lobbying efforts in our communities.
Key among those secondary groups is the radical racist group
Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement
of Astlan (MEChA). MEChA seeks to carve a racist nation out of the
American West. MEChA opposes assimilation into American society. MEChA
is a leader in the effort to "Reconquista" or reconquest our western
states.
MEChA's founding principles state: "In the spirit of a new people that
is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the
brutal gringo invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants
and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlan from whence came our
forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating the
determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of our
blood is our power, our responsibility, and our inevitable
destiny...Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the
fields, and gather the crops and no to the foreign Europeans...For La
Raza to do. Fuera de la Raza nada." That closing two-sentence motto is
chilling to everyone who values equal rights for all. It says: "For
The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing."
These words don't come from a fringe radical element. These come
straight from the official MEChA sites at Georgetown University, the
University of Texas, UCLA, University of Michigan, University of
Oregon, and many other colleges and universities around the country.
Another leading Hispanic group involved in community organization,
promoting the pro illegal position is Mexicanos Sin Fronteras. The
translation of the name means "Mexicans Without Borders." This group
is active throughout the country and many times works with the
"Zapatista Army of National Liberation." These groups seek to
radicalize the Latino community. The official website of the Mexicanos
Sin Fronteras states that it is "anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist in
the capital of the most terrorist country of world-wide
history" (Wa****ngton, DC). It goes on to say it pledges its sup****t to
"other campaigns" of the radical illegal Hispanics with material and
financial assistance.
In Manassas, Virginia the Mexicanos Sin Fronteras and the Zapatista
Army of National Liberation are the two most prominent "pro-Hispanic"
voices. In fact, these two groups are spearheading the illegal alien
lobby in Prince William County, where Manassas is located. This is the
"mainstream opposition" to efforts to curb illegal immigration in that
community. Together, these groups are holding rallies and calling for
boycotts and even the violent overthrow of the United States. Again,
these groups are not fringe radicals. They are the most prominent
voices for the illegals.
The photo featured with this article on my blog (http://
tomdeweese.blogspot.com) is of a meeting in Mexico with many of these
groups. It is interesting to note that speaker in this picture, with
his face covered, is Arnoldo Borjas a member of Mexicanos Sin
Fronteras and a resident of Woodbridge, Virginia. He is one of the
main leaders in that local movement. Further, in Prince William
County, there are several candidates running for local office as well
as the state legislature who are closely aligned with these two
radical organizations.
Fighting back
While Congress fiddles and the Bush Administration issues meaningless
pronouncements on "get tough" programs it never intends to enforce,
local communities and state legislatures are beginning to fight back.
And they are meeting with success.
State Legislatures, forced to deal with the failure of the federal
government to fix the immigration laws, have considered 1,404
immigration bills this year and enacted 170 of them. These laws are
aimed at curbing employment of illegals and making it more difficult
to obtain state identification do***ents like driver's licenses.
In May, Oklahoma passed the "Taxpayer and Citizen protection Act"
which denies illegals state identification, and requires all state and
local agencies to verify citizen****p status of all applicants before
authorizing benefits.
On the local level incredible success is being achieved in Northern
Virginia. Last year two residents of Herndon, Virginia, with no prior
political experience, began an effort called Save Herndon. The issue
was the establishment of a day labor center in the community. The
center would give illegals a gathering place in the community to help
them get jobs, identification and benefits from the community.
The two began a campaign that at once made a major issue out of the
establishment of the center. When the mayor and the city council moved
forward and voted to establish the center over the objections of a
majority of the citizens, Save Herndon began a campaign to assure
these representatives were not re-elected. They succeeded beyond their
wildest expectations, helping to out the mayor and everyone on the
city council who voted for the center.
Now the movement is growing across the Northern Virginia area. There
is now Help Save Manassas, Help Save Loudoun (County), Help Save
Fairfax, Help Save Virginia and Help Save Maryland. Together these
purely grassroots movements have succeeded in enacting legislation in
Loudoun County (the nation's fastest growing county) and in its
neighbor, Prince William County which stops county tax-payer services
to illegals. Incredibly, under challenge from federal and state
officials, the members of county commissioners are holding tough
behind the laws.
The key, as stated earlier, is the day labor centers. If your city has
one, then the message has gone out to the illegal infrastructure that
your community welcomes them. Get rid of it and send the message that
they are no longer welcome. If faced with lawsuits from the ACLU and
La Raze, welcome them. Tell them you will gladly have a news
conference to discuss their suit in front of the cameras. Do not be
afraid.
Here are a few guidelines to help organize locally and face the coming
onslaught of charges of racism.
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3937
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