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Index:
Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel – 4/20
(1) Francie Entz
The Oakland (Mich.) Press – 4/21
(2) Bob Allan
The Baltimore Sun – 4/22
(3) Carleton W. Brown
Daily Herald (Ill.) - 4/23
(4) Dave Gorak
Tulsa (Oklahoma) World – 4/24
(5) G.V. Mims
The Odessa (Texas) American – 4/24
(6) Stacy Wright
The Daily Citizen (Ga.) – 4/24
(7) D.A. King
Atlanta Journal-Constitution – 4/27
(8) D.A. King
Gainesville (Ga.) Times – 4/27
(9) D.A. King
The Jewish Exponent (Pa.) -5/1
(10) Tim Aaronson
The Press-Enterprise (Calif.) – 5/2
(11) J.S. Comstock
The Daily Californian Online – 5/2
(12) Wanda Gomez-Berger
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Napa Valley (Calif.) Register – 2/13
(13) Mary Rasmussen
The Baltimore Sun - 3/17
(14) Carleton W. Brown
Los Angeles Daily News – 4/9
(15) William Conroy
Los Angeles Daily News – 4/10
(16) Fred Peters
(1)
Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel – 4/20
Hiring illegal immigrants: More safeguards needed
This is about the March 28 story, "Federal officials arrest 34 workers at Memphis airport."
In so many ways, this is absolutely amazing. If I, an American citizen, wanted to get on a U.S. military base, I would have to either have a military ID or register as a visitor at the gate. In order to register as a visitor, I would have to provide a government-issued form of legal identification, typically a driver's license.
If I were overseas, I would not only have to have a driver's license, but I would also have to provide my passport as well as orders authorizing me to be there. So how did these illegal immigrant workers even get on the Tennessee Air National Guard Base?
Second, who were the contractors? Were they and their subcontractors not scrutinized prior to being awarded a contract by the guard for the $215 million project? It seems as if this tactic or subcontracting is being used more and more to circumvent the Federal Immigration and Naturalization Act, INA 274A, which states that it is a federal felony to hire or assist someone to hire anyone who is not in this country legally as well as a misdemeanor to hire someone without checking her or his work authorization status.
Third, while the probable penalty for the illegal immigrants was spelled out - i.e., deportation - nothing was said about any probable penalties for the contractor or subcontractors. If convicted, those penalties could include criminal fines, imprisonment and forfeiture of vehicles and real property used to commit the crime. Publication of the names of those companies and individuals involved would also assist employers who actually do attempt to contract with companies that do abide by federal law.
Francie Entz
Loudon, Tenn.
(2)
The Oakland (Mich.) Press – 4/21
"Congress won't win drug war cutting crime funds"
The editorial "Congress must restore enforcement funds" describes another error in judgment by our inept U.S.Congress.
Congress has chosen to cut the funding to the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant Program, which fights illegal drug use and trafficking, by 67%.
Yet this same Congress has the audacity to approve $250,000 to study fruit flies in France.
Our congressmen appear unaware that Mexican drug cartels are advertising for recruits by posting help-wanted signs along the U.S./Mexico border to help move their contraband into the U.S.
This will increase drug trafficking and illegal alien smuggling across the border by these cartels.
Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard understands that there is an underlying link between controlling illegal drugs and illegal immigrants, and enhancing national security.
America cannot have open borders with little enforcement and still win the war against illegal entry into our state and nation.
Bob Allan
Rochester Hills,Mich.
(3)
The Baltimore Sun – 4/22
U.S. can't afford to feed the world
The Sun's editorial "Feeding the world" (April 16) recommended that the United States provide at least $600 million in food aid to avoid mass starvation in the world.
That is a kind, considerate thought. But whatever our country may do for hungry people will provide only temporary relief.
The world's population is increasing faster than food supplies can keep up. Food prices are extremely high because demand is greater than supply.
Unless population can be stabilized, eventual starvation is inevitable. What a cruel way to bring supply even with demand that would be.
Yet we have a president who has withheld funds from the United Nations Fund for Population Activities year after year. He has also reinstated the "gag rule" that prohibits family planning agencies that receive U.S. government funds from referring to abortion.
And as if the difficulties mentioned above were not enough, the United States is now the greatest debtor nation in the world.
We can no longer afford to feed most of the hungry people of the world.
Carleton W. Brown
Elkton, Md.
(4)
Daily Herald (Ill.) – 4/23
Missed the point of the visit
Your April 18 story, "Mexico officials pay visit to area," is another sorry example of how the media goes out of their way to paint a rosy picture of illegal immigration and insults their readers' intelligence at the same time.
The Mexican consulate didn't come to Carpentersville to make it easier for Mexican citizens to travel; these officials from a corrupt and arrogant foreign government came to continue their strategy of making it easier for Mexicans here illegally to circumvent our immigration laws and thumb their noses at American sovereignty.
So why not say that at the top of the story rather than make your readers wait until the 18th paragraph before acknowledging that illegals were in fact the real reason for the visit?
Dave Gorak
Executive Director
Midwest Coalition to Reduce Immigration
(5)
Tulsa (Oklahoma) World – 4/24
1804 is right and just
Everyone should know by now that outrageous editorials are printed, claling us awful people because we want taxpayer dollars to benefit legal citizens, in order to get a few souls to read the paper. Only by continuing to espouse the ridiculous ideology of aiding and abetting illegal aliens is the Tulsa World able to get people to buy the paper. It just can't be right, in anyone's mind, to aid and abet criminals.
If we let liberal, greedy people have their way and allow illegals free rein in our country, we will have a country composed of persons who think it is just fine to take other people's money to live on, sneak into someone else's home and enjoy the fruits of the labor of others. Do we really want a country like this?
It is certainly far beyond what our forefathers dreamed of and our ancestors fought for. HB 1804 is not horrendous but merely what is right and just. It has always been against the law and aid and abet criminals and illegals who have no right to taxpayer-funded benefits.
G.V. Mims
Tulsa, Okla.
(6)
The Odessa (Texas) American – 4/24
Mostly Talk & No Walk
While Lt. Governor David Dewhurst extols the virtues of Texas getting tough on illegal immigration in TV ads, the invasion of illegal aliens continues with little abatement.
Placing a few cameras alone the border and hiring more law enforcement not charged with specific immigration enforcement has done little to nothing to stem the invasion. And now Texas is being invaded from all directions as illegal aliens leave states where tougher laws have been enacted.
You have to end the reasons the illegal alien invasion continues. No. 1 would be to stop bestowing instant citizenship to children born to people illegally in our country. The Fourteenth Amendment was never meant to make citizens of children born to illegal aliens. It was meant to correct the wrongful importation of slave labor and make it clear those children born to these people were to be full citizens.
If you interpret the 14th as it is now being corrupted, that would mean an invading army fighting and killing American citizens could have children born as instant citizens with all access to taxpayer benefits.
The main draw to illegal aliens has been the greedy rich that hire them at substantially less than they would pay American citizens. The illegal aliens are subsidized by hard working Texans taxes so the greedy rich's illegal work force can thrive on the meager wages.
If Texas officials want to walk the walk and protect the citizens of our state they will enact laws such as those enacted by Arizona. They need to pass laws, which punish the fat greedy rich that, openly and routinely, employ taxpayer subsidized illegal aliens.
Until the time Texas enacts and enforces laws such as those in Arizona, all talk about protecting the citizens of Texas from the harms of illegal immigration will be no more than the current hot air.
Citizens need to contact our governor, lieutenant governor and state representatives and tell them to get serious about protecting the people of Texas from harms of the ongoing invasion of illegal aliens, and to pass laws similar to Arizona's on working illegal aliens.
To claim this is not a state-supported invasion is akin to burying ones head deep into ones darkest backside nether region.
Absolut Vodka made in Sweden has advertised in Mexico with billboards, magazines and the labels on their vodka that in an Absolut world about half of the present United States would belong to Mexico - as the maps on their vodka, magazine ads and bill boards show.
This advertising greatly pleased Mexico, La Raza, Reconquista, the illegal aliens and their supporters. The offensive ad will also help Absolut to sell more vodka in Mexico and to the 24 million invaders in the present day United States. A national Boycott of Absolut is being pushed by organizations against illegal immigration, touting Skyy vodka made in the U.S., a supporter of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and present-day borders.
Stacy Wright
Odessa, Texas
(7)
The Daily Citizen (Ga.) – 4/24
Amnesty would be a mistake
To the editor:
While it is magnanimous of the author of this little gem to allow that the U.S. has the right to enforce its immigration laws, it is beyond frightening that he apparently doesn't understand that doing so is also a fundamental duty of the federal government. It is never too late and there are no conditions under which it is "immoral".
The concept that we as nation need all of the citizens we can get is the basis of the open borders movement for which the author of this little gem clearly advocates all the while making noise about a secure border and American workers.
A McCain staffer says it - oh - so much better and considerably more honestly: "We must not only have a free flow of goods and services, but also start working for a free flow of people". Quote from Juan Hernandez, dual citizen of Mexico and the United States, former head of the Mexican cabinet post of Office of Mexicans Abroad under Vicente Fox and present Hispanic Outreach Director for the John McCain for president campaign.
Besides the 70% of Mexico who make their desire clear, there are more than 5 billion people in the world who would run - not walk - to get a chance to live and work in what remains of our republic.
The mindless concept of repeating the failed amnesty of 1986 as a solution is to ignore the fact that enforcing American employment and immigration laws serves as a deterrent to future potential victims of geography and bargain hunting criminal employers who are beginning to - finally - fear the law and the consequences of its violation.
More enforcement, por favor...this editorial is welcome proof that it is working as planned.
D.A. King
Marietta, Ga.
(8)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution – 4/27
Undeniable: Enforcement works
The AJC story doesn’t tell us what a legal worker was earning as a house painter here before illegal alien Romero – and his illegal employer - decided that American borders and immigration and employment laws didn’t apply to them. We are guessing that it was more than $12.00 an hour. And that most of the wages were not sent to Mexico.
After having dried their eyes at the plight of the deported “migrants” in Mexico, Americans should recognize the undeniable truth in the report: Enforcement works.
“Altering traditional patterns of migration” is the entire point of the crackdown on illegal immigration and employment in Georgia and other states. Unless the crazies in the open borders lobby completely destroy the American Dream, Romero’s former employer will eventually raise the wages of his painters and find legal labor.
There is no overnight fix for the decades old illegal immigration crisis. Attrition through enforcement – reducing the illegal population through enforcement of American law will eventually work.
D.A. King
Marietta, Ga.
King is president of the Dustin Inman Society, which is opposed to illegal immigration
(9)
Gainesville (Ga.) Times – 4/27
Georgia bills could add to Mexican official’s woes
D.A. King
Guest columnist
Americans who are concerned about the decades old illegal immigration crisis and perhaps confused about solutions have only to look to Arizona and the neighboring Mexican state of Sonora to understand the obvious: Enforcement works.
In a comically ironic example of proof, a quote from Mexican Representative Leticia Amparano Gamez in the Tucson Citizen newspaper on the fact that recent Arizona laws aimed at illegal employment and illegal immigration have resulted in thousands of Mexicans returning home. "How can they pass a law like this? Mexico is not prepared for this, for the tremendous problems”.
The Mexican official’s complaint is that Sonora is being overwhelmed with demands for jail space, housing, social services and classrooms to accommodate the repatriated “migrants” who were formerly residing in the U.S. illegally.
Indeed.
Enforcement works in Georgia too, as is being proven with state Senator Chip Rogers’ (R- Woodstock) 2006 Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act (SB 529). Several additional bills that passed the 2008 General Assembly could add to the Mexican official’s troubles.
From someone who spent many days under the Gold Dome working to encourage legislators to disregard the mindless howls of objection from the usual suspects in the open borders lobby, a short outline of some of what the well-funded leftists fought to stop.
Senate Bill 350, authored by Senator John Wiles (R-Marietta) would punish Georgia residents – including illegal aliens – who are driving without ever having obtained a Georgia driver’s license. Presently, unlicensed driving usually results in a fine which is regarded as little more than speed-bump for the untrained and unlicensed illegal drivers. SB 350 allows for fingerprinting violators, fines of up to $1000.00 and jail time for the first offense - with a felony charge if convicted more than three times in five years.
SB 350 would be a deterrent to illegal presence here and would save lives on Georgia roads. Maybe it would have saved Cobb County Sheriff’s Deputy Loren Lilly who was killed when he was run off the road by an unlicensed illegal alien driver in December 2006.
A nearly identical bill was vetoed by governor Perdue last year.
Representative James Mills (R-Gainesville) deserves our thanks for his dedication to public safety and his courage in standing up to the crazies in the illegal alien lobby for his House Bill 978. It allows law enforcement officers to impound the vehicles of people found to be driving without being licensed – the huge majority of whom are illegals.
Existing federal law allows for the seizure of any vehicle or craft found to be transporting illegal aliens. There goes the ridiculous argument that this is somehow “unconstitutional”. It is also closer to how they handle illegal driving it in Mexico.
SB 421 makes it a felony for the second violation of the crime of knowingly manufacturing, selling, distributing or possessing false identification documents. Even for illegal aliens who have stolen American citizen’s identities on their way to stealing the American Dream. Thank you Senator Chip Pearson (R- Dawsonville).
Including the ACLU, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO), these bills have earned all the right enemies. The groups are part of a coalition looking for a better life by urging the governor to veto the legislation.
Before the May 14th veto deadline, these bills deserve the wholehearted support from Georgia citizens.
Two Senate Resolutions are also noteworthy, final and cannot be vetoed. SR 827 written by Senator Nancy Schaefer (R-Turnerville) expresses the will of the Georgia Senate to urge the United States Congress to withdraw the United States from the little known Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America and from any activity that seeks the economic merger of the United States with other nations - like has already been done with the European Union.
SR 1011 from Senator Bill Jackson (R-Appling) offers gratitude and appreciation to United States Border Patrol and urges the President to review the ludicrous and shameful imprisonment of former Border Patrol agents Ignacio "Nacho" Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean. Both were prosecuted for improperly reporting their on - duty wounding of an illegal alien drug smuggler.
The governor should ignore the illegal alien lobby and sign these bills into law and let enforcement work in Georgia. I have called his office 404 656 1776 to say as much.
We all should.
Making Georgia less attractive to illegals is worth the call.
King is president of the Marietta based Dustin Inman Society which is opposed to illegal employment and illegal immigration. On the Web: www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org
(10)
The Jewish Exponent (Pa.) -5/1
Immigration's a Threat -- Not a Boon -- to Jews
Gideon Aronoff argues for high immigration rates (Opinions: "Passover Should Reconnect All Jews to Their 'Inner Immigrant,' " April 17 http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/15900/) because "Jewish self-interest requires a system that facilitates Jewish immigration."
This is a view stuck in the 1930s, when the Jews of Europe were a people with no country and fleeing a totalitarian regime determined to exterminate it. But today's immigrants are Mexicans who have a Mexico, Filipinos who have a Philippines, and Chinese who have a China. Jews seeking refuge have a safe haven -- thanks greatly to the efforts of Americans -- in Israel.
High immigration rates today are, in fact, a threat to U.S. Jews. Immigrants from Islamic countries hold a distorted view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They are gaining political power and poised to outnumber American Jews. The largest group of immigrants come from Mexico, but polls conducted show that they, too, are disproportionately anti-Semitic and anti-Israel.
Tim Aaronson
El Cerrito, Calif.
(11)
The Press-Enterprise (Calif.) – 5/2
Reject flag politics
Arnold Briseno must be totally out of touch with current issues to say that flying Mexican flags is OK in the United States ("Flag freedom," Your Views, April 30).
Mexico is, in the opinion of many Americans, a hostile neighbor that encourages illegal immigration into our country and sets up mobile matricula consular stations in our cities specifically for its citizens who are in the United States illegally.
Golfer Lorena Ochoa is only making matters worse by bringing politics into any golf tournament.
I have never seen David Beckham display the flag of his country in any game. Apparently, Beckham has manners.
J.L. Comstock
Nuevo, Calif.
(12)
The Daily Californian Online – 5/2
Editor's Note
The following letter was submitted in response to an April 29 op-ed headlined 'Why 'Illegal Aliens' Are Neither'
Jessica Cerittos And Elena Vilchis might consider the immigration question in light of the application process for the UC system. There are very many graduating seniors this year who would like to come to Cal and work hard in order to have a better education, but they can't just show up and declare themselves Cal students.
Cal, like most resources in the world is not infinite. If billions from around the world were to migrate to America the country would collapse.
A week after the campus celebrated Earth Day and the goal of a sustainable nation, we should be asking ourselves if a U.S. of one billion by 2090 as the Census Bureau is projecting from immigration is consistent with our hopes for a viable future.
We all extol the American Dream. There must be a Mexican Dream, a Philippine Dream and a Korean Dream. Migrating to this country is a route for a few, not a solution for the many. I hope Cal students work for a better world, but do so without championing catastrophic immigration ideas.
Wanda Gomez-Berger
El Cerrito, Calif.
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(13)
Napa Valley (Calif.) Register – 2/13
Enforce our immigration law
Dear editor, Please consider the following comments regarding the Register’s article, “Immigration hold placed on driver in injury crash,” on Feb. 8.
This horrible crime and its unthinkable consequences reminds me once again of a question that comes to mind every time I read the DUI reports and every time a story states that a driver “jumped out of the vehicle and ran” when an accident has occurred. That question is: “If this person is caught and is driving without a license, will a check be run to see if they are here legally?”
There is a provision in Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act which provides for local law enforcement to “partner” with ICE to see that any law-breaker who is in this country illegally will be placed on an immigration hold by local authorities. This article notes that Francisco Pacheco is now under such a hold.
Consider this: If Mr. Pacheco had been dealt with at the time of his prior arrest(s), Mrs. Clark would not have lost her legs!
I strongly believe that local authorities should take the necessary steps to partner under the provisions of Section 287(g) without further delay!
Oh, wait a minute! There’s one thing that could keep that from happening. If the city of Napa is a “sanctuary city,” local law enforcement will not be allowed to take that action. Is anyone out there aware of whether or not Napa is a sanctuary city? If it is, let’s “hold their feet to the fire” (read: as our elected officials’ feet) until that changes.
The lives and/or well-being of our fellow citizens depend on it.
Here is the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement web site that goes directly to the specific section titled “Partners”: www.ice.gov/partners/287g/Section287_g.htm.
Mary Rasmussen
Napa, Calif.
(14)
The Baltimore Sun - 3/17
Rising population strains resources
Instead of arguing about the burdens and befits of illegal immigration, it is time to consider the number of people and their consequences ("Data is fuzzy in debate on migrants," March 10).
There are limits to the natural resources of the United States, and of the entire planet. But little thought and effort are going into ways to stabilize the number of people needing those resources.
We do not have to look far for examples of people outpacing limited resources. Just last summer, for instance, Atlanta ran short of water while several other areas were badly hurt by droughts.
Some day, possibly by mid-century, there will be a great movement to stabilize the population of the United States. But by then it may be too late.
People use resources and people pollute; more people use more resources and more pollution.
Present arguments over the burdens and the benefits of illegal immigrants will seem irrelevant as we all descend toward a poorer world.
Carleton W. Brown
Elkton, Md.
(15)
Los Angeles Daily News – 4/9
Enforce the laws
Re “L.A. shares blame in teen’s death” (Viewpoint, April 6):
Doug McIntyre hits the nail right on the head. It seems as I have read this story (or similar one) too many times. When are we going to stop the ridiculous Special Order 40 when it comes to gang-bangers who are illegally here and are arrested, then released to continue their criminal ways? The Shaw family was punished, and our government – sword to “protect and defend,” from our president right down to the cop on the beat’s boss – is at fault for allowing this to happen.
Until we enforce the U.S. immigration laws already on the books, innocent people will be called on to suffer.
William Conroy
Northridge, Calif.
(16)
Los Angeles Daily News – 4/10
L.A.’s fault
Re: L.A. shares blame” (Viewpoint, April 6):
Los Angeles should pay its debt to the Shaw family. Jamiel Shaw was needlessly gunned down on the streets of Los Angeles because he didn’t have the right answer for the question “where you from?” meaning, in gang language, “what gang are you in?” Jamiel was not in a gang; he was a local football star with good grades. The police have in custody a Mexican national in this country illegally who had just been released from jail 28 hours before Jamiel was gunned down.
Los Angeles should pay restitutions to the Shaw family for failure to protect their oldest son. If Los Angeles can spend 1.6 million to now-retired fireman Tennie Pierce for eating some dog food, what is Jamiel’s life worth?
How long are the citizens of Los Angeles going to stand by before they say enough is enough? This killing and runaway crime has got to end or the elected officials will be serving their last term in office.
Fred Peters
Burbank, Calif.
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Index:
Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel – 4/20
(1) Francie Entz
The Oakland (Mich.) Press – 4/21
(2) Bob Allan
The Baltimore Sun – 4/22
(3) Carleton W. Brown
Daily Herald (Ill.) - 4/23
(4) Dave Gorak
Tulsa (Oklahoma) World – 4/24
(5) G.V. Mims
The Odessa (Texas) American – 4/24
(6) Stacy Wright
The Daily Citizen (Ga.) – 4/24
(7) D.A. King
Atlanta Journal-Constitution – 4/27
(8) D.A. King
Gainesville (Ga.) Times – 4/27
(9) D.A. King
The Jewish Exponent (Pa.) -5/1
(10) Tim Aaronson
The Press-Enterprise (Calif.) – 5/2
(11) J.S. Comstock
The Daily Californian Online – 5/2
(12) Wanda Gomez-Berger
LETTERS WE’VE JUST RECEIVED
Napa Valley (Calif.) Register – 2/13
(13) Mary Rasmussen
The Baltimore Sun - 3/17
(14) Carleton W. Brown
Los Angeles Daily News – 4/9
(15) William Conroy
Los Angeles Daily News – 4/10
(16) Fred Peters
(1)
Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel – 4/20
Hiring illegal immigrants: More safeguards needed
This is about the March 28 story, "Federal officials arrest 34 workers at Memphis airport."
In so many ways, this is absolutely amazing. If I, an American citizen, wanted to get on a U.S. military base, I would have to either have a military ID or register as a visitor at the gate. In order to register as a visitor, I would have to provide a government-issued form of legal identification, typically a driver's license.
If I were overseas, I would not only have to have a driver's license, but I would also have to provide my passport as well as orders authorizing me to be there. So how did these illegal immigrant workers even get on the Tennessee Air National Guard Base?
Second, who were the contractors? Were they and their subcontractors not scrutinized prior to being awarded a contract by the guard for the $215 million project? It seems as if this tactic or subcontracting is being used more and more to circumvent the Federal Immigration and Naturalization Act, INA 274A, which states that it is a federal felony to hire or assist someone to hire anyone who is not in this country legally as well as a misdemeanor to hire someone without checking her or his work authorization status.
Third, while the probable penalty for the illegal immigrants was spelled out - i.e., deportation - nothing was said about any probable penalties for the contractor or subcontractors. If convicted, those penalties could include criminal fines, imprisonment and forfeiture of vehicles and real property used to commit the crime. Publication of the names of those companies and individuals involved would also assist employers who actually do attempt to contract with companies that do abide by federal law.
Francie Entz
Loudon, Tenn.
(2)
The Oakland (Mich.) Press – 4/21
"Congress won't win drug war cutting crime funds"
The editorial "Congress must restore enforcement funds" describes another error in judgment by our inept U.S.Congress.
Congress has chosen to cut the funding to the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant Program, which fights illegal drug use and trafficking, by 67%.
Yet this same Congress has the audacity to approve $250,000 to study fruit flies in France.
Our congressmen appear unaware that Mexican drug cartels are advertising for recruits by posting help-wanted signs along the U.S./Mexico border to help move their contraband into the U.S.
This will increase drug trafficking and illegal alien smuggling across the border by these cartels.
Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard understands that there is an underlying link between controlling illegal drugs and illegal immigrants, and enhancing national security.
America cannot have open borders with little enforcement and still win the war against illegal entry into our state and nation.
Bob Allan
Rochester Hills,Mich.
(3)
The Baltimore Sun – 4/22
U.S. can't afford to feed the world
The Sun's editorial "Feeding the world" (April 16) recommended that the United States provide at least $600 million in food aid to avoid mass starvation in the world.
That is a kind, considerate thought. But whatever our country may do for hungry people will provide only temporary relief.
The world's population is increasing faster than food supplies can keep up. Food prices are extremely high because demand is greater than supply.
Unless population can be stabilized, eventual starvation is inevitable. What a cruel way to bring supply even with demand that would be.
Yet we have a president who has withheld funds from the United Nations Fund for Population Activities year after year. He has also reinstated the "gag rule" that prohibits family planning agencies that receive U.S. government funds from referring to abortion.
And as if the difficulties mentioned above were not enough, the United States is now the greatest debtor nation in the world.
We can no longer afford to feed most of the hungry people of the world.
Carleton W. Brown
Elkton, Md.
(4)
Daily Herald (Ill.) – 4/23
Missed the point of the visit
Your April 18 story, "Mexico officials pay visit to area," is another sorry example of how the media goes out of their way to paint a rosy picture of illegal immigration and insults their readers' intelligence at the same time.
The Mexican consulate didn't come to Carpentersville to make it easier for Mexican citizens to travel; these officials from a corrupt and arrogant foreign government came to continue their strategy of making it easier for Mexicans here illegally to circumvent our immigration laws and thumb their noses at American sovereignty.
So why not say that at the top of the story rather than make your readers wait until the 18th paragraph before acknowledging that illegals were in fact the real reason for the visit?
Dave Gorak
Executive Director
Midwest Coalition to Reduce Immigration
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Tulsa (Oklahoma) World – 4/24
1804 is right and just
Everyone should know by now that outrageous editorials are printed, claling us awful people because we want taxpayer dollars to benefit legal citizens, in order to get a few souls to read the paper. Only by continuing to espouse the ridiculous ideology of aiding and abetting illegal aliens is the Tulsa World able to get people to buy the paper. It just can't be right, in anyone's mind, to aid and abet criminals.
If we let liberal, greedy people have their way and allow illegals free rein in our country, we will have a country composed of persons who think it is just fine to take other people's money to live on, sneak into someone else's home and enjoy the fruits of the labor of others. Do we really want a country like this?
It is certainly far beyond what our forefathers dreamed of and our ancestors fought for. HB 1804 is not horrendous but merely what is right and just. It has always been against the law and aid and abet criminals and illegals who have no right to taxpayer-funded benefits.
G.V. Mims
Tulsa, Okla.
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The Odessa (Texas) American – 4/24
Mostly Talk & No Walk
While Lt. Governor David Dewhurst extols the virtues of Texas getting tough on illegal immigration in TV ads, the invasion of illegal aliens continues with little abatement.
Placing a few cameras alone the border and hiring more law enforcement not charged with specific immigration enforcement has done little to nothing to stem the invasion. And now Texas is being invaded from all directions as illegal aliens leave states where tougher laws have been enacted.
You have to end the reasons the illegal alien invasion continues. No. 1 would be to stop bestowing instant citizenship to children born to people illegally in our country. The Fourteenth Amendment was never meant to make citizens of children born to illegal aliens. It was meant to correct the wrongful importation of slave labor and make it clear those children born to these people were to be full citizens.
If you interpret the 14th as it is now being corrupted, that would mean an invading army fighting and killing American citizens could have children born as instant citizens with all access to taxpayer benefits.
The main draw to illegal aliens has been the greedy rich that hire them at substantially less than they would pay American citizens. The illegal aliens are subsidized by hard working Texans taxes so the greedy rich's illegal work force can thrive on the meager wages.
If Texas officials want to walk the walk and protect the citizens of our state they will enact laws such as those enacted by Arizona. They need to pass laws, which punish the fat greedy rich that, openly and routinely, employ taxpayer subsidized illegal aliens.
Until the time Texas enacts and enforces laws such as those in Arizona, all talk about protecting the citizens of Texas from the harms of illegal immigration will be no more than the current hot air.
Citizens need to contact our governor, lieutenant governor and state representatives and tell them to get serious about protecting the people of Texas from harms of the ongoing invasion of illegal aliens, and to pass laws similar to Arizona's on working illegal aliens.
To claim this is not a state-supported invasion is akin to burying ones head deep into ones darkest backside nether region.
Absolut Vodka made in Sweden has advertised in Mexico with billboards, magazines and the labels on their vodka that in an Absolut world about half of the present United States would belong to Mexico - as the maps on their vodka, magazine ads and bill boards show.
This advertising greatly pleased Mexico, La Raza, Reconquista, the illegal aliens and their supporters. The offensive ad will also help Absolut to sell more vodka in Mexico and to the 24 million invaders in the present day United States. A national Boycott of Absolut is being pushed by organizations against illegal immigration, touting Skyy vodka made in the U.S., a supporter of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and present-day borders.
Stacy Wright
Odessa, Texas
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The Daily Citizen (Ga.) – 4/24
Amnesty would be a mistake
To the editor:
While it is magnanimous of the author of this little gem to allow that the U.S. has the right to enforce its immigration laws, it is beyond frightening that he apparently doesn't understand that doing so is also a fundamental duty of the federal government. It is never too late and there are no conditions under which it is "immoral".
The concept that we as nation need all of the citizens we can get is the basis of the open borders movement for which the author of this little gem clearly advocates all the while making noise about a secure border and American workers.
A McCain staffer says it - oh - so much better and considerably more honestly: "We must not only have a free flow of goods and services, but also start working for a free flow of people". Quote from Juan Hernandez, dual citizen of Mexico and the United States, former head of the Mexican cabinet post of Office of Mexicans Abroad under Vicente Fox and present Hispanic Outreach Director for the John McCain for president campaign.
Besides the 70% of Mexico who make their desire clear, there are more than 5 billion people in the world who would run - not walk - to get a chance to live and work in what remains of our republic.
The mindless concept of repeating the failed amnesty of 1986 as a solution is to ignore the fact that enforcing American employment and immigration laws serves as a deterrent to future potential victims of geography and bargain hunting criminal employers who are beginning to - finally - fear the law and the consequences of its violation.
More enforcement, por favor...this editorial is welcome proof that it is working as planned.
D.A. King
Marietta, Ga.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution – 4/27
Undeniable: Enforcement works
The AJC story doesn’t tell us what a legal worker was earning as a house painter here before illegal alien Romero – and his illegal employer - decided that American borders and immigration and employment laws didn’t apply to them. We are guessing that it was more than $12.00 an hour. And that most of the wages were not sent to Mexico.
After having dried their eyes at the plight of the deported “migrants” in Mexico, Americans should recognize the undeniable truth in the report: Enforcement works.
“Altering traditional patterns of migration” is the entire point of the crackdown on illegal immigration and employment in Georgia and other states. Unless the crazies in the open borders lobby completely destroy the American Dream, Romero’s former employer will eventually raise the wages of his painters and find legal labor.
There is no overnight fix for the decades old illegal immigration crisis. Attrition through enforcement – reducing the illegal population through enforcement of American law will eventually work.
D.A. King
Marietta, Ga.
King is president of the Dustin Inman Society, which is opposed to illegal immigration
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Gainesville (Ga.) Times – 4/27
Georgia bills could add to Mexican official’s woes
D.A. King
Guest columnist
Americans who are concerned about the decades old illegal immigration crisis and perhaps confused about solutions have only to look to Arizona and the neighboring Mexican state of Sonora to understand the obvious: Enforcement works.
In a comically ironic example of proof, a quote from Mexican Representative Leticia Amparano Gamez in the Tucson Citizen newspaper on the fact that recent Arizona laws aimed at illegal employment and illegal immigration have resulted in thousands of Mexicans returning home. "How can they pass a law like this? Mexico is not prepared for this, for the tremendous problems”.
The Mexican official’s complaint is that Sonora is being overwhelmed with demands for jail space, housing, social services and classrooms to accommodate the repatriated “migrants” who were formerly residing in the U.S. illegally.
Indeed.
Enforcement works in Georgia too, as is being proven with state Senator Chip Rogers’ (R- Woodstock) 2006 Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act (SB 529). Several additional bills that passed the 2008 General Assembly could add to the Mexican official’s troubles.
From someone who spent many days under the Gold Dome working to encourage legislators to disregard the mindless howls of objection from the usual suspects in the open borders lobby, a short outline of some of what the well-funded leftists fought to stop.
Senate Bill 350, authored by Senator John Wiles (R-Marietta) would punish Georgia residents – including illegal aliens – who are driving without ever having obtained a Georgia driver’s license. Presently, unlicensed driving usually results in a fine which is regarded as little more than speed-bump for the untrained and unlicensed illegal drivers. SB 350 allows for fingerprinting violators, fines of up to $1000.00 and jail time for the first offense - with a felony charge if convicted more than three times in five years.
SB 350 would be a deterrent to illegal presence here and would save lives on Georgia roads. Maybe it would have saved Cobb County Sheriff’s Deputy Loren Lilly who was killed when he was run off the road by an unlicensed illegal alien driver in December 2006.
A nearly identical bill was vetoed by governor Perdue last year.
Representative James Mills (R-Gainesville) deserves our thanks for his dedication to public safety and his courage in standing up to the crazies in the illegal alien lobby for his House Bill 978. It allows law enforcement officers to impound the vehicles of people found to be driving without being licensed – the huge majority of whom are illegals.
Existing federal law allows for the seizure of any vehicle or craft found to be transporting illegal aliens. There goes the ridiculous argument that this is somehow “unconstitutional”. It is also closer to how they handle illegal driving it in Mexico.
SB 421 makes it a felony for the second violation of the crime of knowingly manufacturing, selling, distributing or possessing false identification documents. Even for illegal aliens who have stolen American citizen’s identities on their way to stealing the American Dream. Thank you Senator Chip Pearson (R- Dawsonville).
Including the ACLU, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO), these bills have earned all the right enemies. The groups are part of a coalition looking for a better life by urging the governor to veto the legislation.
Before the May 14th veto deadline, these bills deserve the wholehearted support from Georgia citizens.
Two Senate Resolutions are also noteworthy, final and cannot be vetoed. SR 827 written by Senator Nancy Schaefer (R-Turnerville) expresses the will of the Georgia Senate to urge the United States Congress to withdraw the United States from the little known Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America and from any activity that seeks the economic merger of the United States with other nations - like has already been done with the European Union.
SR 1011 from Senator Bill Jackson (R-Appling) offers gratitude and appreciation to United States Border Patrol and urges the President to review the ludicrous and shameful imprisonment of former Border Patrol agents Ignacio "Nacho" Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean. Both were prosecuted for improperly reporting their on - duty wounding of an illegal alien drug smuggler.
The governor should ignore the illegal alien lobby and sign these bills into law and let enforcement work in Georgia. I have called his office 404 656 1776 to say as much.
We all should.
Making Georgia less attractive to illegals is worth the call.
King is president of the Marietta based Dustin Inman Society which is opposed to illegal employment and illegal immigration. On the Web: www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org
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The Jewish Exponent (Pa.) -5/1
Immigration's a Threat -- Not a Boon -- to Jews
Gideon Aronoff argues for high immigration rates (Opinions: "Passover Should Reconnect All Jews to Their 'Inner Immigrant,' " April 17 http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/15900/) because "Jewish self-interest requires a system that facilitates Jewish immigration."
This is a view stuck in the 1930s, when the Jews of Europe were a people with no country and fleeing a totalitarian regime determined to exterminate it. But today's immigrants are Mexicans who have a Mexico, Filipinos who have a Philippines, and Chinese who have a China. Jews seeking refuge have a safe haven -- thanks greatly to the efforts of Americans -- in Israel.
High immigration rates today are, in fact, a threat to U.S. Jews. Immigrants from Islamic countries hold a distorted view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They are gaining political power and poised to outnumber American Jews. The largest group of immigrants come from Mexico, but polls conducted show that they, too, are disproportionately anti-Semitic and anti-Israel.
Tim Aaronson
El Cerrito, Calif.
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The Press-Enterprise (Calif.) – 5/2
Reject flag politics
Arnold Briseno must be totally out of touch with current issues to say that flying Mexican flags is OK in the United States ("Flag freedom," Your Views, April 30).
Mexico is, in the opinion of many Americans, a hostile neighbor that encourages illegal immigration into our country and sets up mobile matricula consular stations in our cities specifically for its citizens who are in the United States illegally.
Golfer Lorena Ochoa is only making matters worse by bringing politics into any golf tournament.
I have never seen David Beckham display the flag of his country in any game. Apparently, Beckham has manners.
J.L. Comstock
Nuevo, Calif.
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The Daily Californian Online – 5/2
Editor's Note
The following letter was submitted in response to an April 29 op-ed headlined 'Why 'Illegal Aliens' Are Neither'
Jessica Cerittos And Elena Vilchis might consider the immigration question in light of the application process for the UC system. There are very many graduating seniors this year who would like to come to Cal and work hard in order to have a better education, but they can't just show up and declare themselves Cal students.
Cal, like most resources in the world is not infinite. If billions from around the world were to migrate to America the country would collapse.
A week after the campus celebrated Earth Day and the goal of a sustainable nation, we should be asking ourselves if a U.S. of one billion by 2090 as the Census Bureau is projecting from immigration is consistent with our hopes for a viable future.
We all extol the American Dream. There must be a Mexican Dream, a Philippine Dream and a Korean Dream. Migrating to this country is a route for a few, not a solution for the many. I hope Cal students work for a better world, but do so without championing catastrophic immigration ideas.
Wanda Gomez-Berger
El Cerrito, Calif.
LETTERS WE’VE JUST RECEIVED
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Napa Valley (Calif.) Register – 2/13
Enforce our immigration law
Dear editor, Please consider the following comments regarding the Register’s article, “Immigration hold placed on driver in injury crash,” on Feb. 8.
This horrible crime and its unthinkable consequences reminds me once again of a question that comes to mind every time I read the DUI reports and every time a story states that a driver “jumped out of the vehicle and ran” when an accident has occurred. That question is: “If this person is caught and is driving without a license, will a check be run to see if they are here legally?”
There is a provision in Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act which provides for local law enforcement to “partner” with ICE to see that any law-breaker who is in this country illegally will be placed on an immigration hold by local authorities. This article notes that Francisco Pacheco is now under such a hold.
Consider this: If Mr. Pacheco had been dealt with at the time of his prior arrest(s), Mrs. Clark would not have lost her legs!
I strongly believe that local authorities should take the necessary steps to partner under the provisions of Section 287(g) without further delay!
Oh, wait a minute! There’s one thing that could keep that from happening. If the city of Napa is a “sanctuary city,” local law enforcement will not be allowed to take that action. Is anyone out there aware of whether or not Napa is a sanctuary city? If it is, let’s “hold their feet to the fire” (read: as our elected officials’ feet) until that changes.
The lives and/or well-being of our fellow citizens depend on it.
Here is the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement web site that goes directly to the specific section titled “Partners”: www.ice.gov/partners/287g/Section287_g.htm.
Mary Rasmussen
Napa, Calif.
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The Baltimore Sun - 3/17
Rising population strains resources
Instead of arguing about the burdens and befits of illegal immigration, it is time to consider the number of people and their consequences ("Data is fuzzy in debate on migrants," March 10).
There are limits to the natural resources of the United States, and of the entire planet. But little thought and effort are going into ways to stabilize the number of people needing those resources.
We do not have to look far for examples of people outpacing limited resources. Just last summer, for instance, Atlanta ran short of water while several other areas were badly hurt by droughts.
Some day, possibly by mid-century, there will be a great movement to stabilize the population of the United States. But by then it may be too late.
People use resources and people pollute; more people use more resources and more pollution.
Present arguments over the burdens and the benefits of illegal immigrants will seem irrelevant as we all descend toward a poorer world.
Carleton W. Brown
Elkton, Md.
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Los Angeles Daily News – 4/9
Enforce the laws
Re “L.A. shares blame in teen’s death” (Viewpoint, April 6):
Doug McIntyre hits the nail right on the head. It seems as I have read this story (or similar one) too many times. When are we going to stop the ridiculous Special Order 40 when it comes to gang-bangers who are illegally here and are arrested, then released to continue their criminal ways? The Shaw family was punished, and our government – sword to “protect and defend,” from our president right down to the cop on the beat’s boss – is at fault for allowing this to happen.
Until we enforce the U.S. immigration laws already on the books, innocent people will be called on to suffer.
William Conroy
Northridge, Calif.
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Los Angeles Daily News – 4/10
L.A.’s fault
Re: L.A. shares blame” (Viewpoint, April 6):
Los Angeles should pay its debt to the Shaw family. Jamiel Shaw was needlessly gunned down on the streets of Los Angeles because he didn’t have the right answer for the question “where you from?” meaning, in gang language, “what gang are you in?” Jamiel was not in a gang; he was a local football star with good grades. The police have in custody a Mexican national in this country illegally who had just been released from jail 28 hours before Jamiel was gunned down.
Los Angeles should pay restitutions to the Shaw family for failure to protect their oldest son. If Los Angeles can spend 1.6 million to now-retired fireman Tennie Pierce for eating some dog food, what is Jamiel’s life worth?
How long are the citizens of Los Angeles going to stand by before they say enough is enough? This killing and runaway crime has got to end or the elected officials will be serving their last term in office.
Fred Peters
Burbank, Calif.
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