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Cue Up "Immigration Reform"

When you voted for BO, you voted to accept anything he wants.  Thus far, that has included government ownership of significant sections of the auto and finance industries, a policy of more or less unilateral disarmament with respect to Russia, and efforts to implement policies that will do nothing to "Save The Planet" but which will, as BO himself has admitted, result in "skrocketing" energy costs across every segment of the USA.  Next up: amnesty for illegal aliens.  As former KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov has explained, it doesn't matter how you feel about things.  That no longer matters. 

Sixty-six percent (66%) of likely voters nationwide say it is Very Important for the government to improve its enforcement of the borders and reduce illegal immigration. Just 32% of America’s Political Class agree.

Three-out-of-four voters believe that the federal government is not doing enough to secure the nation’s borders.

The biggest point of disconnect between voters and the conventional wisdom in Washington, D.C. has to do with priorities. Almost always in Washington, the debate begins with a focus on how to address the status of illegal immigrants. To voters, that is a secondary concern. Controlling the borders is a top concern. That hasn’t changed since the 2006 immigration legislation collapsed when the U.S. Senate surrendered to public opinion. During that debate, a New York Times/CBS poll found that 69% believed illegal immigrants should be prosecuted and deported.

What is often lost in the shuffle of the debate over immigration reform is that once the borders are controlled, most Americans favor a welcoming immigration policy provided it is done within the law. Republicans are more supportive than Democrats of such a policy. Overall, by a 55% to 27% margin, Americans favor a policy goal that would welcome everyone except criminals, national security threats and welfare dependants.

Also, while nearly a third of Americans are angry about the immigration issue, they are not angry at the immigrants. They are angry at the federal government.

There seems to be a lot of that going around, but it's a bit late in the game. 

The Safest Big Cities In America

El Paso also has some of the laxer gun control policies of any non-Texan big city in the country, mostly due to gun-friendly state law. And famously, El Paso sits just over the Rio Grande from one of the most violent cities in the western hemisphere, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, home to a staggering 2,500 homicides in the last 18 months alone. A city of illegal immigrants with easy access to guns, just across the river from a metropolis ripped apart by brutal drug war violence. Should be a bloodbath, right?

Here's the surprise: There were just 18 murders in El Paso last year, in a city of 736,000 people. To compare, Baltimore, with 637,000 residents, had 234 killings.

That is a surprising set of circumstances.  In fact, there are a number of surprises: Honolulu is ranked safest, followed by New York and El Paso.  New York?  What?  Well, according to a report based on FBI crime statistics for 2007, those are the rankings.  And proponents of relaxed immigration laws are using it to note that cities with high levels of immigrant populations are the safest cities in the USA.  No word as yet on how many illegals call Honolulu home.

But as it happens, that's only part of the story:  the FBI itself warns against making such rankings, because the data are misleading.  That's because the FBI relies upon local law enforcement agencies to report their crime stats - and local law enforcement reports, as a rule, include only those crimes which they have investigated.

Bobby Lopez, president of the San Jose Police Officers' Association, said there were 8,000 reported robberies last year in San Jose, but the department investigated roughly 1,000. According to data sent to the FBI, there were 1,068 robberies last year in San Jose.

"We've got a tremendous amount of crime that is not being investigated because of lack of manpower," Lopez said. "These cases, many of them are solvable. We don't investigate because we have no manpower.

The same problems arise in regard to assaults, burglaries, and other generally drug-related crimes.  Having a lot of illegal aliens around doesn't make for a safer city, despite what advocates would have you believe.  It just means that your cops have to prioritize.

Another Cultural Misunderstanding

An 18-year-old Coupeville woman who is the mother of two small children reported to police April 10 that her husband, 23-year-old Miguel De Jesus, had assaulted her, court documents state.

During an investigation, Deputy Robert Mirabal with the Coupeville Marshal’s Office discovered a history of domestic and sexual abuse perpetrated by De Jesus, the police report states.

Shockingly, the young woman said her father had sold her to De Jesus two years ago in her Mexican hometown. De Jesus paid 30,000 pesos for her, which is just over $2,000. 

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a hold on De Jesus, presumably because he’s in the country illegally.

Whidbey Island is normally such a peaceful little place.  It's unfortunate that a simple little thing such as a cultural misunderstanding can lead to police action and arrest.  Americans simply need to learn to be more tolerant.  If only we understood the culture of these illegal aliens, then we could all get along.  Diversity and multicultural awareness are far more important than traditional American values.

On The Other Hand...

One step which might help to contain the Mexican flu would involve securing our borders.  Naturally, Napalitano is dead-set against it.  "We're already doing passive surveillance at the border," Napolitano said.

We love "passive".

The Gift That Keeps On Giving

When Patrick Henshaw's son became sick last Friday, little did he know that the 18-year-old had acquired a potentially deadly disease that made its way across the U.S.-Mexico border -- the swine flu.

The disease made its way across the border.  Really?  The disease just packed its little bags and decided to head North?  It's not about border control, nor enforcement of immigration laws.  Illegal aliens aren't really an issue.

Swine Flu & You

You may be one of those folks who're just all fine with illegal aliens.  You may view folks who want them halted and repatriated as inveterate racists.  Many who share such beliefs, after all, see no difference between legal immigration and illegals, and they see the "poor illegals" as folks who are, in the infamous words of George W. Bush, "only here to do the jobs that Americans won't do".  You know, like delivering drugs to Wal-Mart.  No wonder they're the low-price leader!

Leaving that aside, for the moment, it remains that there are a number of critically important differences between legal immigrants and illegal aliens; paramount among which is that legal immigrants are demonstrably healthy, while illegal aliens undergo no health checks and in many cases bring illness across the border as well as their illegal backsides.  Is this really a problem?

Mexico is contending with an outbreak of swine flu, suspected in the deaths of dozens of people and sickening perhaps 1,000. In the United States, at least eight cases have been confirmed with the infection, all of them in California and Texas.  How do you suppose that swine flu just happened to show up in the two border states?  And what's a little flu among friends?  How bad can it be?

In Mexico, it's bad enough that they're closing schools.  All public events in Mexico City have been cancelled.  This strain has "pandemic potential," the World Health Organizationchief said Saturday - but some fear it may be too late to contain the outbreak.  WHO is meeting to consider whether to declare an international public health emergency - a step that could lead to travel advisories, trade restrictions and border closures.

Border closures?  What a concept!

Stolen SSN, Assumed Name

So, let's see:  we've got illegal entry, stolen identification, and a massive injury from falling off a roofing project.  Yep, might as well sue. 

The 26-year-old was paralyzed nearly three years ago when he fell from the roof of a three-story building in Palm City while working for Jupiter-based Altec Roofing. Since then, Leon has been mired in a legal battle to get workers' compensation benefits or legal damages from Altec.

Leon is an illegal immigrant. His status puts him at the crux of a legal debate over what rights, if any, illegal workers have after being injured on a job for which the American government says they never should have been hired.

Leon worked first under a fake Social Security number, then procured a real number under a fake name — Jesse James Craig.

 A urine test taken at the hospital revealed traces of cocaine and marijuana in Leon's system.

Pity the poor illegal alien.  Here only to do the jobs that Americans won't do, as our last President famously claimed.

Golly, it would be so politically incorrect not to feel sorry for this guy.

There Ought To Be A Law

Actually, there are already.  They just need enforcement.  Yes, it's rather like playing "Whack-A-Mole".  But some folks are really good at it; they should be turned loose.  This kind of stuff should never be accepted in the USA:

CORE (Chicano Organizing & Research in Education) is pleased to announce its first annual "Que Llueva Café" scholarship. Applicants must be undocumented, Chicano/Latino, high school students entering college this fall. The postmark deadline is April 10, 2009.

Two Sides

Nanny Pelosi wants to hug illegal aliens, give them benefits, and generally lay down for them.  Sorry, that's a pretty scary mental image. In any case, she claims that workplace raids are un-American.  Like she even know what America is about.  Yeah, stick your "Si se puede," Nanny.

By contrast: If his customers can’t be bothered to learn English, he tells them, they must go away and learn it before he serves them.

How is it that an emigree to Britain from Sri Lanka gets it, while a so-called "leader" in the US Congress doesn't?

Victims Of The Economy: Illegal Aliens

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Graciela Barrios, an undocumented immigrant with few resources, has long relied on the county health clinic for the advice, medication and tests that have kept her diabetes under control.

For Barrios, the financial crisis has had a double impact. The same economic forces that slashed Sacramento County's sales and property tax revenues took her husband's job in a landscaping firm, and the family's bills are piling up, she said.

"I have no insurance, no resources, nothing to fall back on," said Barrios, who has one daughter. "I have no idea what I will do."

You hate to see hardship fall upon anybody, of course, but the fact of the matter is that Mrs. Barrios is not an "undocumented immigrant".  She is an illegal alien who until now has been sucking up resources that actually belong to American citizens.  That the Associated Press and its many subscribers and contributors insist upon using the euphemism, "undocumented immigrant" rather than simply reporting the facts is a powerful argument in support of the continued downward spiral of mainstream media.

They mourn their fate, but if media cannot be counted upon to disseminate factual information, then they serve no purpose.  If they truly don't wish to die, then media must return to their base function.