Illegal Immigration Rears Its Head in California Governor’s Race
Meanwhile, during a recent debate in Orange County, Whitman said: “We have to stop illegal immigration at the border.”
Yeah? And … ? Whitman needs to go on eBay and get a clue. See above: controlling immigration is a federal responsibility.
The Republican gubernatorial candidate also declared herself “100 percent against amnesty. No exceptions.”
What Congress has discussed in recent years isn’t an unconditional amnesty. It is an earned legal status laden with conditions. One condition — under a Republican plan proposed by Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) — was for illegal immigrants to physically leave the United States to be processed for legal re-entry. That is hardly an amnesty.
In a recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, Whitman tried to recover her fumble.
“Too often, the rhetoric surrounding this issue has been overly divisive and disrespectful to Latino American citizens,” she wrote. “The country needs to have a thoughtful debate about how we stop the tide of illegal immigration that strains budgets and angers taxpayers. But the immigration debate must take place in a measured way that reflects our national aspirations toward tolerance, hope and opportunity.”
That’s better. Too bad, as the saying goes, you don’t get a second chance to make a first impression.
After the dust has settled on the Republican side of the aisle, the winner will go on to face Attorney General Jerry Brown, the likely Democratic nominee. And Latino voters who have been paying attention to how Republicans are behaving in the primary will be the first in line to cast ballots for Brown. That’s 20 percent of the electorate out the window before the voting even starts.
Don’t misunderstand. It’s not that Latino voters in California, or elsewhere, condone illegal immigration. Polls confirm they don’t.
But nor are they fond of the ham-handed way this issue is typically handled by politicians. They don’t like how elected officials go after powerless illegal immigrants and then give a pass to the powerful employers who hire them because those are the kind of people who contribute to campaigns. They don’t like political rhetoric that treats all immigrants — both legal and illegal — as scapegoats for the litany of society’s ills. And they really don’t like the fact that much of the clamor from the bumper sticker crowd to “close the border” and “deport all illegals” is driven by the familiar element of racism and a fear of changing demographics.
When it comes to immigration, Republicans would be wise to tread lightly and choose their words carefully. Or else, once again, they’ll pay for it — in this year’s gubernatorial election in California and for many elections to come.
Mr. Navarrette,you sir are a fool.
@ Pedro#1, Sir, I beg to differ. I believe the word you are looking for is bigot.
Only the “pretzel logic” of a bigot could abuse the English phrase, “X rears its ugly head” and then attempt to threaten Republicans with it.
It has to do, I believe, with the projection/transferrence disorder among Leftist bigots.
Until the patient heals himself – and I’m not holding my breath in this case – there is nothing to do but make explicit the obvious in this author’s bigotted assertions.
Well at least you waited til the next to last paragraph before pulling out the race card.
And as for “Don’t misunderstand. It’s not that Latino voters in California, or elsewhere, condone illegal immigration. Polls confirm they don’t.”
Well I call Bullshit on this. They say one thing then act in a totally different matter.
“And it always ends the same way. Red meat only gets you so far in a blue state where 1 in 5 voters is Latino.”
A large number of so-called Latinos are selfish and could care less about the damage caused to the overall county. We need to stop playing games with these people who often hate this country. California’s economy has been severely harmed by illegal immigration. So much so, that there is good chance that the damage is irreversible. The vast majority of illegals simply lack the education to be of great value. Leftist Democrats encouraged this nonsense so that it could add more voters. If the Republicans are unable to turn the tide—then it’s all over. Purple and red state Californians may very well have to leave the state and allow the remaining citizens to do their best.
The fact that Hispanic illegals possess dark skin is not even slightly relevant. It would be the exact same thing if they were blue eyed and blond haired. Moreover, most Hispanic American citizens would completely agree! They would be enraged if millions of white illegals were similarly damaging the California economy.
Controlling the border is a federal responsibility, and courts frown on attempts by local or state government to usurp that authority.
A responsibility that the federal government refuses to exercise. And just because the fed views it as an attempt to piss in their water bowl doesn’t mean that state government should be as irresponsible as the fed.
Let them frown, and then let them do something about it. It’s time the individual states reasserted their authority as given to them in the constitution.
Overall message? You can’t stop us, don’t even try.
There are things which can be done at the state level. For one, California could (in theory) ban the multitude of “sanctuary cities” which infest the state and mandate that all local governments comply fully with Federal immigration authorities. The State simply has to have the will pro-actively to enforce existing laws against welfare and document fraud, the lifeblood of the illegals industry. In addition, the state is perfectly free under parallel sovereignty to criminalize the knowing hiring of illegals, and stage its own raids and prosecutions of employers- after all, the Feds don’t have nearly enough agents. Moreover, the state could criminalize those who aid and abet illegal border-crossers by leaving food and water caches for them, or provide safe houses.
A massive illegal population- perhaps half the national total- is not the sole cause of California’s economic collapse, but it’s a major factor.
Look, I’m a naive Californian from Tracy. Illegal immigration has RUINED our state. Crime is higher, emergency rooms closing & Spanish is spoken as much as English because these illegal immigrants do not speak English. Not voting for Ryan or Brown, so you can guess where my vote goes. Our public schools are cesspools of political correctness & incompetence with gangs ruling the day. I could care less about legal immigrants. But I want ALL illegal immigrants thrown out now! I’m sick & tired of the lawless nature of CA. These people are drains on our state & simply ship untaxed money back to Mexico while getting a medical, educational & employment free ride. Time to pay the piper & get rid of ‘em instead of illegally registering them to vote like dems want. And I ain’t no racist either!
Lost in all this is TERRORISM. The failure to control the border results in terrorist exploiting the vulnerablity at the border to enter and set up cells. Our current situation of failing utterly to control our borders and provide inland enforcement results in two things:
1. A large immigrant population for Terrorists to hide in
2. Easy access for terrorists into the US due to relative ease to smuggle a couple of individuals. Great study to read is the following: http://www.house.gov/sites/members/tx10_mccaul/pdf/Investigaions-Border-Report.pdf
Next, if you will read the 911 Commission report- http://www.9-11commission.gov/ it makes the obvious point- local law enforcement officials, NOT FEDERAL!!! are the most likely LEOs to encounter terrorists due to violations of local laws like traffic laws etc. The 911 commission specifically notes that we have to have the state/local law officials involved as they are the ones most likely to encounter these terrorists prior to an attack, again simply due to the numbers of state/local LEOs and their presence in the local commmunities. (Kind of like the serial killers, for example the ‘Son of Sam’, being caught because of a parking ticket).
“After all, they’ve antagonized Latinos who resent politicians who milk the immigration issue for votes.”
I think you should put the drugs away for a little while and look at some reality…
Latinos love politicians who milk the immigration issue… LOVE THEM and you love them… many vote solely on this one issue.
O wait its wrong to “milk the issue” of enforcing the law… but its perfectly ok to “milk the issue” to support slavery, rape, murder, gangs and a whole host of other pro-illegal activity.
>>In reality, governors can’t do much about illegal immigration
B.S. Enforcing a few labor laws would be a start; enacting some new ones would be huge (and therefore more than I expect of any politician).
Governors “can’t do much” about a host of things that people have good reason to want to know about regardless. The governor may one day be president or secretary of something or a judge or a presidential advisor, where her views could make a difference. Also, one’s views on the biggest issues of the day complete the picture of a person’s values or ideology.
“In reality, governors can’t do much about illegal immigration”
This comment is perhaps the stupidist statement I’ve ever read. Can’t do much?? California has bankrupted itself offering every benefit but free kitchen sinks to lazy, deadbeat, drug-dealing, gang-banging illegals. Welfare payments, free healthcare, subsidized housing, public education $$$$ forked over by the billions to people who send what little (under the table) cash they do earn back to Mexico. California’s prisons are bulging and her streets are sewers of gang-based criminal activity, courstesy of the refuse Mexico flushes across our southern border.
There is a revolution coming, Ruben, when America’s citizens will rise up and demand their governments take action against this infestation. It will come when California stops repairing highways, defers pension payments, shutters schools, turns off the electricity/water and sends state employees home empty handed. And this revolt can only end when our governments turn off the welfare faucet and order illegals back where they came from. And if governments refuse, they’d better be prepared for the consequences.
And no, I don’t live in California, but Washington, which is rapidly becoming California’s northernmost province.
The same Feds that have failed miserably at controlling the borders wants to control health care, historically a state and individual responsibility. I predict the same level of competence demonstrated on the border will happen in the emergency room, already has. Curiously, the new Feds under Obama are not enforcing the criminal laws against medical dope, another example of Federal selectivity when it comes to enforcing federal laws and controlling the borders, hey Ruben? So what’s a governor to do? He or she could stop the state from providing custodial housing of Federal immigration arrests: force the Feds to build the prisons to feed and house their own Federal immigration prisoners, or raise the state rent for providing the service. Oh, and since the Feds are taking over health care, maybe the state should quit providing and funding all health care programs, leaving it up to the individual or the feds to finance? Big business is going to bail out of health care, because it’s cheaper to pay the federal tax penalty than provide the insurance. I suspect state and local governments with strained budgets will do the same.
Let’s review. Prop 187 PASSED indicating it’s a approved by a majority of voters. But saying that you support 187 is a losing strategy for a candidate? Explain that one.
Meanwhile, when will someone in CA figure out that providing incentives for certain behaviors produces more of those behaviors (border jumping, cough, cough).
Bulgaricus, David Thomson, Saltherring;
How about redirecting your invective to the native-born Americans who hire them?
No demand, no supply.
The federal government is guilty of deriliction of duty, and people such as Arizona cattle rancher, Robert Krentz, die because of it – Navarrette et al are guilty for condoning it.
States have the right and the ability to utilize their Guard troops to secure their borders – had Navarrette conducted an iota of research, he would come to learn that such actions have taken place in recent years and concluded in great success, reducing illegal immigration and smuggling by as much as 90%…that is, until federal officials interfered due to dubious ulterior motives. The federal government, particularly under Mr. Obama’s adminstration, will not lift a finger to uphold it’s duties until The People hold them accountable.
It is only lack of will that is preventing the securing of the southern border.
Navarrette seems to have forgotten that Wilson won big and his successor to the GOP nomination repudiated Prop 187, and he lost.
“Bulgaricus, David Thomson, Saltherring;
How about redirecting your invective to the native-born Americans who hire them?
No demand, no supply.”
Your point is well taken. That is why I strongly argue for the government program assisting employers to easily check out if a job applicant can legally work in the United states. This alone might take care of 90% of the problem. The millions of illegals in the United States—are likely here forever. We can only help these people assimilate while preventing more from crossing over the border.
Toady @ 15: I will gladly include employers of illegals, but what percentage of them actually do any work? But, yes, my outrage indeed extends to anyone who hires an illegal to cook, clean, garden, plant/cultivate/harvest crops, repair cars or otherwise. I am a farmer and pay my haying-season tractor operators very well, and have NEVER hired an illegal alien for ANY purpose….and never will!
Governors can do a great deal about illegal immigration, and even though they don’t have many of the powers of the federal government in the specific area of legal immigration, they have considerable power in the area of illegal immigration. This article also makes the mistake of assuming that all Hispanics are a pro-illegal immigrant Democratic bloc. Wrong. Many of the Latinos (including both my sons-in-law) want illegal immigration stopped. Those who support illegal immigration are never going to vote for a Republican anyway, so why worry about it? So long as it’s clear that the candidate is anti-illegal immigration and not anti-Mexican, I see no problem with a candidate touting his or her credentials on illegal immigration.
Different states have their own immigration policies. Arizona is supposedly tougher on illegal immigration than California. The next governor and sacramento might ask for more stimulus money to build new walls or beef up border patrol. To that end, there’s nothing disingenous about Whitman or Poizner making illegal immigration an issue, which is a perennial hot topic in California.
Had Latinos flocked to John Mccain’s camp (the “moderate” who supported amnesty) in 08, the GOP probably isn’t thumping their chest about immigration right now. But they didn’t, and amnesty wasn’t universally popular to begin with. All the “in your face” immigration marches haven’t helped their cause either.
For the primary, both the GOP candidates have to sell their conservative cred, so it makes perfect sense to make immigration an issue. Against Jerry Brown, they’ll shift to the economy.
Up until 1965 immigration to the U.S was mainly from Europe.
Then the immigration policy changed to reduce immigration from europe and increase it from third world countries.
These people bring illiteracy and poverty and ignorance to the U.S.
The europeans developed science and mathematics and brought that to the U.S.
Europeans started the industrial revolution and brought that to the U.S.
Bicycles, motorcycles, cars, trains, helicopters, jet airliners, steam engines, gas engines, diesel engines, jet engines, sewing machines, vacuum tubes, transistors, magnetron tubes, telegraph, telephones, radio communications, television, light bulbs, cameras, clocks, watches,
electric motors, computers, xray, radar, air conditioning, refrigeration,
most anything you can thank of was invented by europeans or european americans.
The science and math used to calculate how to land a spacecraft on the moon came from europe. Most of the physicist that worked on the manhattan project were european educated. Most all scientific units of measure such as volts, ohms, amps, hertz, curies, angstroms and scientific constants came from europeans. Volta, Ohm, Ampere, Hertz, Currie, And Angstrom are the last names of european scientist. Farenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin are the last names of european scientist who developed thermometers about 300 years ago.
Cement was invented in Europe and the process to make steel was developed in Europe. Construction of skyscrapers, steel bridges, and railroads would not be possible without those materials.
Germans invented printing and binding machines to mass produce books that make education on a massive scale possible.
Besides technology, ideas like democracy, limited govt, intellectual property rights, free enterprise and accounting also came from Europe. This is what made the U.S an industrially and scientifically advanced country. The nation of immigrants from all over the world is a lie invented by people who want to destroy this country with third world immigration.
California once ranked #1 for education in the U.S. Thanks to third world
immigration it now ranks #47. California has the highest illiteracy rate in the country.
The U.S will become famous for illiteracy, illigitimacy and low educational achievement because the lack of control of its borders.
Our immigration system is not broke. Mexico is an educational and economic failure. That is what is really broke. If the U.S. increased immigration to just 6 million per year the population of the U.S will reach a billion in less than 100 years. The U.S obviously can’t absorb all of the worlds poor people. If Mexicans are not intelligent enough to make their own economy
work why should americans want them as immigrants.
How about offering a carrot instead of a stick.
Instead of saying “kick out the illegals” which does put some/many people off, say “double the pay for the poorest among us”
Without the competition from illegal immigrants, wages for the lower 25% of this country would double. How do I know? For the last twenty years I have been providing payroll and workers’ compensation services to blue collar companies in the southeast. I have seen with my own two eyes jobs that were tough like roofing go from $15.00 an hour twenty years ago, to minimum wage jobs with no workers’ compensation.
Watch some old movies, in “On the Waterfront” 1930′s depression era long shore man beg for a days work. But at least they were in a union and if hurt on the job had insurance. Today construction workers beg for jobs at home depots, and if hurt will be dropped off and forgotten at the local hospital.
Many on the left know that illegal immigration is hurtful to poor people. This is the chance for republicans to turn immigration to their advantage.
Talk about getting more for the American poor.
Anne Coulter stated that to eliminate illegal immigration, all one need do is pass a law allowing illegals to sue employers for minimum wage and other wage-hour violations.
That’s something a state government can do, is it not?
Illegals are here because people hire them. Supply side control isn’t working, how about demand side?
In fact now is a perfect time to go after foreigners who are here illegally. With the economy down there are fewer breaking into the country and more that are currently here might be willing to leave.
I always supported more legal immigration for our neighbors and less for other countries. We can provide more immigrant visas or work visas for Mexicans once we seal the border and go after those who hire illegals. But, as you point out, that is now up to the Democrats and we certainly should not trust them to reform anything. So I suspect nothing will be done while they are in control (if we are lucky).
A syncopation (musical) to my above point:
PJM: CAN YOU HEAR US NOW?! *D*U*M*P* this writer!
Local/State officials can’t do anything about illegal immigration, eh? Two words, Rubin, ‘Joe Arpaio’.
this guy is like a breath of foul air….
Que Paso loco!
Born and raised in San Diego California has given me the advantage of experiencing the problems of illegal immigration first hand. Here is a short list of things I’ve noticed about illegal aliens. Please bear in mind that I acknowledge that I am just an average guy and not a deep thinker like you Ruben. Here goes:
1. Building a wall across the Mexican border to keep illegals out of the USA would be a massive public works project that would need a bureaucracy to maintain it and in turn this bureaucracy would create a lot of permanent good paying jobs. If I were a politician I would build two walls instead of one. And the interior of the two border walls would become a nature preserve green zone that would run the entire length of the border. In sum, build a border wall or sweat the small stuff and everything else will take care of itself.
2. I am surprised that Ruben doesn’t mention that these illegal aliens are actually displaced Mexican Indian tribes who were forced to migrate north because the corrupt Mexican government has displaced these Indian populations by stealing their tribal lands. American’s should physically block (with two walls) this massive Mexican Indian’s movement northward from Mexico and force them to return to Mexico too fight and destroy their evil non-representative government and return it to the people. American Latino politicians should stop helping the Mexican government by assisting the illegal aliens with bank loans and drivers licenses and instead force the millions of Mexican Indians to return home and confront their government.
3. When you speak of millions of illegal aliens who will gain political power over our government because of our democratic elective process I can’t help but write about how in my lifetime I am completely stunned that I have witnessed the mass movement of millions of cases of mental illnesses setting up shop in our cities and towns. It is just me thinking but where are the statistics for how many Mexicans have raped and murdered American women? Where is the government data categorizing Illegal alien criminal behavior in the United States? Besides crime, what are the social costs for taking care of their illegitimate children, or does moral responsibility matter anymore? Ruben, if you have ever been in a California jail you would have noticed that half of the prisoner population are Mexicans and South Americans and the rest are black and white. Imagine if you could remove the Mexican prison population and send them back to Mexico then the states could balance their budgets and the schools wouldn’t need to have cookie sales to raise revenue. Because of the growing prison population the States will always remain financially insolvable. There is the addded assumption that large prison populations inevitably corrupts our land enforcement and turns them into card checkers just like the Nazis used to check for everyone’s identification papers. I’ll tell everyone a secret: Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County is also Chairman of the Board of the Sheriff’s hospital located on Roosevelt Street in Phoenix Arizona, where the resident Doctors experiment on the prisoners brought in for medical care. You read that right- this huge medical facility experiments on prisoners, just like the Nazis did in Germany. My question is do you think the large prison population (Mexicans) created the need for a Police Hospital to care for all these prisoners? Do you trust the police with your medical records? Americans have witnessed the erosion of their civil rights because of the unchecked growth of illegal aliens into our residential areas, which inevitably leads to the problem that Americans cannot walk through their own neighborhoods.
Hey Rubino, you know what Hussein is gonna do? He’s going to get the illegal aliens to fight the tea party Americans, because thats the kind of street punk he is. Have a nice day.
This is the natural consequence of thinking such as this author’s:
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/29/the-death-of-an-arizona-rancher/
and
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/30/from-the-front-lines-ranchers-speak-out-on-border-choas/
Please also refer to:
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/29/the-death-of-an-arizona-rancher/
AND
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/30/from-the-front-lines-ranchers-speak-out-on-border-choas/
Another one:
http://www.theliberalheretic.com/blog/node/90
>>In reality, governors can’t do much about illegal immigration …
I agree with arhooley. Navarette can hardly speak for Constitutional powers as he has obviously never read the U.S. Constitution.
Immigration is the process of making an alien (foreigner) a U.S. citizen. But the federal government doesn’t have the power to make someone a state citizen.
ARTICLE 1 SEC. 11. of the California Constitution statest that ‘Habeas corpus may not be suspended unless required by public safety in cases of rebellion or invasion.’
This is the oath administered to California governor, judges, and legislators -
“I, ______, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support
and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Consti-
tution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign
and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the
Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the
State of California; that I take this obligation freely, without
any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will
well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about
to enter.
“And I do further swear (or affirm) that I do not advocate, nor
am I a member of any party or organization, political or other-
wise, that now advocates the overthrow of the Government of the
United States or of the State of California by force or violence
or other unlawful means; that within the five years immediately
preceding the taking of this oath (or affirmation) I have not
been a member of any party or organization, political or other-
wise, that advocated the overthrow of the Government of the
United States or of the State of California by force or violence
Overthrowing the government of California by ‘… other unlawful means …’ would include to me, abetting an invasion (whether armed or unarmed).
And from Article 5 SEC. 7. -
The Governor is commander in chief of a militia that shall be provided by
statute. The Governor may call it forth to execute the law.
Repelling an invasion is different than immigration. California has the right to determine who its citizens are, and remove those who are unacceptable, or here illegally. Removing them to federally-owned property with stiff fines and sentences for releasing illegal aliens on state property would be a proper solution. Not offering state birth certificates for children of illegal aliens would be another. They can apply to the feds thru their consulates, which is within their rights as foreign citizens.
Phil;
Then the immigration policy changed to reduce immigration from europe and increase it from third world countries
Post a link for this please. It is extremely difficult to believe.
The fact of the matter is that people from wealthy countries tend not to immigrate. Life is good, so there’s no need to move elsewhere. Europe is wealthy now.
People from poor countries are always the most likely to go somewhere else.
@ #34 Tao
*R*U*B*B*I*S*H*
Europe is most decidedly NOT wealthy.
Thank their Socialist income robbery for one thing.
I know any number of Europeans who would immigrate to the USA as soon as they could pack.
Your last statement is as laughable as it is unsubstantiated.
Only those poor who can physically get their illegal cans across an adjoining border can immigrate.
Up until 1965 immigration to the U.S was mainly from Europe.
Then the immigration policy changed to reduce immigration from europe and increase it
from third world countries.
These people bring illiteracy and poverty and ignorance to the U.S.
The europeans developed science and mathematics and brought that to the U.S.
Europeans started the industrial revolution and brought that to the U.S.
Bicycles, motorcycles, cars, trains, helicopters, jet airliners, steam engines, gas engines, diesel engines, jet engines, sewing machines, vacuum tubes, transistors, magnetron tubes, telegraph, telephones, radio communications, television, light bulbs, cameras, clocks, watches,
electric motors, computers, xray, radar, air conditioning, refrigeration,
most anything you can thank of was invented by europeans or european americans.
The science and math used to calculate how to land a spacecraft on the moon came
from europe. Most of the physicist that worked on the manhattan project were
european educated. Most all scientific units of measure such as volts, ohms, amps, hertz, curies, angstroms and scientific constants came from europeans. Volta, Ohm, Ampere, Hertz, Currie, And Angstrom are the last names of european scientist. Farenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin are the last names of european scientist who developed thermometers about 300 years ago.
Cement was invented in Europe and the process to make steel was developed in Europe. Construction of skyscrapers, steel bridges, and railroads would not be possible without those materials. Germans invented printing and binding machines to mass produce books that make education on a massive scale possible.
Besides technology, ideas like democracy, limited govt, intellectual property rights, free enterprise and accounting also came from Europe. This is what made the U.S an industrially and scientifically advanced country. The nation of immigrants from all over the world is a lie invented by people who want to destroy this country with third world immigration.
California once ranked #1 for education in the U.S. Thanks to third world
immigration it now ranks #47. California has the highest illiteracy rate in the country.
The U.S will become famous for illiteracy, illigitimacy and low educational achievement because the lack of control of its borders.
Our immigration system is not broke. Mexico is an educational and economic failure. That is what is really broke. If the U.S. increased immigration to just 6 million per year the population of the U.S will reach a billion in less than 100 years. The U.S obviously can’t absorb all of the worlds poor people.
Albert Einstein immigrated to the U.S. Was he just a poor person looking
for a better life?
Czar;
Europe is most decidedly NOT wealthy.
Compared to most of the world, Europe is VERY wealthy.
Why do you think they get so many third world immigrants?
Third worlders go to first world counties, legally or illegally.
Gee, toady (how appropriate!),
History tells us that, after WWII, there was a severe shortage of men to rebuild the cities, and immigrants were encouraged (e.g. Turks in Germany).
But, it’s true: leeches tend to go wherever there is warm blood to suck on.
Navarrette,
One correction to your title.
Illegal Immigration Rears it’s UGLY Head.
A bit more accurate.
This immigration flood is out of control. Totally.
Czar;
History tells us that, after WWII, there was a severe shortage of men to rebuild the cities
That’s because the Europeans chose to slaughter each other by the tens of millions.
Leeches and blood indeed.
Other than spewing Euro hatred and contempt, what’s your point toady?
You were claiming they were rich.
To that I responded.
You come back with juvenile CPUSA prattle?!
Pphhhhhhhhhttttt!!!!!!!
Viva la Raza! More special order 40! The gubernator no can do nothing! The Vatican must have more Catholics!
Any discussion of illegal aliens that does not involve the phrase “arrested and deported” will not get my support. Ever.
This author speaks with the voice of The Devil.
Illegal immigration will destroy America as it destroyed Rome. And most tragically of all denial of a pragmatic and extremely firm solution… plays into the hands of extremists wanting a “final solution”.
Phil, #36, You say “if illegal immigration increases to 6 million a year”. Well, exactly 6 million illegals per year are here; states CNN that 800,000 illegals cross border every year (this figure down from previous million), AND that foreigners here on temporary visas ‘stay here’ by 4 million every single year, and the last million CNN listed I can’t remember what that was, so a billion as you said in ‘less’ than 100 years, probably way less.
Thanks for your excellent post on European/American industrial revolution and the truth on deplorable state of CA education. L.A. has new large school not ever used, they said they thought they’d need it (for all the new illegal immigrants), but since majority of illegals and hispanics don’t graduate or show up to school often, school not needed. They are busy having babies and calling our kids Nazis. Don’t give education here one penny more for education, they squander it. Competition is what is needed with vouchers for private schools. That’s the way to fix present so called CA education.
We need to understand that most Republican candidates along with Dems are globalists and want to merge Mexico with U.S. and Canada, the amero dollar, etc. Americans will become third world poor, but government will do well at the top. Bush, Fox, and Canadian guy signed the “Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement” which they claim is only dialogue not agreement on their myth vs truth page but this is a manipulative bunch of lies, the truth of evidence is here. I read in this agreement a couple years ago where it states “The U.S. will protect illegal immigrants at all times”. This means protection in many ways; we see routinely peaceful anti-illegal rallies broken up and made to leave street because pro-illegal counter protesters get angry, loud and violent and they are allowed to stay! Illegals allowed to drive without licenses here and given free pass in court. McCain wrote immigration bill for amnesty so we can’t look at how nice and charming candidates are, Meg Whitman and McCain are the same for illegal immigration, and now I hear that Romney is too, sadly…they and present administration want z-visas for illegals to stay here legally and say employers not to hire them ‘without cards’ but this employer enforcement will be spotty at best, just like the fence, to appease the masses. If candidate’s main issue is illegal immigration and cutting off their benefits like we passed years ago, that gets my attention for governor in CA, and only candidate speaking this is Steve Poizner. These waves of illegal immigration from SOB have ruined lives in So. Ca. since mid 80′s in so many ways, not just finanically losing homes, and many of illegal group are the worst of Latin culture, committing much crime and problems. CA is WAY OVERCROWDED, by the way, but government wants to let more illegals and all their distant relatives over here…that spells ‘third world living’.