I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country… Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.” Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
Unless you have been living in the woods, in a cloistered nunnery, you have probably heard about Arizona’s new immigration law. The state of Arizona, out of frustration passed a law to curb its illegal immigration problem.
Arizona, like many Border States is suffering economically because of the influx of illegals.
Arizona lawmakers said they acted only because the federal government had failed to secure the border. “We are defenseless,” said state Rep. John Kavanagh, a co-sponsor. “We have no choice but to increase our enforcement.”
According to the Pew Hispanic Center, the number of illegal immigrants in Arizona has more than quadrupled since 1996 — from 115,000 then to about 500,000 now. By comparison, the number of illegal immigrants in the United States roughly doubled, jumping from about 5 million in 1996 to about 11 million today.
The influx of illegals has strained prisons, schools, hospitals and law enforcement. The state prison system spent $77 million last year detaining more than 4,000 illegal immigrants. Arizona. is the nation’s busiest thoroughfare for human and drug smuggling from Mexico.
The cost has been staggering for the states along the 1,940 mile American-Mexican border.
• An average of 10,000 illegal aliens crosses the border every day - over 3 million per year. A third will be caught and many of them immediately will try again
• There are an estimated 9 to 11 million illegals in the U.S. There are approximately a quarter-million illegal aliens from the Middle-east currently living in the U.S, and an increasing amount are entering by crossing the Mexican border.
• FAIR research suggests that “between 40 and 50 percent of wage-loss among low-skilled Americans is due to the immigration of low-skilled workers. Some native workers lose not just wages but their jobs through immigrant competition.
• An estimated 1,880,000 American workers are displaced from their jobs every year by immigration; the cost for providing welfare and assistance to these Americans is over $15 billion a year.”
• 80% of cocaine and 50% of heroin in the U.S. is smuggled across the border by Mexican nationals
• Illegal aliens have cost billions of taxpayer-funded dollars for medical services. Dozens of hospitals in Texas, New Mexico Arizona, and California, have been forced to close or face bankruptcy because of federally-mandated programs requiring free emergency room services to illegal aliens
• Immigration is a net drain on the economy; businesses have been the beneficiaries of cheap labor, while taxpayers pay the infrastructural cost. FAIR research shows “the net annual cost of immigration has been estimated at between $67 and $87 billion a year.
We have an impotent leadership in Washington that is more interested in securing the Hispanic vote than in rectifying the problem. (Remember Hispanics have become the largest minority. “The powers that be” already know that. “They (Democrats) have our vote in their pockets, so there is no need to try and placate us. The push is to legalize millions of Hispanics in order to acquire more power and money). Do you know the old adage “that if you are black, step back?”
Businesses like a cheap and docile workforce. They should be made to bear the costs of their migrant labor. This problem is not that difficult. No one is opposed to legal immigration; however these people have broken our laws by coming across our borders and jeopardizing our sovereighty. Arizona is just trying to apply the law and protect its citizens. These people are not AMERICANS and should not be given the rights and protection of citizenry. They should go HOME.
Fifty-three years ago, President Dwight Eisenhower recognized the problems that were escalating on our southern frontier. At that time, more than 3 million illegal migrants had crossed the border for jobs in California, Arizona, Texas, and other states.
President Eisenhower stepped up and cut the traffic flow decisively using only 1,075 Border Patrol Agents, one-tenth of today’s force.
On June 17, 1954, “Operation Wetback” began. Approximately 750 agents went into the agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day. At the end of July, more than 50,000 aliens were caught in the two states; and another 488,000, fled the country because they feared arrest.
The raid extended through Utah, Nevada, and Idaho, and eastward to Texas. In Texas alone, 80,000 had been taken into custody and 700,000 had left voluntarily.
When they were rounded up, they were transported by bus and train deep into Mexico before being released, therefore, making it more difficult to re-enter the U. S. Thousands more were put aboard two hired ships, the Emancipation and the Mercurio and taken from Port Isabel, Texas, to Vera Cruz, Mexico, more than 500 miles south.
The problem could be greatly reduced if the leadership, Democrat and Republican developed some gonads.
• First, start enforcing the law.
• Force businesses to hire a legal workforce by making it very painful if they continue to employ illegals. They should be fined heavily ($50,000) for each illegal that is found. And if they continue, they should go to jail for 10 years, no parole.
• If the jobs dry up, they won’t come and they will leave.
• Deport them deep into Mexico.
• If businesses can prove that they must have these workers, Congress can create a guest worker program that would allow Mexicans to register in their own country for temporary jobs in the United States. The Eisenhower administration had such a program that allowed 400,000 Mexicans to work in agricultural jobs that lasted from 12 to 52 weeks.
I am sorry but we can no longer afford the world’s massive impoverished hordes. Yes, we need immigration, but it must be legal and controlled. Because we seem unwilling to make the hard decisions about many issues, we are in danger of destroying the greatest political and economic experiment that the world has ever known, the United States of America.
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