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Voting Rights for Illegal Immigrants
by Karl Logan 05/01/2012
Should Illegal immigrants have the right to vote? The easy answer is NO. However, when a TV reporter asks a group of protestors outside the Supreme Court in Arizona, the answer is mixed. The largest group of protestors appear to be Hispanic, many admittedly illegal (or undocumented). It is not surprising that most in this group feel that their illegal family, neighbors and friends should have voting rights. A hand full of protestors agree that voting for illegals is wrong. Why?
Let's assume you feel that illegal Mexicans should have the right to vote in American elections. However what if we make the question broader than Mexico. What about illegal Haitians? Cuban's? Colombians? Canadians? What about Iraqis? Saudis? Afghans? Egyptians? Syrians? Russians? Greeks? Germans? Where do we draw the line?
I have a great idea. What if we draw the line at U.S. Citizens?
by Karl Logan on 08/06/2011
Have you noticed that the media, the Whitehouse and many in Congress use the term undocumented worker instead of criminal, illegal alien or illegal immigrant to describe Mexico’s citizens living in America.
Alabama, like Arizona, in an attempt to control immigration, welfare enrollment, and crime passed a law that re-enforces federal laws already on the books. Now 16 countries file briefs to condemn and overturn the law. No administration, Democrat or Republican, has had the strength to enforce current law. States have had to step up and redefine their immigration laws to protect their police force and their citizenry.
If these illegal immigrants were terrorists from the middle east would we have the same laissez faire approach to this issue? I think not. Congress, and the Administration, must step up and require that all immigrants obtain illegal documentation to be in the country. We require it at the port of entry; airports, border crossings, and shipping ports. Why is it not enforced at the southern border of United States of America?
Read the Immigration Policy in the United States, February 2006 at right. You will find that according to Federal Immigration Policy, illegal immigrants must be apprehended and deported. So why do states feel it necessary to redefine their immigration policy? Because the federal government refuses to enforce federal law. We need to apprehend all illegal aliens and deport them. While we are at it, repeal section 1 of the 14th amendment, or at least redefine it to state that persons born by a U.S. citizen become U.S. citizens.
Immigration Law twist again
by Karl Logan on 07/10/11
Once again the left and the United Nations (also the left) are twisting laws to suit their agenda. They are suggesting that Humberto Garcia Leal (murderous scumbag) is a Mexican National. International law says the scumbag should have special rights as a Mexican National.
So, because the scumbag is really a Mexican National (illegal immigrant), he gets special privileges as a Mexican citizen. And because he was a toddler when he entered this country, he gets special privileges from the United States. So when in need, he has the rights and benefits of a US citizen, and when in trouble the murderous scumbag is a Mexican Citizen. Only Liberal/progressives can make that leap. You can't have it both ways. At least Texas knows what to do. It will probably result in an international incident.
Headline
UN: Texas execution broke international law Top official: Case 'raises particular legal concerns,' including whether Mexican citizen had access to consul, fair trial
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43685778/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
Illegal immigration - A victimless crime
by Karl Logan on 03/29/11
Why do so many people complain about immigration from the south? Like the rest of us, all they want to do is provide for their families. Some Americans act like it costs tax payers hundreds of thousands per child. And stop blaming the trillion dollar national debt on illegal aliens.
They aren't taking jobs that Americans want anyway. Right? No American wants to pick fruits and vegetables. Restaurant jobs, of course not. Janitorial and hotel jobs? And who really wants construction and landscaping jobs? And don't blame the unemployment rate on illegal immigration either. It's not illegal immigrant’s fault that many of these low wage job aren’t filled. They are doing Americans a favor. It isn't like an absence of labor would push wages up, is it? That would be supply and demand and everyone knows that's a bunch of bull. It's not like illegal immigrants can hold out for higher wages anyway, they don’t even have the right to be in America.
And what about Welfare? It's not like they have children that they can't support and go on welfare. And the cost of having a baby in a hospital can't really cost that much. Besides, even if they did, what’s the harm? America can afford it. The government coffers are overflowing with money. They have so much already. It isn’t like there is a shortage of tax dollars. I mean, really. Have you seen any governments cutting jobs or budgets? And let's put things into perspective. It isn't like there are millions of illegal immigrants. So what's the harm?
What about buying homes? They actually help the market by buying homes. It is nice that congress passed a law forbidding mortgage companies from background checks or proof of income. This gives illegal immigrants an opportunity to home ownership. It isn’t like they would over extend themselves and walk away from the home causing a housing collapse. A housing crisis, that could never happen in America.
Education is necessary no matter where you live. And public education is free anyway. It doesn't really cost anything. There aren't crowded classrooms or budget shortfalls, so drop that argument. And lay off college already. The quasi-Americans deserve a college education. I get that people from out of state of other countries pay higher tuition, but many illegal immigrants have lived in the state for years. That makes them a resident, right? And what about their children? Their children were born in America so they obviously get all the benefits of citizenship. What does college cost anyway? It isn't so much that the tax payer can't pony up?
So on the low end, a child of an illegal immigrant costs the tax payer from birth to 18, $276,000 plus healthcare ($23,490 birth -18).
The cost outlined
Welfare income with Food Stamps - $9,500-$21,000/year
Child birth - $5,000 - $10,000
Medicaid average $1305/year/child or $23,490 birth -18
Cost of education K-12 - $100,000-$120,000
Housing Subsidized $200-$1300/month
Cost of College – 4 years degree - $20,000 minimum (doesn't include RAB)
Cost of College (out of state tuition) $40,0000 or $10,000/year (no RAB)
So what's a paltry $300,000 per child it's not like there are millions of them. Well maybe just 20 million. How many billions is that anyway? Not billions...$6 Trillion. One illegal immigrant might produce a family of four or a million dollars worth of entitlements.
http://www.ocpp.org/1998/rpt0798compareinc.pdf
http://www.workworld.org/wwwebhelp/medicaid_data_summary_and_trends.htm
http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/hud/public-housing-and-rental-subsidies
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0516/p01s02-ussc.html
http://www.vdare.com/fulford/usa_today.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/26/opinion/l26immig.html
http://mises.org/daily/2503
http://www.therealestatebloggers.com/mortgage/illegal-immigrants-can-legally-purchase-a-home/
http://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/immigrants-realestate-itin.html
Arizona Immigration Law - Personal Accounts of a US citizen
by Karl Logan on 06/21/10
In support of the Arizona Law
T.J. Woodard is a retired Army officer who lives less than ten miles from the Mexican border. He carries a pistol even in his own house in order to be prepared to defend his family whenever necessary.
Being an avid American Thinker (AT) reader, and living on the Arizona border in Cochise County, I thought I would provide those who wish to be informed some insight into the truth about the state of the U.S.-Mexican border -- at least in this part of the state.
I moved to Cochise County after retiring from the Army in 2008 to take a position working at Fort Huachuca (pronounced "wa-choo-ka," an Apache word meaning "place of thunder" and referring to the time after the summer monsoon season). Having lived here in 1991 for eight months while attending an Army school, I soon realized that the place had changed considerably in the eighteen years of my absence.
The first thing I noticed was how many border patrol vehicles were on the roads in the city of Sierra Vista. The Border Patrol has a large station near here in the city of Naco. There are far more Border Patrol vehicles in the area than SV police cars. They come in many forms -- trucks for off-road work, trailers carrying all-terrain vehicles, pickups with capacity for carrying large numbers of people once apprehended, and even a staff car for the area chaplain. The Border Patrol presence has grown substantially, so one would think the border area was nice and safe.
Not so. Within a short time after arriving in southern Arizona while on my way to work, I noticed eight illegal immigrants on the side of the road. Fortunately, they were in the custody of capable and attentive Border Patrol agents. Unfortunately, they were less than a hundred feet from my daughter's bus stop. She gets personal service to school now, as the school district refuses to enter the gated community in which we live. There is a nice wash, a valley into which the rainwater drains during the monsoons, which provides a nice route for the illegals to follow into the city, and therefore into their locations for pickup by the vehicles that will get them farther north.
Later, after I attended a movie on a Friday night, a car passed by me in the next lane going nearly a hundred miles an hour. It took a few seconds before I saw the police behind -- way behind -- with lights and sirens, trying to catch up. Surprise, surprise -- the next morning's paper discussed a Mexican drug runner being caught by County Sheriff's Deputies. On several occasions, the Border Patrol's helicopter has flown low and slow over the neighborhood, rattling windows and shining its spotlight in our backyard. When this happens, I strap on my pistol, grab a flashlight, and look and listen. Fortunately, I haven't found anybody within a hundred yards of the house -- yet.
Working on a U.S. Army fort, one would think we were fairly secure from these threats. Just not true. Reading the Fort Huachuca newspaper one morning, I noticed an interesting part of the "community" page. It asked for volunteers to assist in cleaning up "dumps" on posts where the illegals would drop their supplies used to cross the border and change clothing. They do this in order to blend in and not look like they just spent a day or two crossing the border in the dust and heat of southern Arizona. The most frightening part of this is that Fort Huachuca is the U.S. Army Intelligence Center, where the Army trains its intelligence soldiers -- analysts, interrogators, radio intercept specialists, and counterintelligence agents -- for operations overseas. If we can't secure the fort we use to train our intelligence soldiers, how can we secure anything else?
Much has been discussed about the new law in Arizona making it unlawful to be in Arizona in violation of federal immigration statutes. However, much less has been discussed about the shooting of rancher Robert Krentz. Robert was killed on his ranch on March 28, 2010. His ranch, on which the family began grazing cattle in 1907 (Arizona became a state in 1912), is a large, 35,000-acre area in remote Cochise County. It is so remote that the original Cochise, an Apache leader, used the mountainous terrain near it to hide from the U.S. Cavalry in the early 1870s. But much less is being said about the eight illegal immigrants and their load of 280 pounds of marijuana seized the day before Krentz was killed.
So Arizona should be boycotted because its people would like to keep it safe? Somebody please explain the logic of that for me. It doesn't take a bullet from a drug runner's gun to make those of us down here near the border understand that this is drug-related violence -- and Rob's death proves it.
It also doesn't take much more reading to see that the drug dealers are a huge problem with far-reaching capabilities. On April 27, 2010, a large drug bust took place here in Cochise County. Among those arrested was Angelica Marie Borquez, the secretary for the Drug Enforcement Division of the Cochise County Attorney office. Allegedly, Ms. Borquez was tipping off the drug runners to counter drug operations conducted by the county. She was so bold that she used the phone in the County Attorney's office to make some of her calls.
This isn't a blatant effort by drug cartels to obtain control here in America?
Many have already called Arizona residents racists. They are concerned that police will profile Hispanics and disproportionally harass them. But we understand something others in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco don't seem to remember -- we border Mexico. The fact is that most illegal immigrants coming across the border here are, well, Mexicans. Those of us down here facing the danger every day really don't care what some Hollywood actor has to say about the issue. Nor do we care about what the Colombian government or the Latino music community thinks of it. We just want to stay safe.
This is not about race; it's about facts. Use a few of these facts the next time somebody wants to engage you in discussion about the border. Tell him you learned these things from somebody who can see Mexico from his front porch.
T.J. Woodard is a retired Army officer who lives less than ten miles from the Mexican border. He carries a pistol even in his own house in order to be prepared to defend his family whenever necessary.
Arizona Immigration Law SB1070
by Karl Logan on 05/25/10
The new immigration law in Arizona is nothing more than a reinforcement of Federal Law. I support the law, the Governor, and the people of Arizona including the legal Mexican residents. Below is a link to the Arizona Law SB1070. Read it then make up your own mind. Every state should have a similar law especially since no American President seems to have the guts to apply existing Federal Law.
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf
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