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April 06, 2007


Congress Demands US-Visit Plan From DHS

"The House Homeland Security Committee demanded this week that the Homeland Security Department describe what system and technology will be used to determine when foreigners leave the country or overstay their visits. In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, the lawmakers said they want a strategic plan by next Monday for the US-VISIT foreigner tracking system, including cost estimates and timelines for an exit component. The lawmakers said Congress has been waiting on the plan for almost two years, even though more than $1.3 billion has been spent on VISIT to date," GovExec.com reports. "According to a December Government Accountability Office report, Homeland Security Department officials have concluded that installing a biometric exit capability at land ports of entry would cause major disruptions and come with a huge price tag. In their letter, the lawmakers said they are worried the department might try to build an exit system into VISIT that does not use biometrics -- a move that would be contrary to the law."

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There is no reason that the $1.2B could have paid for a system that works already. Even a federal plan does not cost that much.

Posted by: Beckyal on April 6, 2007 11:39 AM

Well, how many no good killers, no good child molesters have come into the country in 2 years? Do you want the truth? There isn't 1 congressman or 1 congresswoman who wants illegal aliens, including those overstaying their visas, running around America committing crimes against Americans. They are either supporting illegal aliens because they believe: " they need to in order to be elected." "They need to in order to be re-elected." "They have to because they took a bunch of donations from corporations that want the illegals for cheap labor." IF ANY OF THE no good politicians we have in this country told the truth, we wouldn't have an immigration bill. We are experiencing the biggest sell out of America in America's history. We are looking at the biggest bunch of congress losers in the history of America. We cannot afford to have these losers in power anymore. They are ruining America, they are running up bills we can never pay for, they are lying to get elected, and everyone in America knows it.

Posted by: princess on April 6, 2007 12:02 PM

I work in the tech field and it doesn't take billions of dollars to come up with a system as simple as a exit verification.

All you need is a database system that records photo, fingerprints, passport and eye scan when they enter the United States, they then make a recording of all four when they leave and you compare records. Simple as that.

Brian

Posted by: Brian on April 6, 2007 01:01 PM

MORE DHS FOOT-DRAGGING TO IMPLEMENT THEIR AMNESTY

Its a no-brainer folks, green carded legals CAN GET SOCIAL SECURITY CARD NUMBERS. Illegals cannot.

Soooooooo....ya make it MANDATORY to get a job in America, ya have to have a Social Security Number. Then to be allowed to work the prospective employee pays for a social security card and pre-employment background check.

Employment Verification Report

An employee reference verification can provide you with key information about an applicant's work history, productivity, and overall work ethic. Previous employers and co-workers are valuable sources when compiling a complete profile on your applicant.

This search validates dates of hire, terminations, job title or position held, and rehire eligibility.

More importantly, Social Security Number Search

This verification is one of the most significant, yet often disregarded, elements of the Pre-Employment Screening process. The fraudulent use of social security numbers is considered to be one of the most abused pieces of personal information.

This social security number (SSN) search will verify the applicant's SSN; identify previous residential addresses and/or names used by an applicant for up to seven years; flag SSN's that have not been issued by The Social Security Administration or have been filed with death claims; detect the fraudulent use of SSN's.

http://www.e-verifile.com/risk_assessment/background_checks.html#employment_verification_report

Posted by: Softwarengineer on April 6, 2007 05:23 PM

We need to keep the heat on all the idiots up in washington . call , write and let them know we will not be sold out by big business or by them.

Posted by: cindy on April 7, 2007 11:30 AM

Don't you have to laugh ? The DHS and our
brainless Congressmen are quibbling about $1.3
Billion. Hey dudes. Illegal immigration is costing
us over $100 Billion/yr - $45 Billion/remittances and
$62 Billion/human services - (GAO).
Is it asking too much for a little perspective
(AKA common sense) here ?
We are talking about the biggest international
burglary in world history (and that's not including
the drug trade). $107 Billion/yr ?? The Vikings
would be envious.

Posted by: Robert Emanuel on April 8, 2007 07:00 PM

Robert Emanuel, true, insightfull and funny. Can't you imagine how most Americans are sitting on the couch watching Survivor, drunk, on dope, and in another scene, the cretons in government rubbing their hands together excitedly over what they can do next for Old Mexico(the tenth richest country in resources in the world). It is pathetic.

Team Tancredo.org, send a few bucks in order to allow Congressman Tancredo to debate the Establishment, even if your a liberal Democrat or RINO republican. Should we have a balanced debate on this topic, rather than non at all?

Posted by: Bobby on April 9, 2007 01:51 PM
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Director of Popular "Christmas Story" Film Killed by Drunk-Driving Illegal Alien

"A Mexican national accused of causing the crash that killed "A Christmas Story" director Bob Clark and his son will face deportation proceedings once the charges against him are resolved, officials said Thursday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement put an immigration hold Wednesday on Hector Velazquez-Nava, a 24-year-old illegal immigrant living in Los Angeles, said agency spokeswoman Virginia Kice," the AP reports. "Police say Velazquez-Nava steered his sport utility vehicle into the wrong lane of Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades early Wednesday, striking Clark's sedan head-on. The filmmaker and his son, Ariel Hanrath-Clark, 22, died at the scene. Authorities said Velazquez-Nava was driving without a license. He and his passenger were treated for minor injuries."

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He'll come back and kill someone else. I need surgery from being rear ended by an illegal with no insurance I don't think the police even realize that all these people driving 50 and 55 are illegals with no insurance. If they did, and cared, they would quit stopping speeders and stop these POS's. I almost wreck every day, driving at 75 on the freeway, or more, and coming up on some illegals in a pickup full of tree branches or painting supplies going 55 so they don't get stopped. God it doesn't take a genius to figure out why they won't break the speed limit. Then, you drive by their bar at night. The illegals bar, and they are all staggering across the street to their pickups. Why aren't they stopped a block away, like the Americans are? BECAUSE OF THE SENATE. THE PRESIDENT AND THE SENATE KILLED THIS MAN AND HIS SON. THE PRESIDENT, TED KENNEDY KILLED THIS MAN AND HIS SON. WELL F@@@ THEM. They are nothing but corporate pawns. They can't even think for themselves anymore. They can't speak their minds, they are bought and paid for by oil companies, and casinos, and corporations that want the middle class to pay the $22,000 a year difference between what an illegal makes and what they cost. I wish these politicians could be put on the stand and the American people ask them why they are such POS's.

Posted by: princess on April 6, 2007 11:14 AM

maybe now hollywood will push the democrats in congress to oppose amnesty and start enforcing immigration laws. The only way that congress is going to start opposing is if they are pushed by the mainstream media and hollywood. Big business is not ever going to admit that allowing illegals into america is bad but if people are hurt by illegals then maybe hollywood (another big donor to congress) will start pressuring. It is really bad that someone must die before congress wakes up.

Posted by: Beckyal on April 6, 2007 11:20 AM

Why does the government keep letting this terrorism on American citizens go? Last year 8 women raped in Bolder by illegals who escaped back to Mexico? Thousands of felonies by illegals against Americans is TERRORISM. We are under attack of TERRORISM by Mexicans, and South Americans and our government wants to make them citizens because they work in casinos. We need to storm the Senate, White House, and everything else with these corporate pigs and throw them out on their faces. How's that for saying something Lou Dobbs?

Posted by: Bootinur on April 6, 2007 11:28 AM

The American people don't care what the statistics are with the illegals. We don't care what Bush thinks about Rio Grande values. If this dirty no good trash wasn't allowed into America, this fine, good, American man and his son wouldn't of been killed. We don't need rich politicians bought by corporations making laws for cheap labor anymore. We can LIVE without it!!!!!!!

Posted by: princess on April 6, 2007 11:38 AM

They never tell the whole story the MSM! They are Traitors to US Citizens!


Pro Deo et Patria!

Posted by: Critter on April 6, 2007 12:06 PM

Once again a situation in which the family should bring a class action suit against the U.S. Government, DHS, ICE, U.S. Justice Department, Mayor Villagroso, L.A. City attorney, any U.S. Senator or Congressman who supports an amnesty program or supports illegal immigration, any State Senator or representative sho supports illegal immigration in any way and the California Department of Justice. All these should be sued for not following a sworn oath to uphold the lasws of our nation resulting in the needless deaths of two United States Citizens.

I would hope that the family either has enough money to do it or a real gutsy lawyer who would do it for the good of this nation!

Posted by: Sick 'n Tired on April 6, 2007 12:07 PM

Outrageous! My heart goes out to the striken father and son ... I was once in the emergency room, and these situations are truly horrifying to experience. When is the United States going to restore law, order and peace to the area of Earth named "The United States?" Our quality of life is plunging in direct proportion to this lawless, mass immigration fiasco.

On another note, maybe this incident will help wake up Hollywood and result in some positive change. The perennial cultural notion that all immigration is good, all immigrants benefit the nation, and all who disagree need to shut up and take whatever they "deserved" needs to end. Spielberg's remake of War of the Worlds was actually a step in this direction, but what about the human costs of immigration? Hollywood ought to make a movie out of Snooker Glen, the novel reviewed in FAIR's newsletter this month. Everyone should be reading this, too.

Posted by: Concerned Citizen on April 6, 2007 12:40 PM

California is amazing. Everyday there are debates as to what else can be done for the illegal population. Beckyal, hollywood and the entertainment ner-do-wells in the Valley are not going to change. They are using these people to mow their lawns, take care of their children, as maids,etc. Only a massive change of attitude by the citizenry, where they are willing to target every single politician who in any way won't help to close the borders and stop this stuff cold. As for the California liberals, all they are worried about , is to who should they give their support, Hillary, or Obama. They're hopless.

TEAM TANCREDO.ORG-A FEW BUCKS A WEEK FOR SEVERAL MONTHS AND WATCH THE FIREWORKS.

Posted by: Bobby on April 6, 2007 04:02 PM

LEGAL CITIZENS WHO DRINK GET HOUNDED BY MADD

Illegal aliens that drink are caught then released to drink/kill again.

Well stop your complaining, we're laying off home construction employees in America. At least the last to go will be the $6/hr illegal alien drunks. Think of the money the illegal alien employer makes selling the house for the same price as if he'd kept his $20/hr Americans. This helps the building thugs to make more profit.

Where's your morality, organized crime is America's new sacred honor. After all, they are the true morality in America, "stick it to anyone to make a buck".

Posted by: Softwarengineer on April 6, 2007 05:31 PM

Princess you will be happy to know I called Kennedys office today. Of course he wasn't there but a message machine was and I let him have it! I finished by saying these dead teens and the others killed were on his head and he could add them to his list of people killed by drunks ...Starting with Mary Jo Kopechne! I live in MA and don't know a single soul who votes for this POS ....He is a National Disgrace!!

Posted by: mary on April 6, 2007 07:39 PM

Don't count on those Hollywood idiots waking up ...Remember Adrienne Shelly-killed by an illegal in NY on the brink of stardom and soon forgotten by the slime in Hollywood.

If there is another case of someone being murdered because of possibly reporting an illegal alien to the authorities, I don't know of it. That fact makes this crime uniquely shocking, as well as how a 40-year-old actress, Adrienne Shelly, was killed in a situation disguised to look like suicide. But what was really being hidden was the immigration status of the killer.

"I was having a bad day"illegal immigrant Diego Pillco, 19, allegedly told cops. "I didn't mean to kill her. But I did kill her."
Pillco told detectives that he punched Shelly, 40, last Wednesday afternoon outside the Abingdon Square apartment she was using as an office after she yelled at him about the noise he was making while working in a vacant apartment below. [...]
After seeing she was unconscious and believing she was dead, Pillco claimed, he dragged Shelly into her apartment, wrapped a bed sheet around her neck and attached it to a shower rod in the bathroom to make it appear she had hanged herself, sources said.
[Star's Suicide Was Killer Cover-Up, New York Post, 10/7/06]
Shelly was discovered hanged in her own shower

Posted by: mary on April 6, 2007 07:44 PM

Hi,
I had a bad accident and the other driver was an Mexican driver.
I am so fed up

Posted by: Diana on April 7, 2007 04:26 AM

Just as with the senseless killing by a drunk illegal in Virginia Beach, the government needs to be sent these articles daily and we need to keep demanding they secure the borders and enforce the law! End sanctuary cities by cutting off all federal funding until they stop pandering and catering to illegals and the scum-sucking employers who exploit them!

Posted by: takn on April 7, 2007 12:34 PM

www.teamtancredo.com

Posted by: Arthur on April 7, 2007 09:32 PM

President Bush should be impeached and tried for treason for failing to support immigration laws and failing to secure our borders. Again these people had the nerve to march for amnesty again, while inocent Americans are killed, raped, robbed, and scammed out of our tax dollars by these so called "hard working people". Isnt it great how our so called president calls illegals "hard working people" and Americans basically lazy and vigilantes.

Posted by: American Girl on April 8, 2007 10:16 AM

Not surprised! Why can't Govt. be sued for High crimes!


Pro Deo et Patria!

Posted by: Critter on April 9, 2007 06:23 AM

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CAN BE SUED

Yes, and names of the guilty can be named in the lawsuit:

See proof:

"...When lawsuits are brought against federal officials, they must be brought against them in their "individual" capacity not their official capacity. The theory appears to be that when federal officials perpetrate constitutional torts, they do so ultra vires and lose the shield of sovereign immunity. Williamson v. U.S. Department of Agriculture, 815 F.2d. 369, ACLU Foundation v. Barr, 952 F.2d. 457, 293 U.S. App. DC 101, (CA DC 1991)...."

The whole URL:

http://www.constitution.org/grossack/bivens.htm

Posted by: Softwarengineer on April 9, 2007 01:48 PM

Yeah, they had the nerve American Girl, even while they're status is illegal, criminal. Question: what will they be like when they are legal? Right now the border criminal hiding in the church in Chicago, is preaching how America has to change its attitude. Wow!

Posted by: Bobby on April 9, 2007 01:55 PM

Mary, just leave it to the liberals. Let them hire all of the Pillcos they want. Good for them.

Posted by: Bobby on April 9, 2007 02:55 PM

American Girl, I forgot to tell you, President Bush can't be impeached. His close friend Nancy Pelosi, said it was off the table. Besides, there isn't time, these two are too busy now, working on giving the United States to Mexico.

Posted by: Bobby on April 9, 2007 03:13 PM
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Illegal Aliens Pay Taxes . . . And Get It Back in Rebates

IRS: "We Want Your [Illegal] Money"

"Politicians and activists campaigning for a crackdown on illegal immigration frequently complain that the nation's estimated 12 million undocumented residents violate U.S. law by not paying taxes, as well as by being in the U.S. without permission. But Mrs. Castillo's booming business shows how some of the workers who are here in defiance of one arm of the U.S. government -- the Department of Homeland Security -- are filing federal tax returns with the aggressive encouragement of another -- the Internal Revenue Service," the Wall Street Journal writes. "'If someone is working without authorization in this country, he or she is not absolved of tax liability,' IRS Commissioner Mark Everson, a former immigration official, said in testimony before Congress last year. Last week, speaking to the National Press Club, he added, 'We want your money whether you are here legally or not and whether you earned it legally or not.'"

One couple had a next tax bill of $46. "Mrs. Castillo jots down the couple's ITIN numbers on their 1040 form. Last year, $1,464.88 in Social Security and $342.60 in Medicare were deducted from Mr. Espinoza's wages. His wife paid several hundred dollars in Social Security and Medicare, too. In addition, $3,508 in federal taxes was withheld from their combined salaries. Mrs. Castillo figures they will get a $3,462 refund from the IRS, putting their total federal tax bill at $46."

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Hey everyone; what would happend if let say you claim 5 dependants (using a fake/stolen SSN) on your job, then you just did not file your income taxes. And just make-up another fake SSN for your next job and do the same?

Answer, nothing the fed so incompetant, and just want to sit back and have other people do their jobs.

Posted by: Some Mexican on April 6, 2007 10:16 AM

Gee,what a surpise. An illegal immigrant knows how to scam the government. All of these so called hard working people know every trick in the book to get over on americans when they sneak across the border. The first thing they do is have babies so their children are citizens, then they can use that as a tool to stay in the country. Then they bleed the emergency rooms, welfare, steal id's and anything else they can access. Who is really surprised by this?

Posted by: AMERICAN GIRL on April 6, 2007 10:57 AM

They paid thousands in Social Security and Medicare on an income of $42 thou. They won't be getting that back. Notice how the article spins it so that fact isn't noticed.

Posted by: Sammy on April 6, 2007 11:09 AM

The $46 doesn't pay much medical care or for education of their children. When you add those figures once again the american people are paying for them. With the recent amnesty work, anyone who obeys the law is going to get amnesty so all the illegals are playing the tax game right now.

Posted by: Beckyal on April 6, 2007 11:26 AM

All of the illegals paying taxes can go back to Mexico or South America or wherever they came from. We don't need them and don't want them. [FAIR edit] Maybe that will send a message to our Senate and our President that we don't want any illegal landscapers working at our house one day and robbing it the next.

Posted by: Bootinur on April 6, 2007 11:34 AM

It always amazes me that the IRS can use social security and tax ID numbers to hunt down tax scofflaws but the INS can't use the same numbers to check to see if they should be working in the first place. It only makes sense if you view it through the lens of race. It is perfectly ok that we make sure rich white folk pay their fair share of "progressive income tax" but when the same technology is used to track law breakers who just happen to be primarially "Latino's" then that is not ok. See, it does make sense.

Posted by: hugo on April 6, 2007 01:26 PM

Beckyal,
While $46 doesn't pay much for medical care, they are not eligible for medicaid, medicare or social security (yet they paid thousands in social security and medicare taxes).

Too $46 doesn't pay much for education. However, most education funds don't come Federal tax but from state and local taxes such as property tax, and they are subject to the same property tax laws.

Posted by: Sammy on April 6, 2007 01:41 PM

Sammy should realize that if they're paying into Medicare and Social Security, it's BECAUSE THEY'RE COMMITING FRAUD by using someone else's ID. They're using an ITIN number to file for their taxes which is for people who don't have a Social Security number. From what I've read, the ITIN is only legit for the taxes and the IRS and not for any other uses. So, something is very wrong here--either with the reporter's reporting or with the story this couple is telling.

Posted by: Ali on April 6, 2007 02:12 PM

MY CHECK TO THE IRS IS IN THE MAIL

Give unto Caesars what is Caesars, so I pay ALL my taxes, so should everyone.

Illegal aliens and organized crime employers cheat the IRS all the time. This is the type of vermin that hire H-1Bs, then most of time pay no income tax.

http://www.jobdestruction.com/NewsArchive/2002%2008-15%20How%20Do%20H-1Bs%20avoid%20paying%20taxes.txt

No wonder we have a huge federal deficit.

Posted by: Softwarengineer on April 6, 2007 05:43 PM

I'd love those kinds of refunds...
I'm sick of paying the government, so I would like to know how to change my status from citizen to illegal, please...

Posted by: takn on April 7, 2007 12:43 PM

Don't worry Taken, in a couple of years you will be a foreigner in your own country. The mexican [FAIR edit] will be the majority and then we will really have a good time

Posted by: jmac on April 7, 2007 12:52 PM

Some insight and anecdotal information for Sammy:

Given the massive U.S. deficit, Asian creditors moving away from a declining dollar, and a looming global recession it is a safe bet that most of us paying S.S. and Medicare taxes will never see a dime of that money back when we retire. Is Sammy worried about the rest of us too?

In reality all of those taxes are quickly being spent on taxpayer fleecing operations. That 'earmarked' money goes into one big pot and some of it is redistributed to states for Medicaid programs to provide medical care for the poor. Illegals using "borrowed" or fake identification and their anchor children access Medicaid. In addition, some of the money states receive from the Fed for Medicaid can help shift around state aid used to provide large grants for clinics that primarily serve illegals.

So to say that illegals pay taxes for S.S. and Medicare that they will never see again is really splitting hairs.

Here is some anecdotal information for Sammy to ruminate on:

Two years ago I was reading an analysis in a medical journal regarding President Bush's order to transfer $1 Billion of MediCARE (not Medicaid) dollars to hospitals to help offset the tremendous costs they were incurring to treat illegal aliens. An ER doc was quoted as saying the money would not go very far considering treatment in his hospital for just a few illegals getting regular dialysis treatments was running into the hundreds of thousands. Apparently, TPTB, deciding to use Medicare dollars, are not above making it crystal clear that none of our tax dollars are truly set aside for certain programs or future payouts.

Anecdote #2: A member of my aunt's church, having entered the U.S. less than a year ago illegally, is now comfortably living in a nursing home with his expenses being paid by Medicaid. How this man in apparently good health (and from descriptions in his late 50s or early 60s) managed to finagle the system is probably common knowledge to other illegals.

WAKE UP! It is no secret that Medicaid and Medicare dollars are being used to treat illegal aliens. What is not known is just how extensive this practice is because "the system" now operates on a "don't ask don't tell" kind of policy.

Those illegals who pay some S.S. and Medicare taxes are likely to get that money back in some shape-shifting form or another.

Open borders Kool-Aid drinkers can't see the forest for the trees.

Posted by: Cynthia on April 7, 2007 11:05 PM

Cynthia, thank you for the excellent information. Also, Cynthia, some people will never "get it". It is not that they don't hear the information, and even know it is true, it is that they willfully, for whatever reason, do not want to accept it.

Posted by: Bobby on April 9, 2007 01:44 PM

HI CYNTHIA, HOPE ALL YOUR STATE'S LEGAL STUFF IS GOING YOUR WAY :-)

Here's a recent illegal alien Medicaid news item the MSM wouldn't touch:

UPI Poll: No Medicaid for illegal aliens
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Nearly three-quarters of U.S. respondents to a UPI-Zogby International poll said illegal aliens shouldn't have access to the healthcare program Medicaid.

U.S. states and the federal governments and run by the states fund Medicaid, which is designed to make medical and health-related services available to people with low incomes.

But poll participants said it should be reserved for those in the country legally. Some 73.6 percent of those asked said illegal aliens should be barred from Medicaid benefits while 15.8 percent said those people should have access to Medicaid.

Nearly all -- 92.4 percent -- of self-described Republicans said illegal aliens shouldn't have access to Medicaid while 4.8 percent said they should. Among Democrats, 52.4 percent said "no" to Medicaid access by illegal aliens and 28.7 percent said the services should be made available to them.

The Zogby interactive poll was conducted Feb. 9-12 and had 10,258 U.S. residents providing data. The results carry a 1-percentage-point margin of error.

Copyright 2007 by United Press International. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20070222-12580300-bc-us-upipoll-illegals.xml

P.S. The State of Washington just awarded massive [approx. doubling] Medicaid increases to legal American homes requiring care workers. Apparently, they were severely butcher axed a year and half ago illegally to free up "ear-marked" special needs money to fund illegal aliens. Of course, the illegal aliens' anchor babies will still get Medicaid, they still consider them citizens.

Posted by: Softwarengineer on April 9, 2007 04:46 PM

NO AMNESTY!! NO JOBS TO THE ILLEGAL MEXICANS AND ALIENS ALSO!!NO MEDICAID TO THE ILLEGAL ALIENS!!
GO AWAYS ILLEGAL ALIENS TO YOUR THIRD WORLD COUNTRY AND STOP DESTROYING AMERICA!!!!! WE, AMERICAN PEOPLE, DO NOT NEED YOU, ILLEGAL ALIENS HERE IN THIS COUNTRY, THAT IS WHY, GO AWAYS FROM HERE AND TAKE WITH YOU ALL YOUR CRIMINALS AND THOSE WHO WERE BORN HERE, THEY DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT FOR A FREE CITIZENSHIP, BY BEING ILLEGALLY HERE!!!
STAND UP, AMERICAN PEOPLE!! CALL YOUR SENATORS AND BUSH TO OPPOSE AMNESTY AND ALL BENEFITS TO THE ILLEGAL ALIENS!! IT IS YOUR COUNTRY AND YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO DEFEND IT AND PROTECT AGAINST THE THIRD WORLD INVASION!!

Posted by: jack on April 10, 2007 08:37 AM

TOO ALL THE LAW ABIDING AMERICAN CITIZENS, DON`T FORGET TOO PAY YOUR TAXES NEXT WEEK, THE ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE COUNTING ON YOU!

Posted by: American Me on April 10, 2007 01:57 PM
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