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October 14, 2008
Immigration Remains Big Issue in PA House Campaign "Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta's impassioned opposition AND OUR LEGAL AMERICAN HOMELESS ARE ESSENTIALLY FORGOTTEN SOULS 15% of them are veterans. Posted by: Softwarengineer on October 14, 2008 05:54 PMWe should support him and his opportunity to overcome the proamnesty democratic incumbent. Have a donation site for him? Posted by: greg on October 15, 2008 02:41 AMBARLETTA IS RIGHT ON! THE COST OF ILLEGAL ALIENS ON THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER IS OUT OF CONTROL. CALIFORNIA HAS A $7 BILLION DEFECIT BUT SPENDS $11 BILLION ON AID TO ILLEGALS. CHICAGO HAS A $450 MILLION DEFECIT BUT CONTINUES TO PROVIDE BENEFITS TO ILLEGAL ALIENS. ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE KILLING OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE BUT OUR POLITICANS CONTINUE TO IMPORT POVERTY AND CRIME. Posted by: Rick S on October 15, 2008 10:39 AMGreg, here's your link to Lou Barletta's campaign site, where you'll find a button for donations. Posted by: Concerned Citizen on October 15, 2008 12:19 PMMexico Faces Economic Crisis "The Mexican government has taken emergency Now what do you all say we shut them down even further by boycotting everything, and I mean EVERYTHING that bears the label "Made in Mexico." Posted by: melena29 on October 14, 2008 02:41 PMSo now you see why corrupt Mexico ecourages and helps illegal aliens here, because they want that money sent back, and they want to dump their criminals, and their poor and uneducated on us, so the American taxpayers can pay for them. Posted by: American Me on October 14, 2008 03:08 PM COMMENT: Mexico has a $4 billion a year tourist industry, is the world's leading exporter of silver and has vast oil reserves. So why is Mexico having problems with their economy? The answer is simple! Corruption, corrpution and more corruption! The illegal aliens (leeches) that march in our streets should be marching in Mexico City demanding reform. Posted by: Rick S on October 14, 2008 05:08 PMTHEY'VE ALL READY RECEIVED 1000s OF TIMES MORE FOREIGN AID FROM US THAN ANY OTHER POOR COUNTRY ON EARTH They need to learn birth control and that's not our responsibility. Posted by: Softwarengineer on October 14, 2008 05:57 PMmalena29 has a great idea. Boycott Mexican products. That'll help the situation for sure. Great idea! :) Posted by: Ralph on October 14, 2008 08:19 PMThey always seem to be in a crisis of some kind. Time to get their act together instead of expecting the U.S. to bail them out all the time and solve their problems. Posted by: Born American on October 14, 2008 08:40 PMthe United States should place a heavy tax on any funds being sent outside the U.S. That would curtail some of the exporting of funds and actually give the United States some revenue for those funds actually getting out. Posted by: Sick 'n Tired on October 15, 2008 01:45 PMThank you for your support of my boycott idea, Ralph! When you consider the number of American jobs lost to Mexico due to NAFTA supported corporate greed, I consider it Un-American to enable a system which serves only to facilitate the demise of the American middle class, as well as the oppression of its own people! Perhaps if, once and for all we said a resounding "NO MORE," Mexico would have no choice but to get off both its ass and our backs, and take care of its own people for once. There is no reason other than corporate greed and government corruption that so many on both sides of the border are suffering so much. Thank you for your support of my boycott idea, Ralph! When you consider the number of American jobs lost to Mexico due to NAFTA supported corporate greed, I consider it Un-American to enable a system which serves only to facilitate the demise of the American middle class, as well as the oppression of its own people! Perhaps if, once and for all we said a resounding "NO MORE," Mexico would have no choice but to get off both its ass and our backs, and take care of its own people for once. There is no reason other than corporate greed and government corruption that so many on both sides of the border are suffering so much. HERSHEY has recently announced plans to move the plant that makes Kisses to Mexico. How many Americans out of work? Too many! Hell will freeze over before I buy a Kiss made in Mexico. Boycott Hershey as well! Posted by: melena29 on October 15, 2008 03:27 PMI support great ideas. That's what I do. Boycotting Mexico would certainly help to relieve the immigration crisis here in the US. Hey, if businesses fail in Mexico, then there would be less jobs for Mexicans, and there would be less incentive for them to come here. Or would it? Posted by: Ralph on October 15, 2008 05:49 PMWhat was the quote from the movie "NETWORK" when the guy went over the edge while on the air - "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!" How far does it need to go before (like the colonists) we have a "TEA PARTY"? Posted by: Sick 'n Tired on October 15, 2008 05:56 PMYeah, boycott Mexico, Americas 2nd largest source of imported oil in 2007! Crude Oil and Total Petroleum Imports Top 15 Countries Gee, I wonder what effect the global economic recession will have on Americas #2 CUSTOMER--Mexico! Mexico = USA #2 Customer http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/highlights/toppartners.html#exports Boycott Mexico oil, walk to work! Posted by: Fat Man on October 16, 2008 01:16 AM Mexico and the U.S. are both slated for a big fall and this fact has many in Washington making plans to deal with the social disorder that will follow an economic collapse. Our economic ties to Mexico will make the fall all the more painful... I"ve said this a thousand times and I believe it to be absolutely true. MEXICO, has never had an economic crisis. What it has had through its whole unglorious history is WINE, WOMEN AND SONG, CORRUPT TO THE CORE, ELITES, that don't now, and never did give a cr-p about their citizens. Afterall, even Bernanke and Paulson, have admitted that our economic catastrophe is man made. Right. Man made by the elites in this nation. Same goes for Mexico. When you have rotten leaders, you have rotten economies. Posted by: Bobby on October 16, 2008 05:10 PMYou talk as though the jobs they have in Mexico are going to keep them there. Yet hundreds of thousands of them continue to illegally cross the border every month. Why? I suspect it’s because the wages they are making barely keep them at poverty level. That’s the only reason American jobs were shipped down to Mexico. No Ralph and Fat Man, unless the Mexican government takes the steps required to make it possible for its people to open businesses and participate in its own thriving economy, her people will always swarm across the border. Mexico is not a third world country by nature, but rather by design. Do you think it’s an accident that this “world economy” is tanking? When you systematically reduce the incomes of so many people, there is no fuel for the economic engine. The truth is that if people don’t spend money, the economy lags. When banks lend money to people who can’t pay it back, the likelihood is that they will fold. All of this is happening in the name of corporate greed. As an American, I am profoundly ashamed that instead of fostering a trade and industry model that would enrich not only Americans, but people all over the world, my government has chosen instead to condemn us all to a third world existence. As for a boycott of Mexican oil, well, maybe not. I will however be turning my thermostat way down this winter, as will most of my friends and family. As for walking to work, I live 8/10ths of a mile from my job, so maybe that’s not a bad idea. Good for my heart, too. As for American companies who participate in this dastardly scheme, I stand by my commitment to boycott them. In fact, I consider it my responsibility to do everything in my power to dismantle this atrocity. And unless you profit from it, so should you. Do you profit from it? Posted by: melena29 on October 16, 2008 08:21 PMDon't think for a minute, if things get really bad in Mexico, that many millions won't trek north to get a Postville Followup: Illegal Employers Hate the Party Being Over "Welcome to ground zero of the nation's immigration Once again, thanks to ICE and Homeland Security for cracking down on illegal labor racketeering and identity fraud. As Stein Report bloggers know, I was early in praising Secretary Chertoff and the Bush Administration after they began turning the tide on enforcement. Now our President can hang his hat on an enduring legacy: the first administration to actually crack down on this enormous, built-up problem of immigration...and before it became a national catastrophe. I don't mean to minimize how much damage has been done through unchecked immigration, and I understand the cynical perspective that this is all merely designed to fatten us up for the Big Amnesty, but the White House, Homeland Security and ICE deserve our praise for doing a tough and critical job at this time. We need to keep up the heat, too, or during the next Administration we'll likely be nostalgic for the good 'ol days of Bush Administration enforcement. Posted by: Concerned Citizen on October 14, 2008 02:23 PMAS I HAVE SAID, WITH THE TWO OPEN BORDER NUTS WE HAVE RUNNING FOR PREZ, THIS KIND OF ENFORCEMENT COULD BE STOPPED, AND REVERSED BACK TO THE STATUS QUO. IN OTHER WORDS, JUST LOOK THE OTHER WAY, TO PLEASE THEIR CORPORATE MASTERS. Posted by: American Me on October 14, 2008 03:12 PMI think it is time for the Meat Packers Union to organize and replace the illegal alien leeches with American citizens. Posted by: Rick S on October 14, 2008 05:11 PM1 EMPLOYER TAKEN CARE OF 300,000 left to go. Posted by: Softwarengineer on October 14, 2008 06:01 PMGood! and I hope we see more such crackdowns. I am sick of what is happening in our country. Legal immigration/refugee status is an outdated system that needs to be reformed. Illegal immigration is nothing but a farce that needs to be stopped any way possible. Posted by: Born American on October 14, 2008 08:38 PMNo sympathy for the church pastor, the mayor, the school principal or anyone who knew there were illegals in that town. They should have nabbed the 300 that got away. If they needed 3,000 to corral and arrest the 300 then do it!!!!! Posted by: Sick 'n Tired on October 15, 2008 02:18 PMWooldridge: What If We Had Open Borders? "What if the U.S. opened its borders to Thanks, Frosty. We can always count on your voice of reason in this morass of insanity we call illegal immigration. It continually occurs to me that those who need to be running the country are not anywhere near Washington D.C. Posted by: June on October 14, 2008 02:51 PMWE WOULD BE A THIRD WORLD CESS-POOL JUST LIKE MEXICO. AND CIVIL WAR IN THE STREETS! Posted by: American Me on October 14, 2008 03:02 PMWith Juan McAmnesty and No-Bama, open borders is very possible and could happen. Posted by: Independent Voter on October 14, 2008 03:51 PMWe have to get out of the square peg-round hole garbage insanity that is political correctness and corporate America and is killing middle class Americans. The square peg will never fit in unless you dramatically modify the hole. Middle class Americans have nothing to apologize for and for those around the world who think we need to change who we are for the benefit of "the citizens of the world" then S&&&& YOU! Posted by: Future Day Laborer on October 14, 2008 03:52 PMDEPRESSION DECAY We will never have an economic recovery with higher real estate prices and higher wages without immediate depopulation today. To add more continuous population growth to America is a clear recipe for a depression with no end that keeps worsening. Posted by: Softwarengineer on October 14, 2008 05:52 PMUnfortunately, most of our elected officials don't seem to care about the future of this country. They only seem to be worried about where their next donation or free ride will come from. I try to make statements in stores about all the items from China. I will ask if American made items are available. Very little response, or statments like "what's the difference." Americans have to stop being the quiet citizen who is used to not speaking up. Get angry when you think of all the millions of dollars of our tax money going to not-for-profit groups like ACORN that want to overthrow our government. Obama has had a big roll in that organization. Illinois is going to vote on a Continental Convention and my inclination is to say "no" because we have so many crooked politians in Illinois to begin with. When I saw Muslim protest groups with signs calling to change the State constitution, I am definitely voting "no." Posted by: liz on October 14, 2008 05:59 PMYeah, but La Raza will tell you we're not as crowded as Great Britain. Of course, Britain actually has more people per square mile than China. Most British people live in some tiny apartment. Just don't mention a fence though. That's an insult to those who insist that they really are for border enforcement, but they don't actually call for enforcement and condemn those who do. It's kind of like the "reform" thing. What they really mean, but won't say, is they want amnesty for all those "undocumented" people. Posted by: Leland on October 14, 2008 08:56 PMIf they do not deport and secure the border NOW! We will be living in a third world country. Our children will be standing in bread lines. So to all those idiot liberals who pander to the invaders... GET A CLUE OUR FUTURE IS AT STAKE!!!!!!!! Posted by: KC on October 15, 2008 10:00 AM It seems like we have had open borders for quite some time. When we have a Govt. that is hell-bent on eliminating national sovereinty, embracing globalist agendas and shredding the Constitution, the needs and desires of the Middle Class becomes irrelevant. BOTH political parties seem to want open borders and that is not likely to change. |
to illegal immigration catapulted him to national prominence and influences his views on other issues as he tries to unseat Democratic Congressman Paul Kanjorski, D-11. Barletta, a Republican trying for the second time Nov. 4 to defeat Kanjorski, says government can take some simple steps to deprive illegal immigrants of jobs and housing, leaving them with no choice but to go back to their home countries," the Pocono Record writes. "Barletta's vocal opposition to illegal residents crystallized early in his eight-year run as mayor, when a 14-year-old undocumented resident shot and killed another boy on a local playground. The shooter had a prior criminal record here but was never deported, he said. Barletta says a massive influx of undocumented workers has forced local taxpayers to take on added costs for everything from police overtime, to additional education programs, to rising health care."
financial measures to withstand the winds of crisis from the United States, which this country is heavily dependent on as shown by their daily bilateral trade volume of one billion dollars on average. However, the measures will not completely ward off the impact, say analysts. The difficulties faced by Mexican migrant workers will also complicate the government's strategy. Remittances from Mexicans living in the United States, the country's second largest source of foreign exchange after oil exports, have already shrunk, and experts predict that they will continue to fall," IPS news writes. "The majority of Mexico's exports and imports are tied to the United States, and U.S. consumption and demand directly fuel a large part of the country's manufacturing sector and jobs. Mexico's exports to the United States stand at over 272 billion dollars a year, with manufacturing (largely involving for-export assembly plants) accounting for 81 percent, oil and minerals for 16 percent, and agriculture for most of the rest."
debate -- the tiny town of Postville, Iowa, a rural community of 2,400 tucked into the northeast corner of a state that's 94 percent white. It's a town that's been turned 'topsy turvy,' Mayor Bob Penrod says, since hundreds of heavily armed federal immigration agents swooped in a few months ago and raided its main employer, Agriprocessors, the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant," CNN reports. "It appears, based on 2007 fourth-quarter payroll reports, that approximately 76 percent of the 968 employees of Agriprocessors were using false or fraudulent Social Security numbers in connection with their employment," ICE alleges in its affidavit [. . .] ICE has no apologies for cracking down. 'Local disruption is easy to see and report on. What is less obvious is the devastation caused by the hundreds of illegal aliens who stole the identities of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents,' ICE's Counts said."
unlimited immigration? What if Colorado added another five to ten million or even 20 million people? Let’s face it, California, at one point, housed a mere five million like Colorado. Today, that state features 37.5 million on its way to 60 million. At one point, citizens did not suffer gridlocked traffic, water shortages or air pollution. In the early years, neither did Colorado. The same goes for all cities of the United States," notes Frosty Woolridge in the Denver Post. "Thus, if we opened our borders to save humanity from its horrible fate, an immediate 18 million starving souls could find food and shelter in the USA annually. However, after a mere five years, that equals 90 million added to our country. In 10 years, that equals 180 million people and in 20 years…well, you get the picture. If you think Colorado suffers water shortages, air pollution and gridlock today, you ain’t seen nothing yet!"
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