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From: “Rob La Fontaine” roberto_carlos_melendez@hotmail.com

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Long live the illegal immigrants in the united states! long live the lives of many who are willing to work extremely long hours to have your commodities at a convinient price! long live the poeple who are judged by crossing a border in order to put food to their families’ tables!

for the lack of knowledge about certain issues such as these, America becomes more ignorant day after day thanks to people like yourselves who are more than willing to point fingers at others who only come to this so called great country to work for extremely long hours. No american will be willing to work in the fields for more than 12 hours and get paid minimum wage, no american would be willing to clean hotel rooms day after day for a living and still get paid a ridiculously low amount of money, no american would be willing to spend long hours under the sunlight working on landscaping, bleeding on foreign land to bring bread to the table of their broken households…get a grip and look at the big picture and for once think of others instead of thinking about yourselves. Thats exactly why many are the countries that hate the american way of life…selfish….

you are all ridiculous, not professional, and selfish and are willing to give others one side of the argument…

so unprofessional and disgusting, as an American citizen and resident, you disgust me and great is my shame to have in my country such media…

WorldNetDaily.com

3rd SPP summit shrouded in secrecy

President Bush will interrupt his summer vacation in Crawford, Texas, next week to attend the third summit meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, slated for Aug. 20 and 21 in Montebello, Quebec, at the five- star Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello resort…

READ THE REST!

Americans Oppose Open Border
September 10, 2001
Newsmax.com

It was showcased as a meeting between two presidents who like, trust and admire each other and could thus tackle one of the thorniest issues to face both the United States and its southern neighbor and trading partner Mexico – immigration.

If Social Security is the third rail of American politics, legal and illegal immigration from south of the border rivals it as the trip wire of an explosive issue capable of destroying political careers and dividing the nation and its political parties into warring camps.

Last Wednesday, barely a day after Mexico’s President Vicente Fox arrived for his state visit, Fox unexpectedly lit the fuse and set off the explosion before the two presidents could get down to brass tacks in discussing the presence of millions of illegal Mexican immigrants already in the U.S., and millions more who ache to come here.

Solve the problem before the year 2001 ends, Fox demanded of his host, who had no idea it was coming.

The extent of the problem is illustrated by the fact that since 1970, the number of Mexicans living in the U.S. has swelled from around 800,000 to more than 8 million, half of them illegal, according to BusinessWeek magazine.

Moreover, with the Mexican economy in even worse shape than the U.S. economy, millions more look northward for jobs and a better life. As a result, the tide of illegal immigrants swarming into the U.S. has become an unstoppable wave crashing over the U.S.-Mexico border day and night.

“The cold fact is that we have more undocumented immigrants today than we’ve ever had since they started counting,” Michael Fix, director of immigration studies at the Urban Institute, told BusinessWeek. “It makes sense to rethink the policy.”

PLease read the rest and send it to your U.S. Senator.

Border Patrol Agents, already understaffed taken off patrol to construct fence.

From the Washington Times:

Border Patrol to build fencing
By Jerry Seper and Stephen Dinan

The U.S. Border Patrol is asking for volunteers among its agents to help build fences on the U.S.-Mexico border, even as President Bush is withdrawing half the National Guard troops he sent there last year to build fences.

A memo circulated last week to Border Patrol sector chiefs said fence-building efforts on the Southwest border were going to fall short of Mr. Bush’s goal of finishing 70 miles in fiscal 2007, which ends Sept. 30, “so the Border Patrol is now going back into the fence-building business.”

The memo, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times, called on the chiefs to provide lists of agents who “can and have built fences in the past,” adding that the agency was looking for welders, equipment operators and “anyone else with construction experience.”

“They are moving quickly on this, so your sector’s response will be needed back here by noon tomorrow,” said the Aug. 6 memo, which asked that the entire Border Patrol be canvassed for agents qualified and able to work on fence construction….more

Change of Heart on Immigration? The White House thinks it is calling America’s bluff on illegal immigration

Mark Krikorian on the new White House policy to enforce existing laws. HERE from NRO.

People are begining to understand the “why” on the fact that the American president has refused to secure our borders.

I post below a short column I wrote for MICHNEWS.com on September 6, 2005.

Connect the dots on the true goal of illegal immigration

Connect the dots on the true goal of illegal immigration
By D.A. King
MichNews.com
Sep 6, 2005

“By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America.” George W. Bush…Presidential candidate, August 2000, in a speech on Latin America in Miami Florida.

Where ever I go, people who are paying even a little attention to the invasion and colonization of our nation ask me the same question: “Why is our government allowing this to go on”?

I normally give the short answer…”follow the money” I say – and hope that it is enough for most to connect at least some of the dots.

Not everyone pays enough attention to do so.

The issue of illegal immigration is closely related to the erosion of United States sovereignty.

Our intentionally unsecured borders and our government’s deliberate and unapologetic lack of enforcement of our immigration and employment laws is merely a necessary step to a much larger goal – a “New America” in a “North American Community.”

A New America that would replace the traditional self-governing “Old America” for which our founders sacrificed and our grandfathers fought to pass on.

In March 2005, President George W. Bush and the leaders of Mexico and Canada announced the establishment of the “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America”. This represents the official public beginning of an ongoing series of agreements and implementations aimed at combining the economies, populations and cultures of the nations of North America into a borderless “North American Free Trade Zone”.

Think: “I pledge allegiance to the Continent and to the Commerce for which it stands.”

Along with mass, uncontrolled immigration, legal and illegal, trade agreements are a favored tool in the transformation. The North American Free trade Agreement [NAFTA], the recently passed Central Free Trade Agreement [CAFTA], and the looming attempt to put the Free Trade Area of the Americas [FTAA] in place would guarantee a unending “free flow” of goods and people across our traditional borders.

While most Americans expect to pass on to their children a nation of law, with defined, secured borders – and a common language, the Globalist elite who are actually making the decisions concerning our future have a far different America in mind..

..Please read the rest here.

The TAR site has been dormant and not updated for more than a year…

The Seattle Times on the effect of illegal labor on prices, from last year.

Low-paid illegal work force has little impact on prices
By Drew DeSilver

Seattle Times business reporter

More than 7 million illegal immigrants work in the United States. They build houses, pick crops, slaughter cattle, stitch clothes, mow lawns, clean hotel rooms, cook restaurant meals and wash the dishes that come back.

You might assume that the plentiful supply of low-wage illegal workers would translate into significantly lower prices for the goods and services they produce. In fact, their impact on consumer prices — call it the “illegal-worker discount” — is surprisingly small.
The bag of Washington state apples you bought last weekend? Probably a few cents cheaper than it otherwise would have been, economists estimate. That steak dinner at a downtown restaurant? Maybe a buck off. Your new house in Subdivision Estates? Hard to say, but perhaps a few thousand dollars less expensive.
The underlying reason, economists say, is that for most goods the labor — whether legal or illegal, native- or foreign-born — represents only a sliver of the retail price….THE REST HERE.
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The media is now on a full court press to make America believe that we will somehow perish as nation if we secure our borders ( Bush will never secure our borders) and enforce our immigration and employment laws. It is the warm-up for the next amnesty attempt. Below is just one of dozens of stories in the media from the last few days on how threatening to the profiteering business community it is to begin to eliminate illegal labor.

If anybody knows Tommy Bagwell or this Hively person, please convey my disgust and contempt to them? If I see either or both in the Georgia Capitol next session, I will happily tell them myself.

Michael Hively, general manager and chief financial officer of Glennville-based Bland Farms, said illegal workers are necessary to the economy.

“I think we’re all being pretty narrow-minded when we sit back and say we don’t need this illegal work force,” he said. “Let’s face it. It’s a part of our culture and economy. So I think as a country we need to figure out how to deal with it instead of passing laws to put more pressure on employers.”

Tommy Bagwell, chief executive of American Proteins, a poultry by-products rendering business in Cumming, said illegal immigrant labor is indispensable in the U.S. economy for business and homeowners.

“Everybody better learn how to run your lawnmower because there ain’t going to be nobody to cut your grass,” he said

More from today’s AJC:

Georgia firms bracing for big headaches: ID crackdown would hurt hospitality, chicken processing and farming, say business owners and economic analysts.Found in The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Written by Marilyn Geewax
Posted on 2007-08-11

Georgia firms bracing for big headaches: ID crackdown would hurt hospitality, chicken processing and farming, say business owners and economic analysts.

By Marilyn Geewax
Cox Washington Bureau

Published on: 08/11/07

Washington —- The Bush administration’s new crackdown on illegal immigration could have a devastating impact on key industries in Georgia, business and legal experts said Friday.

Forcing companies to fire employees whose Social Security numbers and names don’t match government records may disrupt the state’s agricultural, construction and hospitality industries, they predicted.

“I think there will be a fairly significant impact on employers,” said David Whitaker, executive director of the Georgia Employers’ Association, a Macon-based organization that provides members with management and human resource services.

Under current laws, “you could be penalized for doing too much investigation,” because employees could sue for discrimination, he said. “Now the pendulum is going to swing the other way.”

Foreign-born workers make up 11.9 percent of Georgia’s civilian work force, Census Bureau figures show, and two-thirds of those are noncitizens, including many illegal immigrants.

The top occupations for foreign-born workers in Georgia are construction, manufacturing, and professional, scientific, management, administrative and waste management services.

Michael Lucas, who heads the labor and employment practice of the Birmingham office of Burr & Forman LLP, said much of the Southern economy could be hit hard by the new rules.

While the impact will be felt in the Northeast in places such as restaurants and golf courses, he said, the South has entire industries that depend heavily on immigrant labor, such as chicken processing, vegetable growing and hospitality.

“I think you’ll see the major impact on small- to medium-sized businesses,” he said. “This greatly increases the risks,” so they will have to fire illegal workers, he said. Read the rest here…from Jerry Gonzalez’ Websitesite. Thanks Jerry! BTW, again: Do you get paid per illegal alien…or is a salary draw sort of arrangement? We hope the former…

Feds go after illegal workers: Firms face fines if they ignore warnings about false Social Security numbers. The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Written by Eunice Moscoso

By Eunice Moscoso Cox Washington Bureau Published on: 08/11/07

Washington —- The Bush administration on Friday announced a broad crackdown on illegal immigration, including increased fines or criminal prosecution for companies that hire illegal workers. The rules drew heavy criticism from immigrant advocates, labor unions and business groups. But they received cautious praise from conservatives, who have long advocated using existing laws to crack down on undocumented border …[Read More…from Jerry’s site….thanks Jerry!]

All, for those of you who did not read the guest column in this week’s AJC from U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, I link to it here from Jerry’s site ( thanks Jerry). Below is my letter to the editor at the AJC that is published today. I cannot say it enough, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO SEND LETTERS TO EDITORS OF OUR LOCAL NEWSPAPERS, THE LETTERS SECTION IS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT ELECTED OFFICIALS READ…OR SHOULD BE.

Specter doesn’t get it on crisis

Arlen Specter is hilarious proof – again – of the disconnect on the illegal immigration crisis between the American people and those elected to represent and protect them in Washington. He clearly does not “get it”.

Americans will never again stand quietly by while politicians reward illegal aliens with amnesty and green cards.

His clueless admission that taking the millions of illegal aliens out of ‘fugitive status’ must be the price of Congress appropriating the money to begin to secure American borders and the American workplace is astonishing. And totally un acceptable.

No one thought that Bush and those in Congress who ask “how high?” when their corporate masters say “jump” would give up on amnesty, but few thought them brazen enough to begin the warm-up process just a month after the American people made their own position so clear.

( text that was edited out of original letter to AJC, I like my version better –Most illegals could care less about American citizenship. They come for the money. Jobs that pay five times as much as at home, free education and medical care in their own language and near immunity to prosecution is understandably hard to resist. The criminal employers want the bargain priced labor at any cost…including their children’s national future.)

That Specter has been sent out to start the amnesty attempt so soon brilliantly illustrates the importance it holds to the Washington elite…the American people be damned. ( End of printed letter)

( Edtited out of original letter – This should be interesting to watch during the coming presidential campaigns…how many ways can a candidate – and an editorial page editor – be for legalization but against amnesty? We look forward to counting.)

D.A. King

King is president of the Dustin Inman Society, a Marietta -based non-profit organization actively opposed to illegal immigration.