Sing along with me now; It’s all fun, being an illegal alien.

 

Commentary:     Free K-12 education, in-state resident status for secondary education, free medical care, medical insurance, section 8 housing with rent control, IRS supplied ITIN’s (Individual Taxpayer Identification Number), credit cards, worker’s compensation, unemployment benefits, and a plethora of social services…  The list goes on and on.  We’re the ones that get stuck with the bill.  As long as we keep re-electing state legislators like, Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Phoenix, the costs will keep rising.  Twenty some odd years ago Phil Collins had a song on the radio titled, “It’s no fun being an illegal alien.” Remember?  Not too surprisingly, probably due to today’s overly politically correct culture; you can’t find that song ANYWHERE.  It appears to have been pulled off the shelves and erased from history.  Much like the illegal alien “suffering” it represented.  My, how twenty years, a slew of liberal legislators and a whole hell of a lot of our money, can change things.  Wouldn’t it have been a lot cheaper to just buy a bunch more border patrol agents, a brand new fence and a huge fleet of buses?  But then hind site is always 20/20 isn’t it.

The Costs of Illegal Immigration To Arizonans

Executive Summary

Analysis of the latest Census data indicates that Arizona’s illegal immigrant population is costing the state’s taxpayers about $1.3 billion per year for education, medical care and incarceration. Even if the estimated tax contributions of illegal immigrant workers are subtracted, net outlays still amount to about $1.3 billion per year. The annual fiscal burden borne by Arizonans amounts to more than $700 per household headed by a native-born resident. This analysis looks specifically at the costs of education, health care and incarceration because they represent the largest cost areas and because a 1994 study conducted by the Urban Institute, which also examined these same costs, provides a useful baseline for comparison ten years later. Other studies have been conducted in the interim, showing trends that support the conclusions of this report.As this report will note, other significant costs associated with illegal immigration exist and should be taken into account by federal and state officials. But even without accounting for all of the multitude of areas in which costs are being incurred by Arizona taxpayers, the programs analyzed in this study indicate that the burden is substantial and that the costs are rapidly increasing.The $1.3 billion in costs incurred by Arizona taxpayers is comprised of outlays in the following areas:

• Education. Based on estimates of the illegal immigrant population in Arizona and documented costs of K-12 schooling, Arizonans spend approximately $820 million annually on education for illegal immigrant children and for their U.S.-born siblings.
• Health Care.Uncom-pensated medical outlays for health care provided to the state’s illegal alien population is now estimated at about $400 million a year.
• Incarceration. The cost of incarcerating illegal aliens in Arizona prisons and jails amounts to about $80 million a year (not including the monetary costs of the crimes that led to their incarceration).

The unauthorized immigrant population pays some state and local taxes that go toward offsetting these costs, but they do not come near to matching the expenses. The total of such payments might generously be estimated at $257 million per year.

The fiscal costs of illegal immigration do not end with these three major cost items. The total costs of illegal immigration to the state’s taxpayers would be considerably higher if other costs such as special English instruction, school nutrition programs, or welfare benefits for American workers displaced by illegal alien workers were added into the equation.

Check out these links for a start, they will lead you to others.  Do some calculations and heavy sighing for yourself.

www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.htm

www.cis.org/articles/2002/back1202.html

www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/isacrime.html

The Invasion Has been Going On for Quite Some Time; What have you Done To Stop It?

 Commentary:     The article below is EIGHT years old.  How much more time are you willing to give these criminal invaders.  Stop allowing yourselves to be lulled into complacency by the bleeding heart do gooders that are willing to hand over our culture, our economy and our sovereignty in the name of  some twisted idealists moronic sense of political correctness.  The time for discourse is past.  The enemy pictured above understands what needs to be done to advance their cause.  It’s time we have a revolution of our own if that is what is needed, and many believe it is.  Stand up and fight!  Or at least support those that are willing to do it for you.

DENVER POST

PERSPECTIVE

SUNDAY, March 21, 1999

Immigrant Reoccupation of Southwest
I’m not sure when I began to feel the United States was being overrun, invaded if you will, by illegals from Mexico. Perhaps it was almost a decade ago after an eight-hour tour of duty I spent with U.S. Border Patrol agents in El Paso.

Or maybe I began thinking that way during a week I spent with Immigration and Naturalization agents in San Diego a couple of years ago when the border patrol agents were being fired on by snipers sighting in on them from across the way in Mexico.

Then again, it could have been last summer in Nogales, Ariz., where again, in the company of U.S. Border Patrol agents, I witnessed in amazement the apprehension of Mexican nationals slipping into the United States throughout the city’s sewer system.

Like most U.S. citizens vested in the sovereignty of the our nation, today I am alarmed and outraged at the enormity of the problem.

I recently viewed a documentary produced by Voice of Citizens Together (VCT), the largest grass-roots immigration reform organization in Los Angeles country, and it motivated me to speak again. “Immigration: Threatening the Bonds of Our Union: Part 1: Courage and Capitulation in California,” indisputably shows how the Republican Party failed to win the recent gubernatorial race in California because candidate Dan Lungren didn’t address the issue of illegal immigration.

It’s not an easy documentary to watch, but watch it one must to fully grasp the pox liberal Democrats have wrought on the Southwest in their ceaseless effort to create a peasant victim class. The documentary uses actual local news clips from California and across the U.S. to illustrate the demographic war that is threatening the bond between California and the rest of America.

Included in “Bonds” are sound bites out of the mouths of politicians like former Republican Rep. Bob Dornan who was bested at the polls by Loretta Sanchez, a young, Hispanic and so-called moderate Democrat. After seeking to cut a deal with the Hispanic political jaguarundi, hot on this heals, and with poor showing in the polls, Dornan asserted that Mexican illegals had been assembled for the express purpose to vote for Sanchez. Unfortunately for him, it was too little too late.

Another sound bite in “Bonds” is from the Mexican consul general at a meeting at the Southwestern School of Law, in which he call for the reoccupation of the southwestern United States by Mexico. His bold threat made the front page of The New York Times.

“Bonds” also includes the 1996 Fourth of July network television coverage of an attack on Anglos–white Americans–by Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals in favor of the reoccupation of California and other parts of the U.S. Southwest. They claimed the land still belonged to Mexico.

The fact is illegal Mexican immigration in southern California has transformed that state–with the help of liberal socialist Democrats–into an unofficial province of the Republic of Mexico. But most Americans find such an absurdity too far-fetched to believe.

Has the United States been invaded? Don’t take my word for it. Get a copy of “Bond” from VCT at 800-600-600-8642. You review it and decide for yourself.

Ken Hamblin (BAC@CIS.COMPUSERVE.COM. Web page: http://www.hamblin.com) writes Tuesday and Sundays in the Post and hosts a syndicated radio talk show.

Illegal Alien Terrorists Deserve Worse

Commentary:     I ”borrowed” the above image from USA Border Alert .  If you are one that just can’t seem to wrap your mind around the fact that many of the illegal alien protesters are terrorists… they’ve got some video and pictures to prove it.   If that doesn’t change your mind, the invader’s own manifesto, El Plan de Aztlan will certainly send you to the local gun shop in search of a couple assault rifles and a few thousand rounds of ammo.  We legal Arizona citizens have become so complacent as to give the invaders a strong foothold on their aspirations.  It is past time to wake up and take a stand to secure Arizona.  Illegal aliens are the foot soldiers infiltrating our state and country as the preparation for what is planned.  Illegal immigration is only the tip of the iceberg for the movement that will follow.  House bill 2752 is a legislative step in the right direction. 

Side note:  The headline writer for the Mohave Daily News must also be a proud subscriber to the style guide to writing a sensitive immigrant story.  Migrants?  When I go do an out of town job, I’m a migrant.  These people are Illegal Aliens!

Migrant terrorist bill gains support

By Dominika Maslikowski/The Daily News

BULLHEAD CITY – A group of Republican state politicians want to classify illegal immigrants as domestic terrorists if they “intimidate” or “threaten” U.S. citizens during a protest.

House bill 2752 would also classify illegal immigrants who are members of a criminal gang or drug cartel as domestic terrorists and classify violations as felonies.

All three state politicians who represent Bullhead City’s district in Phoenix support the bill, while the Mohave County Minutemen say it’s an important step in combating illegal immigration.

State Sen. Ron Gould, who is co-sponsoring the bill, says it would give law enforcement “another tool in their toolbox to go after illegal immigration.”

“It actually strengthens the penalty against illegal aliens committing crime in the U.S.,” Gould said. “And we’d all agree if we have an illegal alien who’s threatening a U.S. citizen or joining a street gang, that he’s not here for a job. A lot of times we hear people on the left say they’re just here for work.”

Gould said there might be opposition, but he’s confident the bill will pass the house and senate. He said if the bill passes, it might make Arizona the first state that classifies such illegal immigrants as domestic terrorists.

State Rep. Nancy McLain (R-Bullhead City) said the bill is a response to a recent measure that proposed to classify the anti-immigration Minuteman Civil Defense Corps volunteer group as domestic terrorists.

She said many residents living along the Arizona-Mexico border experience “terrorism” when illegal immigrants or drug smugglers pass through their property and intimidate the landowners or steal.

“That really can be classified as terrorism because they do, in fact, terrorize people,” she said. “Terrorism is a legitimate way to put that.”

Local members of the Mohave County Minutemen, a group inspired by the national volunteer group who work to deter illegal border crossings, say the bill will give them security at protests.

“It would definitely make me feel safer,” said founder Virginia Hilton. “When we had our rally (on Feb. 3) I got followed after that and I wound up having to call 911 and filing a police report because someone waited after the rally and followed my car.

“These pro-immigrant groups that are trying to make this into a civil rights thing are completely wrong because civil rights are a different thing. They’re here for people who are here legally.”

“The fight is still long and there’s a lot to do, but there’s hope because of these politicians stepping up,” said founder Luca Zanna. “Terrorists are not just people who use violence to intimidate somebody. There’s also economic terrorism.”

Arizona Liberal Media Consistant in “Open Door Policy” or, Take our Country, Please!

 

Commentary:  I have read all sorts of liberal tear jerking propaganda in regards to the illegal ALIEN infestation of Arizona, but this left wing loony takes the cake!  Congratulations Billie, I see you have followed the style guide to writing a sensitive immigrant story to the letter.  First of all, they are not illegal immigrants; they are illegal “Aliens”.  An immigrant belongs here, an Alien does not.  Therefore, they are “Alienated”.  Get it?  Secondly, why must you tearful wanna be do gooders insist on calling them hispanic?  Hispanics come from Spain or of Latin origin.  What is coming across our border in droves are spanish speaking Indians.  The political correctness of people like the writer and her ilk, irks me to my last nerve.  Their PC outlook and mindset is the basis of the problems we have in this state and country.  If but only we had the very same immigration policy that Mexico implements, illegal immigration to the U.S. would be a frivolous inconvenience.  Maybe someone should inform Ms. Stanton that the United States already protects, “everyone, of every race”.  If you or I were to be the victim of a crime in Mexico, we would have no rights and certainly nobody out to provide us with justice.  If you or I were to be deemed by the Mexican government to be in their country illegally, the best we could hope for would be an immediate expulsion.  Most likely we would be held by the corrupt government for ransom until our next of kin could ante up.  Unlike our “friends” south of the border, The U.S. is the only country to grant EVERYBODY, even those here illegally the same constitutional rights afforded it’s citizens.  That MUST change.  One thing we can both agree on is the fact that Arizona appears to be ground zero in respect to the invasion of our southern border by Mexico.  Therefore, it only stands to reason that Arizona would be the epicenter of the animosity that is held for these invaders.  I agree with the writer in the respect that racism is coming into play here, as is only natural when dealing with an overwhelming force bent on drastically changing our economic vitality not to mention the social values of our country. 

Stanton: No one safe from border hate crimes

Billie Stanton
Tucson Citizen

With anti-illegal immigrant forces roiling, Arizona now has a dubious distinction.
More hate crimes are investigated here than anywhere else by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The Montgomery, Ala.-based center first won renown for probing race-based crimes in the South.
Alas, the South has got nothing on us these days.
“We’re spending more energy covering Arizona than almost the rest of the country – much more than any other state,” reports SPLC Director of Investigations Michael Potok.
Law enforcement officials blame rival immigrant smugglers for last week’s violence against illegal immigrants.
But others say the anti-illegal immigrant hatred saturating southern Arizona cannot be discounted.   At the very least, it enables these crimes to occur.
Thursday near Tucson, gunmen stopped a truckful of illegal immigrants, shot three to death and wounded a Guatemalan and a Mexican.
The attack came on the heels of a Wednesday night incident on the border near Sasabe, where 18 illegal immigrants were robbed at gunpoint by four heavily armed men wearing ski masks.
And both attacks echo another near Eloy on Jan. 27, in which four men confronted 12 illegal immigrants, killed an Eloy man and shot a teenager.
The Eloy assault was waged by four men – three whites and a Hispanic who spoke limited Spanish – who were wearing military-style berets and camouflage clothing, witnesses told authorities.
From Mexico City on Friday, Gov. Janet Napolitano vowed that the shooting deaths near Tucson would be thoroughly investigated.
Mexican officials had released a statement Friday demanding justice for the victims.
Law enforcement, as well as several humanitarian border workers, say these crimes surely were committed by rival smugglers or robbers seeking to take advantage of people migrating illegally.
Potok and Tucson lawyer Isabel Garcia aren’t so sure.
“If vigilantes are out there murdering people, no one’s safe. Some of these people are quite willing to point a gun in the face of a U.S. citizen, particularly if that citizen has brown skin,” says Potok.
“And the Barnett case showed that if you have brown skin, you better look out.”
Roger Barnett, who owns and leases 22,000 acres in southern Arizona, has bragged about capturing more than 10,000 people who crossed his land.
In November, an Arizona jury ordered him to pay $98,750 to a family of U.S. citizens whom he terrorized in 2004.
Ronald Morales had been hunting with his father, Arturo, and daughters, ages 9 and 11, and another 11-year-old girl, when Barnett confronted and threatened them Oct. 30, 2004, testimony showed.
Although a Cochise County sheriff’s deputy had evidence to charge Barnett with eight felony counts of aggravated assault, the county prosecutor declined to file charges.
Barnett and his brother, Donald, own a tow-truck company that contracts with the Border Patrol, and both are former sheriff’s deputies, the SPLC notes.
The case is the latest in a string of hate-based crimes against illegal immigrants.
Arizona’s border region has become an incubator for race-based hatred, attracting national attention, none of it flattering.
“I wouldn’t dismiss the notion that these are hate crimes,” says Garcia, a longtime humanitarian and lawyer for illegal immigrants.
“If it is vigilantes, I think they are trying to put fear in Mexicans and to throw all of us off to blame smugglers and continue to militarize this border.
“Most politicians will look at these incidents and say we need more agents, we need a virtual wall, and on and on.”
But it is the militarization of our border, begun in 1994, that has funneled illegal immigrants into a few narrow and extremely dangerous crossing routes.
Such “enforcement first” tactics clearly don’t thwart illegal immigration; they merely make aspiring immigrants more vulnerable, whether to criminals or deaths in our rugged desert.
Until Congress and President Bush enact a guest worker program, which would cut the need to immigrate illegally, Arizonans had best buckle their seat belts.
Violence against immigrants inevitably spills over onto U.S. citizens, too, as the Barnett case illustrates.

Unless we protect everyone, of every race, no one is safe.

Payson Town Council VS. “Radical” Press

 

Commentary:  Ok, let me get this straight;  If a municipality chooses to enforce the laws as they already exist and have for decades, it’s RADICAL!?  What is “Radical”, is that Mr. Rodriguez is treating this story as a strange oddity.  I think the Payson Town Council is on exactly the right track.  My only question to them would be why didn’t you do this years ago.  I don’t fault Mr. Rodriguez in any way for wanting to get the word out to his viewers after all, any convenience store robber with half a brain would have a lookout.  Mr. Rodriguez is fulfilling his duties admirably.  As far as his being “surprised” that illegal aliens are appearently not welcome in Payson; let me clue you in on something sir, they’re not welcome ANYWHERE in this country.  As far as Police Chief Gartner’s unsure stance on the issue, He needs only to request a bit more funds from Mayor Edwards and the rest of the Town Council.  Then, when an illegal alien reports a crime he can say, “Thank you, we will send an officer out right away… would you step into the bus please?” 

Spanish-language station airs story about  Payson’s immigration ordinance

By Michael Maresh, Roundup staff reporter

Radical.

That’s how one Valley television station characterized Payson on Friday when a news crew drove up to do a story on a possible town ordinance cracking down on illegal immigration.

Univision 33 reporter Victor Rodriguez and camera man Jenaro Delgadillo spent several hours in Payson Friday after hearing the town was considering an ordinance to take away business licenses from employers who hire undocumented workers and penalize landlords who rent to them.

Univision is a Spanish-language station broadcast on Channel 47 on Cablevision. The piece aired at 5 p.m. Friday.

Rodriguez, carrying a Payson Roundup article he pulled from the Internet, spoke with the community development department, Police Chief Gordon Gartner and Mayor Bob Edwards.

Town Attorney Sam Streichman declined the station’s request for an interview.

Rodriguez said the recent article on illegal immigration shows the Town of Payson is radical.

He said he was able to go to a construction site and interview a few workers who were working and living in the town illegally.

He was surprised that Payson’s stance appears to be that illegal immigrants are not welcome in the town. 

The topic is and has been a hot button issue, he said, and added he wanted to tell his viewers about the possible ordinance the town legal department is drafting.

When the police chief was asked what he thought of legislation that is being pushed by Rep. Russell Pierce from the Arizona House of Representatives, about making law enforcement responsible for illegal immigrants, Gartner said he was not sure his department has the resources to take on the additional responsibility.

Rodriguez also wanted to know if it concerned the police chief that illegal immigrants would be wary of coming forward to report a crime for fear of being deported.

“We want to explore what is going on today in Payson,” Rodriguez said. “Immigration is a hot issue in Arizona with anti-illegal immigration bills (being proposed).” He mentioned that four immigration bills were approved in the last session.

“(Our viewers) want to know what is going on,” he said.

Mayor Edwards stressed that the Payson Town Council has nothing against Mexican nationals or illegal immigrants as people.

“What we are looking at is an even playing field,” he said.