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| Russell Pearce - My Contract With Arizona |
| 2006-04-25 |
| Excerpt: *Secure our Borders. *Local law enforcement must enforce the law. *Go after employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens (a felony) and compete illegally and unfairly against the honest employer, take away state licenses. *Put the National Guard and assign DPS to work the border area and cooperate and assist the federal government. *Eliminate Public Benefits for those here illegally. Require proof of eligibility applicants on ALL public benefits before citizens tax dollars are given away. Until the day I die, I will insist that 'illegal' is 'illegal'." Illegal Aliens cost taxpayers $69 Billion annually (just in social services) in federal programs in 2002. Studies estimate that amnesty would increase that three fold. Perhaps as high as 80% of the violent crime in Phoenix area involves illegal aliens (according to Phoenix Chief Hurt and Mesa police violent crimes response team) Over 4000 homicide warrants issued by the border states to suspects who are believed to have fled south of the border into Mexico. $311 Billion in uncollected taxes (Barron's study). $200 Billion annually in-lost American wages. Native-born American men lost an average of $1700 in wages in 2000 due to US immigration policy (Harvard University). Sounds like a plan. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 I still insist on prioritizing the solution. All too often, a hundred solutions are proposed simultaneously, with the intent that *none* of them will be carried out. The idea is to muddy the water so much that it mollifies the public, who don't like complex issues. Build the wall. Just build the wall. Accept no excuses, alternatives or additions. Not some jive "electronic wall", either. A real, physical wall. If you do that, many of the other problems take care of themselves. It is a singular solution that we should concentrate on. It is a solution acceptable to most Americans. It is not racist, it is national. Even most Mexicans living here are at least accepting of the idea. Ironically, the first thing we will have to do once it is built is to set up a guest worker regime 10 times larger than the one we already have. Legal workers who can unionize, demand and receive all other fair labor benefits, etc., unlike illegal workers who are often used as near slaves. If they are legal, there is no incentive to hiring them if Americans want the job. But if no American is willing, then they are there. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-04-25 17:39 |