Thread: "Our Addiction to Illegal Immigrants" by Leo Alexa

Our Addiction to Illegal Immigrants by Leo Alexander


If I had it my way, those in this country illegally would be given ninety days to attend to their affairs and leave voluntarily and still retain the right to apply through the proper channels for reentry. Anyone found in this country illegally after the ninety-day grace period would be arrested, deported, and lose the opportunity to return*. For me, this isn’t an issue of race — illegal immigration is a threat to our national security and economy.

Let’s use the District of Columbia as an example. Who do you think did the landscaping, the housekeeping, cooking and dish washing in the hotels and restaurants, manned the parking garages, drove the cabs, worked the street crews, and were the maids, nannies, and chauffeurs for the rich twenty years ago? Black folks. What happened to that sector of the labor force? They have been priced out. Whether we want to admit it or not, this society has become addicted to cheap illegal labor. Take a look around now at who’s managing our parking garages, driving our taxicabs, operating local take-out joints and dry cleaners, as well as all of the lower-level labor and service industry jobs. Don’t even attempt to tell me that all these good people applied for and received visas to come to our city to join the unskilled labor pool; it simply would never happen. So what does this influx of foreign labor leave for the native-born, unskilled Washingtonian? Let’s see, there is record-level, double-digit unemployment figures in most of our urban areas, which directly contributes to broken families, depression, alcohol abuse and drug addiction, increased crime, and recidivism which all feeds one of the nation’s fastest growing industries . . . prisons.

This cycle of addiction began in our economy with the enslavement of Africans; so this is just the twenty-first century’s version of government-sanctioned exploitation. How else do you explain these day-laborer centers popping up all over? Illegal immigrants cannot go to the unemployment office like a legal citizen, so instead of our government arresting them for breaking our immigration laws and deporting them back to their respective countries of origin, they build day-laborer centers for them to organize and to price out the local labor force. I don’t think many of us would have a problem with the seasonal provisionally documented migrant farm worker coming to our country to work in the agricultural industry. But that’s not what’s happening here in the District. These illegal immigrants are taking jobs our citizens not only will do, and want to do, but also have done for generations. You cannot tell me in this information/terrorism age that our government doesn’t know that fake documents are being used to procure labor and which companies are willfully breaking the law. This means that there has to be collusion from the top down.

That brings me to an errand I ran recently to my Brightwood neighborhood Post Office on Georgia Avenue, NW, where I just happened to notice that a couple of things had changed in the last year or so since I’d been there. They now have a special desk by the door to process US passport applications. I’d seen these special counters before, but never this far uptown. Then I noticed something else -- the number of Latinos standing in line with documents to get a US passport. This in and of itself didn’t seem that unusual, given the recent Department of State passport requirement for travelers, except for the fact that they could barely speak English. When it was my turn to be served, I asked the customer service agent, “Are all of these folks here for US passports?â€

I would vote for him. Collusion from the top down is right. Anybody who doubts that might consider being checked for deaf, dumb and blindness. I would add a few things to this proposal of his but since most of our laws are just ink on paper and still people get around them constantly I'm finding that I want much morel legislation than is realistic.

Who benefits most from cheap illegal alien labor? Who detests physical labor and also paying for someone else to do it for them? Who are today's new age slave masters?

Originally Posted by Tbow009

Who benefits most from cheap illegal alien labor? Who detests physical labor and also paying for someone else to do it for them? Who are today's new age slave masters?

My neighbors.

Well they are cutting their own throats. Many people I know do not even have bank accounts any longer. They just go to places like Walmart and put their paycheck on a debit card. The criminality that the banks allow makes it impossible for lower-income people to stay housed with utilities and food on the table - they let unknown entities take unauthorized funds from the accounts in exchange for zero goods or services so that they themselves - the banks, can then charge bogus fees. There was a successful lawsuit against it in the Pittsburgh area but it is nationwide and our criminal government supports the criminal banksters. Despite even the stoopid and criminal MSM highlighting our pleas for relief for years and authors even having best-selling books on this topic the government has done nothing. They must be getting a percentage. Perhaps it is like penny stock for them but it is life-threatening for our citizen poor. They will never move us to a totally cashless society because when the debit cards start having unreasonable rates we will move from them as well - straight to cash and carry only. Well if they do try to make us totally cashless the riots and other lawlessness will instantly begin. I really liked ReggieMay's suggestion of huge fees on people sending monies to their home nation and this may happen without legislation since the banks have made themselves too expensive for most with their constant looting of our accounts. They all just keep shooting themselves in the foot over and over and over. I really do believe that they want to kill the "useless eaters."

Things are much worse than many people recognize. We have spent more than a year going to the bank several times per week to address the criminality. We would have to go on-line, print-out their statement of our account daily - because they would constantly re-arrange things in hopes of catching us for their high fees. We have had to fight and fight and fight - we would have hard copy letters from the bank promising not to let specific bogus businesses into our account ever again. Next day the exact same bogus business is into our account and taking unauthorized funds for reasons unknown. We go on-line and print out the proof and take it into the bank with their own hard-copy letter. So just keeping what little money we have has become a part-time job in itself that we have had to stay on top of on a daily basis for a couple of years now. When we tried to start an account with any other bank we learned that none of them would accept us as clients because of the bad record that this bank has created for us with their own criminality. So in addition to stealing from us daily and weekly through their bogus shell businesses they tried to make us captive to them for eternity by destroying our financial records so that no other institution would take us. So fine, we quit banks altogether.

I don't think many people realize how thorough and complete the looting of the nation and the pillaging and rape of the people is. I got so militant against the banks that I would share our story with every telemarketer, every zombie bill collector - just everybody. This is the type of shameful thing that people think is somehow their own fault. They are too busy to have time to really look at what is going on and they dare not share with co-workers or family for fear of being taken advantage of - many people were grateful for the insight, relieved to know that it is not just them and their fault - I have written politicians about this issue, particularly those running for elective office. I know who is paying them and who they represent and it is not we the people.

For decades I have called the citizen poor "non-citizens" and that is the status that we are all slowly being reduced to - or not so slowly. When somebody like Governor Brewer does something positive for us like she did with SB1070 - I REALLY PAY ATTENTION. It REALLY LIFTS ME UP. SHE HAS MY UNDYING LOYALTY AS A RESULT. (for now anyway.)

I know that this is kind of off topic but not because we are all becoming illegal aliens and slave labor and who is addicted to it?

I'm with you. And yeah....I'm in love with Jan Brewer as a politician.

I think we have to come up with some way to make it so that people at the top of our government are made to SUFFER like we have. Meaning, some way that illegals have a direct impact on them and their personal lives. So that they can get the damn point of why we feel like we do. All of the fat cats are rolling in luxury and entertaining themselves and are never anywhere near living with what we the average person lives with.

Many illegals are working for big businesses. The cheap illegal labor saves them billions. Those businesses are in a high tax bracket. Thus the more profit they make the more money the government collects. But suppose those jobs were held by U. S. citizens or legal residents? Then these big businesses would make less profit because they'd have to pay living wages and benefits. And the government would collect less money because most workers are in a lower bracket.

Originally Posted by Justthatguy

Many illegals are working for big businesses. The cheap illegal labor saves them billions. Those businesses are in a high tax bracket. Thus the more profit they make the more money the government collects. But suppose those jobs were held by U. S. citizens or legal residents? Then these big businesses would make less profit because they'd have to pay living wages and benefits. And the government would collect less money.

No, the government would collect just as much or more money, the legal workers would pay more taxes than the illegals they replaced, this would offset the slightly reduced corporate tax contribution. Plus the government would not be spending any money on illegals or out of work Americans, it would end our current $1 trillion plus budget deficit!!

Originally Posted by Richard

Our Addiction to Illegal Immigrants by Leo Alexander


If I had it my way, those in this country illegally would be given ninety days to attend to their affairs and leave voluntarily and still retain the right to apply through the proper channels for reentry. Anyone found in this country illegally after the ninety-day grace period would be arrested, deported, and lose the opportunity to return*. For me, this isn’t an issue of race — illegal immigration is a threat to our national security and economy.
Leo Alexander is a Black Community organizer running for Mayor of DC

The Congressional Black Caucus has spoken indirectly about this problem. In their December, 2009, letter to Obama the caucus called for diversion of unused T.A.R.P. funds for job training and job creation for American citizens. But the NAACP is still enamored of the rainbow coalition fantasy.

Citizens will have to play the major role in ending illegal immigration, but it's encouraging to see a black American who's not afraid to tell the truth about what happens to the poorest Americans when illegals get the jobs which should be theirs.

Alexander also gives the lie to any claim which Obama could make about actually caring about the poorest Americans.