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    Get real: Migrants aren't our enemies

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    Get real: Migrants aren't our enemies

    Linda Valdez
    The Arizona Republic
    Feb. 19, 2006 12:00 AM

    You're being had, America.

    You're being scared about a made-up enemy.

    The big boys in Washington hope you won't notice what's going on. Their useful idiots, the xenophobic anti-immigrant activists, want you to get drunk on a little covert bigotry. After all, the overt kind just isn't acceptable anymore.

    So "illegal immigrant" becomes code for Mexican. And Mexican - well, you know.

    You know.

    They're not like us. Illegal immigration is part of their grand plan to take over the country. Just look at how they take pride in their heritage!

    Give it rest. They're just like us, only poorer. They're here to bus tables. Illegal immigration is about American industry's addiction to cheap labor.

    But a busboy makes an unconvincing villain, so the immigrant bashers tell you there's something sinister about the way Juan cuts your grass.

    And it isn't just undocumented immigrants who are suspect.

    A Web site of the USA Border Alert lists efforts by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to oppose the House's goofy immigration bill under the heading "Hall of Shame."

    Can you imagine! Using the democratic process to oppose bad legislation. Oh, the shame.

    The Web site doesn't mention others who spoke against the strident House Bill 4437.

    Like Grover Norquist of the Americans for Tax Reform and Bishop Thomas Wenski of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Both urged the House to reject the bill.

    But it passed, and George Bush praised it. You'd think a Christian man would know God is on the migrants' side.

    The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Justice for Immigrants project says "immigrants earn about $240 billion a year, pay about $90 billion a year in taxes and use about $5 billion in public benefits."

    More than 40 religious groups, representing Judaism, Islam and a roll call of Christian denominations from Lutherans to Episcopalians to Mennonites to Baptists to Methodists, signed a statement calling for immigration reform that includes everything the House bill doesn't.

    They want Congress to bring America's 11 million undocumented immigrants into legal status, create a guest-worker program, reunite families and set border policies that are "consistent with humanitarian values."

    As opposed to current border policies that have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of migrants a year in Arizona's deserts.

    As opposed to a fence, which experience shows won't work. There's a strip of high steel fence that runs for 2 1/2 miles between Arizona and Sonora at Nogales. Border Patrol agent Sean King said a team of five agents spends every day fixing the holes that are cut into that fence every night. Five tunnels were found last year. No telling how many haven't been found.

    In addition to building a wall for migrants to cut through and tunnel under, the House bill would make felons of those who are here illegally and slap criminal penalties on those who would give water to migrants in the desert.

    This bill is touted as the necessary strong medicine. That's where the immigrant bashers and their pals in Congress want to keep you intoxicated on their xenophobic brew.

    The word is out that business has been getting a free pass to hire the undocumented. People are wise to that. Bush's director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Julie Myers, told The Republic's Mike Madden that one of her priorities is work-site enforcement.

    She pointed to the Wal-Mart settlement as an example of the "name and shame" publicity that companies want to avoid. Wal-Mart last year agreed to pay $11 million as a result of charges that it contracted with cleaning companies that used undocumented workers.

    But wait. The House bill, the one that's as supposed be so tough, wouldn't allow such fines. It exempts companies from fines for the hiring practices of subcontractors. It also caps fines for any company that hires undocumented immigrants and gives companies a free pass for first-time offenses as long as they had made a good-faith effort to follow the law.

    What company wouldn't say it made a good-faith effort to follow the law? Millions of undocumented workers? Gee, whiz, how did that happen?

    The House sticks it to the migrant as cover for business as usual. The anti-immigrant crowd would like the Senate to follow suit this spring.

    So the relentless vilification of migrant workers continues by those who hope you won't notice what's going on.

    You're being had, America.



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    Who is this reporter, and what are her other articles about?
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    The link should take you to some of her other articles.

    http://localsearch.azcentral.com/sp?key ... nda+Valdez
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    Making the Next President Proud!

    Linda Valdez is playing all her cards, race card, etc. Another example of ultra left-wing biased reporting that will make John Cornyn, Teddy Kennedy, John McCain, and Hillary real proud. Too bad she didn't interview the families of MS-13 gang banger victims. Linda Valdez has a bright future as Hillary's press secretary!

    What part of "We don't owe our jobs to India" are you unable to understand, Senator?

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    Illegal immigration is about American industry's addiction to cheap labor.

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    As opposed to a fence, which experience shows won't work.
    I doubt that any fence built along the border is really designed to work in the first place, but more for image sake.

    And I'd argue that the demand side is an even greater enemy than the supply side, the former would prefer everyone focus on the latter. Obviously Ms. Valdez is looking to protect both sides of the racket.
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    It'll be Monday before I can be sure, but I've got to check this out....

    "She pointed to the Wal-Mart settlement as an example of the "name and shame" publicity that companies want to avoid. Wal-Mart last year agreed to pay $11 million as a result of charges that it contracted with cleaning companies that used undocumented workers.

    But wait. The House bill, the one that's as supposed be so tough, wouldn't allow such fines. It exempts companies from fines for the hiring practices of subcontractors. It also caps fines for any company that hires undocumented immigrants and gives companies a free pass for first-time offenses as long as they had made a good-faith effort to follow the law."

    I'd hate to think that she's right, so I've got to make sure she's wrong. I'm so tired of getting screwed by politicians.

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    You'd think a Christian man would know God is on the migrants' side.
    Huh! No No, God is on my side!! C'mon, I doubt that God is choosing sides on this one.

    The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Justice for Immigrants project says "immigrants earn about $240 billion a year, pay about $90 billion a year in taxes and use about $5 billion in public benefits."
    Strangely, I doubt these figures. I recall one study that total annual costs for illegal immigrants for public services is something like $70 billion, probably about 2 years ago now, and another study that there is something like a $400 billion underground economy, hidden from any federal taxation, largely employing illegal aliens.

    The raving lunatic who authored this garbage employs the usual charges that we are "anti-immigrant", "immigrant bashers", and like so many other of these idiots fails to distinguish the difference between Immigrants and illegal aliens. I have met damn few people in my lifetime that are anti-immigrant, and wouldn't care to. This debate is about illegal aliens, but these idiots, including the Catholic Bishops, refuse to address the real issue. Well, they are just following George's example.

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    Building a wall won't work?? How does anyone KNOW that? We've never yet built a wall. Some sensors that don't work most of the time are in place, but that's not a wall.

    I think a wall will work....I think it would work at least 75% of the time...

    And the other figures that were left out of that sarcastic article would be the 80 BILLION dollars per year that ALL illegal aliens send back to their countries. Money that is no longer circulating in the US....and the 200 BILLION in lost and deflated wages...We haven't yet gotten into all the figures of health care costs brought about by the aliens bringing into our country such diseases as anti-biotic resistant tuberculosis, leprosy, HIV, Hepatitis, parasites etc.

    She needs to stop bashing Americans...we've done too much for too many for too long. No other country in the world would put up with this and we shouldn't either.

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    Building a wall won't work?? How does anyone KNOW that? We've never yet built a wall. Some sensors that don't work most of the time are in place, but that's not a wall.

    I think a wall will work....I think it would work at least 75% of the time...
    And I agree with Roadrunner 150%! People dragging those drugs across in 4 wheel drive vehicles might be stupid enough to run it through a fence once but I doubt if they would try it twice. They wouldn't be able to exit the country with stolen vehicles (and where I live that appears to be the number one crime) either. What good will a stolen HumVee do them if they wreck it? And then there is a little matter of women and kids who walk across the border. Can the average person scale a fence? I don't think so. And even those who can will be slowed down enough so that they are more likely to get caught in the process.

    I think a fence, a wall, any structure that identifies exactly where the border is equates to a big sign saying: THIS IS THE UNITED STATES BORDER. CROSS AT THE LEGAL CROSSING POINTS OR NOT AT ALL!
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    Pinstrawguys

    I was wondering the same thing. Is this in the bill?



    But wait. The House bill, the one that's as supposed be so tough, wouldn't allow such fines. It exempts companies from fines for the hiring practices of subcontractors. It also caps fines for any company that hires undocumented immigrants and gives companies a free pass for first-time offenses as long as they had made a good-faith effort to follow the law."
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