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    This horrid article ran in today's Dallas Morning News

    http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... 2afec.html

    I emailed the author back at the end of her article

    Mercedes Olivera:
    Immigration bill cause for alarm
    11:47 AM CST on Sunday, December 18, 2005
    During this season of peace and hope, some Republican lawmakers have brought anger to many U.S. households by introducing new immigration legislation.
    The House bill, introduced by U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., would criminalize as many as 11 million illegal immigrants, including 3 million children; deny due process rights; and harm U.S. businesses and communities that would lose employees overnight without any way to replace them, immigrant advocates and legal experts say.
    It would make every violation of immigration law a federal crime and make illegal immigrants ineligible for legalization.
    What has also alarmed many is an amendment being considered for inclusion that would deny citizenship to those babies born in this country if their parents don't have the papers to prove they are in this country legally.
    In Dallas, it could affect as many as 10,000 babies born at Parkland Memorial Hospital each year and 380,000 nationwide.
    The provisions of HR 4437 are so severe that it has alarmed and united a diverse group of opponents from all sides of the political spectrum: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Immigration Forum, Americans for Tax Reform and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, to name a few.
    "This bill is devastating to not just the Latino community but to all American communities," said Michele Waslin, director of immigration policy research at the National Council of La Raza in Washington, D.C.
    "It makes criminals out of spouses, employers, churches and organizations that help immigrants by broadening the definition of smuggling. Yes, the system is broken, but this is no solution."
    Bernard Weinstein, director of the Center for Economic Development and Research at the University of North Texas in Denton, said criminalizing immigrants would be devastating to the U.S. economy, not just to immigrants.
    "There is overwhelming evidence that their labor is adding to the economic growth of our country," Dr. Weinstein said. "I understand the demands placed on our health care and education systems, but the benefits far outweigh the costs."
    He said the U.S. economy has been creating 200,000 jobs a month for the past couple of years.
    "Without immigrants, the numbers would have been much smaller," he said. "We're all in this economy together."
    Manuel GarcÃÂ*a y Griego, a Mexican-American studies and immigration scholar at the University of Texas at Arlington, compared the proposed legislation to Proposition 187 in California.
    That law, promoted by a Republican governor, passed in 1994 but was largely invalidated in the courts.
    It would have denied health care and education benefits to undocumented immigrants. It ended up galvanizing Latinos to become naturalized and register to vote, and it converted California into a predominantly Democratic state for years to come.
    "Supporters of 187 wanted to attract attention to the issue of immigration, perhaps to distract attention from other issues," Dr. GarcÃÂ*a y Griego said. "I see this as a game. It's scapegoating."
    Ms. Waslin agreed.
    "There are Republicans and Democrats working on real solutions," she said. "The people who are supporting this bill just want to look tough on immigration for the next election."
    But Roberto Calderón, a UNT history professor, warned that it is a "very dangerous kind of political posturing."
    Mexican-Americans, especially, have been down this road before, and many have not forgotten the journey.
    Dr. Calderón pointed to the Great Depression of the 1930s, when as many as 2 million Mexican-American U.S. citizens were forcibly repatriated to Mexico. While the chances of this happening again are remote, Dr. Calderón sees the same kind of attitudes toward Latinos being revived.
    "This is an outrageous debate to be having at the beginning of the 21st century," he said. "This is not subtle stuff. This is in-your-face, a kick-in-the-stomach kind of stuff. And it is very specific to our community.
    "What we need is a rhetoric of justice, but where are the leaders to say it?"
    Mercedes Olivera can be reached at molivera@dallasnews .com or at P.O. Box 655237, Dallas, Texas 75265.

    (My response)
    I read your editorial about HR4437. In it you state "In Dallas, it could affect as many as 10,000 babies born at Parkland Memorial Hospital each year and 380,000 nationwide." I know I'm reading you correctly, you say this is a "bad thing." I have to educate you young lady, this is a good thing.
    When you say 380,000 nationwide and that is in one year, multiply it each and every year and watch the number grow larger from year to year, this is devastating to this nation. I know of a very small community here in Southern Arizona that has to build a new elementary school because they've run out of room for their 14, yes count them 14 kindergarten classes. This is an outrage and you having this public forum to promote and rally for this damage to this wonderful nation is an outrage.

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    Illegal aliens remain exempt from American laws, while they DEMAND American rights...

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    "During this season of peace and hope, some Republican lawmakers have brought anger to many U.S. households by introducing new immigration legislation. "

    Yea, anger because it was not stronger.Mercedes Olivera you don't know your onions. Pack your old kit..... bag.. and head back across the border.
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    This is an outrageous article and a ridiculous position. This is the Open Borders Lobby Position. Note their buddies she listed....the immigration team organized to destroy the United States.

    Anyone with a grain of sense in Dallas read this article and went, "say what?"



    10,000 illegal babies born a year in DALLAS???? Are they NUTS??? That's a new small city every year just from the births in DALLAS hospitals!!! Think what it would be nationwide!

    Wake Up People....there will not be enough:

    1) food

    2) water

    3) housing

    4) energy

    5) jobs

    6) money

    to SUSTAIN THIS POPULATION!!

    What is wrong with you people?

    Are your brains fried from cocaine or in comas from ridalyn prescriptions since you were 10 or are you just suicidal by genetic mutant flaws?

    What is wrong with you Dallas?

    Wake up! They are assigning Dorm Rooms now. The last I heard the Boys from Beijing want Dallas as their Second Home Site....so you will be moving out of your Premises soon enuf...rest assured....if you don't get off your butts and tell this Wackident "DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS" and ENFORCE US IMMIGRATION LAW NOW!!

    Geeeeezzz!!

    How could a Dallas newspaper allow such an article to be wrriten by one of their reporters? Unbelievable. I'd like to see that publisher fightin' for his GMO mush in the Mush Trough after work, work, work, work before he checks in to his new abode called a Drone Cell.

    Safe? Publishers, you think you are safe? Are you crazy? The LAST THING they'll allow in the New World Order is a Free Press stirrin' up all the Drones and gettin' them side-tracked on "issues". You fools!!

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    This woman wrote another opinion piece a couple of months ago when some aliens were killed in Georgia, this is the one that Bill O'Reily called her on. I went to this site,

    http://www.immigrationshumancost.org/

    and copied/pasted 12 separate emails with stories and pics about people who have been killed by illegals asking where her concern for them was, she never answered.

    These people (OBL) have no shame at all, they're all baldfaced liars and thieves.

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    I had the wonderful experience of visiting Parkland Hospital this summer. It is an absolute chaotic mess--gang members being escorted by police everywhere you looked, nobody spoke English, the place was so over-crowded people were waiting for hours and hours in packed waiting rooms for treatment--and best of all the doctor I spoke to said they didn't even ASK anybody if they had insurance! So who's paying for this, folks?

    My trip to this hellhole is one of the reasons I'm on this forum now. We are being over-run by the third world and I will be damned if I'm going to pay for their frikkin babies. I think every tax payer should get a free tour of that disaster of a hospital so they can see exactly what's going on, rather than reading this crap in the Dallas newspaper.

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    HI BobC!!! Thanks for this information. Sounds frightening. What if gang members got loose? As to who is paying? Must be the city of Dallas?

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    COI said:

    Mercedes Olivera you don't know your onions. Pack your old kit..... bag.. and head back across the border.
    GOOD ONE!!

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    They are CRAWLING OUT OF THE WALLS! WHERE do they FIND these idiots???

    I liked your analogy, COI!
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    Let's see, Mam. Would this be more the way you would like it?

    Ficticious News Report:
    President Bush and Congress have decided that any legal US Citizens who call it bad to break federal immigration laws will be charged an immediate fine, and will be put in jail for any second offense. No one will be allowed to say anything anymore about illegal immigration in America, unless it is a comment which is positive and supports illegal aliens.

    You would probably applaud this, wouldn't you ?! Vicente Fox would be all for it. This goes to show where your minds are.

    You would support ANYTHING to shut the American people up. Well, don't hold your breath, Sister. It's not going to happen, not as long as the American FLag is flying.
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    Nor as long as WE draw BREATH.
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