Thread: No more illegal ramaramadingdongs!

No more illegal ramaramadingdongs!

And while we're at it: no more Frankenstein legislation, no more poisonous prejudice

By John F. Sugg

Published 05.30.2007
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Let's chat about those "illegal aliens" or "undocumented workers" who are busily cutting lawns, processing chickens, weaving carpets, opening more Mexican restaurants in Georgia than there are taquerias in Mexico, and, yes, putting good, hard-working American drug dealers out of their jobs corrupting youth.

One of the first conundrums is what to call them. Since we can't decide on that, why do we think we can devise a strategy for either throwing out the welcome mat or throwing out the immigrants? "Undocumented worker" implies a hard-laboring soul who merely has a bureaucratic paper-shuffling problem. "Illegal alien" asserts a criminality that in most cases is drastically exaggerated, not to mention it fosters the often-inaccurate allusion to outlaw One-Eyed, One-Horned, Flying Purple People Eaters from Planet X.

So let's just dub these people who litter our landscape "ramaramadingdongs." Walk up to someone and say, "illegal alien" or "undocumented worker," and it's a 50-50 chance you'll get slugged. But if you announce, "let's talk about the influx of ramaramadingdongs," you'll surely get a smile.

What's the worst "fact" we know about ramaramadingdongs? Sit down, take a breath before reading on. On top of everything else, the ramaramadingdongs are bringing leprosy to our fair America.

That's right. Leprosy. As in the biblical disease. The noses-and-ears-falling-off scourge. About 7,000 cases broke out in this nation over three years, a plague propelled by ramaramadingdongs.

I swear it's true, according to an irrefutable font of wisdom. None other than CNN's obersturmfuhrer for ramaramadingdong eradication, Lou Dobbs, and one of his correspondents, Christine Roman, told us so.

Roman reported two years ago: "[T]here were about 900 cases of leprosy [in the United States] for 40 years," and, "There have been 7,000 in the past three years." Dobbs contended the soaring epidemic of leprosy was due to "unscreened" ramaramadingdongs.

Three weeks ago, when challenged by CBS' Lesley Stahl on the numbers, Dobbs retorted: "If we reported it, it's a fact." I wish I could get away with that.

Dobbs' claims provoked a counterattack from Richard Cohen, who runs the Montgomery, Ala.-based Southern Poverty Law Center. That outfit, among other things, defends ramaramadingdongs against racist attacks, both physical and legal. Cohen, in a letter to CNN, pointed out that the Roman-Dobbs source was a "doctor" whose degree is in English, not medicine, and who previously had claimed "most" Latino men "molest girls under 12, although some specialize in boys, some in nuns."

Cohen also noted that the number of leprosy cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control, peaked in 1985 at 361 a year, and has declined ever since.

I have a question for you: How do Dobbs' leprosy accusations factor into the current bill pending in the U.S. Senate that, in 1,000 or so pages, tries to, um, simplify the debate over ramaramadingdongs?

The answer is simple. The nation is falling apart – war, huge disparities in wealth not seen since the Depression, good jobs being shipped overseas, mass corruption in both the public and private sectors, religious fanaticism – so we need a damn good scapegoat. African-Americans can no longer shoulder that responsibility all by themselves.

No dispute: The problem of ramaramadingdongs is real. Also no dispute: The pending legislation couldn't be more bone-headed if monkeys on LSD had drafted it (maybe they did?).

No, the somewhere between 12 million and 20 million ramaramadingdongs are not going to send their family heads back to wherever (mainly Mexico) so they can then apply for citizenship. No, these mostly poor people aren't going to pony up $5,000 each to pay a fine. No, nothing in the bill will really deter future tsunamis of ramaramadingdongs. After all, this is just the latest "amnesty" that is supposed to end the migrations; why do we think this one will work when the others haven't?

The Republicans are split between the corporate wing, which wants cheap foreign labor because such workers also keep all American wages low; and the racist/nativist/xenophobic/religious-nutcase wing, which merely likes to hate. Democrats envision a gargantuan new pool of voters – and forget about those of us already here.

A pox (or leprosy) on both parties.

The truth is – and the challenge is to avoid slipping into Dobbs' racist pandering – that Mexico, which encourages ramaramadingdongs, is more a threat to our national security than Saddam Hussein ever was. Americans are tired of porous borders. They believe Mexico wants to conquer – culturally and economically, and maybe politically – much of the Southwest and even states such as Georgia.

I don't often quote the neo-con Heritage Foundation. But last week it issued a report, "The Fiscal Cost of Low-Income Immigrants to the U.S. Taxpayer," that will, that should, make America angry. The study's research counted about 16 million low-income immigrants, 40 percent (6.4 million) of whom are ramaramadingdongs.

The authors, Robert Rector and Christine Kim, show that the average low-income immigrant family annually pays $10,573 in taxes – but receives public benefits totaling $30,160. For all such families, that's an awesome bill paid by the rest of us – about $90 billion a year, or about $300 for each and every non-ramaramadingdong resident of the United States.

Those numbers do a lot to defeat claims of ramaramadingdong advocates, such as Teodoro Maus, who wrote in the AJC last week that "65 percent of undocumented immigrants pay taxes." Well, maybe, but do they pay their freight in terms of taxes paid versus benefits received? Rector and Kim say not by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade.

There are other numbers worth considering: Hate crimes against Latinos rose 23 percent between 2003 and 2005. As I said, ramaramadingdongs are the new scapegoats, and in terms of vitriol spewed at them by folks such as Lou Dobbs, the world hasn't seen anything like this since, say, Germany circa 1929, a badly factionalized nation where civic dialogue had disintegrated and all that remained was hatred.

I don't think America will tolerate 20 million ramaramadingdongs, with millions more swamping our borders each year. That has to end. But we need sensible solutions and rational dialogue, not Frankenstein legislation such as the current bill. Nor do we need the raw, delusional prejudice of Lou Dobbs.

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May 30, 2007

The Truth About Illegal Aliens

Posted on Sunday, April 08 @ 21:43:20 CDT by byron

Here are some statistics from the Los Angeles Times:
40 percent of all workers are working for cash and not paying taxes.

75 percent of people on L.A.'s most-wanted list are illegal aliens.

In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) are for illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens.Over two-thirds of all births in Los Angeles are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by the taxpayers.Nearly 25 percent of all inmates in California detention centers are here illegally.The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegals from south of the border.

Nearly 60 percent of all occupants of HUD properties in California are illegal.Less than 2 percent of illegals are picking crops but 29 percent are on welfare.It cost Los Angeles $276 million in welfare costs for 100,000 children of illegal aliens.Los Angeles County’s emergency rooms are overburdened by the uninsured and overwhelmed by illegal immigration. Sixty percent of the county's uninsured patients are not U.S. citizens, and more than half are here illegally. With about 2 million undocumented aliens in Los Angeles County alone, patients in the County’s overcrowded emergency rooms can wait days for a hospital bed for necessary surgeries.
In 2004, Los Angeles County spent $340 million to treat the uninsured – roughly $1,000 for every taxpayer – while illegal aliens receive medical treatment for free.In the rest of the country:29 percent of inmates in the federal prisons are illegal aliens.The lifetime fiscal impact (taxes minus services used) for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a negative.More Americans have died as a result of illegal immigration than from the battle in Iraq. Illegal aliens in the United States are more than fourteen times as lethal as a full scale armed conflict.According to statistics compiled by US Congressman Steve King (R-5th CD Iowa),
* 13 Americans are killed each day by uninsured drunk driving illegals
* 12 U.S. citizens die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day in crimes.
At the end of 2003, approximately 267,000 illegal aliens were incarcerated in U.S. correctional facilities. COST: $6.8 Billion a year.Based on National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data, illegals are responsible for 309,050 accidents, 2,132 deaths, 139,400 injuries, and a cost of $11.5 billion. Data suggest their involvement is much higher, maybe 3-5 times higher. COST: $11.5 Billion a year.There are an estimated 5.1 million ESL students in the USA. Since 90% of the ESL students are children of illegal aliens, the education costs for children of illegal aliens is about $34.5 billion per year. COST: $34.5 Billion a year.
Harvard Professor George Borjas has reported that illegal aliens displaced American workers at a cost in excess of $133 billion dollars in 2005. COST:$133 Billion a year.
The Wall Street investment firm Bear Stearns states we are losing $35 billion a year in income tax collections from jobs that are now off the books. COST: $35 Billion a year.
A Census Bureau study estimates that households headed by illegal aliens used $10 billion more in government services than they paid in taxes in 2002. These figures are only for the federal government; costs at the state and local level are also significant. The study also finds that if illegal aliens were given amnesty, the fiscal deficit at the federal level would grow by nearly $29 billion. COST: Between$10-29 Billion a year.
Jonathan Weisman of the Washington Post states "The Senates embattled immigration bill would raise government spending by as much as $126 billion over the next decade. COST: $12.6 Billion a year.
Many illegal aliens are carrying horrific third world diseases.
In the 40 years prior to 2002, there were only 900 total cases of leprosy in the US.
In the following three years there have been 9,000 cases. TB is epidemic in many illegal alien communities and a new Multiple-Drug-Resistant (MDR) TB is spreading. Each person infected with TB will infect 10 others. Treating a single case of MDR TB costs between $250,000 and $1,200,000 per person.
COST:Unknown______________________________________ _____________________________________
Between 1991 - 1995, the number of illegal aliens sentenced in federal courts increased by 167 percent, compared with 13 percent for citizens. There are approximately 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States. This staggering statistic, rarely mentioned by the media, was revealed in a study by Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute in Atlanta, Georgia.
Since 1999 there have been nearly one million victims of rape, child molestation, sexual homicides, and rape and molestation of handicapped children by illegal immigrants here in the U.S.
If illegal aliens just come here to work, why are so many of them on Welfare or in prison?
If illegal aliens are so honest, hardworking and industrious, why are the countries they come from hungry, broke and corrupt?
Third World countries don’t produce stupid, corrupt populations…..Stupid, corrupt populations produce Third World countries.
Some multiculturalists will try to convince you that America is “a nation of immigrants.
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I did this for you Lou.

Ding Dong is right. Sugg buddy, you should do your research before you go bashing others.

I swear it's true, according to an irrefutable font of wisdom. None other than CNN's obersturmfuhrer for ramaramadingdong eradication, Lou Dobbs, and one of his correspondents, Christine Roman, told us so.

Roman reported two years ago: "[T]here were about 900 cases of leprosy [in the United States] for 40 years," and, "There have been 7,000 in the past three years." Dobbs contended the soaring epidemic of leprosy was due to "unscreened" ramaramadingdongs.

Source: A Ding Dong

National Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Program

Hansen's disease, also known as leprosy, is a chronic bacterial disease that primarily affects the skin, peripheral nerves and upper airway.

Compiled statistics reveal that Hansen's disease (leprosy) is rare in the U.S. There are currently approximately 6,500 cases; about 3,300 require active medical management.

Source:NHDP, no date but post 2005
http://www.hrsa.gov/hansens/

In 2002, 96 cases occurring in the United States were reported to CDC.

Source:CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseasei ... sens_t.htm

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