Howdy from Austin, Texas! I am pretty new to "the cause" and I found out about this site by listening to the Terry Anderson Show when a guy from Americans for Legal Immigration was interviewed. I wish I could remember his name--but anyway I thought that guy was a great communicator and expressed the same rage I'm feeling as I discover more and more about how our elected officials are not just oblivious to this tidal wave of illegals, but how they are actively promoting it.
As I recently told Terry Anderson, most of the people out there have no clue this is going on. When I tell my friends about, for instance, Special Order 40 in CA which forbids Law Enforcement from asking ANYBODY their immigration status, they look at me like I'm lying or just dreaming it up. I am dead serious. These laws have been very quietly passed and that's no accident. As bad as this situation is, I can guaran-damn-tee you if the truth about what's going on gets out there, we will end this crap in NO TIME.
The guy on this site who was on Terry Anderson said he found it AMAZING that illegal immigrants were being granted seats at cut-rate prices at American Universities--you could hear the genuine anger in his voice and I am with him 200%. I guarantee you 99% of Americans have no idea this kind of thing is going on. When I learned that Governor Owens of CO recently put a file up on his site IN SPANISH informing illegals how to quietly cash in on a multitude of welfare programs, at taxpayer expense, I knew it was time to SERIOUSLY get involved.
Over time I have come to understand that there is a serious effort by Big BUsiness, started by NAFTA, to dissolve our borders with not a thought about the consequences to people like you and me. I do videogames for a living and I have watched probably 50% of our jobs get quietly shipped to Russia, China and India over the past 5 years--with the full blessing of the Bush Administration and before that, the Clinton Admin. I went through my entire 401K and savings when I was unemployed for a year and fortunately I have finally found another good job but most of my friends are still jobless. I know my story is nothing compared to what's happening to many Americans and our own goverment has set the stage for ALL OF IT. If you go to Gamasutra.com, a big game recruiting site, you will see China is giving 12K signing bonuses to lure Americans over there to train our Chinese replacements.
I am 40 years old and never felt the least bit political until this issue of out-sourcing and illegal immigration came vividly into my life. I worked on a very famous videogame two summers ago in California and I could not believe what I was seeing happening to that state. Nobody spoke English, getting anything done right was impossible, and after three months I couldn't wait to get the hell out of there. But what I noticed when I got back to Texas was that the same things were happening here. I feel ashamed that I have been so comfortable, so PC up until now, that I didn't see or care about what was happening around me.
We have allowed this to occur because we have been lazy, content and brain-dead. But things are changing fast and I plan to be here for the fight.
BobC