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Both candidates for president forget about protecting U.S. border:

When Tom Tancredo, Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter were in the race for president the illegal alien invasion was a major issue.

Now that Obama and McCain have their nominations in the bag, both are kissing up to the pro-amnesty Mexican La Raza group. Both are saying the same thing, that they will not be sending those 12 million illegal aliens in the USA back where they belong.

La Raza seeks to regain the Southwest states of the USA, including part of Wyoming that they think was stolen from Mexico, where they want to set up a Mexican country that is connected to Mexico but with U.S. tax dollars supporting them.

These two candidates and both political parties need to wake up, and legal people had better speak up if they are sick of this illegal alien and dope invasion from Mexico that is sucking the life out of the USA.

The federal immigration enforcement has been a joke and we are not going to see real enforcement until state and local governments take action, starting with police criminal, illegal alien sweeps.

Gangs are often connected to illegal aliens bringing in dope and sending the cash to Mexico. Legal citizens have their Social Security numbers being used, while those who employ them know full well who is an illegal alien, and nothing is done to those who employ them.

Mexico is a criminal rat hole and if we don't take some real effort to stop this illegal alien and dope invasion, they will turn the USA into a rat hole.

Mexico has some of the most rich people in the world and lots of oil profits, and Mexico should be supporting their own people instead of helping them sneak into the U.S., where we pay for their health care, welfare and schooling.

Not only that the porous border is an open gate, there are also terrorists from the Middle East who learn to speak Spanish so they can move into the U.S. and they can run free because a lot of dumb police don't know the difference.

When the USA is overrun with illegal aliens, where are legal citizens going to run to, the arctic North Pole? I see a baby polar bear saying to his father: "Hey Pop, some old Eskimo died and they put him out on the ice for us to eat. Let's go have dinner."

And daddy bear says, "No more dried out Eskimo meat, see that long line of dumb fat people who got chased out of the USA, that's fresh meat."

AL HAMBURG, Torrington

Candidate for U.S. Senate


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BULL wrote on Aug 8, 2008 8:49 AM:

" True story. "

MexicanRat wrote on Aug 8, 2008 8:51 AM:

" Criminal rat hole? You just lost my vote buddy. "

flounder wrote on Aug 8, 2008 9:19 AM:

" More lies in the Star Tribune. The whole La Raza-reconquista thing was invented by Glenn Spencer, who runs a racist group called American Patrol. This is northern Idaho KKK stuff. Al Hamburg should be ashamed.
By the way, Dave Niewart, who is an expert on right-wing domestic terrorist groups did a couple of articles on the Racist/terrorist groups and their invention of Reconquista. You can read these here:
dneiwert.blogspot.com/2006/04/reconquista.html
and here:
dneiwert.blogspot.com/2006/05/reconquista-redux.html "

Panola wrote on Aug 8, 2008 11:19 AM:

" Bush needs to be impeached now and then charged with 13 million counts of aiding and abetting illegal aliens along with murder accessory counts for each of the 4,000 American citizens that the illegal's have killed annually for each of the last 8 years (32,000 Americans killed).

Deport all illegals through tough enforcement and attrition.

Immigration reform will equally consider people of all heritages and races throughout the world as opposed to the current racist policy of favoring Hispanics.

No Amnesty! These lawless illegal's have already proven they don't qualify to be Americans.

Vote out the illegal friendly Congress this Nov. "

Lyall wrote on Aug 8, 2008 3:47 PM:

" Everyone knows that the illegal immigration explosion from Mexico is destroying the United States. The loss of life and treasure is far worse than any terrorist attack has ever been. The American people are in a very bad spot on this issue. The democratic party is catering to the illegals because they don't want to risk losing the Hispanic vote. The republican party is catering to the illegals because they want their fat cat campaign contributing employers to have cheap slave labor in order to fatten their profits, and to make Americans have to compete for minimum wage and no benefit jobs with the illegals.

Both parties are killing the American people on this issue. That means that the only way to overcome this dual political corruption and destruction of our lives by both parties is to follow these steps completely:

First of all boycott any businesses that employ or contract with illegal immigrants, and make the public aware of their hiring practices.

The next step is to enact local ordinances and state statutes that prevents illegal immigrants from receiving any type of financial assistance except for emergency medical care, and that should be monitored so that there is a limit to this care as well.

The next step is to enact local and state laws that prohibits anyone from receiving any kind of driving permit or identification document from any governmental entity.

The next step is to enact local and state laws that prohibits any illegal immigrant from being able to open any kind of bank account, purchase real estate or vote.

The next step is to refuse to rent to or provide housing or utility service to anyone who does not produce fully verified documents that identifies them as having legal status in this country.
The next step is to enact local and state laws that penalizes employers for hiring illegal immigrants and not ensuring that all of their employees have legal status in this country.

The final step is to begin challenging in federal court the citizenship status of all anchor babies and other offspring of illegal immigrants based upon the exact language and intent contained in the 14th amendment concerning U.S. citizenship. If you study the entire clause very carefully you will find that everyone has been asleep at the switch for many years.

Merely being born on U.S. soil DOES NOT automatically convey citizenship on a person. This has been a huge mis-conception on the part of Americans and the legal community for decades. The clause states that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside." Since women who are illegally in the United States are subject to the jurisdiction of their country of origin, then they and their offspring regardless of where they are born ARE NOT necessarily subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. These women are here illegally and they and their children are subject to the jurisdiction of Mexico, China, Korea, Germany, or whatever country they came from. American citizens or those with legal immigration status in the United States whose children are born abroad are U.S. citizens, because their parents and they ARE subject to United States jurisdiction. This legal fact can be very successfully argued in any federal court in the country and should be, the sooner the better. "

WyomingGal wrote on Aug 8, 2008 5:15 PM:

" Well said Lyall! Very astute and to the point. "

Dewd wrote on Aug 9, 2008 8:51 AM:

" The Crow, Shoshone, Blackfeet, Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho et al had really REALLY bad "Immigration Policys " . So did the Iroquois, Algonquin, Mohawk , Cherokee, Cree, Ojibway , Seminole, and so forth. Therefore your various outrages at the current influx of Mexicans trying to make a life among the Europeans usurpers of Native American sovereign lands is more than a little hypocritical. You are no more or less entitled to live here than the Hispanics are , in the grander scheme of things. My own Irish forebears stand guilty as charged. How about your own Anglo-Saxon antecedents? "

cj wrote on Aug 9, 2008 7:24 PM:

" In Los Angeles County the tax payers get to pay 1 billion a year (yes you heard correctly) 1 BILLION a YEAR in free food stamps and welfare to illegal aliens. This does not include education, english for spanish speakers, translators, healthcare .... either. They get paid under the table, they use tax payer $$ for food stamps and welfare, and all the other "citizen" services and this allows them to send 26 BILLION back home to Mexico every year. Don't believe me then contact :
Total annual cost of illegals on taxpayers exceeds $1 billion LA County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich has announced that a new report shows illegal aliens and their families in Los Angeles County collected over $35 million in welfare and food stamp allocations in July.


In the report, illegals are said to have collected nearly $20 million in welfare assistance for July 2007 and an additional $15 million in monthly food stamp allocations for an estimated annual cost of $440 million.

“Illegal immigration continues to have a devastating impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers,”said Antonovich. “In addition to $220 million for public safety and $400 million for healthcare, the $440 million in welfare allocations bring the total cost to County taxpayers that exceeds $1 billion a year -- this does not include the skyrocketing cost of education.”

I say if you want the illegals in your state please take them and give us CA residents a break. Take them, Please and pay for them - they are bankrupting CA. "

TETONCOUNTY wrote on Aug 10, 2008 10:45 PM:

" what a great ltr and comments. thanks al! voter are worried about jobs first and illegal immigration on down the list?? say What? get rid of 20 million interlopers who have taken jobs and give them to american citizens that will help the outsourcing and insourcing of mexicos lower uneducated class making the us a third world country in nano time.
let them east dust as they dash south back home! "

TOM S. wrote on Aug 10, 2008 10:50 PM:

" RECENTLY I WAS OUT ON A DRIVE AND RAN INTO A FLAGGER FOR THE STATE/COUNTY RDS AND WHILE STOPPED WE CHATTED. SHE SAID THAT SHE HAD COME FROM CALIF., AND "WAS GLAD TO BACK IN AMERICA" DUMB LIBERALS DONT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT UNLESS THEY LIVE ALONG THE BORDER, L.A., PHX, LAS VEGAS. ITS AN INVASION OF MS-13 GANGS AND ALL THE ILLEGAL CRACK AND METH THE COUNTRY WOULD EVER NEED/WANT. THINK OF ALL THE GANGS THAT SHOOT EA OTHER UP AND THEN THEY ARE DISABLED OR DEAD OR NEED MEDICAL CARE FROM THE TAXPAYER, FOR JAIL, COURT, WELFARE SHOULD BE ENDED AND FOOD STAMPS IS A RIPE SCAM. "

Cyndi wrote on Aug 11, 2008 10:05 AM:

" Illegals are now deep into many trades and careers that were once good jobs that Americans held, fed their families and put their kids through school on. The days of the illegals only pick lettuce in the imperial valley of California and working in the garment districts of LA and NYC are long gone. Your job will be next. This invasion is progressing, and faster each year now. The tax burden created by the illegal, mostly Mexican aliens for their health care and other public services as well as the increased crime along the boarder and in places one wouldn't suspect like Ashville NC is breaking the bank for the working tax payer. We can seal the boarder, we can deport the invaders and we can return safety to our streets. We, the voting tax payers just have to ensure that our dopes in DC have the political will (backbone) to do so. If they vote for amnesty or an open boarder we have to send them to the unemployment line come voting season. It is up to us to save our country so we don't end up like the nations in Western Europe...over run, crime ridden and bankrupt. "

Howard wrote on Aug 11, 2008 10:07 AM:

" La Raza is a racist organization that supports this invasion of illegals. It is an enemy of the state, make no mistake. "

Bonnie J wrote on Aug 11, 2008 10:38 AM:

" What is amnesty? According to Webster's Dictionary it means “pardon, forgiveness.” Is that what we really want to do? Is that the correct political move? I should say not. Most of our politicians in a position to alter the current conditions are afraid to take a stand. They have no courage to declare that coming into the USA illegally is a federal crime. It is a felony.
Those who break this U.S. law should be prosecuted, not forgiven! Our laws are there to protect our country; to protect American citizens. When an American citizen breaks a federal law he or she is prosecuted according to the law. He or she is punished.
Forgiving these 12 million or so illegal immigrants (invaders) for breaking our laws by coming here illegally is certainly not a solution.
There is a need for a well regulated guest-worker program, but history is ignored if such a program is begun without first showing a successful program of enforcement against employers, illegals aliens themselves and those that aide their illegal efforts. Benchmarks of enforcement can be created, without which there should be no forward movement on guest workers.
Pro-illegal alien groups would have us believe that this is about racism. That is a cheap plot designed to make anyone opposing illegal immigration (upholding our laws) run for cover. This is about political rather than social culture. Regardless of one's country of origin, the tendency is to believe that all would have been just fine with a few minor changes. This is reflected in socialistic voting tendencies of newer immigrants. Multi-generational assimilation is required before immigrant families of every persuasion begin to accept the radical concepts that make America successful.
Language is a huge part of this political assimilation. The long period required to assimilate to American political culture is why legal immigration must also be controlled. American society, or any society, can only slowly absorb new citizens, while still retaining the foundation that defines it. Without control we loose more than our identity as a nation, we loose the principals that founded this country and have made it great (the very reason that brought everyone here, legally or not).
The only useful identification is a biometric that is directly tied to a Social Security number for all legal workers. This is a simple and inexpensive task for personnel departments and notaries as part of the I-9 process. Any immigration plan should include controls on both legal and illegal and be directly tied to benchmarks related to unemployment, welfare assistance and other government programs. "

Yan wrote on Aug 11, 2008 10:40 AM:

" Panola, The invaders did not all get to the US under President Bush. You need to charge the Congress and Bill Clinton too. They are all at fault, and all should pay. "

Larry wrote on Aug 11, 2008 11:03 AM:

" Any organization that supports or promotes one race or ethnicity to the exclusion of all others is by definition a racist organization. La Raza is by definition a racist organization and it should be out lawed. This is particularly true since La Raza also support the illegal invasion of the US. "

Nancy wrote on Aug 11, 2008 1:23 PM:

" Yes, let's reward people that break federal laws with citizenship.

Next we should reward rapists with a keys to the homes of all single women in town, murders with a free weapons for life, speeders get an Indy car and free gas, pedophiles with jobs at elementary schools, and drug pushers with free prescriptions for life.

Give them all what they want and have the rich, those making above $25,000 oer year, pay for it all. "

Wesly wrote on Aug 11, 2008 1:36 PM:

" Throw them all out, seal the boarders, fine or jail the employers. All three are long over due. "

Brenda wrote on Aug 11, 2008 1:57 PM:

" The illegals are coming for your jobs. It is only a matter of time before they'll get them too. Since they will work well below the minimum wage, don't demand benefits and are all "off the books" you US citizen stand no chance against them. That is, unless you get directly involved and ensure that we don't grant amnesty (a giant new magnet for even more illegals), seal our national boarders, and punish all involved harshly. If not since the illegals pay no taxes on income who will the democrats steal more from to fund all of their social programs? You, if you still have a job. We have to get this right this time. No half measures, not hokie programs to citizen ship for these criminals. "

Platte wrote on Aug 11, 2008 2:06 PM:

" Round them up. Throw them out. Close the boarders. "

Palmer wrote on Aug 11, 2008 2:48 PM:

" There is no issue here to get dicey about. We must control and protect the boarders and we must expell the illegal aliens and we must prosecute the employers of the foreign invaders from Mexico and everywhere else that they come from. "

Gray wrote on Aug 11, 2008 3:16 PM:

" While you illegal lovers welcome them all in you may as well hand them your paycheck and the keys to your home. And of course kiss social security, medicare and medicaid all good by since the illegals pay no taxes into them or the federal income tax system either. "

Hillary S wrote on Aug 11, 2008 3:33 PM:

" Illegal immigration is the longest running central issue of our time.

Economic swings come and go. Military crisis come and go. The jury is still out on man-made vs. natural climate change if it is even happening.

But, coming to a real workable solution to illegal immigration and illegal aliens is the center piece and how these candidates fall out on this issue is what will determine the 2008 election.

Don't be fooled by all the talk that goes in circles. Ask the hard questions and demand solid understandable answers. All double talkers should be considered off the ticket right away.

It's our country and it is time to take it back.

This is not about race, it is about the presidential race. "

Dillion wrote on Aug 11, 2008 4:16 PM:

" Out with any elected official that supports amnesty or letting the illegals remain in the US. They're draining us, taking over our jobs and ruining our national culture without which there is no America. "

Windriver wrote on Aug 11, 2008 4:29 PM:

" No illegals and no anchore babies. This is all a bunch of liberal bunk to build up the under privilaged voter base beholden to the left for thier existance. "

Dixie wrote on Aug 11, 2008 4:44 PM:

" The state of California has the privilage of paying for free tuition for illegal aliens at the states colleges. Mean while if your kids want to go to USC etc you will pay for out of state tuition. What a great deal for all the US citizens involved. Doesn't bother you? It will when the same is dictated for Wyoming. It's coming if we don't act and right now. "

Doehmann wrote on Aug 11, 2008 4:54 PM:

" By in large most of the illegal aliens in the US are citizens of Mexico. By in large most of the criminal illegal aliens that have committed crimes in America are Mexican citizens. The problem is largely a Mexican problem that has bled into the US. Lawless, corrupt Mexico has bred into its citizens an animalistic survival instinct. They don’t care who they shaft or what laws they break, they just want a better life. Albeit Mexico is a horrible and dangerous place, these illegal criminals all hold a strange loyalty fierce to that worthless excuse for a nation. We have to secure the boarder and we have to identify and deport the illegals from all corners of the planet. But Mexico has to be fixed before any real, enduring solution can be found. Otherwise, like rats fleeing a sinking ship, the hopeless Mexicans boarder jumpers will just keep trying to come and to stay in the US. "

Ralph wrote on Aug 11, 2008 5:27 PM:

" It seems sort of funny, that we're such a horrible nation that everyone wants to be here so bad that they'll risk life and limb to get here and to stay here, they all love our fashions, cars, music, fast food...and opportunity to get ahead on your own by hard work and sticking to it. Yeap, the old US of A is surely a rogue nation at least according to the liberals that also want to keep the illegal aliens all here to vote for them, legally or not. "

Realist wrote on Aug 12, 2008 10:25 AM:

" Wow, you all make that sound so easy...just round em up, send em back, and seal up the border. Unfortunately, it's not that simple. The way to stop illegal immigration is to crack down on those who employ them, rent them places to live, and give them incentives to come here. If there's nothing for them here, they will not come. The employers who employ illegal immigrants are the root of the problem; they come here to work; if there's no work for them they will have no reason to come. You can put up all the fences and walls you want, but there is no possible way to seal up a border that size; you put up a fence or wall, they will go through, over, under, or around it. There are tunnels from Mexico to the US that go right under the border (and under your wall or fence). It's supply and demand; as soon as there's no demand for the illegal workers, the supply will dry up. "

John wrote on Aug 12, 2008 10:53 AM:

" Realist, This is AMERICA. We can do any thing we set our mind to do. The illegal alien invasion is small potatoes compared to beating the Brits in the revolutionary war, keeping the union together in the civil war, beating the depression, WWII, putting a man on the moon and putting up with 40 years of liberals using the schools as a social experiment. You're either with us or you are against us. Pick a side and get ready for the fight. This is my country, my home and my way of life and I'll be swinging for keeps. "

Realist wrote on Aug 12, 2008 11:09 AM:

" John,
This is my country too! Stop hiring illegal aliens so they will go away. The same people who raise the most heck about illegal immigration are the first ones to oppose cracking down on those who employ them and give them incentive to come here. What's this crap about liberals using schools as a social experiment? I went to school in the U.S. and didn't notice anything like that. Maybe you need to stop smoking crack so you will stop having paranoid dilusions. Was that on your GOP talking points that you got in your e-mail this morning? I wasn't making a partisan attack; I don't appreciate your flipping out and trying to make some kind of political attack out of it. Fact is that the illegal immigrants come here for jobs; when they are not able to find jobs here, they will stop coming. The problem isn't that we don't have a big enough fence on the border; the problem is that there are too many opportunities for illegal immigrants in our country. Dry up the opportunities and you won't need a fence. "

Billie Ray wrote on Aug 12, 2008 11:09 AM:

" Actually, we have done this with few resources and of course then fewer illegal aliens before. Do some research folks. Rounding up illegal aliens in mass and tossing them back across the boarder is not new and it is highly feasible. "

Dorado wrote on Aug 12, 2008 11:58 AM:

" Realist, More obstructionist psycho-babble, that's exactly what we need right now to fix this problem. Yes, cracking down on emplyers is part of the solution. It is not the entire solution. Boarder security and deportation are equally crucial to creating a lasting solution. It's time to get it done and stop the endless, resource wasting talk. "

Clif wrote on Aug 12, 2008 2:32 PM:

" If the "new, undocumented arrivals" won't conform to our laws or respect our traditions and customs where does that lead America to in the future? If the basis of the nations success is undermined then will there be a nation left at all? We are selling our children's future short for today's political (their votes) and economic (their cheap labor) short term gains and abandoning our future if we don't stop the flow of illegal aliens across the nations boarders and expel those here breaking our federal laws now. That is unless all of you want America to become Mexico in the next 25-50 years; a ruin of what was once a proud and capable nation. If any elected official or politician running now supports amnesty and opposes a secure boarder, vote against them for your kids and grand kids sake. "

Lyall wrote on Aug 12, 2008 2:36 PM:

" Look Realist, all we have to do is follow the steps I outlined in my first post on this subject.

We do not need to round anyone up.

Once there are no jobs, no benefits, no drivers' licenses or other identification documents, NO REGISTRATION FOR A VEHICLE, no bank account, no buying real estate, no getting to vote, no renting a house or apartment, no utility services, no free medical care except one time emergency care, they will all self deport. We won't have to do anything. They will leave on their own and they will take their children with them.

This is the solution. We don't need any comprehensive immigration reform program. We don't need to round anyone up. Just shut off the employment and all of these other benefits and legal opportunities and they will leave.

Punish the he..ll out of the American employers who hire or contract with illegal immigrants. Boycott their businesses and publicly demand that they be prosecuted for conspiracy to commit social security fraud and conspiracy to violate federal immigration laws. Put these employers in jail and boycott their businesses. These employers are jeopardizing your social security and medical benefits and they know it. They don't care, so long as they get cheap labor. These American employers are making you pay for the benefits of cheap, illegal, foreign labor that they are enjoying. They are at least as criminal as the illegal Mexican invaders. Pass state and local laws that severely punishes those employers in our state who hire illegals. Boycott their businesses!

The ultimate solution to this huge problem is to force Mexico to fix itself. The solution is not to let Mexico spill its' problems over into the United States. This means we have to make it impossible for illegal Mexican immigrants to come to this country and survive. Make these people stay in Mexico and fight it out with their own government and their own economic institutions down there. That is the only way to change Mexico and make it a place where these people have jobs, opportunities and a decent standard of living. Make them fight it out down there, not on our streets and in our workplaces.

The filthy, corrupt government of Mexico is completely responsible for this, and there is no way in he...ll that we are going to pay for their corruption! We must make the Mexican people stay there and revolt against the corruption and unfairness of their government. When Mexico no longer has the economic relief valve of the United States people and our resources available to these illegal immigrants, the pressure will build and explode down there, and a new Mexico will emerge. A Mexico where the ordinary Mexican citizen has rights, freedoms and reasonable economic opportunities. We are not going to let them ruin our country in the meantime, because they have not had the courage, the motivation or the self respect to revolt in their own country and fix things.

We had our revolution many years ago, and there were great sacrifices made. The Mexican people are going to have to do the same thing now. There is no other solution.
I have said for many years that the people and the government of the United States should arm, equip and provide logistical support to the Mexican people in order for them to carry out a successful revolution in their country. We should assist them as France assisted us 230 years ago. (Not a lot of assistance from France, but there was some.)

Elections in Mexico accomplish absolutely nothing and haven't for some 80 years now. Corruption is just to well institutionalized and will not change without revolution. I know, I have spent a reasonable amount of time there. The Mexican people would prefer to stay in their own country, but their lives are to pathetic and depressing. Sneaking into the U.S. is an easy solution for them, but it is destroying our country and our way of life. We have to make them stand and fight it out down there. Taking away the easy solution of mooching off the U.S. will make this happen and much sooner than people think. This is not cruel. This is not racist. This is helping an entire nation of people to find it within themselves to fight for economic justice in their own country. This fight is inevitable. It has to happen. We should not let any more damage occur to our country in the meantime. That means acting now. The sooner we get it over with the better for all concerned.

Shut off the relief valve now at the local and state level. Someday the Mexican people in Mexico will realize this had to be done for their own future good. By the way, I like Mexican people. I have had a few Mexican girlfriends and these are good people, they just have a bad country, and we have to help them fix it. "

Edna wrote on Aug 12, 2008 3:02 PM:

" I'm over this. I am voting for any candidate from any party that will work to round these criminals up and throw them out, crack down on the employers and lock them up and build that d_mned boarder security fence immediately...and stop letting these foreigners obtain my tax dollars via social programs that they don't deserve to be drawing on. "

Benning wrote on Aug 13, 2008 9:40 AM:

" Realist, Half measures, partial solutions and weak knees will not solve this national security and economic crises created by the illegal invasion. Look to Europe and you'll see how ineffective they have been so far. We must have a well rounded, tough plan that is vigorously implemented and that must include throwing out the invaders and securing the boarders. I am all for legal immigration that is well regulated and all parties are well identified. But I and most American's can no longer tolerate illegal immigration. We can no longer ignore these felons that live among us and siphon off our tax dollars. To do so rewards them and will encourage other to break our laws creating a magnet to expand these onslaught. "

Benning wrote on Aug 13, 2008 9:43 AM:

" flounder, This is not about race you lame race baiting traitor. This is about national security and our national economy. It is also about the upcoming elections. Pushing the race card every time that you are being logically beaten only shows your weak hand. Go back to sniffing glue. "

Rhonda wrote on Aug 13, 2008 11:10 AM:

" Enough of this BS. Round them up and throw them out closing the door behind them. Yes, yes some of you feel terrible for the poor destitute Mexican poor. Fine, go there and open a business and employ them in their home land. Then open similar businesses in Africa, Asia, etc. We cannot feed, house and clothe the world nor is it our responsibility even if we had the authority. We've worked darned hard to establish our standard of living here in America and I for one will not watch idly as the liberals work to throw it all away based on how they feel about others. If you feel bad then act on that independently but don't throw away our country because you feel guilty about your life style compared to that of others. We've collectively earned our standard of living and we all work each day to maintain it. The illegals all want it but don't have the guts to fix their own countries to get it. "

Jennifer wrote on Aug 13, 2008 11:31 AM:

" I will not vote for anyone that is for protecting or keeping illegal aliens in this country and neither should anyone else. Legal immigration is great and I support it, so should you. If you support illegal immigration and the criminals themselves ask a hard question of yourself: why? "

Rodney wrote on Aug 13, 2008 1:45 PM:

" What will Nancy Pelosi and Barak Obama do when they one day turn around and realize that they've given away the entire country to the undeserving and that there is nothing left to call America? All in the name of getting votes to obtain and retain power. This is sick on its best day. "

Carlsbad wrote on Aug 13, 2008 1:50 PM:

" flounder, You're an idiot. I listen to Mexican talk radio here in SoCal and watch the illegal immigration riots and the recapture of California is a central topic/theme of these criminals. You have no idea what you're talking about. It is so bad here that many US citizens (way lefty San Fran types....for now) are becoming brain washed by the Mexican support groups and lobbiest that they now are also supporting a return of SoCal to the poor Mexicans. "

Sandra wrote on Aug 13, 2008 2:44 PM:

" In 20 years at the rate we're going now there will be nothing but Mexicans and Muslims in office across the country. Look at the demographics. Citizens' birth rates are trending way down across the board less hispanics, muslims and illegals of all flavors. Birth rates are particularly low for caucasian couples and fewer of them are also marrying now too. Its all about math, not race people. "

Lyall wrote on Aug 13, 2008 4:09 PM:

" I am not a democrat, a liberal or anything else, but don't try to pin this federal support of the illegal Mexican invasion of our country on the democratic party. The republican party has been very intensely supportive of this invasion for the past 8 years too. They want their big business lobby and contributors to have dirt cheap Mexican labor to use as would be scabs against the American worker.

The republican party which was in control of both houses of congress since 1994 until January of 2007 along with a democratic president from 1993 until January 2001 and a republican president from 2001 to the present all had a hand in allowing and even supporting this invasion. George Bush has steadfastly refused for these past 71/2 years to take any steps to prevent this invasion from continuing. His administration has actively supported this invasion. That is why border patrol agents have been prevented from doing their jobs and even jailed when they did. This is not a democratic or republican, liberal or conservative mess. This is a mess created by all parties and players in our federal government for their individual short-sighted economic and political gains.

That is why we the American people must take all the steps we can at our local and state level to defend ourselves and our country from this dangerous invasion. There is no way to emphasize enough the seriousness or the imminent peril our nation faces at this time. Forget the republican or democratic parties, they are not going to help. They both have their selfish, anti-American reasons to further the success of this invasion. We have to do it at the local and state level. Don't vote for anyone that will not support taking strong legal steps to end this invasion.

The intensity of how bad this problem is has not presented itself to a few sparsely populated areas of the country yet, like Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota. But believe me the invasion and takeover is happening everywhere else in America and it has become a very dangerous and desperate situation. That same situation will be here within a couple of years. We need to take the proper defensive steps to stop this invasion of our state and communities now, before the invasion is well entrenched in Wyoming.

This is not about race. This is completely about protecting our state, our nation and our way of life from an illegal invasion that is backed and supported by our federal government. The reason this invasion is being secretly allowed and supported by the feds is because it is an integral part of their overall plan to merge Canada, Mexico and the United States into one mega nation. International borders will remain, but the legal arrangements that are being formed will produce legal citizenship standing that is uniform across these two borders for all people, effectively erasing the borders of the three individual nations. That is why this was allowed to happen by both parties. They are both committed to the plan of merging the three countries together.

Americans will wind up getting the worst end of this deal. We have the most to lose, and Mexico has the most to gain with Canada breaking even. This is a totally illegal and unconstitutional event that certain key players in both political parties engineered and are supporting. If you do not believe this, then ask yourself this: Couldn't the U.S. government have stopped this invasion a long time ago? Couldn't the U.S. government have rigorously enforced the immigration laws and rigorously enforced the illegal employment of illegal immigrants a long time ago? Couldn't the U.S. government have established that no taxpayers' dollars could be used to provide any kind of welfare, food stamps, or medical benefits except for emergency medical care to illegal immigrants a long time ago? Couldn't the United States government have placed rotating deployments of national guard troops along the Mexican border who could very effectively have halted the illegal entry into the United States a long time ago? All of these things could have been done with the signing of an order and they were not. Why?

We are on our own. We must do this for ourselves. If we don't then it will not be done, and you can kiss America completely goodbye. It will not be just a little bit different. In a few more years you will not even recognize your own country. Your children will not experience what was once America, and your grandchildren will grow up in a multi-national North American region with no American culture, no applicable U.S. constitution, and one of the worst standards of living in the world. All of this loss and destruction of our nation, because someone did not have the guts to fight off this illegal invasion, or because people did not see this danger for what it is. The illegals are not here just for the jobs. Most of them are here and will keep invading and coming here in order to conquer and take over the United States with their sheer numbers and their disruption of America's financial stability and legal capacity. "

flounder wrote on Aug 13, 2008 6:28 PM:

" If I am a "lame race baiting traitor", prove me wrong. A racist named Glenn Spencer invented the whole Reconquista thing so he could get low information Americans scared about Mexicans. That makes this about racism and not about national security. Sorry. Looks like the racists plan worked, even the stooge Lou Dobbs fell for it. "

Speak English wrote on Aug 13, 2008 6:48 PM:

" P.S. To Platte, Carlsbad, and others with bad spelling: if you are going to be in this country, the least you could do is learn to use the English language without mangling it. Race traitors! "

Dewd wrote on Aug 14, 2008 9:58 AM:

" Footnote: NPR had a short piece this morning saying that by the year 2040 ( not that far off) , the Caucasian race will be the minority in America. Hispanics are growing fastest, followed by Asians, then African-Americans. Whites will make up only 46 percent of the population. Your grandchildren will live in a very different America. It can't always be 1956, people.... "

Bolivar wrote on Aug 14, 2008 10:25 AM:

" Speak English, no one is perfect and this blog is not an English grammar or spell'in class. Attack or support the ideas (operative word), not the method of delivery however crude that may be in your eyes. We need to work on the substance of matters not on superficial symbolism. You sound as though you're in congress and desire more grid lock. "

Valdez wrote on Aug 14, 2008 11:52 AM:

" Dewd, it doesn't matter what the ethnic make-up of the nation is at some future point. You seem to be trying to make the issue race. I assure you that this is not about race.

The central issue is not even law and order or the economy for its own sake.

The central issue is over population. Or more accurately, lack of control over population growth, and no grand plan to see to the growing populations needs based on a projected timeline for growth.

We have to little water now. We have to little energy resources now. We cannot control urban sprawl. We are making more trash than we have places to put it all now.

One issue and one issue alone can be directly tied back to a huge host of other symptoms and that uncontrolled expansion of our population. Whether the symptom is road rage, murders rates, polluted water, greenhouse gas production, housing shortages and general over crowding and over building.

That one issue is over population. "

Lyall wrote on Aug 14, 2008 12:18 PM:

" Race and national origin has nothing to do with this desperate emergency. This is about foreign invaders illegally sneaking into this country, raping it of its' best resources and leaving nothing but destruction of our infrastructure, our economy, our political system and our national culture and identity in their wake.

This is an absolute enemy invasion masquerading as a relatively harmless migration of people seeking jobs and a better life for themselves. It is an all out invasion with the specific goals of taking over America and overwhelming the American people. Everyone knows the long list of negative events that have been happening in our domestic national lives since this invasion picked up steam about 10 years ago. The feds don't want these facts to get much broadcast time, because they don't want their true multi-national goal to be obvious.

I don't care what the census predictions are concerning the national make up of this country in 20 or 30 years. This country needs to save itself from this invasion. This is not the naturally occurring results of a normal pattern of legal migration and birth rates. This is a plan to overwhelm America with illegal foreign invaders and a concentrated effort on their part to reproduce as quickly as possible so as to gain a political population voting bloc advantage over everyone else in this country.

The country is in dire peril because of this. This is the greatest threat to the national security and standards of living our country has ever faced since the civil war. All American citizens must take up the call now and do everything they can to repel this invasion. This is not an hysterical over reaction to this current situation. This is the reality of how desperate the situation is becoming everyday in our country.

Article IV, section 4 of the U.S. Constitution guarantees all the individual states that the federal government will protect these states against foreign invasion. The feds have not done that. They refuse to define what is happening as an invasion. This means that the states must act for themselves under the provisions of the 10th amendment which provides powers to the states which are not specifically delegated to the federal government or prohibited by the constitution. There is no provision that delegates specific power to the federal government to be the sole defense against a foreign invasion of one or more of the individual states. There is no provision in the constitution that specifically denies the power of defense either militarily, by a state militia or an armed citizenry, or by legislative action of an individual state's legislature. In other words each state and the U.S. citizens who reside in that state have the legal right to defend themselves against this foreign invasion. The feds have no constitutional standing with which to deny the states their defensive status.

Flounder and Dewd you don't know sh...t! This is not about race, this is about saving our nation from total destruction and helping the Mexican people to fix what is wrong in theirs'. "

Brenda wrote on Aug 14, 2008 2:43 PM:

" No matter how bad anyone may feel for the poor illegal immigrants we cannot sustain this onslaught in America indefinitely. If you feel badly that your standard of living is too high, then donate more of your own money to causes that help people in third world nations. Giving away America wholesale to those that have shown no respect for our laws is counterproductive as in time the nation will not be what it once was that attracted the illegal immigrants here in the first place. Then, no one will have the life style that they desire, earned or not. For those that argue against the enforcement of our laws trying to use race, you are on the wrong side of this issue and by your false use of race you are belittling the very people that you pretend to protect, and you should be ashamed of that unethical ploy. "

Speak English wrote on Aug 15, 2008 7:49 AM:

" Part of the nativist agenda is pushing "English only". I mean these people freaked out when Obama suggested it just might make Americans more desirable as employees if they learned more than one language. The neocon xenophobes actually prefer ignorance to education! If you are going to push English on the rest of the world, I am going to hold you to a higher standard. "

Realist wrote on Aug 15, 2008 8:33 AM:

" Round em up and deport them all you want, but as long as there are jobs and opportunities here for them they will keep coming back. We can deport them today and they will tunnel back under the border tomorrow if they have incentive to do so. Dry up the opportunities and there will be no reason for them to cross the border. As long as greedy businesses and individuals continue to hire illegal immigrants so they can pay low wages people will continue to stream across the border to fill the positions. Supply and Demand my friends; squash the demand and the supply will dry up. "

Shawn wrote on Aug 15, 2008 8:34 AM:

" State wide in California only 46% of high school seniors are proficient in English.

In LA county only 34% of high school seniors are proficient in English.

They've thrown tons of cash at this problem and it has only gotten worse.

In fact this trend matches the rise in the expanding illegal alien population.

Educators are saying that it will take 2 to 3 generations for this trend to cease if the influx of illegal aliens were to stop today.

The problem lies in the fact that it is not the educated citizens of other nations that are illegally entering the US and staying. It is the least educated and most prone to gang activity and the underground economy that are coming in whose families education is not a priority and holds no prestige.

This is no way to build the future of America.

As they say, so goes California, so goes the nation in time. "

Dundee wrote on Aug 15, 2008 9:05 AM:

" A legal battle has been on going in California over building shelters for illegal alien workers in the parking lots of home improvement outlets.

The illegals gather in these lots in large numbers looking for work. When someone leaves the store they are rushed by a mass of illegals all begging for work.

The battle is now over. These mega retailers are now going to be required (forced) to construct safe holding areas in their parking lots to shelter illegal aliens from the sun and provide them with sanitary facilities and benches to sit on.

Who do you think is going to pay for those projects? Well of course, the consumers will via increased prices on the products that are purchased from these giant home improvement depots.

How is this fair? The illegal aliens shouldn't be there in the first place.

Shouldn't ICE stake these parking lots out and just round up the illegals and arrest anyone that hires them? A simple solution.

Better yet, shouldn't these illegals all be stopped at the boarder before getting into the country in the first place?

I can't wait until the store like this in Cheyenne have hordes of illegal aliens crowding the parking lots in the same way and the retailers are force by lawsuits brought on by La Raza and MALDEF (both racist anti-American organizations) to build huts and bathrooms for them here too. "

Alton wrote on Aug 15, 2008 11:05 AM:

" How is this problem the fault of the US I have to ask the pro-invasion backers posting here?

Shouldn't all of you be in Mexico protesting that corrupt countries policies?

Yes, it is the US tax payer that is suffering, and our own government, congress and the president are doing nothing constructive to solve this and protect US citizens and domenstic interests, like the economy. "

Sammy wrote on Aug 15, 2008 11:14 AM:

" Stuff like this happens everyday, sometimes many times in a day. These illegals are not just looking for work and a better life and pot is not the only drug that these people are smuggling. Most are never caught.

SAN DIEGO – The San Diego Gas & Electric logo on the doors of the white Ford Taurus looked authentic enough, but it still couldn't fool Border Patrol agents in the backcountry.
When they searched the sedan Tuesday morning in Campo, they found 20 bundles of marijuana, about 223 pounds' worth, in the trunk. The 28-year-old woman driving the car was arrested.
Agents first spotted the bogus service vehicle at Forrest Gate and Sheridan roads near Campo, about 50 miles east of San Diego. When they tried to pull the driver over on Buckman Springs Road, she immediately made a U-turn and headed back toward the border, but crashed into thick brush, a Border Patrol spokesman said.
She then left the car and tried to run into Mexico, but the agents caught her first, the spokesman.
What prompted the agents' suspicions?
Advertisement The first giveaway was the car itself, a Ford Taurus. The utility company usually uses trucks. Next, when they did a radio check of the Taurus' license plate, the plates were registered to a Chevrolet Cavalier. Finally, a closer look revealed that the plates themselves were counterfeit.
When agents let one of their dogs take a sniff around the car trunk, it was “GAME OVER.”
The case has been turned over the the Drug Enforcement Administration, the spokesman said. "

Buddy wrote on Aug 15, 2008 1:40 PM:

" Out with the illegals. Out with the anchore babies. To jail with their employers. It is as simple as that. Nothing will happen until we stop the talk and start the process. The sooner the better. "

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