Inconvenient truths, we need more immigration and Arizona crimes are down
Knowing it would get few hits as those who trade in bias and prejudice hidden by some false patriotism rarely venture into fact infested waters. But our postings are not designed to appeal to the masses. We are happy if get the one who will think. Unfortunately that leaves out Rush, Beck, Hannity and the Mother Palin worshipers. Alas we suspect we will survive without them.
One of our readers thought it had merit and sent it out to a few friends. This is what he received back:
date Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:04 PM
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Re-think this – no prejudices here, just straight facts.Please don’t play the race card, it breeds only negativity.
LETTER FROM A RETIRED BORDER PATROL AGENT.
This letter sent to Tennessee Senator Bill Frist from a retired border patrol agent,
and it has more common sense than all the bull being spewed from the Senate,
with the exception of a few sensible representatives.
Dear Senator Frist:
There is a huge amount of propaganda and myths circulating about illegal aliens,
particularly illegal Mexican, Salvadorian,Guatemalan and Honduran aliens.
#1. Illegal aliens generally do NOT want US citizenship. Americans are very vain
thinking that everybody in the world wants to be a US citizen. Mexicans, and
other nationalities want to remain citizens of their home countries while obtaining
the benefits offered by the United States such as employment, medical care,
instate tuition, government subsidized housing and free education for their
offspring. Their main attraction is employment and their loyalty usually remains
at home. They want benefits earned and subsidized by middle class Americans.
What illegal aliens want are benefits of American residence without paying
the price.
#2. There are no jobs that Americans won't do. Illegal aliens are doing jobs
that Americans can't take and still support their families. Illegal aliens take
low wage jobs, live dozens in a single residence home, share expenses and
send money to their home country. There are no jobs that Americans won't
do for a decent wage.
#3. Every person who illegally entered this nation left a home. They are NOT
homeless and they are NOT Americans. Some left jobs in their home countries.
They come to send money to their real home as evidenced by the more than 20
billion dollars sent out of the country each year by illegal aliens. These illegal
aliens knowingly and willfully entered this nation in violation of the law and
therefore assumed the risk of detection and deportation. Those who brought their
alien children assumed the responsibility and risk on behalf of their children.
#4. Illegal aliens are NOT critical to the economy. Illegal aliens constitute less
than 5% of the workforce. However, they reduce wages and benefits for lawful
US residents.
#5. This is NOT an immigrant nation. There are 280 million native born
Americans. While it is true that this nation was settled and founded by
immigrants (legal immigrants), it is also true that there is not a nation on
this planet that was not settled by immigrants at one time or another.
#6. The United States is welcoming to legal immigrants. Illegal aliens are not
immigrants by definition. The US accepts more lawful immigrants every year
than the rest of the world combined.
#7. There is no such thing as the "Hispanic vote." Hispanics are white, brown,
black and every shade in between. Hispanics are Republicans, Democrats,
Anarchists, Communists, Marxists and Independents. The so-called "Hispanic
vote" is a myth. Pandering to illegal aliens to get the Hispanic vote is a dead end.
#8. Mexico is NOT a friend of the United States . Since 1848 Mexicans have
resented the United States . During World War I Mexico allowed German Spies
to operate freely in Mexico to spy on the US . During World War II Mexico
allowed the Axis powers to spy on the US from Mexico . During the Cold War
Mexico allowed spies hostile to the US to operate freely. The attack on the Twin
Towers in 2001 was cheered and applauded all across Mexico . Today Mexican
school children are taught that the US stole California ,Arizona ,New Mexico
and Texas . If you don't believe it, check out some Mexican textbooks written
for their school children.
#9. Although some illegal aliens enter this country for a better life, there are 6
billion people on this planet. At least 1 billion of those live on less than one
dollar a day. If wanting a better life is a valid excuse to break the law and sneak
into America , then let's allow those one billion to come to America and we'll turn
the USA into a Third World nation overnight. Besides, there are 280 million native
born Americans who want a better life. I'll bet Bill Gates and Donald Trump want
a better life. When will the USA lifeboat be full? Since when is wanting a better
life a good reason to trash another nation?
#10. There is a labor shortage in this country. This is a lie. There are hundreds
of thousands, if not millions, of American housewives, senior citizens, students,
unemployed and underemployed who would gladly take jobs at a decent wage.
#11. It is racist to want secure borders. What is racist about wanting secure
borders and a secure America ? What is racist about not wanting people to sneak
children and other legal residents? What is it about race that entitles people to
violate our laws, steal identities, and take the American Dream without paying
the price? For about four decades American politicians have refused to secure
our borders and look after the welfare of middle class Americans. These
politicians have been of both parties. A huge debt to American society has
resulted. This debt will be satisfied and the interest will be high. There has
already been riots in the streets by illegal aliens and their supporters. There will
be more. You, as a politician, have a choice to offend the illegal aliens who have
stolen into this country and demanded the rights afforded to US citizens or to
offend those of us who are stakeholders in this country. The interest will be steep
either way. There will be civil unrest. There will be a reckoning. Do you have the
courage to do what is right for America ? Or, will you bow to the wants and needs
of those who don't even have the right to remain here? There will be a reckoning.
It will come in November of this year. We will not allow America to be stolen by third world agitators and thieves.
David J. Stoddard
US Border Patrol (RET)
Hereford , Arizona
Please pass this letter on to everyone you know, including your senators and
Congressmen. We must do something about this serious problem NOW!
-- It's not rocket science!
Now one of my favorite tactics should I have the time to engage in it when responding to anything that begins with, "I'm not............But..........." yet includes no links to back up any of its assertions and lays it all off on the writing of someone else whom they obviously didn't bother to google, is to go through it line by line, paragraph by paragraph, pointing out the obvious, having a good time doing it.
Not to mention learning a few things myself while searching for the info either invalidating or validating that which is or isn't. Oh but that takes a little time and people busy wanting to throw a right wing Revolution (and I am a major fan of Rick Santelli, some in the tea party may have to google him) apparently do not have enough time to ascertain just what it is they are revolting against. Which while they flounder around looking for various ways to hide their prejudices leads some to revulsion.
But enough of that because what I really want to say is not being said by me, but by this my friend Artie passed on to me. This is masterful. A must read for any talking head employed by a news agency that claims to be an "investigative journalist". And so here it is:
Way cool huh?Add to Technorati FavoritesLETTER FROM A RETIRED BORDER PATROL AGENT.
This letter sent to Tennessee Senator Bill Frist from a retired border patrol agent,
and it has more common sense than all the bull being spewed from the Senate,
with the exception of a few sensible representatives.
Dear Senator Frist:
There is a huge amount of propaganda and myths (YEP, THIS P.O.S. LETTER!!) circulating about illegal aliens,
particularly illegal Mexican, Salvadorian,Guatemalan and Honduran aliens. BTW: The Urban Institute estimates "between 65,000 and 75,000 undocumented Canadians currently live in the United States. In August, 2006, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) placed the “unauthorized” immigrant population at 10.5 million as of January 2005 and indicates that if recent trends continued, the figure for January 2006 would be 11 million. The Pew Hispanic Center’s indirect estimate of the number of illegal immigrants as of 2006 was 11.5 million to 12 million. These estimates represented roughly one-third of the entire foreign-born population
#1. Illegal aliens generally do NOT want US citizenship. Americans are very vain
thinking that everybody in the world wants to be a US citizen. Mexicans, and
other nationalities want to remain citizens of their home countries while obtaining
the benefits offered by the United States such as employment, medical care,
instate tuition, government subsidized housing and free education for their
offspring. Their main attraction is employment and their loyalty usually remains
at home. They want benefits earned and subsidized by middle class Americans.
What illegal aliens want are benefits of American residence without paying
the price.First, how does one know such a thing. It is a broad generalization and these that us generally, everyone, all want, etc seem suspect at best. How about some solid numbers, facts and figures?
#2. There are no jobs that Americans won't do. Illegal aliens are doing jobsThere are no jobs that Americans won't
that Americans can't take and still support their families. Illegal aliens take
low wage jobs, live dozens in a single residence home, share expenses and
send money to their home country.
do for a decent wage. PROVE IT!!!#3. Every person who illegally entered this nation left a home. (how do we know that? we have homeless people in our country, so why not in other countries? More BS generalizations with no support, much less common sense!.) They are NOTbillion dollars (Actually it's not quite as he states it. He has "skewed his numbers on purpose. The truth is that in 2005, the World Bank stated that Mexico was receiving $12.1 billion in remittances and that it ranked third (behind only India and China) among the countries receiving the greatest amount of remittances sent out of the country each year.) aliens knowingly and willfully entered this nation in violation of the law and
homeless and they are NOT Americans. Some left jobs in their home countries.
They come to send money to their real home as evidenced by the more than 20
therefore assumed the risk of detection and deportation. (TRUE!) Those who brought their
alien children assumed the responsibility and risk on behalf of their children. (TRUE!)A study by the Public Policy Institute of California, found that, "cities with large immigrant populations showed larger reductions in property and violent crime than cities without large immigrant populations"
A study published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has found that property-related crime rates have not been affected by increased immigration (both legal and illegal).Another study, by the immigrant-advocacy group, Immigration Policy Center, based on U.S. Census Bureau data, found that large increases in illegal immigration do not result in a rise in crime#4. Illegal aliens are NOT critical to the economy. Illegal aliens constitute lessthan 5% of the workforce.(US Workforce according to the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, estimated on July 2, 2010 that the US workforce was 150 million people. With an estimated 15 million illegal aliens in our country, that would put the % of the US workforce at roughly 10%. AGAIN HIS NUMBERS ARE WRONG AND OFFICIAL STUDIES PROVE IT!) However, they reduce wages and benefits for lawful US residents.PURE BULLSHIT!! LET'S OBSERVE CITABLE FACTS:Separate research by both George Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner, Professor of Economics and Social Policy at Harvard University and Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize-winning economist from MIT has shown that illegal immigration had a substantial effect on reducing the economic status of U.S. poor while benefiting middle class individuals and wealthier Americans. The presence of illegal immigrants and the exploitation of them drives down wages for certain sectors of the American populace, further widening the socioeconomic gulf between rich and poor.
Research by George J. Borjas (Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at Harvard University), Jeffrey Grogger (the Irving Harris Professor in Urban Policy in the Harris School at the University of Chicago), and Gordon H. Hanson (the Director of the Center on Pacific Economies and Professor of Economics at UCSD) suggests that a 10-percent immigrant-induced increase in the supply of a particular skill group reduced the black wage by 1.0 percent, lowered the employment rate of black men by 1.2 percentage points, and increased the incarceration rate of blacks by almost one-half percent.
Illegal immigrants are estimated to pay in about $7 billion per year into Social Security.
A paper in the peer reviewed Tax Lawyer journal from the American Bar Association asserts that illegal immigrants contribute more in taxes than they cost in social services. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reviewed 29 reports published over 15 years to evaluate the impact of unauthorized immigrants on the budgets of state and local governments, and found that the tax revenues that unauthorized immigrants generate for state and local governments offset the total cost of services provided to those immigrants, and that the amount that state and local governments spend on services for unauthorized immigrants represents a small percentage of the total amount spent by those governments to provide such services to other non-illegal residents in their jurisdictions A May 2006 New York Times/CBS News Poll shows that 53 percent of Americans feel that "illegal immigrants mostly take the jobs Americans don’t want".
#5. This is NOT an immigrant nation. There are 280 million native bornthis planet that was not settled by immigrants at one time or another. (AND YOUR POINT WOULD BE???)
Americans. While it is true that this nation was settled and founded by
immigrants (legal immigrants), it is also true that there is not a nation on
#6. The United States is welcoming to legal immigrants. Illegal aliens are not
immigrants by definition. The US accepts more lawful immigrants every year
than the rest of the world combined.ACTUALLY OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM IS WOEFULLY INADEQUATE. The GAO (Government Accounting Office) believes that costs, delays, and inefficiencies in processing visa applications and work permits contribute to the number of immigrants who immigrate without authorization. As of 2007 there was a backlog of 1.1 million green card applications, and the typical waiting time was three years.#7. There is no such thing as the "Hispanic vote." Hispanics are white, brown,
black and every shade in between. Hispanics are Republicans, Democrats,
Anarchists, Communists, Marxists and Independents. The so-called "Hispanic
vote" is a myth. Pandering to illegal aliens to get the Hispanic vote is a dead end.
#8. Mexico is NOT a friend of the United States . Since 1848 Mexicans have
resented the United States . During World War I Mexico allowed German Spies
to operate freely in Mexico to spy on the US . During World War II Mexico
allowed the Axis powers to spy on the US from Mexico . During the Cold War
Mexico allowed spies hostile to the US to operate freely. The attack on the Twin
Towers in 2001 was cheered and applauded all across Mexico . Today Mexican
school children are taught that the US stole California ,Arizona ,New Mexico
and Texas . If you don't believe it, check out some Mexican textbooks written
for their school children.ACTUALLY, THIS PARAGRAPH IS THE RACE CAR PLAYED TO IT'S HIGHEST...OBVIOUSLY AN ATTACK UPON MEXICANS.The illegal immigrant population of the United States in 2008 was estimated by the Center for Immigration Studies to be about 11 million people, down from 12.5 million people in 2007.[2] According to a Pew Hispanic Center report, in 2005, 57% of illegal immigrants were from Mexico; 24% were from other Latin American countries, primarily from Central America;[3] 9% were from Asia; 6% were from Europe; and 4% were from the rest of the world.[3]
Actually the US DID steal New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Texas by invasion and war in 1846. These states and others, were part of Mexico.
We took it under a doctrine called "Manifest Destiny" which was the US belief that the entire continent from east to wet was our to take, despite who was already there. We have a history of invading Mexico for our own aims having done it and additional 7 times in 1859, 1866, 1870, 1876, 1913, 1914-1917, & 1919, some of which we actually occupied Mexican territories and cities for a number of years. (Wikipedia and ANY of OUR (not theirs!) basic High School American history book)As far as German spies in Mexico in WWI: On January 16, 1917, the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire, Arthur Zimmermann, sent a coded telegram to the German ambassador in Mexico, Heinrich von Eckardt, at the height of World War I. The telegram, which came to be known as the Zimmerman Telegram instructed the German ambassador to negotiate a military alliance with Mexico against the United States in exchange for the land that Mexico had lost to the United States. Under this proposal Mexico would have regained Texas, California, New Mexico and other border areas. Unfortunately for the Germans the Zimmerman Telegram was intercepted by British intelligence and a copy promptly provided to the Americans. A copy of the Zimmerman telegram, was quickly published throughout the United States. The result of the Zimmerman telegram was widespread anger at Germany and increased American support for intervention on the conflict. Within months the United States was at war with Germany. Mexico declined the offer, concluding that it did not want and could not win a war with the United States. It was one of the greatest blunders of German foreign policy. During the war, there were actually more German spies in the US and Canada than in Mexico....maybe we hated ourselves?...which would be true using the logic of the letter I am refuting! LOL! (cite: nearly any High School American History textbook!)As far as Axis Powers spies being allowed to operate freely from Mexico in WWII, that is absolutely wrong. The truth is that the US and Mexico were strong allies in WWII and Mexico tipped off the US about the spies. Bad information that we wanted the Axis powers to believe, such as where the invasion of Europe was going to be was fed to them by us through the Mexican government. (Cite: Strategy, Security, and Spies: Mexico and the U.S. as Allies in World War II By Maria Emilia Paz who holds a Doctoral Degree from the London School of Economics at Oxford and was supported in this endeavor by the MacAurthur Foundation--she was nominated for a Nobel Prize in History for this book, and again, most any High School American history textbooks!)As far as Mexicans all across Mexico appluding the attack on the towers, I can find absolutely nothing to support that statement, as a matter of fact it is not even in the original testimony of Patrollman Stoddard. IT must be found to be dubious at best, most likely totally false since it is again one of those "broad generalizations" with no support. It was inserted at a later date by those fanatics trying to fan the flames for their cause..#9. Although some illegal aliens enter this country for a better life, there are 6life a good reason to trash another nation? (OH PLEASE! THAT STATEMENT IS SO STUPID AS TO NOT EVEN NEED A RETORT. PLUS, AGAIN IT IS INSERTED INTO THE ORIGINAL AND DID NOT EXIST THERE ORIGINALLY.)
billion people on this planet. At least 1 billion of those live on less than one
dollar a day. If wanting a better life is a valid excuse to break the law and sneak
into America , then let's allow those one billion to come to America and we'll turn
the USA into a Third World nation overnight. Besides, there are 280 million native
born Americans who want a better life. I'll bet Bill Gates and Donald Trump want
a better life. When will the USA lifeboat be full? Since when is wanting a better#10. There is a labor shortage in this country. This is a lie. There are hundredsunemployed and underemployed who would gladly take jobs at a decent wage. (ALREADY CITED ABOVE TO BE UNTRUE AND IT'S JUST ANOTHER GENERALIZED STATEMENT OF ONE MANS UNQUALIFIED OPINION)
of thousands, if not millions, of American housewives, senior citizens, students,the price? (proven untrue as cited above--they pay far more than they take!)For about four decades American politicians have refused to secure
#11. It is racist to want secure borders. What is racist about wanting secure
borders and a secure America ? What is racist about not wanting people to sneak
children and other legal residents? What is it about race that entitles people to
violate our laws, steal identities, and take the American Dream without payingresulted.(proven above to be untrue) This debt will be satisfied and the interest will be high. There has
our borders and look after the welfare of middle class Americans. These
politicians have been of both parties. A huge debt to American society hasThe Center For Immigration Studies has testified before Congress more than 29 times on the following:
already been riots in the streets by illegal aliens and their supporters. There will
be more. You, as a politician, have a choice to offend the illegal aliens who have
stolen into this country and demanded the rights afforded to US citizens or to
offend those of us who are stakeholders in this country. The interest will be steep
either way. There will be civil unrest. There will be a reckoning. Do you have the
courage to do what is right for America ? Or, will you bow to the wants and needs
of those who don't even have the right to remain here? There will be a reckoning."First, we simply don't have the capacity to find, detain, and deport 10-12 million people in a short period of time.""Secondly, even if we had the capacity to magically relocate the millions of illegals, the economic disruption from such an abrupt change would make the transition more painful than it needs to be for those businesses that have become addicted to illegal labor.""And finally, political support for a new commitment to enforcement might well be undermined if an exodus of biblical proportions were to be televised in every American living room."
It will come in November of this year. We will not allow America to be stolen by third world agitators and thieves.
David J. Stoddard
US Border Patrol (RET)
Hereford , Arizonabtw...HAS ANYONE STOPPED TO THINK WHAT RIDING AROUND IN A JEEP ON A DUSTY ARIZONA BORDER CONSTITUTES THIS MAN TO THE AN "EXPERT" ON IMMIGRATION? Oh, wait, he also did three years in the Army...surely THAT makes him an "EXPERT"!!! Seriously, the man is Obviously wholly unqualified to be cited as a rallying point for immigration reformist other than the fact that he wrote a letter to one senator more than eight years ago with his OPINIONS which genrally have no basis in facts, and as we have seen here, are often TOTALLY WRONG!!!.Please pass this letter on to everyone you know, including your senators andCongressmen. (I don't forward lies and innuendo!!!) We must do something about this serious problem NOW! I agree...get some REAL facts and let's come-up with a WORKABLE solution to a huge and looming problem.-- It's not rocket science!
