SPARE ME THE ALIGATOR TEARS

Cross posted from Freedom Watch

Researching for news on the latest developments with the ‘illegal immigration’ matter I came accross an article at  MSNBC that made me utterly disgusted.  In referencing some delays under the present Senate ‘illegal’ Immigration plan, the article originally published in WaPo–said some pretty disgusting things downsizing the importance of the present bill and decrying for the ‘poor’ -mind you ‘illegal’ immigrants.

Excerpt:

The long delays for Zavala’s family were among the many unintended consequences of the 1986 law, which allowed nearly 3 million immigrants to gain legal status. But illegal workers and the government may face far greater problems if pending immigration legislation passes and three times as many people — as many as 10 million by some estimates — are permitted to apply for legalization.

“It would be an utter meltdown,” said Peggy Gleason, a senior attorney at the Catholic Legal Immigration Network. “Despite the problems, [the 1986 amnesty] was actually an enormous success. Government made this huge effort to make all these offices that were very consumer friendly. I have no idea what the government is doing right now to prepare, but back then, they thought about it hard.”

Gleason is out of her mind.  The 1986 amnesty is why we have the problems we have today–she says that is better?  Excuse me since when is allowing amnesty better than asking people to do the right and honest thing; abide by the law of the land?

I am so tired of all the shrilling about the ‘poor illegal’ immigrants.  I am tired of hearing that they are the only ones that will ‘do the jobs’ or that they pay taxes–really?  I do not believe most of them pay taxes because they work for wages paid ‘under the table’–and if they do pay taxes it is with fake ‘legal status’. 

That brings me to this point–that the 1986 amnesty created a fish bowl for illegals to continue to come into the U.S. without facing any real consequence and it enabled those here to just use the law to break it.

What is wrong with calling right what it is right, and wrong what it is wrong?  What is wrong with calling these immigrants what they are — “illegal aliens”?  Oh - sorry to you tone deaf people.  Was that a bit to rough for you? 

****This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, email the coalition and let me know at what level you would like to participate. 

Latin Family Values Myth Debunked

Cross posted from InMuscatine  

The myth of the redemptive Hispanic is finally cracking. For years, conservative open-borders advocates have touted Hispanic “family values” as a prime reason to increase immigration. Hispanic immigrants, these conservatives say, will save America from itself. At a time when Anglo and black families are disintegrating, when society is becoming increasingly atomized and alienated, Hispanics will bring the traditional values that the country so desperately needs. In a classic iteration of the theme, Larry Kudlow wrote on NRO last May that Hispanic immigrants would “become a much-needed churchgoing blue-collar middle class . . . that is crucial to a healthy America.”

The truth is now supplanting the fiction. Last Friday, the New York Times ran an editorial, “Young Latinas and a Cry for Help,” that laid out the real state of the Hispanic family. A quarter of all Latinas are mothers by the age of 20, few of them married, reported the Times. This out-of-wedlock teen-birth rate is three times that of white teens, and significantly more than that of blacks as well. The Hispanic dropout rate is also the highest in the country — the Manhattan Institute’s Jay Greene puts it at 47 percent.

There is simply no way to square the facts about Hispanic family breakdown with the myth of the redemptive Hispanic. Talk to any social worker and she will tell you that illegitimacy has become completely normalized among her Hispanic clients. And the usual explanation for this epidemic of illegitimacy — an unresolved culture clash between young people and their traditional parents — is equally bogus. The mothers of teen mothers are themselves completely on board with single parenting, say the social workers, having often been single parents themselves. And they have no qualms about hooking their daughter and grandchildren into the public-benefits apparatus: “It’s now culturally OK for that population to be served by the welfare system,” says a case manager in a Santa Ana, Calif., home for teen mothers.

Our problems with immigration are just the beginning. This wave of welfare-sucking immigrants combined with our baby-boomers retiring could bankrupt America. The predictions were for the waves of baby-boomers hitting social security to put us at the brink of bankruptcy, and this wave of welfare for immigrants may be enough to push us over the edge.

**This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, email the coalition and let us know at what level you would like to participate.**