Now if they would just start arresting employ-ERS, . . .

Oh, Elesso, save yourself a heart palpitation and simply cover your eyes, k?

And could someone living in southern LA please buy Mr. Javier Rodriguez a one-way ticket to somewhere south of the border.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,374121,00.html

Monday , June 30, 2008
By Lindsay Stewart

Sheriffs in Phoenix, Ariz., have launched an aggressive crackdown on illegal aliens as part of a growing movement by local officials to help prevent illegal immigration.

Maricopa County sheriffs have instituted a zero tolerance policy — knocking on doors and arresting those suspected of living in the country illegally.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the law is clear cut. “Our policy is if we come across any illegal ... you are arrested. You don’t get a ticket. You get to appear before a judge later on.”

In the wake of two unsuccessful attempts at passing a comprehensive immigration reform bill in Congress, state and local governments have increasingly taken it upon themselves to find solutions to the immigration problem.

Recent statistics indicate that enforcement of existing immigration laws — both at local and state levels — has been successful in stemming the tide of illegal immigrants coming into the country.

In 2000, 1.6 million people illegally trying to enter the United States were apprehended. This year, over half a million illegal immigrants were arrested — a sign that increased enforcement of existing laws is actually stopping immigrants from getting across the border. In fact, so much progress has been made on the state and local level that Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff thinks the border could be secure by 2011.

“For 30 years there was an image that built up that the government talked a good talk about enforcing the law against illegal immigration but that we always backed down. Now we are not backing down. Now we are standing up. We’re building the fence. We’re doubling the border patrol. We are arresting people on the interior that are illegally working,” Chertoff said

Nearly 328 miles of the border fence has already been built, and officials are hoping to construct hundreds more by year's end. Federal prosecutions of immigration offenses now amount for 57 percent of total prosecutions, eclipsing cases brought against white-collar criminals and drug offenders, which account for only 20 percent combined.

Despite these improvements, anti-illegal immigration groups say there is more to do if the government truly wants to stem the tide of illegal immigration.

According to research conducted by Numbers USA, an organization that lobbies for anti-illegal immigration legislation, nearly 21 million illegal immigrants already live in the United States, and nearly 2 million children have been born to parents who do not reside here legally. Just under 600,000 of these immigrants are considered fugitives from the law, the group said.

Other immigration experts also say enforcement alone will not solve the immigration problem, and add that the federal government needs to take more action. “If I had to grade the administration right now, I would say maybe a C plus or a C minus,” said Stephen Camarata of the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies.

Camarata said improvement might not come in the form of new legislation but at the behest of public opinion. “Congress isn’t that interested in enforcing the law. President Bush isn’t that interested. The one interest group that has really been pushing for enforcement is the public,” said Camarata.

Although Phoenix sheriffs have had some success with their aggressive immigration policies, other public officials are less comfortable with local enforcement doing a job that they think the federal government should be handling.

In a press conference on May 1, 2008, Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa argued that making his police officers immigration enforcers does not make economic sense. “At a time when ICE has said that they do not have the resources to go after those undocumented that are committing serious felonies, but do have the resources to go after legitimate employers, what I am saying is, we need to prioritize our resources,” said Villaraigosa.

Immigrant advocates echo Villaraigosa’s call to eliminate local law enforcement from the immigration equation.

Javier Rodriguez, a Southern California-based immigrantion advocate who supports full amnesty for illegal immigrants who already live in the United States, calls current policy a form of domestic terrorism that negatively affects the lives of immigrants who are working for an honest wage, even if they are not here legally.

“The Bush administration has launched a low-intensity warfare campaign of terror, of raids, of deportation, that has taken its toll on the immigrant communities throughout the country,” said Rodriguez.

But officials note that illegal immigration is a crime — and there must be consequences.

"If you break the law, you don't get a free bite at the apple," said Chertoff. "We enforce the law and deport you."

I know of the illegal Mexican problem in Western states. And I live in a mecca of illegal immigration, Miami,FL. And my plans have been for a long time to move to the far Western North Carolina town of Murphy in a couple of years. Imagine my surprise a few years ago when I found out that Charlotte,NC is a haven for illegal (& legal) Mexicans! I retired from the Dept.of Veterans Affairs Medical Center 18 months ago, and I knew of several Cuban medical Center staff that already owned land and homes not far from where I plan on building. Maybe I will have to learn Spanish after all. And it won't surprise me when the day comes I make a call up there, and the operator says "press 1 for English".

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Originally posted by badmac933:
I know of the illegal Mexican problem in Western states. And I live in a mecca of illegal immigration, Miami,FL. And my plans have been for a long time to move to the far Western North Carolina town of Murphy in a couple of years. Imagine my surprise a few years ago when I found out that Charlotte,NC is a haven for illegal (& legal) Mexicans! I retired from the Dept.of Veterans Affairs Medical Center 18 months ago, and I knew of several Cuban medical Center staff that already owned land and homes not far from where I plan on building. Maybe I will have to learn Spanish after all. And it won't surprise me when the day comes I make a call up there, and the operator says "press 1 for English".

It's that way everywhere now, worse in some places, try living in an agricultural area of SoCal...
Respectfully, SUNLINER81

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Originally posted by SUNLINER81:

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Originally posted by badmac933:
I know of the illegal Mexican problem in Western states. And I live in a mecca of illegal immigration, Miami,FL. And my plans have been for a long time to move to the far Western North Carolina town of Murphy in a couple of years. Imagine my surprise a few years ago when I found out that Charlotte,NC is a haven for illegal (& legal) Mexicans! I retired from the Dept.of Veterans Affairs Medical Center 18 months ago, and I knew of several Cuban medical Center staff that already owned land and homes not far from where I plan on building. Maybe I will have to learn Spanish after all. And it won't surprise me when the day comes I make a call up there, and the operator says "press 1 for English".

It's that way everywhere now, worse in some places, try living in an agricultural area of SoCal...
Respectfully, SUNLINER81

Ummm...no, that's ok. lol

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Originally posted by badmac933:

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Originally posted by SUNLINER81:

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Originally posted by badmac933:
I know of the illegal Mexican problem in Western states. And I live in a mecca of illegal immigration, Miami,FL. And my plans have been for a long time to move to the far Western North Carolina town of Murphy in a couple of years. Imagine my surprise a few years ago when I found out that Charlotte,NC is a haven for illegal (& legal) Mexicans! I retired from the Dept.of Veterans Affairs Medical Center 18 months ago, and I knew of several Cuban medical Center staff that already owned land and homes not far from where I plan on building. Maybe I will have to learn Spanish after all. And it won't surprise me when the day comes I make a call up there, and the operator says "press 1 for English".

It's that way everywhere now, worse in some places, try living in an agricultural area of SoCal...
Respectfully, SUNLINER81

Ummm...no, that's ok. lol

SMARTAZZ!...
LOL Respectfully, SUNLINER81

No Nation can survive long if it depends on slavery or abuse poor ethnic people for cheap labor from other countries. Rome was the greatest Empire know to mankind. But in its last declining years the corrupt Romans depended on a large population of slaves for their labor and to hire barbarian mercenaries because few Roman Citizens join the Roman Army for they did away mandatory draft! The Roman citizens and the corrupt politicians at that time forgot to care about citizenship/loyalty to ones country! They only care about their own greed for power and money. Then in the end when the Romans could not govern themselves the barbarians moved in with very little or no fight against the few remaining Romans that did care but was too late!. The Romans were not the only empire or country that have risen to great heights then collapes. When corrupt countries have to depend on slaves/cheap labor and dependent to resources from other countries and then they forgot who and what they are (their citizenship/loyalty to one's country)the result are almost irreversible and that country collapses to the ash heap of history.

When I hear who's going to pick our crops and use the excuse we have to hire ILLEGALS make my blood boil! It is the same lame excuse the Old South use so they can have slavery intact because you don't have to pay slaves NOTHING for labor work! It took a Civil War to end that myth! Now you have Agriculture and business corporation using a similar excuses that we have to hire ILLEGALS because they are jobs that American will not do!!! Well you think I am going to work for $2.00 a hour! American were doing those jobs but the greedy corrupt corporations did not want to pay a decent living wage!!! We are at the crossroad in our Nation that will unravel and probably destroy us! When we have to depend more and more on cheap slave labor from Illegals those Illegals will have a large population that reach a saturation point! When it does they will either demand political concessions from us and/or they will demand to succeed from us to either become a third world Country or re-instate back to their mother country Mexico. Let get something straight who to blame for this mess. You cannot blame entirely on Illegals for this immigration mess! One: it is the fault of the Agriculture/business corporations who want cheap labor. Two both political parties are at fault for they want the cheap votes! And three: WE ARE AT FAULT for we do not stand up to these corrupt souls (business & politicians). For some of us forgot what and who we are! When schools hardly teach American history and citizenship anymore why should one have loyalty to one's country!!! How corrupt we have become...how sad that soon the once proud United States will soon become UNUNITED STATES and splinter into many different countries like what happen to Old Europe.....sad

THOSE WHO DO NOT LEARN FROM HISTORY PAST MISTAKES ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT THOSE MISTAKES

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