I live in Texas and I can assure you, we have been invaded by Spanish-speaking people (about the nicest way I can put it). When I go into any convenience store, any time of day, I run into Spanish-speaking people, buying beer mostly.
There is a recent poll that says 88 percent of Americans say something needs to be done about this. The Senate is getting ready to introdue something to show they are acting on the wishes of the American people. But, what can/should the senate do? Is it already too late? Are the invaders here to stay?
President Bush wants to set up some kind of program where a worker can come up and work for a certain amount of time on a visa, then go back. That program is already in affect and has been used by industry for years. It's called the L1B visa program, and lawyers all over are hustling to bring workers over from anywhere...very lucrative gig for them.
The L1B visa thing was originally intended to help companies find someone AFTER they have looked for a suitable candidate among the US citizenry. Unfortunately, that's not the way it works. The major companies are hiring thousands of engineers and technicians from smaller companies, mostly Venezuela, Argentina, Columbia, and India, for less than their American counterparts, working them here for up to seven years, then sending them back. And I'm sure there are loopholes around that. I know, I'm working next to someone like that right now.
Right...so much for keeping the US jobs in the US.
So, that's President Bush's proposal. Now, Senator Frist wants to push legislation to enforce punishment on those that hire illegals.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has said the Senate will take up his proposal to tighten borders and punish employers who hire illegal immigrants if the Judiciary Committee doesn't complete a broader bill by next week.
Hello? I thought it was already against the law to hire illegals...I guess the greedy business owners have gotten around that little law for years by paying them in cash and not paying taxes (both the business owner and the illegal). Now it's gotten to the point that construction companies HAVE to hire illegals to make any money. They have become an essential element in the construction, food service, and cleaning service industries (just to mention a few). We go out and eat a lot and most restaurant chains hire illegals as their "cooks." The wait staff complain that they can't get an order done because they have to have an interpreter to talk to the cooks. Watch the buss staff and cooks the next time you go out to eat. You'll see.
These ompanies have made themselves dependent on illegal workers...just to make a buck.
Now you have senators opposing any kind of action to punish these lawbreakers and essentially give them the keys to YOUR city. One of the biggest manipulators is Senator Clinton. She wants to block the proposal to change illegal immigration from a misdeameanor to a felony.
She also called for new enforcement laws, including penalties for employers who exploit illegal immigrants, as well as a system to allow the roughly 11 million illegal immigrants currently living in the United States to earn their citizenship.
Clinton expressed sympathy to representatives of communities along the U.S.-Mexico border that are frustrated by the stress of providing social services to large numbers of undocumented immigrants. But she also said she hoped to send a message that supporters of punitive immigration policy faced significant political risk for doing so.
"We want the outcome to be that they're on the wrong side of the politics as well as the wrong side of history and American values," she said.
Oh WAAH...she just sees the hispanic vote and wants to capitalize on it if/when she runs for president. You notice in the above quote that she wants penalties for those employers who EXPLOIT illegal immigrants? She doesn't say diddly about penalties for those employers who HIRE them.
That's illegal too, as I understand. And, that's the whole point of this rant. The illegals are taking over Tejas, Arizona, and California (among others). They are taking jobs, buying land and houses (one just moved in next to me in a house that I couldn't afford), paying cash for everything, and sending their money and support back to the Motherland to the tune of several billion dollars a year. In the meantime, we have to pay their medical bills, provide them an education (did you know that when they go to our schools, they don't even have to learn English? They usually have an interpreter. I saw that when I substituted a few years ago).
They are taking up our welfare and SSI payments and they STILL don't have to be American citizens.
This is not right.
I want my country back.
