According to the Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau, the public opinion in Mexico has become increasingly negative toward the United States over the past decade. Also America’s southern neighbor now holds strongly negative views of President Bush and the candidates vying to replace him. This information was revealed from a public opinion survey released Thursday.
My question is, do we really care? It is foolish to base how we run our nation, the decisions that are or are not made in government, and to view public opinion in any foreign country as a good reason to appease. How we look to other nations and what they think is what is destroying this nation.
We care what Mexico thinks, but not Israel? How utterly pathetic.
A Pew Global Attitudes Survey of citizens in Mexico and 23 other countries found that 47 percent of Mexicans have a positive view of the United States, down from 68 percent a decade ago. Nearly half of that decline — 9 percentage points — came since last year, when an anti-immigrant backlash in America inflamed some residents of Mexico.
The survey did not attempt to question Mexicans about their motivations behind their beliefs, but the negative mood is clearly focused on American political leaders.
Just 16 percent of Mexicans have confidence in President Bush, a former border state governor who professes great affection for Mexico. Only 29 percent of Mexicans have confidence in Democratic presidential candidate Obama, and 19 percent respond favorably to Republican contender John McCain.
“The cynicism about the United States runs pretty deeply” in Mexico, said Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center. “They know us fairly well, and they probably have doubts.”
The findings were part of a comprehensive survey of world attitudes on various political and economic topics. More than 24,000 people were interviewed on six continents.
While other nations’ views of the U.S. soured after the Iraq invasion in 2003, the decline in Mexican support for America has come more recently, amid growing anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States and a crackdown by the Bush administration on undocumented workers.
Among all the countries surveyed, Mexico was more skeptical of the two candidates for president than any outside the Muslim world. The only nations that were more dubious of Obama than Mexico were Pakistan (10 percent), Turkey (20 percent) and Jordan (22 percent).
Only Pakistan, Turkey and Indonesia were more hostile to McCain.
One would think we are vetting Mexico and other countries in their opinion polls to justify the sickening presidential campaign that Obama is running. Everyone has noticed that the numbers always favor Obama making McCain appear to be the underdog.
Then of course we have the illegal immigration issue, which Mexican citizens have not yet taken responsibility for. The people of Mexico are entitled you know since they are still ticked off at Uncle Sam for possessing everything North of the Rio Grande.
Just 37 percent of Mexican citizens think that the new president will change U.S. foreign policy for the better, the survey said — one of the most pessimistic assessments in the world.
The harshly negative Mexican perceptions of McCain are particularly surprising because the Arizona senator has consistently won a majority of Mexican-American votes in his statewide races. What’s more, he was the primary Republican sponsor of comprehensive immigration legislation that would have given illegal workers a pathway to eventual U.S. citizenship.
Resentment against Uncle Sam is widespread south of the Rio Grande. Only 17 percent of Mexicans think the United States influences their country in a positive way. One in five Mexicans think the U.S. influences their economy for the better.
About half of Mexicans think of the U.S. as a partner; 31 percent consider America an enemy.
I find it amusing that 31 percent of Mexicans consider America an enemy. But then those people are more than likely the ones that were caught here illegally and sent back to where they belong - south of the border.
So tell me who cares what Mexico thinks of our leaders and I will show you the fools. If you think this is not serious just realize how many apologists write that we are demonizing Mexicans.
What is to get?
We are beyond irritated with Mexicans that are here illegally, but we do not hate Mexicans or anyone else that came to the U.S. legally. Appeasing the Mexicans and their government by not enforcing our laws so that they will feel good about us is just plain suicide.
One can only surmise that if people in our nation are so obsessed about what Mexico or any other country thinks of us or our politicians then we are in bad shape with a low self-esteem and no foresight into how to conduct foreign policy.
It is no secret that there is no love lost between me and McCain, but at least I can be sure of one thing about the man, he is a patriot vs. Obama who is a pinhead.
As for Mexico and her citizenry - they do not matter to our nation, to our elections, or for that matter how Americans conduct their business. Mexico needs to shut the hell up and worry about their not so piffy nation of drug lords and criminals and stay south of the border. They cannot even solve their own problems but believe they can solve ours?
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On May 12, 2008 I wrote an article titled, Illegal Immigrants Sense of Entitlement. I was stunned yesterday when I found a comment from a woman claiming to be here legally, but now is helping her husband with his “papers” who entered the United States illegally. Though I suspect she too is here illegally, I have no way to prove this. But what she wrote more than just chapped my hide - it angered me as an American citizen and it should anger you too.
The premise of what I wrote was simply this:
Under the Senate approved proposal regarding The 2008 Economic Stimulus, illegal immigrants will not be eligible to receive tax rebate checks for obvious reasons. But where I live I have heard all the complaining one has to put up with regarding this issue before you tell someone to just shut up!
It is amazingly ignorant that people with no sense of honor and decency to enter the U.S. legally, would have the gall to complain that they are not going to be allowed to get a stimulus check. Why should they? They did not even file taxes. They are here illegally. What don’t they get?
This year it was imperative to ask about ones legal status because of the stimulus, so many illegals did not file their taxes this year. Boo hoo hoo, no sympathy here.
A neighbor actually had the nerve to show their anger and disgust towards my husband when they realized he was eligible and they were not. Sorry, but that is the price paid when one comes into any nation illegally. These illegals have no rights to what a citizen or even a documented worker would have the rights too.
Aside from all this my husband is American, born and raised in Chicago and of Puerto Rican decent. He resents the fact that so many illegals have given decent Hispanics a horrid reputation now.
l concluded my article saying, “I for one am pleased that they are not part of the stimulus package. It is bad enough we must deal with the baggage these illegals bring with them once they are here. I look to this stimulus as a payment owed the American people for having been forced to put up with the abuse sustained by those that have entered our home, The United States, illegally. That is the price they must pay - illegal immigrants are not entitled to our stimulus. And all their anger and boo hooing gets them nada!“
I had several positive comments from thinking people that realize the illegal immigration situation is not going away and that we need more than just reforms to resolve this ongoing issue. We all know that enforcement of our existing laws on the books regarding illegal immigration are not being enforced. We all realize that it is the lack of enforcement that is enabling this “entitlement” issue amongst illegal immigrants.
Read this woman’s brazen comment:
oh You Layla and everyone else must not understand why illegals are mad ,My situation is a little different Yes my husband is illegal we are now going through the process of his papers ,But he has filed taxes every year that hes been here going on 10 yrs. and Im legal and so are my 4 children that we filed last year .I am intilted to my and my childrens part legally. so before you all think its not right your wrong we deserve it too and still cant recieve it
Brenda Calderon on May 28th, 2008
I normally correct my readers typos when they leave comments because I do not want them embarrassed later by someone else pointing their mistake out to them. I know how embarrassing that can be as I have had my grammatical and spelling errors pointed out to me on more than one occasion. But this time I decided to leave every error in tact simply because this commenter believes she and her illegal husband are entitled to priviledges shared only by those who live in our nation legally.
I was so outraged that I left quite a lengthy comment that I would like to share here with my readers. I find the attitude of this woman inexcusable.
What I had to say about her “sense of entitlement”
Any child of an illegal immigrant is a child here legally. That is the law. However, unfortunately our government, ICE, and police officials have themselves broken our own laws by not following our immigration laws on the books.
You may have come here legally, had your children so that they would be here legally, but I am sorry, your husband BROKE the laws on the books. Just because apologists in our government, ICE, and the police do not themselves follow the law, this in and of itself does not change the law, nor does it ENTITLE your husband to anything BUT DEPORTATION for entering a country illegally.
Furthermore, if this was reversed I am quite sure your home country would deport any and all doing what people such as you and your husband are doing. Technically what you did to enable your husband is illegal - but apologists at ICE are not reporting you thus breaking the law themselves.
You may call this mercy, I call it wrong and just as immoral as your illegal husband entering the US illegally. It is appalling and disgusting and I loathe people that think we owe YOU something. We OWE you NOTHING.
You are selfish to deny people the right to enter here legally when you believe that you can surpass them by breaking the law because YOU THINK you are entitled to do so.
If you really are here legally, I am ashamed to have a potential American citizen like you to call my fellow American. My REAL fellow Americans follow the law of the land, they do not break them. Those that do are jailed.
Your husband should be picked up by ICE and deported. Let him return legally as so many others have been forced to do.
I am from a family of immigrants that came here legally that felt entitled to nothing except to help this nation become greater and felt giving to this nation was what made it great, not taking what is not theirs or their right to have.
People with your mindset turn my stomach. Entitled? You and yours are entitled to nothing when YOU BREAK THE LAW.
I believe I have made my point quite clear. Need I say more?
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The N.C. Community College System will no longer allow illegal immigrants to enroll in curriculum degree programs. (Rocky Mountain Telegram) Michelle Malkin says “From sanctuary nation to sovereign nation. One step at a time.” Yee Haw
On the MSM ‘reports’ about how illegals are treated in ‘detention camps’ and being ‘drugged’ before deportation, the Corner says:
The Post piece (with an accompanying 60 Minutes segment) was a resounding success for the advocacy group that planted it, as was last week’s New York Times story along the same lines. The goal of all this coordinated coverage is to delegitimize the whole notion of detaining illegal immigrants, so as to prevent the government from being able to enforce the immigration law…
Michelle Malkin on the real scandal:
4) The real scandal is that even after 9/11, there are a mere 33,000 detention beds for an illegal alien population upwards of 20 million.5) The real scandal is that while 33,000 are in custody, some 400,000-500,000 illegal alien deportation fugitives are on the loose after they’ve been ordered to leave by immigration judges.
6) The real scandal is that for every detainee in custody, there are countless others who have been released and gone on to commit crimes and wreak havoc on American soil.
But those won’t be splashed on the front page and packaged with snazzy, multimedia features.
Because those won’t win journalism prizes.
There is little chance that the three liberals running for president along with the other notable morons that preach the gospel of liberalism from their various pulpits will succumb to common sense and allow for the limited self-government our founding fathers intended. (See Conservative Common Man)
The United States Border Patrol is catching illegals going and coming. (see the Virtuous Republic)
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Immigration has ‘no positive effect’ on Britain, finds landmark report
The Government’s claims to justify mass immigration was last night demolished by experts who demanded a cap on future arrivals.
The landmark study, the most authoritative ever carried out by a Parliamentary committee, dismissed out of hand the Government’s “preposterous and irrelevant” assertion that migrants boost the economy by £6 billion.
The cross-party panel - which includes ex-Chancellors, economists and captains of industry - said there was “little or no positive impact” on the living standards of the existing UK population.
It’s because, like Canada, the UK has no standards for who they let in. Really. how many cab drivers do we need?
I’m not sure what the certification rules are in the UK, but here in Canada, even if you have a skill, you aren’t allowed to use it. So even doctors are driving taxis.
Tory ex-Cabinet Minister Lord Wakeham, who chaired the inquiry, said: “The Government’s use of impact on overall GDP as the key measure is preposterous and irrelevant because it does not reflect the economic well-being of the existing population.”
The committee said: “There has been little or no positive impact on the living standards of the existing population.
“The biggest beneficiaries of international migration are migrants themselves, as employment in the higher income countries enables them to earn higher wages and incomes than in their home countries.’
Asked if the economic policies pursued by Labour over the last decade had been a mistake, Lord Wakeham replied: “We have made it abundantly clear we do not believe there has been any great economic benefit from the policy it has pursued.”
From the comments on the article:
Do you think that they are finally realising what the ordinary person could have told them years ago?
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A Lake County Sheriff’s Deputy is recovering after being ambushed while making an arrest. Notice that the report waits until the last sentence to acknowledge two of the attackers were illegal aliens. Lake County Deputy Attacked by Mob
[Lake County Deputy Cliff] McMikeenamy chased the suspect down and attempted to subdue him with a taser gun but before the deputy could secure the man, about a dozen other men attacked the deputy. “As he was securing the subject with his handcuffs, several other people here at the residence began attacking him. They struck him repeatedly, began kicking him, and his injuries lead us to believe that one subject even struck him over the head with a beer bottle,” said Sergeant John Herrell from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.Deputy McMikeenamy was transported to a Florida Hospital Waterman in Eustis and treated for cuts and bruises.
At least two men were taken into custody. Authorities say the two who were apprehended have been identified as illegal immigrants. (more)
Yep, illegal aliens attack along with some legal residents. Ship the illegals home. Seems the only way we can fine, arrest and deport illegals is when they attack or kill someone, or break some other US law — other than being here illegally in the first place.
Then there’s this:
No Coyote Needed
New Paper Examines Visa Overstays
WASHINGTON (March 2008) – While presidential candidates promise to secure the border, the other major source of illegal immigration is largely ignored – lax visa policies. Visa overstays account for between one-quarter to one-half of the illegal-alien population, and fencing, unmanned aerial vehicles, National Guard patrols, etc., are irrelevant to controlling this part of the immigration problem.
To shine some light on this neglected weakness, the Center for Immigration Studies has published a new paper, “No Coyote Needed: U.S. Visas Still an Easy Ticket in Developing Countries,” written by former State Department official David Seminara, examining the systemic problems in our “nonimmigrant” (i.e., temporary) visa system. The complete paper is online at http://www.cis.org/articles/2008/back208.html.
U.S. law places the burden of proof on the visa applicant to demonstrate that he won’t remain in the United States as an illegal alien after his permission to remain has expired. Despite the law’s tough language, 74 percent of nonimmigrant applications are granted, mostly from countries with much lower standards of living than the United States, where few residents should truly be able to qualify.
The new paper identifies some of the reasons for this laxity, including:
• The crushing volume of applications. Most visa-processing posts are woefully understaffed, resulting in very brief interviews. Managers value speed over clarity of decision making, so many applications that deserve closer scrutiny instead end up being approved.
• Foreign Service officers tend to have a diplomatic rather than a law enforcement mindset.
• Developing countries place great importance on visas in bilateral discussions.
• State Department managers are required to review only visa refusals – not issuances – forcing consular officers to routinely justify denials.
• DHS has not implemented meaningful exit controls or shared entry/exit data with consular officials overseas, leaving them without adequate information on visa renewal applicants.
• Officers evaluate how well-off visa candidates are by the standards of their home country, rather than by U.S. standards, and thus often fail to understand how a nurse from Ecuador, say, would prefer to wash dishes at a restaurant in New York.
• Refused applicants, their relatives, and members of Congress routinely pressure consular officials to overturn visa refusals.
• The simple reality that it is far easier to say “yes” to applicants than to dash their hopes by telling them that they don’t qualify to come to America.
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The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent research institute
which examines the impact of immigration on the United States.
1522 K Street NW, Suite 820, Washington, DC 20005-1202
(202) 466-8185 • fax (202) 466-8076 • center@cis.org • www.cis.org
Bryan Griffith
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Center for Immigration Studies
1522 K St. NW, Suite 820
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 466-8185
Fax: (202) 466-8076
See Also: Michelle Malkin: Breaking: Supreme Court rules against illegal alien Death Row murderer (and stupid Bush administration), upholds US sovereignty
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This has to be the greatest story about ILLEGALS to come out in a while. A van load of ILLEGALS ran into the back of a car in Arizona on Tuesday. Now that might not seem like much of a story except the car they hit was owned by the Department of Homeland Security.
The report states that the van was overloaded with people, there were no injuries and all 11 people in the van were turned over to immigration.
If we could just have a bunch more chance meetings like this we might be able to fix the ILLEGAL alien problem in this country.
Source:
KTAR
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Via our parent site and host Webloggin, a story from fellow Webloggin contributer Big Dog about those honest and hard-working illegal immigrants that do such a good job of following the laws once they break the law to get here…
Now we have word that a border patrol agent in California was run over by a vehicle that he tried to stop after it entered this country ILLEGALLY. The area where this took place is popular among off road enthusiasts as well as drug runners entering the US ILLEGALLY. Our government is responsible for the death of this agent. The failure of the President and the Congress to secure our borders has allowed a vehicle to enter ILLEGALLY and run over an agent.
I can certainly understand why some people really hate Fox News and immediately think of the words like “slanted” and “biased” whenever it is mentioned. If you’re used to cherry-picking the facts to make ILLEGAL immigrants look good, I would suppose the truth would might look strange and tainted when it finally walked up and slapped you across your ILLEGAL-alien-apologist face.
The apologist viewpoints that I find most disturbing about this, are the ones that leave the wrong idea and then hang around for awhile by being laced with kernels of truth. Namely…that the illegal aliens hop the turnstyle and break the laws by being in America, because they suffer from a lack of options and want to do right by their families. This is true, several times a day…of that, I have no doubt.
But the argument is diminished somewhat, the first time someone gets hurt. It’s diminished further when someone is killed…more so, when it happens a few more times.
What I think people lose track of here, is that “Illegal” means immeasurable. You don’t know who these people are. So it’s impossible to say what they’re really wanting to do once they’re in America. And you certainly can’t state in any certain terms how dangerous it’s going to be to let ‘em run around. You DON’T KNOW. Even the illegal aliens that have names, and supposedly, work histories…you don’t even know if that applies to the guy in front of you, or not.
The word “illegal” means it is a crapshoot. To support it, you have to say it is worthwhile to play this absurd lottery game with the lives of others. With real citizens, that belong here. To which, you can reply (and many do) that it’s only by an accident of birth that anybody supposedly “belongs” here…that lie has a kernel of truth to it as well.
But look where that leads. This argument, necessarily, insists that your “accident of birth” made you a citizen of the United States, and it shouldn’t have — you have been overly privileged, and therefore it is just desserts that you be made into target practice for millions of illegal aliens. Some of whom are here to “work hard,” some of whom are here to run people over with their cars after getting drunk. Some of them, both. Maybe it’ll happen to you, and maybe it won’t. But you deserved to be subjected to this sick game of chance, because you as a natural-born citizen were born overly-privileged.
Yes, that isn’t what these apologists mean. But that’s the argument they’d have to embrace, for their statements to make sense. That the lives of natural-born citizens…simply aren’t worth very much, and have been overvalued.
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Those of us who believe in the rule of law want the borders of this country, particularly the southern border, closed down so that ILLEGALS cannot sneak across. People like Ted Kennedy and John McCain (and every Democrat) like to characterize these people as honest and hard working. I have no doubt they are hard WORKING people (I doubt they only do jobs Americans won’t) but they are not HONEST. When a person breaks the law by crossing our border ILLEGALLY and then lives here under false pretenses then that is anything but honesty. This is criminal behavior and our government has sanctioned it for decades. The people in our Congress have turned a blind eye to border patrol agents who were thrown in jail for doing their duties, agents who received more time in jail for protecting us than any of the ILLEGALS get for invading us.
Now we have word that a border patrol agent in California was run over by a vehicle that he tried to stop after it entered this country ILLEGALLY. The area where this took place is popular among off road enthusiasts as well as drug runners entering the US ILLEGALLY. Our government is responsible for the death of this agent. The failure of the President and the Congress to secure our borders has allowed a vehicle to enter ILLEGALLY and run over an agent.
The way our government treats these things it might be a blessing that the agent died. If he had lived the government would have locked him up for a decade because he bothered an honest, hard working invader.
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Amid the many examples that supposedly substantiate the vacuous claim that the illegal immigrant “hustles to do hard work many Americans won’t do” and the equally specious statement that illegal immigrants “endure hatred and abuse by those of us who want the benefits of cheap labor but not the presence of illegal immigrants” is the Dallas Morning News editorial that awards the 2007 Texan of the Year title to “The Illegal Immigrant”. You can read the editorial essay here.
He is at the heart of a great culture war in Texas – and the nation, credited with bringing us prosperity and blamed for abusing our resources. How should we deal with this stranger among us?
He breaks the law by his very presence. He hustles to do hard work many Americans won’t, at least not at the low wages he accepts. The American consumer economy depends on him. America as we have known it for generations may not survive him.
We can’t seem to live with him and his family, and if we can live without him, nobody’s figured out how.
He’s the Illegal Immigrant, and he’s the 2007 Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year – for better or for worse.
Yes, the editorial staff at the Dallas Morning News wants you to know that they have studied your viewpoint - for better or for worse. But with all of that in mind they have decided to look past your convictions and praise the hard working law breaker as if the alleged benefits outweigh the consequences of illegal immigration. Forget the toll of human trafficking, never mind the drugs and weapons that travel the same route into the country as the coveted illegal worker, ignore the violent gangs from South America, side step the issue of non-English speaking students that burden our schools, give up on hospital emergency rooms that can not afford the benefits afforded to illegals and never, ever mention the broken bodies from families that would otherwise be in tact if not for the actions of some illegals that just wanted to come here without waiting in the same line that millions of other legal immigrants have decided to sit through.
This short list is part of a much longer list that the editors at the Dallas Morning News overlook in their quest to justify illegal immigration at the expense of “undependable, lazy and arrogant” Americans. (Yes, the editors actually included a quote from a business owner that calls Americans undependable, lazy and arrogant; more on that below.)
To their champions, illegal immigrants are decent, hardworking people who, like generations of European immigrants before them, just want to do better for their families and who contribute to America’s prosperity. They must endure hatred and abuse by those of us who want the benefits of cheap labor but not the presence of illegal immigrants.
Especially here in Texas, his strong back and willing heart help form the cornerstone of our daily lives, in ways that many of us do not, or will not, see. The illegal immigrant is the waiter serving margaritas at our restaurant table, the cook preparing our enchiladas. He works grueling hours at a meatpacking plant, carving up carcasses of cattle for our barbecue (he also picks the lettuce for our burgers). He builds our houses and cuts our grass. She cleans our homes and takes care of our children.
Yet to those who want them sent home, illegal immigrants are essentially lawbreakers who violate the nation’s borders. They use public resources – schools, hospitals – to which they aren’t entitled and expect to be served in a foreign language. They’re rapidly changing Texas neighborhoods, cities and culture, and not always for the better. Those who object get tagged as racists.
No, they are not essentially lawbreakers, there is no qualifier here, they are lawbreakers. We don’t get to pick and choose the laws we want to follow nor do we get to qualify the labels. They are illegal and that aspect of their existence on American soil poses a great problem.
Michelle Malkin hit the nail on the head when she noted that the newspaper ought to be honoring the faceless victims of crime perpetrated by illegals rather than the illegal worker that the editors of the Dallas Morning News chose to prop up as the model worker. Yet even Michelle seems to have missed the offensive one liners and sought after examples that are presented as a generalized sort of justification while at the same time taking pot shots at Americans.
Marty owns a North Texas construction company. He has come to view American workers as undependable, lazy and arrogant, while he finds illegal immigrants motivated and reliable.
“I’d rather employ them than Americans,” he confides. “In my line of work, I need the Mexicans, and I am for them being here. I need them because I can’t find anybody else to do the work.”
This is a lie. The truth is that “Marty” the business owner and others like him have created an atmosphere that is hostile to Americans. Marty and others like him shop for workers in the parking lot of day labor friendly businesses. They are not looking for hard working Americans because hard working Americans carry a tax burden, a competitive wage burden, a health care burden and all the other benefits that Marty the business owner is too undependable, lazy and arrogant to admit to. Not to mention that Marty himself is a criminal if he is circumventing the laws of the United States to run his business.
Perhaps the editors at the Dallas Morning News live too comfortably to be in touch with real Americans but their nursery school examples of hard working illegals discounts all of the hard working legal Americans that put in equally long hours in equally demanding jobs. Funny thing, I’m a hard working white collar professional yet along the way I cut the grass, tendered drinks at the bar, served food at the tables, cleaned dishes in the back, painted walls at the factory, poured metal at the die cast plant, flipped burgers at the grill and even put tore up the roofs for other legal workers to complete. Look around you and ask your friends if they did much of the same; my guess would probably be yes.
Perhaps our kids have it better because of our hard work or perhaps some jobs just don’t pay enough to make a living wage. But whose fault is that? It’s certainly not the worker who is edged out of a needed job because an illegal happens to be waiting in line to do it for less than the legal wage! This is not something that a newspaper should bestow an honor upon. It is an unlawful act that damages society, undercuts the premise of a living wage, depresses wages for legal Americans and worst of all makes it impossible for legitimate business owners and workers to compete on an even playing field. Hello, the American way calling; heard of it?
I understand that illegal immigrants want a better life and that most are in fact law abiding and hard working as the editors claim. But it is wrong to lump illegal immigrants in with past generations of European immigrants who waited in line, were screened at the border and assimilated once here legally. It is wrong to tout the benefits of illegal immigration without honestly discussing the true cost in terms of both the human and economic impact that comes along with the benefits. It is also wrong to talk about the illegal immigration problem as if it is a uniquely Mexican immigrant issue. Yet the Dallas morning news did just that by bestowing the simple title of Texan of the Year to the side of immigration they want celebrate at the expense of the side they wish to hide under the covers.
As you may or may not already be aware, members of the
Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing that points out topics such as the above…
per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting this post for consideration in the upcoming nominations process because I can not fathom a bigger collection of weasels than the editors at the Dallas Morning News in light of their hapless lobbying for illegal immigration.
Here is the most recent
winning council post (Congrats to Webloggin Contributor BookWorm!!), here is the most recent
winning non-council post, here is the
list of results for the latest vote, and here is the
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The Mexican government reported the results of recent studies on Tuesday showing that 68 percent of Mexicans who migrate or try to migrate to the United States do so without documents and 55 percent of them hire immigrant smugglers.
The report, timed to coincide with the U.N. International Migrants Day, also noted that the Mexican-born population living in the United States increased from about 800,000 in 1970 to more than 11 million in 2006.
The majority of Mexicans now living in the United States — 6.2 million — are undocumented, according to the report, which was based on surveys of migrants and information from the government’s National Population Council.
Almost 30 million people in the United are direct descendants of Mexico migrants, the report stated.
In contrast, the report said the immigrant population in Mexico is quite small and has not experienced rapid growth.
The number of foreign residents in Mexico grew from 340,000 people en 1990, or about 0.42 percent of the population at the time, to about 493,000 in 2000, or about 0.5 percent, the last year for which data is available.
More than two-thirds of the foreign residents are from the United States, and many of those are of Mexican extraction.
All I ask is that, having read the above, you now read this.
Mexican,
United States,
immigrant,
U.N. International Migrants Day,
undocumented
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