The immigration battle that has been simmering over the last few years is coming to a boil. States like Georgia, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and South Carolina are fed up with inaction by Federal Government in the illegal immigration battle and are poised to enact laws similar to the controversial Arizona law to combat illegal immigration. The fact much of that Arizona law has been put on hold due to ongoing court battles is no deterrent to these other states.
According to New York Times reporter Julia Preston, "Legislative leaders in at least half a dozen states say they will propose bills similar to a controversial law to fight illegal immigration adopted by Arizona last spring, even though a federal court has suspended central provisions of that statute."
Even more controversial is the fact that, according to Preston, "Next week, at least five states plan to begin an unusual coordinated effort to cancel automatic United States citizenship for children born in this country to illegal immigrant parents."
If some republican lawmakers have their way, for the first time in American history, being born here will not automatically make you a citizen. Preston reports, "Opponents say that effort {by the states} would be unconstitutional, arguing that the power to grant citizenship resides with the federal government, not with the states. Still, the chances of passing many of these measures appear better than at any time since 2006, when many states, frustrated with inaction in Washington, began proposing initiatives to curb illegal immigration."
I wonder though, if you throw out all the "illegal" immigrants who will pick the fruit and vegetables. Will you? Will your children? It has been said the illegal immigrant is taking American jobs. Do you know anyone who works in the fields? How many migrant workers do you know? One last question. When there is no one left to pick those crops how much are you willing to pay for them because Americans sure are not going to work for what they pay those immigrants and I can guarantee those entire bargain prices will skyrocket.
Now they want to take away the constitutional right that if you are born here in the U.S. you are automatically a citizen. The question I have is how will they determine if you are eligible to be a citizen? Maybe only blond, white, blue-eyed children born in the United States will be allowed to be citizens. So people are concerned about the Obama health care plan but they are not concerned about a panel of people determining whether a CHILD BORN in the United States should be a citizen. Will there be a panel in each community that will decide this based upon color? On the other hand, how about if the child cannot be supported by their family, will we deport them to a country they have never been too? Doesn't this wonderful idea sound much like something millions of Americans fought against in World War II? There has to be a better way people!
Little by little, we are giving up our freedoms. "No Mosque at ground zero," are the cries from conservatives. Yet Religious freedom is what this country was founded on! When do we as a free country realize that freedom is for all people, even those we disagree with? I am always reminded of the speech by actor Michael Douglas at the end of the movie, "The American President"
"America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You've got to want it bad, because it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say, "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil who is standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the 'land of the free'? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then you can stand up and sing about the 'land of the free."
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"When there is no one left to pick those crops how much are you willing to pay for them because Americans sure are not going to work for what they pay those immigrants and I can guarantee those entire bargain prices will skyrocket."
Did you have to do without or pay exhorbitant prices for fruits and vegetable in the 60's and 70's? I didn't. There were very few, if any illegals in that line of work then. At that time they were paid piece work for picking and packing and most made a heck of a good living. Most only worked 7 or 8 months a year. Are you really naive enough to think that the big farmers and ag giants exploit illegals so they can pass the savings on to their customers?
Another one who wants us to "understand" that we will not eat unless we have millions of welfare/criminal invaders to feed and house. I believe about 10% of the millions we have draining our resources actually work in agriculture. If you think "savings" are passed on to the consumer, you are very, very wrong.
We must quit running our country by political correctness and return to the rule of law. No sanctuary cities, ENFORCE the laws against ILLEGAL immigration! Use E-verify! There must be JUSTICE again in our nation! End special rights for a few based on race! My God ILLEGAL aliens are treated better than legal immigrants and citizens! That is wrong and just plain EVIL!
You obviously have no idea how illegal immigrants are treated.
I have no idea how ILLEGALS are treated! I watched them destroy my hometowns of Phoenix and Glendale AZ. They turned entire neighbor hoods into crime infested slums! Drained our social services, and our teachers had to dumb down our school systems for children who could not and still refuse to speak the language! I know how they are not treated! They aren't treated as the criminal s#*! they are!
The plight of our Citizen and legal Resident farm workers illustrates how refusing to end Illegal Immigration devastates wages to no really substantial end.
Farm Workers top the Pew Center list of occupations most affected by Illegal Immigration. According to the Pew Center, of the people who do this back breaking job, as much as 25% of the workforce is made up of Illegal Immigrants. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Farm Workers earn a median wage of $8.64 per hour. Construction Laborers who work equally hard with comparable skills but they earn median wages between $11.23 and $13.19 per hour. The lowest skilled Loggers earn a median wage of $14.66 per hour. Even Parking Lot Attendants have higher median wages than Farm Laborers at $9.04 per hour.
This is a great example of the devastation Illegal Immigration has wrought on wages. The sad part is even if farm wages were to increase to the level of Laborers and Loggers, to a median wage of $13.50 per hour, the cost of farm labor is only 7% of the cost of food. The result would be a 4.5% increase in food prices. Inflation is often greater.
The problem with people not wanting to do Farm Labor has less to do with the difficulty of the work and more to do with the meagerness of the pay. Compare Farm Labor to other just as dirty and strenuous but more dangerous occupations that pay more and you find that many Americans are more than willing to do the work.
The Author asks "The question I have is how will they determine if you are eligible to be a citizen?"
Apparently this Author has never been to see a Doctor before. When you do you have to eventually supply personal identification, insurance identification, a health record, and whatever else the Hospital or Doctor wants. Just because the Hospital or Doctor is not required to report Illegal Immigrants to the US Government does not mean that they do now know anything about whom that they are treating. All that is needed is a parent’s proof of Citizenship or Legal Residence to grant a Birth Certificate. Data that is already supplied in most cases to the Doctor or Hospital.
And they take away jobs from Americans. If these illegal aliens would go back to their own home country there would be millions of job opening for Americans are now eating out of dumpsters and facing eviction. Some have even committed suicide because they ran out of unemployment benefits and have no place to go. Lets start feeling sorry for our own American people for a change, instead of illegal alien criminals who invade our country and bring their disease and crime here. It is a known fact that the largest percentage of illegals coming here have a long criminal record back home in their own country.
Americans have done these jobs before and they will do it again if given a chance for employment.
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"I wonder though, if you throw out all the "illegal" immigrants who will pick the fruit and vegetables"
Oh, is he talking about these guys?
http://www.examiner.com/immigration-reform-in-national/illegal-aliens-ca...
" Will there be a panel in each community that will decide this based upon color?"
Why bring race into this discussion? Race has nothing to do with it.
Dan - love your comment regarding illegal workers! The journalists must not what their own publication prints. I personally see Illegals working in almost every restaurant, fast food joint, hotel, motel, construction job, warehouse, production line, and on and on...they are not just picking fruit so they ARE taking jobs from Americans. Especially from teenages who used to work after school to earn money for the extras they want.
As for birthright citizenship - "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they RESIDE." Illegals just having 10 minutes in this country and dropping a baby do not reside here. Nor do tourists. And no Illegal is "subject to the jurisdiction" of any place in this country. They are free to leave - the blacks brought here involuntarily were not. If the parents are legally here (naturalized), then the baby, of course, should be a citizen. No child of a visitor should have the PRIVILEGE of citizenship of this country.
Why is this so hard for Congress to understand?
State wide there are propagating grass roots organization, that are against this invasion crossing oceans or borders to further overpopulate www.numbersusa.com partially instrumental in any amnesty downfall. Now is the time to significantly make a difference in the new Congress, by adding your demands to millions of other individuals to enforce our Immigration laws, as cited in the 1986 bill. Call your Senator or Congressman through the Washington Switchboard at 202-224-3121 Every American should make it a national interest to stop this immigration travesty and realize that there are thousands of ominous organizations against you. Most politicians are mentally crippled by this issue and rather stay out of the spotlight. Find out for yourself the intentions of your elected lawmakers, local, state and federal and tell them to positively address this issue or you will vote against them in the next election.
Thank Roy Beck and his staff at www.NumbersUSA.org and its 1.1 million members for stopping the Dream Act. Additionally, watch his 5 minute video "Immigration, poverty and Gumballs". Brilliant. We cannot afford another 100 million people added to this country no matter how 'cheap' the vegetables illegals pick. It costs over $346 billion annually to care for illegals across 15 federal agencies. They take jobs from 8 to 10 million Americans. It's time to end illegals, anchor babies and massive ID fraud and cash transfers totaling $80 billion annually going out of our country. If you think illegals and their babies are cheap, check out California's $28 billion debt. Not so cheap!
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