It is no surprize that immigration protesters chose May 1st for major rallies nationwide. Is this the America you want?

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They are loud, abusive, intimidating, calling for boycotts and support outright defiance of federal law. Who are they? They must be those Tea Party fringe radicals, right? Wrong. They are the thousands of protesters whipped into a frenzy by liberal demagogues ¹, the likes of Al Sharpton and the Cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles, lambasting the state of Arizona and their newly passed immigration law. Immigration zealots are once again doing what they do best here in the United States, preying on the emotions and kindly nature of the well intentioned American people - and to great effect I might add. Rallying the outraged masses with the typical intentionally inflammatory invectives of “racist”, “ Nazi”, Jim Crow”and demonizing the fiscally responsible and constitutionally conservative taxpaying opposition is standard operating procedure for liberals – laws, facts, logic and public opinion be damned. Fear and emotion are their weapons “Don't confuse me with the facts” should really be their rallying cry.

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Follow up:

Setting aside for the moment the fact that current federal law already requires non-citizens to carry identification and authorizing paperwork (passport, green card etc.) at all times, and Arizona's law only seeks to enforce the existing law, let us also consider the impact illegal persons are having on the state of Arizona. In February of 2009, ABC News did a story on kidnapping. You might be shocked to learn that Arizona already ranks second, behind Mexico City (city of gated and guarded compounds) in kidnappings thanks to south of the border drug cartels and their infiltration spewing onto the streets of this border state.

Brian Ross and ABC News report what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave. Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370 cases last year alone. .ABC News’ ... uncovered horrific cases of chopped-off hands, legs and heads when a victim’s family doesn’t pay up fast enough. ...Local authorities say Washington, DC is too obsessed with al Qaeda terrorists to care about what is happening in their own backyard right now.

This program was recorded even before this years escalation of cross border drug violence. I can only imagine what the statistics are now.

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So too Arizona's social support structure and state budget are being annihilated, not just overwhelmed, by the illegal population. The annual fiscal burden borne by Arizonans amounts to more than $700 per household headed by a native-born resident.² Schools are bursting at the seams providing free education for children of non-citizens in the amount of approximately $820 million annually², though I am at a loss to understand why we have laws that require them to do so. Hospitals are over run by non-citizens recieving free medical services costing about $400 million a year².

Thankfully a ballot initiative in Arizona requiring illegal aliens to pay out-of-state tuition and making them ineligible for state student financial aid (Proposition 300) went into effect on December 7, 2006 relieving them of this added buget busting burden but many states do subsidize non-citizens through reduced tuition and scholarships in post secondary education as well. While federal law passed in 1996 prohibits illegal aliens from receiving in-state tuition rates [which is essentially a subsidized rate over rates paid by out of state residents] at public institutions of higher education, states such as Texas, California, New York, Utah, Illinois, Washington, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas do so in clear violation. Finally, incarceration in public prisons is also adding to the state budgets to the tune of about $80 million a year (not including the monetary costs of the crimes that led to their incarceration).

I applaud the efforts of the state of Arizona to tackle an issue that decades of politicians have been too spineless to address. These issues should have been addressed long before illegal populations swelled to such ranks and well before huge blocks of illegal non-citizens started to vote. Yes, you read correctly. Along with all the those dead people community organizing groups register and trot out to vote at election time, a sizeble number of votes are cast by illegal non-citizen populations as well as seen in a 2008 article By David Simcox How Many Non-Citizen Voters? Enough to make a difference When was the last time YOU were asked for identification when you went to vote? Where are our legislators? Why are they not preserving and protecting your rights as a legal citizen? They are too busy trying to “win the hearts and minds” of the illegal population - fighting for their rights over yours. It is time to stop this madness. Speak out in support of Arizona and denounce the hate mongers trying to supplant our thoughtful and carefully controlled federal legal immigration policies with immigration enforcement abolition or your state will be next. With Chuck Schumer leading the way, New York is well on the way to immigration amnesty anarchy in spite of pretentions of being moderate.

While the media is quick to dedicate hours of programming to the spectacle and wildly distorted claims of the inflammatory “racial profiling” assertions by the protesters, they gift short, if any shrift to the real issues we should be addressing in the nation. This is their point I might add. Every day that passes while this circus continues, more and more illegals enter the country further overwhelming our educational and healthcare systems, all the while adding to the burgeoning potential Democratic voting block when immigration “reform” gets rammed down the throats of the citizenry.

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We have become a nation tyrannized by the minority. Like the Atheists whole have run roughshod over the legitimate rights of a nation based on morality and a belief in God, legal immigration abolitionists wish to paint those wishing to secure the nations borders as racists, Nazis, white supremacists et al. The simple truth of the matter is that Federal law requires that non citizens be required to carry identity papers on their persons at all times while in the United States. Just as American citizens must carry their passports while traveling in Europe and other countries, non citizens must be able to prove their citizenry in our country. It's simple, easy and the law of the land. Legal immigration abolitionists prey upon our sympathies and try to make us feel guilty for the great nation we have built on the backs of hardworking, legal citizens while using every constitutional right and protection available here to legitimize the illegality of invading foreign nationals. This insanity must stop. If you enter this country outside of the established steps and procedures of legal immigration followed by thousands of law abiding citizens every year – you are an “illegal alien” not simply cozy, palatable and clearly politically manipulative term of “undocumented worker”.

Don't be fooled by this seemingly commonsense logical approach by democrats superficially appearing to require border security before a moving ahead with immigration reform. This AP article appeared in Long Island's Newsday today: Immigration Plan Puts Law Enforcement First. As always, the “devil is in the details” clearly evidenced by some of the outrageous provisions and misrepresentations of our new healthcare “reform” law. As is typical for Congressman trying to ram through legislation favoring their constitutents or campaign financiers, the issues of border security tightening must not be lumped together in the same legislation that provides a “pathway to citizenship”(PTC) for existing illegal populations. In fact, amnesty (or PTC) should be avoided entirely given the profound unintended consequences of the amnesty provision of Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Despite the best of intentions of lawmakers, in a 2000 report by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) it was found that the 1986 act actually served to increase, not decrease, illegal immigration. Let us all learn from our most recent history before we repeat those mistakes.

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While the bills benchmarks for increasing Border Patrol officers and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are desirable and noteworthy, the proposed legislation also proposes a two phase program for legalizing existing illegals – even before enforcement efforts and funding are sin place and functioning. Logically these two issues must be uncoupled from one another but politically the Democrats are once again hard at work crafting legislation that will make the Republicans look bad for opposing it.

We must let Congress know we thoroughly detest this practice of writing self serving legislation, that intentionally manipulates public sentiment, and be voted on, upon it's own merits. Say No to Immigration “reform” and Yes to immigration enforcement. Support Arizona for their audacity in signing this bill and forcing the issue to be dealt with. Enforcement of our exisiting statutes and securing of our nations borders must absolutely be completed, not merely contemplated, before immigration “reform” is even considered lest we open the floodgates to even more illegals who will see the carrot of a quick path to citizenship dangled before adequate border enforcement personnel and policy is firmly in place.

Are you with me?

1. dem·a·gogue noun. 1. A leader who obtains power by means of impassioned appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace. 2. a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power

2 Of course taxpayers know these services are not free and that some one is paying for them. According to this study The Costs of Illegal Immigration to Arizonans the annual fiscal burden borne by Arizonans amounts to more than $700 per household headed by a native-born resident.

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