What Americans Are Saying About Illegal Immigration
By Frosty Wooldridge
Dec 29, 2003, 00:45
Frosty Wooldridge -- Each week, newspapers across the nation report on illegal immigration as if it's a soap opera drama desperate for sympathy and acceptance. "We came here for a better life," a mother of six sobs into the journalist's tape recorder. "My children deserve an education.."
One week, papers report on a child from Latin America whose parents smuggled her into the United States for a heart transplant at $200,000.00. The next, we see a child whose parents have been selling drugs from their Los Angeles apartment for rent money. The drama continues week in and week out. Twenty years ago, it made for great human-interest stories. It's true! There is so much human misery outside the United States in Africa, the Middle East, South America and Asia-that it tears at your heart. The AIDS epidemic in Africa will kill 40 million in this decade. Starvation and related diseases kill 38,000 children under the age of 10, DAILY around the globe according to the World Health Organization. This crisis for humanity staggers one's imagination.
However, it's coming to America in the form of an invasion of millions who are escaping the misery of their countries only to create the same misery in our country. Already in cities and towns across America, this invasion affects and is crippling our schools, hospitals and infrastructure. Our gridlocked highways, air pollution, water availability, diseases and standard of living worsen with this onslaught. Our national debt, at $6.8 trillion, soars to the point of imminent collapse. Shantytowns pop up in El Paso, Phoenix, Mexicali, Los Angeles and many other cities. This crisis rips at the foundation of our country's viability as a sovereign and functioning nation.
Today, with 10 to 15 million illegal aliens operating in the United States as well as an illegal underground railroad bringing in nearly a million more annually, this invasion imports the Third World into our country. Right now, there are over 80 safe houses in the United States that create forged documents and send new illegal aliens off to jobs that 'Americans won't do.' Their stories and their problems are wearing thin on Americans who have fought and died for this country's freedoms and rule of law. They wear even worse on the 18 million Americans displaced by H-1B visas, depressed wages and those whose neighborhoods and schools have been taken over by foreign languages. It's wearing thin on Americans that our insulated Congress refuses to stop this crisis. Ironically, our leaders encourage it with such policies as the Dream Act, H-1B visas, total lack of enforcement at our borders even after 9/11, refusing to prosecute illegal alien employers and forcing Americans to pay for hospital care, anchor babies and schooling for illegals.
Below are a few things Americans are saying across the country:
Jan of Colorado writes: "Well, I've had it. It seems the porch light is on at the White House but nobody's home. When will Bush and Karl Rove see that their efforts to promote amnesty to border jumpers is destroying this country. They are leading a national suicide. When will they get it? These deals behind the backs of citizens-- offering amnesty, $1 billion Mexi-Care benefits, social security checks and Dream Acts to illegals--must cease. Stop importing workers we do not need who are stealing jobs from our most vulnerable citizens and our most talented. Stop importing Third World disease-ridden aliens who are killing or harming us."
Frank of Arizona: "Your report is completely false and misleading. Immigrants are people who have been lawfully admitted to reside in the United States and they have no problem whatever in returning to Mexico anytime they wish. For the Mexican Deputy Consul General Adriana Gonzalez-Felix to state "you see some people who haven't been able to go home for years" is another downright lie. The entire article is to generate sympathy for illegal aliens, not legal immigrants. Illegal aliens can return to Mexico anytime they wish, and no one will stop them." (Former Border Patrol agent)
Barb of New Jersey: "Lou Dobbs in his CNN evening news program has some eye-opening facts about the path to national dysfunction that unrestrained immigration is leading us. At our present levels of 3 million legal & illegal immigrants a year, we lose millions of acres of agricultural land a annually and within the next 2 decades, will no longer be able to export food and supply our own nation's needs. Our present population is 292 million and will reach 420 to 470 million by 2050. In California, which produces 75% of the nation's food supply, their immigration-driven population grows by 6 million a decade and they are losing 90,000 acres of farm land every few years. The terror will be if we can't import enough food to feed ourselves as the world population grows to 10 billion and has to feed itself."
Marty in Texas: "Why should hospitals cover illegals? Illegal aliens using them as the primary caregivers are bankrupting our US hospitals. I'm tired of paying for 350,000 anchor babies each year. Citizens can no longer cover the illegals' costs plus their own. Americans across the U.S. would like to see a discussion regarding illegal immigration, the social and dollar costs, and ultimately, what it is doing to this wonderful country we live in, i.e., bankrupting hospitals, schools and states. Why don't we ask our elected officials what they plan to do about this growing unaffordable crisis? Contact Congress now at 1-800-648-3516, and call your senator's toll free at 1-877- 762-8762."
Vick of New York: "Mr. Bush, you put us between a rock and a hard place. On one hand we support your strength on international issues, and on the other hand your statements about "willing workers & willing employers" anger us. We know that is shorthand for a type of amnesty that will simply encourage more illegal immigration. On one hand is a potential for increased terrorism in our nation as we fight in Iraq. On the other hand we see the actual harm done to us by illegal immigration. We must weigh what might happen against what is already happening. My sons are in construction. One has left the field due to the complete 'colonization' of dry-wall hanging by illegal alien workers. I have a friend who had to put her kids in private school because her kids had to struggle with several different languages and weren't learning anything."
Those are a few comments from across the nation. Every American in every city could add to this horrific and growing list. Your own kids might be confused by 10 languages in their classrooms. Your spouse may have lost his or her job to an illegal alien. Your teen can't find a fast-food service job because they have been 'colonized' by illegals. Your kids may have been victims of tuberculosis spreading in Atlanta, Florida, Michigan or Colorado. You're sitting in gridlock because your city grew by one million in the last decade. This crisis list will grow bigger, more painful and deadlier as this invasion advances.
It's up to you, an American citizen, to take action. If you do nothing, it will worsen. By doing something, you can change the course of history for your country, humanity and your children. Abraham Lincoln said, "Public sentiment is everything. Without public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed." In order for our country to provide benevolence for the rest of the world-whether it is food-aid, medical help or disaster relief-we must be viable. At the current accelerating rate of this crisis, our future as a nation stands in question.
Frosty Wooldridge (
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www.frostywooldridge.com) is a teacher and author who has bicycled 100,000 miles on six continents to see overpopulation up close and ugly. For more information to take action at the national level, you may go to his web site and/or
www.numbersusa.com or write the author for local web sites to take local action in your state. Next book: 'INCURSION INTO AMERICA: HOW MASS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ADVERSELY AFFECTS AMERICAN CITIZENS AND COMMUNITIES'. If you have been affected by illegal immigration, write as much of your story as you like and submit it to the author for inclusion into the book. All names and places will remain private.
