Enloe on Immigration:

“As those who know me are aware, I am a firm believer in the laws of the land. Other than anti-freedom laws of emminent domain and welfare, the majority of the laws on the books are understandable and need to be enforced. However, what is the purpose of a law if it isn’t applied? ‘Border Control’ is a law that has no back bone; no substance; and no consequence. We hear from El Presidente Bush how he wants ‘to place a willing worker with a willing employer’ in regards to the millions of ILLEGAL immigrants currently festering here; then he flips that coin and we hear how he wants to ‘create’ more jobs for the citizens of this country. Huh? We never hear that that illegals broke the law from our gov't; we never hear that this law is being enforced from our gov’t; we simply hear noise that is equal to smoke and mirrors with no justified action.What more of a wake up call does one need than 9/11? Today’s illegal views America as the White Horse in a sea of darkness; the Eden of salvation; the answer to their pathetic prayers.

“These law breakers flock to the boarder with no concern about the citizens of this country.They refuse to learn the language or adhere to our laws. They focus on getting here, sucking off the system and breeding like rats. They are well aware of how they can manipulate the system to ensure their guarateed citizenship and immunity from the INS. All they have to do is pop out a bastard child. That is it. The child, even though the parents are ILLEGAL, is automatically a legal citizen. Doubt this claim? Check out the following. If you have a child, be worried. If our politicians continue to sweep this negative situation under the carpet, your offspring will be the one paying the piper. Credit goes to The Arizona Republic.”

Tim Enloe, January 2005, The Force Arena

Hispanic births pass Anglos’ in Arizona

By Kerry Fehr-Snyder

More Arizona babies were born to Hispanic women in 2003 than to their White, non-Hispanic counterparts, another reflection of the state’s fast-growing Hispanic population.

That could explain how Jose became the most popular boy’s name in the state last year, nudging aside Jacob and the long-running No. 1, Michael.

“What it really means to Arizona is that eventually Arizona will have come full circle,” said Loui Olivas, a professor at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.

“Every demographer I’ve talked to thinks the majority of Arizona’s population will be Hispanic by 2035 or 2045,” he said.

Olivas said he believes the minority-majority status will occur by 2035.

In the latest compilation of birth and ethnicity, 39,101 babies were born to Hispanic women in 2003, compared with 38,842 babies born to Anglo women.

The 2004 statistics won’t be available until late June, said Christopher Mrela, assistant registrar of vital statistics at the Arizona Department of Health Services.

What’s fueling Hispanic birth rates, Olivas said, is the group’s median age in Arizona: 24.1 vs. 36 for all other ethnic groups combined. That means the Hispanic population in general is of prime reproductive age, with half being younger than 24 and half being older.

The median age for Anglo residents in the state is 38, by comparison.

“So it stands to reason that the younger population always will have more children,” Olivas said. “From a cultural perspective, Hispanics also have larger families because (many) Catholics, obviously, do not believe in birth control,” he added. “It’s not a race of who’s going to have more kids. It’s a natural loving thing to have more kids.”

Add biology to the demographic and cultural trends fueling the baby boom. In Arizona, the Hispanic fertility rate is 110 per 1,000. For all other ethnic groups, the fertility rate drops to about 60 per 1,000. And for White non-Hispanic women, the rate is about 40 per 1,000.

Mrela compiled his annual list of most popular baby names for 2004, which was released Monday. His list shows that Michael, the most popular baby boy name in 1974, 1984 and 1994, fell to No. 6 last year.

Jessica and Jennifer took a similar tumble, falling off the top 10 list for baby girl names and ranking No. 12 and 13, respectively in 2004.

Unlike baby boy names, it is difficult to discern the ethnicity of baby girl names as few have a clear basis in Hispanic culture, save for the popular Isabella, ranking No. 2.

Regardless of what name the next generation of Arizonans carry, one thing is clear: the booming Hispanic population will continue to have an impact on everything from political representation to marketing to school enrollment.

“It will continue to contribute to the Latinization of Americans and the Americanization of Latinos,” said Jose Cardenas, host of the public affairs talk show Horizonte and chairman of the Phoenix law firm Lewis and Roca. “We have both some tremendous opportunities and some tremendous challenges.”

“As you will soon learn, I am a believer in the enforcement of laws. Laws on the books. Laws that millions of legal citizens have followed for over 200 years. As we all know, if you speed, there is a good possibility you will be pulled over by John Law. There is, especially in Sprawlanta, a pretty good chance of John Law giving you a ticket that you have to pay because you broke the law by going over the speed limit. This is what is known as enforcing the law. I drive like a grandpa, so so be it. However, this is a simple example of a law being enforced. When I read articles like the following, one has to wonder why the law ISN’T being enforced here. Why is it that I am more likely to get arrested for going ten miles over the speed limit, but an individual whose first act in coming to this country is to break the law is REWARDED? I have a big problem with situations like this. Last election I voted for George Bush. Truth be known, I like the guy. However, due to his recent proposal to legalizing illegals, I will be voting Libertarian this year. Even worse is the fact that legal tax payers are paying for illegals education. Here is the article. Credit goes to the Clinton News Network.”

Tim Enloe, May 2004, The Force Arena

Kansas Gov. to sign illegal immigrants tuition bill

TOPEKA, Kansas (AP) - A bill offering some illegal immigrants a tuition break at Kansas’ public colleges and universities cleared the Legislature on Tuesday and headed to Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, who plans to sign it.

The House voted 68-54 for the measure, which won Senate passage earlier this year.

The proposal extends in-state tuition - which is much lower than tuition for nonresidents - to illegal immigrants who have attended a Kansas high school at least three years and graduated or who earned a general educational development certificate in Kansas.

To receive the lower tuition, an immigrant would have to be actively seeking legal immigration status or plan to do so when eligible.

Proponents contended that many of the immigrants who will benefit have lived and attended schools in Kansas for years and intend to remain in the state.

Opponents argued that the proposal would reward lawbreakers and perhaps even aid terrorists.

“If terrorists come to get a pilot’s license at a Kansas university, at least we gave them in-state tuition before they used it against us,” Rep. Scott Schwab, a Republican, said sarcastically, drawing boos from some in the chamber.

Kansas residents pay much less than students from outside the state at public universities. In the current semester, for example, in-state tuition for 15 credit hours at Kansas State University is $1,755, compared to $5,700 for undergraduates from other states.

“HOW MANY WILL GET ARRESTED? I BET ZERO!

Check this one out. Illegals are going to protest for drivers licenses on the steps of the building that creates laws for the state of Georgia. I wonder how many will get arrested? Then again, we could always do a citizen's arrest! Credit goes to www.ajc.com.”

Tim Enloe, September 2004, The Force Arena

Driver’s license debate to heat up at Capitol

By Brian Feagans, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Published on: 09/12/04

One side’s signs will say things such as “We Would Like to Drive Legally” and “Georgia - You Need Our Labor And We Need Your Driver’s License.”

The other group’s placards will carry slogans like “Enforce the Law” and “Secure Our Borders.”

The dueling demonstrations are expected Thursday in front of the state Capitol in downtown Atlanta. And they’ll focus on the same question: Should Georgia grant driving privileges to people who have immigrated into the United States illegally?

A year ago, marchers chanting “Yes” to that question were buoyed by California’s decision to allow that state’s 1 million illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses. But that measure was repealed after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took office. And in Georgia, repeated attempts to push similar legislation through the General Assembly have failed.

Buford car dealer Joe Mariscal, executive director of Estamos Unidos (“We Are United”), is helping lead Thursday’s march in favor of granting driver’s licenses to Georgia’s estimated 228,000 illegal immigrants. It will be the group’s third march on the issue.

Mariscal said he’s expecting at least 5,000 participants, far more than the 1,223 that he said showed up throughout the day at last year’s event.

“We delivered more than 100,000 fliers,” he said. “We’ve got people calling from North Carolina, Alabama.”

With a license, drivers would be able to obtain auto insurance, he said. Applicants also would have to pass a driving course, making the road’s safer, he said. And Mariscal said that with undocumented workers providing critical labor for Georgia business, it just makes sense to offer them a legal way to get to work.

“We're here to help the state grow,” Mariscal said. “At the same time, we want to live like normal people.”

Opponents say licenses for illegal immigrants would reward lawbreaking and encourage more unlawful immigration. The licenses also could make it easier for terrorists to live in the country undetected, they say.

The entire idea runs counter to the nation’s fundamental responsibility to control its borders, said D.A. King, the Marietta-based founder of the American Resistance Foundation, which opposes illegal immigration. King said he’s expecting 40 or so people to rally against drivers licenses for illegal immigrants.

“I'm trying to show the world there is an angry group of citizens out there,” he said.

King is encouraging agents with the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to arrest people holding signs that state they want to drive legally. “Common sense tells you they are lawbreakers,” he said.

“If I hold up a sign that says I want to rob banks legally, I think its safe to say I'm a bank robber,” he said.

Both groups are scheduled to arrive about 10 a.m. The Estamos Unidos marchers plan to sign a petition and, by the end of the day, present it to a representative of Gov. Sonny Perdue.

State Rep. Curt Thompson (D-Norcross) said it won’t be clear whether a proposal to grant licenses to illegal immigrants can gain momentum in the General Assembly until after the November elections.

Thompson, whose district is more than a third Hispanic, said he’s open to the idea.

“AN UNYIELDING CANCER

“Well, once again, another article has surfaced relaying the horrible situation with illegals pouring into our country. One would think that after 9/11, our borders would be so tight that a flea couldn't get through. As we all know, however, it has been just the opposite. Since George W. suggested amnesty for all of those whose first act in coming to this country was to break the law, the situation has become even more amplified.

“It is really funny when you think about it. If I go ten miles over the speed limit, I can be arrested and sent to jail. Yet if someone comes here illegally, they are rewarded with free health care, shelter, etc. We have also heard of certain individuals in high ranking government positions being a spy for foreign governments and being sent to jail for life by the US. This is a good thing. However, if an individual knowingly hires illegals, they might get a slap on the wrist and sent on their merry way. Are not both of these episodes above not eating at the very foundation of our country and the laws that govern us?

I have no doubt that unless some dramatic changes happen NOW, this country's life expectancy MIGHT be 100 more years. Please read the following article. Clear away the smoke and mirrors that politicians use to cloud your mind and the visibility is clear - address illegal immigration IMMEDIATELY or suffer an unyielding cancer to which you and your family will suffer. Courtesy goes to www.drudgereport.com.”

Tim Enloe, September 2004, The Force Arena

MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS TO FLOOD THE U.S. THIS YEAR

Sun Sep 12 2004 11:39:54 ET

The U.S.’s borders, rather than become more secure since 9/11, have grown even more porous and the trend has accelerated in the past year. Based on a TIME investigation, it’s fair to estimate that the number of illegal aliens flooding into the U.S. this year will total 3 million, enough to fill 22,000 Boeing 737-700 airliners, or 60 flights every day. It will be the largest wave since 2001 and roughly triple the number of immigrants who will come to America by legal means, TIME reports in its cover story , “Who Left the Door Open?” (on newsstands Monday, Sept. 13th).

In a single day, more than 4,000 illegal aliens will walk across the busiest unlawful gateway into the U.S., the border between Arizona and Mexico. And many will obtain phony identification papers, including bogus Social Security numbers, to conceal their true identities and mask their unlawful presence. TIME’s Pulitzer Prize winning investigative team, Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, takes a look at the damage, the dangers, and the reasons America fails to protect itself as millions of illegal aliens pour across the U.S.-Mexican border this year, many from countries hostile to America.

Who are these new arrivals?

While the vast majority are Mexicans, a small but sharply growing number come from other countries, including those with large populations hostile to the U.S. From Oct. 1 of last year until Aug. 25, the border patrol estimates, it apprehended along the southwest border 55,890 people who fall into the category described officially as other than Mexicans, or OTMS. With five weeks remaining in the fiscal year, the number is nearly double the 28,048 apprehended in all of 2002. But that’s just how many were caught.

Based on longtime government formulas for calculating how many elude capture, TIME estimates that as many as 190,000 illegals from countries other than Mexico have melted into the U.S. population so far this year. The border patrol, which is run by the Department of Homeland Security, refuses to break down OTMS by country. But local law officers, ranchers and others who daily confront the issue tell TIME they have encountered not only a wide variety of Latin Americans (from Guatemala, El Salvador, Brazil, Nicaragua and Venezuela) but also intruders from Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Russia and China, as well as people who said they were from Egypt, Iran and Iraq.

Law-enforcement authorities believe the mass movement of illegals offers the perfect cover for terrorists seeking to enter the U.S., especially since tighter controls have been imposed at airports.

Why Alien Criminals Are at Large in America

Perhaps the most alarming aspect of having 15 million illegals at large in society is Congress’ failure to insist that federal agencies separate those who pose a threat from those who don’t. The open borders, for example, allow illegals to come into the country, commit crimes and return home with little fear of arrest or punishment. From Oct. 1, 2003, until July 20, 2004, the Border Patrol’s Tucson sector stopped 9,051 persons crossing into the country illegally who had criminal records in the U.S., meaning they committed crimes here, returned to Mexico, then were trying to reenter the country. Among them: 378 with active warrants for their arrest. In one week, said Border Patrol spokeswoman Andrea Zortman, there were two with outstanding “warrants for homicide.”

Living in the War Zone

John Ladd Jr., a rancher just outside Bisbee, AZ, is forced to work the equivalent of several weeks a year to repair, as best he can, all the damage done to his property by never-ending swarms of illegal aliens. “Patience is my forte,” Ladd says, “but it’s getting lower.” The 14,000-acre Ladd ranch, in his mother’s family since the 1800s, is right on the border. Ladd says 200 to 300 illegals enter the U.S. Border crossing at the Ladd ranch each night and it is so flagrant that sometimes the illegals arrive by taxi.

Ladd doesn’t blame the border patrol, most of whose officers, he says, are doing all they can under the circumstances. Indeed, apprehensions of illegals in Arizona have soared from 9% of the nation’s total in 1993 to 51% this year. “I have real heartache for the agents who are really working. They track down the [smugglers], and the judges let them off, and they get a free trip back to Mexico, where they can start all over.” The border patrol, Ladd feels, “are responsible guys in a hypocritical bureaucracy.”

Rancher George Morin, who operates a 12,000-acre spread a few miles from the border, tells TIME, “All these people say they are coming for the amnesty program. [They] have been told if they get 10 miles off the border, they are home free.” The highest levels of the U.S. and Mexican governments have orchestrated this situation as a kind of dance: Mexico sends its poor north to take jobs illegally, and the U.S., in turn, arrests enough of the border crossers to create the illusion that it is enforcing the immigration laws, while allowing the great majority to get through, TIME reports.

How Corporate America Thrives on Illegals

Investigations targeting employers of illegal aliens dropped more than 70%, from 7,053 in 1992 to 2,061 in 2002. Arrests on job sites declined from 8,027 in 1992 to 451 in 2002. Perhaps the most dramatic decline: the final orders levying fines for immigration-law violations plunged 99%, from 1,063 in 1992 to 13 in 2002. In 2002 the old Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) issued orders levying fines on only 13 employers for hiring illegal aliens, a minuscule portion of the thousands of offenders.

Both political parties and their candidates pay lip service to controlling the borders. But neither President Bush nor Senator Kerry supports a system that would end the incentive for border crossers by cracking down on the employers of illegals, TIME reports.

“AND YET ANOTHER REASON TO STRENGTHEN OUR BOARDERS

“If 9/11 did dust your brain off regarding the poor job our gov’t is doing in keeping our boarders secure, maybe money that is STOLEN out of your wallet will. I have said it numerous times that if we do not stop illegal immigration dead in it’s tracks, we are in for a whirlwind of Hell. The following is from the LA times... ”

Tim Enloe, August 2004, The Force Arena

Study Says Illegal Migrants Cost U.S. $10 Billion a Year

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Times Staff Writer, August 25, 2004, 7:57 AM PDT

WASHINGTON - Illegal immigrants cost the federal government more than $10 billion a year, and a program to legalize the undocumented would nearly triple that figure, a study released today concludes.

The analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies, which opposes efforts to legalize an estimated 8 million to 12 million migrants, comes as Republicans are bracing for a fight over immigration at their convention next week in New York.

Some Republican conservatives are pushing for language in the party platform that strongly opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants. But business-oriented Republicans want to significantly loosen immigration restrictions.

In the middle is President Bush, who has proposed a massive guest worker program granting temporary legal status to the undocumented, of whom a majority are Mexicans.

“The fundamental problem is that the modern American economy is based on skills, and that makes it very difficult to bring unskilled workers in and not sock taxpayers with a huge cost,” said political scientist Steven A. Camarota, the study’s author.

“The fiscal impact of a legalization program needs to be an important consideration,” he added.

Other immigration researchers challenged some of the study’s assumptions about what illegal immigrants cost the government.

Based on Census data, the report compared households headed by undocumented immigrants with those headed by citizens and legal residents. Federal benefits for U.S.-born children of the undocumented were counted as a cost of illegal migration.

The study included some findings that run counter to stereotypes. For example, it concluded that illegal immigrants do not constitute a significant drain on welfare programs, receiving much less in social services than do citizens and legal residents.

However, it found that the undocumented also pay nearly 75% less per household in federal taxes, on average. Some work off the books, but the majority who pay taxes are low-wage workers with little income tax liability.

“The primary reason they create a fiscal deficit is their low education levels and resulting low incomes and tax payments, not their use of most social services,” the study said. “The vast majority of illegals hold jobs. Thus, the fiscal deficit they create for the federal government is not the result of an unwillingness to work.”

The study found that federal programs for the elderly clearly benefit from illegal immigration.

Social Security and Medicare reap a $7 billion annual windfall from payroll taxes paid by undocumented workers. That accounts for about 4% of the total annual surplus in the two programs. But the balance sheet may eventually shift in the other direction. Under a recent agreement, Mexican retirees will be able to claim credit for Social Security taxes paid while working in the United States.

Legalizing the undocumented would bring them out of the underground economy and increase the amount they pay into Treasury coffers. But it could well make them eligible for more government benefits.

The study estimated that paying for added benefits would swamp any increase in tax collections, increasing the net cost to the federal government to $29 billion a year.

However, a leading immigration researcher challenged the fine print behind the report’s assumptions.

Jeffrey Passel, a demographer at the Urban Institute think tank, said a significant share of the costs attributed to illegal immigrants represent general expenses on domestic programs. The government would incur these costs for such things as building roads and paying bureaucrats’ salaries with or without the presence of undocumented workers.

“Most of that money is not money that would be saved if you could magically make these people disappear,” said Passel.

“In The Force Arena Jedi’s world, Antonio Villaraigosa would be removed from his office and hung from the court house steps until dead. The crime? Being a TRAITOR. I suppose it makes since though; we have the biggest traitor to ever hit our political system with El Presidente Bush holding the highest chair in our gov’t today. What say does Mexico have in how we govern our country? Zero in my book. Then again, I respect the rule of law... Credit goes to www.boortz.com.”

Tim Enloe, May 2005, The Force Arena

L.A. Mayor: Mexico Will Shape My Policies

Los Angeles Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa said Wednesday that Mexico will play an important role in shaping his policies, reports Mexico’s El Universal Online.

“We are starting a new era. Instead of closing the borders, as stated by Schwarzenegger, we should look at our border as an opportunity,” Villaraigosa said.

“This is a time of great importance, not just for us to rediscover our roots, but looking to create a mutually beneficial relationship,” added the city’s first Latino mayor since 1872. The top L.A. Democrat lamented that the recent passage by Congress of The Real ID Act, if signed into law, would prevent illegal aliens from getting driver’s licenses.

“Politicians in the United States need to understand that immigrants come here for the same reason that immigrants have always come: to work,” Villaraigosa told El Universal. “Instead of punishing and demonizing them, we should try to integrate them.”

Villaraigosa also told El Universal that he would not support policies that supposedly persecute the city’s large migrant population.

“I support Special Order 40 [prohibiting police from making migration-related arrests],” he said. “We need our police officers to fight gangs and organized crime. That will keep them more than busy.”

“El Presidente Bush at the recent illegal alien press conference...

How pathetic can the powers that be get? I think it is time for a revolution.This gov't continues to bite the hands that feed it. Keep this in mind the next time you vote & Credit goes to www.washingtontimes.com.”

Tim Enloe, May 2005, The Force Arena

Border Patrol told to stand down in Arizona

By Jerry Seper

U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of the Arizona border where protesters patrolled last month because an increase in apprehensions there would prove the effectiveness of Minuteman volunteers, The Washington Times has learned.

More than a dozen agents, all of whom asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, said orders relayed by Border Patrol supervisors at the Naco, Ariz., station made it clear that arrests were “not to go up” along the 23-mile section of border that the volunteers monitored to protest illegal immigration.

“It was clear to everyone here what was being said and why,” said one veteran agent. “The apprehensions were not to increase after the Minuteman volunteers left. It was as simple as that.”

Another agent said the Naco supervisors “were clear in their intention” to keep new arrests to an “absolute minimum” to offset the effect of the Minuteman vigil, adding that patrols along the border have been severely limited.

Border Patrol Chief David V. Aguilar at the agency’s Washington headquarters called the accusations “outright wrong,” saying that supervisors at the Naco station had not blocked agents from making arrests and that the station’s 350 agents were being “supported in carrying out” their duties.

“Border Patrol agents are the front line of defense against terrorism,” Chief Aguilar said, adding that the 11,000 agents nationwide are “meeting that challenge, head-on ... as daunting a task as that may sound.”

The chief - a former head of the agency’s Tucson sector, which includes the Naco station - said that with the world watching the Arizona border because of the Minuteman Project, agents in Naco “demonstrated flexibility and resilience in carrying out their critical homeland security duties and responsibilities.”

But Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican, yesterday said “credible sources” within the Border Patrol also had told him of the decision by Naco supervisors to keep new arrests to a minimum, saying he was angry but not surprised.

“It’s like telling a cop to stand by and watch burglars loot a store but don’t arrest any of them,” he said. “This is another example of decisions being made at the highest levels of the Border Patrol that are hurting morale and helping to rot the agency from within.

“I worry about our efforts in Congress to increase the number of agents,” he said. “Based on these kinds of orders, we could spend the equivalent of the national debt and never have secure borders.”

Mr. Tancredo, chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, blamed the Bush administration for setting an immigration enforcement tone that suggests to those enforcing the law that he is not serious about secure borders.

“We need to get the president to come to grips with the seriousness of the problem,” he said. “I know he doesn’t like to utter the words, ‘I was wrong,’ but if we have another incident like September 11 by people who came through our borders without permission, I hope he doesn’t have to say ‘I’m sorry.’ ”

During the Minuteman vigil, Border Patrol supervisors in Arizona discounted their efforts, saying a drop in apprehensions during their protest was because of the Mexican government’s deployment of military and police south of the targeted area and a new federal program known as the Arizona Border Control Initiative that brought manpower increases to the state.

The Naco supervisors blamed the volunteers for unnecessarily tripping sensors, disturbing draglines and interfering with the normal operations of the agents. They said that their impact on illegals was “negligible” and that civilians should leave immigration enforcement “to the professionals.”

Several field agents credited the volunteers with cutting the flow of illegal aliens in the targeted Naco area, saying the number of apprehended illegals dropped from an average of 500 a day to less than 15 a day.

More than 850 volunteers, in a protest of the lax immigration enforcement policies of the White House and Congress, sought to reduce the flow of illegal aliens along a popular immigration corridor on the Arizona-Mexico border near Naco by reporting illegals to the Border Patrol as they crossed into the United States.

Their goal was to show that increased manpower on the border would effectively deter illegal immigration. Organizers said the protest resulted in Border Patrol arrests of 349 illegal aliens.

Area residents, in a half-page ad in the Sunday edition of the Sierra Vista Herald, told the volunteers: “Thanks for doing what our government won’t - close the border to illegal aliens. It was the quietest month we’ve had in many years ... You made us feel safe because the border was closed.”

Ahnold; a politician who can actually see...

CHRIS WALLACE / FOX NEWS: “Understood. But, you also have praised the Minute Men whom President Bush says are vigilantes for doing a terrific job ( on border patrol). Briefly, how would you secure the borders?”

GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: “By just having more (border) patrol. That’s what every country does. It’s not reinventing the wheel. That’s a no-brainer.”

... since we are on the topic ...

Tim Enloe, May 2005, The Force Arena

Paying for Illegal Aliens

New rules took effect today from Medicare and Medicaid...that is, the government programs that pay for medical services for the old and the poor. Starting today, health care providers can start charging the government for the costs of providing medical care to illegal aliens. That’s right...you and I will have our earnings confiscated to pay for the health care of people who are in this country illegally.

The tab? They say $1 billion over 4 years is being spent. My guess .. it will be closer to $5 billion when all is said and done. Here’s an idea. How about spending $1 billion on policing the border so the illegal aliens don’t arrive here in the first place? Imagine that...people who don’t belong here being kept out. What a concept!

This is yet another step from the open borders crowd to legitimize illegal immigration. We have worker cards, driver’s licenses....and now health care. It’s reaching a point where becoming an actual U.S. citizen isn’t going to mean anything. Since no one is really being sent back, what’s the point of obeying the laws of this country and following the rules?

Neither political party seems to have the backbone to do anything about illegal immigration. In the meantime, taxpayers are footing the bill for all these free services. Is this a great country or what?

I am so GLAD I didn’t vote for El Presidente Bush - The Force Arena Jedi