"Illegal Immigrants" Named "Texan Of The Year" by Dallas Morning News

From the Dallas Morning News


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We don't know whether to laugh or cry.

He's the Illegal Immigrant, and he's the 2007 Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year – for better or for worse. Given the public mood, there seems to be little middle ground in debate over illegal immigrants. Spectacular fights over their presence broke out across Texas this year.

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.

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.

We end 2007 no closer to compromise on the issue than when the year began. How we deal with the stranger among us says not only who we Americans are today but determines who we will become tomorrow.

How soon we forget how President Dwight D. Eisenhower tackled this problem.

From time to time I like to point out to people this letter, 100% legitimate and real, from a retired Border Patrol agent to Bill Frist. In it, he speaks plain truths that anyone who has lived in an area with a significant population of illegals know to be true from extensive observation and personal experience.

It pretty much gives the lie to all the usual excuses given for illegals.

The emphases are mine.

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Dear Senator Frist:

There is a huge amount of propaganda and myths circulating about illegal aliens, particularly illegal Mexican, Salvadorian, Guatemalan and Honduran aliens.

1. Illegal aliens generally do NOT want U.S. citizenship. Americans are very vain thinking that everybody in the world wants to be a U.S. citizen. Mexicans, and other nationalities want to remain citizens of their home countries while obtaining the benefits offered by the United States such as employment, medical care, in-state tuition, government subsidized housing and free education for their offspring. Their main attraction is employment and their loyalty usually remains at home. They want benefits earned and subsidized by middle class Americans. What illegal aliens want are benefits of American residence without paying the price.

2. There are no jobs that Americans won't do. Illegal aliens are doing jobs that Americans can't take and still support their families. Illegal aliens take low wage jobs, live dozens in a single residence home, share expenses and send money to their home country. There are no jobs that Americans won't do for a decent wage.

3. Every person who illegally entered this nation left a home. They are NOT homeless and they are NOT Americans. Some left jobs in their home countries. They come to send money to their real home as evidenced by the more than 20 billion dollars sent out of the country each year by illegal aliens. These illegal aliens knowingly and willfully entered this nation in violation of the law and therefore assumed the risk of detection and deportation. Those who brought their alien children assumed the responsibility and risk on behalf of their children.

4. Illegal aliens are NOT critical to the economy. Illegal aliens constitute less than 5% of the workforce. However, they reduce wages and benefits for lawful U.S. residents.

5. This is NOT an immigrant nation. There are 280 million native born Americans. While it is true that this nation was settled and founded by immigrants (legal immigrants), it is also true that there is not a nation on this planet that was not settled by immigrants at one time or another.

6. The United States is welcoming to legal immigrants. Illegal aliens are not immigrants by definition. The U.S. accepts more lawful immigrants every year than the rest of the world combined.

7. There is no such thing as the "Hispanic vote". Hispanics are white, brown, black and every shade in between. Hispanics are Republicans, Democrats, Anarchists, Communists, Marxists and Independents. The so-called "Hispanic vote" is a myth. Pandering to illegal aliens to get the Hispanic vote is a dead end.

8. Mexico is NOT a friend of the United States. Since 1848 Mexicans have resented the United States. During World War I Mexico allowed German Spies to operate freely in Mexico to spy on the U.S. During World War II Mexico allowed the Axis powers to spy on the U.S. from Mexico. During the Cold War Mexico allowed spies hostile to the U.S. to operate freely. The attack on the Twin Towers in 2001 was cheered and applauded all across Mexico. Today Mexican school children are taught that the U.S. stole California, Arizona, new Mexico and Texas. If you don't believe it, check out some Mexican textbooks written for their schoolchildren.

9. Although some illegal aliens enter this country for a better life, there are 6 billion people on this planet. At least 1 billion of those live on less than one dollar a day. If wanting a better life is a valid excuse to break the law and sneak into America, then let's allow those one billion to come to America and we'll turn the USA into a Third World nation overnight. Besides, there are 280 million native born Americans who want a better life. I'll bet Bill Gates and Donald Trump want a better life. When will the USA lifeboat be full? Since when is wanting a better life a good reason to trash another nation?

10. There is a labor shortage in this country. This is a lie. There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of American housewives, senior citizens, students, unemployed and underemployed who would gladly take jobs at a decent wage.

11. It is racist to want secure borders. What is racist about wanting secure borders and a secure America? What is racist about not wanting people to sneak into America and steal benefits we have set aside for legal aliens, senior citizens, children and other legal residents? What is it about race that entitles people to violate our laws, steal identities, and take the American Dream without paying the price?

For about four decades American politicians have refused to secure our borders and look after the welfare of middle class Americans. These politicians have been of both parties. A huge debt to American society has resulted. This debt will be satisfied and the interest will be high. There has already been riots in the streets by illegal aliens and their supporters. There will be more. You, as a politician, have a choice to offend the illegal aliens who have stolen into this country and demanded the rights afforded to U.S. citizens or to offend those of us who are stakeholders in this country. The interest will be steep either way. There will be civil unrest. There will be a reckoning. Do you have the courage to do what is right for America? Or, will you bow to the wants and needs of those who don't even have the right to remain here?

There will be a reckoning. It will come in November of this year, again in 2008 and yet again in 2010.

We will not allow America to be stolen by third world agitators and thieves.

David J. Stoddard

U.S. Border Patrol (RET)

Hereford, Arizona

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The one issue he doesn't face head-on is the politicians who kiss the asses of businesses which increase their profitability by unfairly and unethically stepping outside of the closed domestic economic circle of supply and demand. Paying wages to people who send the money out of the country, instead of to people who spend it here, because they live here, is simply treasonous. Those higher wages paid to Americans go for food, shelter and clothing, purchased in America, transported, warehoused and sold by other Americans, which, in turn, keeps THEM in jobs. The money recirculates through OUR economy, the one we and OUR families have to make a living in.

Y'know?

The one issue he doesn't face head-on is the politicians who kiss the asses of businesses which increase their profitability by unfairly and unethically stepping outside of the closed domestic economic circle of supply and demand.

Cha-Ching!!  Just think of all the poor politicians who would not be able to get cheap nannies, gardners, maids etc.

What I like is how it's these multi-hundreds-of-thousands-a-year types who are the best at fucking nickel-and-diming like that.

$6000 for a Chanel bag is no biggie - but to pay more than $10 / hr to someone to do the dirty work of raising their children for their lazy, self-centered asses? What, you think they're made outta money or something??

A lot of those scumbags here in Houston, and I unfortunately know quite a few. Strange how virtually all of them are Republicans. Coïncidence, I'm sure.

We will not allow America to be stolen by third world agitators and thieves.

David J. Stoddard

U.S. Border Patrol (RET)

Hereford, Arizona

I wonder if this guy would consider moving north and running for Prime Minister? Nah! He's obviously too patriotic. Besides, have you noticed the great, unwashed masses never, ever vote for anyone who's honest and makes sense?

That's an excellent letter, 3HC. It should be reprinted as many times as possible and distributed as widely as possible.