Cal Thomas on the Senate immigration bill: “Why do our elected leaders care more for noncitizens than they do citizens? There is no constitutional right to come to America; neither is there a right to become a U.S. citizen. Do we let robbers keep the money if they successfully break into a bank? Isn’t this the message we have been sending to illegals: if you can get here, you can have all sorts of goodies previously reserved for people who abide by the law?”
May 22, 2007
Thinking to Believe 
May 23, 2007 at 12:35 am
Some very important points..I was listening to the Jerry Doyle show and he had this woman on that is the head of a religious/Christian effort to provide sanctuaries for illegals and she said we need to do something about the poverty in other nations. I have no doubt the poverty level in other nations is lower than the poverty level in ours, but compared to the quality of living it can’t be denied that we have our own serious poverty level AND we have near out of control inflation and gas prices, a dollar that just keeps falling, a multi TRILLION dollar dept, jobs that are going to low paid workers in other countries, rising cost of health care premiums, troubled business cutting it’s work force and more and more those companies saying they can’t afford to pay what the unions are demanding…and we are being pressed to worry about the people that came here illegally while there are millions of people still waiting to come here legally. We have our own serious issues to take care of and we have already a lot of neighbors already here and already citizens that need a helping hand. What will the current bills say to all those that are still waiting to come here while playing by the books? That we don’t take our own laws seriously?
And what happens when all those illegals become legal and demand higher pay? Those employers will look where? That’s right, to the next wave of illegal immigrants. Did they really take the jobs Americans don’t want? If so was it at a lower wage? Will Americans take those jobs at a higher wage?
Will those illegals that become legals get the higher wages at the same job and if so will that just not increase the cost of living for all the rest of us (as businesses only see the bottem line)?
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May 23, 2007 at 6:09 am
The bill would have given legal status (Z-visas) to the illegal 9/11 hijackers.
It would have given legal status to the illegals who were planning to attack Fort Dix.
McCain’s bill will prevent the government from deporting all the jihadists who are here illegally, planning to kill us.
It’s worst than amnesty. It’s amnesty plus a $500,000 cash reward, that’s how one person described it. (That’s the government benefits minus the taxes they’ll pay.)
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May 24, 2007 at 10:41 pm
You are both absolutely right.
Jevan, you’re right that once the illegals become legal they will want higher pay, or a different job. Then the employers will seek illegals from Mexico. Bottom line is that we have to punish the employers who hire illegals. That will stop our illegal immigration problem. We also need to do raids. The illegals were knocking in their boots last year when the government started doing raids in various cities in the U.S. I just heard a news report a week or so ago about how Salinas, CA (the salad capital) is having a shortage of workers because so many left the area due to fear of the raids. They only stay because we don’t do anything to make them feel unwelcome.
Arthur, I’ll pay $1 extra for a head of lettuce anyday over all the extra taxes I have to pay for the illegals’ social services. I think the Hoover Institute estimated that illegals get $350 trillion dollars more in benefits in their lifetime than they pay in taxes (include sales tax).
Jason
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