John Anderson

Peggy West, a Milwaukee County Supervisor, is attacking Arizona’s SB 1070 Safe Neighborhoods Act on the basis that it is unwarranted since ‘Arizona does not border Mexico’.

“If this were Texas, a state that borders Mexico…I would have to look twice at this, but this is a state a ways removed the border”

What makes Peggy West’s ignorance even more astounding is that she claims to be an expert on the subject.  On her official city website, she boasts that she works for a group called ‘Mexican Fiesta’ and “has the unique distinction of being the first Latino/Hispanic American to be elected to the Milwaukee County Board.”  Her Facebook profile lists “Mexican History’ as one of her interests.  In addition to serving on the “Latina Resource Center Advisory Board”, she also is on the “Cesar E. Chavez Drive Advancement Committee” and the “Esperanza Unida Board of Directors”.

If Peggy West is so ignorant of the situation to not even know where Arizona is on the map, she is also most likely ignorant of the $2.7 billion per year which illegal aliens cost Arizona.

A new poll shows that 61% of Coloradans want a copy of Arizona’s 1070 law allowing law enforcement to investigate those they encounter who exhibit “reasonable suspicion” of being an illegal alien.

A recent study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform discovered that illegal aliens cost Colorado taxpayers more than $1.1 billion per year, or about $612 per household.  Additionally, between $730 million and $1 billion per year of wages paid to illegal aliens is sent out of the country instead of being reinvested in local communities.

Since 2000, the population of illegal aliens in Colorado has nearly doubled, rising to over 270,000 illegal aliens.  Including children born to illegal aliens, this number is even higher, and has accounted for 35% of the state’s population growth over this time period.

More than 10% of the students in Colorado public schools are the children of illegal aliens, costing the taxpayers $11,000 each per year, for an annual total of $925 million.  Another $68 million per year is spent on programs for ‘limited English students’, who are mostly the children of illegal aliens.  These costs do not include the costs to the federal government incurred by illegal aliens in the Colorado public education system.

Illegal aliens cost Colorado taxpayers $82 million per year.  This does not include the health care costs which are charged to the federal government or the higher premiums paid by Coloradans to help cover costs incurred by illegal aliens in Colorado.

Colorado taxpayers pay $38 million per year to incarcerate illegal aliens in Colorado.  This estimate only covers a small portion of the cost of criminal aliens to Colorado.  Not included in the estimate are the costs to the federal government, law enforcement costs, costs to the judicial system, and the impact of the crimes themselves.

The minimum cost of $1.1 billion per year to the Colorado budget due to illegal aliens is double the current Colorado budget deficit of $560.7 million.  If illegal aliens left the state of Colorado, this $560.7 budget deficit would turn into a surplus of about the same amount.  One suspects that the percentage of Coloradans in favor of enacting an Arizona-style law would be even higher, if these figures were widely known.

Word has leaked out that people within the Obama administration are researching ways to issue an amnesty for illegal aliens by fiat order.  The American people overwhelmingly oppose an amnesty for illegal aliens, and have forced a number of our representatives in Congress to take notice.  Since not enough Congressmen and Senators will go against the wishes of their constituents, at least for now, plans for an amnesty for illegal aliens have been put on the back burner.

Now, it’s back, and in a form even more in flagrant contempt of the concept of ‘government of the people, by the people, and for the people.’  Instead of having Congress change the citizenship laws, the administration is looking for ways to extend its ongoing refusal to enforce the laws passed by Congress into a permanent amnesty.

Eight Senators have signed the following letter to Obama:

Dear President Obama:

We understand that there’s a push for your Administration to develop a plan to unilaterally extend either deferred action or parole to millions of illegal aliens in the United States. We understand that the Administration may include aliens who have willfully overstayed their visas or filed for benefits knowing that they will not be eligible for a status for years to come. We understand that deferred action and parole are discretionary actions reserved for individual cases that present unusual, emergent or humanitarian circumstances. Deferred action and parole were not intended to be used to confer a status or offer protection to large groups of illegal aliens, even if the agency claims that they look at each case on a “case-by-case” basis.

While we agree our immigration laws need to be fixed, we are deeply concerned about the potential expansion of deferred action or parole for a large illegal alien population. While deferred action and parole are Executive Branch authorities, they should not be used to circumvent Congress’ constitutional authority to legislate immigration policy, particularly as it relates to the illegal population in the United States.

The Administration would be wise to abandon any plans for deferred action or parole for the illegal population. Such a move would further erode the American public’s confidence in the federal government and its commitment to securing the borders and enforcing the laws already on the books.

We would appreciate receiving a commitment that the Administration has no plans to use either authority to change the current position of a large group of illegal aliens already in the United States, and ask that you respond to us about this matter as soon as possible.

This letter was signed by Sens. Grassley, Hatch (R-Utah), Vitter (R-La.), Bunning (R-Ky.), Chambliss (R-Ga.), Isakson (R-Ga.), Inhofe (R-Okla.), and Cochran (R-Miss.).

David Jungerman, a farmer and entrepreneur in Missouri, is concerned about the direction of his country.  To express his opinion and make a statement, he had a tractor-trailer painted with the slogan “Are you a producer or a parasite?  Democrats-Party of Parasites” and parked it on some farmland which he owns.

Some supporters of the Democratic Party not only disagreed, but took violent action.  On May 12, arsonists set fire to the trailer sign.  A week later, the sign was attacked again, and arsonists also burned down a farm house on the property, which fortunately was not occupied at the time.  Jungerman knows why the arsons occurred, yet refuses to back down from the repeated attacks, commenting that “they don’t like free speech.”

Although a national outcry would have occurred had the target been a liberal icon, as evidenced by the uproar and arrests that occurred after a harmless, non-destructive prank at a multicultural center in the same state, a deputy of the local sheriff merely commented that “things are getting a little out of hand out there.”   There are no Homeland Security agents investigating the instances of domestic terrorism which were meant to suppress David Jungerman’s peaceful expression of his beliefs.  Jungerman has himself has stepped up and offered a $5000 reward for information on the attackers.

 Jungerman is not a stereotypical partisan hardliner.  He likes the local Democrats, explaining that by his sign he “meant the national Democrat parasite base that is sucking this country dry. The ones that just take from the government and not give anything back.”  He voted for moderate Democrat Claire McCaskill in 2006, and has gone to court to fight abuses of power by the local police department.  Yet, he senses there is something wrong with a system in which people on welfare and public support can continuously vote themselves more benefits, while sticking the rest of the country with the bill.  This is especially difficult for a man like Jungerman who has worked 80-90 per week since he was a youngster, and in addition to his farmland runs a baby furniture company.

Davin Jungerman’s sign is correct: the financial crisis we have in this country today was caused in large part by people who consume, while producing little to nothing.  If this system is allowed to continue, we will end up like Greece.  Even though domestic terrorists have attempted to silence his message, it deserves to be heard.

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