Well, Well, Well. What Have We Here, Harry?
Imagine this: A congress critter’s Aide, and no less a congress critter than the Senate Minority Leader (Tom Daschle’s replacement), Harry Reid, Nevada-Dem, gets arrested at the President’s inauguration for “making a scene”.
Said “scene” being nothing less than holding up a big sheet with the words “No War” on it, the sheet blocking attendees’ view. Attendees who had been sitting in the freezing cold all law-abiding like to watch the inauguration. When Harry Reid’s Aide decides to cause a raucous and be, well rude, at the least, eh?
The story gets better with Aide Nathan Ackerman declaring that he did not get his fancy inauguration tickets by virtue of his association with Harry Reid (sure you didn’t, Nate), that Reid’s office had nothing to do with his actions, that it was the participants that were cursing HIM out. Not that these participants wouldn’t be angry what with their view completely blocked at the last minute by two clowns that don’t know how to behave. Still I doubt Ackerman’s complaints and expect to see him fired by Reid as such behavior at the august occasion of our country’s presidential inauguration should not be condoned. Surely to keep this ill-mannered buffoon on staff would be to condone such action, eh?
By the way, what the hell is a “communications war room”? Ackerman doesn’t believe in war my goodness, witness his sign! Except war against our country and its institutions as The Wise I sees it.
From “TheHill”.
An aide to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was arrested on the West Front of the Capitol for disorderly conduct during President Bush’s inaugural address last week.
The aide, Nathan Ackerman, is a television producer on the Senate Democratic Communications Committee — an organization that was folded into Reid’s new communications “war room.”
About 20 minutes into Bush’s speech, Ackerman, 36, and another man held up a sheet that said “No War.” According to a Capitol Police report, Ackerman and another suspect “were blocking the view of the audience and they were engaged in a verbal dispute with members of the audience.”
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More Heartbreak as J-Lo’s Marriage Goes on the Rocks.
Time was beginning to heal my wounds over the Brad/Jennifer break up when I am hit by the following staggering news. More time and I suppose my new wounds will heal.
The couple, who married in a surprise ceremony last June, are said to bearguing over Marc's controlling behaviour, according to America's In Touch
magazine.
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Can’t Buy Me Love
Seems Ringo Starr thinks his home country, the country that brought him fame and fortune, doesn’t love him enough.
Not that this big-nosed has-been isn’t tres passé already, I’m thinking his ungrateful comments won’t help.
Also, I must ask, WHO in America loves Ringo Starr?
STARR: 'ENGLAND DOESN'T LOVE ME ENOUGH'
Former BEATLE RINGO STARR has slammed his fellow Britons - because he fears they don't love him enough.
The legendary drummer spends most of his time at his Los Angeles home,because he prefers the respect and admiration he receives in America, which hebelieves is missing in his homeland.
He complains, "Los Angeles is my favourite place. It's where my heart feels
settled. Plus the audience love me over there and I love them, and they know that. They're really supportive. America's like my town. I love Americans. "You know I have this thing about England. They don't really love me enough.
That's just how I feel. It's not a fact - it's just a feeling." (CM/WNSEX)
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The Golden Globes Are Serious Stuff Kathy Griffin!
Kathy Griffin, who I remember as Brook Shields’ co-star in “Suddenly Susan”, got into some trouble for making a hah-hah about a 10 year old star spending some time in rehab. Kind of sad that E! has to explain that a 10 year old is not YET in rehab.
E! should see my own handsome missive and mocking pics of the Golden Globe fashions and my excellent fashion critiques..HERE.
E! Bosses Apologize for Griffin's Callous Red Carpet Joke
Bosses at TV network E! Entertainment have been forced to apologize for callous remarks comedienne Kathy Griffin made about child star Dakota Fanning on the red carpet at last Sunday's Golden Globe Awards. Outrageous Griffin upset American TV viewers when she joked about the 10-year-old I Am Sam star checking into rehab "for drugs and alcohol" during the pre-ceremony program. E! chiefs decided it was best to apologize after they were flooded with complaints. In a statement, they said, "This insensitive comment was not true and it was spoken in jest."
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Johnny Carson Entertains the Angels
Always a consummate entertainer and born to do what he did, I find that Johnny received quite a few major honors in his lifetime.
He won a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in1992, with the first President Bush saying, "With decency and style he's madeAmerica laugh and think." In 1993, he was celebrated by the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors for career achievement.
We’ll miss you Johnny. Keep them laughing up there.
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ASKED…
WHICH daughter of a West Coast software gazillionaire moved to London and began a lesbian romance with a married woman who subsequently divorced her husband to shack up with the sapphic scion? . .
WHICH fey public relations man has a rent boy he likes to keep on call for his Miami visits? But the hunk-for-hire is costing him double right now - not only does he pay the boy, he pays a private eye to keep watch on him . . .
WHICH big-name Hollywood actor has fallen back into his druggie ways? The matinee idol, whose career has taken a nose dive, is consoling himself with controlled substances. His hot new gal pal shares his narcotic interests.
Guessed…(responses glommed from newsgroup Alt.Showbiz.Gossip)
One of the tabloids last weekend had an article of how Ben Affleck was partying and gambling while Jennifer Garner was appearing at the "Electra" premiere. He said he wanted it to be "her night"... so he sends her out alone, while he enjoys himself. Whatta guy.
Oh! But eyewitnesses said he was downing Jack Daniels mixed with Coke,which sounds a little nasty to me. So much for rehab! Compulsive gambling AND drinking! At the SAME TIME! NICE!
--Amy
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> WHICH fey public relations man has a rent boy he likes to keep on call for his Miami visits? But the hunk-for-hire is costing him double right now - not only does he pay the boy, he pays a private eye to keepwatch on him . . .
Donnie Deutsch
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WHICH big-name Hollywood actor has fallen back into his druggie ways? The matinee idol, whose career has taken a nose dive, is consoling himself with controlled substances. His hot new gal pal shares his narcotic interests.
Would Downey Jr. be a shock? He's working I suppose, but the Oscar calibre stuff doesn't seem to be coming.
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What about Jared Leto? He was rumored to have been a heroine addict a few years back and his new-ish gal pal, Scarlet J., could fit. He definitely hasn't been as high profile as the last few women he has dated (Cameron Diaz?), so by comparison to them his career seems weak... and Alexander might as well have been a "nosedive" for everyone involved.
AndyNYC
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DivineMsCG wrote:
WHICH daughter of a West Coast software gazillionaire moved to London and began a lesbian romance with a married woman who subsequently divorced her husband to shack up with the sapphic scion? . . .
Shari Redstone?
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Don't know to the west coaster was but the "married London woman who divorced her husband" could be the ex-wife of Charles Saatchi. There wasan article about her in Tatler several months ago (or was it Harpers?)that detailed the divorce and the comfort she was getting from her
"close female friend."
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“STARS”, take the LAWS into their own Hands!
PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT, 01/27/05
LOU DOBBS TONIGHT, CNN, Thursday, January 27, 2005
Read the full transcript at: www.loudobbs.com
Celebrities and illegal aliens. Now, there's a combination. Are some high-profile stars putting their own interests ahead of the country's? They're lobbying to give illegal aliens the right to drive, legally.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Our drug smugglers would like this bill to pass because that will enable them to get a California driver's license.
DOBBS: Actor Mike Farrell says what's the big deal? We'll find out tonight when he joins me for a frank and open discussion.
Thirty-two names are listed, including Danny Glover, Diane Keaton, and former Screen Actors' Guild President Ed Asner. He dismisses the idea that terrorists could take advantage of an illegal alien driver license bill.
Senator Dianne Feinstein today introduced bipartisan legislation that would reimburse state governments for some of the $13 billion they are spending incarcerating illegal aliens. The proposed legislation would raise federal funding for state reimbursement programs, a program that required federal assistance expired in October.
Feinstein's proposal would reinstate that program and raise funding from the original $500 million to nearly $1 billion over the next seven years. Senator Feinstein says the goal is to remind the federal government to fulfill its duties and to remove the burden from the state governments.
Senator Feinstein will be our guest here tomorrow night to discuss her new proposal.
Congress is also considering legislation that would stop illegal aliens from obtaining driver's licenses in this country. While that effort is now underway, another high-profile group is pushing to legalize licenses for illegal aliens. A group of Hollywood celebrities, in fact, now saying illegal aliens have earned the right to drive.
Well, Mexico -- Mexico's double standard. Why the United States has issued a travel warning for Americans in Mexico, and why the Mexican government has come up with a response to that warning that is -- well, we normally would say truly unbelievable, but, after all, we are talking about the Mexican government.
DOBBS: Mexico's government appears to be testing its limits for hypocrisy and double standards. The Mexican government officials frequently criticize the United States for the way Americans treat illegal aliens in this country.
But, incredibly, the Mexican government is not prepared to accept any comments by the U.S. government about the escalating crime wave along our border with Mexico. That crime wave has led to the abduction of at least 27 American citizens along the Mexican border over the past six months.
The State Department has now issued a travel warning to Americans, but the Mexican government today declared the United States has "no right to interfere in Mexico's affairs."
Those comments coming from Mexico's Interior Minister Santiago Creel who recently met with Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. Creel, obviously, believes he has the upper hand in this relationship with the United States. You may remember that Tom Ridge said at that meeting -- Ridge declared he likes to think of Creel as his amigo.
Well, state lawmakers are increasingly taking action to crack down on illegal aliens in this country. One Oklahoma State senator has now proposed tough, new legislation that targets employers who hire illegal aliens. The legislation would, for the first time, impose harsh penalties on those employers.
DOBBS: Mexico's government appears to be testing its limits for hypocrisy and double standards. The Mexican government officials frequently criticize the United States for the way Americans treat illegal aliens in this country.
But, incredibly, the Mexican government is not prepared to accept any comments by the U.S. government about the escalating crime wave along our border with Mexico. That crime wave has led to the abduction of at least 27 American citizens along the Mexican border over the past six months.
The State Department has now issued a travel warning to Americans, but the Mexican government today declared the United States has "no right to interfere in Mexico's affairs."
Those comments coming from Mexico's Interior Minister Santiago Creel who recently met with Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. Creel, obviously, believes he has the upper hand in this relationship with the United States. You may remember that Tom Ridge said at that meeting -- Ridge declared he likes to think of Creel as his amigo.
Well, state lawmakers are increasingly taking action to crack down on illegal aliens in this country. One Oklahoma State senator has now proposed tough, new legislation that targets employers who hire illegal aliens. The legislation would, for the first time, impose harsh penalties on those employers.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): An ad this week in Daily Variety says illegal aliens deserve as award, specifically a California driver's license. It's called a civil rights message to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from the entertainment community.
The ad nominates this woman, purportedly an illegal alien, for best nanny in a supporting role. It quotes her saying, "I am trusted every day to use my hands and my heart to nurture and care for children who are not my own, but I'm not trusted with a license to drive a car."
Thirty-two names are listed, including Danny Glover, Diane Keaton, and former Screen Actors' Guild President Ed Asner. He dismisses the idea that terrorists could take advantage of an illegal alien driver license bill.
ED ASNER, ACTOR: A terrorist has no problem at all getting fake I.D. up the wazoo. They have millions and millions. These poor immigrants have nothing but the desire to work and earn a living.
WIAN: The Oscar-nominated writer of "Million Dollar Baby" is himself an immigrant from Canada.
PAUL HAGGIS, SCREENWRITER: I think we owe it as a country to be compassionate, and we don't owe it to them to make their lives that much more difficult and to make it impossible for them to drive their kids to school or their -- to go to work.
WIAN: Supporters of illegal alien driver's licenses, who include many local law-enforcement agencies, say they would improve highway safety and national security because of fingerprinting and proof of identity requirements.
Opponents counter that fingerprint data would not be shared with federal authorities, and acceptable I.D. cards include the Mexican matricula consular which are easily forged.
RON PRINCE, CO-AUTHOR, PROP. 187: Our drug smugglers would like this bill to pass because that will enable them to get a California driver's license, a valid California I.D., by showing nothing more than a consular I.D. card from Mexico.
WIAN: Because of those concerns, the only actor who really matters in California politics, the governor, remains opposed to any illegal alien driver's license bill, until the proof of identity issue is involved.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
WIAN: As for the nanny in the ad, she's not even a real illegal aliens, which goes to show that Hollywood is usually much better at dealing with fiction than reality -- Lou.
DOBBS: Thank you very much, Casey.
Casey Wian reporting from Los Angeles.
That brings us to the subject of our poll tonight. The question is: Do you believe issuing illegal aliens driver's licenses is a matter of immigration, national security policy, both or neither? Cast your vote, please, at loudobbs.com. We'll have the results alter in the broadcast.
We'll have much more on this issue of driver's licenses for illegal aliens coming up later. Actor Mike Farrell will be here. He's one of the sponsors of that ad that ran in Daily Variety. He says it makes good sense to give driver's licenses to millions of illegal aliens. He'll be here to tell us why. We'll have a full and frank discussion.
DOBBS: My next guest is part of a group of Hollywood actors and entertainers lobbying for illegal aliens in California to obtain driver's licenses. Mike Farrell is also the co-chair of Human Rights Watch California. Mike says it makes good sense to support illegal aliens in this country, and he's our guest tonight from Los Angeles. Mike, good to have you with us.
MIKE FARRELL, CO-CHAIR, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH CALIFORNIA: Thank you, Lou, nice to be with you.
DOBBS: You know, there are people -- and you and I both know this, they are saying, oh, no, here we go, Hollywood again weighing in on a political issue. Let's deal with that issue right off the top. The standing for a group of entertainers to weigh in on this issue.
FARRELL: Standing is we're citizens, just like any other group of citizens. This is an issue that affects all of us who live in California, and we believe that the ad we took that seems to have raised the level of ire of some people really was pointed at the governor, to try to get the governor to actually engage this issue, as he had promised he would.
DOBBS: You know, at the same time this issue is boiling to a point, at least in California, as it has been over the past really two years, finally Washington is taking note of this issue. Congressman James Sensenbrenner, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, the highly respected chairman, taking on this issue. Congress for the first time at the federal level looks like it's going to do something about this. Are you opposed to the federal efforts as well as Governor Schwarzenegger's refusal to give illegal aliens driver's licenses?
FARRELL: I'm not quite sure what Congressman Sensenbrenner's position is, but I'm supportive of the position of the chief of police here in Los Angeles and the mayor of the city of Los Angeles, and you know, 10 different states that allow these people to have driver's licenses, because they believe it's appropriate for them to be able to get to work safely, and do so under legal strictures that require -- that allow the rest of us to be safe.
DOBBS: Mike Farrell is one of the smartest guys not only in Hollywood, but anywhere in the country, as well as a talented fellow.
FARRELL: Thank you. I can hardly wait for the next one.
DOBBS: We all have a preamble, but the fact is -- and as a thoughtful fellow -- the fact is we have a border security issue, we have immigration laws that are in tatters, and it cuts all sorts of ways, irrespective of the position you take. The fact is, we're watching an immigration law and a lack of immigration policy really create a tinderbox in this country. We're watching it right now on the Mexican border on the Mexican side of the border, where we're seeing citizens being abducted, we are seeing illegal aliens who are being abused by the Coyotes and the smugglers, and exploited, exploited by American businesses and employers.
You know, that nanny ad that you ran in "Variety." Someone is breaking the law by hiring her, instead of helping her in getting her citizenship. Why in the world would you simply talk about driver's licenses? It seems like such, if I may, a narrow approach for someone as thoughtful as you.
FARRELL: Well, thank you, Lou, for the backhanded compliment.
DOBBS: Well, no, I don't mean it that way. I mean it quite sincerely.
FARRELL: Yeah, but this is a very important issue for the people, the 2.5 million people who are undocumented in California alone, who are working in our community, many of whom have been here for many years, who have established in some cases legally authorized or legally understood residence, but are not allowed, because they don't -- they aren't yet documented -- and largely, Lou, you have to recognize that a significant number of them are not documented because of bureaucratic logjam in terms of the paperwork and the applications.
These people are trying to work and trying to be tax-paying, responsible citizens in our society, and it seems to me to be inappropriate and I think ultimately racist to continue to refer to them as illegal and dun them for being a drain on our society, when in fact they're just the reverse.
DOBBS: You think it's racist to call them illegal?
FARRELL: No, I think that many -- much of the attack on this kind of legislation and other kinds of legislation is based on racism.
DOBBS: Let me ask you a question, if that's the issue. What's the percentage of the population of the state of California that's Hispanic? FARRELL: Oh, it's at least close to, if not a majority by now.
DOBBS: Exactly. So it's somewhat -- I mean, I have a little trouble buying that. I know it's a convenient argument for those who want open borders and are taking a particular tack, it's also one employed by corporate America, because they want to exploit the labor. It's one employed by our organized labor unions, because they want to build their rolls. The fact is, we have a reality here, an economic reality, a social reality and a national security reality, and a driver's license is prima facie evidence of citizenship, isn't it? And why not simply...
(CROSSTALK)
FARRELL: No, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt.
DOBBS: No, please.
FARRELL: But in fact, what you're saying misstates the case.
DOBBS: OK.
FARRELL: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) bill does not give these people prima facie evidence of citizenship. It gives them a driver's license, and a driver's license that is given to them under very serious safeguards that have been drawn into the bill to protect American citizens from terrorists, and from criminals, and from all of the things that people fear, and it -- but it -- it simply deals with the reality, an economic reality that we have in this country, and particularly in this state, that needs to be addressed. People can't continue to treat this issue as though it doesn't exist.
DOBBS: Well, we're delighted that you, irrespective of the position you take, are helping to bring light to the issue, because it is, as you point out, critically important for all of us. Mike Farrell, as always, good to talk to you.
FARRELL: Thanks, Lou.
DOBBS: Still ahead here, we'll have the results of our poll tonight and a preview of what's ahead tomorrow.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
DOBBS: The results of our poll tonight, more than two-thirds of you say issuing illegal aliens driver's licenses is a matter of both immigration policy and national security policy.
We thank you for being with us tonight. Please join us here tomorrow. New legislation aiming to hold the federal government responsible for the immigration crisis in this country. Senator Dianne Feinstein, leading that effort, will be our guest. And tomorrow, a former adviser to the coalition in Iraq talks to us about the escalating violence ahead of the election and what we can expect. And why some states are still using identification cards that make it all too easy for illegal aliens to obtain the benefits of American citizenship. Our special report here tomorrow.
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I personally received an email from Mike Farrell I will share with you. Please visit Mike Farrell’s website and express your comments at: www.mikefarrell.org
After writing comment # 1.
I received this email from Mike Farrell:
Darlene,
The vitriol you’re spewing serves no purpose. Your opinions are your own and you’re welcome to them, but it might help you to know that you’re wrong on just about every point.
The Los Angeles Chief of Police is in favor of this bill, as is the Mayor of Los Angeles, most of the City council and the mayors of two adjoining cities. Both houses of the State Legislature support it.
All of these people are for it because it is necessary and important to the safe and proper function of our society.
I feel very sorry for your being so lost.
Mike Farrell
****
THESES ARE THE COMMENTS MADE SO FAR ON MIKE FARRELL’S WEBSITE.
Mike Farrell’s Appreciation Page Forum, email: www.mikefarrell.org
COMMENT # 1.
illegal aliens, drivers licenses, comment #1.
You have lost my complete respect for lobbying for illegal aliens to have drivers licences in any state.
1. They don’t belong in this country and being here is breaking National Security Laws. They should be arrested and deported.
2. If you hire them you are not only selling the American people down the drain but you are breaking the law and should be prosecuted yourself! They have worked there way into stealing the middle class jobs. And education money.
3. They are only here for one reason and that is for Big Business to exploit!
4. Illegal aliens are a burden to the American Economy and public assistant programs and jails and prisons across the U.S.!
5. They should be deported immediately and not allowed to return without proper paper work!
Why don’t you direct your concerns to Women and Children in the United States that are being Terrorized, Traumatize, Tortured, Molested, Mutilated, , Raped, Abducted, Kidnaped, Murdered and left Physically Impaired. Many never found.
One 15 year old in California had both of her arms chopped off with an axe, just above the wrist, she survived. They let the man Larry Singleton, back out in to Society, after only 8 years. The next time, he killed his victim and was caught again.
THIS - HAS - GOT - TO - STOP !
Many of these crimes were committed by illegal aliens! You and your cronies have a lot of Nerve throwing this illegal garbage in our faces!
Disrespectfully,
Darlene Jones
COMMENT # 2.
Re: illegal aliens, drivers licenses, comment #2.
Yea kick those **** illegal *******s out of our good ole US of A!!!!!!!!!!!
COMMENT # 3.
Re: illegal aliens, drivers licenses, comment #3.
When will celebrities learn that their liberal lifestyle and opinions are not the same as the everyday American? I am tired of actors and singers getting on their pedestal and trying to tell us what we should think, and poo-pooing us if we disagree. As if they are on some moral high-ground. Here's a clue, Mike, just because we liked to watch you on t.v. doesn’t mean we want to have you preach to us about how wrong we are not to reward illegal immigrants with legal status, via a drivers license!
Mike, you as an entertainer live in a very different reality than those of us with "real" jobs. We are not overpaid for standing in front of a camera and pretending to be someone else. You may feel so much compassion for illegal immigrants because you think everyone in America lives as "high on the hog" as you do. You can afford to feel lenient toward these lawbreakers because you are in no danger of living next door to them. You are in no danger of losing your job to them. You are not in significant danger of becoming a victim of their violent crimes because you do not share a neighborhood with them. Your child is not in danger of getting a tragically insufficient education because he/she does not have to share a classroom with 30 other students, 75% of which speak Spanish only, and a teacher who is encouraged to cater to the Spanish-speaking majority.
How many emergency rooms that serve your community, Mr. Farrell, have closed because of the financial burden of too many illegal immigrants not paying their medical bills? Don't tell me that Americans can be uninsured as well; I know that, but uninsured Americans are not the majority of the people who don't pay their medical bills. And even if they were, I'd much rather an American skip out on the bill than an illegal because I am sure that the American is paying into the system somewhere along the line...not sending his earnings south of the border with the encouragement from the greedy, corrupt, morally reprehensible Mexican government.
If you are so passionate about the "rights" of illegal immigrants, take your passion to Mexico and demand that Vicente Fox uphold his citizens' rights to jobs, healthcare, education and justice IN MEXICO!
By the way, what is Mexico's policy for issuing driver's licenses? Would you, Mr. Farrell, be given a driver's license in Mexico if you decided to move to Mexico without documentation? No, you would not. I suggest that California and the whole United States of America abide by Mexico's example for issuing driver's licenses...no legal residency, no official photo i.d., no health test, NO LICENSE!
I pride myself on being able to see both sides of most issues. Even in this case, I understand why you would feel that the affable illegal immigrant is harmless...because you are not in his line of fire! Your Hollywood job, Hollywood home, Hollywood neighborhood and Hollywood lifestyle are not in danger of being trampled on. Unfortunate for the rest of us that we didn't appear on M*A*S*H.
I suggest you talk to some non-entertainment industry people to get a better perspective of the reality that we are living in beyond the Hollywood Hills.
1. Country us
COMMENT # 4.
Re: illegal aliens, drivers licenses, comment # 4.
For guys like Farrell it goes deeper than simply being "Hollywood" out of touch. These guys form an identity with the criminals and the lower class. Maybe there's some guilt that they become so wealthy while offering so little. Maybe it's their upbringing. I don't know. This scumbag Farrell has formed friendships with human filth and copkiller Mumia and countless other murderers. I honestly feel that the fact Mumia blew a police officers face off, makes him even more hero-like in the minds of the Farrells and Asners. He assisted a surgeon who operated on a Marxist guerilla who was directly responsible for American deaths. He, like so many liberal leftists, feels that the answer to terrorism is to understand why the poor terrorists don't like us, so that we may then change OUR behavior. Mike Farrell is just a piece of trash.
COMMENT # 5.
Re: illegal aliens, drivers licenses, comment # 5.
It seems pretty close minded to simply dismiss the idea of giving driver licenses to Illegal Aliens simply because someone with celebrity status believes in it or because you think they are going to ruin you way of life.
Many of you sit in your arm chairs working your 9-5 jobs and handing down judgment on the less fortunate. Try to put yourself in their shoes. Try to imagine your life for instance in Mexico. Each day struggling to find food and clean water. Never knowing if you will even have a safe place to live from day to day. Imagine living under the constant threat of disease, crime, corruption, and death.
Now imagine coming to the United States, you have never made more than the equivalent a few dollars a week, so a lawful and costly immigration is not an option. Your only hope is to sneak across the border. Maybe you even have to leave loved ones behind. Now you are in the US but your meager savings won't last long. You move into a run-down house with ten or more other illegal aliens and share food, just hoping to find some sort of job that won't ask for documents. Finally you find a job it pays only a couple dollars an hour but it’s enough to keep you alive and send some back home to Mexico.
Everywhere you go people resent you, they give you dirty looks, and silently wish they could get you out of their city, out of their country, out of their way.
You can't go anywhere with out looking behind your back. The constant threat of deportation looms over your head. If you are sent back you will be with out a job or money and will never survive.
You work your fingers to the bone and finally receive a raise. A few more months go by and you are able to save enough to get an apartment. You want to apply for citizenship...but the applications are numerous and the wait is almost an eternity. You have no special skills, just the ability and desire to work hard, unfortunately that is not enough and your application will probably be denied.
Increasingly people see you as a threat, they want make it harder for you to come to America “the land of dreams”. They have forgotten that their families once came over looking for a better life too.
But you can't imagine this kind of life; you have never had to struggle like the thousands of illegal aliens that come to the US every year. You have never known what it is like to not eat for a week, or sleep in park, or work twelve hour days for just a few dollars. You would just prefer to put up a giant wall along your artificial border and never have to worry about the daily struggle to survive that millions of people face every single day.
The idea to give Illegal Aliens licenses in just one small effort in making life a little easier for those that have been forgotten, and those that are being ignored. It is so very selfish for people to sit in their cozy homes, and not want anyone else to share in the American Dream. I for one whole heartedly support Mike Farrell and his opinion for grant Illegal Aliens licenses!! Keeps up the hard work and never forget the less fortunate.
Tim, Email: Bayareabored@yahoo.com
Country US
COMMENT # 6.
Re: illegal aliens, drivers licenses, comment # 6.
Dear Tim, Wednesday, February, 2, 2005
Illegal aliens have not been forgotten. They are on everybodys mind! Why do we as Americans have to support them! Many Americans ancestors came to America though Ellis Island Legally and were deported if they didn’t meet the requirements.
Today from any other country people have to go through the proper procedures to become an American Citizen and rightfully so. If these illegal aliens want to live in “OUR” country they will have to go the same route!
Who are You or Mike Farrell to give them permission to break the laws! Why do illegal aliens get to break the laws and not you and me? Just try some less crime, than breaking National Security Laws and you will find yourself in J-A-I-L!
Illegal aliens have illegal businesses back stabbing and undercutting American businesses in the same field. Why, because we do not want to live with 14 other illegal aliens in the same household and work in the same business. If anyone is taking advantage of these poor unfortunates it is their own people by being employed in illegal businesses to work for less money. These businesses do not pay insurance, state tax or workers comp or anything else.
Illegal aliens are earning money in the United States and shipping that money back to their own countries. Millions maybe Billions of U.S. dollars every year. Mexico has plenty of Oil! If their government chooses not to help their people that is their choice.
Perhaps, You and Mike Farrell should join the Peace Corp and go to Mexico to help these poor unfortunates if you care so much. I think they need both of you down there, more than we need you here!
But be careful because, The United States has just issued a National Warning to the American Public about traveling to Mexico in the last 2 weeks. It has been reported on CNN, 2/1/05 that there is an Epidemic of Americans killed, missing, abducted, kidnaped or just disappeared in Mexico. It has also been reported that the Mexican Drug Cartel is battling for American Boarder Towns.
Chinese and Middle East Terrorist are now entering the United States from Mexico. Many illegal aliens are Convicts or on-the-run Criminals in their own Country. Most drive by shooting are crimes committed by illegal aliens. Many adult illegal aliens have NO formal education of any kind. Illegal aliens are widely know to run illegal cock fighting and dog fighting rings for entertainment. They have been known to steal American family pets to participate in these fights. The adult illegal aliens and their children are having babies at the speed of light at the Tax Payers Expense.
If we would have pumped more money into our education systems and not into supporting illegal aliens. Many bright young men and women would not have been lured into joining the military for education money and ended up dead or maimed.
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COMMENT # 7.
02/03/05
Dear Tim,
As for the “few dollars” these unfortunates meagerly scrape up. Here is an example of the Underground, “few dollars” they make and NOT pay taxes on! In Us News and World Report, Lou Dobbs reported that 3 million illegal aliens slipped into this Country last year.
In a report on “Lou Dobbs Tonight”, on CNN. January 27, 2005. He aired a report by Senator Dianne Feinstein on how much it cost to incarcerate illegal aliens, 13 billion dollars, many have committed violent crimes! In this same report you will find Mike Farrell lobbying to give illegal aliens drivers licences. Archives of transcripts, are readily available.
US NEW AND WORLD REPORT
01/31/05
Money & Business
By Lou Dobbs
“No more border games “
An estimated 6 million illegal aliens work in the underground economy, where neither they nor those who employ them pay taxes. That accounts for part of an additional $400 billion a year in taxes that should be paid to the Internal Revenue Service. Once again, the middle class is under assault by a government that is functioning as if it had never heard of the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution.
LOU DOBBS TONIGHT, CNN
01/27/05
www.loudobbs.com
Senator Dianne Feinstein today introduced bipartisan legislation that would reimburse state governments for some of the $13 billion they are spending incarcerating illegal aliens. The proposed legislation would raise federal funding for state reimbursement programs, a program that required federal assistance expired in October.
It is time for you TIM and Mike Farrell to WAKE UP
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“82 - POINTS ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION” Thursday, February 3, 2005
1. Americans are not getting the full benefits they deserve and need, when those benefits have to be shared with illegal aliens.
2. American elderly are being cut short of housing, medical benefits and medical care.
3. Low income women are getting less health and child care that, they desperately need.
4. Children are not getting education programs that were intended for American Children. The school lunch programs are being abused by illegal aliens.
5. There is just so much money being allocated for these programs and when illegal aliens tap into that, you have to make cut backs for Americans and that’s not fair to Americans.
6. Education curriculum are being minimized with the flood of illegal students and that has been felt for years.
7. Illegal aliens have illegal business’s, back stabbing and under cutting American businesses in the same field. Why, because we don’t want to live with 14 other illegal aliens in the same household and work in the same business.
8. Illegal aliens are earning money in the United States and shipping that money back to their own countries. Millions and maybe Billions of U.S. dollars every year.
9. “Big Business”, in the past has offered cash bonuses to illegal aliens. To encourage them to recruit other illegal aliens to work at their businesses. While they took advantage of them by not paying them employee benefits and workers comp., when they were hurt on the job.
10. Illegal aliens are filling up our Penal colonies at the Tax Payers expense. They have created a Mafia that, they can “HIT” anyone from outside with just a command.
11. Stop letting Terrorist in the our Country and we won’t have to worry about Terrorist.
12. Illegal aliens are taking low income affordable housing that poverty level Americans need.
13. Did “Juan Manuel Alvarez”, have a drivers licenses? The man who caused the Glendale train wreck , Jan. 2005. Illegal aliens have obtained drivers licenses in some state legally. How?
14. Illegal aliens are filing income tax, in boarder Texas towns and collecting refunds through Post Office Box addresses, while they live in Mexico.
15. Mexican women are coming across our boarders pregnant and having their babies, collecting benefits then go back to Mexico at the Tax Payers expense.
16. Illegal alien, Gang Violence is Terrorizing Americans of all ages.
17. Illegal aliens are committing crimes then go back to their own countries until things cool off.
18. Most of the Legal aliens are only LEGAL through Reagan and Clinton Amnesty Programs. Bush was just about ready to give them amnesty again, right before 911.
19. We need to take back "OUR" Country!
20. Arizona just pass proposition 200 to stop illegal aliens, from having access to American benefits. The President of Mexico intends to fight it, through the U.N.
21. The President of Mexico has published a book in the form of a comic book. A Step by Step Plan on how to sneak into The United States. At the right crossings at the right time and a warnings of the dangers of being caught.
22. Why don’t we bring our Soldiers in Iraq home and guard our boarders?
23. Illegal aliens are taking money away from our own Countries Minority Groups that have fought and died to make benefits available to them. American Indians (Native Americans)
gave their lives, cultural, language and land! Blacks died and were slaves and fought for their rights.
24. When Americans see these illegal aliens waltz into America and just take benefits, so easy away from all Americans, That Hurts a lot !
25. Big Business is hiring illegal aliens at minimum wage to $8.00 per hour. When they know they would have to pay an Americans more. Which puts American people out of work. The illegal aliens are taking advantage of work place insurance programs, medical care and 401K’s, stocks and profits.
26. Some banks are giving illegal aliens home loans some times there will be 4 or 5 people on the loan to qualify. Most of those homes are flop houses for more illegal immigrants to be housed while there illegally here.
27. Most illegal aliens are being taken advantage of by their own race. By being employed in illegal businesses, to work for less money, to under cut Americans in the same business. These businesses do not pay insurance, state tax or workers comp or anything else!
28. The power companies and phone companies and other businesses. Welfare and Public assistance program are having to have interpreter's and special paper work printed for illegal aliens to take advantage of everything to DMV to public housing assistance. At the Tax Payers Expense!
29. Why do illegal aliens get to break the law and not you and me? Just try some less than breaking National Security Laws and you will end up in J-A-I-L!
30. In the New York times just recently did an article that showed the first 1000 faces of the men and women who died in Iraq. The New York Times reported that there were illegal aliens in the military forces! Now, how do you explain that! President Bush, even gave them Citizenship after they were dead.
31. If something is not done, Bush will give them all Amnesty again! We as Tax Payer are tired of this. We need someone to support us and up hold the laws to keep illegal aliens out of our country. Secure our boarder so these Terrorist can not enter to Terrorize, America.
32. Chinese and Mid East Terrorist are now entering the U.S. from Mexico and Canada.
33. It’s time to clean House!
34. Illegal aliens are largely responsible of trafficking illegal drugs into America.
35. Employers who hire illegal aliens should be prosecuted, fined and jailed! No exceptions!
36. How does an Iraqi person live in the United States, own a Business for 30 years and still not be a citizen of the United States. But is able to vote in the Iraq election? Are these what they call Cells ?
37. How does a 100,000 Iraqi’s live in Detroit, Mi. and live and work? Does that mean a Hundred Thousand American Jobs are Gone ?
38. You can call them what you want. I call them Terrorist!
39. Illegal immigrants are lowering Our Standard of Living!
40. Illegal immigrants are Driving Prices up. By companies, businesses, Public assistant programs having to cater special just for them. The American Tax Payers are paying the Cost!
41. Sunday, January 30, 2005
President Bush said, “It was a good day for democracy.”
Spring, Sunday, June 25, 1876
“This is a good day to die: follow me.” “Low Dog”
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42. Most drive-by-shootings are crimes committed by illegal aliens.
43. Many illegal aliens are Convicted or on-the-run Criminals in their own Countries.
44. Illegal aliens once they get established in “Our” Country, work very hard to bring more illegal aliens into our country, with their Countries blessings!
45. Try going to the illegal aliens country and apply for a drivers license try to get a job or free hand outs of public assistance and you will find yourself deported or dead.
46. Illegal aliens have learned they can Waltz across our boarder anytime they want. They have no fear in going home and then coming back to America to suck the life out of “Our” economy!
47. Our government in American fully understands and excepts the fact that these illegal aliens are breaking the Law Daily. The government and Big Business are in bed together on supporting this issue! We as tax payers and must insist that the government, up hold the law against these illegal aliens! NOW, TODAY!
48. Maybe we should start exercising our Right to make a Citizen’s Arrest on these individuals. It wouldn’t be to hard, all you would have to do is see who doesn’t know a word of English and that person is probably illegal!
49. Maybe we should start DEMANDING to see proper immigration papers from these foreign intruders!
50. We should call immigration and make them perform their jobs! That WE the Tax Payers pay them to do! Protect Our Country from these Illegal Intruders!
51. We the Tax Payers the Back Bone of this Country! We should start Demanding that President Bush and Law Makers and Immigration start upholding the laws that Protect the Citizens and the United States of America from foreign intruders!
52. Many adult illegal aliens that have come to this country have NO formal education of any kind and if they do it’s very little, yet they find it very easy to find jobs.
53. It’s time to start Taking Names and Kicking A**!
54. Funding has been cut from Firefighter, costing life loss also from Emergency Rooms also costing live loss of Americans. While we continue to support these illegal aliens.
55. Are Train derailments something we are just going to have to get use to in the future?
56. The children born to these illegal aliens are now applying for Small Business Loans from the government and using tax payers money to start legal businesses. While their illegal mother and father run them and support more illegal alien workers.
57. At one point in time illegal aliens were responsible for “Eating” peoples family “Pets”! People from Asia were reported to eat anything that moved, snails, lizards, Robins...
58. Some Alien owned Restaurants were found to have animal skins, i.e... cat, dog skins found in their garbage cans outside their Restaurants. Bon Appetite .
59. Illegal Aliens are widely know to run illegal cock fighting rings and dog fighting rings, for entertainment. They have been known to steal the American family pets from their own homes, to participate in these fights.
60. There are no laws stating how many illegal aliens can live in a house. The Authorities say that even a hallway can be considered a bedroom.
61. I have heard of and seen illegal aliens growing corn in their front yards, raising chickens and butchering pigs all in the middle of the City! While living with 14 others in the same household and not all households are below poverty level houses!
62. I have heard of illegal aliens not sending their children to school. Or not taking them to the hospital for fear of being caught and actually having the children die because of it.
63. These people are Terrorizing us and Terrorizing themselves. We need to put a stop to these people crossing our boarders, NOW!
64. Illegal aliens and their children are having babies, faster than the speed of light. At the tax payers expense!
65. If the Federal Government can make everyone drive on the proper side of the road, track a cows, make everyone pay TAXES! They can control and STOP illegal immigration. They can deport them and deport illegal immigrants that have Over Stayed their Visas!
66. The children of illegal immigrants that were born in the United States are welcome to stay. We will provide them with an education and welfare but their illegal parents and relative and friend have to GO! If they wish to take the children with them that’s fine too. This is better than supporting the whole lot!
67. All American should start reporting these illegal immigrants to be checked out by Immigration Services and Demand that they be deported at ONCE!
68. If we don’t have enough people to clean toilets in America, I guess the Rich People will have to do without! We as the common American do not need these workers. The Rich will just have to pay more for an American to do the same job! At least the money will remain in the United States and will be better distributed to the people in the U.S.
69. If the Rich take their businesses to China and India, Americans Must Boycott their Products! Big Business is already in China and India and planing and threatening to move more businesses there anyway! They are aiding the enemy.
70. We must protect Americans in America! When you move businesses to China and sell products back to Americans you are trading Democracy for Communism.
71. This is not going to be easy to go against, Big Business and the Government but we must insist! Everyone needs to stick together on these issues and not give in! Since Big Business and Our Government are in bed together and as we know American Politics is all about the M-O-N-E-Y!
72. There should be No Homeless People in America!
73. The United States issues a Warning to the American Public about traveling to Mexico in January 2005.
74. It has been reported by CNN, 2/1/05, that there is an epidemic of Americans, killed, missing, abducted and kidnaped or just disappeared in Mexico.
75. It has been reported on CNN 2/1/05 that the Mexican Drug Cartel is battling for American Boarder Towns.
76. If anything happens to Americans in Mexico, there is nothing the American side can do to help and the Mexican Government chooses to ignore it! Like “Our” government chooses to ignore when Mexicans break the law in the U.S. from everything from the IRS to National Security.
77. If America had not of supported these illegal aliens many Americans would still be alive.
78. If we would have pumped more money into our Education Systems and not into supporting illegal aliens. Many bright young men and women would not have been Lured into joining the military for education money and ended up dead or maimed.
79. Our best and brightest are being slaughter in the War as you read this. Russia killed their best and brightest and look where they are, eating rotten fruit and empty stores.
80. Americans have been reported killed in Mexico from anything from going on fishing trips to shopping sprees and everything in-between.
81. Why should we as American’s make any more compensation to these illegal aliens?
82. Mexico has plenty of untapped OIL! If the Mexican government chooses not to take care of their people that’s their choice!
83. Identity Theft is on the increase by illegal aliens! American Citizens are on the butt end.
84. Senator Diane Finestien has been quoted it cost Americans 13 BILLION dollars a year to incarcerate illegal aliens.
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Among those who spoke against the proposed legislation was retired Col. A.R. "Mac" MacCahan (whose Army unit lost 206 of 212 men fighting in the Korean War). He asked, "What part of illegal don't you understand?" Others ask, why reward people who have committed at least three felonies: illegal entry into the U.S., purchasing fraudulent documents to get a job, and misrepresenting the legality of those documents at the workplace?
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Why Health Care Is So Costly
While Americans without health insurance struggle with the problem of how to pay for medical care, many Mexicans don't have that problem. They just ride in a Mexican ambulance across the border to a hospital in Arizona, New Mexico, California or Texas, and get free medical treatment. The costs are currently paid by a combination of socking the taxpayers in those four border states plus inflating prices for patients who pay their own bills, insurance companies and Medicaid.
This ridiculous situation is caused by a combination of U.S. officials allowing Mexican cars to cross our border plus the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, which mandates that U.S. hospitals with emergency-room services treat anyone who shows up for care including illegal aliens. This unfunded mandate was legislated by a Congress that closed its eyes to the costs.
We are not just talking about Mexicans who may have had an accident close to the border. We are talking about Mexicans with serious health problems who are deliberately sent to the United States after Mexican hospitals discover they can't pay for services and have no insurance.
Senators John McCain and John Kyl have proposed a solution for this dilemma: lighten the tax burden on their own state while shifting it to U.S. taxpayers nationwide. How parochial! They introduced a bill to hit the U.S. taxpayers for $200 million for medical treatment of illegal aliens.
A study made by the U.S.-Mexico Border Counties Coalition, an American lobbying group, found that U.S. hospitals in border states provide at least $200 million a year in uncompensated emergency care to illegal aliens. In the four border states, 77 hospitals now face a medical emergency.
Uncompensated care to illegal aliens in Arizona cost the Cochise County Health Department 30% of its annual budget, the Copper Queen Hospital in Bisbee $200,000 out of a net operating income of $300,000, the University Medical Center in Tucson $10 million, and the Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Tucson $1 million in only the first quarter of last year. The Southeast Arizona Medical Center in Douglas is on the verge of bankruptcy. Some emergency rooms and pre-natal units have closed because they can't afford to stay open.
Arizona hospitals have offered donated medical equipment and ambulances to Mexican medical facilities, but Mexican customs officials have not permitted much of it to enter Mexico. They apparently prefer to send their sick to U.S. hospitals rather than care for them in Mexico. Other costs of dumping Mexicans on U.S. hospitals include transporting the seriously ill by helicopter from small border hospitals to Tucson or Phoenix. This cost ranges from $7,000 to $20,000 a trip.
In San Antonio, University Health System officials have proposed a statewide quarter-cent sales tax to help hospitals pay for uninsured persons who show up at the door. During the last three years, Houston's Harris County Hospital District spent $330 million to treat and immunize illegal aliens, an amount estimated to be at least 20% of the indigent caseload.
In California, where the state budget crunch is forcing reductions in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program, observers warn of an approaching catastrophe in the health-care system. Almost one in five Californians lacks health insurance, yet the law requires hospitals to continue to serve illegal aliens free.
These costs are especially onerous because hospitals are struggling with falling Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates and rising medical malpractice premiums, and most states are struggling with revenue shortfalls. Hospitals are often hit with providing follow-up care when an uninsured patient remains bedridden for months.
It's not just the border states. The Florida Hospital Association reported that illegal aliens amassed unpaid bills of $40.5 million last year. Uninsured illegal alien Saul Diaz, after an auto accident, spent a year in a Gwinnett Medical Center hospital, racking up an unpaid bill of $1 million. Another illegal alien repeatedly stabbed himself in the stomach, and it cost Gwinnett three months of care and $390,000 to restore him to health.
All this is in addition to the many illegal aliens who are injured in highway accidents when the trucks they are jammed into like sardines are driven recklessly by uninsured Mexican drivers trying to evade police. Such accidents have occurred as far away as Utah and Iowa.
U.S. taxpayers are also taken for chumps when food stamps are given to illegal aliens. Coming from countries that have no respect for a rule of law, they don't understand that selling food stamps is a crime. Food-stamp fraud among illegal aliens came to light in 1996 when Ohio authorities discovered that a Jordanian man and his uncle had deposited $24 million in purchased food stamps in the bank accounts associated with their chain of food and video stores. A ring of Somali asylum seekers netted $40,000 in food stamp fraud.
When are Americans going to wake up to the price we are paying because our government won't stop the invasion of illegal aliens?
U.S. Social Security for Mexicans?
Social Security, the so-called "third rail" of American politics, has just become more incendiary. The Bush Administration is proposing a change that is even more controversial than offering younger workers the opportunity to invest a small percentage of their Social Security taxes. Everybody knows that Social Security is facing a massive shortfall in a few years when the baby-boom generation starts to retire. Higher taxes, reduced benefits, or allowing some measure of privatization are the alternatives that need to be worked out by bipartisan consensus.
The Bush Administration has just thrown a monkey wrench into a harmonious solution. A deal is in the works to add to the bulging Social Security rolls many thousands of Mexicans who are working in the United States, both legally and illegally.
This idea would be very costly to U.S. taxpayers. It's bad politics, it undermines the rule of law, and it invites a new wave of illegals to come across our border in search of taxpayer benefits.
Vicente Fox's success as Mexico's President is threatened by his country's terrible poverty. So he has a very ambitious plan to deal with it: export his poverty to the United States. Fox encourages poor and desperate Mexicans to risk all kinds of hardships to cross the U.S. border illegally, often paying their life savings to a criminal "coyote," making a deal to transport illegal drugs, or enduring life-threatening thirst in the Arizona desert. Fox even toyed with a plan to give them Survival Kits to ease their pain.
If the illegal aliens manage to elude U.S. border guards and escape death on the highway in crowded vans or trucks driven by inexperienced drivers, many manage to land in various locations far away from Mexico, such as Colorado, Iowa or Georgia. They can then hope to get hired by a U.S. employer willing to close his eyes to how they got so far from home.
Nevertheless, the illegals are told by Fox and other Mexican officials to "think Mexican" first and send as much as they can scrape out of their pitiful paychecks back to relatives in Mexico. According to a Pew Hispanic Center and Inter-American Development Bank report, Mexicans in the United States will send $13 billion this year to relatives in Mexico.
As soon as George W. Bush was elected president, Vicente Fox started pressuring him to legitimize the status of the some ten million illegal aliens who are in the United States, plus give amnesty to many illegals by reviving a loophole in immigration law called 245(i). Those plans were sailing briskly until 9/11, the day that the American people woke up to the dangers of open borders. Fox was forced to move to an incrementalist strategy.
The Social Security Administration has begun discussions with Mexico about an agreement to allow Mexicans to receive U.S. Social Security benefits. One plan is to allow Mexicans, who were not employed in the U.S. long enough to collect U.S. Social Security benefits, to count the time they worked in Mexico as part of their mandatory 10 years or 40 quarters.
The more expensive plan is to provide benefits to the estimated 5 million Mexicans who are working illegally in the United States after having supplied fake Social Security numbers to their employers. "Our actuaries are working on the numbers," said Social Security spokesman Jim Courtney. Already there is talk of an addition to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City to handle 37,000 claims anticipated in the first year.
Acquiescing in Vicente Fox's demands would put hundreds of thousands of Mexicans onto the rolls of the U.S. Social Security system just as the first wave of baby boomers starts getting retirement checks. If the State Department has its way, up to $345 billion could be siphoned from the Social Security "trust fund" over the next two decades, mostly to people who worked in the United States illegally. This doesn't even count the cost of making them eligible for Social Security disability, a program already plagued by fraud.
The Bush Administration claims that these plans would promote "totalization" of U.S. and Mexican retirement systems and develop a positive relationship between the two countries. Totalization is the bureaucratic code word for this $345 billion ripoff of U.S. taxpayers.
If foreigners work legally in the United States and pay Social Security taxes, they are entitled to receive the benefits they earned. But U.S. taxpayers should say "no" to Mexico's attempt to shift its social welfare burdens onto the U.S. taxpayers. Offering Social Security benefits to people who knowingly violate U.S. immigration laws would create a powerful new incentive for more illegals to enter the United States.
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Stealth Amnesty Is Still 'Sheer Lunacy'
Last year's failed attempt to get Congress to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens has morphed into stealth amnesty. This devious plan is hidden behind a little card that looks like a California driver's license and goes by a strange foreign name: matricula consular.
Mexican President Vicente Fox has instructed his 47 consulates in the United States to issue these identification cards to Mexicans living illegally in this country, and they are lining up by the thousands to pay $29 to get one. More than a million were issued in 2002, and over a million older matriculas issued prior to 9/11 are still in circulation.
Since no one except an illegal alien would want or need a matricula consular, there must be some reason other than identification for the Mexicans' eagerness to acquire them. Indeed, there is. The matricula consular is a let's-pretend I.D. designed to be used to access U.S. privileges and benefits to which aliens are not entitled. It's Vicente Fox's plan to circumvent U.S. federal immigration laws by lobbying state and local authorities to grant amnesty in incremental steps.
Simultaneously with the issuing of the matricula consular, Mexican consuls have been aggressively lobbying state and local governments and institutions to accept the card as though it were an American-issued I.D. As a result, 13 states are now accepting matriculas for the purpose of giving driver's licenses to illegal aliens. Once an illegal alien gets a driver's license, he no longer needs his matricula consular. Eighteen of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 carried a driver's license, presumably their key to boarding the killer planes.
Starting with Wells Fargo and Bank of America, 74 banks now accept matriculas for the purpose of opening a bank account. No doubt the banks are eyeing the profits from remittance fees on the $13 billion a year that Mexicans who are employed in the United States send back to Mexico each year.
According to shocking information discovered by the Center for Immigration Studies, the U.S. Treasury Department winked at this practice in a sly footnote to its report to Congress (10-22-02) on implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act (which was supposed to guard against identity fraud). Footnote #17 stated, "The proposed regulations do not discourage bank acceptance of the 'matricula consular' identity card that is being issued by the Mexican government to immigrants."
At least 800 police departments or cities from Los Angeles to Houston to Georgia to Chicago are now accepting the matricula consular. The card can serve to conceal criminal activity because it makes the police less likely to run background checks, take fingerprints, deport, or search for fraudulent documents.
A dozen House members sent a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell on January 7 stating that the matriculas are issued by the governments of Mexico and some other Latin American countries for "the express purpose of evading U.S.law." Their letter also charges that "the active lobbying of local and state governments by consuls of foreign countries is a breach of international protocol."
Colorado Governor Bill Owens sent a letter to the Consulate General of Mexico asking the Mexican lobbyists to register as foreign agents. After all, U.S. citizens who lobby for a foreign government are required to register.
In her first newsworthy action since becoming House Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) got the federal building in San Francisco to accept the matricula consular as valid identification to enter the building for purposes formerly reserved to people carrying American-issued I.D. But within a week, on January 21, the General Services Administration (GSA) suspended recognition of matriculas pending an investigation.
The U.S. institutions that accept the matricula consular do so on the assumption that it really does identify the bearer, but there is no assurance of that. The consulates don't authenticate the documents presented by the Mexicans, don't do background checks, and have no database network to reject duplicate matriculas to the same person.
The matricula consular facilitates illegal entry and residence in the United States and serves as a coverup for this and other crimes. It is a federal crime under Section 274 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to encourage an illegal alien to remain illegally in the United States. If our immigration authorities want to locate illegal aliens in the United States, all they have to do is drive a bus up to the lines of people standing outside of the Mexican consulates.
A backlash has set in against this racket of pretending that the matricula consular is a lottery ticket redeemable in benefits available to U.S. citizens. New York City, New York State, and some cities in Michigan, Florida and Arizona have voted not to honor the card. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) has introduced legislation to deal with the fast growing deceptions caused by use of the matricula consular.
Our Border Open to Crime and Drugs
Smuggling illegal drugs into the United States has been a big money-making scheme for many years, but the industry of smuggling people may be getting even more profitable than marijuana or cocaine. Fees range from $1,000 for Mexicans to $4,000 for Central Americans and up to $50,000 for Chinese or Middle Easterners.
The 18-wheeler is the smuggler's vehicle of choice. A loaded 18-wheeler can be worth $100,000 to $200,000. The business deal calls for a down payment before the ride starts. After crossing the border, the smugglers often hold the vulnerable aliens until family or friends pay a hefty ransom. Migrant smugglers, called coyotes, sometimes steal their competitors' clients. Kidnapping of illegal border crossers has also become a profitable side business.
In one of the largest operations, smugglers were indicted for bringing in at least 11 tractor-trailer loads of aliens between 1999 and 2002, receiving about $1,500 for each alien. Drugs, prostitutes and money were used to entice the drivers into using their 18-wheelers to haul the human cargo. Their last trip was deadly. The aliens were loaded into the trailer with little water and no food. In the intense heat, many suffered hallucinations and lost consciousness and two died.
In Brownsville, Texas, three men pleaded guilty to another alien-smuggling ring that transported three truckloads of 30 people a day from Mexico to Houston, where people were hidden in houses until they could be shipped farther north. Western Union receipts showed that the smugglers raked in more than $5 million for their racket, which went on for years.
A school bus mechanic was arrested in Syracuse on charges he tried to smuggle 15 Chinese nationals across the St. Lawrence River from Canada. The families had paid international smugglers between $15,000 and $40,000 for safe passage to the United States.
Iraqi native George Tajirian ran a smuggling ring, charging $15,000 per head, from all over the world importing more than 1,000 Middle Eastern aliens. Two men from Pakistan and Sri Lanka were arrested in Miami on charges that they smuggled Middle Easterners into the U.S. for $20,000 each.
Tragic truck and van accidents have been reported all over the United States as the illegals are transported far from the border. In Brownsville, Texas, 73 illegal aliens were found hidden in a tractor-trailer among overripe watermelons to disguise the odor of the people.
After a truck with illegal aliens slammed into a tractor-trailer killing nine people in Iowa, state officials estimated that 1,000 illegal immigrants cross Iowa on I-80 in overloaded vans and trucks every day. In Denison, IA, 11 bodies were found in a railroad car.
According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, about 65% of all the cocaine and most of the marijuana that enters this country comes from Mexico.
In just one week last December, San Diego's KFMB Radio reported that U.S. agents caught Mexicans driving a van with 5,989 pounds of marijuana valued at $2.7 million, a produce truck with 8,596 pounds of marijuana, an SUV overloaded with a 1,000-pound haul of marijuana, a big rig carrying a ton of marijuana, and $213,000 worth of marijuana coming over a mobile ramp system built to drive vehicles over a fence and directly into the United States.
Border Control in south Texas caught 22 illegal aliens from Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador transporting 1,700 pounds of marijuana worth $1.25 million. Drug investigators have discovered three tunnels and a fourth under construction at the U.S.-Mexico border at Nogales.
Hundreds of drug traffickers have flooded into North Carolina. In 1995, only 10 Hispanics were in state prisons for drug trafficking convictions, but the number has now risen to 400. (Charlotte Observer, 12-29-02) Police believe that northwest Georgia has become a drug hub.
It should be no surprise that the combination of clusters of illegal aliens and the persistence of illegal drugs has increased the crime rate. Phoenix police report that 60% of the homicides involve Mexicans mixed up in smuggling both drugs and people. Tucson's crime rate has grown 12 times the national average, and a vehicle is stolen in Arizona every 10 minutes.
City gangs are a big problem in many states, and gangs have invaded the suburbs, too. The worst city gang is thought to be MS-13, a ruthless Salvadoran gang that has spread to at least 28 states including Massachusetts. Gangs from Mexico have been reported burglarizing stopped trains. About a dozen railroad bandits ambushed two FBI agents in New Mexico, kicking and beating them with rocks until they were in critical condition.
The deserts and the national parks have become favorite routes for the entry of illegal aliens. Last year, 200,000 illegal aliens were caught sneaking into our country through the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona, and 700,000 pounds of illegal drugs were intercepted.
National Park Service ranger Kris Eggle was stationed there last August 9. Two armed Mexicans, who had killed four men in a murder spree over drugs, crossed into the Arizona state park. Three border patrol agents including Kris Eggle responded. One fugitive was captured but the other fled, and Kris Eggle, who had been a cross country runner, gave chase. Eggle was shot below his bullet-proof vest and died in an ambulance.
Where is any media or public outrage over this murder by an illegal alien on U.S. territory? Congressman Tom Tancredo called the incident "the latest example of a border gone wild."
One million illegal aliens are now entering our country each year. If a Mexican day laborer can sneak across our border, so can an al Qaeda terrorist. According to a Fox News poll, 79% of Americans support using the military to help secure U.S. borders.
It's not only "sheer lunacy" to give amnesty to illegal aliens, it is also "sheer lunacy" to tolerate the illegal business of smuggling people and drugs into the United States. U.S. citizens are paying a terrible price in costs to our taxpayers, in crime, and in drug addiction. The best way to stop the costs and the tragedies is to close our borders to illegal entry.
If you've have it with immigration malfeasance, you'll feel empowered by dropping this in the mailbox.
1. AN OPEN LETTER TO:
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George W. Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20500
RE: Illegal Immigration-Notice of Citizen Action
Mr. President:
The taxpaying citizens of America have reached an impasse in the quest to have your administration fulfill its Oath of Office to protect this country from invasion (Article IV, Section 4) over our borders and capture/deport criminal aliens now running amok in America. We have organized a National Consumer Boycott which will begin February 1, 2005. All participants will retain their disposable income and ONLY purchase necessities in concurrent 30-day intervals until actual steps are taken to meet our demands, primarily guaranteed by The Constitution and DUTIES of the office you hold.
1. Seal the borders with Mexico by any means necessary. 2. Arrest and fully prosecute employers of illegal aliens. 3. Arrest and immediately deport ALL illegal aliens. 4. Extend arrest and deportation authority to all U.S. state and local law officers.
Until verifiable evidence of movement toward achievement of the captioned laws/demands is evident, the general boycott will continue.
We will not accept "reform". We will not accept "an amnesty" perpetuated under ANY guise. A PRIORITY MUST BE PLACED ON "ENFORCEMENT OF EXISTING IMMIGRATION LAWS IMMEDIATELY'.
We will no longer tolerate taxpayer subsidy of cheap labor for corporate America and rampant malfeasance in office by our elected officials. Nor will tolerate any longer the reckless security risks taken by open border special interests in the name of windfall profits and campaign contributions. The eighty percent (80%) of Americans wanting secure borders and alien deportations are in control of cash flow, and we intent to use that control indefinitely with ever-graduating impact. Do what you will.
Very truly yours,
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