(I have) Immigration Issues

Today's biggest headlines: AOL News - Immigration Debate Heats Up in Senate

Immigration? IMMIGRATION!?! We don't need no stinkin' immigration! And so goes the rant of legal and illegal immigrants alike who feel they (the illegals) have the right to walk right across a national border, earn a living without being taxed (and yet being represented), and have the audacity to send the majority of that money right back across the border! So now, faced with a swift end to the gravy train, they are taking to the streets to demonstrate. Gravy train, you say? They work jobs that other Americans won't for slave wages, right? Let's get one thing straight. These workers are sending home their "meager" wages to the tune of 20 billion dollars per year! Guess what Mexico's #2 source of income is? Wages remitted by migrant workers. Second only to oil exports! We're talking free medical care, driver's licenses, small business loans, court appointed lawyers, fire and police protection, minority preferences, education ...it...never...ends! All the benefits of being a citizen without paying taxes or learning the language. As previously ranted about, they'd just as soon you hurry your ass up and learn spanish already. They're tired of not being able to communicate with you! Are you mad yet? No? Well sit back, i'm just getting started.
Guess who is being hurt the most by the illegal immigrants? You? Me? Not even close. That would be the poor, uneducated people who have legally immigrated here and can't find a job! They wait their turn as millions before them have, they learn the language and they pass a citizenship test and for what? No jobs, unaffordable medical care and not a lot of prospects? Welcome to America. All the goodies have gone to the border hoppers. They get all the freebies and you get the shaft. If not for the illegals, you'd have a decent paying job and some benefits. Funny how you thought you would help your own cause and take to the streets and defend the illegals!
Here in America, we have such a good thing going on that people from all over wish to be here more than anywhere else in the world. Anywhere! Damn near every day, our Coast Guard and Navy is patrolling the southern shores, turning away Haitians, Cubans, etc. Even if they get ashore, we ship them right back. (Except for the Cubans. Under the "wet foot dry foot" laws, if they make it to shore, we let them stay. That too should be changed.) In the mean time, we embrace the Mexican illegals with all of the benefits and none of the hardships that come with living here. (NO, I am not saying it is a breezy life to be a migrant fruit picker.) They need to be shipped back the minute they are discovered. People who employ illegals should be heavily fined and regularly inspected. A wall should exist between our countrys. It is to the benefit of EVERYONE to control immigration. This is a national crisis!
Now, for those of you bleeding hearts who feel we should leave our southern borders wide open, let's talk about who all crosses it. Now, i'm not gonna talk about muslims and terrorists. I want to introduce you to MS-13. Who? MS-13! The Most Dangerous Gang in America - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com They are crossing our border regularly and will soon be bigger in America then our own homegrown Crips and Bloods. They bring drugs, violence and prostitution over the borders faster then we can keep up. So when an illegal immigrant with body armor and an automatic weapon makes your heart bleed for real, DON'T come a bitchin' to me! You've been warned. (Oh yeah...as if that ain't enough, Mexico has a bad habit of dropping off some of their most violent criminals at the border. Aren't you tired of being the carpet under which Mexico sweeps it's crap?)
OK...one more victim of illegal immigration to run under your nose. Are you ready for this? Mexico! The majority of the outlying villages are dying a quick death due to the fact that there's nobody around of working age. The farms are going unworked and the infrastructure is non-existent. All that's left is the very young and the very old. The schools are closing. There is no medical care. The following facts were gleaned from an article in my local paper by Jay Root of Knight-Ridder services; In five states, remittances from abroad now equal 100% or more of the salaries generated locally. There are nine times more people from the town of Joaquin Amaro living in Cicero, IL than are living in Joaquin Amaro itself. Can you believe this? Wait, it gets worse. A woman in the Mexican state of Zacatecas recently went to the immigrant assistance office for advice on how to get her 2 year old daughter (born in the US) back to Oakland, CA for treatment of a hip condition. The agency directors (un)official advice? Hire a smuggler and sign up her US born child for welfare. For the full story, go here. KR Washington Bureau 03/23/2006 Migration of working-age people has devast Mexico is bleeding itself dry as it migrates north to bleed us dry. Like Locusts. How far will we let it go? Write your national leaders. Illegal immigration has become a disgrace and a nightmare. You are inheriting it!

PS - If I were a business owner and my workforce decided to just skip a day by walking out to go demonstrate in the streets, they'd be looking for a new job. If I were the principal where the kids walked out of school, there'd be detention. Period.