Silent Threat

I am sure that by now most of you have heard or read about the pending Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy Act of 2007 [STRIVE] legislation introduced by Reps. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) in Congress right now. What most of you might not know (or understand) is what this bill will do to our country.

First, I want to provide some necessary voting background, courtesy of http://www.issues2000.org/, pertaining to the two representatives introducing this bill.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL):

· Voted NO on making the Patriot Act permanent
· Voted NO on military border patrols to battle drugs and terrorism
· Voted NO on Federalizing rules for driver licenses to hinder terrorists
· Voted NO on reporting illegal aliens who receive hospital treatment
· Voted YES on extending immigrant residency rules

Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ):

· Voted NO on constitutional amendment prohibiting flag desecration
· Voted NO on military border patrols to battle drugs and terrorism
· Voted NO emergency $78 billion for war in Iraq and Afghanistan
· Voted NO on reporting illegal aliens who receive hospital treatment
· Voted YES on extending immigrant residency rules

If you are listening to the mainstream media, you will hear that the majority of illegal aliens are here providing a service that other Americans are unwilling to perform. I wonder if the press is referring to the Brothel in Minneapolis that was just busted this week. It seems that a group of illegal aliens were forcing female illegal aliens to provide a service to other hard-working illegal aliens. Or maybe the press is referring to Evandro Doirado, an illegal from Brazil working as a ‘freelance pharmacist’. You see, Doirado stabbed a pharmaceutical affiliate, but did not stop there. Instead, he went on to kidnap a lady and her young child at knifepoint and proceeded to brutally rape her in front of her child. There is your amnesty plan at work. I propose that if illegal aliens are not concerned with our law upon entrance, why will they respect it while they are here? The following stats reported by Don Feder on http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/ reflect that they will not:

· In 1980 9,000 legal/illegal immigrants in federal and state prisons, in 1999 that number exploded to 68,000.
· In 1997 and 2002, 72,000 legal/illegal immigrants arrested for drug-related charges as reported by the Federation for American Immigration Reform [FAIR].
· Approximately 95% of unresolved homicide warrants in Los Angeles are for illegal immigrants.

Just picking lettuce and tomatoes, huh? Reynaldo Elias Rapalo, an illegal Honduran alien, was not picking lettuce in Miami in 2003; rather he was viciously raping seven women. Seven women who ought to sue the state government for not apprehending Rapalo in 2002 when he was detained for lewd and lascivious molestation while on an expired visa. In layman’s terms, he was here illegally; however, Miami favors sanctuary city status. In 1996, a law was approved by Congress forbidding local governments from creating an immigration policy contradictory to that of the federal government. Subsequently, the federal courts upheld the statute, but a handful of defiant cities prefer to participate in the very illegality which they are sworn to protect.

Concerned yet?

A recent report in the San Antonio Express-News by Todd Bensman, depicts a whole different scenario regarding illegal aliens crossing our borders. As if murder, rape, and drug-trafficking are not bad enough, we have Iraqi war refugees skipping across our southern border into the states via the state-sponsored-terrorist country of Syria. Not to mention those slipping into the country under the radar via Canada. Remember the thwarted attempt on Fort Dix in New Jersey that received little to no press coverage? Half of those immigrants were here illegally.

Got your dander up yet?

Maybe you still have your head in the sand and this issue has not hit close enough to home for you at this point. What if this issue meant your child’s, spouse’s, or parent’s life? I am not referring to a violent attack because that is the obvious threat facing our safety. Instead, consider the threat of a loved-one contracting drug-resistant tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, plague, polio, dengue, or Chagas disease. All of these diseases were virtually non-existent in the United States until the recent influx of illegal aliens. This new STRIVE amnesty bill will provide illegal aliens with a free pass, thus subjecting our country to a huge health risk while requiring legal immigrants to prove that they are free of communicable diseases and drug addiction. According to a piece by Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Ph.D., Esq. in the Spring issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons report, “tuberculosis… had largely disappeared from America… TB’s swift, deadly return now is lethal for about 60% of those infected because of new Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis [MDR-TB]… Each illegal with MDR-TB coughs and infects 10-30 people who will not show symptoms immediately.” Ms. Cosman goes on to explain that leprosy has resurged in the past three years afflicting more than 7,000 people primarily in the northeastern states due to illegal aliens from India, Brazil, the Caribbean, and Mexico. Perhaps the biggest fear is Chagas disease or “kissing bug disease”. Ms. Cosman’s piece states, “Chagas disease is transmitted by the reduviid bug, which prefers to bite the lips and face. This disease infiltrates America’s blood supply. Chagas affects blood transfusions and transplanted organs. No cure exists. Hundreds of blood supply recipients may be silently infected. After 10-20 years, up to 30% will die when their hearts or intestines, enlarged and weakened by Chagas, burst. Three people in 2001 received Chagas-infected organ transplants. Two died.”

Bothered yet?

Not only are they physically and medically attacking us, but they are robbing us blind too. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act [EMTALA] demands every emergency room facility have specialists on call at all times and treat anyone who enters. Hospitals and doctors never recoup these costs from the government resulting in multiple hospital closures nationwide. Mexican ambulance drivers are aware of the EMTALA requirements and will transport patients into our country and drop them off within 250 yards of a hospital to receive treatment.

Oh, but if they were not deep enough into your pocket yet, it gets worse… much worse. Ever heard of ‘anchor babies’? This is an illegal alien’s guaranteed pass to stay in America and their permanent ticket on the American government gravy train. All aboard, toot, toot. And if an ‘anchor baby’ has a disability, well that just sweetens the pot. That is comparable to the slip on a ho-ho wrapper by the lazy American. It is the government-funded lotto! The public welfare system will pay $400 per month for a healthy ‘anchor baby’ and $600 per month for an ‘anchor baby’ with medical issues. If this hard-working lettuce-picking family illegally accrues $18,000 per year and $12,000 per year for their two anchor babies, they will generate $30,000 annually. That is $30,000 per year with complete medical and prescription coverage. As the disabled ‘anchor babies’ reach school age, they may be eligible for personal attendants (depending on degree of disability), one per child, plus an individual education program that racks up an additional $30,000 per child annually. There are also SSI lump sum award benefits for qualified disabilities, among those being drug addiction and alcoholism. It is common for an illegal to receive in excess of $5,000 in a lump sum award for a drug or alcohol addiction. Let’s add this up, shall we? We are paying for ALL of the medical coverage, plus paying them for each baby they conceive, in addition to SSI benefits – what else could they possibly ask for? Food stamps. Yes, we are also paying for their food. I would say that making $30,000 - $35,000 per year with no medical, grocery, childcare, or education expenses might place you in the middle class. I wonder how long before they figure out how to milk us out of gas money too?

The STRIVE bill pending before Congress right now will not change any of these subsidies, in fact, it will only increase the amount that we currently pay toward them. This bill does not implement any new protections or restrictions that are not currently on the books. This bill will not do anything to deter illegal immigration. To the contrary, it will only encourage more illegal immigration while at the same time spit in the faces of legal immigrants.

Have you reached the boiling point yet?

If so, please contact your representative at www.house.gov/writerep/ and demand they vote NO on the proposed Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy Act of 2007 [STRIVE].

Signing off...