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"brit am" <brit_am@home.net> wrote in message
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> How About Amnesty for Loyal, Hardworking Americans?
> Written by Robert Klein Engler
> Saturday, April 09, 2005
>
>
>             Most people realize that amnesty for illegal immigrants to the
> U. S. will not solve our immigration problems. It draws more illegal
> immigrants to the U. S. the way a magnet draws up iron filings. The
stronger
> the magnet, the more it draws up iron. The more amnesty we grant, the more
> illegal immigrants we attract.
>
> Perhaps there is a better solution to our immigration problem than
granting
> amnesty to illegal immigrants. Instead of giving amnesty to those who
break
> our laws and come into our country illegally, let's give amnesty to those
> hardworking U. S. citizens who have had their lives irreversibly harmed by
a
> flood of illegal immigrants.
>
> To start, we could give amnesty to those police officers that want to
report
> illegal immigrants but can't because political shortsightedness makes the
> cities where they enforce the law sanctuary cities. Then, we could give
> amnesty to taxpayers who pay high property tax bills to educate and give
> health care to illegal immigrants. What about amnesty on overdue mortgages
> for those Americans who have lost their jobs because illegal immigrants
have
> driven them out of work or driven down their salaries? That, too, would be
a
> justifiable amnesty.
>
> Tony Brown, author of What Mama Taught Me, knows how Black Americans are
> injured by illegal immigration. He writes, "the U. S. Census Bureau
reported
> in the NY Times...the poor Black and Latino communities lose the most
income
> of any group of Americans, including all Americans who did not finish high
> school and all Americans who are paying higher taxes to subsidize welfare
> benefits for illegal immigrants and businesses that hire them." Let's have
> amnesty for these Americans, instead of Affirmative Action for Latinos.
>
> Amnesty for the overdue bills and high credit card interest rates for
those
> working in janitorial and public service jobs would help many U. S.
> citizens, too. The Federation for American Immigration Reform reports, "a
> GAO study found that a decade of heavy immigration to Los Angeles had
> changed the janitorial industry from a mostly native Black, unionized
> workforce to one of non-unionized Latinos, many of whom were illegal
> aliens...the employment of Black Americans as hotel workers in California
> dropped 30 percent in the 1980s, while the number of immigrants with such
> jobs rose 166 percent." A similar story can be told today of the garment
> industry, the restaurant business, hospital work, and public service jobs.
>
> Let's have amnesty as well for the working Americans whose neighborhoods
> have been overturned because of an influx of illegal immigrants. Margaret
> Bianculli-Dyber is one of thousands who have felt the effects of illegal
> immigration. She is a resident of Farmingville and President of The Sachem
> Quality of Life Organization and could use some type of amnesty for her
> disappointment.
>
> Margaret says, "...Because of a plentiful supply of cheap labor, my
husband's
> wages are held down, and I have to work. Now, because of all the Mexicans,
> my property values have fallen $18,000 in four years. So, I can't afford
to
> sell my house for a profit and move away" (Kamber, The Village Voice.
August
> 8-14, 2001).
>
> Even those immigrants who were granted amnesty in the past do not want
> amnesty for today's flood of illegal immigrants coming into the country.
In
> his article on unskilled workers, Jerry Kammer of Copley News Services
> writes: "Many labor economists and immigration experts dismiss the notion
> that a shortage of low-wage workers exists, saying Bush's plan would help
> sustain a glut of low-wage workers that is pushing down labor costs in an
> expanding array of U. S. industries." Kammer continues, "Immigration of
> unskilled immigrants comes at a cost to unskilled U. S. workers,
> particularly established immigrants for whom new immigrants are economic
> substitutes."
>
> In the spirit of reconciliation, maybe we ought to have amnesty for those
> politicians who are mistaken, too. But only after they institute better
> border controls! We hear these politicians claim that the Arizona border
> with Mexico is no place for citizen observers. They claim the border is
> dangerous. Armed smugglers bring people, drugs and contraband across that
> border into the U. S. all the time. The notorious gang MS-13 and "coyotes"
> control much of the territory.
>
> Do our politicians realize what they are saying? Do they read their own
> press releases? The very argument against "vigilantes" on our southern
> border is the proof we need to put the National Guard there. If the border
> is as dangerous as our politicians claim, then they are shirking their
> responsibility to protect this nation by letting the border remain wide
> open. It is duplicitous to condemn the volunteer, border observers, while
at
> the same time refusing to enforce the very laws politicians claim all
should
> respect. If they insist on amnesty for millions of illegal Mexicans, then
> lets have amnesty also for hardworking, U. S. citizens harmed by out of
> control immigration.
>
>
> About the Writer: Robert Klein Engler is an adjuct professor at Roosevelt
> University in Chicago, and a versatile writer of op-ed articles, poetry,
and
> philosophy. His newest book, "A Winter of Words," is available from
> amazon.com.
>
>
>
> -- 
> The Press will not be free to tell lies. That is not freedom for the
people
> but a tyranny over their minds and souls.  -- Sir Oswald Mosley

Good creative thinking but wasted on hack like Bush and his neo-con
big-business cohorts.

Hank

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