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"Frank" <frank@home.usa> wrote in message
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> Border Wars 2005-05-14
>
> There are ways to fight back
>
> by Francis Playfair
>
> In November last year, as the rest of the nation was electing the
> candidate that they considered the lesser of two evils, in the
> presidential elections, the good folk of Arizona were casting their
> votes over proposition 200.
>
> There are planned legal objections to the proposition, but if the
> people of Arizona can get this past a federal judge then this will be
> a small step in the right direction. However, the question is why do
> they need proposition 200?
>
> What is happening along the border, that is making the people of
> Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California feel like a people under
> siege?
>
> To understand this people have to realize that for the last decade or
> so there has not been a trickle of immigrants coming over the border,
> it has been a flood. In Arizona alone the illegal alien population is
> now estimated, by the government, to be about 500,000, or 10% of the
> population, however this does not include so-called legal aliens and
> the locals claim the figures for illegals is much higher than the
> government suggests.
>
> Based on the low government estimation the annual cost of providing
> public benefits to illegal aliens living in Arizona now exceeds $1
> billion, or $700 a year per household and, according to a time study,
> in a single day, more than 4,000 illegal aliens will walk across the
> busiest unlawful gateway into the U.S., the border between Arizona and
> Mexico. And many will obtain phony identification papers, including
> bogus Social Security numbers, to conceal their true identities and
> mask their unlawful presence, thus sky rocketing the already obscene
> costs of immigration to the people of the state.
>
> While the vast majority are Mexicans, a small but sharply growing
> number come from other countries, including those with large
> populations hostile to the U.S. From Oct. 1 of last year until Aug.
> 25, the border patrol estimates, it apprehended along the southwest
> border 55,890 people who fall into the category described officially
> as other than Mexicans, or OTMS, many of these have turned out to be
> Muslims who could present a considerable danger to the people of
> America.
>
> However it is not just the threat of terrorism that effects the people
> living on the front line. A 1996 study published in Clinical
> Therapeutics raised serious concerns about the trafficking of
> controlled substances along the U.S.- Mexico border. The number and
> types of pills that the Shepherd study found at a typical border
> crossing backup DEA's view that these drugs are being used for illegal
> purposes.
>
> The Shepherd study estimated that in just one year at the Laredo
> border crossing, over 60,000 drug products were brought in to the U.S.
> by more than 24,000 people. All of the top 15 drug products, which
> represent 94.1 percent of the total quantity of declared drugs, were
> controlled substances. These dangerous drugs, classified as
> prescription tranquilizers, stimulants, and narcotic analgesics, are
> potentially addictive and subject to abuse.
>
> Rohypnol, commonly referred to as the "date-rape drug," was brought in
> by 43 percent of those who declared their prescription medication.
> Over a full year, that means that over 1.5 million doses of Rohypnol
> where brought in at a single border crossing. Further, the median age
> for those who declared Valium and Rohypnol was 24 and 26 years old
> respectively.
>
> Rohypnol continues to be a problem among treatment admissions in Texas
> along the Mexican border.
>
> There is also the threat of other crimes, violent crimes and
> robberies, the highest larceny rate in the country and a high auto-
> theft rate pushed Tucson to the top spot in a survey of crime in the
> 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas in 2002.
>
> According to the survey, Tucson had 7,543 serious crimes per 100,000
> residents in 2002. The larceny and auto-theft rates accounted for
> 5,853.6 of that total. The violent crime rate in Tucson is 631.7 per
> 100,000.
>
> Statistics show that a disproportionate amount of these crimes are
> committed by the illegal aliens in the area.
>
> Every day new "Colonia" go up, a "Colonia" is a Spanish term for
> neighborhood or community. In Texas, colonia refers to a residential
> area along the Texas-Mexico border that may lack basic water and sewer
> systems, electricity, paved roads, and safe and sanitary housing.
> Colonias can be found in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California,
> but Texas has both the largest number of colonias and the largest
> colonia population. Approximately 400,000 Texans live in colonias.
> There are more than 1,400 Texas colonias, located primarily along the
> state's 1,248 mile border with Mexico.
>
> These are usually little more than immigrant shanty towns, places
> where illegals congregate and "hide-out" as they pass across the
> border, their existence encourages and assists illegal immigration.
>
> Every day more and more crimes are committed and the border situation
> has gone beyond the point of polite conversation. It has become a
> disease, one that is attracting some of the more perverted members of
> society, in fact according to John Miller, director of the U.S. Office
> to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, An estimated 16,000 to
> 20,000 women and children are sent across the U.S. border each year
> for sexual slavery or forced labor.
>
> Every part of every day life is being contaminated, and whilst the
> more sensational stories, of the now frequent rapes and murders, might
> make some of the headlines, the real problem is that these are not
> isolated incidents and that all these little things are building up to
> one big thing and that big thing is the loss of the culture, heritage
> and history of the region and the creation of a country within a
> country where the good folk of the border states no longer have a
> place, where they become a minority, victims of crime, prejudice and
> abuse.
>
> New Mexico, California and Texas are already considered by many to be
> a minority- majority, in other words the White man is no longer the
> majority population, Arizona is expected to join this minority-
> majority group soon.
>
> Soon none of us will be able to get that drink we like, or that spread
> we like, we won't be able to listen to that radio show we have been
> listening to for years, we'll go to our normal barbers to get our hair
> cut and we'll find he's gone, and this will carry on until our whole
> life has been whittled away.
>
> Everything we ever loved, everything we ever held dear, everything we
> ever believed in, just gone, wiped out and we'll find ourselves living
> in a foreign land, with foreign rules and foreign people and we will
> no longer be the kind host, we will be the down trodden minority,
> subject to crime and perversions, the type of which we are seeing more
> and more everyday in these infected places, and you know what?
>
> They are not half as kind, helpful and charitable as we have been to
> them.
>
> Soon all those little things will add up to one big thing and that one
> big thing is a nightmare.
>
> It's time to open your eyes before it's to late.
>
> This is why, In November, as the rest of the nation was electing the
> candidate that they considered the lesser of two evils, in the
> presidential elections, the good folk of Arizona were casting their
> votes over proposition 200.
>
> The people in the border states are in a war zone, they are a people
> under siege just looking for any opportunity to fight back and to
> survive.
>
>