As a Californian who taught in East LA, lives shoulder to shoulder with illegal immigrants and the fallout their faulty transition to the 1st World creates, pays over and over and over again to contain gang activity and destruction of property, I am disgusted the US has not sanctioned Mexico: world’s 5th largest producer of oil, gold mining, silver mining, precious and semi-precious stone mining, tourism, agriculture, textiles. The country is loaded with income. And yet they do not educate, create job opportunity or provide health care for their own people, preferring instead to prepare them to “Go north” the way our parents prepared us to go to college.

Clearly the US is very interested in keeping all that unclaimed tax money from illegal SSNs and retaining all that cheap labor corporations are making billions from employing (think about it: no wage increase, no maternity, paternity or sick leave, no workmans’s comp claims, no EDD claims, no 401k, no retirement paid… BILLIONS) As a tax paying citizen I would like to see immigration be a choice not a life or death decision. For that the 3rd World needs to be forced to step up to the plate and create its own middle class.

And that my friends, take some real balls to stand up and legislate.

http://www.numbersusa.com/content/learn/press/press.html

About NumbersUSA

NumbersUSA is a non-profit, non-partisan, public policy organization that favors an environmentally sustainable and economically just America. It opposes efforts to use federal immigration policies to force mass U.S. population growth and to depress wages of vulnerable workers.

NumbersUSA is pro-environment, pro-worker, pro-liberty and pro-immigrant. Activists in the NumbersUSA Action Network are Americans of all races and include many immigrants and the spouses, children and parents of immigrants.

Those who need to refer to NumbersUSA with a short, descriptive modifier should call it an “immigration-reduction organization.”

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/environment-helping-gop-challenger-as-cannon-again-faces-political-demise-2008-06-23.html
Environment helping GOP challenger as Cannon again faces political demise
Contributed by Aaron Blake
06/23/08 07:17 PM [ET] The Hill
[The Utah Primary election was on 24 June 2008.]

Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah) has weathered difficult primaries throughout his six terms, but never as a member of such
an unpopular Congress.
That anti-incumbent mood of voters will be put to a major test Tuesday, when Cannon faces what appears to be his
toughest primary challenge yet.
Despite Congress’s record-low approval ratings, no incumbent has succumbed to a primary since a pair of Maryland
House members lost in February. Cannon appears more imperiled than any member since then.
Just weeks after narrowly surviving a state convention against former gubernatorial aide Jason Chaffetz, it’s clear
Tuesday’s primary between the two of them is anybody’s guess…..

….Local observers see Chaffetz as a more well-rounded candidate. Throckmorton only raised $80,000, and Jacob focused
his campaign almost exclusively on a hard-line immigration platform – a tactic that proved less effective in 2006 than
many candidates had hoped.
(In 2006, John) Jacob led Cannon, a supporter of comprehensive immigration reform, among hard-line immigration voters but lost other categories, said Quin Monson, a professor at Brigham Young University.
Monson, who has conducted extensive polling on Cannon’s primary, said Chaffetz is doing better across the board.
He also noted that Bush likely won’t be a big help for Cannon. His numbers show Bush’s approval has dropped from the
high 80s in the district to around 60 percent, with only a small portion strongly approving. About four in five likely GOP primary voters say the country is on the wrong track.
“I think it’s a bad context for Cannon,” Monson said. “I think he’s had a tough time in the past because he’s not
connected with voters personally. But now, he’s got that on top of a context that’s not so good.”….

And this article shows the 2008 Quin Monson poll forecast a Chaffetz win.

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/271561/17/

Thursday, 26 June 2008
University poll foresees Chaffetz win
DAILY HERALD
Joe Pyrah

No one saw the Tuesday 3rd District primary massacre coming. Not big name pollsters, not the pundits, not the blogs
and not the candidates. No one.
Well, OK, there was one — two actually.
Kelly Patterson and fellow BYU political science professor Quin Monson had a poll in their pocket using an
experimental technique that showed a 12-point blowout in favor of Jason Chaffetz over incumbent Chris Cannon.
(The actual vote tally was even higher at 20 points.) But they were afraid to publish the poll last week because the
results didn’t match up with conventional wisdom that showed a tight race, one too close to call……

LEGAL

(as in legal immigrant) do you not understand?

Roy Beck, the head honcho of NumbersUSA —

a leading organization opposed to legal immigration

[my emphesis]

— told the Orange County Register:

Cannon’s loss was an outburst of Republican frustration with the minority of Republican office-holders who stand in the Bush-McCain amnesty camp.

2. There’s obviously a difference between opposing massive illegal activity and “anti-immigrant sentiment”, so perhaps TP should find someone to explain that to them.

3. Believe it or not, Fernandez has written far worse posts than this: http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/007538.html

4. The reader should look up those who in 2006 extolled Cannon’s virtues. They too pretended he was “moderate” on immigration, and those extolling him included the WSJ and similar sites. The reader might want to wonder why the positions of CAP/TP and the WSJ are basically the same.

Republicans stink so bad they can’t even stand themselves.

http://progressiveworldreview.com

Leviticus 19:34 The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

I guess they only support parts of the Bible they agree with. Of course, they could just be hypocrites.

Pax

Where TF does Faux find these turdballs, anyway?