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On Wednesday, March 26, 2008, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Governor of the financially strapped “Golden State” was trying to garner support for what he has been calling a long-term budget solution for the state during a public appearance in San Luis Obispo when someone in the audience asked him how the state was planning to deal with the financial burdens created by all of the illegal immigrants. 

Arnold aptly demonstrated why he is one of the single largest political disappointments in the history of California by responding, “There is, you know, always a time like this where you start pointing the finger at various different elements of what creates the budget mess, and, you know, some may point the finger at illegal immigrants,’ Schwarzenegger said. ‘I can guarantee you, I have been now four years in office in Sacramento,  I don’t think that illegal immigration has created the mess that we are in.”

Obviously, Governor Schwarzenegger was hit a few too many times in the head while playing Conan the Barbarian and it has affected his grasp on reality. It has been estimated that there are anywhere from 6 to 10 million illegal aliens residing in California alone.  According to the U.S. government estimates the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. miraculously stopped at around 12.5 million four or five years ago and hasn’t increased since.  If that unlikely estimate were found to be true then it would seem that California accounted for nearly half of all illegal aliens in the nation.

In California, an estimated 15 to 20 percent of the K-12 students in public schools are known to be illegal aliens.  The tax payers of the state are funding the education of each of them to the tune of approximately $7,000 per year for each illegal alien in attendance.  There are another 18,000 illegal aliens attending the state universities in California through various tax payer funded programs put into effect by the states overwhelming Democratic majority in the state legislature.  California is spending more than $1 billion a year for the care and feeding of illegal alien criminals incarcerated in the state prison system.  There is another $79 million in tax payer dollars that is being used every year to provide health care to illegal aliens and $400 million in tax payer dollars used to provide illegal aliens in the state with welfare assistance and food stamps.  There is no accounting for how much of our tax money is burned up by the multitude of state and local law enforcement personnel assigned the unsavory task of dealing with the states estimated 500,000 gang members who are 65% illegal aliens, the cost of painting over their illegible graffiti and the devaluation of private property in gang neighborhoods.  We can also throw in the court costs and the expense of supplying illegal aliens with public defenders after they are caught committing every conceivable sort of crime and about a million other expenses for things the California tax payer would not have to pay for if there were no illegal aliens in the state of California.  If you add up all of these costs it may not equal the exact amount of the state’s budget shortfall but it is plainly evident that it would represent a significant percentage of the deficit.   

Governor Schwarzenegger statement that illegal aliens didn’t create California’s budget mess may be politically correct, and it may win him a pat on his pointed head from the socialists in Sacramento, but he isn’t going to win any medals for telling the truth with such an obvious bald faced lie.  Then again, this is California we are talking about and honesty is a commodity rarely looked for, or admired in the state’s political environment.

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My Wife forwarded this bit of information to me. I don’t know where it came from but I liked it and figured it was worth passing along.

Many of you will recall that on July 8, 1947,

almost exactly 60 Years ago,

witnesses claim that an unidentified flying object

(UFO)

with five aliens aboard crashed

onto a sheep and cattle ranch

just outside Roswell , New Mexico .

This is a well-known incident

that many say has long been covered up

by the U.S. Air Force

and other federal agencies and organizations.

However, what you may NOT know

is that in the month of March 1948,

nine months after that historic day,

the following people were born:

Albert A. Gore, Jr.

Hillary Rodham

John F. Kerry

William J. Clinton

Howard Dean

Nancy Pelosi

Dianne Feinstein

Charles E. Schumer

Barbara Boxer

See what happens

when aliens breed with sheep?

I certainly hope this bit of information

clears up a lot of things for you.

It did for me.

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Open border and illegal alien advocates around the nation are becoming increasingly outraged as more local police and sheriff’s departments begin the effort of rooting out the illegal invaders and turning them over to the immigration authorities for deportation.  State and local government officials dismayed by the federal governments lack of immigration enforcement are alarmed by the large influx of illegal aliens into their communities as well as the increase in violent assaults, sex crimes, identity theft, drunk driving, welfare fraud, hit and run accidents and other crimes normally associated with illegal aliens have ordered their local law enforcement agencies to undergo the requisite training and begin doing the job that the federal government won’t do.

Local law enforcement’s intervention in immigration crime has stirred up many of the illegal alien advocacy groups, especially those masquerading as Hispanic Rights Groups, because the increase in immigration enforcement is significantly reducing the relatively relaxed freedom of movement that illegal aliens have enjoyed up to this point.  These advocacy groups are claiming that illegal aliens stopped by local police for minor traffic violations and loitering are being turned over to immigration authorities for deportation when they can not prove that they are an American citizen or that they are in this country legally, and as a result, the increase in enforcement is making many illegal aliens reluctant to cooperate with police or contact them after being victimized. 

While the advocacy groups and those sympathetic with the illegal aliens see this as a negative side effect of local enforcement, the simple fact of the matter is that any individual who routinely and habitually violates American law should feel distinctly anxious and fearful when they spot a police cruiser pull in behind them with its lights on.  It is an entirely normal human reaction for a criminal to be afraid of apprehension.  Apprehension should be the expected consequence of an individual’s decision to violate the laws that provide the rest of us with an orderly society, and sneaking across our border with Mexico happens to be a violation of our laws.  While some people in this country might consider entering the United States without the proper legal authorization as a minor crime, when 30 million people do it, and the weight of their illegal existence becomes burdensome for the American taxpayers, adversely affects our educational and health care system, increases our crime rate and puts our family members at risk then there is nothing minor about illegal aliens.

Back when the U.S. Senate was trying to force amnesty for the illegal aliens down the throats of the American people there was a lot of sympathetic talk about the poor illegal aliens forced to live in the shadows of American society.  They were falsely portrayed as simple but honest and hard working people who came here in the desperate effort to improve their lot in life by doing jobs that the American people didn’t want to do.  Every American citizen living in an area with a high population of illegal aliens immediately spotted this portrayal for the huge load of goat shit that it really was.  Illegal aliens are not hanging out in any shadows as far as I can tell.  They’re weaving drunkenly down the 405 freeway in the uninsured vans they drive without a license and there are fourteen more of them crammed into the back as they carelessly carom down the highway without a care in the world.  They are dropping off their gaggle of illegal alien kids at our public schools so they can get an education at our expense while our kids are being forced to learn Spanish so they can understand what the teacher is talking about in their classroom.  They are packing into our hospital emergency rooms to get sewn up after their latest knife fight, to get free pre-natal care during their 9th pregnancy or just to have the emergency room doctor check on little Pedro’s bout of the squirts after ingesting the three pounds of lead contaminated candy given to him by Mamacita’s latest live-in boyfriend/meal-ticket.  In California, like all of the southern Border States, there are more illegal aliens that there are shadows.  You can’t walk out of your house without stumbling over a dozen of them; they’re packed like sardines into every theater, bar, theme park and shopping mall in the country.  Every Friday and Saturday night you can find thousands of them packed into the Southern California Indian casinos where they stuff one hundred dollar bill after another into the slot machines and you sit there watching them, thinking to yourself that mowing lawns or hanging drywall must be a pretty lucrative business.  If this is what the U.S. Senate considers hiding in the shadows then it doesn’t appear to be any different than the way all of us are living and despite the fact that illegal aliens are essentially criminals, they don’t seem to be too overly concerned who knows it and that is definitely not a good thing.  Criminals need to be afraid that they will be held accountable for their crimes.

If illegal aliens are afraid to contact the police after getting robbed by another illegal alien, I don’t see any problem with it.  Neither do I consider it a problem is a female illegal alien is reluctant to call the cops after getting punched out by her latest drunken boyfriend.  Each of us bears a large amount of responsibility for the situations we create for ourselves and the consequences of ill advised actions, but even more so, when we violate the laws of the country in which we live and we associate with other criminals and people who have no respect for the law, then we should expect the problems that are associated with such poor choices and not be too demanding that society be sympathetic of our own self-destructive stupidity.  Thieves should not feel too relaxed about calling the cops when they have been robbed – they are criminals.

If illegal aliens want to live their lives free of anxiety and the fear of getting apprehended by police and possibly deported then they should return to their country of origin and remain there until they can legally immigrate to their country of choice.  If illegal aliens do not want to be treated like criminals in the United States then they should go home where they are legal residents.  The immigration quotas set by the U.S. are sufficiently large enough to allow many people to move into our country every year.  If they are patient and wait their turn they will eventually be allowed to come here as a legal resident.  If they are not patient and sneak into the country without the proper authorization or they come here on a legal visa and overstay their welcome, then they should expect to be treated as criminals and in this country, criminals should be arrested – not rewarded.   Cops chase criminals and put them in jail when they catch them, this is normal, this is the way it is suppose to be, it is the way we like it, it is one of the nice things that make the United States different from Mexico.  If the illegal aliens don’t like it they should go home, and stay there.

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Statistics don’t always clarify reality and this common sense bit of truth has become very obvious with the growing number of race related homicides in Los Angeles, California where the statistics indicate one thing and the barrage of gunfire indicates something entirely different. 

On March 19th, Los Angeles Police Department’s Deputy Chief Charlie Beck and Detective Jeff Godown addressed the department’s civilian Police Commission in the effort to disprove the widely accepted belief among area residents that the continuing rise in the Los Angeles homicide rate is the result of racial animosity.  As of March 17th, the Los Angeles Police Department reports that there have been 93 homicides in Los Angeles this year indicating a 35% increase over the same 76 day period in 2007 when there were only 69 homicides.  Beck and Godown used what they considered sound statistical evidence to support their claim that neither race nor any other single factor can explain the significant increase in homicides. 

The homicide statistics collected by the Los Angeles Police Department show that 87% of the Hispanics murdered in L.A. were killed by other Hispanics while 65% of the black people murdered were killed by other blacks.  Only 13% of the Hispanics murdered were killed by black people and 35% of the black people killed in the area were killed by Hispanics.  Beck and Godown, cited these statistics as conclusive proof that race is not a factor in the increased homicide rate.   

Understandably, the Los Angeles Police Department wants to defuse the growing public belief that there is a widespread race-driven war between Hispanics and blacks before that belief turns into a full scale panic.  Furthermore, there is little doubt that Beck and Godown were following the directive of Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton, who is undoubtedly praying that the statistical evidence given by his subordinates will calm what he characterizes as “rumors” about the violent racial tensions between blacks and Hispanics.  

The use of statistical evidence as proof of the absence of racial animosity as a factor in these homicides is very misleading, and despite their best efforts to stretch the truth indicated by their statistics there simply isn’t any way to get there from where they are standing.  Raw statistical data must be viewed at face value and any attempt to extrapolate entirely unconnected understandings from these statistics is illogical and meaningless.  Analysis of the given statistics indicates that 87% of the Hispanics murdered in L.A. were killed by other Hispanics and 13% were killed by blacks while 65% of the black people murdered were killed by other blacks and 35% of the black people killed in the area were killed by Hispanics. Any attempt to derive insight regarding the motivation behind the individual homicides represented by the numbers given is unadulterated nonsense.

While the LAPD’s civilian Police Commission may have found some comfort in the presentation given by Beck and Godown that comfort may be short lived if they attempt to verify the information. Unfortunately, there seems to be some discrepancy between the LAPD’s tally of homicides and the Los Angeles Coroner’s tally of homicides.  According to the Los Angeles coroner’s reports, between January 1, 2008 and March 17, 2008 there have been 187 homicides in Los Angeles, and the accounting totals indicate 8 Asians, 57 blacks, 105 Hispanics, 16 typical white people and one poor character whose race and ethnic origin was so convoluted and screwed up that the body was racially classified as “other.”  At this point in time I can offer no explanation for the discrepancy between the LAPD numbers and the numbers given by the L.A. Coroner, however, it should be noted that there are several dozen corpses laying in the L.A. Coroner’s office (figuratively speaking) that were not counted because no determination has yet been made and the actual total number of homicides in Los Angeles between January 1st and March 17th may be well over 200. 

Even still, while all of this proves that there are an awful lot of murders going on in Los Angeles this year, it still doesn’t prove anything about the motivation of the people who are doing the killing and if we want to know whether or not these killings are racially motivated we are going to have to look at something besides the numbers. By the way, there were 379 homicides in Los Angeles in 2007 (200 of which were gang related) and this grim bit of news was cheered by police because it indicated a 17% reduction from the murder rate in 2006 and was widely reported as the lowest murder rate seen in Los Angeles since 1970 when 394 people were killed.  

Historical evidence supports the contention that racial violence has been a problem in some L.A. neighborhoods in the past and the LAPD does not dispute this evidence.  In 2007 federal prosecutors charged the members of one Hispanic street gang with a murderous campaign to drive blacks out of the unincorporated Florence-Firestone neighborhood, a campaign which resulted in at least 20 homicides spread out over several years. In another 2007 case, after 14 year old Cheryl Green was gunned down by Hispanic gangsters the LAPD cracked down on the “204th Street Gang”, a 100 member largely illegal alien street gang who were terrorizing the largely black South L.A. community known as Harbor Gateway.  In 2006, four members of the Hispanic street gang called the “Avenues” were found guilty of launching a barrage of assaults and killings targeting African Americans living in the predominantly Hispanic northeast Los Angeles neighborhood of Highland Park after the authorities uncovered solid evidence of the gang’s plot to racially cleanse their neighborhood of blacks and Hispanic supporters.  By the time these sterling little jewels were convicted for their crimes, the Avenues and their compatriots had been terrorizing and methodically killing their black neighbors for more than a decade.

The raw statistical data available for 2007, 2006, and the ten years preceding that are really not much different than the statistical evidence used by Deputy Chief Charlie Beck and Detective Jeff Godown to show that there is no compelling reason to believe racial animosity between blacks and Hispanics is playing a part in the currently high murder rate for Los Angeles.  Despite the similarity in the statistics collected for each individual year there is little doubt that from 1995 all the way up through 2007, there is substantial evidence to support the fact that Hispanic street gangs in various parts of Los Angeles were intentionally targeting the black members of those communities with violent racially motivated assaults and killings.  Furthermore, while neither the Los Angeles Police Department nor the federal prosecutors involved in the three cases referenced above indicated any connection between them, there was substantial circumstantial evidence to justify the belief that all of them were fundamentally connected to the racial problems then going on with the state’s numerous prison gangs and may in fact have been a spill over of the racial warfare that has been going on for years in California’s prison system.  The intense racial animosity that existed between California’s prison gangs from 1995 through 2006 has not been alleviated to even the slightest degree and still exists as strongly today as it did in the past, and the influence these prison gangs have over the Los Angeles neighborhoods from which their individual members came from has not been diminished by any measurable degree.  It would be entirely logical to assume that, regardless of the statistical evidence offered by the LAPD, the intense hatred fermenting between California’s numerous racially divided prison gangs is still influencing their counterparts on the streets of Los Angeles to behave in a similar manner, and like it or not, the LAPD will eventually have to face the fact that, to some degree the violence and murder suffered by the innocent citizens of Los Angeles is the product of that racial hatred.        

Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of the Los Angeles-based Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny has been quoted as saying that the violence and killing of innocent blacks by “invading gangs of illegal immigrants” has gotten so bad in south central Los Angeles that black gangs like the Crips and the Bloods, two of the most infamous black gangs in the area, have actually joined forces in a turf war against the Mexican gangs.  Peterson added that, “It is so bad in Canoga Park that the police department sent out a message to black Americans that they should be careful because blacks have been shot down at random.”  He also pointed to the senseless murder of Jamiel Shaw Jr., a promising 17-year-old south central Los Angeles athlete who was not affiliated with any of the street gangs in Los Angeles and yet was gunned down by two illegal aliens on March 16th for no apparent reason as an indication of how bad the situation has become.

While the Los Angeles Police Department offers their statistical evidence that racial animosity is not a factor in the killing of non-gang related innocent black members of the community, the death toll of innocents continues to mount and racial animosity remains the only logical conclusion available for the obviously disconnected and entirely random slaughter of young black people with no gang affiliation.   

The simple truth is that Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles mayor, the city council and the LAPD have, for far too many years, given preferential treatment to the rapidly growing number of illegal aliens that have been attracted to the area because of the non-existent immigration enforcement policies adopted there. At the current time, a large percentage of California’s 6.5 million illegal alien residents are residing in and around Los Angeles.  Entire areas of south central Los Angeles that were once predominantly black neighborhoods are now illegal alien barrios, and the blacks who were either too old or financially incapable of moving out of these neighborhoods are the same people who are now being victimized by the estimated 200,000 illegal alien gang members now living in the area.  Meanwhile, the politically correct, La Raza supporting mayor and city council members of Los Angeles, known for spouting their “Reconquista” rhetoric in public places are not about to acknowledge any discussion of ethnic cleansing or racial terrorism by their cultural compatriots regardless of how credible those allegations might be because allegations of that nature would be entirely counterproductive in a nation where at least 85% of the elected representatives in Washington are bucking popular opinion with their push to give amnesty to as many as 30 million illegal aliens, 65% of whom come from Latin American countries. 

Few knowledgeable American citizens would debate the fact that the burden of purposely uncontrolled illegal immigration is heavy and the expense is astronomical, but the slaughter of innocent young African American citizens by roving bands of illegal alien thugs is a price that has not yet been demanded of any other American racial group in such a concerted and intentional manner, and the real question we, as American citizens should be asking is that if we are not willing to stand with this group of American innocents then who will stand with us when our turn comes?

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Jamiel Shaw Jr., the 17-year-old high school student and star running back for Los Angeles High School’s award winning football team who was needlessly slaughtered on Sunday, March 2 while his mother, Army Sgt. Anita Shaw, was on her second tour of duty in Iraq, turns out to be another victim of the thousands of illegal alien gang members that have been welcomed to the “City of Angels” by L.A. Mayor Anthony Villaragosa’s unwavering support of the sanctuary policies that have made Los Angeles so attractive to the millions of illegal aliens currently living there.    

Jamiel Shaw Jr., the talented student who was selected as the Southern League’s most valuable player last year, had been approached by Stanford and Rutgers University about possible scholarships, was shot to death while walking home by two Latino men who jumped out of a white car and asked him what gang he belonged to.  When he failed to respond to their question quickly enough they shot him in the head and then as he lay on the ground dying they put another round in his back for good measure.    

Reports now being released indicate that one of the murderers who attacked Jamiel Shaw Jr. is an illegal alien who had been released from police custody the day before the shooting took place.  Pedro Espinoza, the 19 year old suspect in the senseless killing was released on March 1st after serving approximately four months for exhibiting a firearm and resisting arrest.  Espinoza refused to cooperate with the immigration investigators who questioned him during his four month stay in the county jail and reportedly told them that he did not have any idea where he was born.  Shortly after Espinoza’s arrest as a suspect in Shaw’s murder investigators spoke to one of Espinoza’s relatives who advised them that he had been smuggled into the United States from Mexico when he was four years old.        

Now that Pedro Espinoza has murdered an American citizen in cold blood, the federal immigration authorities have decided to file deportation papers on the illegal alien, in fact, those deportation papers were filed on the same day that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa shamelessly pandered to L.A.’s African American community during a ceremony dedicating a memorial in Arlington Heights where Shaw was killed. 

Iowa’s Republican Senator, Steve King has indicated that 12 American citizens are murdered every day by illegal aliens in the United States and, that the total yearly death rate of American citizens killed by illegal aliens is 4,380.  How many more senseless killings will the American people endure before they begin to demand accountability from the elected leaders who continue to encourage this problem by ignoring violations of this nation’s immigration laws?

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The American tax payers are now being notified by the Internal Revenue Service that starting in May the U.S. Treasury will begin sending economic stimulus payments to more than 130 million individuals.  The president’s economic stimulus package resulting in these so-called tax rebates has been the topic of much debate, especially so since we are in the midst of a presidential campaign.  However, it is remarkable that while many Americans see these rebates as a windfall benefit, few realize that nearly ten times the total cost of processing and sending these checks is being spent annually by state and federal government agencies to fund and support the illegal aliens that have caused so many problems in this country. 

California is in a state of panic with a $16 billion dollar deficit and the state’s political leaders are slashing away at public service budgets, education and everything else in the effort to remain afloat.  Despite the fact that the state’s deficit is currently growing at a rate of around a billion dollars a month, the state still sees its way clear to spend astronomical amounts of tax payer money on the care and feeding of the more than 6 million illegal aliens that have been enticed to come here by the state’s 29 sanctuary cities and the obviously wide welcome mat we have rolled out for them.

$79 million in tax payer dollars used for illegal alien health care

$400 million in tax payer dollars used for welfare assistance and food stamps to people who can’t prove their immigration status 

$1 billion in tax payer dollars used to house and feed illegal aliens in our state prisons and local jails   

A significant portion of the $7.7 billion tax payer dollars budgeted for the state’s kindergarten-through-12th-grade education system is spent on the children of illegal aliens who now constitute more than 15 percent of the student body in our public schools. 

$117 million in tax payer dollars per year for the estimated 18,000 illegal aliens currently enrolled in California’s higher education system.

There is no credible way to estimate the amount of tax payer money that the state of California spends every year for law enforcement to battle illegal alien gangs, to clean up their graffiti, to deal with the results of the illegal drugs they smuggle into the state, process their traffic tickets, their hit and run accidents and the massive amount of identity theft perpetrated by illegal aliens. 

There is no way to credibly estimate the amount of tax payer money that the state of California spends every year in court costs and public defender expenses for illegal aliens that have violated the state’s criminal codes.

There is no way to credibly estimate the total amount of tax payer money that is spent by the state of California on illegal aliens but there is little doubt that if there were no illegal aliens in the state of California you can be assured that there would be no $16 billion dollar deficit in the state’s budget.

California is not alone in this predicament.  According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities there are at least 22 states where the revenue is expected to fall short of what is needed to support the services they are expected to support during the fiscal year 2009.  At least 34 states have been forced to cut eligibility for public health programs and the amount of money spent on each K-12 student in their school districts, while another 23 states have had to cut back on child care subsidies or otherwise limit access to child care.  Many states are struggling to deal with the financial problems associated with illegal alien gangs, prisons and local jails overcrowded with illegal aliens, widespread welfare fraud, the abuse of illegal drugs smuggled into the U.S. and the rising cost of identity theft, all of which are associated with the uncontrolled increase of illegal aliens.  The total amount of American tax payer money that is being funneled into the seemingly infinite number of problems associated with illegal aliens in the United States is unknown and there is really no way to even begin to estimate the staggering cost to the American people. but is safe to assume that even if all of the estimated 30 million illegal aliens in the United States were paying their share of the federal and state income taxes (which they are not) it would still not even begin to offset the huge tax burden created by their illegal presence in our country.

Despite the ridiculous claims by government officials that illegal aliens are an economic benefit to American society, the fact remains that incredible sums of money collected from American taxpayers is being used by our government to subsidize the existence of those illegal invaders in our country and the American people know almost nothing of the extent to which our government has gone to finance the invasion of illegal aliens from Mexico.

The vast majority of American citizens have never heard the term “Colonias.”  They know nothing of their existence, their purpose, location, the financial impact they are having on this nation or the part they play in this country’s immigration debate.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) defines “Colonia” as a rural community located within 150 miles of the U.S. Mexican border; however, this is extremely loose definition is purposely designed to avoid the reality of what a colonia really is.  A “Colonia” is essentially a ramshackle colony of illegal alien squatters.  These colonies appear primarily in unincorporated areas of the country and the majority of them do not have running water, sewage, electricity, paved roads or any of the other basic necessities that most Americans take for granted.  They are not serviced by law enforcement agencies, schools or local government agencies like established cities and nobody seems to know how many people are living in them.  There are thousands of these colonies along the American border with Mexico and while the American people are largely ignorant of their existence, the federal government is not only well aware of them but is subsidizing their development and improvement with the hard earned tax dollars of the American citizens.      

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is funneling American tax dollars into these Colonias through the Community Planning and Development Grants (CPDG) at an astonishing rate.  HUD has allocated more than $136,849,799 tax payer dollars for grants under the CPDG program to Colonias in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas and yet few American citizens even know that these illegal alien squatter towns exist while even fewer yet know the financial impact these makeshift towns are having on our nation.  To make matters somewhat worse, CPDG is just one of the many ways the federal government has developed for the purpose of siphoning American tax money off into entitlement programs for illegal aliens.

There are literally thousands of the colonias spread across the Border States our nation shares with Mexico and the American government knows the exact location of every one of them because the U.S. government is subsidizing their development with American tax dollars.  There are more than 2,294 colonias in the state of Texas alone and there are hundreds more scattered across Arizona, New Mexico and California.  The United States Geological Survey (USGS) maintains detailed topographical maps of their exact locations and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development maintains directories which not only list all of the colonias by county and state, but also supplies what appears to be fairly accurate and detailed information concerning the population, sex, national origin, annual income, immigration status and occupation of the inhabitants.  The information contained in HUD’s extensive database of colonias existing inside the United States is primarily derived from the U.S. Bureau of the Census which has been surveying the residents of the colonias for years and regularly publishes demographic and socioeconomic statistics for these areas.  There are numerous tax payer funded public health organizations involved in the study of these colonias and their published reports indicate that these settlements have a higher than average prevalence of illegal drug and alcohol abuse, and that communicable diseases such as tuberculosis are fairly common among colonia residents.  Local law enforcement agencies have identified colonias as hotbeds of criminal activity where crimes such as rape, child abuse, spousal abuse, narcotics trafficking, robbery, assault and battery and even murder often go unreported.  Despite the involvement and attention by all of these departments within the state and federal government, the massive number of these colonias, and the huge population of illegal aliens living within them, none of the over bloated federal bureaucracies involved in immigration enforcement such as USCIS, ICE or any of the other alphabet soup organizations existing under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security seem to be too interested in them or their illegal inhabitants.  Furthermore, despite the U.S. Senate’s and the U.S. House of Representatives many investigations into every facet of immigration enforcement and their numerous attempts to shove amnesty legislation down the unwilling throats of the American people, the politicians in Washington, our elected representatives, have conveniently neglected to inform us of the existence of these massive illegal alien encampments, and even worse, they have failed to mention that most of these illegal alien squatter’s towns have been in the past, and are currently receiving vast sums of money collected from the American tax payers who know nothing of their existence.   

With the American economy spiraling downward, a national deficit over $10 trillion dollars, the state of California and 22 other states facing huge budget deficits, massive cutbacks in public services, education and services to needy American citizens, an aging infrastructure crumbling down around our ears for lack of maintenance funding, and nearly every federal, state and local politician in the nation discussing the need for tax increases, you would think the misuse of U.S. government funds forcibly extracted from the wages of American citizens to fund and support the illegal alien invasion of our nation and the destruction of our nation’s borders and our national security would be an issue of some importance in the current presidential campaign.
        
While the American people are facing an uncertain future, the cost of gasoline is quickly approaching $4.00 a gallon, runaway inflation is just over the horizon and we are beginning to see the affects of energy shortages, water shortages, the collapse of the housing market and the financial destruction of our health care systems, the United States government is using our tax dollars to build entire cities, homes, roads and complete welfare systems for incredible numbers of foreign invaders who have entered our nation in violation of our immigration laws, who have openly displayed their contempt for our nation’s laws and have disrupted the peace and unity of our nation with their unreasonable political demands and accusations of racism aimed at all who oppose them. 

Isn’t it about time the American government leveled with the legal citizens who pay their salaries and elected them to office?  Isn’t it about time that the American people were made aware of all of the relevant facts concerning illegal aliens and immigration problems in America?  Isn’t it about time that the American people pull their heads out of the sand and start looking at the very real destruction going on around them?

While the American tax payers are enjoying the pitiful tax rebates handed out to them under the new economic stimulus package they should consider the long term effects of federally funded zero interest forgivable housing loans that are being handed out to illegal aliens along the border while inner city school children, the children of American citizens, are being forced to go without textbooks, American veterans, injured in foreign wars, are receiving sub-standard medical care and presidential candidates are debating inconsequential trivialities for the entertainment of a bored populace in a rapidly declining nation that is being victimized by widespread political corruption and the misuse of federal funds.  

If you are inclined to find out more about Colonias in America or the U.S. governments funding of these illegal alien squatter camps then do as I did and enter the term “Colonia” into Google’s search box.  You will discover 22,300,000 detailed U.S. government reports, accounts, databases, directories, surveys, scholarly studies, maps, demographic studies, health reports, and statistical information concerning their existence, the federal funding and the extensive legislation supporting our nation’s number one uncontrolled, and most ignored problem. 

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During an interview with Philadelphia’s WIP-AM 610 Sports Radio commentator Angelo Cataldi, Barack Obama was asked about the comments he made during the speech he gave at the National Constitution Center on March 18th when he referred to his white grandmother, her fear of black men and her propensity to make use of racial or ethnic stereotypes that caused him some embarrassment when he was younger.  Cataldi asked the candidate what his white grandmother thought of him being so close to the presidency to which Barack Obama responded, “The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, she doesn’t, but that she is a typical white person. Who, If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know there’s a reaction that’s been bred into our experiences that don’t go away and sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that’s just the nature of race in our society.”

Understandably, Barack Obama’s comment is, for all purposes, an impromptu statement made by a political candidate, and it was certainly not as well crafted or as well thought out as the contents of the speech on race that preceded it.  I suppose that under these circumstances, the candidate should be given an ounce or two of slack, then again, the man is a presidential candidate who knows very well that every word that falls from his lips is going to be subjected to intense scrutiny, and that he should, therefore, choose his words wisely.  Obviously, in this particular case he chose not to exercise the need for caution, however, as bad as “typical white person” sounds it is not as if he said that his grandmother was just another bigoted honky bitch who didn’t know when to still her flapping gums.

Excusing his white grandmother’s racial anxiety as the reaction of a “typical white person” is the same dismissive excuse that Obama offered for the racially biased comments of his pastor and spiritual advisor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright.  When Reverend Wright publicly expressed his belief that the HIV virus was secretly created by the American government as a way to kill off black people, when Reverend Wright told his congregation that the death and destruction of 9/11/2001 was this nation’s entirely justified payback for supporting apartheid in South Africa and Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people, and when the good reverend cursed the United States in the name of God for treating African Americans as second class citizens, Reverend Wright was merely behaving like a typical black man in America.  Essentially, what Obama is telling us is that if he can forgive his white grandmother’s racist anxiety as being normal for a typical white person, then we should be capable of overlooking Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s expressions of paranoid racism before his congregation because these obviously crazy beliefs are considered “normal” and “acceptable” among this nation’s typical black people.  Furthermore, that his white grandmother’s racist anxiety like Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s expressions of paranoid racism are both reactions that have been bred into our experiences, and as such they should be considered as being just the nature of race in our society.        

Understandably, Barack Obama must maintain “race” as a campaign issue.  It is, after all, the only way to draw a distinction between his campaign and that of the other two liberal presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and John McCain.  Other than the different positions each of them has taken on our involvement in Iraq, there is very little that would make one stand out over the rest and the only way for Barack Obama to appear any different from the other typical presidential candidates is to pump his minimal blackness for everything it is worth.  It really makes no difference that Barack Obama is as typically black as my very white Irish grandmother, his has the pigmentation to prove his point and that is sufficient for most of America’s typical black people because, as Obama knows well, many of them will allow their racial bias to influence how they vote because it is just the nature of race in our society; it is something that is bred into their experience.     

The ability to discriminate is nothing more that the ability to identify differences and deviations between similar items.  An individual’s preference for strawberries over lemons is an act of discrimination.  Our lives are filled with choices made on the basis of our ability to discriminate between what we prefer and that which we would rather do without.  The struggle to end racial discrimination in American society is the effort to minimize every individual’s ability to perceive the differences between Blacks, Whites and Asians.  What Barack Obama seems to have said in his speech and what he later supported during his interview with Angelo Cataldi, is that the racially discriminatory thoughts, beliefs and actions taking place in American society today are entirely normal because they are inherent in all people regardless of racial origin and should be looked at as being very minor, if not entirely acceptable forms of racial discrimination.

The main problem with Obama’s comments in this respect is that he does not carry them out to their logical conclusion, and it is my belief that he purposely chose to avoid doing so, because by completing the train of thought logically he would have found himself excusing every form of ignorantly base racial discrimination regardless of who practiced it or against whom it was perpetrated.  There is no possible way to justify the popular, but unsubstantiated and entirely ignorant belief among American black people that the U.S. government created HIV for the sole purpose of killing off black people without also justifying the equally unsubstantiated and entirely ignorant belief among American white people that all African Americans are sexually promiscuous and basically lazy individuals with a strong propensity for irresponsible and self-destructive addictive behavior.  It is incredible to excuse one and exclude the other because they are equally ignorant, unwarranted and baseless assumptions and the scale by which we measure such things, political correctness aside, has only two graduations, true and false.  However, Mr. Obama would be doing himself and his campaign a grave injustice if he were to admit to such a thing because it would entirely negate the credibility of race as an issue and he is not about to let that happen because his entire campaign is dependent on his ability to foster racial division in subtle and creative ways. 

Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright, David Duke, Tom Metzger, George Lincoln Rockwell and Barack Obama are all profiteers in the free market commodity of racial division and social unrest.  While there may be some variation in the way their ideas are presented, or in the color of the audience they chose to address, the message that each of them carries is identical.  While that message may be counter-productive, destructive and divisive it is safe to assume that it is a message that still has a big attraction and those who spread it, even among today’s currently enlightened populace, can profit handsomely for the hatred they encourage.   This does not speak well for humanity.

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After listening to Barack Obama’s “historic” speech on race and reviewing many of the published reactions I find that I am more perplexed than ever with regard to the subject of racism in America.

“In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed. Not just with words, but with deeds – by investing in our schools and our communities; by enforcing our civil rights laws and ensuring fairness in our criminal justice system; by providing this generation with ladders of opportunity that were unavailable for previous generations. It requires all Americans to realize that your dreams do not have to come at the expense of my dreams; that investing in the health, welfare, and education of black and brown and white children will ultimately help all of America prosper.”

To summarize my understanding of Obama’s words given above, he seems to acknowledge that we have all come a long way toward the elimination of racism in America and that discriminatory acts are much less apparent than they were in the past, he says that America’s white people need to acknowledge that the problems of the black people in this country today are not imagined, but those problems are the legacy of the discrimination their ancestors have suffered at the hands of white people.  Furthermore, he seems to be saying that the legacy of the discrimination that the ancestors of black Americans have suffered at the hands of white people, as opposed to actual discriminatory acts perpetrated by white people against blacks, is a very tangible obstacle in the minds of black Americans, and that this obstacle will only be overcome when federal government forces white Americans to relinquish a sufficient portion of their income to fund improvements to the black American’s educational opportunities, increase the enforcement of civil rights laws favoring minorities, provide fairness in the criminal justice system to minority people and finance opportunities for minority children with investments in the health, welfare, and education of all minority children.

In even more simple terms, Barack Obama is telling the American people that white people must buy their way out of being racists with tax funded government programs favoring minorities and that those minority groups, specifically blacks and Hispanics, should try to be understanding that the anger expressed by white people who are upset by being victimized by affirmative action policies, or because their children are being bussed three hours across town to fulfill the racial quotas required by their school administration is merely an expression of the sort of growing pains suffered by those who have for so long achieved their dreams at the expense of the minority people they oppressed.  It should not be all too surprising to discover that I honestly don’t believe these “solutions” will provide the path to unification for all races.  If anything, I am fairly confident that such a course of action would only result in greater feeling of animosity and hostility and that the distance between all of the affected racial and ethnic groups, including that large chunk of the American population commonly referred to as “White Folks” would grow even wider than it already is.

Discrimination in the United States of America has never been isolated to black people and it has never been confined to the actions of white people alone.  Every race and situational difference has been the target of discriminatory action and attitude, and every race and ethic group, including blacks, whites and Hispanics have eagerly and enthusiastically participated in dishing it out.  In reality, the American people have discriminated against every racial and ethic group known to man including themselves.  The American people have discriminated against the Polish, the Irish, the Italians, the Germans, the Jewish, all oriental people regardless of national origin, the American Indians and even white people on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, religion, political affiliations, size, parental history, disability, genetics, lifestyle choices, the length of an individuals hair, clothing preferences.  In the past, unfavorable legislation has been passed against the Irish, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Germans and the Jewish.  Every conceivable group that one can imagine has been demeaned in the American press at some point in time, laws have been passed prohibiting them from becoming American citizens, from marrying outside their race, from owning property, holding certain types of jobs, obtaining a higher education and so on.  Jews, Germans, Irish, Chinese and Japanese Americans have all suffered the indignity of ignorant Americans carrying a bucket of tar and bag full of feathers or worse yet, a stout length of rope and the willingness to decorate the local trees with a foreign corpse.  No racial, ethnic or religious group has been immune from discrimination in America and depending upon the geographic locality and the peculiarities of the local inhabitants, discriminatory attitudes and practices are still being displayed with respect to every racial, ethnic and religious group and on the basis of national origin and a host of other reasons, even today.  One of the most recent and blatant examples of America’s discriminatory tendencies was made evident by the published comments and ill treatment of the Republican presidential candidate and espoused Mormon, Mitt Romney who was on the receiving end of malicious comments from Christian fundamentalists and black leaders like Al Sharpton who offered the public statement, “As for the one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyways, so don’t worry about that; that’s a temporary situation.”
 
Barack Obama’s mistaken belief that black Americans are somehow a different case and that they require a different sort of treatment to overcome the discrimination they have or are currently suffering is a belief that is popularly accepted by many black American and quite a few liberally inclined white people.  However, regardless of how many people hold a ludicrous belief as a credible truth, the credibility of an unsubstantiated falsehood can not be increased in proportion to the number of fools who believe in it.  This false perception that white discrimination against black people is somehow an isolated and especially egregious type of oppression is a perception that has been developed and encouraged by liberal academics for many years.  Educational institutions like the University of Delaware indoctrinate incoming students with racial nonsense with the stated goal of teaching them to recognize that systemic oppression exists in our society so that they can go out in the world and begin the dubious chore of dismantling our systems of oppression.  To support the illogical assumptions racism was redefined as being the “systematic subordination of members of targeted racial groups who have relatively little social power in the United States (Blacks, Latino/as, Native Americans, and Asians), by the members of the agent racial group who have relatively more social power (Whites).”  The efforts of these liberal academics has resulted in the popular delusion that only white people can be racists and behave in discriminatory ways because they are the majority race of the nation and control everything that goes on here.

Honestly speaking, everyone is discriminated against in America.  There is discrimination and ignorant hatred against black people by White people just as there is discrimination and ignorant hatred against white people by black people.  However, the degree of discrimination practiced in this country today has never been lower in history.  No institution of higher learning in America would reject a black student on the basis of race and few employers would dare to authorize racially discriminatory hiring practices that resulted in unfavorable treatment of black Americans.  Restaurants do not refuse black Americans service, and they are no longer forced to back of the bus like they were in the past.  Black Americans have achieved the American dream of being treated no better and no worse than everybody else in our society but for many people, black and white alike, that is not good enough and the cornucopia of real and imagined past injustices is far too long to be erased by simple equality.  Punishment and compensation are being called for.  The white race must somehow be punished for their oppression of the black race and the black people must be compensated by the white people for the injustices they have been forced to endure.  Black American society seeks to justify the anger of its individual members with the reluctance of white society to submit to being punished as well as their refusal to admit that compensation to blacks is warranted. Neither side of this debate is willing to give in to the other and it is a problem that is not going to be solved, but when you get right down to it, it is not a problem that needs a solution. 

There is no social benefit that can be had by encouraging unrest among black Americans over ill treatment suffered by their ancestors at the hands of whites. Increasing their animosity will never increase their equality, it will only serve to increase the distance between races.  For this reason I am surprised that Barack Obama made the speech that he did because he essentially proved the criticism made of him to be true.  He is a black man running for president more on the basis of color than qualification and he is obviously more than willing to further the divide between the races in order to get elected.

Racism and discrimination against everything viewed as being different is an inherent trait of humanity and has been for as long as mankind has existed.  It appears to be greatly amplified in a nation made up of numerous formerly warring peoples and tribes.  It is not something that can be legislated away by the U.S. Senate and it is the height of absurdity to believe that intervention by the American government will accomplish anything other than to make matters far worse than they currently are.  If racism and discrimination are to ever be done away with in America, it will be the result of education and understanding and not something purchased with tax payer funds or demanded by our elected bureaucrats in Washington.   After all, equality is an inalienable right given by God and we certainly don’t need politicians to help us understand that.

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The woe begotten wails of pain emanating from Sacramento politicians beset with spending cuts enforced by the Golden States $16 billion dollar deficit are falling on deaf ears as far as some of the state’s more conservative voters are concerned.

This may sound calloused to some of the more liberally inclined members of our genteel society but as far as this Californian is concerned, the entire state can go belly up and die for all I care.

The number one cause of California’s budget deficit is the more than 6 million illegal aliens our incompetent state legislators have rolled out the welcome mat for, and until they face that politically incorrect fact of life and do something to reverse the flow of parasitic criminal invaders the political elitists in Sacramento are not going to find much sympathy for their concerns.

14,000 pink slips have been handed out already to California’s public school teachers and the liberal soccer moms of this state are up in arms.  Personally, I am hoping they dump even more of them out into the unemployment line where they belong.  The teacher’s unions pushed for more bi-lingual educational programs because they knew it would increase their membership; however, it also increased the number of illegal alien children in California’s kindergarten-through-12th-grade education system where the children of illegal aliens now constitute 15 percent of the student body.  The children of American citizens are taking a back seat to the children of illegal aliens and the American parents of California’s legitimate school children get to pay the $7.7 billion a year bill for educating Mexico’s poor kids in our school system.  We also have an estimated 18,000 illegal aliens currently enrolled in California’s higher education system which costs the California tax payer an additional $117 million per year.  Maybe if the state keeps laying off teachers somebody will eventually get the idea, but until they do they can keep making cuts to the educational budget.  California currently has some of the worse schools in the entire nation so it isn’t like anybody is really going to lose out and if all of these cuts force parents to start putting their kids into private schools the children might actually benefit.     

During 2007 illegal aliens living in Los Angeles County sucked up more than $37 million dollars in tax payer funded welfare and food stamps benefits.  Twenty five percent of the all welfare and food stamps benefits is going directly to the children of illegal aliens. Illegal aliens collected over $20 million in welfare assistance for November 2007 and over $16 million in monthly food stamp allocations for a projected annual cost of $444 million.  Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich has been quoted as saying that the total cost for illegal aliens to L.A. County taxpayers far exceeds $1 billion a year and that figure does not include the millions of dollars spent for their education.  Los Angeles County has approximately 10 million residents while the entire state of California is quickly approaching a population of nearly 39 million.   Fraudulent welfare claims by illegal aliens in Los Angeles for child care expenses are costing taxpayers as much as $1.5 billion a year (Los Angeles Daily News, January 31, 2006.)  In 2003 California issued more than $172 million in food stamps to people who should have been considered ineligible because they could not prove their immigration status.  

When the Golden State outlaws it’s 29 sanctuary cities and sells the welcome mat they’ve rolled out for the illegal aliens on EBay, then the state government might start to regain some of its lost credibility, but until that unlikely event comes to pass the Golden state can continue turning itself into a suburb of Tijuana and remain contentedly broke as hell because this Californian honestly doesn’t care.

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The Mexican federal government is endorsing the proposed expansion of a cross-border educational initiative that is essentially little more than added encouragement to Mexican citizens that have violated U.S. immigration laws by coming here illegally.  Felipe Calderon, the president of Mexico announced plans to open an additional 100 community education centers to assist the illegal aliens from Mexico now living in the United States.  The stated purpose of these community education centers is to provide basic and secondary education skills, but like any other gathering place for illegal aliens and their advocates, it can be assured that these educational centers will become organizing centers for political advocacy groups.       

As if matters could get any worse than they already are, the United States government has not bothered to address the proposed expansion and U.S. immigration authorities, who should be targeting centers like these for illegal aliens to deport will undoubtedly be directed by their superiors to leave them alone.  Their superiors will, no doubt, be acting on orders from higher up the political food chain, and those orders will have come from even higher yet.  It’s a great system if you’re trying to avoid being held accountable for your actions, you don’t want to be pinned down by your constituents or you may, at some future point in time, need to be able to deny responsibility for anything connected to what you initiated.  Sadly enough, this sort of thing is considered the standard operating procedure for this nation’s political elitists, and it allows them the exalted privilege of never having to be hemmed in by the legalities that regulate the everyday lives of the common citizens.

The overwhelming majority of this country’s legal residents may be outraged and frustrated by illegal aliens who blatantly and publicly demonstrate their obvious contempt for American law, but we should recognize the fact that the foundation of the contempt those criminals feel is laid for them by the politicians we have elected to office.  Few among us would ever dream of leaving home without a driver’s license, let alone driving a car without insurance, driving a car with a forged license, or even worse yet, a driver’s license issued in a name that our parents did not give to us.  Few American citizens would ever apply for employment using somebody else’s Social Security number and identification, it simply wouldn’t be something that the majority of American citizens would do because it is against the law, it causes serious financial problems for others that can take years to straighten out, and if we were to be caught doing something so stupid, the problems would be major.  However, a large percentage of this country’s estimated 35 million illegal aliens are not concerned about such things, and to them, the problems are meaningless because the consequences are slight if not completely nonexistent.  The worse thing that could possibly happen is they are treated to a free trip home and a brief vacation before they hassle the intricacies of re-entering the country and starting all over with a fresh identity and new paperwork.  The society in which they live does not view their actions as being criminal.  If they are caught they are considered victims. 

The illegal aliens sneaking across our wide open southern border from Mexico are not by any definition, good for the American economy, and the myth that they are coming here to do the jobs that nobody else wants to do is just that, it’s a myth.  These are not honest, hard working folks looking to better their lives.  If they were honest they wouldn’t be breaking American immigration laws to come here, they wouldn’t be hiding out using false and stolen identities to illegally secure jobs, and they would not be driving cars without licenses and auto insurance.  Illegal aliens are criminals.  Their presence here in the United States creates a financial hardship for the American people whose tax money is used to support them with welfare payments and food stamps, support them while they do time in our jails and prisons, pay for the prosecution of their numerous crimes, educate their illegal alien children, and to compensate hospitals and emergency care facilities that are forced by law to provide medical care for illegal aliens with no intention of paying for the services they receive.  Illegal aliens do not come to the United States to participate in our society, they come here to take whatever they can get and when they get what they came here for they return home.  Illegal aliens are, by the dictionary definition of the term, parasites.  In biology a parasite is an organism that grows, feeds, and is sheltered on or in a different organism while contributing nothing to the survival of its host.   

The United States Congress does not have the necessary brain power to figure out that they can pass legislation until hell freezes over and none of it will make a productive, law-abiding benefit to American society out of a no-account, freeloading, third-world criminal parasite because the simple truth of the matter is that no matter how much elbow grease you apply, it’s impossible to get a turd to shine.  You can call them undocumented immigrants, legally challenged nomads or pixies in sombreros and it will still not change the individual who was willing to break American immigration laws to come here, it will not erase their criminal tendencies and it will not make them respect our laws because inherently they do not feel obligated to obey our laws.  We don’t need the Mexican government coming into the United States to educate the criminal invaders they encouraged to break our laws by coming here.  If they want to come and pick them up for a trip back to Mexico that’s fine but allowing them to come here and train these people is nothing short of absurd.

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