Homeland security begins at home
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William L. Tyler
Published: May 13, 2008
When I read Mr. Bradish’s April 29 letter, I was surprised that he had used another person’s quotation. Namely “What are we going to do about the foreigners trespassing in our country.” I believe that statement came from Geronimo or Sitting Bull; maybe Powatan.
Someone please tell me in what year the Mexican government came to Virginia and forced DMV to give exams in English and Spanish. Likewise forms for hospitals, schools, social services, etc, that
Virginia was forced to print in two languages. As for immigrants taking jobs; the truth is that big business sent the good jobs overseas years ago.
My sneakers are made in Vietnam, boxers in Dominican Republic, shorts in India, t-shirt in Honduras; etc. Many textile factories sit idle in the South and people are having to take jobs at less pay. On a
recent trip to the drug store to pick up some Dr. Scholls foot pads and a small roll of 3M Scotch tape, I found that both are now made in China.
If Mr. Stewart had come around with his proposal 20 years ago, it would have made more sense.Oh! I forgot, Mr. Stewart has only been around six or seven years.
Mr. Stewart wants to arouse the populace to advance his own political goals.
If George W. Bush worried more about the Mexican border , and less about the Iranian border, a lot of the problems would have been avoided.
WILLIAM L. TYLER
Manassas
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Posted by ( zcxnissan ) on May 27, 2008 at 12:31 am
Ray caught in a lie again. Open borders affects all legal immigrants, not just me as he stated. Why do you think your taxes are going up? Don’t blame it on the war in Iraq, for that has only cost $525 billion according to the latest figures. Illegal immigration has cost more in the same time frame and no one is paying for it more than the taxpayer. A recently quoted figure at the cost of illegal immigration was $365 billion just for 2007. The Iraq war will be long paid off before the debts of illegal immigration are paid off. All the wars before this one have been paid off. Sorry Ray i love the hot sun and bitter winters, although i haven’t seen a bitter winter in No. Va. in some time. Maybe its “Global Warming” maybe its Al Gore’s hot air? Hmmm. Chris Cummings
Posted by ( raywilliams ) on May 21, 2008 at 6:56 pm
phdee, what Chris fails to understand is that America is progressing in terms of the education of our people. The jobs in years past were filled by uneducated whites and blacks that took the menial jobs. As America has made great strides in providing equal educational opportunities, those bases of the population are moving up the “food chain” in terms of job skills and job opportunities. One only needs to look at Barack Obama to see the system is working. Where does that leave us? With a depleted US employee base for manual jobs. Educated people will not work these jobs for any amount of money, so we turn to a population that will. Chris readily admits he makes less than my Mexican supervisor, yet I don’t see him filling out applications to work construction jobs under the hot sun and bitter winters. We have educated our people out of the manual labor market and are now out-sourcing that labor.
Posted by ( raywilliams ) on May 21, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Open season is fine with me as all my people are documented and therefore legal under the rules of America. That still does not fix the problems of open borders but that’s Chris’ problem, not mine.
Posted by ( zcxnissan ) on May 20, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Phdee all those occupations were handled just fine before the area was flooded with illegal immigrants. As it has been handled throughout history by all races. Sorry that your hatred for legal immigrants clouds your judgment. Ray all that has to be done to prevent illegal immigrants from returning is to enforce employer hiring laws and “Immigration Law” at the local, the state and the Federal level, as the law states that it can be. The only rule is that state or local law cannot be more than Federal Law. So it is open season based upon the law. Chris Cummings
Posted by ( raywilliams ) on May 19, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Chris, no question the housing market return is late 2009 or into 2010. But it will return and the workers with it. Better to plan now on how to deal with it than to think the current program is successful.
Posted by ( willow703 ) on May 19, 2008 at 11:48 am
Godsaveus,
If the board was resolved to direct enforcement of existing laws, all they had to do was remind the county agencies of the law; & of course, we may assume that those agencies are aware of the laws under which they operate & didn’t need a reminder. They did not have to write a fancy bill and hold public meetings.
When did a Toyota spokesman say that Toyota would not ship any US assembled vehicle to Canada, Mexico or elsewhere in the Americas?
I think it would be safe to say that Toyota could profit by assembling vehicles in Mexico & trucking them into the US & Canada. They just might sell some to those Mexicans who are flush with cash sent to them by their illegal brethren here in the US. I’ve seen a lot of assembly lines on TV news; it doesn’t look like highly-skilled labor to me.
What is your answer to outsourcing? What do you have to say to those unemployed lawyers? And have you submitted a bid for that $2 million lawn mowing job?
You know, with a little American ingenuity that could add up to $5 or 6
million in your pocket.
Posted by ( phdee ) on May 19, 2008 at 11:37 am
zcx: apparently you live on hot air. Evidently you don’t like fruit, vegetables, pork, chicken, roads, houses, landscaping, sanitation, etc. While they may be low skilled job, they are necessary for survival of civilization. Unfortunately, Americans have vulgarized and made demeaning certain occupations. You obviously fall into that category of hatemongers.
Posted by ( zcxnissan ) on May 19, 2008 at 2:39 am
Phdee those jobs are necessary? Anybody can do them, i don’t need an illegal to cut my yard or do housework or any of the other unnecessary things you mentioned. Did you see that big illegal alien raid story in the Washington Post May 18th. They should close that business down, fine and imprison the employers and deport the illegals family and all<that is if they care about their families of course>. Justice served and should continue to be served. As for housing Ray we have too many houses on the market now, why rush a recovery when you still have a massive backlog of inventory. Its going to take at least another 1 1/2 - 2 years for it to fully turn around. Willow i believe the BOCS has more sense then to give that job to illegal aliens, at least most of them, at the very least they should check the credentials of the workers doing it. Chris Cummings
Posted by ( phdee ) on May 18, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Godsaveus: there was an excellent opinion article in Sunday’s Post Outlook/editorial section on industrialization loses, where a country become financial driven instead of industrial, and then lost their influence in the world. Cited was the Netherlands and Britain. Maybe you read it.
Posted by ( raywilliams ) on May 18, 2008 at 9:40 am
Chris, too many houses is what we said when Westgate was built. Then Sudley came, then Coverstone, Rolling Road, Liberia Avenue, Litton Hall Rd, Bristow Rd, MP doubled in size and I don’t even want to touch the explosion in Haymarket. Trust me when I say the housing industry will return and in 20 years you won’t recognize the Manassas area. And when housing comes back, the workers come back. And your short-lived bubble will be popped.