The consequences of the homeland invasion
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Robert L. Duecaster
Published: June 3, 2008
An upcoming graduate of Prince William County Schools recently told me he was trying to find a summer job, without any success. He said he had just spoken to a landscape company and they told him they hire only Spanish-speaking employees. He told the interviewer he had no problem working with Spanish-speakers and that he would like the opportunity to practice the Spanish he learned in
High School. The interviewer told him he did not understand. He said they hire only Spanish-speaking people.
This is the situation that an uncontrolled, unfettered, and illegal invasion of aliens (calling them “immigrants” denigrates my heritage) across our southern border has created. Our own children cannot get employment in industries that were traditionally open to them prior to this invasion of over 20 million illegals. Illegal aliens will work at slave wages under conditions worse than slavery because they have no recourse against the unscrupulous, exploitative and traitorous employers who hire them.
Our elected leaders like the governor and State Senator Creigh Deeds encourage this situation by failing to enact state laws that would remedy the situation. They hide behind the lie that, “it’s a federal problem,” while collecting campaign contributions from companies that profit from the slave labor of illegal aliens. They hire people like Dr. Stephen Fuller from George Mason University to buttress their lies with false assertions that illegal aliens are good for our economy.
State Senator John Watkins says Prince William County’s crackdown on illegal aliens is, “having an adverse affect on people’s lives.”
Senator Watkins is worried about the wrong people’s lives. He, the governor, Senator Deeds, and other illegal alien supporters like Dr. Fuller should be assessing the economy from the perspective of a young 18-year-old American citizen who cannot find a job because his homeland has been invaded.
ROBERT L. DUECASTER
Manassas
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Posted by ( raywilliams ) on June 12, 2008 at 5:53 pm
real change, I guess the answer would be two years ago you were talking printed media, with limited space and little or no advertising on the editorial page. Now, space is unlimited and we are surrounded with opportunities to click on something that might catch our eye. These blogs bring readers to the space, readers bring advertisers and advertisers bring revenue. A win-win situation for all.
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Posted by ( RonCharest ) on June 12, 2008 at 11:35 am
Barnun, Barnun, Barnun,
Cocaine is only one of the many drugs currently being smuggled into the US. If you’ll go back and check my earlier post, you’ll see where my references stated that cocaine use is actually in decline in favor of improperly used prescription drugs such as oxycotin, and synthetics (which mostly come from Canada or inside the US).
If cocaine is not the number one smuggled drug of choice in the US, and if only 65% of it is smuggled across the US-Mexican border, than your original statement that the US-Mexican border is our biggest source of drug smuggling is not correct. QED At least I got you to fact check.
And yes, I’ve seen many teenagers who’s lives were ruined from drug use, both within my own family and those people with whom I worked with while active in the alcohol and drug abuse prevention and rehabilitation field. So don’t lecture me on the evils of drug use.
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Posted by ( real change ) on June 12, 2008 at 11:34 am
Whether one agrees or not with Mr. Duecaster is not an issue I wish to probe. Rather, I ask, has the editor significantly changed the criteria used for publishing letters?
As a case in point, several years ago I wrote a letter to the editor (ltte) discussing the lack of parking at the 234 commuter lot and the more apparent lack of progress despite $4.8M of Commonwealth funding to expand the lot by 500 spaces. At that time, and as I wrote, a co-commuter commented to me that, regarding the lot, he was very disappointed in the Dumfries District Supervisor’s performance.
My letter of two years ago was never published. I called and asked why because I thought it was an important matter, topical, and timely. From the Potomac News, I was told, that letter could not be published because I spoke of the words of a third party and that was against the ltte criteria. After all, who is this third party and how do we know the conversation took place?
Yet, in Duecaster’s letter, Robert writes, in part, “An upcoming graduate of Prince William County Schools recently told me . . . He said he had just spoken to . . . .[and] they told him they . . ..” I believe that my letter was denied because, whatever I might say someone said is, hearsay. What Duecaster wrote is more of the same, hearsay.
Now, two years since my letter was not published, it appears that the Dumfries District Supervisor has done little to nothing to improve or expand the 234 parking lot. If the ltte criteria has changed, I have a fine letter on commuter parking that I can again submit for publication.
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Posted by ( willow703 ) on June 11, 2008 at 8:44 pm
ray,
Chalk boards are out, the dust is hazardous to your health.
We now have white boards, with markers whose fumes are even more hazardous.
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Posted by ( barnun ) on June 11, 2008 at 3:40 pm
I had said I wouldn’t waste my time in google but I guess sometimes you have to.
http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs22/22796/strateg.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11132226/
this one says 65% of teh cocaine smuggled into the US comes in over our southern border.
http://www.criminal-law-lawyer-source.com/terms/smuggling.html
I’m personally for trying to stop all incoming illegal drugs from all of the borders and not giving one border the blind eye to match up with the local blind eyes.
here is one that shows good reason for the US and Mexico both to patrol our borders with a military style presence for the good of the immigrants.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/31/MN8MV94C7.DTL
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Posted by ( barnun ) on June 11, 2008 at 3:29 pm
yup, made it all up. No drug problems on our southern border. just let it all continue as is.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0816/p01s03-woam.html
and this one discussed drugs coming in from many points but it states “The U.S./Mexico border is the primary point of entry for cocaine shipments being smuggled into the United States.“
The U.S./Mexico border is the primary point of entry for cocaine shipments being smuggled into the United States.“
I know i must be guilty of racial profiling if i’d like to see the drugs on our southern border closed down. Ever met a teenager whose life is already ruined from drugs ?
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Posted by ( RonCharest ) on June 10, 2008 at 5:08 pm
RayWilliams,
Guilty as charged. But, you know, sometimes it’s just too much fun - too hard to pass up the opportunity - to challenge a person when they are obviously making up their facts as they go along.
I also get rather irritated at people who attempt to win an argument by making stuff up as they go along, no matter which side of the aisle they’re arguing from.
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Posted by ( raywilliams ) on June 10, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Sigh, some days I feel like drawing two circles on the chalk board and asking those that can’t get along to stand with their noses in the circle. We need to discuss HOW to solve problems, not the minute details of what the problem might be. We have illegals crossing the borders, we have drug runners taking advantage of loose borders and we have a government ignoring the border - unless there is a photo opportunity involved. That is what we need to discuss.
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Posted by ( barnun ) on June 09, 2008 at 9:39 pm
i commented on cutting off the supply and you pick it aparty with symantics but then come back with offering treatment for the addicts. isn’t that your same policy on the immigration issue ? leave the border alone, keep the flow coming and try to help out with public health care.
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Posted by ( RonCharest ) on June 09, 2008 at 11:52 am
Barnun,
I wouldn’t know anything about illegal viagra from Canada.
I also never said to ignore the problem of drugs coming across our southern border from Mexico. I only disagreed with your claim that Mexico is the single largest source of drugs smuggled into the US. Dispite your mockery of me, you still haven’t proven your claim citing facts.
In fact, if we had a national health care policy that included drug treatment and drug abuse prevention programs, it would go a long way towards solving our illegal drug problems. Get people off drug use, prevent them from starting, and the demand goes away. “Marketplace Supply and Demand” are topics addressed in Economics 101 classes.
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