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 ( barnun ) on June 09, 2008 at 9:27 am
Ron, You’re right. people are now buying illegal viagra from Canada and building meth labs in the US so we should just ignore the cocaine, heroin and Marijuana that comes in from the south. Maybe would could cure the affects of drug use if we just had a national healthcare policy.
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Posted by ( urf8 ) on June 09, 2008 at 8:23 am
Mr. Lancaster,
There are job openings in Iraq and Afghanistan for your son—in the US Military. If your son really wanted a job, he’d find one. You let your true colors show with your tone and false asertions. It seems that your problem is with Hispanics and not necessarily illegal immigrants. You automatically link Hispanics in the landscaping/lawn care business to illigal immigration. While it may be true that SOME (fewer than you might think) Hispanics in this business as well as other businesses are here illegally, you dishonor the majority of Hispanics (and others) who are here legally. You must be among those few pitiful citizens in this great and diverse country who assume that anyone who speaks Spanish or ‘looks’ Hispanic is here illegally. People from other parts of the world come here illegally too, which many people overlook.
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Posted by ( raywilliams ) on June 07, 2008 at 8:32 am
RonC, barnun ... may we just agree drugs are an issue that need to be addressed along with border security - any and all borders? There is no question as we address illegal immigration in PWC we are discussing Hispanic immigrants. If Canadians are coming here by the thousands, well they’re doing a nice job blending in with the landscape. As a Pro-Immigrant supporter, I fully acknowledge in this discussion we are talking about Hispanics and do not associate this with racism is this context. When it comes to stereotyping nationalities based on behaviors of others, then yes, racism may be implied there. But in an open general discussion as it applies to PWC we are talking about Hispanics. And then I digress and ask “what is the plan to fix our woes and how to we implement it?“
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Posted by ( RonCharest ) on June 07, 2008 at 6:58 am
Barnun,
Fact checking is never a waste of time for people who respect educated discussions. If you did fact check, one thing you would quickly find is that the abuse of prescription painkillers are becoming the drug of choice now-a-days, reducing demand for other drugs smuggled in. Marijuana is still a drug of choice after painkillers, which grows quite well in southern Canada as well as all over the US. Cocaine usage in the US, which does come mainly from South America, is dropping and again would reduce the flow of that drug across the Southern Border.
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/index.html
As former navy, who also worked for a while in the drug and alcohol treatment field, I once had a pretty good idea of just how much drugs were smuggled into the US via sea traffic. I also had a pretty good idea how much was being smuggled in via air traffic, both through “mules” at commercial airports, and private aircraft landing at small airfields.
I also knew that some of the private air traffic originated in Mexico, but there was almost as much originating from Canada and the Caribbeans.
If you check the reference below, you’ll see that the Office of National Drug Control Policy lists Canada as a major supplier of drugs right along with Mexico.
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/international/index.html
So, given a longer border with Canada (more unprotected than Mexico), and our existing coastal areas and largely non-inspected sea container shipping; I suspect your “Fact” that most drugs are being smuggled in via Mexico are incorrect.
Too bad you couldn’t bother checking your facts before you posted.
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Posted by ( phdee ) on June 06, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Cobra, you think McBush is going to be running on Bush’s record, especially the war? I picture you to be an apologist for the Iraqi war, WMD, etc. as well as racism.
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Posted by ( barnun ) on June 06, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Ron,
I’m not going to waste a bunch of time on google trying to prove to you the obvious. Canada does not have the tropical climate needed to grow the plants like the southern hemisphere does. East and west are oceans limiting drug trafficing to ships but our souther border is porous with smugglers crossing at will. If you really dont know about the drug problems with our southern border and the Problems that the country of Mexico has with the drug cartels, then I’d really be surprised. although I generally disagree with you, I had concidered you to be intelligent and well read. I’ll give you this though.
http://www.stratfor.com/thugs_drugs_and_coyotes_u_s_mexican_border
http://www.house.gov/mccaul/pdf/Investigaions-Border-Report.pdf
google is pretty easy ...
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Posted by ( cobra ) on June 06, 2008 at 2:04 pm
RonCharest,
You are just and old wind bag liberal. All the sudden you liberals care about Iraqi woman. Liberals were utterly silent in the years prior to the war where they were killing woman and children daily. Now all of the sudden you care. Please!!!!!
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Posted by ( Sammy B ) on June 05, 2008 at 5:10 pm
You’re correct about the “wet-foot/dry-foot” policy, Willow. It indicates that Cuban nationals intercepted at sea are to be sent back to Cuba or another country while Cubans who set foot on U.S. soil are legally entitled to remain here. Given that, why did you advocate sending all Cubans back in your previous comment? Or did I misinterpret your statement?
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Posted by ( RonCharest ) on June 05, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Barnun
A statement such as “everybody knows,“ is similar to “assume,“ and I think we all know what assume also means.
Please cite you reference for the statement that most of our drugs are smuggled across our southern border. Our southern border with Mexico only comprises about one-eight our total “lower 48” national border.
You may be correct, but I haven’t seen that satistic, and if you want be considered a reputable writer - as opposed to some of the hacks writing in this newspaper such as Concannon and Reichly - you need to show references to back up a statement like that.
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Posted by ( willow703 ) on June 05, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Sammy B,
That policy came about because we didn’t like Castro. After the Mariel boatlift, we decided that the freedom of Cubans was not worth all that much to us, so we instituted the “wet foot, dry foot” policy to salve our collective conscience.
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