Should we roll out the red
carpet and allow millions upon millions of thieves, rapists, gang members and
drug dealers to come waltzing into this country any time they would like?
Should we broadcast a message to the rest of the
world that anyone that can find a way to enter this country and somehow get to
a “sanctuary city” can sign up for
a plethora of welfare benefits and live a life of leisure at the expense of
hard working American citizens? Yes, those questions sound absurd, but
what I have just described will essentially be official U.S. government policy
if the immigration bill going through Congress becomes law. And
unfortunately, Democrats now say that they have
the Republican votes that they need to get “immigration reform”
through theHouse of Representatives. If this
amnesty bill becomes law, it will encourage even more illegal immigration and
it will be one more step toward making the U.S. border essentially meaningless.
Right now, we desperately need the American people to contact their representatives in
Congress and demand that they vote against this bill. Sadly, this is not
likely to happen because most Americans have absolutely no idea how negatively
illegal immigration is affecting this nation.
The following are 19 very disturbing facts about
illegal immigration that every American should know…
#1 57 percent of all households that are led
by an immigrant (legal or illegal) are enrolled in at least one welfare
program.
#2 According to one study, the cost to
U.S. taxpayers of legalizing current illegal immigrantswould be approximately 6.3 trillion dollars over
the next 50 years.
#4 The Department of
Homeland Security says
that it has lost track of a million people that
have entered this country but that appear never to have left.
#6 In one recent year, taxpayers in Los
Angeles County spent 600 million
dollars on welfare for children of illegal immigrants.
#7 Thanks to illegal immigration,
California’s overstretched health care system is on the verge
of collapse. Dozens of California hospitals and emergency
rooms have shut down over the past decade because they could not afford to
stay open after being endlessly swamped by illegal immigrants
who were simply not able to pay for the services that they were receiving.
As a result, the remainder of the health care system in the state of
California is now beyond overloaded. This had led to brutally long
waits, diverted ambulances and even unnecessary patient deaths. At this
point, the state of California now ranks dead last out of
all 50 states in the number of emergency rooms per million people.
#12 The Obama administration has sued
individual states such as Arizona that
have tried to crack down on illegal immigration.
#13 According to the FBI, there are
approximately 1.4 million gang
members living in our cities. Illegal immigration has been one of the primary
factors that has fueled the growth of these gangs.
#14 As I have written about previously, there
are only about 200 police officers assigned to Chicago’s Gang Enforcement Unit
to handle the estimated 100,000 gang members living
in the city.
#16 It is an open secret that Mexican
drug cartels are openly
conducting military operations inside the United States.
The handful of border patrol agents that we have guarding the border are
massively outgunned and outmanned.
#17 According to the Justice
Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center, Mexican drug cartels were
actively operating in 50 different
U.S. cities in 2006. By 2010, that number had
skyrocketed to 1,286.
#18 Overall, more than 55,000
people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico
since 2006. That same level of violence will eventually show up in major
U.S. cities unless something dramatic is done about illegal immigration.
#19 It is being projected that the
Senate immigration bill will bring 33 million more
people to the United States over the next decade.
One of the very few things that the federal government
is actually required to do by the U.S. Constitution is to defend our borders,
and unfortunately the Obama administration has willingly chosen to leave our
borders completely wide open. In fact, you can go down to the Texas
border right now and watch illegal immigrants hop right across the Rio
Grande.
Several retired Border Patrol agents recently
drafted an open letter to the American people on the subject of illegal
immigration, and what they had to say was quite startling. The following
is an excerpt from that letter that was in a recent Breitbart article…
“Transnational criminal enterprises have
annually invested millions of dollars to create and staff international drug
and human smuggling networks inside the United States; thus it is no surprise
that they continue to accelerate their efforts to get trusted representatives
in place as a means to guarantee continued success,” the Border Patrol agents
wrote.
“We must never lose
sight of the fact that the United States is the market place for the bulk of transnational
criminal businesses engaged in human trafficking and the smuggling,
distribution and sale of illegal drugs. Organized crime on this scale we are
speaking about cannot exist without political protection.”
According to those retired border agents, by
refusing to secure our border the Obama administration is openly facilitating
the trafficking of drugs into the United States…
“Most heroin, cocaine,
meth, and marijuana marketed in the United States is produced outside of our
country, and then smuggled into the United States,” they wrote. “The placement
of trusted foreign employees inside the United States is imperative to insure
success in continuing to supply the demand, and returning the profits to the
foreign organization. Members of these vicious transnational crime syndicates
are already well established in more than 2,000 American cities and their
numbers are increasing as networks expand and demands accelerate. These
transnational criminals present a real and present danger to all Americans, and
they live among us.”
Sadly, in politically correct America you can’t
even talk about the problem of illegal immigration these days without being
labeled as a “racist”.
For the record, I believe that all people
deserve love and respect no matter what they look like or where they are
born. God created us all and He loves us all very much. I have long
been a very strong
advocate for racial reconciliation in this country, and I will
continue to be.
Unfortunately, we have a system of immigration
today that greatly rewards lawless behavior. We have made coming into
this country through the front door exceedingly difficult, but we have left the
back door completely wide open.
So hard working, law-abiding people that want to
do things the right way are kept out, but those that want to come here and
commit crimes or abuse the system are free to come on over any time that they
would like.
What sense does that make?
Our immigration system is completely broken, but
these days we cannot even have a rational debate about these issues. In
politically correct America, illegal immigrants have become a “favored class”
of people that you are never supposed to say anything bad about.
Please go to NumbersUSA web site to help stop
Illegals! Here
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