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Auto Worker Comeuppance

10.2.07 @ 12:01AM

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By looking the other way; indeed, by telegraphing that he is set on not obeying the law, this president is in dereliction of his duty. Presidential candidate, Tom Tancredo, in a recent interview in New Hampshire, said openly that such action was "despicable," and so it is.

The Founding Fathers, in their infinite wisdom, made it a requirement that to serve this country as its Chief Executive, one must be a native born citizen, one who not only appreciates this country for what it is, but loves it to the exclusion of every other. Immigrant Bethell's inane deliberations only further convince me that those gentlemen of yore were a lot smarter and dedicated to this nation than the jackasses who posture as our guardians today.

Pax tecum
-- Vincent Chiarello
American Council for Immigration Reform

I shook my head in disbelief as I started to read the article by Tom Bethell, because it is a narrow view of the subject and ignores an enormous tragedy.

Members of Congress that support illegal immigration are ignoring the enormous tragic problem of the poverty of 50 million Mexicans. A tragedy that can be and must be avoided with our modern expanding world economy. It also is causing the "Chain Migration" of illegals into our country, that has grown in the past two decades from a few hundred thousand to 12 million and will continue to grow.

It is a poverty, so severe, that millions of Mexicans are desperate enough to leave their wives, children, relatives and friends to risk breaking laws in a foreign country to seek an income, and will continue to do so.

Members of Congress that support it are like a doctor that cures his patient's cough and fails to discover the cancer that is the cause of the cough.

Our immigration problem is directly caused by Mexico's elite ruling politicians. I have read that Mexico's laws refuse to honor private capital investment, except in some rare cases, and then reserves the option of taking over the business investment and placing under government control. Consequently, Free-Markets that can put 50 million Mexicans to work, prosper and leave families intact, are not allowed in Mexico and it's 50 million citizens are condemned to a lifetime of poverty. This is not; let me repeat, "NOT," ROCKET SCIENCE, Editor.

Today we are watching a global economy that is expanding into all the continents of our world including South Africa. It recently included China and India, that have about a third of the world population, that will be prospering, but is prevented from expanding into Mexico because of corrupt politicians.

Congress should be spending its energies in directing the United Nations to insist that the Mexican government rewrite its laws to allow and protect private investment. and let Free-Markets start-up that will offer millions of its citizens jobs instead of making the problem worse. Then the Mexicans who cross our border illegally can stay at home with their wives, children, relatives and friends, where they will be much happier, than taking the risk of working illegally in a foreign country. Canada has been doing it for decades. Canadians are happy for they prosper in Canada and stay home in Canada with their wives, children and relatives.
-- JNS

BLISS
Re: Joseph Baum's letter (under "Prayer Answered") in Reader Mail's Suspension of Belief:

Well done, Mr. Baum, so very well done. That's TAS I love.
-- Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas

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