Guard Our Borders!

The following is a portion of the Guard Our Borders weekly blog burst that helps illustrate some of the various problems that are generated by completely open borders (beyond the obvious terrorism implications):

***

How can the small business that provides physical services to customers compete with illegal laborers that cut corners by using extended family labor? On a radio program a few weeks ago, I heard countless American workers recount how they lost contracts because illegal aliens agreed to do the work for far less and much quicker - and no wonder, because they had their entire family working, including the kids! One man who couldn't find work as a sheetrocker saw his jobs going to a man whose wife and children worked on the site. How are American workers supposed to compete with illegal (but free!) child labor?!

My husband supervises multiple construction subcontractors who ALL use illegal Mexican laborers. He is aggravated beyond belief because his inspectors find fatal flaws in each and every phase of construction - without exception. The sub ends up having to demolish and remove all the faulty construction and replace it, sometimes more than twice! Costs skyrocket and schedule delays cost so much more than budgeted, and it all comes down to this bottom line: the illegal aliens do not have the proper know-how or expertise or capability to do the job right the first time. I cannot fathom how many millions of dollars the subs will have to squander before they reach the conclusion that they'd be better off hiring skilled American laborers who understand their instructions and produce a more professional product than cutting corners by hiring illegals who don't know what they're doing and produce a shoddy product.

Back up and look at the bigger picture: you may think our products are cheaper because the corporations are paying illegal workers far less than they would have to pay American workers, but those ILLEGALS have to survive somehow and they do it it by sucking off the American TAXPAYER. So, the stuff you buy isn't as cheap as you thought it was, you're just paying more for it in the form of higher taxes! (City, State, and Federal)

Who hasn't seen their property taxes skyrocket because the schools are bursting at the seams and constantly need money? In San Antonio, the hospital system had their own separate tax included in our homeowner's property tax to PAY THEM for all the free care they provide to illegals. Yes, my property tax supported a hospital system that would've bankrupted due to the strain of caring for illegals. So not only was I paying more for my medical services (as a citizen who actually paid for care), but now I was paying for free medical care for ILLEGALS in the form of my increased property taxes.

The economic burden of unbalanced trade and illegal immigration is stripping Americans of options. But the cultural and societal impact is even greater. While the American birth rate is barely at replacement, illegal immigrants are reproducing far faster - nearly 3 times as fast. Poverty is spreading; crime and instability follow. Movements pushing bilingual integration are proliferating, and more and more American traditions fall away in favor of ethnic celebrations. American money flows freely throughout the world, propping up the toothless European governments who are all incapable of their own defense; and supporting the entire economy of nations like Mexico. The best interests of China, Mexico, Canada, etc, all seem to weigh more heavily on our politicians than the
best interests of Americans.

Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.
--Arnold Toynbee

We are cutting our own throats. We are electing politicians who fail to see the big picture, who ignore the lessons of history, and who don't care enough to make the hard decisions NOW, while they still can. It's OUR fault, and it's OUR responsibility to make it right.

Close the borders, deport the illegals, cut off China, f***the UN, and shut off the flow of money to the rest of the world since we're always the bad guys anyway.

America First, ALWAYS.

_________________________________

This has been a production of the Guard the Borders Blogburst. It was started by Euphoric Reality, and serves to keep immigration issues in the forefront of our minds as we're going about our daily lives and continuing to fight the war on terror. If you are concerned with the trend of illegal immigration facing our country, join our blogburst! Just send an email with your blog name and url to euphoricrealitynet at gmail dot com.

Blogs already on board:

Posted by: Ogre at 06:02 PM

Comments

1 You mention about the free care provided to illegal aliens and Americans paying for it.

In Dearborn hospitals, illegals come over here and have their children (so they are american citizens) and then head back to the middle east, skipping out on the hospital bills.

The hospitals are complaining because they have so many of them in the hosptial at times that the care for the people with insurance goes down.

So not only are we paying for the illegals bills we are receiving less care because of them also.

Not to mention their children are american citizens now. Who knows if that will come back and bite us in the ass in the future.

Posted by: Machelle at January 16, 2006 07:51 PM (ZAyoW)

2 Skipping out on the bills? Most of the time they're not even billed at all!

But yes, that's another aspect -- that paying citizens' care declines due to criminals' health care!

Posted by: Ogre at January 16, 2006 08:51 PM (+Gl1m)

3 It's called unrestricted Capitalism, boys, and if you don't like it, go live in commie-land!
What? Too harsh? Too stupid?
Well then, stop repeating similar things in public.
And while you're at it, just remember next time you want to defend WalMart that they are using similar underpaid foreigners to suck American dollars out of the country in exchange for cheap goods.
Boy! It had to be dragged into your neighborhood before you could see it, didn't it? You just couldn't see how much damage these people were doing until it was pushed into your face!
Oh, well. Next problem . . .

Posted by: The Small Town Hick at January 17, 2006 12:40 AM (ZINSp)

4 Um, what? How is government forcing people at gunpoint to pay for services from others even remotely related to capitalism?

Posted by: Ogre at January 17, 2006 12:44 AM (+Gl1m)

5 Oh, I'm sorry - I thought this post was about American businessmen hiring whomever they chose, be it American workers or cheap illegal immigrants.
I didn't see the part about the taxman coming to your door, sack in one hand and sawed-off in the other.
Same difference, anyway - this post is about the employers who, given a choice between hiring American workers, paying them what they're worth, and having their salaries pay for their food, meds, and kids, and hiring illegal immigrants, paying them peanuts, and having YOU pick up the medicare tab, . . .
choose to get rich on your back.
Guv'ment doesn't come into the matter, except as the (willing) tool of the construction corps.

Posted by: The Small Town Hick at January 18, 2006 05:48 AM (RmWaw)

6 May I mambo dogface to the banana patch?

Posted by: Ogre at January 18, 2006 12:57 PM (/k+l4)

7 Small Town Hick, funny you should mention it. In the first half of the original GTB article I very heatedly deal with the whole Wal-Mart angle. It's a very unpopular position among conservatives, but Wal-Mart does NOT practice true free trade and has shifted 80% of its business OUT of America. Americans don't care because we've become amiable, uncomplaining consumers of cheap shit that never works, instead of proud producers of the highest quality goods (with the exception of weaponry tech). Anyways, there's more, and I've taken a lot of heat on that whole Wal-Mart thing, but I'm nothing if not consistent in my views: http://euphoria.jarkolicious.com/journal/2006/01/16/1573/.
C'mon over and throw some flame around, if you'd like. It looks like it may be a slow day...

Posted by: Redhead Infidel at January 18, 2006 01:46 PM (BqNFt)

8 Yes, I left that part out because I currently had another post that was reliving the whole "WalMart is the most evil thing in existence today" at the same time. So I was hoping this one would focus on the criminal aliens rather than just WalMart is evil.

Posted by: Ogre at January 18, 2006 01:59 PM (/k+l4)






Processing 0.0, elapsed 0.0119 seconds.
18 queries taking 0.0095 seconds, 16 records returned.
Page size 12 kb.
Powered by Minx 0.8 beta.