1. MYTH: This is not amnesty.
2. MYTH: This proposal does not repeat the mistakes of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act.
3. MYTH: The government will crack down on the hiring of illegal workers.
4. MYTH: This proposal would not cut in half the amount of fence built by the Secure Fence Act of 2006.
5. MYTH: The trigger period will not cause a rush to the border.
6. MYTH: By providing an opportunity for citizenship to illegal immigrants already here, the bill will not exponentially increase extended-family chain migration.
7. MYTH: The temporary worker program is good for American workers.
8. MYTH: Illegal immigrants will not come onto the welfare rolls.
9. MYTH: Government agencies will be able to share information to pursue immigration violators.
10. MYTH: Senators are asked to vote Monday on a lengthy bill that they will have time to read.

Now go read the facts.

If the illegals (Mexicans) are forced out, where will the politicians on Capitol Hill go for lunch?

Source: Yahoo Maps using the Smartview option to pinpoint Mexican restaurants.

Mercury News

Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon on Monday slammed U.S. plans to build more fences on its southern border, saying it would not solve illegal immigration.

You’re right. You, as the incoming President of Mexico, have the power to solve to problem of your citizens fleeing your country.

President Vicente Fox, of Calderon’s conservative National Action Party, has called the plans “shameful”

You’re right. You should be ashamed.

1. Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border.
2. Raise the New Orleans levees with the soil removed from the moat.
3. Relocate those damn Florida alligators to the moat.

In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile…We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language…and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.

Theodore Roosevelt, 1919

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Dear President Bush,

I’m about to plan a little trip with my family and extended family, and I would like to ask you to assist me. I’m going to walk across the border from the U.S. into Mexico, and I need to make a few arrangements. I know you can help with this.

I plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws. I’m sure they handle those things the same way you do here.

So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Vicente Fox, that I’m on my way over? Please let him know that I will be expecting the following:

1. Free medical care for my entire family.
2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not.
3. All government forms need to be printed in English.
4. I want my kids to be taught by English-speaking teachers.
5. Schools need to include classes on American culture and history.
6. I want my kids to see the American flag flying on the top of the flag pole at their school with the Mexican flag flying lower down.
7. Please plan to feed my kids at school for both breakfast and lunch.
8. I will need a local Mexican driver’s license so I can get easy access to government services.
9. I do not plan to have any car insurance, and I won’t make any effort to learn local traffic laws.
10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo from Pres. Fox to leave me alone, please be sure that all police officers speak English.
11. I plan to fly the U.S. flag from my house top, put flag decals on my car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th.
12. I do not want any complaints or negative comments from the locals.
13. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, and don’t enforce any labor laws or tax laws.
14. Please tell all the people in the country to be extremely nice and never say a critical word about me, or about the strain I might place on the economy.

I know this is an easy request because you already do all these things for all the people who come to the U.S. from Mexico. I am sure that Pres. Fox won’t mind returning the favor if you ask him nicely. However, if he gives you any trouble, just invite him to go quail hunting with your V.P.

Thank you so much for your kind help.

Sincerely,
XXXX

two surveys conducted in Mexico asked: “If at this moment you had the means and opportunity to go to live in the USA, would you go?” Almost half – 46 percent – said yes.

When asked if they would be inclined to work and live in the USA “without authorization,” meaning illegally, 21 percent said they would.

Showing that interest in emigrating isn’t confined to the poor, more than one-third of Mexican college graduates said they would move to the U.S. if they could, and more than one in eight said they’d be willing to migrate even if they had to enter the country illegally.

• An estimated 10 million Mexicans now live in the U.S., more than half of them illegally
• Americans pay an estimated $8 billion annually for educating the children of illegal aliens.
• The Center for Immigration Studies in Washington has estimated that illegal aliens have cost U.S. workers $133 billion in job loses.
• Food stamps and medical benefits for undocumented immigrants cost Americans some $65 billion annually. Illegals have been running up a tab of $2.5 billion annually for Medicaid alone.
• The American Hospital Association has said the cost of uncompensated care for patients, many of them illegal aliens, amounted to more than $21 billion in a recent year.
• More than 75 percent of the illegal drugs in the U.S. come across our porous borders, according to experts.
• More than one-quarter of the inmates in federal prisons are illegals �?? costing taxpayers $900 million a year to feed and house them.

Source: Newsmax

Are those numbers a little scary? Perhaps you should make your voice heard.