Border Scorecard
I was driving between Pheonix and Yuma one night at about 2AM on the freeway. Doing 75 and all of a sudden about 20 people jumped out of the brush, the van in front of me screeched to halt and they all got in. Damn near rear ended that van. There were Border patrol vehicles every few miles ... parked and just watching. It is my experience that the Border patrol does just that mostly ... park and watch. If it’s an easy drive ... they do something. If not ... nothing. You really cannot imagine how many people cross and how easy it is until you live down there. Imagine if 1,000 people tramped across your back yard each and every night and day. I lived in Tucson AZ. There are big time chain grocery stores there where nobody speaks English. The labels and the signs are in Spanish. In 20 years AZ, NM, and parts of TX and SoCal will be de facto, Mexico. And there’s not a damned thing we can do about it. We would have to deploy 50,000 troops to make a dent. And if we did make a dent ... the price of everything here would go up 100% because of the lack of labor and Mexico would be belly up because of the drying up of money sent home.
I don’t see a cure. It may be that we have to integrate this population with some regulation ala W. And he would know, being from Texas.
Posted by Steel Turman
04/04/2005 at 06:42 AM
http://www.minutemanproject.com
in the photos section, my favorite tshirt reads: “Undocumented Border Partol Agent”
...you go boys!
>>People in the Northern states, especially the North East, don’t have the cheap illegal Mexican labor
...actually we do. Not to the same degree as FL/CA/TX, but make no mistake the lower rent towns near me are *full* of immigrants of unknown “documentation” from Mexico, the far east, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico especially.
"Me thinks, the illegals may have more allies in this country than enemies!”
-OCMYes. They are called Republicans and Democrats.
Is there some site keeping a running total? That would be very...interesting to have at my blog…
Read that article, and all I can say is YEEEEEE HAAAAAAAW go get’em boys!!!
Actually, living here along the border, I can say that it’s not really cheaper than anywhere else.
When I was in East Texas for a year and a half, I could feed myself for a week on twenty dollars.
That’ll give you three or four days here.
The income level is lower, and prices are actually a bit higher in some areas.As for illegals working at various places, I can testify to one particular avocation that many illegals, especially the women, end up in:
Red light districts, or prostitution as it’s more properly known.
“Men’s Clubs” are not regulated like most other businesses. They are (or were, I’ll get to that) not required to give the same documentation of eligibility to work as other businesses. Thus, you end up with illegals and children stripping for horny old men. When they get raided, since there’s no documentation (and no identification on the “dancers” persons either), they have to let them go.
Raid a supermarket, however, and that store has to prove that their employees are legal.
There’s several other occupations where illegals end up oftentimes, but this is one of the most onerous.Now, last year, El Paso passed an ordinance giving police the ability to shut down any red light business that cannot prove it’s employees’ ages and legality. Several have been shut down so far. But the ACLU is fighting this (of course).
Hey, Minutemen! Y’all are welcome over here any time! Open season on ACLU lawyers, no bag limit!
I was talking about the “catch” the Minutemen are getting…
