Let's talk about immigration some more...?

Question

This is a very good letter to the editor. This woman made
some good points. For some reason, people have difficulty
structuring their arguments when arguing against supporting
the currently proposed immigration revisions. This lady
made the argument pretty simple.


NOT printed in the Orange County Paper...................

Newspapers simply won't publish letters to the editor which
They either deem politically incorrect (read below) or which
does not agree
with the philosophy they're pushing on the public. This
woman wrote a great letter to the editor that should have
been published; but, with your help it will get published
via cyberspace!

New Immigrants
From: "David LaBonte"

My wife, Rosemary, wrote a wonderful letter to the editor of
The OC Register which, of course , was not printed. So, I
decided to "print" it myself by sending it ! out on the
Internet. Pass it along if you feel so inclined.
Dave LaBonte (signed)

Written in response to a series of letters to the editor in
the Orange County Register:

Dear Editor:
So many letter writers have based their arguments on how
this land is made up of immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one,
suggests we should tear down the Statue of Liberty because
the people now in question aren't being treated the same as
those who passed through Ellis Island and other ports of
entry. Maybe we should turn to our history books and point
out to people like Mr. Lujan why today's American is not
willing to accept this new kind of immigrant any longer.
Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe
to come to the United States, people had to get off a ship
and stand in a lo ng line in New York and be documented.
Some would even get down on their hands and knees and kiss
the ground. They
made a! pledge to uphold the laws and support their new
country in good and bad times. They made learning English a
primary rule in their new American households and some even
changed their names to blend in with their new home.
They had waved good bye to their birth place to give their
children a new life and did everything in their power to
help their children assimilate into one culture.
Nothing was handed to them. No free lunches, no welfare, no
labor laws to protect them. All they had were the skills and
craftsmanship they had brought with them to trade for a
future of prosperity. Most of their children came of age
when World War II broke out. My father fought along side
men whose parents had come straight over from Germany ,
Italy , France and Ja pan . None of these 1st generation
Americans ever gave any thought about what country their
parents had come from. They were Americans fighting Hitler,
Mussolini and the Emperor of! Japan . They were defending
the United States of America as one people. When we
liberated France , no one in those villages were looking
for the French-American or the German American or the Irish
American. The people of France saw only Americans. And we
carried one flag that represented one country. Not one of
those immigrant sons would have thought about picking up
another country's flag and waving it to represent who they
were. It would have been a disgrace to their parents who
had sacrificed so much to be here. These immigrants truly
knew what it meant to be an American. They stirred the
melting pot into one red, white and blue bowl. And here we
are in 2006 with a new kind of immigrant who wants the same
rights and privilege s . Only they want to achieve it by
playing with a different set of rules, one that includes the
entitlement card and a guarantee of being faithful to their
mother country. I'm sorry, that's not what being an
American is all about. I believe that the immigrants who
landed on Ellis Island in the early 1900's deserve better
than that for all the toil, hard work and sacrifice in
raising future generations to create a land that has become
a beacon for those legally searching for a better life. I
think they would be appalled that they are being used as an
example by those waving foreign country flags. And for that
suggestion about taking down the Statue of Liberty, it
happens to mean a lot to the citizens who are voting on the
immigration bill. I wouldn't start talking about dismantling
the United States just yet.
(signed) Rosemary LaBonte


I hope this letter gets read by millions of people all
across the nation!!

Ever onward!!

MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA

Answer 1

I have been saying for years that we need to do a Constitutional amendment. We the People need to demand that a amendment to the Constitution states that if your here illegal, You or a born child on our soil can not become a citizen, you can receive no health care, medical supplies, welfare, or any other item that comes free to U.S. citizens, as well as stating that Illegals have no rights under the Constitution as to legal counsel, trail to stay here, or anything that can delay them in our country, just that they will be deported ASAP, to the farthest point in their own country, also in this amendment it will punish employers for hireling with harsh fines, putting owners and CEOs in jail for years requiring them to pay the lost taxes on illegals, lost SS, lost medical collected, lost school fees for teachers, etc., just keep piling on the fees and punishment.
If there are no jobs why would an illegal come here? If there are no jobs, free things for them to steal, no gift citizenship, no schools, no medical then they would go home.
We let in some 1 million legal aliens a year that take years to apply and come, why should We the People just give criminals (illegals) citizenship or any other thing we paid for all our life?
www.senate.gov/general/contact...
www.house.gov/writerep/
Here the sites you need as We the People to contact your Congressman and demand that this type law is done now, not years from now. Threaten to get this out in your area, to vote them out, etc…

Answer 2

You are right. The imigrants to this country had to ride a ship. Stand in line at Ellis Island. They had to go through medical checks to makes sure they were not bringing in disease. They could not be criminals. They were so glad to be here. Even they may have spoke Polish they did what ever to learn the language of English. They wanted so bad to blend in and be American. They knew being American means doing business in English. They kept the old language and learned the new. They were not looking for a hand out. They only wanted to start a new life legally. They would not break the law to do it. It seems newspapers like in Orange County don't want to offend the Mexicans. The legal Mexicans support their illegal relatives. If I had a relative that broke the law I would not condone his activity. The legal Mexican-Americans don't cherish their citizenship by supporting illegals to be here. Anyone disliking the Statue of Liberty should pack up and go home. They don't really want to be a American. They just want the benifits.

Answer 3

Neither. We should make (virtually) impossible to work illegally in the USA, and most illegals will leave. It's like ants at the picnic -- when all the food is gone, the ants go too. It is beyond belief that picking lettuce pays $50/hr. Something is wrong with that figure. The idea that "they" do the jobs that "Americans won't do" is absurd. The presence of desperate illegals makes it possible for Business to hire people who will do the same job for much less money than is paid to a LEGAL employee. Americans SHOULD be refusing to work for these substandard wages and insisting that Congress make it impossible for Business to hire these desperate illegals at substandard pay.

Answer 4

I have no difficulty expressing why illegal aliens should not be here. I state simple well know FACTS like:
They are destroying our schools and health care system, they steal identities and jobs that Americans want. They don't pay taxes. They get free or low tuition at colleges, making citizens wait to get into various programs (son-in-law had this happen). They bring in diseases that had finally become rare due to immunizations. They sponge off the taxpayer.

Anyone that says that they haven't committed any crimes so they "deserve" to become citizens is WRONG. They are committing a crime just by being here!

Answer 5

I have read the letter before, but she should have used spell checker, and reduced the length of the article in order to get it printed. Below are some stats about the cost of the Bush/McCain/Kennedy plan to give amnesty to 12 to 28 million illegal aliens mostly from third world countries.

New Cost-Estimate – Center for Immigration Studies
A new www.cis.org study by Dr. Steve Camarata shows a minimum number of 12 million illegal aliens will tap into $843 BILLION in social services, education, medical care, school breakfasts and lunches, prison, rising insurance rates and other costs – and this is NET -- more than they will pay in taxes and usage fees over their lifetimes. Dr. Camarata also estimated the costs if illegal aliens exceed 30 million, the worst-case scenario. That cost to your pocketbook skyrockets to $2.4 TRILLION.

Answer 6

If one likes the sort of Morals and Values that affected the people of the turn of that Century,the wish to go back to them is not an improvement on recent/old problems but a Victorian idealization of what their own ancestors were trying to scape from.To maybe find it worst,in "colonial" minded America,itself jumping unto colonialism.What level of civility or urbane morals are among new immigrants should be put in perspective compared to what set of morals the europeans ones had on arrival.As most comming from there were simply the dispossesed,and the surplus of a proletarian "baby boom" that never happened before in Europe,but thanks/or woed to the Industrial Revolution europeans were trying to cope with.
For many the solution was to return to rural living not remaining in Europe,or to factory jobs not enough in their lands but being shipped and growing in USA(not Mexico,or Canada,or China yet).
Some were fresh from the rural setting of their parents towns or farm communities,but others came from shanty towns of ill reputed morals,already corrupted from their grandparents' peasant morality.The sort of types,other whites -american or european- were growing worried of,as much like these ones from other ethnic groups are equally related as,today.
Many a religious minority,were trying to escape from that decay and government prohibitions,so the frontier America was the experimental ground for their freedoms,attracting followers.They did supply "handouts" or loans,and community support before the Government learnt to do samewise.
Sometimes even along just "ethnic"leagues;the Swede,the German,the "Hebraic",et ceteras...
The Mennonites,Amish,or Later days "Saints",and others, did provide individuals and families their support,and in Community representation did ask the Government for backings included lands or special rights.
Others did arrive as individuals,taking greater risks and becoming inmensely a Social risk.Criminality was high among whites before the "freed" *****,and even many early colonists saw" their" lands not taken back by the "culturally brutish" indians,but by other newly arrived caucasians.
The common denominator have been for yesterday as today immigrants (well intended or not), that,of Arrivism and unashamed Opportunism for take outs or "take-ins"...
Citizens Social organizations,were aware of the problems, giving Helps,independently of Religious creeds or other pre-conditions as they knew it was a humane inmediate worsening condition that needed quick response.
Even many did not want to "participate" of defense military activities(called later,"national duty"or conscription).Not even during the Independence war was a mandatory oblige.
Expecting from the ones in that Misery a "payback" as citizens is as Miserable as expecting from the crippled some acrobatics for some cookies or a needed wheelchair. May their children walk and join our baseball or universities leagues.It isn't a Priviledge,(no matter how mystified)it is a human right.Neighbor thing.The American Way.

PS1_That we keep this narrow minded view of who should share America with Us,is sign that we still have to assimilate ourselves to the U.S. to achieve the state of mind and Spirit of the Nation founders.Not turning America to the lower and meany.Selective "high class"?
PS2_<<....give some poor a wealthier Life and the next thing you know is,they are wearing white wigs and calling each other Sirs and Ladies.It's a pitty but for a few,that most can't speak even french>>
_a friend of Lafayette said of americans in the Rebel Colonies.However,he did risk his LIFE for them

Answer 7

We need stonger imigration law and to enforce the one we have. We need to build a fence to our South and the North. My grandparents came from Mexico and I believe the US needs to controll imigration now. An American can not cross into Mexico without being put into jail, prosocuted or not to be see again, the Mexican govt. would not give me free health car, welfare or any kind of fare, they are not a fair contry. We don't need to be fair with them

Answer 8

Well I would like to hold up my glass and send praise to Rosemary LaBonte. And Rosemary where ever you are:
MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA & MAY GOD BLESS YOU!

I too will pass this letter along through emails to everyone I know, and I will encourage them to do the same.
Great post! TY!

Answer 9

Thank God! Someone is saying what needs to be said.

Answer 10

so true. i saw this same letter several months ago. i agreed with it then, and i still agree with it.