"America Can Recover"

How do the manufacturers in the United States justify having their production plants located in a foreign country? The United States is suffering from the worst economic and unemployment rates in years. We need to hire American workers in our manufacturing facilities in the United States. General Motors has been making plans to open a new manufacturing facility in Mexico. They propose to spend $500 million in developing the facility. Why is our government allowing this to happen? Our government owns about 61.2% of the stock in General Motors. How about using that $500 million to pay wages for building the plant in the United States and then paying American workers to build their products? We need the return of manufacturing to the country from Mexico, Canada, Asia and anywhere else that our goods and products are manufactured. Doesn’t anyone in the business of producing goods remember “Made in the USA”?

It should make every American sick to the stomach every time they go into a Wal-Mart or similar discount store and the vast majority of the merchandise is made in some other country. When will the people wake up and start purchasing good products that are made in this country? I would think that America would be better off when the people realize that they can pay a couple of dollars more for a product and help everyone in this country instead of trying to save a dollar and help the rest of the world. Americans need to realize that charity and caring needs to start at home.

Notice no mention of the costs of illegal aliens to the rest of us. The social costs like health care, incarceration plus education are huge. In California it's half the budget deficit of the state. Anchor babies get welfare, around $700 a month and that does not include health care or education. That's just cash. There is another surreptitious cost - welfare costs for unskilled Americans whose jobs are taken by illegal workers because they work cheap and can't complain.

This debate about immigration may seem complex but it is actually probably pretty simple to most people. It seems like the Administration is tone deaf regarding how bad the job situation is across the country. Giving a general sweeping amnesty and actively defending millions of illegal aliens now when there are so many American citizens at risk of losing everything they have worked their whole lives for will be a losing position come election time. It is not about Republicans and Democrats.

It happens to be the Democrats who are currently defending what was obviously going to be an unsustainable status quo that has been in place for the last twenty years under Administrations of both parties. The Federal Government committed to address this issue when the last amnesty was given during the 1980's. We all remember. Given this the timing is real bad for Democrats regarding the Federal Government defending illegals on perceived principle versus the interests of most of the rest of the Americans. Most people have no problem with legal immigration because mostly everyone has someone in their family who is an immigrant but common sense would tell you if rule of law on this matter. Every other country on the planet enforces their immigration laws in the best interest of their citizens and most people know that because it is common sense. Basic logical thinking and economics would tell you the value of something, like citizenship is lessened for everyone if anyone can claim it by just taking it without following the rules and agreeing to buy in to a country's guiding principles and speak the language.

Anyone who thinks that "anchor babies" aren't a "racket" clearly does not live in a border state. Women make it across the river just in time to deliver their babies (at taxpayers' expense, of course) and then go home with their little anchors' citizenship papers in hand! This also makes the babies eligible for a host of government programs intended for real Americans, not accidental Americans, such as WIC, Medicaid, food stamps, free education, free meals at school, housing assistance, etc., if they stay here. Of course, the money is spent by the illegal alien parents, who also hope that having a kid who is a de facto citizen will help them avoid deportation. This loophole allows illegal aliens to steal US citizenship for their kids and we need to put a stop to it. The entire family needs to be sent home.

The mainstream media is not getting the accurate facts as well as the government’s staff. That includes the New York Times, CNN, HLN, CBS, NBC, MSNBE and ABC. Go to California and the story you want is right in front of your eyes. It's impossible not to see if you visit an Orange County Hospital and check out the birth rates, even better check the census of California.

Here are some quotes for you from our media in LASD about English being a problem in our schools. We have over 250,000 students here with a English problem in our schools in Los Angeles and Orange County that can't speak English. How did we get in such a predicament? Why do we have children here from another country? How can you explain the English gap that is currently the problem? The federal government has been granting illegal citizens with a Free Pass. Have a child here and you get to enroll your children in our system which consists of: Welfare, Medical, Housing and Food assistance. Then we provide Citizenship for the children which they use to stay in the United States. We are obviously sending the wrong message to the people of Mexico.

They will pay someone to sneak them over the border and then stay at their relative’s house and apply for papers for legalization. This has been going on for years and it's against the law.

Then they take real Americans jobs like in Medical, Manufacturing, Construction, Clerical, Gardening, Waste Management, Car washes etc. The farm laborers only account for 2% of the illegal workers that are taking the jobs from Americans. I believe we have given this country away to the citizens of Mexico with out a fight or representation of the people who fought for it. We have an epidemic of outrageous proportion.

The Department of Home Land Security in not making our country secure. There are about 20 million illegals through out the whole United States. An Illegal woman that was being released from prison after serving 25 years for murder, she said she was" Innocent" and now wants a pardon cause her children were born here and are now Legal American citizens. In other country's you can not be a citizen unless you are from that country. How could we let this happen when so many good Americans have fought for this right and died in the process and we give it away? Well the economics on this situation and it's direct affect on our own economy has got to be outrages and the taxpayers or real Americans are the one's that are paying the bill for them to come here and populate this country. Illegals should not be rewarded for breaking the law.

We must revise our immigration policies in order to have a country which can afford social and economic justice for its citizens, a country where citizens who are unemployed will find work. By ignoring illegal immigration we are contributing to the inability to provide United States citizens with the jobs, benefits, and protections they need. The government needs to provide money to the economy for training for and creating new jobs and new technologies.