Congressman David Davis to Address T-FIRE

Congressman David Davis (1st District-TN) will speak about illegal immigration, on Saturday, February 16, 2008, at the VFW in Morristown, TN, at 10:00 am.

Congressman Davis will address the massive tax burden placed upon all taxpayers as a result of illegal immigration and highlight actions that the government and citizens can take to curb this ever-increasing problem.

T-FIRE, an organization of Tennessee Taxpayers United Against Illegal Immigration, is hosting the event. A pancake breakfast will be served from 8:30-9:45. Tickets for the breakfast are $5.00. For tickets or other information, contact T-FIRE at 587-3711 or visit www.t-fire-org.

Cooper La Raza

If you had the mistaken idea that Tennessee Congressman Jim Cooper (D) takes his Oath of Office seriously, check out his immigration rankings.

Spanish Debate?

Now we are in trouble when the Republican Party conducts a debate in Spanish instead of the language of voting-English.

The Brits Do It Better

Apparently, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hasn't taxed enough of our hard-earned money. Now, she wants a "windfall" profits tax on any stock earnings you might have. Who would benefit from this new tax? Among other groups, Pelosi wants to give the money to illegal aliens!

"We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and minorities. For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities. Stock market windfall profits taxes could go a long ways to guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as "Americans."

So Pelosi's solution is to dole out ever-more taxpayer dollars to illegals by raising taxes on citizens and legal residents, so that those in this country legally will have to subsidize those who are not on a writ-large basis.

Contrast this to Britain, whose Labour Government (a party that has its roots in the socialist trade union movement of the 19th Century) is preparing to limit its quota of non-European immigrants to those who have learned English before they are allowed into that country. Note that the position of the Conservative Party in Britain, traditionally the champion of the middle class, religion, and the nuclear family, is now in a bind. In the Tories' rush to be seen as the "compassionate" party, they have (up to now) neglected to address the immigration problem in Britain. Sound familiar?

Perhaps the Mother Country can teach us a thing or two again

No Border Under Hillary

Want a good reason to make sure that New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton isn't elected President?

Here's one from an address to the National Council of La Raza in 2005:

Clinton touched on nearly every issue that was important to Hispanics, the nation's largest ethnic group and a crucial voting bloc. She said she wanted to make sure Hispanic children got a fair education, and that families had medical insurance to ward off health problems such as asthma and lead poisoning that affect kids. She also talked of supporting legislation that would make it easier for immigrants to send money back home, which Hispanics do at a rate of about $200 per month.

Gosh Hillary, you might as well hang a big sign on the Southern border that says "Lawbreakers and Border Ruffians Welcome."

To be fair, Ms. Hillary said this while addressing the National Council of La Raza (The Race), a left-of-center Hispanic racist organization, so of course Hillary had to pander to this racist group because they are predominantly made up of Democratic voters.

La Raza is actually pretty tame compared to the militant anti-American Marxist group MEChA, which seeks the return of the entire Southwest to Mexican sovereignty, or the formation of an autonomous state that they call Aztlan. Of course, some members of La Raza are also members of MEChA.

Hillary said this back in 2005-who will Hillary protect-America or "Aztlan"?

Illegal Immigration and Politics

In the current political climate, the issue of illegal immigration is a very hard one to deal with. Many Tennesseans and Americans fail to understand that the reason our elected leaders fail to act to curb the current tide of illegals streaming into this country is often purely political.

One party depends on the votes of illegal aliens to remain viable in certain jurisdictions, and in some cases the votes of illegals and others ineligible to vote in an election bring about the results that party is seeking. The most famous example of this is the faux-victory of Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez over Republican Bob Dornan in conservative Orange County, California. Sanchez "won" that election by 984 votes, and a later Congressional investigation found that 624 votes were cast by non-citizens-not enough, Congress said at the time, to turn the election in favor of Dornan. To this day Dornan alleges that illegal aliens were allowed to vote and those votes were counted. The Dornan case has proven to be far from isolated.

The other party, while not dependent on the votes of illegals, is very dependent on money from certain interest groups who exploit the cheap labor given by many illegals-because after all, if you hire an illegal alien, you don't have to bother with paying him or her a standard wage or even (in many cases) the minimum one. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce doesn't want restrictions on immigration enforced, lest some of its members have to prove their workers are legal. In pursuit of money, that party has lost touch with the majority of the American people and even its own base.

This is the political part of the problem that we have to deal with-but politicians can't win without votes. Not only do we need to primary and/or defeat politicians who are pro-illegal, but we need to recruit citizens to step out of their personal comfort zone and be willing to sacrifice a part of their privacy and their time with their family and run for office.