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Kevin Fischer is an award-winning veteran broadcaster who has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for nearly three decades.
Kevin, who is a legislative aide to state Sen. Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin), can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, “INTERchange,” on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, in Franklin.
Americans must demand changes in lax immigration laws
By Kevin Fischer
Sunday, Jun 24 2007, 08:35 PM
Earlier this year during one of my fill-in stints on WISN Radio, I talked and later blogged about a New American article that exposed how Wisconsin DMV centers were willingly and knowingly issuing driver’s licenses and state ID cards to illegal immigrants. The article got a great deal of attention on the air and at my blog. During my Internet surfing, I came across another great New American article, and though it was published May 1, 2007, it carries the same, if not more significance now that the Senate ponders a highly controversial amnesty bill. The focus of the New American article is that illegal immigrants are organized and demanding, and will get what they want if real Americans don’t fight back. Here’s a portion of the article: Worked into a rage by the "Latino" media, the Internet, and radical activists over proposed legislation on Capitol Hill to stop illegal immigration, Hispanics repeatedly stormed American streets to demand their "rights." In no uncertain terms, they told the American people they are here to stay and no one can do anything about it, least of all the feckless politicians.
The protests here occurred because our border with Mexico, or La Linea, as the Mexicans call it, is essentially gone. And so is any respect for it. For Mexicans and the kleptocracy that keep them poor and illiterate, the border is no dividing line between two sovereign nations. Instead, it is a mere geographical obstacle to relative prosperity for Mexico's unwanted, unskilled masses.
The Mexican government published a pamphlet with instructions on safely and illegally crossing the border. It lobbies American politicians to open the borders. American Border Patrol agents face regular incursions by Mexican soldiers escorting drug gangs.
Aside from the Fox regime's blatant assault on American sovereignty, we have the illegal aliens themselves. Thousands daily cross at will. Some of them, too many, are criminals who terrorize American citizens.
According to Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), 10 percent of the population in U.S. jails and prisons is illegal immigrants. Criminal or no, these illegals bear children in American hospitals, leaving taxpayers with the bills. They send those children to public schools, again, leaving Americans holding the bag. Then they "protest" and hoist Mexican flags.
Meanwhile, Mexican and American authorities, as well as immigration activists, tell these illegal aliens they have a "right" to cross the border illegally, and further, that they have a "right" to stay and demand work, public welfare benefits, free healthcare, and a free education.
Sheer numbers aren't the worst news on illegal immigration. Half of illegal aliens, the Center for Immigration Studies reports, did not graduate high school and a third never made the ninth grade. Immigrants, legal and illegal, "comprise about 12 percent of America's workforce, [but] they account for 31 percent of high school dropouts in the workforce.... Between 1979 and 1997, immigrant households increased their representation in the U.S. population by 68 percent, but over that same period their share of the total poor population increased 123 percent."
Yes, illegal aliens are criminals, but that truth aside, that hundreds of thousands of immigrants, many of them illegal, could swamp American streets with impunity to make haughty, ridiculous demands is a sign they feel economically and politically empowered. Yet their power is derived solely from the inability of real Americans to makes changes via their representatives in Congress.
Of course, there is no reason for the illegals to leave under present circumstances. The current lax immigration policies must be changed, but those policies will not be changed unless we demand that they be changed.Here’s the entire New American piece.
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