August
15, 2005
Letter
to the Editor:
Immigration
and Mexico's elections
Many
reports lately have indicated that since Europeans regularly pay US$5.00 per gallon that Americans should become used to the
new surge in gas prices and accept them as the new reality.
The
reports never mention that many of the European nations mentioned – including Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain
and Italy – have nationalized medicine, food price controls and many other programs that are paid for by their citizens
and subsidized by taxes.
That situation is not the
case in the United States where often even people in poverty pay top prices for medical care that may or may not help them,
pay high prices for food that may or may not be safe, and are not eligible for several programs that are easily available
to illegal immigrants – such as home loans, business loans, food and medical assistance, and other things.
Rather
than carrying out a huge grab at cash and property like earlier political criminals have done, this new group is satisfying
itself by picking the pockets of each and every one of us and hoping we don’t notice.
They
arrived in an air-conditioned bus. It was a direct ride from the Mexican border. A 1,600-mile drive and no one asked any questions.
They drove through Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and on into Michigan.
Not
a word was spoken.
When
they arrived in the parking lot of an apartment complex they were off loaded and surrounded by men carrying automatic weapons. No police, of course, showed up.
Half
of the Mexicans on the bus were immediately escorted to their new one bedroom apartments – where 5 or 6 of them would
be sleeping, eating and living for the next 120 days – or more if the work lasted.
The
other half were lined up and moved away in groups of 5 to 10 by vans and private cars that streamed into the parking lot.
Within
45 minutes the crowd had been dispersed.
They
were sent to work at local plant nurseries, factories, construction sites, grocery supermarkets, restaurants – even
on public highway construction jobs.
President
Vicente Fox of Mexico calls these people patriots and heroes. The Governor of
New Mexico has declared a state of emergency along the border as the flood of illegal immigrants, drugs and smuggled goods
has overwhelmed the many American towns and cities.
The
PRI has called the people who run into the United States for work traitors – and one need only look at a party that
was celebrated just recently in Michigan to see what they are talking about.
The
original batch of illegal immigrants was rounded up and given a day long party that went along deep into the night.
There
was a mariachi band with blaring trumpets, plenty of beer and food. Entire families
showed up declaring their solidarity for Mexico and its glorious future. Eventually
two prostitutes made their appearance below some trees not too far from the drunken revelry – apparently for the comfort
of those men who did not bring their wives and perhaps for those too drunk to remember that they did.
In
any case – the young women did a brisk business as a politician from Mexico set up a small table and had the drunken
men and loudly berated women accept documents detailing how to vote in the upcoming Mexican presidential election.
Who
was doing this?
Recall
that the PRI calls the people that have been running out of their country traitors and Vicente Fox calls them patriots.
After
being provided jobs, money, beer, food and women – which candidate do you think these people would vote for?
Alfred Brock (E-mail: Cris Ranston)
Canton, MI
cranston36@yahoo.com
