Swine Flu Proves Need for Better Border Security

As we all know, our borders are all extremely porous; especially our southern border with Mexico. As I see it, the only real option we have is to build a fence and use the technology and human support needed to monitor it effectively. The Mexican government must also assume border security responsibility or face trade sanctions with the United States. The Obama Administration/Democrats and some Republican’s attitude toward protecting our borders is pretty chilling to say the least. For the sheer sake of political power they continue to ignore American sovereignty and safety, while continuing to advocate amnesty for those who have entered our country illegally and have consistently voted against efforts to increase our border security.

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The bottom line is: We will continue to have holes in our border security whereby both illegal aliens, and those who seek to harm us can enter without fear of penalty. Consequently, due to politics and politics alone, we not only forfeit our safety and security, but we willingly saddle every American citizen earning a paycheck with billions of dollars welfare to keep them here. There is no doubt whatsoever that the Democrats will do all that they can to give citizenship to illegal aliens as soon as possible, as it is no secret that those who live off the system typically vote the system and therefore give the Democrats exactly what they are working tirelessly to achieve, total and complete power. As you will note, the figures below date back a couple of years consuming $338 Billion dollars over that period in time. How much more is being spent today? It’s time to stand up, it’s time to speak out, it’s time to take our country back! We are not only a nation of immigrants; we are also a nation of laws and refusing to accept that is simply not an option. Don’t you think it’s worthy of our concern? I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I have included the URL’s for verification of the following facts: 1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year. 2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. 3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. 4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! 5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. 6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. 7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. 8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare and Social Services by the American taxpayers. 9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. 10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s two-and-a-half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the U.S. 11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report. 12. The National Policy Institute, “estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.” 13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. 14. “The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crime s Committed by Illegal Immigrants in The United States.” Total cost is a whopping… $338.3 BILLION A YEAR!!! If this doesn’t bother you then just delete the message, but on the other hand, if it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, then forward it. Social Security Change For 2008 The United States Senate voted to extend Social Security Benefits to Illegal Aliens beginning in 2008. The following are the senators who voted to give illegal aliens Social Security benefits. They are grouped by home state. If a state is not listed, there was no voting representative. Some Senators like Steven of Alaska were defeated in the 2008 General election as well. Alaska : Stevens (R) Arizona : McCain (R) Arkansas : Lincoln (D) Pryor (D) California : Boxer (D) Feinstein (D) Colorado : Salazar (D) Connecticut : Dodd (D) Lieberman (D) Delaware : Biden (D) Carper (D) Florida : Martinez (R) Hawaii : Akaka (D) Inouye (D) Illinois : Durbin (D) Obama (D) Indiana : Bayh (D) Lugar (R) Iowa : Harkin (D) Kansas : Brownback (R) Louisiana : Landrieu (D) Maryland : Mikulski (D) Sarbanes (D) Massachusetts : Kennedy (D) Kerry (D) Montana : Baucus (D) Nebraska : Hagel (R) Nevada : Reid (D) New Jersey : Lautenberg (D) Menendez (D) New Mexico : Bingaman (D) New York : Clinton (D) Schumer (D) North Dakota : Dorgan (D) Ohio : DeWine (R) Voinovich(R) Oregon : Wyden (D) Pennsylvania : Specter (R) Rhode Island : Chafee (R) Reed (D) South Carolina : Graham (R) South Dakota : Johnson (D) Vermont : Jeffords (I) Leahy (D) Washington : Cantwell (D) Murray (D) West Virginia : Rockefeller (D), by Not Voting Wisconsin : Feingold (D) Kohl (D) Nice huh ? Steve Rathje was born in Cedar Rapids in 1956, to successful entrepreneurs Richard and Ida Mae Rathje, Steve grew up watching his parents run their construction business from home, six to seven days a week. Their strong work ethic is what the Rathje Construction Company thrived on. Today, Rathje Construction has expanded to a location in Eastern Marion and is being run by Steve’s brothers, Robert and Kenneth and two of Steve’s nephews.

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