Star & Sickle retaliates
Well they probably won't appreciate this either, but as we all know you have to break some eggheads to avoid scrambling your brains.
The following editorial is verbatim, save the insertion of a single word which changes the tenor of the piece completely. See if you can spot the interloping bit of truth...
Editorial: Illegal Immigration is an asset, not a liability
Law enforcement is good, stigma is wrong.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty and the Legislature's DFL majority seemed on a collision course earlier this month when they came out of the chute with illegal immigration proposals for the 2007 session. Pawlenty, who seems to regard illegal immigration mainly as a threat, wants a crackdown on phony IDs, while Democrats want to build on the asset that illegal immigrants represent.
But there's no reason why both can't have their way this year. Illegal immigration has many facets -- mostly good -- and Minnesota needs a comprehensive strategy to make the most of its growing, illegally present foreign-born population.
The governor has a tendency to overemphasize crime whenever he discusses illegal immigration. Ask a cop, check the statistics -- there's just no evidence that immigrants, legal or illegal, are more likely than native-born Americans to commit serious crimes. But Minnesota's sheriffs and police chiefs say that the profusion of false ID cards -- a cottage industry in some communities -- is a hindrance when they try to investigate a suspect's background. For that reason, the governor's crackdown on phony identification is a reasonable response to one of the troubling outgrowths of illegal immigration.
But dwelling on crime does a disservice to Minnesota's illegal immigrant community and to public understanding of the topic. New Minnesotans here illegally furnish a hardworking pool of labor, a surge of entrepreneurial activity and the next generation of Minnesota's taxpayers.
For these reasons, DFL proposals that would help illegal immigrants acquire more education, obtain U.S. citizenship and improve their English skills are sound investments. As Sen. Mee Moua of St. Paul points out, together they send the message that illegal immigration can make Minnesota a stronger state.
The big fight is likely to center on the Dream Act, which would extend in-state college tuition rates to illegal immigrant students if they have attended a Minnesota high school for three years and earned a diploma. Opponents greet this as some sort of handout to opportunists. That's spiteful and shortsighted. Would Minnesota be stronger a decade from now with fewer college graduates in the workforce? Does Minnesota want to discourage ambitious and diligent teenagers? Of course not -- which explains why groups ranging from the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce to the Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul support the Dream Act.
Illegal immigrants have contributed to Minnesota's economy and culture for decades -- ask the heirs of Jeno Paulucci or James J. Hill -- and citizens who forget that are shortchanging the state's future.
Funny (as in odd, not haha); the champions of anarchy are always ready to whip out the banner of religion when it happens to benefit their position...to bad their copy of the banner is so irretrievably stained with the shit they spend the bulk of their time throwing at it.
You may wonder at the certainty with which the writers encourage us to "Ask a cop, check the statistics -- there's just no evidence that immigrants, legal or illegal, are more likely than native-born Americans to commit serious crimes..", but you needn't.
Why do you think that the left makes such an effort at keeping the police at arms length of a suspect's immigration status? They can make that claim (at least in states like Minnesota) because they have made it impossible to collect any records at all regarding crime and illegal immigration.
If you want meaningful statistics you must visit the databases of states like Texas and Arizona, where the resident moonbats would never be so bold as to make that foolish statement.
To say nothing of the fact that illegal immigrants, each and every one, commits at least one crime in just getting here...
Labels: illegal immigration, lefty lies, Star and Sickle
posted by Swiftee at 8:42 AM
6 Comments:
One of my best friends works in an outstate sheriffs dept. He estimates that illegals account for over 75% of all crime in the county.
Where the hell does the Left get off making these statements?
As I say, they make outrageously bogus claims like this because they have safely covered their tracks.
I'll be updating this post later today with a few statistics from states that do not hide the facts from their citizens.
While you're gathering your facts, Swiftee, here's some I found. A new UC-Irvine study finds that "the impression that immigration and criminality are linke" is not based on fact. "Even as the undocumented population has doubled to 12 million since 1994, the violent crime rate in the United States has declined 34.2 percent and the property crime rate has fallen 26.4 percent."
According to the study, 3.5 percent of American-born men aged 18-39 were incarcerated in jails or prisons in 2000, compared to 0.7 percent of foreign-born men — five times higher.
Here's some cold-hard facts to wash down that propaganda with:
A new report from the Texas comptroller's office calculated the amount paid through various taxes by an estimated 1.4 million illegal immigrants in Texas and the value of state and local government resources they used in fiscal year 2005:
STATE
$1.16 billion
Costs
$1.58 billion
Contributions
Estimated costs include education, health care and incarceration. Revenues paid included various user and sales taxes and school property taxes.
LOCAL
$1.44 billion
Costs
$513 million
Contributions
Estimated costs include health care not paid by the state and incarceration. Revenues paid included city, county and special district property taxes.
SOURCE: Texas comptroller
Taken together, that is a net $513 million loss to the state of Texas.
....and this article was a soft-sell that it isn't so bad!
For instance, the costs do not include the collateral losses incurred by victims of crimes committed by illegal aliens.
It also does not address the fact that there are several hospitals in Texas and Arizona where 90% of the women giving birth are here illegally...a tactic known as "anchor baby".
People who are here illegally have much less to lose by comitting crime than does someone who immigrated here legally.
For instance, as I said, every single illegal immigrant commits his or her first crime the minute they slip across our borders.
By the way. Do you have any idea how stupid it make you appear to compare a population of illegals that amount to perhaps 12 million against 300 million US citizens?
Think man, think.
And you, my friend, are a mouth-breathing troglodyte.
Sigh..I deserved that.
Suggest a moonbat think? What was *I* thinking?
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