Re: Senate Votes

I sent this in response to the previous e-mail:

Also, just thought you’d be interested in this regarding the impact on Texas…
“This is the first time any state has done a comprehensive financial analysis of the impact of undocumented immigrants on a state’s budget and economy, looking at gross state product, revenues generated, taxes paid and the cost of state services.
“The absence of the estimated 1.4 million undocumented immigrants in Texas in fiscal 2005 would have been a loss to our gross state product of $17.7 billion. Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received. However, local governments bore the burden of $1.44 billion in uncompensated health care costs and local law enforcement costs not paid for by the state.”
— Carole Keeton Strayhorn, Texas Comptroller, Special Report Dec. 2006
(Republican comptroller and independent candidate for Texas governor in 2006)

In response they wrote back:

Texas is lucky if they can absorb the additional financial burden of illegal immigrants and not cut any infrastructure services. I find the amount of uncompensated health care services and local law enforcement services born by local governments interesting. How long will it be before the quality of services across the board have to be cut or the taxes are raised to cover the $1.44 plus amount. You see I’m of the opinion that we need to control the flow of immigrants into the U.S. They can come in legally just like others have for years. Why do we need to turn our backs on what is happening both in Mexico and here? Until their economy is restructured and stronger they will continue to flood across our borders and the coyotes will continue to profit from the fees they charge to get them here illegally. We have sex slavery going on because so many of the women are paying off the coyote to come here. That isn’t healthy for them nor is it morally right. For too long we have allowed the water to flood through the hole. Now we are faced with the impact on this country in both the human cost and financial cost. They want the freedom we have and the benefits we have. A sponge can only absorb so much water, before it becomes useless and floats away. I heard part of an interview this past week about what it would cost to annex Mexico into the U.S. I wish I’d heard it all. At times I think that would make a lot of sense. If we started to move into Mexico the way they are moving here, we wouldn’t have any rights at all there. I don’t even believe we could establish citizenship there. I know we couldn’t own property or vote. Yet there are those who think we should give full citizenship privileges to the illegal, pay them social security when they don’t pay anything into our social security. The employers don’t have to pay social security or workmen’s comp on illegals, because that establishes a paper trail. Here is a thought to ponder…. Many of the illegals are working in the construction trades, service trades etc. Why is that? Could it be that we Americans have become so ‘ White Collar ‘ that we think it is beneath us to break a sweat or get dirty? In our schools students are told they have to go to college to succeed. Not everyone is college material. If the original colonists had held to the idea that work was beneath them where would this country be, say 100 yrs. ago. We’d have been a slave state or a socialist country. I believe it was John Smith who told the colonists that if you don’t work you don’t eat. Read Proverbs and the many times that we are told the results of laziness. The ilegals aren’t lazy for the most part and I admire them for that. But it doesn’t appear that we need to continue pushing every child through college, either. We are on our way to establishing an elitist society. As the story goes the boy who stuck his finger in the hole of the dike in Holland saved the country from destruction. He didn’t wait until he was bigger, stronger or until after lunch. He did it when the need arose. When will we decide the need is here? Or will we say we’ll deal with this in 2008 or in twenty years? What will happen in the meantime? Also how many terrorists will come into this country by then? Are you ready to see Hezbollah, Al Quid, and Taliban openly raining down terror on you street or in Dallas or anyplace in our country?
The picture is very large. Probably much larger than anyone truly realizes. But the problem exists and isn’t going away without plugging the dike before it washes away.

Thoughts, questions, comments?