SAN JUAN — Hundreds of Valley residents signed a letter of support to a comprehensive immigration reform and donated $1 dollar each one to pay the visit of community organizers to Washington, D.C. to speak with Texas representatives last October and convince them about the importance and urgency to approve that reform.
The fundraising campaign, sponsored by La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE), a Rio Grande Valley’s organization advocating a comprehensive immigration reform, managed to get $1,428.64 in total.
The LUPE members who went to Washington, D.C. spent $1,575 dollars in flight expenses and $100 in meals during their 3-day staying in the Nation’s capital. Javier Parra, a LUPE organizer in Alton, Texas, said that LUPE had to raise money because she didn’t plan to make any travel to Washington, D.C. and the trip was not budgeted.
Ericka Gonzalez, a Mercedes resident, said that she helped to raise money and signatures “because there is a need to become regular and to pass a reform to benefit all undocumented immigrants.”
The campaign become a contest among the four LUPE’s offices in Hidalgo County. The Alton office was able to raise $537 dollars and won the first place in the contest. Other office got $225 (San Juan), $199.64 (Mercedes), and $67 (Pharr). The Hirn Family donated $400. LUPE is still trying to raise $271 more dollars to refund all expenses.
If we’re going to reward foreigners for violating the law, then we should reward Americans for violating the law. Makes sense to me!
why should American people give Illegal Immigrants Amnesty. they have cross the border and that againt the law. they have broke the law come in the right way. No Amnesty
March for Justice, while Americans and Texans don’t get any. Keep watching survivor Oprah and other valuable input and lose your nation fast. By all means, don’t go to town hall meetings, you might be called a Nazi.(Nancy Pelosi)
I’m pretty weary of hearing that the illegals and their supporters want “justice.” The American people want justice too. And that will happen when every illegal and their supporters are out of our country. Please use all this energy that you have for breaking into someone else’s country and demand your own leaders take care of you. Where is it written that you can break the laws of another nation and expect them to welcome you? I know many fools in our government are traitors, but the majority of American just want you to leave. We owe you nothing. You are criminals and we have enough home grown ones.
Has anybody thought deeply about the consequences of another illegal immigrant amnesty? Let’s forget for the moment that suddenly 20 to 30 million people are going to be legalized? That Sanctuary states like California, New Mexico have been financially ridden hard into the ground, because illegal workers and their families are feeding at a gold mine at the taxpayer expense. Let’s not mention that since the 1986 Simpson/Mazzoli bill, those made legal, was able to bring into the United States their extended family members. That although they signed an affidavit to support those, many ended up at the taxpayer’s expense. So let’s ignore the expenditures to educate, free health care treatment and all the rest of hidden costs of subsidizing a large portion of the US population. The fact that the businesses that draw them here, from every corner of the world–PAYS NOTHING TOWARDS THEIR UPKEEP. IT’S FREE GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES FOR PARIAH BUSINESS, BETTER KNOWN AS CORPORATE WELFARE? Every one of the Democratic leadership have used their influence to weaken E-Verify, county police fed program 287 (g) and ICE raids on businesses.
So president Obama bypasses the masses the hard pressed American, who have entreated him–NO BLANKET AMNESTY! No path to citizenship! So the millions already here get a free ride to your pensions, social security, public option health care welfare. NOW HERE COMES THE FIRESTORM! Have we taken leave of our senses, to think for one moment that another amnesty which is in the works? That a single layer fence is going to hold back millions upon millions more people will–COME? This will not be small meandering lines of illegal aliens, crossing the border during the hours of darkness? This is going to be an unimaginably rush at 9.000 border patrol agents, that is–Expected?–to hold at bay those who reach our border? Not even the National Guard and regular GI’s could stop the wave upon wave? They will sweep in from El-Salvador, Columbia, Guatemala, Peru, Chile and of course Mexico. They will arrive from Canada, Ireland, Poland and Romania by plane clutching a tourist visa.
Every corner of the world will hear the resounding trumpet call of Osama’s AMNESTY. Chinese immigrants with tourist visas will fly into Mexico City and perhaps terrorists smuggled in by M 13 gang members? Not just the poor, but the sick, mentally handicapped along with criminals, absconding from the arm of the law across this planet. NOW THE MOST URGENT QUESTION IS? WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR ALL THIS? We are already swallowing the massive funding for Iraq and Afghanistan. We cannot even find jobs for hapless 15 million American workers, who (if true) are joining day-laborers at Home Depot, Walmart, and Lowe’s parking lots? So who is going to house, feed and pay-out–more strained US taxpayer money? Perhaps we should send families of illegal aliens to squat in Sen. Harry Reid’s gated home in Nevada. Send another crowd to live in House Speakers Nancy Pelosi’s grape plantations in Central California. How about Chuck Schumer, HS Chief Janet Napolitano, Joe Biden, Diane Feinstein, Gil Cedillo leaving their house key under the mat, for some large family from Indonesia, India to find?
Let’s give them free bus fare to each and every politician with a lousy immigration grading, such as Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) or the whole Sacramento Liberal Marxist assembly, who have sold bona-fide legal Angelino’s into state insolvency? Why not have them live-in at every ACLU office and their communist lawyers so they could feed them. Every pro-illegal immigrant Chamber of Commerce member could open a spare room and settle some family members, until more brothers and sisters could be sponsored and join them. The Catholic Church and other religious groups could welcome them at the church doors and distribute money from the plate? The minority of Evangelicals churches could open up the rectory, accommodating hundreds of cots from the tired and poverty stricken. All the anti-sovereignty lawmakers should have plenty of room in their Virginia mansions, their custom ranches for large numbers of impoverished families. Even the President has that large White structure–could exhibit some kindness to homeless families and FEMA could establish a tent city in the grounds? Any of the House and Senate who compromised illegal immigration enforcement, should announce their address for resettlement of people who just run the gauntlet at the under funded border fence.
Let’s face it these people who call us names such as xenophobes bigots and worse, adding ugly cuss words to their vocabulary should also open their doors to anybody who enters America illegally. Microsoft multi-billionaire Bill Gates and the thousands of businesses that don’t incur a darn cent should bring these family members together in their giant homes. Corporate owners who have colluded with State governors, Mayors, Judges and other lower echelon officials, should participate with a welcome mat. Perhaps American workers should obtain a hard copy list of every unpatriotic American and give illegal matriarch a page of addresses for their extended illegal families? We have San Francisco’s mayor Galvin Newsom and Los Angeles Antonio R.Villaraigosa and all the other–SANCTUARY CITIES AND STATES who have completely ignore federal laws, can also give refuge in their abodes to incorrigible
gang members who have killed without conscience, illiterate drunk laborers who have slaughtered families on our streets, because they could comprehend English warning signs.
Then just picture the traffic chaos in every corner of America, unless you live in an isolated ranch in the Mohave Desert, in California. We think we have road rage now, but give it a few weeks after unfettered AMNESTY. I even have a better idea. Open America’s doors completely? No Ellis Island, Galveston Island. No documents, no inspections. NO NOTHING. Give everybody a bus ticket of their choosing, to where they wish to go? See how long the open border zealots put up with that progressive rush to overpopulation. IF you have changes of heart give a tongue-lashing to your legislators at 202-224-3121 in Washington. Learn the financial services in billions of dollars to foreign nationals at NUMBERSUSA,. Hidden corruption that has finally been uncovered, at JUDICIAL WATCH? What the US Census has to say about the POPULATION GROWTH in the future of our children at CAPSWEB? Our population will escalate from 255 million to 383 million by the year to 2050? The next 100 million will suffocate our ability to maintain water, energy, food, communication, infrastructure and a balanced environment.
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GOD BLESS THE U.S.!!!
As long as people on both sides have closed minds and spout only angry talking points, there will be no solution to this issue.
Wasting their time. There will be no immigration bill. Just ask Barry.
Sure, he’ll tell you he’s with you and supports you, just to keep you in line and keep those donations coming.
But in the end, there will be no bill, “just words, just speeches” ~ Barry Soetoro, the new international man of mystery.
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