Having retired from U.S. Customs Service
Southwest Region seven years ago, I am familiar with
the areas and problems (albeit just beginning) of which
Representative Poe speaks.
Poe made many other excellent points so the Congress
is aware of the problems, if only they paid attention.
Read and watch Poe’s entire speech
here.
Koontz lives in the
Houston area.
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A Chicago Minute Man Wonders Why
America Keeps Electing the Same Traitors
From:
Mike
Mozart
Re:
A Texas Reader Says Gov. Rick Perry Is Cut From The Same
Cloth As His Predecessor
One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and
over but hoping for different results.
American voters must truly be insane.
Reader Brian Welch wrote
"Perry
is the same guy who has called a fence on the
U.S./Mexico border ‘ridiculous’ and has repeatedly since
his re-election refused to acknowledge his constituency
unless they agree with him"
Keywords:
"since
his re-election"
How can we ever get a handle on this insidious invasion if
we the people continue to re-elect those who
allow it to happen?
Almost 80 percent of Americans want the invasion stopped and
our borders secured. But we continue to elect
Ted Kennedy,
Richard Durbin,
Diane Feinstein all the rest of the traitors.
It's utter madness.
We will never get our borders under control and the invaders
expelled or a return to sovereignty and the rule of law
until we the people vote out 90 percent of our Congress
and elect Americans that will put our nation’s interests
first.
If there was a wholesale purge of
open borders and
pandering politicians, we'd see those remaining
trying to outdo each other when it comes to cracking
down.
But instead of throwing the bad guys out, we vote them right
back in.
Why should our politicians do the right thing if there are
no consequences for doing the wrong thing? They have the
best of both worlds.
I have seen the enemy and he is us.
Mozart lives in what he describes as "the
Democratic-controlled sanctuary city of Chicago." He is
a Minuteman and, with others, protested in front of
Elvira Arellano's hideout. Read his previous letter
about Arellano
here
Send Mozart mail c/o
witan@vdare.com
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A New Hampshire Reader
Says Ron Paul Is Not "Humorless"
From: Judy St. Germaine
Re: Peter Brimelow’s
Column:
Ron Paul: I Believe in National Sovereignty"
I disagree with
Peter Brimelow’s observation that Dr. Paul is "humorless."
He is very serious, however, and was probably thinking
and planning the entire day that Brimelow interviewed
him.
My long-held personal opinion is that
open borders would create a political vacuum that
would be filled by a U.N.-style government. Now I see
just what Paul is suggesting is the exact same thing.
Many libertarians don't understand about world
government but Paul does.
St. Germaine has been
active in Republican politics for more than twenty
years. She has held many positions within local GOP
groups, run for office, and worked on state and
presidential campaigns. Send St. Germaine mail c/o
witan@vdare.com
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A PA Reader Says Attorney General Gonzales May Be The
Reason For President Bush’s "Insane" Pro-Mexican Agenda
From:
Robert Burch (e-mail
him)
Re: Chilton Williamson Jr.’s column:
Diversity Is Strength---It’s Also A.G. Gonzales’ Mexican
Mores
As damning as Williamson’s article on departed
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was, he omitted
the fact that Gonzales served on the board of directors
of one of
La Raza’s oldest affiliates, the
Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans
in Houston, Texas.
It makes you wonder if Bush’s "friend" is the
source of the president’s insane pro-Mexican
initiatives.
Burch describes himself as a prematurely retired
ex-chemical research engineer whose job was
outsourced. His letter about Ron Paul is
here. And his letters about the illegal alien crisis
in New Jersey and why educrats are happy about falling
SAT scores are
here and
here.
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A Florida Reader Says the U.S. May
Need a "Few" Immigrants
From: Jeffrey Oleander
Re:
A Canadian Reader Says U.S. Needs Immigrants In A Global
Economy
In his letter to VDARE.COM, Canadian reader Leonardo
Arbelaez wrote:
"Engineering enrollment in U.S. universities is
declining especially among native-born Americans."
U.S. university enrollments wax and wane according
to how
promising the job market seems in relationship to
the cost of a
four-year college education.
Right now the job market isn’t very encouraging so
fewer U.S. citizens enroll.
The best I can figure from U.S. Department of
Education’s records, in 1960 about 45,624 citizens
earned degrees in engineering. In 1970 that total rose
to 3,110 degrees in computer and information science and
63,753 in engineering.
In 1986, a water-shed year in which the
Immigration Reform and Control Act passed and
changes in tax regulations which encouraged body
shopping took effect, U.S. citizens earned 50,303 C&IS
degrees, and 99,077 engineering degrees.
In 2004 US citizens earned 66,130 C&IS degrees and
78,556 engineering degrees. The 2005 totals were 61,422
and 80,572, respectively.
If we consider the sum of all science and tech
degree categories, the numbers of US citizens earning
degrees become 80,566 in 1960, 141,672 in 1970, 251,240
in 1986, and 272,355 in 2004 and 275,923 in 2005.
Now, turning to
Bureau of Labor Statistics data on detailed
occupations (including US citizens, guest-workers and
those on green cards), in 1983 the math and computer
science work-force (both employed and unemployed) was
about 471,500, in 2004 it was about 3,278,000, in 2005
it was about 3,343,000, and in 2007Q2 it was about
3,509,000 (excluding formerly employed software
engineers currently working in menial jobs)
The numbers employed in math and computer science in
1983 were about 463,000 increasing to 3,140,000 in 2004;
3,342,945 in 2005 and 3,446,000 in 2007.
Similar figures for the electrical and electronic
engineering work-force were: about 458,000 in 1983,
about 351,000 in 2004, 358,000 in 2005,and about 306,000
in 2007Q2, while employment was about: 450,000 in 1983,
343,000 in 2004, 352,000 in 2005,and 306,000 in 2007Q2.
Not included in the figures of the preceding
paragraph are U.S. citizens who are selling cars but
used to be fully employed software architects or
electronics engineers. Note that the combined work
force has grown.
Yes, the U.S. needs a few immigrants. Unfortunately,
over the last five decades there have been far too many
immigrants and
guest-workers, while bright, well-educated U.S.
citizens—many of them brighter than most of the
guest-workers—have been knocked off of the
career ladder for the personal benefit of a few not
unscrupulous executives in business and academe.
Oleander has been a
programmer since 1970 with experience in econometrics
and statistics, rocket science and nuclear weapons
systems, screen- and speech-writing,
Send him mail c/o
witan@vdare.com
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