Dear President Bush:

I'm about to plan a little trip with my family and extended family, and would like to ask you to assist me. I'm going to walk across the border from the U.S. into Mexico, and I need to make a few arrangements. I know you can help with this.

I plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws. I'm sure they handle those things the same way you do here.

So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Vicente Fox, that I'm on my way over? Please let him know that I will be expecting the following:

1. Free medical care for my entire family.

2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not.

3. All government forms need to be printed in English.

4. I want any children I bring with me to be taught by English-speaking teachers.

5. Schools need to include classes on American culture and history.

6. I want these children to see the American flag flying on the top of the flag pole at their school with the Mexican flag flying lower down.

7. Please plan to feed those children at school for both breakfast an lunch.

8. I will need a local Mexican driver's license so I can get easy access to government services.

9. I do not plan to have any car insurance, and I won't make any effort to learn local traffic laws.

10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo from Pres. Fox to leave me alone, please be sure that all police officers speak English.

11. I plan to fly the U.S. flag from my house top, put flag decals on my car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th. I do not want any complaints or negative comments from the locals.

12. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, and don't enforce any labor laws or tax laws.

13. Please tell all the people in the country to be extremely nice and never say a critical word about me, or about the strain I might place on them.

I know this is an easy request because you already do all these things for all the people who come to the U.S. from Mexico. I am sure that Pres. Fox won't mind returning the favor if you ask him nicely.

However, if he gives you any trouble, just invite him to go quail hunting with your V.P.

Thank you so much for your kind help.

Sincerely

jlh - i am for ending all immigration legal and illegal...... but that letter is still riddled with statements that are just not true such as expecting free health care and not paying taxes..... i wonder why the mexicans are the only ones being blamed though and no one says a word about our government destabalizing a whole continent below us and creating the need for people to come to where the money is........our banks and government have done everything in their power to create poverty south of us all the way to the tip of south america.........

no country on the face of this planet has helped to overthrow more democratically elected governments and helped to establish more dictators than the USA

why can we go on vacation to mexico but mexicans cannot come on vacation here????

in short-anyone who actually wants to end illegal immigration should be working to end free trade and abolish the WTO......if your not anti-wto then you are pro illegal immigration because a wall will never do anything.........in fact if a wall does ever go up it will probably be for canada to keep the americans out......and it still wont work

Lupo I think you are absolutly right about this letter. The WTO is a fiasco and should be abolished. We ( our banks and government) have created caos for democraticaly elected governments by helping to over throw them and replace them with dictators.

The letter was not to be taken as an action of choice, but was intended for casting light on our governments approach to dealing with the situation and how it hit the common citizen in the pocket book. It illustrates the many problems that were created by bad governmental policies over to years and they are coming home to roost. It is the American tax paying Joe Blow that has to pay the price as usual.

OK, I'll bite... and I'm sure many flames are to come my way for this. I've read plenty of indian/mexican hate here to know I stand in the minority.

If immigration were illegal, none of you would be here today. It's pretty simple really, and I know most of you are smart enough to realize that somewhere along the way in your ancestry, an immigrant entered the United States and called it home. Go ahead and use the born in the country makes you native, when the truth is that you are still the decendents of immigrants, unless you are either native american or indeginous to either the north or south american continents. So, in summary, it just seems awfully hypocritical to say that immigration should be illegal, or even more so, that a mexican who wants to cross a settlers drawn boundary into what very well may have been their ancestral homeland is an illegal immigrant. Mexicans were on this continent for thousands of years before any western european migrant.
Through the last few centuries of modern america, immigrants have been the people that have left their homeland because of poverty, oppression, political asylum and even criminals hiding from whatever charges they faced elsewhere (not including slaves, of course). The Puritans, the Irish, the Chinese, the Mexicans the list goes on. What gives anyone else the right to say "I've got mine, through the very same process that you are trying, now you can't have yours"?

It kind of reminds me of these neighbors that I have who "migrated" from California a couple of years ago. They bought some property, put up a house, planted their grass and flowers and Japenese maples and a couple rhodies. Another Californian does the same thing in the lot right behind me. I catch Fornian #1 in my back yard one morning yelling at Fornian #2 (she had the balls to walk into my yard to start her fight with my other neighbor). I ask her "what the F***" and she proceeds to tell me how she is going to turn them in to the county, she is sure they don't have the proper permits for dropping the trees and building the garage, and she's sick of all the construction noise and not only that, she can't believe someone would move into her neighborhood and just start tearing down trees and building a house out here in the country, just so they could get away from California and maybe someday turn a profit.

Just seemed a little audacious.

Now I recognize that there are many open minded people on this board that I agree with about 98.5% of the time. But really, what's the argument for keeping out a Mexican, trying to provide a better life for his family. I can understand kicking out any Arab national. Call it racial profiling, but the last time I checked the Arabs (Osama and his cohorts) have tried twice to take down the trade towers and succeeded once. The mexicans have never tried to blow up any national monuments that I am aware of.

Secure the borders, the ports of entry, I mean really, that should be priority number uno. But to single out the Mexicans for this whole immigration reform, spawned by the need for Homeland Security seems kind of like using a garden hose to put out a forest fire.

So, I'm sorry for this post, really, I truly apologize. I guess that I'm just sort of confused by how america ended it's greatest era of "give me your tired, your poor" and instead entered into the world of Pat Buchanan isolationism.

Let the flames begin.

OK another bite. I didnt even read the follow up posts (yet) although there had to me alot of though involved judging by the amount spent typing.

MY veiw?
There should be a wall on our southern border. With razor wire and a landmine strip on it's southern side. There should be guard towers with overlapping fields of fire. Marksmen with orders to shoot to kill.
Why all this? The prevention of smuggling and respect for the laws of our land. Laws WE eneacted as voting members of a constitutional republic. Laws which are being pissed on by people who don't care two ****es about them and are just looking to make a fast buck.
This type of acton is commonplace on borders all across the globe. It stymies illicit trade and and the importation of workers which undermines the national labor market and wage system.
It is in place all over both western AND Eastern Europe. You will find it all over Asia. Africa? How dare you compare.

Now, there is only one way to TRULY stauch the flow off ILLEGAL labor. That is to SHUT DOWN any employer caught trying to save a few bucks by hiring illegals. Sieze the business. Put the greedy fawk in prison. Problem SOLVED.

The way to shut down drug smuggling? Anyone found crossing outside a checkpoint is shot first, questions later. Bar none.

The way to do this and still maintain a free country? Make sure the minefields, trip wires, & barricades are all facing outwards. Also, it's not against our laws to leave, is it? Never should be.

Homeland security is a Bush Admin joke. Its just a fancy 9-11 name for a bunch of bureaucracies that already existed.

BTW I am "Native American." Illegal Immigration and the crimes directly related to have been a constant problem since 1492.

in 92 mexican immigration deported me for working the door at the cebolla roja resteraunt in puerto vallarta.......

i think its funny how the news never points out that mexico wont control its outpouring of immigrants because we are still refusing to pay mexico billions in back pay for the bracero programs that helped us win ww2...... now that makes us look cheap..........if our government forced the corporations to pay the mexican government back, then the mexican govt would stop a major amount of the immigration

if george bush sr. old roomate in college(carlos salinas) didnt loot billions of dollars from the national treasury of mexico it would be in much better shape to deal with its unemployed........ instead we wont help the govt of mexico capture salinas who lives on a huge yacht in international waters and is still friends with bush sr.

Remember we forgave Mexico's debt which many economists felt led to the S&L crisis.

My thoughts....what part of illegal don't we, they understand? Don't like a law then work to change it. Until then obey it. These aren't jobs that American citizens aren't willing to do. I remember a time when they were almost exclusively performed by American citizens. It's the low wages that citizens aren't willing to accept and those wages are low as a direct result of illegal immigration. Do you really desire people from foreign lands butchering your meat? If cheap enough maybe we should have illegals from ebola virus regions processing our food? I wonder at what point we say it's crowded enough?

By the way, go back far enough and even native americans were immigrants.

2 way street indeed.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21836

frontpage has never written a factual article in the sites history.....i am anti-immigration and pro-strengthening of the american economy but i aint about to buy into that frontpage.com crap....our own govt fly's more foreign flags than anyone or any group.. just go down to the publiclly paid for seattle center and you will see flags from all over the place.... or any us embassy.

while i am inti-immigration......i understand that it does no good to demonize the immigrants like sardonicus and his ilk..... and it does no good to do anything but solve the problem and not bankrupt ourselves on trying to just address the symptoms of the problem.........
the real issue is that corporate america is controlling our govt and using its power to sell off our country to the highest bidder and sell out the american people and enrich themselves all the while creating their own new world govt outside of the control of any particular country............think that sounds crazy??????? it is absolute fact and it is being done right under our noses and it will never be covered by their own corporate media..........thats why it sounds crazy

Lupo I see you are back into one of your extreme delusional cycles. You wouldn't recognize a crepe if it hit you in the mouth. Funny if it wasn't so sad.
Btfw we don't have an immigration problem, and immigrants aren't the problem, 'illegal aliens' is the name of one facet of the problem, the other seems to be the inability to control our borders. Nothing new, the vacuum has existed for decades.

I agree with Ichtyoid...

aunty- didnt infer that you were demonizing the illegal immigrants......and what i wrote agrees with your comment that it is in our best intrest to control our borders...but we still need to understand why this is happening.....

sardonicus-nothing makes you look dumber than when you type your thoughts....you dont even read the posts, you just make up some absurd response and it shows......your post doesnt have anythig to do with what i wrote you.....go take your meds and eat your jello....no wonder you were cutting and pasting so much

for those of you that obviousely didnt read my first post ....I AM ANTI IMMIGRATION ON BOTH LEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS......

I guess your reading comprehension facility went South with your ability to reason. I am beginning to understand why Kerry and Co. appeals to you so much. Flip Flop. You loudly claim to be so patriotic and an America lover, and yet you would deny one of the singular aspects of this country that makes us unique. ...Give me your downtrodden... etc. The significant other is our constitution. We are all immigrants, even you Lupo. The only difference between us all is how many generations ago your ancestors arrived. I guess you could be a Native American. They, unlike you, have reason to be bitter.
btw: Being considered dumb by the likes of you is a compliment. Thanks.

Ps. Fences only work for cattle. Ask Stalin and his commie inheritors.

I'm thinking there's a lot of wide open space around Crawford, TX to cram em in. Sard, have any land you wish to donate to the cause or are you a nimby?

Amnesty doesn't work. The mere mention of it causes a flood across the border as is happening right now. Even less jobs per person. Once achieving legal status and on the path to betterment of their lives (more pay/benefits) they too are not willing to work for slave wages/conditions and employers look for the cheap labor elsewhere. The result is more illegal immigration to fill the slots. For the rest of us a more crowded country lowering the over all quality of life. I agree that employers of illegals need to be prosecuted as they are lining their pockets, against the law and at the expense of society.

Seems Georgia is taking Legislative action regarding it's illegals. It is aimed at the people that hire, as well as those that smuggle them in. Read the following.

http://today.reuters.com/news/ArticleNew...6_0945_ARTICLE_

Forgive my ignorance, I don't know what a nimby is. I think the amnesty idea sucks, I also think that until we get Mr. Fox's attention, and get him to stop aiding and abetting the illegals we won't change the trend. He simply sends his social problems North.
I worked in the farm labor field from the 6th grade on thru high school. Uncle had a ranch and I started driving a buck rake behind the gassiest horse uncle owned. 75 cents and hour plus board and room. When he was done with me I worked on neighboring farms. I believe there are a lot of kids in school that would be well served to do farm labor in the summers. Better than the fast food industry for sure. The countries young people would be much better off learning where that egg came from than slinging freedom fries at Ronalds.

your such a jackass sardonicus....i went to the largest indian college in the country......and indians are immigrants too- and being indian doesnt give you special rights to be concerned with taking care of the present citizens

but then again you dip **** republicans dont give a crap about taking care of this countries present needs and you never have

you allways act like an asshole instead of discussing.....maybe thats cuz nothing you write makes any sense.....

america needs to take care of its present citizens needs before the government brings in one more person......

the whole we are all immigrants so we cannot stop the flow arguement is just absurd......

would you eat until you pop?....after all you have allways eaten and we are all eaters so it would be hypocritical not to eat until we pop .....
thats the dumb logic use by the "we are all immigrants" spewers

keep spewing sard and try and include kerry and hillary as much as possible.....and keep ignoring the crimes of your party,......good dog.....sit!! now eat your jello old man

Sard,
"I worked in the farm labor field from the 6th grade on thru high school. Uncle had a ranch and I started driving a buck rake behind the gassiest horse uncle owned. 75 cents and hour plus board and room. When he was done with me I worked on neighboring farms. I believe there are a lot of kids in school that would be well served to do farm labor in the summers. Better than the fast food industry for sure. The countries young people would be much better off learning where that egg came from than slinging freedom fries at Ronalds."

Sard I agree. Some of the jobs the illegal are doing now would better suit some of our American Kids today than McDee's. Plus, there would be a lot less obesity. Not talking about child slavery, but instilling good values. I'm sure that if given the chance and offered fair wages, a lot of Americans (kids as well as adults) would make themselves available for the Jobs that Bush says American don't want.

Here is a pretty neat little thing from Paul Harvey.

Paul Harvey Writes:

We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I'd like better.

I'd really like for them to know about hand me down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meat loaf sandwiches. I really would.

I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated.

I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car.

And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen.

It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your old dog put to sleep.

I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.

I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother/sister. And it's all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him.

When you want to see a movie and your little brother/sister wants to tag along, I hope you'll let him/her.

I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely.

On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't ask your driver to drop you two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom.

If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one.

I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books.

When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head.


I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a boy\girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like.


May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.

I don't care if you try a beer once, but I hope you don't like it. And if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend.


I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandma/Grandpa and go fishing with your Uncle.

May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays.

I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Hannukah/Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand.

These things I wish for you - tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life

There's nothing I can contend with in that post, John Lee Hookum. Always enjoyed Harvey, even if I didn't always agree with him. Is he still going at it? I haven't heard him for a while.

Thanks Lupo. I didn't know you were Native American, or blood or wannabe or silly Wasicum trying to be a warrior. The only war with you is your mouth contradicting the education you make claim to. All that aside tho', you are hilarious when you talk dirty. I thought perhaps you couldn't help it, at first. Now it's obvious that you think it makes you seem worldly rather than just ignorant.
Perhaps you meant indian as in Columbus looking for India? Is that it? Are you an immigrant from the major Asian sub-continent? Punjabi no doubt.
Lol, Thuggee for sure.

He is still going strong from my understading. I never really took him serious as i usually didn't agree with him. When I lived in Chicago and he was on the air, I could tolerate his noise as the adult watched him on TV, but he was way to Old and straight for my generation at the time

Now that I am getting older, I find myself paying more attention to some of the stuff that I once thought was lame. I recieved this in my mail box from a friend, and thought I would pass it on, because your post sorta reminded me of it.

sardonicus-you are probably the dumbest person on this board......TK was smart-allways wrong- but smart- you, on the other hand, dont even make any sense in what you write......

now wtf do indians or crepes or punjabis have to do with anything???? your suppose to eat your jello old man, not try and read posts thru your jello..........

LOL, Pupo I can understand your troubles with my writing. Sorry, I don't know any other way. Capitals, proper punctuation and whole sentences must give you fits. And then I suppose vocabulary causes some problems too.
If you got your degree from "the largest indian college in the country" it would seem the BIA is still doing a first class job of raping the taxpayer and the tribes as usual. It is interesting that you consider The King smart but always wrong. That's illogical as Spock would say. Illogical, another one of those words that gives you problems, I suppose. I think you should get counseling. The view from the roof tops is making you arrogant and paranoid.

sard- you can be smart and wrong!!!!! of course since your about as sharp as a tennis ball you might not understand that.......

and if you think grammer is important in im'ing or bb's your in the extreem minority............telll me what type of grammer a gremlin is????????????????????

Bottom line... unless we are prepared to buy lettuce for $5 a head, grapes for $10 a bunch, apples for $2 each, we will see a continuation of illegals in this country.

You are hilarious Lupo. You accuse me of being dumb and yet you cannot understand anything that has more than one or two syllables. I should not expect you to understand me I guess. Your mouth runs on like a Goby's. Goby has an excuse, that's how it acquires Oxygen. What is your excuse?
Please tell me more about the largest indian college in the country. What country? I'm serious. Perhaps I could audit a few courses and go brain dead like you. No pain that way.