It has been a very long time since I posted anything to this BLOG. I finally reached a point of inspiration that ignited a desire to write. This desire may not last beyond today, but let me take advantage while the fire is hot.
Last evening I sat at the kitchen table with Lovely, and one of my Lion friends. We drank copious amounts of red wine drawn from a box, and covered many topics, most of which were forgettable. Some of the best involved Trump’s idea to take Gaza away from the Palestinians and build it into something they would desire to have. That would be no small task. After seeing pictures of the devastation, the job looks immense. Not only does it look massive, it is enormous.
The topic shifted to immigration, and I suggested that we migrate the entire Palestinian population to Greenland, where there is plenty of open space. They could live in peace with the natives and polar bears. I tend to punish people I don’t care for by sending them to icy places, especially if they live in an idyllic Mediterranean atmosphere. Somehow the topic shifted again to all the languages our government spends money on to help immigrants assimilate into our society. This is another topic, that is, one of government stupidity. Instead of spending money on teaching people to speak English we want to keep them happy by speaking in their native tongues. There are about 200 countries in the world today, and most of them have their own language. This idea sparked a new concept in my aged mind. America is like the story of the Tower of Babel. We are the tower reaching toward heaven. All the migrants are clamoring to join us to help the construction so they too can get to heaven. God sees us beginning to make some real progress and decides that He must teach us a lesson. He sends us help in the form of migrants who speak in many different languages and we can no longer communicate with one another. Thus the construction of the tower leading to heaven can not be completed.
The tap on the box of wine we were using slowed to a drip and our guest decided it was time for him to leave. As we walked him to his car, I began showing him various art pieces that hung on our walls and sparks of embers ignited new conversations until finally, he disappeared into the darkness of the night.
I have spent untold hours viewing YouTube videos in the past few weeks. Among my most favorite are those showing the construction of the border wall along the Mexican border.
There is an intrinsic beauty to watching this process. It is like watching a ballet. The sound of machinery blends with an orchestra. One can visualize the dollars being spent on each foot of the barrier being installed. The real question is whether or not it will achieve the goal of protecting the United States from invasion.
Yesterday, I found a video of Mexican Coyotes climbing over the wall using a rope ladder. The key to this method was to hire an ex-ATT pole climber with special shoes who could shimmy up the steel posts to throw a hook over the top with the rope ladder attached. Once the ladder was secure, it was simple for others to climb the steps, Flip over the top plate, and shimmy down into the USA.
It took me just a few more minutes to find videos of others climbing the wall without ropes or ladders. I guess the sensors in the wall will alert the Border Patrol to the location, and they can then drive there to find the person.
No matter how one looks at this barrier system, traffic flow is slower. Compare a single individual sneaking across the border to the recent massive surge of people storming the agents.
I am certain that even the Great Wall of China, as has Hadrian’s Wall in Scotland, has been breached.
Great Wall of China
Hadrian’s Wall is a World Heritage Site in the beautiful Northumberland National Park. Popular with walkers along the Hadrian’s Wall Path and Pennine Way
Walls have been built throughout history to deter people from invading a country. As countries fail, the walls become insignificant, as will the Great Wall of the USA. Someday, travel agencies will offer trips to view this wall, just as agencies lead groups of people on the China Wall.
In the meantime, I will enjoy watching the Dance of the Builders as they progress toward completion
Tina Griego is a Free-Lance reporter for the Denver Post.
She writes some really good stuff, and she is a strong advocate for LEGAL Immigration. Not Democrat, not Republican, not Liberal, and not Conservative. Just the facts by a good reporter.
“What if they left?”
What if 20 million Illegal Aliens Vacated America? I, Tina Griego, journalist for the Denver Rocky Mountain News have written a column titled, “Mexican Visitors’ Lament.”
I interviewed Mexican journalist Evangelina Hernandez while visiting Denver last week Hernandez said, “Illegal aliens pay rent, buy groceries, buy clothes. What happens to your country’s economy if 20 million people go away?”
Hmmm, I thought, what would happen?
So, I did my due diligence, buried my nose as a reporter into the FACTS I found below It’s a good question…it deserves an honest answer.
Over 80% of Americans demand secured borders. What would happen if all 20 million or more vacated America? This may surprise you!
In California, if 3.5 million illegal aliens moved back to Mexico, it would leave an extra $10.2 billion to spend on overloaded school systems, bankrupt hospitals and overrun prisons. It would leave highways cleaner, safer and less congested. Everyone could understand one another as English became the dominant language again.
It means 12,000 gang members would vanish out of Denver alone. Colorado would save more than $20 million in prison costs, and the terror that those 7,300 alien criminals set upon local citizens. Denver Officer Don Young and hundreds of Colorado victims would not have suffered death, accidents, rapes and other crimes by illegals.
Denver Public Schools would not suffer a 67% dropout/flunk rate because of thousands of illegal alien students speaking 41 different languages. Denver’s 4% unemployment rate would vanish as our working poor would gain jobs at a living wage.
In Chicago, Illinois, 2.1 million illegals would free up hospitals, schools, prisons and highways for a safer, cleaner and more crime-free experience.
If 20 million illegal aliens returned ‘home,’ the U.S. economy would return to the Rule of Law. Employers would hire legal American citizens at a living wage.
Everyone would pay their fair share of taxes because they wouldn’t be working off the books. That would result in an additional $401 billion in IRS income taxes collected annually, and an equal amount for local, state and city coffers.
No more confusion in American schools that now must contend with over 100 languages that degrade the educational system for American kids.
Our overcrowded schools would lose more than two million illegal alien kids at a cost of billions in ESL and free breakfasts and lunches.
We would lose 500,000 illegal criminal alien inmates at a cost of more than $1.6 billion annually. That includes 15,000 MS-13 gang members who distribute $130 billion in drugs annually and would vacate our country
In cities like L.A., 20,000 members of the ’18th StreetGang’ would vanish from our nation. No more Mexican forgery gangs for ID theft from Americans! No more foreign rapists and child molesters!
America’s economy is drained. Taxpayers are harmed. Employers get rich. Over $80 billion annually wouldn’t return to the aliens’ home countries by cash transfers. Illegal migrants earned half that money untaxed, which further drains America’s economy which currently suffers a $30 trillion debt.
More than $30 TRILLION !!
At least 400,000 anchor babies would not be born in our country, costing us $109 billion per year per cycle. At least 86 hospitals in California, Georgia and Florida would still be operating instead of being bankrupt out of existence because illegals pay nothing via the EMTOLA Act.
Americans wouldn’t suffer thousands of TB and hepatitis cases rampant in our country – brought in by illegals unscreened at our borders. Our cities would see 20 million less people driving, polluting and grid locking our cities’ greenhouse gasses.
Over one million of Mexico’s poorest citizens now live inside and along our border from Brownsville, Texas, to San Diego, California, in what the New York Times called, ‘colonias’ or new neighborhoods. Trouble is, those living areas resemble Bombay and Calcutta where grinding poverty, filth, diseases, drugs, crimes, no sanitation and worse. They live without sewage, clean water, streets, roads, electricity, or any kind of sanitation.
The New York Times reported them to be America’s new ‘ Third World ‘ inside our own country. Within 20 years, at their current growth rate, they expect 20 million residents of those colonias. (I’ve seen them personally in Texas and Arizona; it’s sickening beyond anything you can imagine.)
We already invite a million people into our country legally/annually, more than all other countries combined- with growing anarchy at our borders.
It’s time to stand up for our country, our culture, our civilization and our way of life. Interesting statistics below.
Here are 12 reasons illegal aliens should vacate America, and I hope they are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them:
1. $14 billion to $22 billion dollars are spent each year on welfare to illegal aliens (that’s Billion with a ‘B’)
2. $7.5 billion dollars are spent each year on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
3. $12 billion dollars are spent each year on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they still cannot speak a word of English. $27 billion dollars are spent each year for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
4. $3 Million Dollars ‘PER DAY’ is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. That’s $1.2 Billion a year.
5. 28% percent of all federal prison inmates are illegal aliens.
6. $190 billion dollars are spent each year on illegal aliens for welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
7. $200 billion dollars per year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
8. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
9. During the year 2005, there were 8 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our southern border with as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from other terrorist countries. Over 10,000 of those were middle-eastern terrorists. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin, crack, guns, and marijuana crossed into the U.S. from the southern border.
10. The National Policy Institute, estimates that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion, or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.
11. In 2006, illegal aliens sent home $65 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin, to their families and friends.
12. The dark side of illegal immigration: Nearly one million sex crimes are committed by illegal immigrants in the United States!
Total cost – a whopping $538.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR !kri
Many of us speak of the assimilation of new immigrants into our society, but what is assimilation? It is simple. Assimilation is the absorption and integration of people, ideas, or culture into a wider society or culture. When thousands of people enter a country from a foreign land, it takes considerable time for them to understand our culture. We have gone through this process several times in the history of the USA. Each time, it was difficult for us, but more so for the newcomer. It is they who have to learn a new language and new customs. We on the other hand have to tolerate the migrants old ways as they slowly evolve into the American way. During my lifetime I have witnessed several waves of immigrants entering our society. First was the wave that bought my parents here in the nineteen twenties and long before I was born in the nineteen thirties. I grew up in a neighborhood populated by Americans, Hungarians, Italians, Ukranians, and Polish. I’m certain I left some of them out, but time has a way with dealing with memories.
My father’s assimilation began when at age seventeen he joined the Illinois Central Railroad as a laborer. His sponsor was his sister’s husband, who had arrived a few years earlier than he did. Uncle John Yusko most likely helped him learn the language on the job. Also, many of his supervisors were the sons of immigrants who knew the language and could communicate in Hungarian when English failed. Gradually, my Dad began speaking in English, but never at home. He and Mom spoke in the familiar language of their birthplace. As children, my older brother taught me and our younger sister to talk English while he learned from the Nuns at school. Many of the local businesses were run by immigrants and they too learned from and taught their customers. The best assessment I can make is that assimilation takes time and patience. My dad had a fairly good command of the language even into his nineties, but reverted to Hungarian when he didn’t have the English word. It was hilarious when Mom and Dad while speaking Hungarian slid an English word into the sentence. In my mother’s case she reverted more to Hungarian as she aged.
The second wave of immigrants I encountered was after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against the Russians. My mother paired me with the nephew of our Pastor’s housekeeper. He was about the same age as me and a genuine Molotov cocktail-throwing rebel who fled for his life. We were inseparable; he challenged me to speak Hungarian, and I urged him to speak English. We were inseparable for about a year, and then I left town to go to college. The next time I saw him, he was on leave from the army. He had joined up to assimilate faster. He sure did. He returned on leave speaking excellent English with a hefty Alabama accent. He went to school on the GI Bill and became an engineer. He assimilated.
The next round of migrants I became aware of came from Viet Nam. My cousins in California helped them through their difficulties for at least ten years. The hardest part of assimilation is getting employment. These poor people struggle with life and do their best to make a living. After that, I lost track of any other migrant infusions, but I have witnessed an awful lot of Central Americans cutting lawns in the neighborhood. I even convinced myself to hire one to do my lawn chores. It is the best decision I ever made to assist with assimilation.
This morning, I researched how the Israelis infused so many people into their country. They devised a process called the Kibbutz. As new immigrants arrived, they were assigned to a Kibbutz, which is nothing more than a farm with a formal name. The newcomers worked the land to raise vegetables and livestock for their consumption and the markets. Any profit made was distributed equally between members of the Kibbutz. That sounds a bit Marxist to me. Many of these enterprises have evolved from agriculture to manufacturing, depending on the individuals’ capabilities. I think this concept appeals to me and is one that we could propose here. Why not divide these people into manageable groups, assign them to some land and basic tools, and let them have at it? The problem with my idea is the government. We have so many swamp creatures inventing regulations and work rules that a Kibbutz in the Israeli sense would be unlawful.
Back when my parents arrived, there were no unions, children were allowed to work, OSHA wasn’t yet an idea, and workers could take chances on the job. It was a working economy. However, employers tended to overdo things. Working conditions became difficult, and the people felt like slaves. When our most revered president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, became president and worked to ease people’s suffering by inventing new laws and regulations, he called it the New Deal, but inadvertently created the Swamp. The various Bureaus have been left unfettered to make rules that are as strong as laws, except they aren’t laws written by Congress and voted in. They are regulations that are imposed upon us whether we like them or not. Because these Bureaus are not controlled by ‘We the People’ they have gone on their merry way and have continued to dream up countless ways to make our lives better than we can. Since the nineteen forties they have grown and spent trillions of dollars on too many things that don’t really make our lives better, but they do make our lives more expensive.
The current government’s approach to assimilation involves two policies: The first is to fly or bus people by the hundreds to various parts of the country and let them loose. The second is to do nothing and allow the immigrant himself to find a way to live. The first is to spread the population without regard to the immigrants or the cities where they are dumped. Cities nationwide have seen this invasion and are remiss about handling housing, clothing, meals, and, more importantly, jobs. The result is that we see communities of tent cities popping up in urban areas all around the country.
When the country encouraged a large population of immigrants to come in the early twentieth century, it needed labor to do work. The current administration has no clue what these people will do when they arrive. Should I hire a gardener, a housemaid, and a cook and provide them a place to live while they work for me? I could be okay with hiring help, but I cannot afford that, a life with my family and Uncle Sam, too.
I’m afraid in the long run, I will end up paying these people to assimilate. Uncle Sam will finally wake up and realize he has created a human catastrophe. He will then begin implementing new social programs to assist immigrants. Two things will happen: 1. He will raise our taxes, and 2. He will print money to pay for the programs, thus increasing inflation and making life equally miserable for all of us. This flood of new immigrants smacks of the redistribution of wealth plan inaugurated by our Progressive, Liberal, Socialist, and Communist former President Obama. When does this guy go away?
I have a problem with the government’s latest ploy to end birthright citizenship. I am preparing to be deported at my age because of this new action. Why? My parents entered the US through Ellis Island. They met and married in the USA. Then I came along with my two brothers and sister. There is a good chance that if my parents are declared illegals, then we became citizens automatically. We took advantage of the parochial school system, not the public school system. Our parents paid for our doctor visits. Neither my mother or father ever accepted ‘charity’ as they called it.
What did the government do for them? They allowed them to vote. My Dad worked for the railroad and his bosses always told him to vote democrat. Dad was a citizen and could cite the date he was sworn in, the judge’s name, and the courthouse where it happened. We learned of Mom’s situation when, at age seventy-eight she finally traveled back to her hometown to visit her mother’s grave. She was at the gate, ready to board the plane and was stopped by immigration. They wanted to see her citizenship papers. Of course she had none. After what seemed like eternity, she proudly told them, If I am not a citizen then why have I been allowed and encouraged to vote all these years? They let her board the plane.
