I'm not sure who I'm up against aside from the host Jim Braude but they've asked me to come back on and discuss the immigration sham concocted by Ted Kennedy, Bush cabinet members and supposedly some GOP conservatives. It's not going to matter who I come up against, the plan is wrong. So tomorrow night, I'll make the trek up from New Bedford to Newton and will debate live at 7;00 PM on Channel 8 (at least it is 8 for Dartmouth, New Bedford, Fairhaven and most Comcast customers). New England Cable Network the show is called, "News Night".

    The idea of amnesty for millions outside of political persecution is defenseless. Millions is an interesting description because no one really knows how many are out there within our borders ready to take advantage of the 'citizenship super sale'. Is it twelve million or twenty or thirty million? Are we going to hear this president ask congress to wave a wand over these invaders and extend to them constitutional rights, when some of them (according to this same George W. Bush) are here for no other reason than to wait for the word from overseas and then do us harm? How can this president warn us all for years that there are terrorists out there who hate our freedom and then offer mega-millions of total strangers, protection from our security measures? How can this president, who I've supported since shortly after he won the 2000 GOP primary, send our young men and women to Iraq and Afghanistan (and I'm sure more than a dozen other places we don't know of yet) and ask them to give the ultimate sacrifice and then provide this surrender treaty to what can best be described as a passive invasion?
 
    Yes the dominant majority of these illegal aliens are here to provide better lives for themselves and their families. So what? They still stole into our country. If some of you refuse to call them 'illegal aliens' and instead insist that they are all 'undocumented workers', then you'd be forced to agree that most steal our identifications to better maneuver around employment obstacles. Many drive without a license or insurance in our communities putting the rest of us at risk and every week there is a news headline of a tragic loss of life as a result. Millions live off of the taxpayer funded social programs like housing, education and medical costs. Millions drain from heating assistance and day-care subsidized funds designed to help struggling American families.
 I know of twelve single mothers, born in the USA who have been denied assistance as funds were depleted by the undocumented who got help first. Hundreds of thousands if not a million are here to commit crimes. Tens of thousands are behind bars or still on American streets, wanted for violent crimes. Hundreds are here awaiting their marching orders to commit the next 911, bringing terrorism back to the streets of America. Our government wishes to extend full constitutional rights to all of them. 

    Is there any possible answer that can satisfy the question why?

    There are people in all this whom I feel bad for, sure. Let me mention those first with whom I sympathize the most. The desperate citizens in their own nations who wait to come to America for no other reason than respect for our laws. These folks are waiting longer for the American Dream because so many have cut the line and scoffed at our law and have slowed down the immigration process by doing so.

    I also feel bad for the immigrant who I support and welcome. The legal immigrant who earned citizenship. Great Britain dubs in ceremony, people they honor with knighthood. This is America. The highest honor this nation bestows upon any foreigner is citizenship. From now on many Americans will wrongfully look at all immigrants as though they are illegal aliens granted amnesty. Blame this on the far left who has merged the two categories as one. The rallies of 'pro-immigration' have clouded who the people those in the rally actually stand for. They stand for open borders and no immigration laws. They applaud illegal immigrants who have "every right" to enter America and take what they want.  The once noblest symbol of pursuing the American Dream, the immigrant, will now carry a stigma symbolizing selfish foreign aggressors with no respect for law. While this is of course not true of our truly welcome legal immigrants, they have been dragged into the category by the ones who stand for lawlessness.

    I, of course mourn as much for Americans as anyone on this list. Many lower income class citizens are about to get the rude awakening that services will be spread too thin to assist them in many areas. This means the middle and upper classes can expect huge tax increases and soon. Low skill jobs will be competitive and out of reach for Americans youths who historically have always learned about work ethic and stayed out of trouble as opposed to being unemployed and having too much unproductive time on their hands. Single parents, semi-retired elderly and other part-time job seekers will also have few opportunities once the end result of this bill is met and the nation is inundated with unskilled laborers. Housing, welfare, social security, special-ed and many other services will be harshly depleted. Additional H-1B visas will then attack the upper middle class wages and deflate these over time as foreign immigrants will agree to work for less than the American. Foreclosures are at epidemic rates today. The gap between the haves and have nots  is widening. The gap between left and right is widening. The gap between the secular and religious is widening and the resentment between religous denominations is deepening. United we stand, divided we fall is not something our enemies know of, they count on this creed. We are divided, we are losing control of our destiny as a nation and we certainly don't all believe in the same things any longer. So sure, I mourn for the Americans.

 
    Finally, I do feel bad that millions subjected themselves to beatings, stabbings and robberies by the "coyotes" who extort payment for safe passage into America. I know the stories of how they are being smuggled in vehicles with secret compartments, in the back of trucks etc. Cramped and huddled in conditions causing the deaths of thousands who try. They suffer from heat stroke, carbon monoxide poisoning, suffocation or travel for days next to those who have succumbed to these things. They drown in the Rio Grande, they starve and dehydrate in the desert..All to escape the third world horrors we do not want to know of. All that to find refuge in the United States. I do understand the pain they must feel when, on the occasions the government does find them here, their families are separated and put back into dire situations.
 
    Children suddenly alone with no parent(s) to take them home from school or day-care as we saw in the Michael Bianco Inc. raid in New Bedford on March 6, 2007. I also know they understand that this day would  likely come but they subjected their families to this threat anyway. I know most of these people are just like me in some ways. Catholic, God fearing, God loving, family oriented people looking to improve life for themselves and their families. In the end of this issue however, is the reality that they can apply like those who do. They can try to strengthen their own nations like their governments are pleading for them to do. They need to respect the law like all of us have to do especially it seems for those of us legally here.