Just in case you were wondering ...

...about my position on the recent large protests against Sensenbrenner's bill;

First off, my wife is an immigrant. Actually, she is a refugee if you want to be specific. I tell you this because I don't want to hear any bullshit about how "I don't understand the plight of the immigrant." That's absolute crap. I do know what I am talking about. My wife came to the US 16 years ago. Her family spoke no english, and they had about $200 for the six of them, and two suitcases each. Well, in that time, they have gone from having next to nothing, to now. Now, My wife is a doctor. She gets better marks than I do. Her sister is in the top one half a percent of her high school, and will be going to college next fall. She intends to pursue a degree in business or business law. Both of the parents learned english. One learned a new trade, and the other one recertified at an old one. Now, they are making enbough money to support not only themselves, but their aging parents that they brought over. They did this all without government handouts or being part of a special interest group.

So, the lesson of the story is that in ten to fifteen years, you can go from almost nothing to livign comfortably. Anyone can do this. You just have to be willing to make sacrifices in the short run, and work hard for the long run. There is no secret society. There is no cabal. There is no 'old boys' club.' If you want to make it in America this is what you have to do.  

And you know what? They could have just let it slide. There are an awful lot of russians, especially in New York, who live on the public dime. It really is an easy scam. You just register for welfare, and collect that. Then, you aslo work for people, and get paid in cash under the table. So, you get paid pretty well, you get free healthcare, and life is okay. My father-in-law, bless his heart, saw this, and decided that instead of settling for that, he would go for the whole Blinchik. So, he went through New York, and pressed on to Texas.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of people from Mexico who decide instead to just let it slide. btw, Yes, this is a mexican thing. let's stop dancing around it and just admit that the problem is illegal immigrants from Mexico. If you want proof, just look at the pictures from the protest, and see how many Mexican flags there are, and how few American flags there are. Anyway, as I was saying, a lot of Mexicans jump the fence in pursuit of the American dream. The thing is that they just let it slide. They do not try to secure a real future for themselves or their kids. They just sponge off of the free healthcare, and government handouts. Any money they earn goes right back to their family in Mexico.

There are several problems that this causes.

First, when they work off the books, the employer has no need to pay for their healthcare, insurance, or any of the other myriad responsibilities that we have saddled employers with. Should employers provide these things? I don't know about that, but if they are going to be required to provide them, then we had better require that they pay for all of their employees, instead of passing along the costs to the general public in the form of resources that are consumed by their employees.

Also, this practice of allowing America to be a life raft for Mexico is bullshit. If they like America so much, then they need to put American institutions into practice in Mexico. They need to allow for class mobility. They need to try to fix their own shit, and having us here as a pressure release valve just is not cutting it.

Also, the fact that they are illegal makes them distrust and avoid the law. As such, they are less likely to cooperate with authorities, as well as more likely to be abused by tyrannical emplyers. If you are here illegally, then employers can always abuse you since you will not have any recourse. This aversion for the law also creates an environment ripe for criminal activity.  One need only look at the MS 13 gang to see what kind of scum we have allowed to come in here. The federal government has for a long time just let things slide because the US was large enough to absorb the sequelae without much consequence. They could just pass the buck, and the consequences on to smaller communities. Now, unfortunately, it has become so institutionalized, that every community in America is being pushed to the breaking point.

So, now, we are paying the price. One reason your insurance costs so much is because when an illegal alien comes into a hospital for care, the hospital is forbidden from turning them away, and they just absorb the cost, which is then passed along to the rest of the "customers" which are better known as "patients." So, the rest of thew patient population has to bear the cost not only of their own healthcare, but of the illegal aliens' healthcare as well. Additionally, because we must accept them as patients, and we cannot just hand them over to immigration for transfer to a facility in Mexico, a lot of them come to America JUST TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE HEALTHCARE PROVIDED FOR FREE. I have seen a lot of young, congenitally handicapped children brought here for our healthcare. These kids will require a lifetime of expensive care that far surpasses what their own family and their own country is willing to pay, so they pass the buck on to us.

If Mexicans want to come here, then fine. Do it legally. Register, so that we can make sure that your employer is not skipping out on his responsibilities to you, and passing along the costs to us. Do it legally, and let us make sure that we can weed out the murderers and drug dealers that are preying upon all of us. Do it legally. Get an education, Learn to speak english. Fine. Do all of those things. Just do them legally, or stay in Mexico.

In the end, I am completely for the bills being proposed. I vote, and I will take note of which party, and which politicians are coming down on what side of it.

Hell, right about now, I wish that I had some time off to go join the Texas minutemen on the Texas border.

Respectfully Submitted,
-doc Russia