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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Monday, April 16, 2007
Just keepin it real
I haven't posted for a while - I'm gonna get back with it very soon, but wanted to keep the acct. up to date.
Thursday, August 04, 2005
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Illegal Aliens and Crime in Arizona
I don't know how much press there has been nationally on this, but there has been a lot of rancor here in Arizona over a vicious crime, a multi-victim murder, and kidnapping to Mexico of 2 young children, all perpetrated by an illegal immigrant, as well as the subsequent comments from his "girlfriend" who is also an illegal immigrant, both from Mexico.
Rodrigo Cervantes Zavala murdered 3 adults his "girlfriends" grandparents, and her uncle, and kidnapped his two children both under 3 years old. He had previously been convicted of assault and other charges in the US, but was somehow still here. After killing the family members, he took the children to the area around Puerto Vallarta, and was ultimately picked up by Mexican Police.
Isabel Acosta, his "girlfriend" and the mother of the two children, was taken to Mexico (at the publics expense) along w/ Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and other Sheriff Deputies in order to pick up her children and return them to the US. Upon being reunited with her children in Mexico, she said the following "I didn't think I'd see them again, but now they're with me. I am so proud of my country. What the authorities of the United States couldn't do, they succeeded in doing here. This is my Mexico!"
Isn't this just swell? Here in Phoenix, we have at least one murder every night. I don't have the statistics currently to back this up, but based upon what I read in the local paper, at least 50% of the murderers are illegal aliens. We have had at 3 police officers killed by illegal aliens just in Phoenix in the last few years. I know, the normal answer is "most illegal aliens are law-abiding people". If you ignore the fact that they committed a crime when they crossed the border, that is somewhat true. But almost all of these crimes could have been avoided if we didn't have this big problem with illegal immigration. Legal immigrants are subject to background checks. income verification, reason for entering etc. Some 40% of the Arizona prisoner population are illegal immigrants, costing the state, and federal goverments (you and me) 100's of millions of dollars nationwide.
Lets get back to this nice couple, Rodrigo and Isabel. I'm not going to blame her for the murders obviously, but are you telling me that in the 4 or more years that she's been with this piece of garbage, she didn't have some clue that maybe she should stop having babies with him? That maybe it would be best to get her family away from this scumbag? If it wasn't important enough to get married, was it so important to stick around? In case you can't tell, I'm a little pissed at this woman. How dare she speak ill of the US, the country where she has been sucking at the public teat for so many years. Does she think that the incredibly corrupt Mexican Police would have spent any time looking for this guy if it wasn't because of pressure from the US public and from law enforcement in Arizona? But this is typical of most Mexican illegals. A recent survey of illegal aliens from Mexico revealed that 78% felt that they were entitled to work and live in the US. I know from personal experience that Mexicans are very patriotic to "La Patria" the Motherland. A common expression in Mexico is "Soy Puro Mexicano" which translates to I am and will always be pure Mexican". I have no problem with this, Mexico has many wonderful attributes and a history of defending itself to be proud of. I recommend that if they feel this way, it would be best, particularly considering they're not entitled to be here, to keep thoughts like Isabel's to themselves, and to at least be gracious about the country they are abusing. Oh yes, the last thing she said when interviewed was that she was going to take the kids to the Dr. once she got back to Arizona. Why not pay your own way with a Mexican Dr. as long as your in this wonderful country that is so much better than the US. I want the kids to receive reasonable care of course, but again, I pay big bucks for my health care, if you want me to help out with people who are legally entitled to government benefits for a short while until they can care for themselves, fine. But this is just another cost that I"m made to bear so that illegal aliens can take jobs from my friends (it has happened more than once) and depress the wages for many jobs in this country.
One last, and crucial point - we can't execute, and may not be able to extradite this murderous piece of excrement from Mexico. Mexico won't extradite anyone facing a possible death sentence. Another fine illegal immigrant killed a police officer (and a former partner of one of my dearest life long friends) in a botched bank robbery. This piece of garbage, Rudy Romero, ran off to Guadalajara, where he was able to live out in the open for some 9 years. Arizona and the Mexican government were only able to reach an agreement for extradition about 1 1/2 years ago. To my knowledge he is still in Mexico but in Mexican custody, but at least Mexico has agreed to extradite him. There is no doubt he killed this officer. But due to Mexico's meddling in our legal system (can you imagine the outcry in Mexico if we did the same thing?) and widespread police corruption (Rudy hooked up with the local drug lord once he got to Guadalajara) he has been able to avoid conviction for over 10 years, and avoid any possibility of being executed. Now here's the rub with Senor Cervantes Zavala - Mexico has recently ruled that along w/ not extraditing someone facing the death penalty, they will also not extradite anyone facing life in prison!! It may be possibility to impose lengthy consecutive sentences, but political and precedential concerns may prevent this as well!!
But it's a small price to pay for the ability to pay the cook at Burger King, or the maid at your local Best Western a little less. God Bless America!!
Rodrigo Cervantes Zavala murdered 3 adults his "girlfriends" grandparents, and her uncle, and kidnapped his two children both under 3 years old. He had previously been convicted of assault and other charges in the US, but was somehow still here. After killing the family members, he took the children to the area around Puerto Vallarta, and was ultimately picked up by Mexican Police.
Isabel Acosta, his "girlfriend" and the mother of the two children, was taken to Mexico (at the publics expense) along w/ Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and other Sheriff Deputies in order to pick up her children and return them to the US. Upon being reunited with her children in Mexico, she said the following "I didn't think I'd see them again, but now they're with me. I am so proud of my country. What the authorities of the United States couldn't do, they succeeded in doing here. This is my Mexico!"
Isn't this just swell? Here in Phoenix, we have at least one murder every night. I don't have the statistics currently to back this up, but based upon what I read in the local paper, at least 50% of the murderers are illegal aliens. We have had at 3 police officers killed by illegal aliens just in Phoenix in the last few years. I know, the normal answer is "most illegal aliens are law-abiding people". If you ignore the fact that they committed a crime when they crossed the border, that is somewhat true. But almost all of these crimes could have been avoided if we didn't have this big problem with illegal immigration. Legal immigrants are subject to background checks. income verification, reason for entering etc. Some 40% of the Arizona prisoner population are illegal immigrants, costing the state, and federal goverments (you and me) 100's of millions of dollars nationwide.
Lets get back to this nice couple, Rodrigo and Isabel. I'm not going to blame her for the murders obviously, but are you telling me that in the 4 or more years that she's been with this piece of garbage, she didn't have some clue that maybe she should stop having babies with him? That maybe it would be best to get her family away from this scumbag? If it wasn't important enough to get married, was it so important to stick around? In case you can't tell, I'm a little pissed at this woman. How dare she speak ill of the US, the country where she has been sucking at the public teat for so many years. Does she think that the incredibly corrupt Mexican Police would have spent any time looking for this guy if it wasn't because of pressure from the US public and from law enforcement in Arizona? But this is typical of most Mexican illegals. A recent survey of illegal aliens from Mexico revealed that 78% felt that they were entitled to work and live in the US. I know from personal experience that Mexicans are very patriotic to "La Patria" the Motherland. A common expression in Mexico is "Soy Puro Mexicano" which translates to I am and will always be pure Mexican". I have no problem with this, Mexico has many wonderful attributes and a history of defending itself to be proud of. I recommend that if they feel this way, it would be best, particularly considering they're not entitled to be here, to keep thoughts like Isabel's to themselves, and to at least be gracious about the country they are abusing. Oh yes, the last thing she said when interviewed was that she was going to take the kids to the Dr. once she got back to Arizona. Why not pay your own way with a Mexican Dr. as long as your in this wonderful country that is so much better than the US. I want the kids to receive reasonable care of course, but again, I pay big bucks for my health care, if you want me to help out with people who are legally entitled to government benefits for a short while until they can care for themselves, fine. But this is just another cost that I"m made to bear so that illegal aliens can take jobs from my friends (it has happened more than once) and depress the wages for many jobs in this country.
One last, and crucial point - we can't execute, and may not be able to extradite this murderous piece of excrement from Mexico. Mexico won't extradite anyone facing a possible death sentence. Another fine illegal immigrant killed a police officer (and a former partner of one of my dearest life long friends) in a botched bank robbery. This piece of garbage, Rudy Romero, ran off to Guadalajara, where he was able to live out in the open for some 9 years. Arizona and the Mexican government were only able to reach an agreement for extradition about 1 1/2 years ago. To my knowledge he is still in Mexico but in Mexican custody, but at least Mexico has agreed to extradite him. There is no doubt he killed this officer. But due to Mexico's meddling in our legal system (can you imagine the outcry in Mexico if we did the same thing?) and widespread police corruption (Rudy hooked up with the local drug lord once he got to Guadalajara) he has been able to avoid conviction for over 10 years, and avoid any possibility of being executed. Now here's the rub with Senor Cervantes Zavala - Mexico has recently ruled that along w/ not extraditing someone facing the death penalty, they will also not extradite anyone facing life in prison!! It may be possibility to impose lengthy consecutive sentences, but political and precedential concerns may prevent this as well!!
But it's a small price to pay for the ability to pay the cook at Burger King, or the maid at your local Best Western a little less. God Bless America!!
Monday, September 27, 2004
Illegal Immigration is killing our economy
The notion that illegal immigration is somehow beneficial to our economy is in my mind absolutely ridiculous.
I mentioned earlier that I'm somewhat motivated by things happening where I work. I work at a large federal agency. Although I no longer deal directly with the public, I used to hold a position where I had direct access to both the financial and personal records of 100's of illegal immigrants. There are a number of laws that do not allow me to discuss specifics, so I have to tread lightly in this discussion. But take my word, overwhelmingly the illegal immigrants I dealt with had access to Medicaid (called AHHCS or Access in Arizona), Federal Welfare benefits, Section 8 housing etc. Most of these folks held jobs that in the past had been desirable jobs for Americans, skilled jobs in construction, printing, machining etc. Most of them made better than minimum wage. The argument that these folks are only taking the jobs that citizen don't want couldn't be further from the truth. For every agricultural employee I encounter, I dealt with at least 3 others that had decent jobs, albeit at wages significantly less than what would have been the rate 10 years ago. I was also surprise how many of these folks owned homes in the Phoenix area.
My agency provides customer service at a counter at our headquarters. Up until 2 years ago, this counter would see maybe 40-50 people a day, mostly citizens with agency related questions. About 2 years ago a new law was passed providing documentation for non-citizens, that was administered by our agency. Since that law was passed, we normally have 200-300 people waiting before opening, all illegal aliens, all waiting for this documentation which makes their lives easier while living in the US. Because of this single change, our office has had to add about a dozen new spanish speaking employees, while our english-speaking customers now have to wait for hours in order to wade through the sea of illegals. The additional cost to the nations taxpayers for this one small program has to be in the 10's of millions, don't tell me that illegal immigrants are economically self-sustaining.
Again, this is one small example of the cost to government due to illegal immigration. I want to gag everytime some II advocate whines "they pay their taxes too" The reality is they pay virtually nothing (often nothing) in income taxes, pay a little Social Security (which has a commensurate benefit upon retirement), and little in sales taxes because if the hype is to be believed, they are too poor to be purchasing anything other than lightly taxed items like food.
More on the immense cost of illegal immigration to come.
I mentioned earlier that I'm somewhat motivated by things happening where I work. I work at a large federal agency. Although I no longer deal directly with the public, I used to hold a position where I had direct access to both the financial and personal records of 100's of illegal immigrants. There are a number of laws that do not allow me to discuss specifics, so I have to tread lightly in this discussion. But take my word, overwhelmingly the illegal immigrants I dealt with had access to Medicaid (called AHHCS or Access in Arizona), Federal Welfare benefits, Section 8 housing etc. Most of these folks held jobs that in the past had been desirable jobs for Americans, skilled jobs in construction, printing, machining etc. Most of them made better than minimum wage. The argument that these folks are only taking the jobs that citizen don't want couldn't be further from the truth. For every agricultural employee I encounter, I dealt with at least 3 others that had decent jobs, albeit at wages significantly less than what would have been the rate 10 years ago. I was also surprise how many of these folks owned homes in the Phoenix area.
My agency provides customer service at a counter at our headquarters. Up until 2 years ago, this counter would see maybe 40-50 people a day, mostly citizens with agency related questions. About 2 years ago a new law was passed providing documentation for non-citizens, that was administered by our agency. Since that law was passed, we normally have 200-300 people waiting before opening, all illegal aliens, all waiting for this documentation which makes their lives easier while living in the US. Because of this single change, our office has had to add about a dozen new spanish speaking employees, while our english-speaking customers now have to wait for hours in order to wade through the sea of illegals. The additional cost to the nations taxpayers for this one small program has to be in the 10's of millions, don't tell me that illegal immigrants are economically self-sustaining.
Again, this is one small example of the cost to government due to illegal immigration. I want to gag everytime some II advocate whines "they pay their taxes too" The reality is they pay virtually nothing (often nothing) in income taxes, pay a little Social Security (which has a commensurate benefit upon retirement), and little in sales taxes because if the hype is to be believed, they are too poor to be purchasing anything other than lightly taxed items like food.
More on the immense cost of illegal immigration to come.
Monday, September 06, 2004
Why am I doing this?
Let me give you a little background. I'm a computer specialist w/ a very large Federal Agency. I'd rather not discuss the specifics of the agency. I want this blog to be about the illegal immigration nightmare in this country, and not about where I work. But where I work is somewhat relevant, let me say that I don't work specifically with an immigration agency, nor with Homeland Security. I've been unhappy with the illegal immigration situation in the US for a long time, but things are happening where I work, that have just pushed me over the top. I'll discuss the specifics on my next post.
Let me also say that I lived in Mexico in 1978 and 1979. My life in Mexico was a combination of living with host families all over Mexico, and living in Mexico City for roughly 6 months, in a very upscale "colonia" just outside of the Federal District. I worked for a US based international non-profit agency, and my office was downtown in Mexico in the Edificio Banca Serfin, right across from the Bellas Artes/Alameda. I've lived in homes with families that are very wealthy, and I've lived in homes of the poor. I still have friends in Mexico who are members of some of the most elite families in the country, and I have friends who live in a block house, with no windows, no indoor plumbing, the only source of water being a straight pipe coming out of the top of a block shower in the back yard (cold water). You've not experienced Mexican life until you take a shower in 50 degree weather, with ice cold water coming from the pipe.
My point is that this is not about Mexicans, and I dare say I've got better connections to Mexico and many Mexicans than many pro-illegal immigration types. Having said that I am convinced that there is little beneficial to life in the US that is derived from the presence of millions of illegal immigrants. There is no other way to honestly evaluate the data, illegal immigration is a tremendous drag on our economy, shows contempt f0r the laws of our country, and has the potential to divide our nation culturally along the lines of countries like Canada, Belgium, Cyprus, the list goes on and on.
As I said, I'll get into the raw meat of the matter on my next post. I have a lot to say about this, hopefully I'll engender some discussion on this crucial issue.
TKS
AA
Let me also say that I lived in Mexico in 1978 and 1979. My life in Mexico was a combination of living with host families all over Mexico, and living in Mexico City for roughly 6 months, in a very upscale "colonia" just outside of the Federal District. I worked for a US based international non-profit agency, and my office was downtown in Mexico in the Edificio Banca Serfin, right across from the Bellas Artes/Alameda. I've lived in homes with families that are very wealthy, and I've lived in homes of the poor. I still have friends in Mexico who are members of some of the most elite families in the country, and I have friends who live in a block house, with no windows, no indoor plumbing, the only source of water being a straight pipe coming out of the top of a block shower in the back yard (cold water). You've not experienced Mexican life until you take a shower in 50 degree weather, with ice cold water coming from the pipe.
My point is that this is not about Mexicans, and I dare say I've got better connections to Mexico and many Mexicans than many pro-illegal immigration types. Having said that I am convinced that there is little beneficial to life in the US that is derived from the presence of millions of illegal immigrants. There is no other way to honestly evaluate the data, illegal immigration is a tremendous drag on our economy, shows contempt f0r the laws of our country, and has the potential to divide our nation culturally along the lines of countries like Canada, Belgium, Cyprus, the list goes on and on.
As I said, I'll get into the raw meat of the matter on my next post. I have a lot to say about this, hopefully I'll engender some discussion on this crucial issue.
TKS
AA
Monday, August 30, 2004
Border Rat is coming
In the next few days, I will be starting a rant concerning the devastation of the situation with illegal immigration. Hang in there, more to come!!
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