- Although I have voted Republican for the last 30 years,
I am rethinking my status. I continually receive solicitations for money
although I haven't monetarily supported the republican party for the last
5 years. Let me tell you why.
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- I have lived on the Mexican Border all my life. For
the last decade illegal aliens from all over the world have streamed past
my home. The illegal aliens have robbed my neighbors, they have carjacked
automobiles, destroyed property, killed pets and livestock, trashed my
desert, threatened my neighbors, ruined the local health care system, and
then demanded more benefits. They have shot up and burned homes and the
list of their lawlessness goes on. All under the glazed eyes of President
Bush and the Republican Party.
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- Chris Cannon, George Bush, Jeff Flake, Jim Kolbe, John
McCain and other "republican" politicians have failed to represent
me. They have sold themselves to special interests. These politicians
coddle illegal aliens and sponsor bills to entice yet more illegal aliens.
From the time I write this until one of your flunkies reads this and throws
it into the trash, (which I assume will be overnight), more than 10,000
illegal aliens will have sneaked into the United States through Cochise
Country. Arizona where I live. They will be going all over the United
States to work for wages lower than my fellow U.S. citizens can work.
They will obtain fraudulent identification and obtain benefits that have
been set aside for our elderly and needy.
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- Why doesn't the Republican Party preserve our national
sovereignty by securing our borders instead of pandering to Presidente
Vicente Fox?
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- Until you and your minions figure that out and begin
representing me and my interests, you will not receive another dime from
me. None of your fellow illegal alien coddling politicians will receive
my vote. That's the least I can do, but if hundreds of thousands of hard
core Republicans like me will do the same, we can make a difference.
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- Dave Stoddard Retired Border Patrol Agent PO Box 130
Hereford, Arizona 85615
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- Arizona Paying High Toll As Way Station On Alien Smuggling
Highway
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- By Phyllis Schlafly 4-26-4
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- The television news brings us daily graphic reports from
Iraq, where valiant Americans are battling danger, death and destruction.
So why don't we get coverage about similar dramatic and scary confrontations
taking place on the U.S. border?
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- The compelling truth about the danger and devastation
on the U.S. southern border is crying out to be told. Americans need to
hear from the likes of Erin Anderson, whose family homesteaded in Cochise
County on the Arizona-Mexico border in the late 1880s.
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- Anderson says these American pioneers can't live on their
own property anymore because it is too dangerous. They can't ranch it.
They can't sell it.
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- It is unsafe to go on their own property without a gun,
a cell phone and a two-way radio. Their land has been stolen from them
by illegal aliens while public officials turn a blind eye.
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- Cochise County is a major smuggling route for illegal
aliens and drugs, where every night thousands cross into Arizona from the
northern Mexico state of Sonora. The Border Patrol admits to apprehending
one out of five illegals, but many think it's more like one in 10.
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- The number of illegal aliens apprehended on the southern
U.S. border jumped 25 percent in the first three months of 2004 compared
to same period in 2003. In Tucson, the increase was 51 percent; in Yuma,
it was 60 percent.
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- The news of President Bush's amnesty proposal spread
like wildfire as far south as Brazil. After Border Patrol agents reported
that undocumented aliens caught crossing into the United States said the
amnesty proposal had prompted them to come, U.S. agents were told not to
ask the question anymore.
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- Anderson says that U.S. landowners watch in horror as
their lands, water troughs and tanks and animals are destroyed. The daily
trampling of thousands of feet has beaten the ground into a hard pavement
on which no grass for cattle will grow.
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- Places that illegal border crossers use as layover sites,
where they rest or wait for the next ride, are littered with mountains
of plastic bags, disposable diapers, human waste and litter of all kinds.
When indigenous wildlife and cattle eat the plastic and refuse, they die.
Consequently, the local residents try to clean up the sites as often as
they can.
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- The large number of discarded medicine wrappers indicates
the prevalence of disease among the illegals. It is estimated that 10 percent
of all illegals are carriers of Chagas disease, a potentially fatal condition
that is widespread in Central America.
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- Sometimes, the local U.S. citizens who clean up the sites
pick up pocket trash: scraps of paper with the name and telephone number
of the illegal alien's destination in the United States. This indicates
that these border crossings are a well-organized migration.
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- Other suspicious items picked up by local residents include
Muslim prayer rugs and notebooks written in both Arabic and Spanish. These
items come from a subcategory called Special Interest Aliens, who are illegals
coming from terrorist-sponsoring countries.
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- The increased crime rate is frightening. Arizona has
the highest rate of car theft in the nation, and residents risk home invasion
and personal attacks.
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- The increase in violence is intimidating to U.S. residents.
They are afraid to speak out because someone takes note of who they are
and where they live, and gives that information to smuggling cartels in
Mexico.
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- People-smuggling by men known as coyotes has piggybacked
on the already well-established drug-smuggling networks and infrastructure.
It has become the third largest source of income for organized crime. Drug
smuggling and human smuggling are now interchangeable.
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- Smuggling has become a recognized industry in Mexico.
The smuggling route is mechanized. Some northern Mexican villages have
become known as smuggling-industry towns.
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- Illegal border crossers fly or take a bus from anywhere
in Mexico or Central America to an industry town like Altar in Sonora.
They are driven to the Arizona border, walk a few miles across the border,
and then are picked up by shuttle buses that take them north to Tucson
or Phoenix.
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- Shuttle buses are common carriers because they are not
required to ask for citizenship identification as are the airlines. Often,
the coyotes take their passengers to stash houses in Phoenix and then hold
them for ransom even though they have already paid their smuggling fee.
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- People smuggling is so lucrative and pervasive that it
is corrupting some U.S. high school students. Teenagers can make thousands
of dollars a week by picking up illegal aliens on the road and driving
them to the Phoenix airport.
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- When is the Bush administration going to put troops on
our southern border to stop these crimes, and when are the media going
to interview Anderson and other Arizonans so the American people can know
what is really going on?
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- http://www.townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/ps20040426.shtml
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