Becoming Illegal (Actual letter that an Iowa resident sent to his senator)
[I think it's a joke, but, it should be a real letter to somebody!]

The Honorable Tom Harkin
731 Hart Senate Office Building
Phone (202) 224 3254
Washington DC, 20510

Dear Senator Harkin,

As a native Iowan and excellent customer of the Internal Revenue Service, I am writing to ask for your assistance. I have contacted the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to determine the process for becoming an illegal alien and they referred me to you.

My primary reason for wishing to change my status from U.S. Citizen to illegal alien stems from the bill which was recently passed by the Senate and for which you voted. If my understanding of this bill’s
provisions is accurate, as an illegal alien who has been in the United States for five years, all I need to do to become a citizen is to pay a $2,000 fine and income taxes for three of the last five years. I
know a good deal when I see one and I am anxious to get the process started before everyone figures it out.

Simply put, those of us who have been here legally have had to pay taxes every year so I’m excited about the prospect of avoiding two years of taxes in return for paying a $2,000 fine. Is there any way
that I can apply to be illegal retroactively? This would yield an excellent result for me and my family because we paid heavy taxes in 2004 and 2005.

Additionally, as an illegal alien I could begin using the local emergency room as my primary health care provider. Once I have stopped paying premiums for medical insurance, my accountant figures I could
save almost $10,000 a year.

Another benefit in gaining illegal status would be that my daughter would receive preferential treatment relative to her law school applications, as well as ‘in-state’ tuition rates for many colleges
throughout the United States for my son.

Lastly, I understand that illegal status would relieve me of the burden of renewing my driver’s license and making those burdensome car insurance premiums. This is very important to me given that I still
have college age children driving my car.

If you would provide me with an outline of the process to become illegal (retroactively if possible) and copies of the necessary forms, I would be most appreciative. Thank you for your assistance.

Your Loyal Constituent,
Donald Ruppert
Burlington, IA

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In just one year. Remember the election in 2006? Thought you might like to read the following:

A little over one year ago:

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:

1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!

Remember it’s Congress that makes law not the President. He has to work with what’s handed to him.

Quote of the Day……..’My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it.’ — Barack Obama

How scary is THAT?

Taxes…Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing.
www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html

Taxes under Clinton 1999 Taxes under Bush 2008
Single making 30K – tax $8,400 Single making 30K – tax $4,500
Single making 50K – tax $14,000 Single making 50K – tax $12,500
Single making 75K – tax $23,250 Single making 75K – tax $18,750
Married making 60K – tax $16,800 Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K – tax $21,000 Married making 75K – tax $18,750
Married making 125K – tax $38,750 Married making 125K – tax $31,250

Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates.

It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can’t wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don’t even know what happened.

You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read this:

Boy am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.

I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.

I hope the following 14 reasons are read over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I have included the URL’s for verification of all the following facts.

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments. Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers. Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

10. 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. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

12. The National Policy Institute, ‘estimated 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.’ Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/ niht.htm

14. ‘The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States. Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articles.html

The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.

Are we THAT stupid?

If this doesn’t bother you then whatever…move along. If, on the other hand, if it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you forward this blog to every legal resident in the country including every representative in Washington, D.C. – five times a week for as long as it takes to restore some semblance of intelligence in our policies and enforcement thereof.

I read this recently: Parkland Hospital, Dallas

All I can do is shake my head. I doubt the 2007 numbers are any different. *sigh* Must be nice. Find me any other country I can enter illegally, and they will let me have free medical care and make my kid a citizen, thereby giving me all the benefits of citizenship, with no waiting period, and no penalty for breaking the law to get there. Name one. Just one.

Then I saw this:

So funny. So true. And it made me laugh.

Raid on a Drug Dealer’s House in Mexico

BELOW ARE PICTURES TAKEN AFTER A RAID ON A DRUG DEALER’S HOUSE IN MEXICO. ARE YOU READY FOR THIS??

AREN’T WE GLAD THAT WE HAVE AN OPEN BORDER POLICY BETWEEN US? JUST LOOK AT HOW WELL ITS PAYING OFF……..

I THINK ALLOWING MEXICAN TRUCKERS IN THE U.S. IS A GREAT IDEA!!! JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE MILLIONS OF REASONS WHY…

SEE HOW WELL THESE TRUCKERS ARE DOING? WHAT THE @#@%*@ ARE WE THINKING???

Notice that nearly 100% of this money is U.S. Currency!!! Do you now wonder why the cost of living has catapulted in our country??? I don’t… Some of the illegal aliens we’re letting in can afford anything at any cost!!! And for the ones who cannot… We’ll give it to them anyway!!!

AND WE HAVE TWO BORDER PATROL AGENTS IN PRISON FOR SHOOTING AND WOUNDING A WELL DOCUMENTED MEXICAN DRUG DEALER! WHO, BY THE WAY, WAS ARMED AND ALSO HAPPENS TO BE A CONVICTED (BY MEXICO) MURDERER.

MAKES A LOT OF SENSE, DOESN’T IT??? AUTOMATICS, SILENCERS… THEY’RE ALL HAVING A NICE LAUGH ABOUT THIS STUFF AT OUR EXPENSE!!!

And we want to give ILLEGAL ALIENS amnesty and not build the border fence because of funding!?!?!? Our country is bleeding from the outside in!!! Don’t you think it’s time we take back what WE have sacrificed for over 140 years for??? I do. Build the fence higher and deeper, tighten border control, and send EVERY illegal alien home!!! It’s called “illegal” for a reason!

I ran across something yesterday that surprised me. I should have thought of it but hadn’t until a lovely Mexican employee at a shop I frequent told me about it. She can’t speak Spanish. No sin. Her parents were probably born here or they entered the United States legally. They wanted to give their children a good life. The did what a lot of immigrants do – they adapted the culture of the country they lived in. They’re not ashamed to be Mexican but they didn’t want their children to suffer because they couldn’t speak English. When I told her that lately I go places and I can’t understand a word being said. I haven’t left town or the U.S., I’m in a local shop, but I’m the one who can’t understand a word being said. She said she thought it was rude. I agree with her. But one thing she said that really stood out, that she has Mexican customers who automatically speak Spanish to her assuming that she speaks it (don’t forget most companies only hire those who are bi-lingual in my state).

I’ve even had others who have told me that to solve the problem of my lack of understanding others, I should learn to speak Spanish. I don’t think so. I have had three years of Spanish in school. I can understand a lot of it. And if I go down to Mexico on vacation, I do use it. I won’t to make myself heard in this country.

I feel badly for those who are Mexican and are treated differently because Spanish isn’t their 1st language. They consider themselves Americans and many are citizens. They don’t deny their culture, they embrace it but first and foremost, they embrace the United States.

Another friend with the same problem pointed out a shirt she bought on-line recently. She said she wears it occasionally. Those who speak English assume she’s saying she doesn’t speak English. Those who speak Spanish realize she doesn’t speak Spanish.

This is an interesting look at a highly contentious subject…… Please read and pass on if you feel like it. It was e-mail to us here at OL, and left the names intact, since these folks were sending it to a newspaper anyhow. I want to give her credit for her fine brain and reasoning power. Well done, folks!

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This is a very good letter to the editor. This woman made some good points. For some reason, people have difficulty structuring their arguments when arguing against supporting the currently proposed immigration revisions. This lady made the argument pretty simple.

NOT printed in the Orange County Paper…

Newspapers simply won’t publish letters to the editor which they either deem politically incorrect (read below) or which does not agree with the philosophy they’re pushing on the public. This woman wrote a great letter to the editor that should have been published; but, with your help it will get published via cyberspace!

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New Immigrants From: “David LaBonte”

My wife, Rosemary, wrote a wonderful letter to the editor of the OC Register which, of course, was not printed. So, I decided to “print” it myself by sending it out on the Internet.

Pass it along if you feel so inclined.

Dave LaBonte (signed)

Written in response to a series of letters to the editor in the Orange County Register:

Dear Editor:

So many letter writers have based their arguments on how this land is made up of immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one, suggests we should tear down the Statue of Liberty because the people now in question aren’t being treated the same as those who passed through Ellis Island and other ports of entry.

Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to people like Mr. Lujan why today’s American is not willing to accept this new kind of immigrant any longer. Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to come to the United States, people had to get off a ship and stand in a long line in New York and be documented. Some would even get down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground. They made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new country in good and bad times. They made learning English a primary rule in their new American households and some even changed their names to blend in with their new home.

They had waved good bye to their birth place to give their children a new life and did everything in their power to help their children assimilate into one culture.

Nothing was handed to them. No free lunches, no welfare, no labor laws to protect them. All they had were the skills and craftsmanship they had brought with them to trade for a future of prosperity. Most of their children came of age when World War II broke out. My father fought along side men whose parents had come straight over from Germany , Italy , France and Japan . None of these 1st generation Americans ever gave any thought about what country their parents had come from. They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor of Japan . They were defending the United States of America as one people. When we liberated France, no one in those villages was looking for the French-American or the German American or the Irish American. The people of France saw only Americans. And we carried one flag that represented one country. Not one of those immigrant sons would have thought about picking up another country’s flag and waving it to represent who they were. It would have been a disgrace to their parents who had sacrificed so much to be here. These immigrants truly knew what it meant to be an American. They stirred the melting pot into one red, white and blue bowl.

And here we are in 2007 with a new kind of immigrant who wants the same rights and privileges. Only they want to achieve it by playing with a different set of rules, one that includes the entitlement card and a guarantee of being faithful to their mother country. I’m sorry, that’s not what being an American is all about. I believe that the immigrants who landed on Ellis Island in the early 1900’s deserve better than that for all the toil, hard work and sacrifice in raising future generations to create a land that has become a beacon for those legally searching for a better life. I think they would be appalled that they are being used as an example by those waving foreign country flags.

And for that suggestion about taking down the Statue of Liberty , it happens to mean a lot to the citizens who are voting on the immigration bill. I wouldn’t start talking about dismantling the United States just yet.

(signed) Rosemary LaBonte

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Bravo, Rosemary, Bravo!!!

I am probably dreaming, but I want my government to consider me when making decisions about the United States. I want them to wonder if my life will be better or worse if amnesty is granted to millions of people who broke the law to come into this country. I want them to be sure it isn’t worse. I wasn’t born in the United States. My mother was an English war bride. who brought my brother and I over on the first ship of English war brides after WWII. In order to be able to board the ship, my mother had to go to several offices to get the necessary papers. I was young when she started the quest for paperwork and even though my father was a U.S. serviceman, she had to go through all the paperwork.

I’m definitely not against anyone legally coming to this country. It is a melting pot and it’s what this country was founded on. When my mother arrived here, she didn’t have a language barrier, but I’m sure as my grandparents had to learn to speak English when they arrived here from Poland, my mother would have also. Many of the holidays are different in England then they are here. But my mother would celebrate the holidays of this country. She’d tell us about the English holidays. She celebrated Thanksgiving – thankful her new country’s history. She was here for ten years and then she became a citizen of the U.S. We have a very special place in our hearts for England. But, we have a loyalty and a love for the United States.

But now millions of people may receive amnesty for their crime of sneaking into this country. A reward for doing wrong? I would get in more trouble for speeding – and would pay a bigger fine than someone else is punished for – for sneaking in to the U.S. They knew when they came here that it was illegal. They come here, they don’t learn the language, they keep their own traditions, they get financial aid and medical. We hear of our Veterans’ hospitals being overcrowded and without the proper care for our troops who have put their lives on the line for us. I wonder sometimes how hard it must be for soldiers coming home only to be in a country where English is becoming the second language.

It would be so different accepting these people if they were honest and if they would come to learn about the U.S. instead of expecting it to change for them. I’m writing this and I’m amazed.

I don’t like going out shopping and running errands all day and not hearing one person speak English. I’m the one in the foreign country. How horrible it is that I can be at the bank, the market, anyplace – and I can’t understand one word that anyone is saying? A friend of mine had two instances last week where the employees of the places she was shopping at couldn’t speak English. She said it was a lucky thing she learned Spanish in high school so she could speak to them. I think it’s sad that she feels that she’s lucky she knows Spanish – I think she would have been lucky to have them speak to her in English.

It’s said that Mexicans are taking the jobs that those in the U.S. don’t want. They work as cheap labor – even though statistics say that this isn’t really true. I haven’t heard anyone say that now it’s harder for someone who speaks English only to get a job because most jobs now require Spanish also. I imagine that about 75% of the jobs that were once available – aren’t now unless you’re bilingual. I guess it isn’t being said because English isn’t considered the first language. Yesterday was Memorial Day. How many illegal aliens took time during the day to honor our dead? To honor all of the men and women who have given their lives for our freedom? Would they raise an American flag?

Even if one little thing were changed – let it be that anyone who wants to live in our big beautiful country – must learn English. But, we’ve given them no incentive – everything is in Spanish.

Last week in the market, the man in front of me in line was going on and on about amnesty. I noticed one of the ladies from the pharmacy walk by and gave him a “look”. She had taken his remarks personally. This isn’t about everyone. It’s about those who sneak across the borders – whether from Canada or Mexico. I live in SoCal, so there are more illegal Mexicans here. It’s about those who have no desire to work to make this a better country. It’s about those who don’t want to grow with the two cultures but who want to keep theirs – and no others. It’s about those who wave the flag of Mexico while living off the taxpayers of the United States.

I don’t want any American soldier to come home and be in a bank where no one else speaks English. Or where another country’s flag is waved in his/her face. Where Cinco de Mayo is celebrated and Memorial Day, 4th of July and Veterans’ Day are ignored.