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March 25, 2005

Um, Deal with it!!

After reading about President Bush's response to a question about *cough* vigalantes, I decided to send my thoughts on this to the president.

Here's what I sent to the White House this afternoon:

Dear President Bush,

You're a busy guy so I'll make this short & sweet: START PAYING ATTENTION TO THE U.S./MEXICO BORDER! Sorry for the CAPS, but I wanted to emphasize my meaning.

Mr. President, follow-through on your campaign promises and get MORE U.S. Border Patrol agents on the border - not 200, but the 2000 you said last fall.

I think you're a smart guy but I'll say this anyway: if you don't follow through on your promises to strengthen the borders of the United States and some incident - big or small - happens due to negligence in this matter, the Republican Party will be feeling the after-effects for years. Short-term gains in cheap labor will seem paltry when compared to the long-term consequences of allowing the border to be practically open.

Please - beef up the border. Put the National Guard of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas on the border immediately. Or put more police there. Or dig a DEEP trench and fill it with gasoline - SOMETHING!

You're probably aware of the growing discontent many Americans have with illegal immigration, but I thought I'd make my voice heard.

Do not ignore the border situation.

Sincerely,

"Mad Mikey"

Will I make a difference? I don't know, but I won't be silent about this.

Drop the White House a line: president@whitehouse.gov.

Yeah, it might only be read by some intern way down on the food chain, but it's still doing something.

UPDATE: After I sent the message, I found this grammar boo-boo:

START PAYING ATTENTION TO THE U.S./MEXICO BOARDER! Sorry...

_{I feel sheepish...}

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I think you got your point across Mikey :) We should start one of those online petitions and send to him.

|| Posted by Renee, March 25, 2005 06:15 PM ||

That's easy to do. Just go to Petition.com and sign up. They're professional and take no sides in any issue. You can also find text help on how to write an effective petition and then email it out to people or link to it.

Easy as pie...

|| Posted by scroff, March 25, 2005 07:33 PM ||

You don't need to know how to spell in order to be successful in the Navy, right, Mikey?

|| Posted by The Liberal Avenger, March 25, 2005 08:09 PM ||

It helps.

|| Posted by Mad Mikey, March 25, 2005 08:28 PM ||

Mikey: No job for you on Michelle's new foreigner-bashing blog?

|| Posted by The Liberal Avenger, March 28, 2005 10:03 AM ||

No job for you on Michelle's new foreigner-bashing blog?

1. Don't know WTF you're talking about - again.

2. Get a sense of continuity, i.e., explain WTF you're talking about.

|| Posted by Mad Mikey, March 28, 2005 10:28 AM ||

Now I know what you're babbling about.

Is this yet another machination of Republican hate that makes you cringe?

|| Posted by Mad Mikey, March 28, 2005 11:22 AM ||

Is this yet another machination of Republican hate that makes you cringe?

Yes.

I am struck with the irony of the fact that for what is supposed to be a blog about US immigration problems, the inaugural post is about blacks and Arabs misbehaving in France.

Michelle's big post of the day on the US immigration blog is about Mexicans misbehaving at a soccer game in Mexico - it has absolutely nothing to do with immigration whatsoever.

Why bring either of those stories to the table unless "US immigration" is the stalking horse issue they are concerned about? The real issue they are concerned about, naturally, is race.

It is a very sad and somewhat scary little circle jerk she and Jesse have going on over there.

|| Posted by The Liberal Avenger, March 28, 2005 02:15 PM ||

I am struck with the irony of the fact that for what is supposed to be a blog about US immigration problems, the inaugural post is about blacks and Arabs misbehaving in France.

Uh yeah - the focus is on France's immigration policy and how it's starting to back-fire.

Michelle's big post of the day on the US immigration blog is about Mexicans misbehaving at a soccer game in Mexico - it has absolutely nothing to do with immigration whatsoever.

I believe it is about immigration in that anyone exhibitiing any sort of anti-Mexican attitude is instantly called RACIST!! while Americans are facing this sort of animosity while participating in a soccer match. It's pointing out the hypocrisy.

LA, you need to actually read the posts and then digest what they mean instead of simply looking at headlines....

|| Posted by Mad Mikey, March 28, 2005 02:30 PM ||

STOP Fighting over Ms. Malkin! Yes she's a looker but let's not make fools of ourselves. /humor

Now I have to go OT with some important info for servicemen/women.

NOTE: The following addresses "active duty military,their spouses and debt."

NOTE: The 2001 revision of SSCRA (Soldiers' And Sailors' Civil Relief Act) apparently only applies if the financial institution "knowingly" violated the SSCRA.

Some people should send a "registered letter" and/or "notarized statement" to their finance/debt/fee institutions alerting them to the SSCRA. A lawyer could also fulfill this necessity.

"Some Creditors Make Illegal Demands on Active-Duty Soldiers"

"The law is an updated version of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act, which was adopted on the eve of World War II [adopted 1940, -ed.] and remained largely unchanged through the Persian Gulf war of 1991. But in July 2001, a federal court ruled that service members could sue violators of the relief act for damages. And the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 prompted Congress to take up a long-deferred Pentagon proposal to update the old act. The revised statute, clearer and more protective than the old one, was signed into law in December 2003."

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050328/ZNYT01/503280374/1001/BUSINESS

http://www.military.com/Resources/ResourceFileView/Active_Benefits_FAQ.htm

http://www.stmarytx.edu/ctl/display.php?go=resources

http://news.google.com/news?q=Soldiers'+And+Sailors'+Civil+Relief+Act&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=nn&oi=newsr

(Just found:

http://avengerredsix.blogspot.com/2005/02/end.html

"If anyone can tell me where to find that video clip on the internet, a lot of us in my company are curious as to whether they taped it while hiding in a certain village.")

|| Posted by JP, March 28, 2005 04:08 PM ||

LA, you need to actually read the posts and then digest what they mean instead of simply looking at headlines....

I didn't say that that clearly anti-Mexican post was racist (although it probably is). My point is that it has nothing to do with immigration.

As for the Blacks and Arabs in France story - wrong again. Blacks and Arabs in France are part of France's colonial legacy. Had the post taken pains to spell out whatever tenuous connection there may be between maligning blacks and Arabs in France and immigration problems in the US it might have been acceptable. In its current incarnation it is nothing but hatemongering fodder for the "angry white man" audience. You enjoyed it, didn't you, Mikey?

|| Posted by The Liberal Avenger, March 28, 2005 05:29 PM ||

STOP Fighting over Ms. Malkin! Yes she's a looker but let's not make fools of ourselves.

You know, I am often fond of Asian women but Ms. Malkin really doesn't do it for me.

|| Posted by The Liberal Avenger, April 1, 2005 05:21 PM ||

I believe that we should arm the southern border into the US. Mexicans are causing undue financial and irreperable societal hardships onto the people of this nation. It has been proven that the average mexican that immigrates into the US has a 8th grade education. By having brain-drained immigrants coming into our country, we are lowering the power of our workforce. Mexicans typically have no healthcare or money when they immigrate, so they end up draining medicaid and housing assistance, which when last time I checked, took it away from legal American citizens. Illegal Mexicans are more likely to commit crimes of theft, rape, and assault, all of which affect the quality of life of legal citizens. Children now have to learn how to speak Spanish in order to graduate; should your children have to learn a secondary language in a country where English is dominant? Is it fair for your children to have money taken away from courses which could benefit them so that they can learn how to speak to people that shouldn't be here in the first place? Is it fair for people with disabilities to have money taken away from them so that it can be used to medically treat people that have no right to be here? And is it right for Americans to fear going to certain parts of town just so we can store illegals there? Conservatives and Liberals alike should be outraged at this administration letting an influx of poverished mexicans into this country; people that are a drain on the resources of those who need it. Anybody that is for Mexican immigration is blind to the needs of their countrymen. Stop wallowing in your ignorance and open your eyes to what is happening to this country... it is being destroyed, one illegal mexican at a time.

|| Posted by Stop Immigration Now!, May 1, 2005 07:11 AM ||

Look, facts are facts. If you do not think that La Raza holds summer camps where it teaches Mexican/American kids that one day the western part of the United States of America will revert back to Mexican control, then you are simply blinded by truth. Go to the University of Texas. Call on the La Raza chapter there and simply see for yourself what is going on. Go to San Diego State University. Go to that La Raza chapter and see for yourself what is going on. It is not scary, it is TREASON. Even Bill Clinton had the sense to suggest that illegal immigration has the potential to unwind our 50 state union. If you neglect to see a major problem with illegal immigration from Mexico, then you are neglecting the USA. Make no mistake about it. A civil confrontation of sorts a few decades from now is not out of the realm of possibilities. I simply do not see how you can let a people of a different race, culture, and language enter your country and create a country within a country and have eveything work out just fine. The Mexicans want so much more than this. They want the the western part of the USA, plus Texas, back in Mexican control. Keep in mind, to understand the deep seeded hatred of the USA by Mexico you need only read the papers in Mexico City. Their cocktail of hatred against the USA is just as toxic as the hatred from Islam.

|| Posted by Ames Tiedeman, May 25, 2005 05:46 AM ||

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