Neither Kerry or Bush much good

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Registered: 03-30-2004
Neither Kerry or Bush much good
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Mon, 07-19-2004 - 10:17pm
I have spent some time today really reading through some of Kerry and Bush's policy positions. In all honesty, I think they are both really mediocre. Especially on issues of national security, border patrol, and immigration reform.

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12 million illegals in the country from all over the world, many of them criminals (half of California's prison population is foreign born, California has 55% of the illegal immigrants in America, and one-half of the legal immigrants), other states like Texas and Florida it's 20-25% of those arrested for crimes are foreign born, many of them illegals.

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Arab illegals are raising money for terrorists and some are undoubtly terrorists (many of the 9/11 terrorists violated our immigration laws and our government did nothing much about it).

Neither Kerry or Bush have any real plan to do anything about it. Both are too busy pandering to Hispanic and other immigrant lobbies, or to business people who want cheap labor.

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The official unemployment rate in America is 5.5 percent. But that just includes people who have only been out of work for 4 months or less. The real unemployment rate is much higher. And we are at high rates of legal immigration compared to most previous decades.

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With the exception of the Mexican farmworkers, we have unemployed Americans willing to do most urban jobs, assuming of course they are paid first world, not third world wages.

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But regardless, there needs to be, for National Security reasons and crime reasons, enough money appropriated and enough people put on our borders and coasts, (as well as checking for terrorists and criminals from other countries in our cities and towns), to protect the country.

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Both the Kerry and the Bush campaigns pretend that they are concerned with border controls and stopping illegal immigration, especially the movement of criminals and terrorist sympathizers (and even terrorists) into our country, but I don't believe them because they are not willing to spend the money nor do either of them have a real plan to control the borders and patrol the coasts and ports, (even though they both claim that an amnesty program for illegals will accomplish that. Hardly, do you think seriously that criminals and terrorists will apply for legal amnesty?)

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At some point we have to do what other countries (with the exception of Canada) are doing and get serious about controlling our borders, including militarizing them, and ending immigration from mostly Muslim countries (things that other industrial first world countries are in fact doing).

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The economic benefits of illegals are offset by the downward pressure on American wages,the increased real unemployment rate in our inner cities, the human and financial costs of crime brought into the country, and most importantly, the possibly incredibly tragic potential acts of terrorism, that could potentially kill millions of us, and could destroy our economy.

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Registered: 04-20-2003
Wed, 07-21-2004 - 9:31am
what do you expect? you have much to do. Bush however is hated as hell.

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