Open Trackbacks – Illegal Immigration Edition

This L.A. Times article is about an illegal immigrant family with ten kids, with triplets who are the result of a reversed tubal ligation and fertility drugs, and one child who was born with liquid on his brain and is partially paralyzed. The family’s $400 per week income from the father’s job as a carpet installer is subsidized by $700 per month in Social Security benefits for the partially paralyzed baby. The children are American citizens and receive Medi-Cal and free lunch at school. Although the mother has been here for 22 years and the father 28, neither speaks English. Their oldest daughters speak mostly Spanish in spite of having been born and raised here. The twenty year old dropped out of high school without graduating, and the seventeen year old admits being on a lower reading level than her seven year old cousin. The mother’s nine siblings also came here illegally, but eventually left Los Angeles, with the sister who moved to Lexington, Kentucky providing this classic quote -

“We’re in a state where there’s nothing but Americans. The police control the streets. It’s clean, no gangs. California now resembles Mexico — everyone thinks like in Mexico. California’s broken.”

**This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, email the coalition and let me know at what level you would like to participate.


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Tidbits And Treasures on 01 Aug 2006 at 10:57 am

‘World Opinion’ is worthless

I tend to agree with Dennis Prager on this one. The full truth is usually eschewed by the news we get on television from around the world. This is partly because journalists do not have the freedom to report from some of the countries where the worse…

Matt Jones’ Random Acts of Verbiage… »

Uganda’s Invisible Children on 02 Aug 2006 at 3:47 am

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planck’s constant on 02 Aug 2006 at 1:47 pm

I forgive Mel Gibson – Passion of the Cristal

I do not drink and I abhor drunk-drivers. I do not party all night nor do I revel with the whores of Babylon. As you know, I loathe and despise violent racism and anti-Semitism. However… I forgive Mel Gibson for his anti-Semitic remarks. Why should…

The Random Yak on 31 Jul 2006 at 2:56 pm

It’s Monday: Back Away From The Eel And Nobody Gets Satirized.

It’s Monday again, and today I’m glad I don’t have to…
…be knocked off a podium by someone hurling a dead eel.
But some people do. Or rather did, before an anonymous e-mail complaint led to the termination of a 30 year t…

planck’s constant on 31 Jul 2006 at 5:33 pm

Hezbollah held children until they could be blown

Hassan Shar-Mootah hated his job. It wasn’t easy to fool the Israeli Defense Forces and besides, what he wanted them to do was unconscionable, although unless it was done, Hezbollah would soon be done for. Damn! Even sons of apes and pigs can be very…

CommonSenseAmerica on 31 Jul 2006 at 9:15 am

Illegal Immigration: Here We Go Again…

It seems the illegal immigrant population in this nation can’t wait to take to the streets of our cities once again to parade their illegal presence.
From the Whittier Daily News:
Organizers of the Los Angeles pro-immigration march that drew half a m…

Right Truth on 31 Jul 2006 at 9:24 am

30 million illegal immigrants can’t be wrong, can they?

The scary truth is that no one knows how many illegal aliens are in the United States. We don’t know who they are, where they came from, what their intentions are. This is something that everyone agrees on, both pro

The Florida Masochist on 31 Jul 2006 at 11:18 am

Big cats and common sense

It makes about as much sense as allowing private citizens to house exotic cats in their homes to begin with. And it’s about time the practice ends. The federal government must do what the state refuses to and put Sipek out of this crazy business.I ag…

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  1. Illegal Immigration: Here We Go Again…

    It seems the illegal immigrant population in this nation can’t wait to take to the streets of our cities once again to parade their illegal presence.
    From the Whittier Daily News:
    Organizers of the Los Angeles pro-immigration march that drew half a m…

  2. Right Truth says:

    30 million illegal immigrants can’t be wrong, can they?

    The scary truth is that no one knows how many illegal aliens are in the United States. We don’t know who they are, where they came from, what their intentions are. This is something that everyone agrees on, both pro

  3. Big cats and common sense

    It makes about as much sense as allowing private citizens to house exotic cats in their homes to begin with. And it’s about time the practice ends. The federal government must do what the state refuses to and put Sipek out of this crazy business.I ag…

  4. Open Trackbacks – Illegal Immigration Edition

    Cross posted from Pursuing HolinessÂ
    This L.A. Times article is about an illegal immigrant family with ten kids, with triplets who are the result of a reversed tubal ligation and fertility drugs, and one child who was born with liquid on his brain and…

  5. It’s Monday: Back Away From The Eel And Nobody Gets Satirized.

    It’s Monday again, and today I’m glad I don’t have to…
    …be knocked off a podium by someone hurling a dead eel.
    But some people do. Or rather did, before an anonymous e-mail complaint led to the termination of a 30 year t…

  6. Hezbollah held children until they could be blown

    Hassan Shar-Mootah hated his job. It wasn’t easy to fool the Israeli Defense Forces and besides, what he wanted them to do was unconscionable, although unless it was done, Hezbollah would soon be done for. Damn! Even sons of apes and pigs can be very…

  7. ‘World Opinion’ is worthless

    I tend to agree with Dennis Prager on this one. The full truth is usually eschewed by the news we get on television from around the world. This is partly because journalists do not have the freedom to report from some of the countries where the worse…

  8. [...] Also, head over to Laura’s Open Trackback for some other great posts! Thanks Laura! [...]

  9. I forgive Mel Gibson – Passion of the Cristal

    I do not drink and I abhor drunk-drivers. I do not party all night nor do I revel with the whores of Babylon. As you know, I loathe and despise violent racism and anti-Semitism. However… I forgive Mel Gibson for his anti-Semitic remarks. Why should…

  10. [...] Something to think about… as Christians, we are obviously required – and should want – to share both the Gospel and the love of Christ. But nowhere in the bible does it say that we must allow our culture and society to be overtaken by colonizers – especially when these actions will hinder our continuing to feed the hungry and help the poor. Mexico is not poor because it lacks resources – it has oil, plenty of arable land, and many other blessings. It’s poor largely because of corruption and bad government. For example, a Mexican illegal immigrant left California and moved to Kentucky, saying, “California now resembles Mexico — everyone thinks like in Mexico. California’s broken.” That woman has assimilated, but far too many others have not, and California and other parts of the country have paid the price. [...]

  11. [...] Something to think about… as Christians, we are obviously required – and should want – to share both the Gospel and the love of Christ. But nowhere in the bible does it say that we must allow our culture and society to be overtaken by colonizers – especially when these actions will hinder our continuing to feed the hungry and help the poor. Mexico is not poor because it lacks resources – it has oil, plenty of arable land, and many other blessings. It’s poor largely because of corruption and bad government. For example, a Mexican illegal immigrant left California and moved to Kentucky, saying, “California now resembles Mexico — everyone thinks like in Mexico. California’s broken.” That woman has assimilated, but far too many others have not, and California and other parts of the country have paid the price. [...]

  12. [...] quote from an old immigration post of mine from a Mexican illegal alien who left California and moved to Kentucky: “We’re in a state [...]