TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
On October 19, 2003, the ex-quarterback for the
University of Colorado football team, John Hesler, was
driving his Honda Accord on Interstate 76 in Colorado when it was clipped by an
SUV sending it across a median and into the path of a pickup truck, causing a
horrific accident. The driver and
passenger of the SUV fled the scene and haven't been found. The Colorado State Patrol told Hesler's
family that they most likely are in Mexico.
As of March 2006, John Hesler was still going through extensive physical
therapy. The car that caused the
accident did not have insurance. Since
the driver was not apprehended or ticketed nobody knows whether he had a
license or not. Most likely he did not,
but even if so, false
documentation is a major problem in Colorado, as well as across
the USA.
For a detailed report on what is happening on
the roads and highways of the East Coast see the article Harvest
of death on the Eastern Shore where it is reported that while 5% of the population
is Hispanic in the area they are involved in 25% of the fatal traffic
accidents, an astounding 5 times as much participation as representation. Given the fact that most of the Hispanic
community is, like other ethnic groups, law abiding and responsible citizens,
that means that the illegal alien portion of the Hispanic community is even
worse. How much worse nobody knows
because nobody is tracking it.
A review of State Police auto accident
reports for 2002 through 2004 for that area of the Eastern Shore also revealed
that of the 179 accidents involving Hispanic laborers:
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75% of the drivers had no auto
insurance.
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Nearly all of the vehicles
driven by migrants were registered to other drivers.
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93% of the vehicles had false
out-of-state tags.
In 2003 and 2004, 128 of the 395 people,
32.4%, arrested on DUI charges were Hispanic.
That is a rate six times greater than the Hispanic portion of the
population.
The article goes on, “When crashes occur, it
is not uncommon for Hispanic drivers – often intoxicated and unlicensed – to
flee before troopers arrive. According
to State Police records, about a third of accidents involving migrant workers
are hit-and-run. State Trooper Koushel
said migrants often cannot be conclusively identified when they’re stopped for
a violation or involved in an accident.” “Many”, he said, “are illegal aliens
who carry fake or invalid driver’s licenses”.
“Because of that”, he said, “many fail to show up in court. It’s almost like writing a ticket to a
ghost.”
For more information on the DUI problem, see Hispanics
in crashes lead DWI stats.
Illegal aliens that drive without licenses often can not
read English. As a result, they don’t
know the rules of the road and can’t read highway signs. Couple that with the higher tendency for DUI
driving and many illegal aliens are the worst drivers on the road, as noted by
some of the various traffic accident statistics cited in this paper. Add in the fact that they generally have no
insurance and that makes them, as a group, the most irresponsible drivers on
the road, as well.
As noted in No
license to drive: Illegal immigrant drivers creating problem in De Queen,
Arkansas, population 5,765:
“Hispanic drivers in De Queen
without driver’s licenses have become an accident waiting to happen, an
official said. “The majority of
Hispanics have no driver’s license and they’re part of the illegal immigration
problem. If they’re here illegally,
they can’t get into the system to get driver’s license. In most cases they don’t have car insurance
either,” said Mayor Billy Ray McKelvy.
The drivers also have no vehicle
insurance and no liability insurance, says McKelvy.
…In the last two months, De Queen has been
averaging about an accident per week involving Hispanic drivers with no
driver’s licenses. Ten vehicles have
been involved and the average amount of damage per vehicle was estimated to be
$3,000. So far, none of the crashes in
De Queen have been fatal.”
However the consequences of illegal aliens driving have
not just been a few cars damaged as in DeQueen. Putting some of the personal consequences of the “victimless
crime” into perspective:
Marine
Corporal Brian Mathews, 21,
and his girlfriend Jennifer Bower4 24, were killed by a drunk illegal alien Eduardo Raul
Morales-Soriano who slammed into their car when it was stopped at a traffic
light. Brian Mathews was on
leave, after returning from duty in Iraq.
Morales-Soriano had a blood-alcohol level that was four times the legal
limit.
Ryan
Ostendorf, a 28 year old paramedic, who was also a Kansas University
student and who dreamed of becoming a doctor, was killed by illegal alien
Victor Anzua-Torresa who had ignored an order to receive treatment after his
previous drunken-driving conviction. Anzua-Torresa had also been previously
deported in 2000 and been arrested for several other offenses, including
possession of drug paraphernalia.
20
year old Natalie Housand
was killed when illegal alien Jesus
Garcia Lopez hit her car
while going 100 MPH, driving drunk.
Amazingly, after the head-on collision, Lopez fled the scene.
Donna
and Sean Wilson of Juliet
Tennessee, were killed by illegal alien Gustavo Reyes Garcia who had been, arrested
14 times in the previous five years prior to when he ran into and killed
them, again driving while intoxicated.
Garcia had previously been arrested 5 times on DUIs.
Kelly
Bergen, 25, a teacher, was crushed between two potato trucks, an accident
caused by an illegal alien driving without a license or insurance.
Tricia Ann Taylor,
17, lost both her legs above the knees when she was pinned against a wall by a
drunken illegal alien with seventeen prior violations who hit her while
drag racing.
5-year-old
Felix Leon was killed in a hit and run accident by illegal alien Carlos
Jaramillo.
Christopher Shackleford, 19,
Julieanne Pascoe, 18, and Kelli Bourgeois, 18, were all killed in
Marietta, Georgia, by an illegal alien drunk driver. He did not have a valid driver's license or
insurance but did have a blood alcohol level at twice the legal limit.
Chicago
Police Officer Michael Gordon lost his life to a drunken illegal alien driver. Officer Gordon was in the driver's seat of
his squad car when it was struck by Luis Calle, a Guatemalan, whose blood
alcohol level was 0.177, twice the legal limit.
Brandon Haley, 31, was killed
while riding his bicycle in a hit and run by illegal alien Lazardo Lobaton.
Helen
Hughes, 22, Jennifer Carter, 18, and Hughes' stepbrother, 16-year-old Ben
Leonard were all killed by an illegal alien, who allegedly was driving
drunk, and already had a long record of crime in the United States.
22-year-old
Amy Kortlang was killed by an illegal alien driving without a license and
while drunk. The illegal alien driver
had been previously deported, barely six months prior to causing the
accident.
Oakland Police Officer Will Seuis was killed on his ride home by
an illegal alien. A sixteen-year
veteran of the Police Department, Officer Seuis was remembered at
his funeral as a hard-working cop who had received 33 letters of
appreciation from citizens, including one from a motorist he had ticketed. The accused killer had a long history of
traffic convictions.
Peggy Keller, dean
of distance education at Yakima Valley Community College, was killed by a twice
deported illegal alien who was driving under the influence of methamphetamines.
19 year old
Travis Smith was killed when he was struck head-on by a vehicle driven by
an illegal alien who was transporting four other illegal aliens to
Pennsylvania.
Six
year old Annie Cumpston was killed in a hit-and-run accident in
downtown Baltimore by a truck driven by illegal alien Guillermo Diaz when it
veered into the crosswalk as she and her family were leaving the circus. When Diaz was arrested, he did not have a
driver's license, the tags on the truck were expired and his blood-alcohol
level was 0.07 percent. Diaz had been
in the United States illegally for four years doing construction work. He received 10 years in prison but is
eligible for parole in just two years.
This is an example of a horrific crime where all the links are gone but
you can find the story at CRIME
VICTIMS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS.
The above instances are only a small
sampling. Here are a few more links on
the carnage being caused by illegal aliens drivers: Illegal Alien
Charged In Traffic Death To Be Deported,
How open borders
turn Americans into roadkill, Illegal, 17, runs
down hero cop, Illegal
Immigrant Gets Maximum Sentence In Hit & Run Death, Illegal Immigrant Who
Drove Wrong Way Gets 13 Years In Fatal DWI Crash.
How bad is the problem getting? See: The Carnage of Unisured Motorists for a detailed report on the havoc caused by illegal alien drivers
in an East Coast community and Numbers
flabbergast legislators - Crashes,
arrests highlight illegal immigration problem, lawmakers say
where over a few days of bad weather in Colorado over 100 illegal aliens were
in auto accidents or given traffic tickets.
For a growing twist on the problem, see: Illegals
without driver’s licenses register cars
and Dangerous Loophole Allows
Illegal Drivers On Road.
Finally, it is worth noting that illegal alien
drivers are not only killing Americans and themselves. Some of the most horrific accidents are as a
result of an illegal alien transporting other illegal aliens. For a few examples, see: Van
stuffed full of immigrants takes deadly roll, 9
suspected illegal 
immigrants killed
in Yuma crash and Driver
in Crash Held on Smuggling Counts. In the first two incidents there
were 21 illegal aliens in the vehicles that got into the accident. In the third there were “only” 11 in the van
with four dying. The medical costs on
the local community for such accidents are enormous.
Who
pays for the carnage? American
citizens, of course. As noted in When illegal immigrants crash, taxpayers usually
foot the bill, “the only trauma center in Southern Arizona, Tucson's
University Medical Center…At the current run rate we'll incur 5 - 6 million
dollars in un-reimbursed costs for taking care of foreign nationals.” That is just the unpaid emergency medical
costs for one hospital in one city.
Since there is no such thing as a free lunch, the insured pay for the
treated uninsured through higher medical costs and insurance premiums.
How
many Americans are being killed in traffic accidents by illegal aliens? As noted by a Media Matters article
interview, Boyles
guest acknowledges "no one really knows how many Americans per day are
being killed by illegal aliens" as it is all a guess
based on bits and pieces starting with the fact that nobody knows how many
illegal aliens are actually in the USA.
The
estimates on the number of illegal aliens in the USA range from a generally
accepted low of 10-12 million to a few estimates of 20 or more million. Census Bureau Distortions Hide
Immigration Crisis Real Numbers Much Higher says
that the numbers may actually be far higher.
For
the sake of argument I’ll use 15 million.
The proportional participation of illegal aliens in traffic accidents
can now be estimated. Thus 15 million
illegal aliens in a population of 300 million is a 5% participation level. However, as some data has suggested the
participation may be much greater than the representation. In any case, as far as I am aware, nobody
tracks accidents or crimes by resident status.
As previously noted, coming up with a more accurate number is complicated
by the fact that the MSM seem to go out of their way to not report residential
status of the person involved in the crime or accident. Even in many of the references used in this
report you will have to dig deep to find the resident status of the
perpetrator. Regardless, the number is
considerable and we need to ask ourselves if having 5% collateral damage for a
“victimless crime” is acceptable.
In
2000, the AAA Foundation for
Traffic Safety released a comprehensive report Unlicensed
to Kill detailing the carnage being caused by unlicensed drivers. While the report did not identify if the
unlicensed drivers were illegal aliens or not, it did note that of the 278,078
drivers involved in fatal crashes in the US between 1993 and 1997 some 3.7%
were unlicensed, 2.7% were of unknown licensed status, and another 7.4% were
driving on invalid licenses. The end
result is that during the period 42,049 people were killed in crashes involving
at least one driver who was unlicensed, driving on an invalid license, or with
a license of unknown status. The report
also notes that DUI drivers also played a significant part in the highway
carnage.
As
previously noted, a high percentage of illegal aliens tend to drive without
licenses. While the number of illegal
aliens involved in the 278,078 fatal crashes during the examined period is
unknown, if just 5% of the 42,049 deaths were caused by illegal aliens that is
over 2,000 American citizens killed during the five year period which is an
average of 400 citizens per year. While
the absolute number of traffic deaths caused by illegal alien drivers is unknown,
but most likely much higher than just a 5% participation rate, how many
Americans should needlessly die to save a few cents on every head of lettuce?
In
2003, the AAA Foundation released Unlicensed to
Kill – the Sequel,which goes into more detail regarding state
practices. The report noted that the
data showed a wide variation across states in the proportions of drivers
involved in fatal crashes who lacked a valid license – from a low of 6.1% in
Maine to a high of 23.1% in New Mexico.
Arizona and California closely followed New Mexico. Reviewing the involvement, there is a strong
correlation between the percentages and the states with higher proportions of
illegal aliens, although the report does not make that link. By-the-way, regardless of residency status,
both reports basically say that vehicle impoundment is the best method to
prevent unlicensed drivers from killing people, as most offenders are usually
arrested on prior DUIs. California also
uses it to get older, more polluting vehicles off the roadway and their laws
have resulted in forfeiture in approximately half the cases. It was also noted that in the vast majority
of cases, an unlicensed driver with a DUI was not the owner of the
vehicle.
Compare
that with the information from the East Coast in the article Harvest
of death on the Eastern Shore where the
participation of illegal aliens is noted.
As reported in a 2001 article, Cultural Impact, from Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD): “…when you combine the Hispanic drinking culture with the lack
of education on drunk driving prevention, you end up with tragic
consequences." The article goes
on, “According to research compiled by Dr. Catherine Clark of the Alcohol
Policy Group in Berkeley, Calif., Hispanic drivers are more likely than Anglo drivers
to consume more alcohol more frequently and have been shown to be more likely
than Anglos to drive with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) level over .05
percent.” MADD’s data indicate that
42% of all traffic fatalities involved alcohol, the percentage is increasing,
and Hispanics as a group are
involved at a much higher rate than their portion of the population.
As noted in a
2003 article in the Austin American Statesmen, A
troubling trend: Hispanics and DWI - Latinos account for nearly half of 2002
Austin arrests:
“Of 3,007 drunken
driving arrests in 2002, 43 percent involved Hispanic men, even though they
make up only about 11 percent of Austin's driving population.
Including women,
Hispanics made up 47 percent of the DWI arrests but only 21 percent of Austin
drivers.
…Statewide, 42
percent of the people arrested in 2002 for driving while intoxicated were
Latino, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
In Austin, 46
percent of the people arrested for drunk driving from 1999 to 2002 were Latino,
according to the Austin Police Department.”
The impact of illegal Hispanic aliens on the law-abiding
Hispanic portion of the DWI statistics is mostly unknown but it is probably
sizable and giving the Hispanic community a bad reputation.
Looking
at one particularly egregious component of traffic accidents, hit and runs,
nationally 11 of every 100 traffic accidents are a hit and run. After a hit and run driver flees the accident scene, something
very common when the driver is an illegal alien, the unfortunate victim is
responsible for all the expenses, as well as suffering the inconvenience of
being without a car while it’s being repaired.
Fortunately, the vast majority of hit and run accidents only cause
vehicle damage but many drivers, including most notably illegal aliens, do not
have insurance, let alone adequate insurance, to handle any expenses, even if
only to repair the unfortunate victim’s car.
Thus, if you do not carry comprehensive insurance on an older car and
are hit by an illegal alien that destroys your car, you are left without a
car. As bad as that can be,
unfortunately, there are also many deaths and serious injuries as well, for
which the victim’s insurance must also pay.
How
many hit and run accidents are there?
As reported by Deadly Roads,
as of November 13, 2006, there have already been 1,346 killed and 91,562
injured in hit and run accidents in 2006.
Extrapolating for the year, 2006 will end up with about 1,540 killed and
104,700 injured by hit and run drivers.
If the illegal alien population was responsible for just 5% of the
carnage, that would result in 77 killed and 5,235 injured by illegal aliens in
just hit and run accidents in 2006.
However, as previously noted, the data suggests that the proportional
involvement of illegal aliens is far higher. As noted in Not all Hit and
Run Accident Victims Die, often the injuries are often crippling, life long, and require many
years of treatments and hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars in
medical costs.
Frosty
Wooldridge in Spiral Of Immigrant Corruption
In America says, “To give you an idea of how fast the United States
careens into Third World standard operating procedure, in Greeley, Colorado
last year, police recorded 270 hit and run accidents for that year. Greeley, with less than 70,000 residents,
houses the largest contingent of (illegal alien) Mexicans in Colorado.”
For
what is happening in California see California's
hit-and-run crisis - More flee fatal accidents here than any other state where
it is reported: “
“The number of fatal hit-and- run
traffic deaths statewide jumped by 19 percent from 1999 to 2001, federal
statistics show. Nearly 300 people are
killed annually in hit-and-run accidents in the state.
Hit-and-runs accounted for 7.8
percent of the state's fatal crashes in 2001, the latest year for which figures
are available from the U.S. Transportation Department. The figure is more than
twice the national average of 3.8 percent - - and a full percentage point
higher than the next-highest state, Arizona.”
Again,
nobody is tracking the illegal alien component of the carnage, making it
impossible to do an accurate cost/benefit analysis.
The US
Dept. of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA) has reported
that in 2004 there were 6,181,000 traffic accidents that killed 42,636 and
injured 2,788,000. The NHSTA also
reported that the economic costs for traffic accidents in 2000 was $230.6
Billion. If illegal aliens are
responsible for just 5% of it, that is 309,050 accidents, 2,132 deaths, 139,400
injuries, and a cost of $11.5 billion.
As previously noted, data suggests that illegal aliens are involved at a
far greater rate than their representation in the general population – in one
study it was five times as much. Even
if only twice as much, I’ll let you do the math on the collateral damage.
Illegal
alien drivers kill and injure far more children than alar and second hand smoke. Combined.
So
much for a “victimless crime.”
CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
In
addition to the more permissive and irresponsible attitudes on drinking and driving
held by many Hispanic illegal aliens, the Washington Post reported in a June
2002 article, In
Mexico, an Unpunished Crime, there is a "machismo
culture," instilled through what is learned in the home, school and
church, which has allowed many men to "believe they are superior and
dominant, and that women are an object."
The article goes on, “when it comes to punishing sexual violence against
women, surprisingly little has changed in a century. In many parts of
Mexico, the penalty for stealing a cow is harsher than the punishment for
rape.”
As
reported in a VDARE article, Mexican
Sexual Diversity, “the social status of women in some rural areas is not much better than the
Taliban level, where females have no civil rights and are essentially slaves
for men.” As an example, a kind of
kidnap-for-sex custom remains legal in Oaxaca, a southern state of Mexico. In “Oaxaca last summer, the one-year-old,
government-funded Oaxacan Women’s Institute persuaded the legislature to pass
heavy criminal penalties against a practice known as ‘rapto.’ Laws in most Mexican states define rapto as
a case where a man kidnaps a woman not for ransom, but with the intent of
marrying her or to satisfy his “erotic sexual desire.” The new law championed by the women’s group
established penalties of at least 10 years in prison. But in March, the state legislature reversed itself and again
made the practice a minor infraction. A
key legislator - a man - argued for the reduction, calling the practice
harmless and ‘romantic.’”
The “machismo culture”
is not just a Mexican attribute. As
noted in Violence against
women in South Asian countries “Rigid cultures and patriarchal attitudes
which devalue the role of women, result in the wide spread occurrence of violence
against women. The family structure, in
which the man is the undisputed ruler of the household, and activities within
the family are seen as private, allows violence to occur at home. As well as traditional forms of violence
such as wife-battering and sexual assault, women in these countries are also
exposed to dowry crimes such as bride burning, kidnapping for the purposes of
prostitution, and “honor killings.”
Laws permit discrimination against women and discourage reporting of
violent acts.”
Is
this the attitude we want to be importing into the USA?
For detailed descriptions of just some of the crimes
committed by illegal aliens, often due to the machismo culture, go back up to
the crime section and start clicking on just a few of the “sex crimes links” or
see Immigrations Human Cost, Victims of Illegal Aliens and Read
This.
As previously noted in The Dark Side of Illegal
Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants in
the United States, by researcher
Deborah Schurman-Kauflin, the illegal alien population contains a higher
percentage of sex offenders. Allowing
illegal aliens to wantonly violate our sovereignty resulted in an estimated
960,000 victims of sex crimes in the 88 months examined in the study. That is 10,909 per month or about 364 per
day. Does that sound like a victimless
crime? How
many more children must be abused or women raped before we say enough is
enough? We have enough home grown
degenerates and perpetrators in the US without allowing illegal aliens to simply
walk in with their machismo attitudes
and prey on American women and children.
Unfortunately, another troubling aspect of Hispanic culture
that has terrible consequences is illegitimacy. As noted in an article by Heather MacDonald, Seeing Today’s Immigrants Straight, “Half of all children born to Hispanic Americans in 2002
were illegitimate, twice the rate for American whites and 42 percent higher
than the overall American rate. The
(illegitimate) birthrate for Hispanic teens is higher than that for black
teens. In Santa Ana, California, which
has the highest proportion of people who speak Spanish at home of any large
U.S. city - 74 percent - the teen birthrate was twice the national teen average
in 2000. This predilection for
out-of-wedlock childbearing among Hispanics cannot be blamed solely on
corrosive American culture, since the illegitimacy rate for foreign-born
Hispanics is 40 percent. The
illegitimacy rate in Mexico is 38 percent; in El Salvador, it is 72 percent.”
Importing Poverty:
Immigration and Poverty in the United States: A Book of Charts
MacDonald further notes in Hispanic Family Values? that runaway illegitimacy is creating
a new U.S. underclass and that:
“Conservatives who support open borders are fond of invoking
“Hispanic family values” as a benefit of unlimited Hispanic immigration. Marriage is clearly no longer one of those
family values. But other kinds of
traditional Hispanic values have survived - not all of them necessarily ideal
in a modern economy, however. One of
them is the importance of having children early and often. “It’s considered almost a badge of honor for
a young girl to have a baby,” says Peggy Schulze of Chrysalis House, an
adoption agency in Fresno. (Fresno has
one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in California, typical of the state’s
heavily Hispanic farm districts.).”
For an interesting insight into the sexism
embedded in the Mexican culture, see “Violated
Twice:” Mexican Rape Victims are Regularly Denied Abortions which notes:
“The group (Las Libres, a Guanajato women’s
rights group ), also works to combat the overall sexism and impunity that
usually allows rapists to escape unpunished and puts women through a “second
rape” if they try to report the crime and receive medical treatment or an
abortion.
“They say women are liars and are
inventing the rape to get an abortion,” said Cruz. “Or they say they invited the rape, that they’re easy. They say how
were you dressed, did you like him or not. In Mexico women are treated as
sexual objects, not people. If a woman
is walking alone in the street, anyone can insult her or touch her body. Even in her own house, she can be raped and
abused.”
…Though there are no reliable statistics,
rape is thought to be exceedingly common in Mexico. It is estimated that at
most, one in 10 victims report the crime.
Government officials have reported an estimated incidence of about
120,000 to 130,000 rapes per year; but Marianne Mollmann, the women’s rights
advocacy director for Human Rights Watch, said the real number is probably
closer to one million.
In many states sex with a minor is
only a crime if the child is “honest” and “chaste,” and in many states the age
of consent is 12, 13, 14 or “at puberty” regardless of age. And the criminalizing of incest victims
means that incest cases are rarely prosecuted.
In 2005, for example, the state of Guanajato investigated a woman for
incest after her father, who had been molesting her since age six, reported her
to authorities. The woman’s husband
told Human Rights Watch that the local public prosecutor threatened to arrest
his wife on incest charges.
Women generally have little control
of their bodies and sexuality; they are expected to submit unquestioningly to
their husbands’ sexual demands. In
1994, the Supreme Court ruled that men could force their wives to have sex for
the purpose of procreation. This ruling
wasn’t overturned until 2005.”
The US
is a nation of laws and most Americans respect the rule of law. However, this is in direct contrast to most
third world countries where endemic corruption permeates the society, bribery
is a way of life, illegitimacy is an accepted norm, and individuals operate in
a “survivor” and “machismo”
mentality. As noted in an article by
Frosty Wooldridge, Spiral of Immigrant Corruption
in America: "Corruption becomes a mechanism by which Third
World societies operate,” Heath Boatwright said. "When you immigrate millions of them illegally into the
United States, you create exactly the same lawlessness in our country. They feel at home because so many of their
countrymen break the law with fellow illegal aliens that it is a normal,
continuance of their behavior in our civilization.”
Such
attitudes only bred more “victimless” crime.
BALKANIZATION of AMERICA
Since
the “discovery” of America, the United States has always been a nation of
immigrants and continues to be so.
Compared to all other nations, the USA has a very liberal immigration
policy. In 2005 we allowed 1,122,373
legal immigrants permanent resident status.
There are about 3.5 million on the waiting list to enter legally. The US probably accepts more legal
immigrants than all the other industrial nations combined. Go to the Yearbook
of Immigration Statistics for detailed
information on both legal and illegal immigrantion and Census
Bureau Distortions Hide Immigration Crisis Real Numbers Much Higher for indications that the numbers may actually be far higher.
For the
most part, legal immigrants come to the United States because they want to
become Americans. Historically,
immigrants integrated fairly quickly into American society, adopting our
language and culture. However, this is
not what is happening now.
As
noted by ex-Colorado Governor Dick Lamm in an August 8, 2002 article, One Nation, One Tongue,
published
in the Rocky Mountain News (link gone but a version is republished
here):
“The Southwest, and to a lesser
extent, the whole nation, is in danger of backing into becoming a bilingual
nation without debate or forethought.
This seems to me to be a grave mistake. I look around the world in vain
for an example of where bilingual nations live in peace with themselves.
One scholar, Seymour Martin
Lipset, put it this way:
The histories of bilingual and
bicultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension,
and tragedy. Canada, Belgium, Malaysia,
Lebanon-all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for
autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan
and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with its Basques,
Bretons, and Corsicans.
A nation is much more than a place
on a map. It is a state of mind, a
shared vision, and a recognition that we are all in this together. A nation needs a common language as it needs
a common currency. You have to share
something with your neighbors beside a zip code. We need many things to tie us together, but one indispensable
element must be that we all speak one common language.
…America has been successful because we have become one
people. There is a "social
glue" of a common language, a shared history, uniting symbols that tie us
together. We live under a common flag,
which we honor, and salute.
Nations need cultural ties that
bind also. That culture was not fixed
in cement with the arrival of the Pilgrims, but is always changing and
evolving. We can remember Cinco de Mayo
as we do Saint Patrick's Day and Octoberfest and we can buy more salsa than
catsup without endangering our national soul.
But we must avoid becoming a Hispanic Quebec; we must stay one people
and one nation.”
As seen by the May 1, 2006,
demonstrations by people supporting illegal immigration, a notable portion of
the Mexican illegal alien population and their supporters believe the American
Southwest belongs to Mexico. They place
their allegiance to Mexico above that of the United States, and believe they are
“owed” the same rights as citizens. For
an interesting take on the demonstrations, see Illegal Alien Anarchy
. . . Connecting the Dots!
However, as
noted in a National Review Online article, American
Dhimmitude The road from amnesty:
“This isn’t really about immigration, though - it’s
about power.
What we’re seeing in the streets is a naked assertion of
power by outsiders against the American nation. They demand that we comply with their wishes and submit our
immigration policies for their approval, and implicitly threaten violence if
their demands are not met. Far from being a discussion among Americans about
the best way to regulate immigration, the illegal-alien marches have been
marked by the will to power: ubiquitous Mexican flags,
burning and other forms of contempt for the American flag, and widespread displays of
blatant racial chauvinism and irredentism.”
Taking it further, there are a number of Mexican and
Hispanic advocacy groups, such as the League of
United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the Mexican
American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano
de Aztlan (MEChA) and, to a lesser extent, the National Council of La Raza (La Raza), which
more or less support, advocate, or have a revolutionary agenda of conquering
America's southwest, retaking northern
“Aztlan” from the gringo invaders.
It is worth noting that the
Aztlan believers conveniently ignore the fact that the US won the 1846 Mexican
War but still paid Mexico $18.3 million dollars for the mostly unoccupied, arid
and/or mountainous lands in the southwest.
The sum was more than the $15
million paid in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase for about the same amount of land,
although, on balance, the lands of the Louisiana Purchase were much more
hospitable and conducive for agriculture use.
They also ignore the fact that at the time there were as many gringos in
the area as Mexicans and both were far outnumbered by Native Americans, from
whom much of the land was actually taken from.
In any
case, the “reconquista” philosophy is detailed in El Plan Espiritual
de Aztlan.
Their ideas of culture,
society, education, and community are devoted to the concept: “For the very
young there will no longer be acts of juvenile delinquency, but revolutionary
acts.” and “El Plan de Aztlan is the
plan of liberation!” It is worth noting
that these groups are active in the nation’s colleges, universities and even
high schools. How radical are these
groups? Spend some time on La Voz de Aztlan and We
Hate Gringos and see for yourself.
Results of such
attitudes? As noted in Mexican
youth protest possible deportation of criminal parents: “As the U.S. Senate
deliberates this week on sweeping legislation to curb illegal immigration,
protests were orchestrated around the country. In Concord, California, youthful
Mexican protestors paraded down Willow Pass Road around noon then moved over to
Monument Boulevard, later returning to Willow Pass Road about 1:40 P.M. on
their way downtown. As seen in photo above youthful demonstrators riding on
cars flaunted the Mexican flag while others threw gang signs. Concord police
made no move to arrest or ticket protestors that violated motor vehicle safety
codes, apparently fearing reprisals from Mexicans.”
An
article in the San Bernadino Sun on the massive riot at
Fontana High School contains telling quotes from school officials totally
ignoring the balkanization problem.
Unfortunately the article is no longer available but was captured and posted on
Americans for Legal Immigration along with some
rather interesting pictures.
Another advocacy group, the Mexican
American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), says it’s racist to make English the country’s official
national language and inhumane to build a border fence. MALDEF also promotes free college tuition
for illegal immigrants and lowering educational standards to accommodate new
Latino migrants.
As reported in a Front Page
article, Mexican Anti-Americanism in America, MALDEF “is one of the
leaders in this anti-American movement.
MALDEF is a supposed grass-roots organization that receives almost none
of its money from the people it claims to support. In reality, they are funded by the Ford
Foundation
and take their ideological
guidance from the anti-American leftists of the National Lawyers Guild.”
The article further notes: “In early 2002 the
Mexican counsel general in San Jose, California, Marco Antonio Alcazar, visited
a group of largely Hispanic ten- and eleven-year olds at a Salinas, California elementary
school. There he extolled the virtues
of Americans claiming Mexican citizenship and gave the school a collection of books
from the Mexican government, designed “to help students understand Mexican
history and culture.” In these books,
the failure of Mexico – a nation secretly tormented by the fact that its
northern neighbor has become the world’s leading society while it has remained
a banana republic – is blamed on “American imperialism.”
As noted by Hal Turner in THIS IS WHO PRESIDENT BUSH WANTS
TO MAKE "LEGAL" - Mexican Illegals in L.A with car signs reading "F*** You, this is still Mexico:
“While the rest of America is being told to
"celebrate multiculturalism," some of those who have snuck into this
nation have a very different idea. It
isn't being given any coverage in the local newspapers. You certainly won't be seeing it on
television. But thousands of Mexicans
living in Los Angeles are aggressively bashing the United States with
illuminated L.E.D. car signs that read "F*** You, this is still
Mexico." And Last year, on the Fourth of
July, Mexicans launched organized protests against the US, burning American
Flags in front of a Veterans Cemetery then attacking white Americans protesting
illegal immigration.
…Aside from some local coverage, the rest of the nation
heard little or nothing about the anti-American hatred being spewed, or the
violent attacks on Americans by Mexican immigrants - most of them, illegals.”
What are the expected results of these growing
anti-American attitudes? How about:
Mexican
Separatist School Pushes Marxism, Anti-Americanism where it is reported:
“A school in Los
Angeles, California, is using taxpayer money to push a radical separatist
agenda to its students, according to evidence obtained by Judicial Watch through the California Public
Records Act. Academia Semillas del Pueblo (Seeds of the People Academy) was
ostensibly established to provide an alternative to traditional schools and
better education options for Latinos.
Behind the façade, statements by the school’s president, Mexican radical
Marcos Aguilar, prove that the school’s purpose is far more threatening.
Aguilar was a
student radical at UCLA in the early 1990s, when he joined the
reconquista-focused student group M.E.Ch.A, which features the slogan "Por
La Raza todo, Fuera de La Raza nada," or, "For the Race, everything,
for those outside the Race, nothing.”
He was involved in destroying a teacher’s lounge at UCLA in 1993 as part
of a protest to force the University to create a Chicano Studies department.”
While English is not the official language of
the United States, it is the unofficial, official language and English fluency is
a requirement for anybody to be successful in the USA. Many illegal aliens have lived in the USA
for years, even decades, and can not speak English. They are able to live comfortably in their “little Mexico” or
“little China town” communities and never integrate into American society.
Results?
In Los Angeles County, ballots are translated into Spanish, Tagalog,
Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese.
Due to the recent influx of Spanish-speaking immigrants, many other
counties around the US routinely have ballots printed in Spanish. If foreign language ballots are required,
how did these people ever become citizens?
Or are we just simply allowing non-citizens to vote?
English proficiency is one of the main
requirements to become a citizen and one must be a citizen to vote. So then, why are ballots printed in foreign
languages? The answer to that question
is federal law – the 1965 Voting Rights Act
was amended to mandate bilingual ballots in counties where there are 10,000
voting-age citizens in one ethnic group or where 5% of voting-age citizens
belong to any single non-English-speaking group. So much for the “English language proficiency” requirements of
becoming a citizen.
In an interesting aside on English, the
Associated Press reported that 50% of Hispanics
backed English measure, Proposition 103, on the 2006 Arizona ballot. In fact, as reported in 
Hispanics help pass
laws against illegals: “All four of Arizona’s
anti-illegal immigration propositions passed by wide margins - and, perhaps
surprisingly, several surveys showed that between 40 percent and 50 percent of
Hispanics voted for them.” Evidently, like
immigrants of the past, there are many Hispanics who want to integrate and
become Americans and believe English is mandatory.
Most
public schools are now teaching Spanish almost to the exclusion of all other
foreign languages. How much longer before
we start printing road signs with Spanish subtitles like WalMart and some other
stores are currently doing on their isle signs in some of their stores? As demonstrated throughout history, and more
recently by Quebec and the Balkans, a nation needs a common language, culture,
and heritage.
Contrary to the
common refrain that immigration, legal and illegal, contributes to “diversity”
an October 8, 2006 article in the Financial Times, Study
paints bleak picture of ethnic diversity, reports:
“A bleak picture of the corrosive effects of ethnic
diversity has been revealed in research by Harvard University’s Robert Putnam,
one of the world’s most influential political scientists.
His research
shows that the more diverse a community is, the less likely its inhabitants are
to trust anyone – from their next-door neighbor to the mayor.
...When the
data were adjusted for class, income and other factors, they showed that the more
people of different races lived in the same community, the greater the loss of
trust. “They don’t trust the local
mayor, they don’t trust the local paper, they don’t trust other people and they
don’t trust institutions,” said Prof Putnam. “The only thing there’s more of is
protest marches and TV watching.”
A recent opinion
piece in the Dallas News, Can
We Bridge the Black-Latino Divide, echoes the
growing problem: “As the debate over illegal immigration has intensified, so,
it seems, have the tensions between Latinos and blacks. Dallas school board meetings are a microcosm
of what many urban communities, especially those with large influxes of Latino
immigrants, are experiencing.” While
the author uses the political correct “Latino immigrants” the problem is
actually with the Latino illegal aliens displacing the poor Blacks on the
economic ladder. Note that the tension
is increasing the division between Blacks and all Latinos thus illegal aliens
are damaging the relations between Blacks and Latinos.
How can the
Balkanization be avoided? Not by
Professor Putnam’s ideas of changing society but by President Theodore
Roosevelt’s ideas on who the immigrant should be and what the responsibilities
of the immigrant are:
"In the first place, we should insist that if the
immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates
himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for
it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or
birthplace, or origin. But this is
predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing
but an American. There can be no
divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else
also, isn't an American at all. We have
room for but one flag, the American flag.
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language. And we have room for but one sole loyalty
and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Then there are Thomas Jefferson’s thoughts on
immigration.
As reported in Examine
Mexico's Real Intent Before Reforming Immigration:
“In May, 2005, the BBC reported:
"The Latinization of California is nothing short of a revolution. California will become a predominantly
Spanish-speaking state within the next few years. And, as the majority population, there is really no need, or
incentive, for them to assimilate into mainstream American society as their
predecessors have always done. Whether
Latinos then decide to push for greater autonomy or to seek a political agenda
of their own with closer ties to Mexico and Central America is very much up for
grabs." In 2001, the
pro-immigration New California Media reported that Mexico "continues to
mourn the loss of half of its territory to the U.S. in the 19th Century."
Mexico is pushing hard for amnesty
and various benefits for millions of illegal Mexican migrants. Once naturalized, amnestied migrants could
add tens of millions of people and future voters to the U.S. through births
here and through immigration of extended families. U.S.-born children, even of
illegal immigrants and guest workers, are American citizens and could vote at
18. Furthermore, in 2001 Ernesto Ruffo
Appel, then-border czar of Mexico, reportedly advised Mexican migrants:
"If the border patrol agent finds you, try again."”
As noted in an Investor Business
Daily article, Los Angeles, Mexico (archived
here):
“Few caught the significance of
the words of then-Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo before the National Council
of La Raza in Chicago on July 27, 1997: "I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the
territory enclosed by its borders."
(emphasis added)
Current President Vicente Fox
repeated this line during a 2001 visit to the U.S., when he called for open
borders and endorsed Mexico's new dual citizenship law.
A June 2002 Zogby poll found that
the majority of Mexican citizens agree with him and hold the view that, since
the Southwest U.S. really belongs to Mexico, they do not need permission to
enter. The poll found that 58% of
Mexicans agreed with the statement, "The territory of the United States'
Southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico."”
An interesting aspect of the
balkanization of America is the often playing of the “race card” when the
discussion of illegal immigration comes up.
According to most Latino advocacy groups, just being against illegal
immigration is racist. The attitude is
best expressed by Alfredo Gutierrez, political consultant, "We call things
racism just to get attention. We reduce
complicated problems to racism, not because it is racism, but because it
works." As quoted in The ProEnglish Advocate, 1st quarter, 2002 as
reported by Richard de Uriarte, in The Phoenix Gazette, March 14, 1992.
This attitude is carried out in the
Latino “rights” groups mentioned earlier and by other such groups like the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education
Fund where every perceived injustice is because of
“racism.” In actual fact, as documented
above, it is these very same groups that are often acting in a racist manner.
"Por La Raza todo, Fuera de La
Raza nada!" which means "For
the Race, everything, for those outside the Race, nothing!”
Such attitudes do not contribute to
an indivisible country and homogenous society and are not in keeping with the
motto of the United States: E Pluribus Unum ("Out Of Many, One").
They do, however, greatly contribute
to the Balkanization of the USA and are part of the collateral damage of
illegal immigration.
For some interesting insights on the
problem, see the video HISPANIC
MINUTEMAN-COP FIGHTS CORRUPTION & ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
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