PAT KENNEDY LETTER TO DEWHURST

We might want to "encourage" and provide contact info for everyone to send e-mails, letters or calls to Dewhurst about the ads and question why they are not doing more to clean up this mess in our state. Why are they just now speaking out??? Following is an e-mail I sent to Dewhurst. I was only going to write a "thank you" note.....but as usual....got carried away once I got started:

3/9/08

Lt.Gov. Dewhurst:
I want to commend you on your recent TV ads concerning illegal immigration issues...and your comments that the "federal government is not taking care of its business." It's about time that we were hearing from our leaders in Austin on these issues! It is way overdue!!!

That said...we need to see a lot more action on the part of our TX legislators in "closing our TX border" and "closing down the sanctuary cities" all over TX. We have seen what our federal government is doing about it...NOTHING!!!

You can spend millions of dollars on cameras and sensors...but cameras and sensors will not "catch" illegals sneaking across our TX border. I have been to the TX border and the majority of the people coming across our borders are not the kind of people who will assimilate...they are moving in and bringing their third-world ways with them!! They are changing the U.S. to conform to their third-world ways with their language and culture!!

"Encouraging" TX businesses to use the E-Verify government program...and providing funds for training local law enforcement through the 287(g) government program will go a long way in helping to slow down the invasion of our state. Other states are training their law enforcement...but WHERE IS TX???

Our W.TX sheriffs and law enforcement need a "drug task force" to shut down the major drug route and distribution of drugs through our W.TX area. Our local leaders refuse to acknowledge that we have any problems...they are "looking the other way" and waiting on the federal government to "take care of business!" Will you spend some of the millions of dollars allocated for border security to establish a drug task force for W.TX???

Because the TX border is wide open...other states are being forced to defend their states by passing bills to get the illegals to leave and/or stop coming in. TX is on the frontline of this out-of-control invasion of illegal aliens...but not doing its part to stop it!

There are a lot of TX citizens who have been trying to convince TX leaders to "do its job of defending our TX border"....but no one appears to be listening!! Why???

Thank you again for finally "stepping up"...but please do "a lot more"...before it's too late. Our state is sinking under the weight of millions of illegals draining our welfare benefits, education system and medical facilities. Has it ever occurred to anyone in Austin that a lot of the state's problems stem from the millions of illegals who are draining our economy and benefiting financially more than TX citizens...at taxpayers expense???

Thousands of "anchor" babies are being born every day into illegal families who are taking advantage of our free education system, food stamps and medical facilities without paying into them. Is this fair to the children of American citizens???

Billions of dollars are being spent on bilingual education to accommodate a majority of children who will not complete their education. If you want to know who the dropouts are in our schools...look at the students who are coming across our borders or being born into illegal families! These families are not in the U.S. to assimilate...they are here "demanding" rights that are not legally or rightfully theirs to receive! They are breaking laws that U.S. citizens are not allowed to break!!

Our TX cities are being overrun by millions of illegal aliens...who are demanding their "illegal" rights, culture, history and language! I was born in TX...and in all of my many years as a citizen of TX...I have never seen it as bad as it is now!!! We need HELP...NOW!!!

Your response to this e-mail as to what TX legislators plan to do about these issues will be greatly appreciated. We need something done NOW...NOT LATER!!!

Contact David Dewhurst

The articles under "features" on the Dewhurst site are interesting. Seems he also has a problem with TXDOT. And you can learn about the funding for removing all those children and women from the compound in El Dorado -- Faye

Illegal immigrants are invading state of Texas

Letter to the Editor
Published in the Midland Reporter-Telegram 4/20/08

While Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst extols the virtues of Texas getting tough on illegal immigration in TV ads, the invasion by illegal aliens continues with little abatement. Placing a few cameras along the border and hiring more law enforcement not charged with specific immigration enforcement has done little to nothing to stem the invasion. And now Texas is being invaded from all directions as illegal aliens leave states where tougher laws have been enacted.

The main draw to illegal aliens has been the greedy rich who hire them for substantially less than they would pay American citizens. The illegal aliens are subsidized by hard-working Texans’ taxes so the greedy rich’s illegal alien work force can thrive on meager wages. Giving illegals taxpayer-funded in-state tuition not allowed our fellow citizens doesn’t help matters either.

If Texas officials truthfully want to walk the walk and protect the citizens of our state they will enact laws such as those enacted by Arizona, which takes away the business license of those caught a second time employing illegal aliens.

Citizens need to contact our governor, lieutenant governor and state representatives and tell them to get serious about protecting “we the people” of Texas from harm due to the ongoing invasion of illegal aliens, and to pass and enforce laws similar to Arizona’s.

If they don’t pass such laws, it will mean they don’t care what the citizens of Texas want; they will continue to cater to the greedy rich and pander to the illegal aliens.

Stacy Wright
Odessa

SUPPORT FOR STACY WRIGHT

One of the things we had determined to do is to support those who voice an opinion with which we agree such as letters to the editor. Stacy Wright presented us with an opportunity to do so and I discovered another avenue to voice our opinions in that The Odessa American has added this comment feature to its on-line publication. His letter to the editor was published in the Odessa American and several of us wrote in comments and submitted our own letters to the editor. Here's Stacy's letter.

Open borders abound

Stacy Wright

2007-11-30 08:47:00

Re: In Our View Nov. 18.

It appears “We the People” can count the OA firmly on the side of open border advocates together with corporate.

All countries have borders for good reasons, one of which is to protect citizens from invasion or any type of harm. We are Americans with a binding language and a binding culture. The invading flood of illegal aliens, consisting mainly of people from Mexico, come with no intention of becoming Americans, but to take advantage of our governments alliance with corporate. This alliance has stagnated and cut wages and benefits to citizens, while increasing the average citizens’ tax burdens.

Further proof the OA has allied with corporate is the statement, “Actual employers know how many workers are ‘needed.’” The employers and government are responsible for the vast, by some estimates 20 million illegal aliens now residing in our country driving down standards of living and increasing taxes on middle and lower class working citizens.

If corporate can replace one citizen with two to three illegal aliens or legal aliens, it will do so. The proof is the present 20 million illegal aliens.

And this does not count the millions of legal immigrants corporate got over the years or the millions that have become citizens. Yes, corporate will do a fine job determining how many new “cheaper” paid immigrants it wants, so as to cut wages and benefits to American citizens.

The OA goes on to say, “If human rights are universal, the right to decide where one wants to live and move there through one’s own resources doesn’t belong only to those born in America.”

First off, Americans do not have the universal right to move and live where they please. The OA would do well to remember the words “We the People” and how the vast majority polled said “we” want less legal immigration, no illegal immigration, punishment for employers of illegal aliens and enforcement of our laws and borders.

America has been a great nation named the United States of America, but how long will “united” be the case as millions upon millions are allowed and encouraged by corporate and the government to subvert our laws and ignore our borders?

What good are laws when the rich and powerful are allowed to ignore them as they please? How long will it be before America becomes another third world Banana Republic?

At the present time, the 20 million illegal aliens together with a few legal immigrants, are trying to subvert our unifying language and culture and replace it with their own.

These invading illegal aliens need to stay in their own country and change it instead of trying to make our country into theirs, with taxpayer benefits.

We owe it to our ancestors who fought and died for “our” country and future generations not to give our country away to corporate open border advocates, and those who broke our laws to get here and then demanded we do things their way.

Now to another article, “Perry finds $3 million for border cameras” published Nov. 19. I find it laughable that Gov. Rick Perry rewards illegal aliens with our in-state tuition tax dollars and bumps our own citizens out of the chance to attend college while pretending to be against illegal immigration. Perry is just as open borders as most Democrats and some Republicans in Congress, together with the ACLU.

The other statement that is also just as ludicrous, regarding cameras on the border, “Lawmakers felt unanimous that immigration is a federal issue,” state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-El Paso, said. “Why burden local and state taxpayers with a federal obligation?” It seems Sen. Shapleigh is unaware that the local and state taxpayers are the ones burdened to pay for illegal aliens’ education, health care and other expenses, not the federal government.

Stacy Wright
Odessa

Here's the link. OA Letters