Susan Estrich Hypes Immigration Reform

There is nothing more dangerous than a feel good, kind hearted, mis-informed Democrat that tries to spin the news. Susan Estrich, recently poured her heart out in an article posted on Newsmax (http://www.newsmax.com/Estrich/Steele-Rendell-Obama-immigration/2010/07/07/id/364027). Her heart goes out to the illegal immigrants. She undoubtedly means well but is mis-informed.

Ms. Estrich says that “…Republican leaders put out the story that President Obama needs to take a trip to the border to see just how dangerous it is. The only thing that could be more of a stunt than his taking that trip is the Republicans' call for him to do so. However dangerous the border is — or isn't — the president would certainly not find out by going there. It's the job of the Secret Service to see to that.”

First of all, she obviously doesn’t believe the news coming out of Arizona. She obviously doesn’t think it is dangerous. I suppose the citizens there are hallucinating about the dangers they face. I guess she missed the sign warning our citizens about travelling along a road because of drug smugglers and illegal immigrants. Secondly, the Secret Service is not in charge of border security and does not investigate the dangers involved (http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos160.htm).

She further states that “The Mexican gangs who have been killing each other, the irresponsible coyotes who take people's money and risk their lives — you can be sure they wouldn't be anywhere near the president.” I agree with this remark because of all the security around the President. What illegal alien or criminal would want to be around him with all the security he has? She makes a rather superfluous statement – for effect I guess.

She then goes into a diatribe of how the Republicans are blocking immigration reform. For good measure she adds the following comment “The president is giving speeches about immigration not because he is pushing a bill, but to explain to Hispanic voters why he isn't.” She obviously doesn’t listen to the liberal news (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obama-renews-push-comprehensive-immigration-reform/story?id=11062758). I don’t blame her for not listening to the liberal media, but if she is going to be a good liberal, she should try to keep up to date.

Next she goes into an altruistic story telling: “Why reward those who violate the law? Then you tell them the story of a mother whose children were born in the United States, who are themselves citizens, whose oldest son is serving our country in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they say yes, well, that's different.” I don’t know who “they” are but children born to illegal’s should not be citizens.

“You tell them the story of young adults who came here as children and have lived their entire lives in this country, who are working hard, going to school, paying taxes, and they agree that of course we should not deport the high school valedictorian because his parents brought him here "illegally" as a child.” It’s tough to find a valedictorian and I would appreciate your source for such a person.

I offer the following in opposition to your heartwarming stories. “In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens.” (http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html)

“Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to statistics released by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens. That's 21,900 since Sept. 11, 2001.” (http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=39031)

“Based on a one-year in-depth study, Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute of Atlanta estimates there are about 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States who have had an average of four victims each. She analyzed 1,500 cases from January 1999 through April 2006 that included serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides and child molestation committed by illegal immigrants.” (http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=39031)

I could give you a lot more statistics but this article would be too long. I suggest that you Google the question “what percentage of illegal aliens are criminals?” You’ll get 246,000 results. I must admit that I would feel sorry for the one valedictorian but I sure as heck would feel no remorse for the rest. By the way, two thirds of illegal aliens do not graduate high school. (http://cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html). You might have a hard time finding a valedictorian.

Estrich rambles on further with the statement “The only way to address the immigration issue fairly is if we can put partisan politics aside, stop posturing, stop scoring points with language and stunts, and try to work together on a solution. That won't happen in an election season, no chance.”

My rebuttal to this is the following quote:
“Households headed by illegal aliens imposed more than $26.3 billion in costs on the federal government in 2002 and paid only $16 billion in taxes, creating a net fiscal deficit of almost $10.4 billion, or $2,700 per illegal household.
Among the largest costs are Medicaid ($2.5 billion); treatment for the uninsured ($2.2 billion); food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches ($1.9 billion); the federal prison and court systems ($1.6 billion); and federal aid to schools ($1.4 billion).” (http://cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html)

Why not say directly what you’re true intent is? The Democrats are counting on the illegal vote. Why not? It only furthers the cause of a Socialist state.