President George Bush has clearly placed the well being of Mexicans and other foreigners who enter our country illegally ahead of all Americans.  Bush must be the most tone deaf president in our history.  Americans overwhelmingly oppose amnesty for illegal aliens.  Yet our president continues to pander to illegals and press forward with his despicable amnesty plan for tens of millions of aliens who reside here illegally violating our laws.   Many senators and congressmen in Washington support Bush's amnesty plan in an effort to pander to new potential voters.

Illegal immigration is one of the most important problems facing our country.  People who enter our country illegally breaking our immigration laws are criminals, not "undocumented workers".  These people come to our great country not to live the American dream, but for a free ride at the expense of the American taxpayer.  Illegal aliens live on welfare, receive free medical care, dramatically increase the crime rate, and overwhelm public school and healthcare resources.  Illegal aliens drive down wages and do not pay taxes.   Amnesty for tens of millions of illegal aliens will cost the American taxpayer hundreds of millions of dollars per year.

We have been taken down this road before by Senator Ted Kennedy who wrote the previous immigration bills of the 1960's and 1980's that provided amnesty for millions of illegals.  Back then we were told there were only several hundred thousand illegals living in the shadows of our country.  Now we are being sold a bill of goods that there are roughly ten million illegals milking the system in our country. 

Bush claims that illegal aliens fill jobs that Americans refuse to perform.  That is an outrage.  Try making that argument to members of our military, commercial fishermen, and coal miners.  There is no work that Americans will not do.  Most Americans however do not want and can not afford to take cheap labor jobs.  In California masonry workers who formerly earned over $20.00 per hour are luck if they earn $15.00 per hour today thanks to illegal aliens.

Our open borders are a grave security threat to our nation. It is an outrage that President Bush refuses to secure our borders, especially in a time of war.  Whatever happened to the thousands of National Guardsmen that Bush promised would be deployed to protect our southern border?  Today the Bush justice department prosecutes and imprisons border agents for doing their job!

Mr. Bush continues to make the argument that the only solutions to illegal immigration are mass deportation or amnesty which he claims is comprehensive reform.  There is a very simple solution to our immigration problem. Solve the problem through attrition. Secure our borders, enforce our existing immigration laws, remove all welfare assistance and non emergency medical care for illegals, make it a felony to live in our country illegally, severely punish companies who hire illegals, and change our citizenship laws.  Under our existing citizenship laws anyone who is born in America is a US citizen.   Illegals who give birth in America in most cases can not be deported because their child is a US citizen.  Children born to illegal aliens should not receive citizenship. States should not be allowed to provide drivers licenses and college tuition benefits to illegal aliens.  Our current system of catch and release needs to become catch and deport. If illegals no longer receive welfare, healthcare, and other government hand outs, can not find work, and live under the threat of imprisonment for violating our immigration laws, they will slowly go home.

Sadly Congressman Tom Tancredo is the only presidential candidate who takes the immigration problem seriously.  All other presidential candidates either pander to illegals or refuse to address the seriousness of this threat to our country.  Tancredo is a hero for opposing Bush and for waging his battle against illegal immigration.   Our immigration problem touches so many aspects of our society; national security, healthcare, education, employment, housing, and law enforcement.

Our country is no longer built on immigration as it was in the late 1800's and very early 1900's.  Illegals do not assimilate into our culture and are not interested in becoming patriotic American citizens. There is something very wrong in our society if Congress needs to debate whether or not to establish English as our official language. If Congress works with Bush to pass an amnesty bill you will not recognize our country in ten years.  Our unique culture and the very fabric of our society which make America the greatest country in the world will be destroyed forever.