| A firestorm of political anger over the Arizona Illegal | | | | of AZ law enforcement officers that have been killed |
| Alien Bill has been stoked by the liberal media and | | | | or wounded have been shot by an illegal. |
| politicians to evoke and provoke anger rather than | | | | - The burden of funding state services used by illegal |
| reason and fact - that the bill is essentially | | | | aliens continues to rise: education - over a billion |
| anti-Mexican, and will result in arrant criminal "profiling". | | | | dollars; healthcare - over a billion; state deficit of $3.5 |
| Despite attempts to cite the words in the law - | | | | billion. |
| which specifically refute profiling - such arguments are | | | | - The ranchers testified to a change in the people |
| like yelling into a North wind. As sympathies in behalf | | | | coming across our borders, that the type of illegals |
| of the illegals are aroused in Americans unaffected by | | | | coming across now are not just looking for work and |
| the issue, some facts on the two-sided subject are | | | | a better life, but apparently also followers of the |
| worthy of exposure. | | | | Muslim faith. |
| Before the Arizona bill was passed and signed into | | | | - Laments that Arizona and America have lost our |
| state law, AZ Senate hearings on border violence | | | | language, that everything must be printed in Spanish |
| were held; some highlights of the testimony: | | | | and many other languages; and we have already lost |
| - Rancher Rob Krantz had been murdered by a | | | | our national history it is no longer taught in our |
| Mexican drug cartel on his ranch, a month before. | | | | schools; and we have lost our borders. |
| - Arizonans who live within 80 miles of the Mexican | | | | In addition to the Arizona testimony, information |
| border are constantly terrorized, have pleaded for | | | | gathered by the Los Angeles Times and from the |
| help to stop the daily invasion across their property. | | | | FBI, are well worth knowing: |
| Oftimes hundreds, sometimes a thousand illegals had | | | | - 40% of all workers in L.A. County (four of ten |
| come across the Krantz ranch in a day, vandalizing his | | | | million people) work for cash and pay no taxes -- |
| property, stealing his vehicles. In the prior two years | | | | they are predominantly illegal immigrants working |
| he had found seventeen dead bodies (and two Koran | | | | without a green card. |
| bibles - see last item). | | | | - Ninety-five % of warrants for murder in Los |
| - Another rancher testified that daily drugs are | | | | Angeles and 75% of the most-wanted list in Los |
| brought across his ranch in a military-type operation: a | | | | Angeles are illegal aliens. |
| point man with a machine gun in front; 1/2 mile | | | | - Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to |
| behind, fully armed guards; 1/2 mile behind them, the | | | | illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, - births are paid by |
| drugs; 1/2 mile behind, more guards. The violence of | | | | U.S. taxpayers. |
| this Mexican drug army was testified to by several | | | | - More than a third of all inmates in California |
| fearful ranchers - and that their pleas for help were | | | | detention centers are Mexican nationals, here illegally. |
| ignored by police and government. One man told of | | | | - Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are |
| two illegals who came unto his property, one shot in | | | | living in garages. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD |
| the back and the other in the arm by the drug | | | | properties are illegal aliens. |
| runner. He told of hearing night gunfire, of being | | | | - The FBI reports that half of all gang members in |
| afraid to leave his family alone on the ranch, and of | | | | Los Angeles are illegal aliens from Mexico. |
| even leaving the ranch for fear of household furniture | | | | - In L. A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 |
| being gone when they would return. | | | | million speak Spanish; 21 radio stations in L. A. are |
| - The border patrol is not positioned at the border | | | | Spanish speaking. |
| but 60 miles away, with check points that do nothing | | | | - Although politicized to shift blame and anger to the |
| to stop the invasion. They are not allowed to forcibly | | | | American farm industry, less than 2% of illegal aliens |
| prevent anyone from entering - only to chase, those | | | | do pick our crops, but 29% are on welfare. |
| caught can then be taken back across the border. | | | | - Almost a third of federal prison inmates are illegal |
| - Federal prisons have over 35%, Arizona prisons | | | | aliens. |
| 20% of Mexican illegals. In the last few years 80% | | | | |