- Today is the Day-After the May Day Demonstrations
nationwide. This was an event that has drawn some facts to the surface
that will no doubt never be discussed. The Marches were peaceful, and inclusive
of many generations of both documented and undocumented immigrants. The
issue was legitimization and inclusion of vast numbers of people who came
to this country seeking work and a better way of life. The unspoken part
of the jobs that the tens of millions of people, now here have, involves
jobs that were taken from those citizens that have become the New Silent
Majority.
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- This group consists mostly of Americans
that have fallen through the cracks of a system that has failed to provide
decent wages to legal citizens that have played by the rules, only to find
that their ability to survive is under attack by both the US government
and the competing needs of these undocumented people who will work for
less than a survivable wage. The graying of this society, along with government
cuts in retirement benefits, in medical coverage, and in the steadily decreasing
value of the US dollar has combined to create a black hole for those facing
an end-of-life crisis when it comes to the ability of marginalized people
to sustain themselves. The jobs that are going to the illegals are being
taken from American citizens, and there will not be any effort made by
congress or those affected to fight for those jobs; because this silent
majority has chosen not to fight to improve conditions so that American
jobs would indeed pay enough to keep them alive.
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- This entire issue was created as a two-tier
tactic to foster extreme profits for the mega-corporations, at the expense
of all who work. The Sensenbrenner Bill only addressed one side of the
problem, namely what to do about the 10 to 12 million people who responded
to the destruction of US immigration policy in order to improve
their own bottom-lines. The Bill does nothing to punish the original violations
of US immigration laws, by those companies and individuals that made these
illegal jobs available to undocumented people in the first place. Now ICE
(the new immigration service under control of Homeland Insecurity) has
begun to quietly round-up and deport workers around the country to
intimidate and to strike fear into those who are demanding that something
of substance be done about their plight.
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- If this effort by the US House of Representatives
were real, then the first tier in the Bill would have been about the prosecution
of existing immigration laws that would have mandated arrest and trial
of those who offered illegal jobs. Only after-going after the creators
of this situation, should that vile legislation have advocated the deportation
of those who had answered the call to work illegally, in order to survive.
Absent this critical part in the Sensenbrenner Bill, this government
could still follow existing law and go after Wal-Mart, and all other major
employers, that have so callously used and abused their own work force,
to gain market advantage through cheap labor. The officers of those companies
need to be arrested for the crimes that they have been committing for decades
and fined accordingly under the terms of the Immigration laws on the books
today. Only then should the US government even begin to address this very
difficult and long term question of those law-abiding millions that
have been here for decades. If the US government and ICE will not act against
those responsible for this problem, then they cannot go after those who
simply responded to the circumstances that they created!
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- Of course: This has about as much chance
of happening, as would any new effort by this government to provide real
employment for those who have been downsized, or outsourced, or discriminated
against for age or race or sexual bias in the workplace. The point here
is that nothing that will be done now that will ever be perfect or even
fair that is in the nature of things. The old don't matter anymore
because they don't need to buy much, as they only seek to sustain themselves
hence they are of little use to this consumer oriented marketplace
that used be their country too. On the other hand the illegals and their
families represent an entirely new market for obscene, but temporary profits,
that fraudulently take advantage of those who really don't understand the
degree to which the major banks and other commercial corporations will
go to steal the promise they came here to realize. A case in point:
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- "The Mess That Greenspan Made: This
may take a while I am a lawyer and I represent illegal aliens in deportation.
In all but one of 35 cases I currently have on docket the illegal owns
a home. But it is the loan terms that fascinate me. One lady finished school
at second grade, speaks no English, and works for a recycling company binding
cardboard boxes. She makes about $30K per year and is a single mom with
three children. She has a $430K interest only loan that she used last year
to buy a $430K condo - 100% financing - she paid $3,000 in closing costs.
I tried to explain that her monthly payments will rise substantially in
four years. She does not believe me, did not understand what I said and
told me the loan and real estate agents specialize in real estate and would
have told her if her payments could go up. If 34 of my clients with risky
loans and no school past at best eighth grade are surprised by rising loan
payments, we should be afraid. This is the last group desperate lenders
pander to, meaning we're near the end.
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- Sound bogus? Is it crazy that this segment
of the population is getting Interest Only mortgages? Is this all made
up? Maybe not! Banks help illegal immigrants own their own home - Aug.
8, 2005, Banking on illegal immigrant. Banks are seeing an untapped
resource in providing home loans to undocumented U.S. residents. Bet you
didn't know!"
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- I'd be willing to bet that there are
a lot more fraudulent things that far too many Americans don't have a clue
about but some things are clear. This situation is not simple, and
more than likely it will not be just. The real "problem" was
created by the pillars of the US community, and not by those that chose
to apply for the illegal jobs that they were offered in the first place.
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- One of the March leaders called on congress
'to either put up the money to deport the12 million "illegals,"
or to offer amnesty.' Nothing about this quagmire is clearly possible because
the entire thing was built on the quick-sand of duplicity and the criminality
of intent that created these huge inequities that all of us must now face.
Nothing is as simple as flags or racism or national drum beating
this is about the ability of this nation to trust its own government to
protect its own people, and to behave in an even handed way when dealing
with past crimes against US Immigration policy.
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- Racist slogans and bumper-stickers are
easy to inflict on any problem but governing a nation and dealing
with the real problems that insider influence creates is a bitch! If the
US government cannot deal with this and the additional problems that they
created, by their own failure to enforce immigration policies then
it must be replaced!
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- Between the devaluation of US currency,
the huge loss of real jobs and opportunities for everyone, coupled with
this invasion of the poor that takes away whatever safety net there might
have been for Americans facing hard times: What is leftover on this Day-After
is not the highly touted "American Dream" but is nothing
more than the beginning of "The Great American Nightmare:" brought
to us all by our own very real and very cowardly SILENCE over so many decades
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- kirwan
- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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