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6/26/02 - Unpublished letter to Jeff Smith, Tucson Citizen

Re: Columnist complains about Operation Gatekeeper
6/26/02

Jeff,

Although you appear sincere in your compassion, your arguments don't fly. Let me explain. We can (& should) stop illegal immigration, period. We seem to be able to protect other borders all over the world with our military, it is conceivable that we could do the same here. Your reference to the 'Berlin Wall' is suggestive of your political leanings, as groups such as LULAC and NCLR use it frequently. It is a poor comparison, the Berlin Wall was erected to keep people in, not out. Glaringly absent from your argument is any mention of culpability by the Mexican government who continues to encourage illegal migration into the US in the face of these deaths. Jorge Castanada, has said that if the US finalizes a whole host of demands including amnesty for illegals, then (& only then) will the Mexican government dissuade it's citizens from emigrating illegally. The Mexican government is using the deaths of it's citizens as political leverage.

But you blame 'Operation Gatekeeper'. Put it this way, if the situation were reversed, with Americans dying in the desert trying to illegally enter Mexico with the blessing of US government, would you blame Mexico for the deaths?

However, I will concede that Bush's pro-illegal immigration stance, coupled with Ziglar's pledge to ignore interior enforcement completely, probably have caused more to come. Some of those dead in the desert likely died because this administration won't enforce the laws on the books.

6/20/02 - Mr. McCain,

Have you seen this website?

Upon reading the news story contained on this site, I have some very simple but important questions for you:

1) Why are you placing a preferential priority on criminal illegal aliens from Mexico over legitimate US citizens?

2) Why are you pandering to people who are felons and who should be immediately arrested and deported instead of mollycoddled?

3) Who the hell gives a hairy rat's-ass about the lousy "culture and pride" of Mexicans and whether or not they would agree with what is fact and truth???

4) Since when did Arizona change hands and become one of the United States of Mexico?

5) Did you fail your Basic Geography 101 class...or have you just misplaced your ever-lovin' mind?

I would appreciate some logical answers to my queries.

Signed,

Robert T. -- US Citizen-Taxpayer

6/20/02 - Why does Mr. Kolbe continue to insist that Mexican "students" be given special consideration over all other foreign students? Obviously he "threw in" a benefit to Canadian students to blunt the impact of his pandering to Mexico and Mexicans at the expense of border area residents who are bearing the expense of maintaining school campuses and otherwise subsidizing foreign students. Also, does not this bill introduced by Mr. Kolbe, in his infinite wisdom, further burden border area school districts with students whose parents live on the other side of the border and pay absolutely nothing to share the costs of educating foreign residents?

Coupled with Mr. Kolbe's sponsoring of the ill-conceived NAFTA, his crippling of the U.S. Border Patrol in his District, his pandering to "special interests" south of the border, Mr. Kolbe is one of the best U.S. Representatives Mexico has ever had.

Dave S. - Arizona

6/19/02 - Subject: Mexico, U.S. must cross divide -- Mary Sanchez - Kansas City Star

How many generations on your personal family tree would one have to descend to find an illegal alien?

Your fatuous "reporting" is a disgrace to Journalism, as a so-called "Hispanic Journalist" is not a Journalist, but a racist agitator seeking the advance the illicit fortunes of La Raza in our society.

Why are you so opposed to American law and the rights and responsibilities of American citizenship?

As an American citizen, I profoundly disagree with your obtuse and racist viewpoints, and hereby extend my personal invitation for you to leave this county to which you apparently feel no loyalty or obligation.

Adios, amiga fea.

- Name withheld

6/19/02 - SPLC defines a "hate group" as one which "..maligns an entire class [sic] of people, ...typically for their immutable [sic] characteristics." Of course, VCT and the American Patrol web-site are included on their list of 'hate groups', but not, as far as I could tell, is "La Raza." In any event, the American Patrol website focuses primarily on ILLEGAL ALIENS. Apparently, then, illegal aliens from all over the world constitute a "class of people" who share an "immutable" compulsion to violate US law. Perhaps a study of this human characteristic would make an interesting doctoral dissertation! [Russ G. Portland, ME]
6/17/02 - Unpublished LTE to the Dallas Morning News regarding this article.

Your article regarding Rep. Tom Tancredo is filled with misstatements and misrepresentations. First, I am the person who organized the 27 grassroots members of immigration-reform groups from across America. We have no connection with Dr. John Tanton, whatsoever. We are certainly not "white supremists", nor have any connection with the Southern Law Conference. I am a member of a grassroots organization, The Border Solution Task Force, which consists of primarily retired law enforcement and other former federal officials, including a former federal attorney and a former Chief Border Patrol officer. I deeply resent these unfounded charges, especially from a member of Council of La Raza (The Race).

Byron Slater
Border Solution Task Force

Re: Mexico and US fighting a cold war over water

6/17/02 -- You know, I don't think very many people give a rat's a$$ about "the famously warm relationship" between our incompetent Texican president and Mexican menace Vicente Fox. If Bush would simply just do his job and put the military on that southern border, start enforcing our immigration laws, and stop pandering to a bunch of anti-American scum like Fox and his horde if illegal aliens, he just might get re-elected. As it is now, this jerk is worse than Bill Clinton and doesn't stand an ice cube's chance in hades of serving another term.... that is, unless the Supreme Court appoints him again.

6/12/02 -- Glenn: I took your advice and listened to Chris Cannon have big laughs with AILA and make fun of Tom Tancredo on the RealPlayer link on your site today. I am about to throw up. This guy represents the most vile pro-alien elements of AILA, but he is a Republican. Believe me, AILA and this guy are against everything I stand for. They claim to know the immigration law, but they are just idiots! These leftists morons with law degrees are doing great damage to this country, just like the ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild before them. I know the immigration laws too....and I am here to tell you that AILA is a menace to this country. They are a huge organization with federal government officials fawning all over them. I am just one guy with some html. Keep up the good work.

Regards, Juan Mann

6/11/02 -- Re: Steel blasts council, immigrants

I am an alumni of Vanguard University, and have gone to the school this morning to make an appointment with the individual in charge of this meeting, to complain about the encouragement of illegal behavior. This meeting was not the public forum the article presents it as, I went to City Hall and asked there about it, the woman I spoke with knew nothing about it, but what was in the paper. The school receptionist knew nothing of it, and I was sent to 3 different people before I could even make the appt, and the woman who made the appt was not at the meeting, nor did she know where it was publicized. There was nothing in the alumni papers about the meeting to give advance notice.

Please withhold my name at this time.

Thank you for the great service you are providing the citizens of our Republic.

6/9/02 -- Yesterday, a national news story ran noting Americans of European descent were losing our roots, and often like to say "We're American" (un-hyphenated). Yet a local story just above that quoted a Mexican immigrant as saying she spoke Spanish to her children to preserve her culture. Of course, Spanish is a great European language of those who conquered her people, but she probably doesn't know that.

I no longer support any tax dollars being allocated to teaching immigrant students or adults English. If they want to preserve their languages, great. If they want to study English, on their time and dime, great. It will give them access to our civilization. But truly, I no longer see ANY advantage to the rest of us to financially support ANY programs designed to "assimilate" aliens who have no compunction to do so on their own. Do you?

6/7/02 -- Publshed 6/7/02 - O.C. Register

Ban the ACLU

I grew up in Lima, Peru, during World War II. One of my uncles, who was a lieutenant in the Lima Police Department, was bilingual in English and Spanish. He was frequently assigned to host and assist U.S. federal agents in their mission to apprehend Nazi spies operating in Lima. The U.S. G-Men (as they were called at that time) knew exactly who the spies were and knew all their spying activities. They apprehended them and quietly brought them to the United States to prisoner of war camps for Germans.

I believe that in recent years the liberal political forces in the United States have emasculated the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency and Immigration and Naturalization Service. It is time we gave back to these agencies the authority they used to have. I also believe that the American Civil Liberties Union is greatly responsible for these agencies becoming ineffective. I would like to see the ACLU outlawed. In my opinion, the ACLU is an anarchist organization that uses our laws for no good purpose.

Haydee Pavia
Laguna Woods

6/4/02 -- Unpublished Letter tho the Editor -- RE: lllegal Aliens's phony Social Security

Dear Editor:

I am an American Hispanic, and I am appalled at the level of lawlessness that the U.S. has reached. The euphemism "undocumented laborers" for Illegal aliens is thrown around like the most natural phrase. These are criminals, for goodness sake! They sneaked into our country in defiance of our laws, get false social security numbers and now we are being told that our economy depends on this kind of labor force? Give me a break! When we deport every one of these lawbreakers, exploiters of illegal aliens will have to pay higher salaries and provide health plans for their workers. There are plenty of Americans of Mexican descent and black Americans who are suffering for the lack of jobs because of these intruders who have lowered wage and work standards. Shame on the corrupt politicians that help the cause of illegal immigration!

HP -- Laguna Woods, CA

6/4/02 -- Re: Fifth-column Calif. legislators team up with Mexican consuls -- Once again, it becomes obvious that Mexican legislators in California are violating the Constitution of the United States, specifically Article 1, Sec. 10:

No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.

The legislators have no right to be negotiating ANYTHING with Mexico, certainly not immigration laws (wasn't that the battle cry of the anti-187 forces?), as they are clearly in violation of the Constitution. Negotiations with Mexico are the domain of the federal government.

EE

6/3/02 -- Subject: Closed INS station at YUMA, AZ

Dear Glenn,

One of the busiest crossing areas in the U.S. in on the state line between Arizona and California because of the water canals and irrigation plus water stations set up for illegals.

Recently the INS closed the "check station" on US I-8 that is a main artery of illegal traffic of aliens from Arizona crossings to California job sites. I was appalled while making a report of a sighting of thirty illegals surrounding my truck at dawn at a hot springs in this area. I made the report at this INS station. It took almost twenty minutes for the "exec" to get out of his air conditioned office to meet with me briefly while I made my report of where they were heading etc. They did not seem to care. I watched a scene of what seemed to be a joke of INS green trucks on hilltops and illegals in arroyos and gullies sneaking by. The INS officers all along the I-8 corridor seemed to be just watching what was going on without interdiction. My city, Phoenix is over run with illegals. The crime rate is out of control.

Thanks for your attention and web site.

ps. I looked to see if we could begin a state militia to try and stop this but the National Guard is considered the state militia in the laws of Arizona.

6/3/02 -- Saw this posted on another website:

And now for an absurd and futile plan to avoid terrorism...

U.S. security people spent ten days in Israel learning how to detect and thwart homicide bombers, as Israel stops dozens of them before one gets through to blow him/her/self up and kill civilians.

They learned how to spot terrorists with bombs strapped on, detect suspicious packages, educate the public to be on the lookout, and clean out body parts and blood quickly so life resumes as before.

Los Angeles is considered the prime target.

But Special Order 40 - that illegal and unconstitutional ordinance passed by the city Council in 1979 - is still in effect.  Local law enforcement is prohibited from asking any person's immigration status (illegal) or cooperate with the INS.

It's still easy to sneak into the U.S. from Canada and Mexico, and Mexico's security chief Zinser announced at least a year ago that Hezbollah terrorists have cells operating in northern Mexico.

How about going into the battle in SANCTUARY CITY with both hands tied behind their backs?

E.M., Irvine

6/1/02 -- Subject: Boycott financial support of ALL political parties

Dear American Patrol,

Let me first say that your organization is wonderful. Finally, someone is spreading the truth about what is really going on in our country. I commend you on this.

Reading the many articles on your site, I see that fellow Americans are withholding financial support to political parties requesting their assistance. When, for example, the Republican party calls to ask for donations, people refuse until illegal immigration is put to a halt. This is a wonderful idea. As a matter of fact, it should be taken a step further. American Patrol, as well as any and all other anti- illegal immigration organizations, should come together and make a public call for all Americans to withhold all financial donations to ANY political organization until the issue of illegal immigration is addressed. This message should be made to telephone solicitors, or written and sent back in postal mailings. Immigration advocates have people already sending mass mailings of postcards to the White House in support of their cause, therefore I feel we need to strike back. Thus, I would like to see American patrol start this idea and contact other organizations for help. I really think this can work if word got out. American Patrol is a leader and people will follow your message. Just an idea. Thanks for your time. -- Sincerely, Jay C. -- NY

5/31/02 -- Glenn,

Just wanted to share a personal story. My wife is a registered nurse working in a nursing home here in Salt Lake City. A few weeks ago a long list of people's names, who had bad social security numbers, was attached to the time clock, with instructions that they would have two weeks to correct the situation or be terminated. My wife says that the vast majority of the people were either nursing assistants, housekeepers, or food prep people. Needless to say, they were all Hispanic and most of them quit that day. There were a few who stayed and tried to keep their jobs by using fake social security cards and fake green cards. They as well were asked to leave. The problem, all these illegals have just simply disappeared back into the comfort of the illegal community only to find someplace else that will give them a job, believe me there are many places,even after 9-11, that ask no questions. Where is the INS in all this, as if they would have come to pick them up anyway. My wife did say that all the terminated positions have been filled with American workers, imagine that, I thought illegals only did these type of jobs. One last thing to ponder, would anyone out there like to have one of their relatives being taken care of by these illegals? Our senior citizens deserve better!!! -- Scott -- Lehi, Utah

5/31/02 -- RE: Improve Latino education

I disagree with the premise of this editorial that social forces are to blame for poor Latino educational performance. Latino's in America have access to the same public education system where millions of kids from all walks of life have a level playing field on which they CHOOSE to succeed or not. Why are Canadian children in the U.S. not faced with the similar achievement gap, or Asians or Middle Easterners for that matter? The problems do not lie with failed U.S. social obligations as much as it does with the culture of the Latino people. To verify this just look at the scholastic performance of Latino's in Mexico, their native system caters to their culture and still the performance levels of their student's are lagging when compared to an international scale. Finger pointers like Leonard Valverde should redirect their focus from the American educational system to the shortcomings of their own people. Millions of Mexican's illegally enter U.S. under the guise of a better life but statistics show that once that are here a comparatively disproportionate number of them CHOOSE to engage in detrimental behavior (teen pregnancy, high-school drop outs, gang involvement) that impedes their own success. America is the global pinnacle of opportunity. If you can't make it in a nurturing country like ours you have no one to blame but yourself. --- Todd M.

5/31/02 -- Re: Law enforcement policy protest grows (Unpublished LTE - O.C. Register)

Dear Editor: I am a Hispanic, I came to the U.S. legally, learned English and became an American citizen. Having said that, it cannot be said that I am a racist and anti immigration.

I am tired of reading articles condemning the enforcement of our immigration laws by referring to ILLEGAL ALIENS as immigrants. Minerva Canto's article repeats what in my opinion is a deliberate omission.

Illegal aliens come into our country in defiance of our immigration laws, either by sneaking over our border or by overstaying their visitor's visas. I will not go into why illegal immigration is detrimental to American taxpayers. I think everybody knows that by now. I will say however, that not all illegal immigrants come here to work. A great number of them come here to continue their criminal careers. Every single American has a very insidious enemy in the war against terrorism. I don't want to hear that illegal aliens from over the border are not terrorists. A great number of them are criminals and a criminal will help a terrorist for the right price.

As for the California Association of Police Chiefs, the time will come when every one of them will get fired for not doing their job, which is to protect the American people.

HP -- Laguna Woods, CA

5/30/02 -- Re: I.N.S.ult -- Hi! - I have sent the following fax to my representative (N. J.), 2 senators, Ashcroft and Ridge:

This is an outrage. Haven't the American people suffered enough because of INS screwups? Please urge the president to fire all the IRS personnel involved in this mess. Please include Ziglar for running an incompetent and corrupt agency that is aiding and abetting the enemy! The NYC police were heroes on 9/11. How can our government treat them like this?

I have also sent slightly different version to Bush.

I also sent this to Bill O'Reilly, but I bet he already knows about this. Hopefully he will cover it as well.

Thanks, Kathy

5/29/02 -- Re: Re-examine feelings about 'immigrants' -- Statesman Journal Guest Comment - 5/28/02 -- Your article "Re-examine feelings about immigrants" is really incredible! When you say "I do not understand the ignorance in people when they say, what are they going to do with those Mexicans" you show your ignorance!

People have had enough of the illegal (Notice I said the terrible non-politically correct word) immigration problem. Why can't you ignorant people understand the simple concept of ILLEGAL immigration?? You sugar coat the word and twist it into a nice palatable word like undocumented so everyone else in this country that lives no where near the problem of illegal immigration views everyone else who does as trailer trash racists. This has to stop. Just because this problem can't be seen from your front window doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It does exist. They do get benefits. They do not pay taxes and they do not contribute or want to assimilate and be part of this country. This is the way we see it. Not because we are ignorant or racist. We see it this way because it is the truth. -- Anonymous

5/29/02 -- Dear Friends: Mexicans found cyanide? Excuse me while I am on the floor laughing! They will show the well contrived evidence to the dumb gringos to shut them up and the cyanide will find its way into the U.S. Whoever let the cat out of the Mexican bag is probably getting hell right now for getting the gringos scared! That's how things are done south of the border! -- H.P.
5/29/02 -- Re: Supposedly recovered cyanide.
Here's the catch; this is coming straight from officials who run the most corrupt, vile government on the planet. You know, the same officials who are constantly making this demand and that demand of the U.S. That would be the same government that is strip-mining our nation. A nation that sends there millions of unwanted peasants into our country to live as colonists and parasites working in the interests of Mexico. That would be the same hostile government that is trying to dump those millions of parasites off on us by demanding amnesty for their criminal invaders. You know, that government. Believe nothing that comes out of that diseased cesspool, especially if it comes from a Mexican 'official'. -- Anonymous
5/28/02 -- Re: A real threat?
Jeff Jacoby -- Boston Globe -- 5/26/02 -- Letter to Writer (Not Published)

Dear Mr. Jacoby:

Regarding you column, I agree and disagree. I agree that if there had been crackdown on Muslim militants prior to Sept. 11 there would have been howls of outrage. This point needs to be made again and again to expose the incredibly dishonest Democrats, who are condemning Bush for not doing something, which, if he had done it, they would have attacked him for that as well.

But I disagree on your excuse for the specific failure of FBI to put the pieces together. The memo from the Phoenix FBI, combined with the report on bin Laden that had been given to the president, makes the refusal of the FBI to investigate Moussaoui's computer unforgivable. The Minneopolis agent's letter makes it clear that the FBI higher ups in D.C. were choosing not to see something that was there.

So let's blame the law enforcement agencies and the rest of the government. But more importantly, let us blame the set of values that let to this, and that is LIBERALISM (shared by the whole society including "conservatives")--which is the belief that you're not supposed to discriminate against anyone. The ideology that led America to permit all these America haters to enter our country was the same ideology that made us incapable of defending ourselves from them after they were here. And the same is still going on today.

Until people honestly confront that reality, they're not being serious about defending America from terrorism.

Regards,
LA

5/25/02 -- When the US government (citizen taxpayers) several years ago funded a University of Texas project to count dead illegal alien corpses in our deserts -- stiffs that were felled in the act of committing their first and last crime on American soil, illegal entry-- no one demanded a similar federal grant to count the number of dead American citizens, killed by criminal aliens. Why not? We know that the American body count went up by 3,000 on September 11. It is long past time for the Feds to count, or pay a non-profit group such as American Patrol to count, our dead, wounded, raped, drugged citizens, violated by illegal aliens.
5/25/02 -- Mr. Fox has to learn that having no borders with the U.S. is a double sword. Now that he has proclaimed the non existence of borders, we can go in there and clean up that cesspool called Mexico. He is number one on the list! Kick the entire thieving bunch of them out and make Mexico a protectorate of the U.S. Throw out their lousy constitution. U.S. Constitution, amigos! We don't fool around here! You will no longer have to sneak into our country because you'll have plenty of jobs in your own country, cleaning up the mess! --- H.P.-Laguna Woods, CA
5/23/02 -- Re: LATINO WAGE GAP - (Published LTE - S.S. Chronicle) -- Editor -- It is very true that there is a big pay gap for Mexican Americans ("Huge pay gap for Mexican Americans," May 22). I am of Spanish descent and I am bilingual in English/Spanish. I am a retired medical assistant with a college education. After being offered low pay by doctors who had bilingual Mexican Americans working for them, I decided not to tell that I am bilingual. The pay offers were incredibly better in non-Hispanic areas.

I believe that illegal immigration has brought low-wage standards for all of us, in particular to second or third generation Americans of Mexican descent.

HAYDEE PAVIA
Laguna Woods (Orange County)

5/23/02 -- Dear VCT, After reading the phrase 'doing the work others will not do' for the umpteenth time today, I was struck by a memory from a trip to Mexico. I was on vacation in the Ixtapa area with a buddy, when we happened on a construction site. It was unlike any construction site we'd ever seen before. There was NO machinery. No cement mixer, no power saw, no power drills, or hoists, etc. It was ALL manual labor. In other words, it was primitive by U.S. standards. Oh, I almost forgot, there was no safety equipment.... of any kind, not even barriers to keep pedestrians safe. Having been in manufacturing most of my life (in CA), I've seen my share of problems from immigrants who don't understand the concept of safety. One guy lost his thumb, another actually put his leg in a large scrap grinder (somewhat like a chipper, but much more powerful) trying to force more material in, and a plethora of similar horror stories. Is this the future? It seems to me that massive 3rd world immigration is indeed a 'race to the bottom'. -- Thanks for letting me vent. -- Jim
5/23/02 -- Throughout this article Fund attacks as "madness" the same kind of ideological race blindness that he and the WSJ have promoted for years. Typical. As recently as last February, at a panel on immigration that also included Glenn Spencer and me at a conference of the Council for National Policy, Fund repeatedly warned us against expressing "hostility" to immigrants, though under questioning he then admitted that we had not expressed any hostility to immigrants. So these people put the whole country into knots on never, ever saying or doing anything that could be construed as aimed at minorities, but then, when they feel that that same pervasive mindset has gone too far in one particular, they denounce it as madness, ignoring their own role in creating it. --LA

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