Barack, Gaza/Israel and Americas growing problem with Illegal Aliens

[WhiskeyGirl]

Why doesn't Barack apply the settlement/outpost no growth policy to the illegal alien problem in the U.S.?  "Zero Tolerance" on entering the U.S.?

Memo to Israel (and Abbas): Obama firm on settlements
On the eve of the Palestinian president's Oval Office visit, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that the administration meant zero growth, period.
TEL AVIV – The Obama administration has turned up the heat on Israel with an explicit call for a comprehensive freeze on the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

President Barack Obama “wants to see a stop to settlements – not some settlements, not outposts, not natural-growth exceptions,” said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Wednesday, on the eve of Mr. Obama’s visit with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

...But it continues to assert a right to build in existing settlements, which leaves room for steady growth in the number of Israelis living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem – where the Palestinians want to establish the capital of their future state.

http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/05/28/memo-to-israel-and-abbas-obama-firm-on-settlements/

How can the U.S. ever solve the budget, healthcare, Social Security, Medicare, and out of control growth in welfare benefits, if the flood of illegal aliens keeps coming?  Has the government for the past few decades, done anything to seal the cracks in our border, or policies?

If Palestinians have a right to the West Bank and Jerusalem, what rights to American citizens and those here legally have to prosper?  The right to a secure future?  A good education for their children?

Should illegal aliens prosper after coming and staying in this nation illegally?

Does Barack ever think about all the citizens and those here legally on Main Street?  What rights do they have in this nation?

I saw someone the other day on TV suggest that the vast majority of the uninsured were here illegally.  Why not send them to their country of origin?  Isn't that one way to solve the problem of healthcare access?

How many jobs do illegal aliens do?  Wouldn't those jobs help keep Americans employed?

Maybe we really don't need to raise taxes or go into debt.  No need to spend more, add a VAT, or tax on sweet drinks.

Maybe those on the road to citizenship should pay for their own healthcare, just like immigrants (and citizens) have for decades.  Perhaps those on the road to citizenship should repay the taxpayers for any monies extended due to care in the ER, or for other healthcare expenses.  Expenses paid to illegal people due to their citizen anchor babies?  Expenses for services received in community healthcare centers.

Citizens and those here legally are expected to pay for care received in the ER and elsewhere. 

When will Americans come first in the eyes of their government?

[WhiskeyGirl]

Too many immigrants
Latinos who fail to assimilate are undermining American values

By Lawrence Harrison
June 1, 2009

Palo Alto, Calif. - President Barack Obama has encouraged Americans to start laying a new foundation for the country - on a number of fronts. He has stressed that we'll need to have the courage to make some hard choices. One of those hard choices is how to handle immigration. The U.S. must get serious about the tide of legal and illegal immigrants, above all from Latin America.

Mr. Obama should confront the challenges by enforcing immigration laws on employment to help end illegal immigration. We should calibrate legal immigration annually to (1) the needs of the economy, and (2) past performance of immigrant groups with respect to acculturation.

We must declare our national language to be English and discourage the proliferation of Spanish-language media. We should limit citizenship by birth to the offspring of citizens. And we should provide immigrants with easy-to-access educational services that facilitate acculturation, including English language, citizenship and American values.

read more here -
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.immigration01jun01,0,3015059.story