Mexico must change. They tax their business by only 5%, while the U.S. taxes at 38%. The low tax rate on businesses is great for the businesses but provides little to the infrastructure of Mexico. You can condemn the U.S. all you want, but you are a hypocrite at best and deceitful at worst if you don’t call attention to the unfavorable conditions that the Mexican Government’s creates for it’s own citizen.s Patient heal thyself.

Once again the bleeding hearts reach into our pockets to help all the 3rd world nations. Dude, 3rd world is called that for a reason. As a kid did you ever walk by a cake shop of bakery that has delicious pastries in the window? What would you have done had the glass not been there? Chances are you would take some of the delectable tid-bits. That is exactly what is happening at our boarders. They look into that bakery window and want a piece of that cake. Dude, you can give them YOUR cake, but don’t be giving away mine. And don’t going around B.S.‘n about the filthy rich. It’s the filthy rich that provide jobs for those immigrants coming across the boarder. Take away the cheep labor by closing down the boarders, and guess what, the filthy rich start loosing money because Unions force employers to pay way more then the out put, so they just move their factories to the other side of the boarder, so the immigrant keep their jobs while, while American suffer, which is exactly what you were hoping for.

I oppose police protection for Don Schrader. But Don
Schrader does not require protection. He has no locks on the doors and windows of his home. He has a sign outside that invites everyone to move in and set up housekeeping. Everyone is welcome to take any or all of his resources and he formally adopts all who take him up on his offer! He feels obligated because one of his black sheep ancestors from centuries ago was naughty to a neighbor!
Or is Don an hypocrite?

I’m opposed to people who think our laws aren’t worth enforcement.

Anyone who is against enforcement of the laws of legal immigration is in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the American taxpayer. We are being robbed. Our children are being robbed and the open borders, amnesty advocates are acting against the interest of AMERICA and it’s citizens. If you encourage illegal immigrants to come here and subvert the immigration process, breaking every law they want to stay here and take American jobs away from Americans, you deserve to be arrested. This is a land of laws. GET IT? LEAVE, before we catch you and throw you out.

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Hey Don aren’t you the nut that runs around w/o any clothes?

To the other respondents- this line of debate is just about worn out. The illegal immigrants that come to NM from Mexico do so because they cannot make a decent living in Mexico for the most part. As a result, they are most often the very poor and uneducated Mexico has to offer. The successful Mexican National stay in Mexico leading quite a nice life. The dregs come over to the USA.

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lobo readers: see what I mean about the daily loser? just this past two weeks, two letters each from salami and schrader. What? No one else writes letters to the editor? No contributing columns? Jeeez, please diasabuse of of these crazies and print something that makes a modicum of sense.

You say illegals are treated as criminals because they don’t have legal papers… That’s right! Because they stole some poor Americans’ identities. Therfore, they most definitely criminals.

Please don’t print anymore letters from Schrader. I’m pretty liberal about immigration, but Schrader is just a hypocrite. Not to mention the fact he has nothing to bring to the table as far as constructive argument. He just rants about “american crap”.

He says he wants nothing to do with the American government and he doesn’t want to pay taxes yet he bases his life around a government sponsored and tax funded institution. He contributes nothing to this community by not contributing to it, yet has no problem freeloading off of campus services. Well guess what? the rest of us do contribute so get the fuck off our campus and shut your trap.

Andalusia?!!?!! Wow! Go get ‘em girl! Next time, don’t hold back!

“freeloading off of campus services” Do you know of any particular instances of this? Proof? Please understand, I ask only to establish the authority of this guy to critique “America.”

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you see him using our libraries that we pay for, using the computers we pay for, in the art galleries we pay for, etc etc etc just generally lurking about on campus. but he still has the cojones to write letters like this to lobo calling everone here (who are his benefactors to some extent) “greedy”.

I think that his opinions are valid and he does practice what he preaches to a certain extent. but he is comfortable exploiting unm whenever it suits him. only when that stops does he have a right to draft letters like this.

I think the main point that he forgot to mention was that the mass production of corn and other farming products has been shipped to Mexico and thus outsourced the Mexican farming population and all those that benefited from it; this coupled with instability of Mexican security has caused a surge in immigration. The instability in the Mexican security comes from poor people who lost their jobs that sought money through the powerful drug cartels in Mexico. Those are the main reasons we see a rise in crime and drug trafficking around the border of mexico.

So we are to blame for this problem because we out produced Mexico and subsequently eliminated that market in their country so that the only good they can offer are the illegal drugs they manufacture and the cheap labor that walks across the border.

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The Don makes you crazy because deep down you know he’s right. So what if he uses the computers at UNM? This editorial wasn’t about HIM! People are so incredibly selfish and non-empathetic sometimes it really blows my mind. They live in a world of borders and money that don’t even really exist. Don is a small piece of the puzzle. He is trying to change lives for the better the only way he know’s how. What are you doing??? It seems as though your misguided American pride is feeding your egos too much. Take that energy that you generate toward anger, and do something pro-active that will make this world a better place for everyone, not just yourself.

p.s. you’re not as smart as you think you are, keep learning…

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Sen. Durbin D-IL has reined supreme in oratory guile that has a strong foundations in Congress. Dick Durbin’s speeches supposedly a defender of unemployed Americans, while behind the lines he makes Americans jobless. As with Sen.Harry Reid D-NV, Assistant majority leader Durbin, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has given there assurance to promote E-Verify, but also heavily approved a need for a path to citizenship or AMNESTY for the 20 to 30 million already squatting here. Although he commiserates the 125,000 who have recently lost their unemployment benefits, he disregards the fact that his immigration policies now in place has awarded 125,000 brand new work permits to foreign nationals this last month. Such is the capability for self-deception in Congress that I wonder if Sen. Durbin and his foreign-labor-in-shoring conspirators have any inkling of awareness in counter-production. Sen. Durbin, Sen. Harry Reid is just one of the dozen Members of Congress utterly accountable for seeing to it that ANOTHER 125,000 Americans each month are kept out of a work. Its this politicians uncouth insistence on providing cheap labor to pariah employers, that draws millions—no matter the danger—into America. Call your own Senators or Congressman 202-224-3121 and demand they make sure that the unemployment benefit extension keeps money out of the hands of illegal aliens. Sen. Sessions amendment uses E-Verify to authenticate a US workers right to 14 more weeks of these benefits.

Then although California is a sanctuary state, not all cities believe in these refuge policies, such as San Diego. It seems that the federal contractors in Southernmost California city appreciate the new E-Verify ruling. The federal mandate requires all businesses with federal contracts of at least $100,000 and lasting longer than 120 days to use E-Verify and that all new hires must go through a verification procedure. San Diego industries receive a large portion of contracts, and it’s proximity to the Mexican border makes it vulnerable to volumes of illegal workers. Currently more than 160,000 businesses are operating E-Verify with close to 13,000 of them in the State of California. In the recently passed Homeland Security spending bill, Congress re-authorized E-Verify for three more years. Now E-Verify has shown a powerful ally in removing foreign nationals in working establishments nationwide. It’s success and easy access by employers has shown its immigration enforcement ability.

NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE E-VERIFY PERMANENT , BEFORE CORRUPT LAWMAKERS SOMEHOW WEAKEN IT? ITS VERY LIKELY A NEW IMMIGRATION BILL WILL BE IN THE HANDS OF OUR POLITICIANS EARLY NEXT YEAR. WE ALREADY HAVE THE 1986 IMMIGRATION BILL, WHICH HAS BEEN INTENTIONALLY ENGINEERED FOR BUSINESSES & OPEN BORDER ZEALOTS. IF IT PASSES A THIRD OF THE INDIGENT WORLD, WILL SWARM OUR UNDERMANNED BORDERS. E-VERIFY WORKS! BY ATTRITION OR SELF-DEPORTATION ILLEGAL WORKERS AND FAMILIES WILL LEAVE IF NO JOBS ARE AVAILABLE. VIOLATIONS OF IMMIGRATION LAWS MUST CARRY STRICT PENALTIES, INCLUDING PRISON TERMS & HEAVY FINES.

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I reject just about everything in this article. There is a big difference between illegal aliens and immigrants. An immigrant wants to move to the US permanently and become an American. Immigrants follow the law and must pass a physical and background check. Immigrants must have a means of support by a sponsor or employer so they are not a burden on taxpayers. Immigrants desire to assimilate and are loyal to their new country. Illegal aliens go thru none of this. They remain loyal to their country of origin, break our immigration laws, drain resources meant for citizens, refuse to assimilate or learn english. Illegal aliens take whatever they can get without regard to the impact on the US. American must demand a ZERO tolerance towards ALL illegal immigration. There is no such thing as a law abiding illegal alien.

Native Americans are the only non-immigrants? Really? I’m pretty sure it is well established that the ancestors of todays ‘Native’ Americans were immigrants from the Asian continent.

Sir,

As a legal immigrant, I find you to be just another troll in the illegal immigration debate. You never even considered how legal immigrants feels when people like you advocate for the rights of Illegal Immigrants. Quite simply, it is a slap in the face to compare the legal law abiding English speaking intelligent immigrant (who needs to wait 10-20 years for citizenship) vs an illegal immigrant.

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Other than the fact that illegal immigration is, well, illegal. it has repercussions not only in our country, but in the country left behind. Before I delve into the issues, let me state for the record that I am not a racist nor am I against controlled legal immigration; this country was built that way.

We have immigration laws for a reason; they let use filter out who we want in our country and how many (for the idiot-statists out there: a nation and the people of that nation have a right to dictate who enters their country, the people attempting to enter have no right to enter illegally. Much like your neighbor has nor right to enter your house any time he pleases). These laws allow the U.S. (and other nations) to give priority to people who will have the most beneficial impact on our society (e.g. doctors, engineers).

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I’ve read some disgusting letters, but this takes cake! When are you going to stop pandering to illegal aliens? Illegal aliens are criminals and they are destroying this Country everyday they are here. One would have to be blind not to see this.

Illegal aliens have made America the dumping ground for all their illegal alien children, then we have to school them and give them free medical care.

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Here is a factual description of one town’s battle with illegal aliens.

Victoria, Texas (pop.55,000) is a town about 80 miles west of Houston. Local Hispanic leaders there, in opposition to pending Immigration Legislation, boycotted all Caucasian owned businesses in the Victoria area this past weekend as a demonstration of their economic impact on the community. The boycott was declared a success by the Hispanic community, noting that revenue in Caucasian owned businesses was down by 19%. Business owners declared the boycott a success as well, pointing out that shoplifting was reduced by 77%, money orders sent out of the country were down by 97%, and the cost of daily clean-up and trash collection was down by 84%. Shoppers reported that they could actually hear English being spoken throughout the community for the first time in recent memory, and customers actually paid for purchases with real money, not government debit cards.

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Don Schrader, what are you thinking. Open borders? The southwest still belongs to Mexico?

The US paid for the land dude,and Mexico was quick to take it. Go ask Mexico what they did with the money and who got it?

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Don Schrader,you must be writing this as a publicity stunt. If not,you better go read a little more history. Not just the BS you hear from other ILLEGAL ALIENS that think this is their land.

The land was actually paid for to a government that the USA recognized as a government at that time.

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Props to Don for this letter. I echo his sentiments. I’m once again horrified to see so many reactionary responses. The internets are an ugly place. Current US immigration policy allows the exploitation of an underclass of workers, enforced by terror via ethnic cleansing. We’ve got to dismantle this oppressive apparatus.

¡Ningún Ser Humano es Ilegal!

Raid!

China is building up its military, is causing the biggest of global warming, and abusing its own people and that on top of its inactions in North Korea and Iran and their nuclear programs. My suspicions that the Chinese even gave North Korea a few nukes to keep the North in its “sphere of influence” and away from the South, the U.S., and Japan. This was also done with the knowledge and permission of Putin and Russia.

WE ALL KNOW HOW MANY GOODS ARE MADE IN CHINA and our dollars are funding our own downfall as they bought our debt and they will eventually blackmail us. SO, LET’S KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE: MOVE ALL CHINESE FACTORIES TO MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND HAITI. IF THEY HAVE JOBS THERE, MAYBE THEY WON’T COME HERE.

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Our Government, past & present, Republican & Democrat, have allowed the invasion of 20 to 30 million criminals and uneducated peons which is the largest invasion of any Nation, at any time, by any means & in direct violation of Article IV, Section IV of our Constitution.

This refusal to abide by our Constitution or enforce our Immigration Laws should be classified as Treason of the most foul kind, & as grounds for impeachment & trials for Treason!

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