According to a Fox News story, Colin Powell claims illegal aliens are “all over his house, doing things whenever he calls for repairs.” And he further states he’s sure that all of us have illegal aliens working at our houses as well.

He claims the illegal aliens taking US jobs are keeping our lifeblood moving forward. Mr. Powell, you are wrong on quite a few points, including this one. Illegal aliens and their criminal employers, employers like you, are sucking the life right out of our country. There are many unemployed US citizens who would love to have a construction job. Construction jobs generally pay well, and the money made by US citizens tends to remain a part of the US economy. The money you pay your illegal staff and contractors likely goes straight to other countries.

We and any of our neighbors living within their means and not losing their homes to foreclosure are not able to hire people to do most repairs on our homes. If illegal aliens were all over our homes, we’d be calling the police, at the very least. The reason many households can’t afford hired help is because so many are unemployed or underemployed. Illegal aliens taking US jobs is not benefiting these households.

Immigrants do have an existing path to citizenship. No “Dream Act” or any other bending of our as yet mostly unenforced immigration laws is necessary for people to gain US citizenship legally. Here are some who’ve done just that. And some more legal US citizens. To them, welcome home! To those who tried to sneak in a back window, get out, and take your children with you! That’s not anti-immigration. It’s anti-illegal immigration, and pro-US.

Mr. Powell should stand in court for hiring illegal aliens and for handing over as much of our country as he can to these invaders. He says Americans need an agenda we can see, touch and believe in. Unfortunately, many Americans were duped into believing in him, and into believing that he believed in our country.

That these Black Panther thugs (found via The GTL) were allowed to intimidate voters at a polling place in 2008 for any length of time is outrageous enough. Standing in front of a polling place door with a nightstick and yelling things like “You’re gonna be ruled by the black man, cracker” at voters should land you behind bars in short order. Shorter still when you don’t show up for your appointed court date.

The bigger outrage is that when it all came down to simply a sentencing, the Justice Department under US Attorney General Eric Holder dismissed the case. The reason given by the Justice Department? The defendants didn’t show up for their hearing. Fabulous.

Nearly another year has passed since the incident. There has been next to no media coverage in relation to the love fest over Obama. There has been no accountability, because even after nearly two years citizens don’t seem to expect it. Obama’s administration has shown here that it’s alright, as long as you support him or are at least not the wrong color, to show up at a polling place with a weapon to intimidate voters.

Dear US Citizen,

   Feel safe?

The President now has definitive plans to challenge Arizona’s law that enforces existing federal immigration law. Obama has insisted that he is unable to gather this country’s resources to protect our own soil against invaders. And just as the US Attorney General was ignorant about the text of the AZ law even as he threatened US citizens with fighting the law, Obama is ignorant about even the existence of our uniform, long standing federal immigration law.

May this weakling traitor not succeed in destroying our country.

Last night was the final “Lou Dobbs Tonight.” He and CNN are amicably parting ways so that Dobbs can “pursue new opportunities.” May this allow him to take an even stronger stance for sanity in dealing with issues such as illegal immigration and the economy.

The quote, from this article, was actually “This is a great day for the undocumented immigrants,” but “undocumented immigrants” makes it sound like illegal aliens don’t do anything… illegal. And it makes it sound like those who sneak into the country are welcome.

Well, I guess they are welcomed, by companies looking to cut corners and costs by hiring them. Two crooked entities, illegal aliens and illegal employers, looking to swindle US citizens. If a thief got shot by his thieving partner while breaking into a home, it would make for some excellent court TV drama when he sued his partner. Especially if he won, and in the follow-up comments he said he’d use the settlement money to build his own house in the home owner’s yard.

“Enforcing laws requiring a safe workplace serves the interests of all Americans, whether they are citizens or not.”

Enforcing our immigration laws would mean that illegal aliens are not allowed to work here. It would serve the interest of all Americans. On an earlier “great day” though, it was proven that we won’t even crack down on identity theft related to illegal immigration.

I do think the employers in these cases should be heavily punished. They should be shut down if they insist on providing unreasonable (not all jobs are “safe”) working conditions, or if they hire illegal aliens.

One of my biggest fears about Obama as President has been validated, but I’m still stunned at the timing. Obama has chosen now, of all times, to take up the fight to allow illegal aliens amnesty. My related fear is that so many actual US citizens look on Obama as the Second Coming that he might meet with success.

Since this blog is a do-over, I’ll say again that I make the distinction between legal immigration and illegal immigration. The first makes this country stronger. The second is an invasion that has been allowed to go on for too long.

With so many out of work CEO’s now willing to take cleaning or packaging jobs, the argument that illegal aliens only do jobs that US citizens don’t want is no longer even a tiny bit believable. Companies that insist on providing unsafe working conditions and paying substandard wages in the US should leave this country and set up shop in the homelands of their illegal workforce. They, like their employees, weaken our economy.

We owe illegal aliens anything like a homeowner owes a burglar a bed to sleep in. Even if the burglar washes the dishes that no one in the family really wants to do.

Illegal aliens are criminals. They become criminals the moment they step over our border. This is not a victimless crime. We’re all in danger when this is allowed to happen unchecked. And the crimes continue to pile up. For instance, the US citizen whose social security number is stolen on behalf of an illegal alien is to do what? Laugh it off because his identity went to better someone else’s life?

Obama, from the NYT article:

immigrants who are long-time residents but lack legal status “have to have some mechanism over time to get out of the shadows.”

They do have a mechanism. Legal immigrants can certainly go through the required steps to become citizens. Illegal aliens can go back to their homelands and start the required, legal process to become residents or citizens.