One Family's Response to President Bush's Televised Monday Address

One Family's Response to President Bush's Televised Monday Address

If the President on his Monday televised address continues to show greater humanity for crooked law-breaking employers addicted to illegal alien labor than for the American people, we are packing our mini-van and the Dolz family including our 11 month old baby girl is heading for the Arizona border on Memorial Day weekend. My wife and baby daughter will keep me company while I help break ground on the Minuteman fence that will be erected at the border with volunteers.

For four years my family has put its faith on President Bush to make our borders secure so that we may never again experience a 9/11 terror attack. Border security and the enforcement of immigration law is central to the 9/11 Commission recommendations yet the number of aliens violating our borders has increased to an estimated 3 million per year. Of those arrested and released last year, 155,000 were from countries known to harbor terrorism. Our border with Mexico is bustling with a $140 billion drug trafficking criminal enterprise capable of corrupting elected and law-enforcement officials at the highest level on both sides of the border.

Doesn't this make you wonder why it is allowed to happen?

Earlier this year, President Bush on his State of the Union address warned us of the grave consequences of America 's ?addiction? to foreign oil. Few argue with that assessment.

Incidently, have you heard the President sound the alarm over a worse addiction that touches the security, pocketbook and quality of life of every American: A Massive Invasion of Cheap Illegal Labor Through Our Broken Borders?

Our government last failed attempt at ?comprehensive? immigration reform took place in 1986. This ?comprehensive? approach resulted in 3 million criminal aliens getting amnesty that put them in the path to citizenship. The 1986 Act also allowed ?family reunification? and that added millions more aliens to burden the tax-payers. As it is the case today, our government in 1986 guaranteed us that amnesty would be accompanied by secured borders and sanctions against crooked law-breaking employers who hire illegal aliens. Our government then and now lacks the will to protect our nation's borders so aliens continue to violate our borders and break countless other laws with impunity. For the last 20 years, our elected representative's dereliction of duty allowed crooked employers to hire illegal aliens reaching today's massive levels. Over time, these crooked employers, paying low wages and no on-the-job-accident insurance or health insurance, drove other employers to hire illegal aliens or forced them out of business instead.

We are at a point today where 12 to 20 million illegal aliens live among us. One in 20 workers is now an illegal alien and most pay little or no tax (because they have no Social Security number or because they falsely over-declare dependents so the ?Tax Withholding?, that they will never get back, is as low as possible. Many illegals skip the inconvenience of filing tax-returns by not declaring their earning at all. Compare this to the $9000 per year it cost to educate one of their illegal alien children in California and you will understand why when all social services are added that California taxpayers pay $10.5 billion for services to illegal aliens. As it is the case with sugar, gasoline or any commodity; when you have over-supply, prices fall. An over-supply of cheap desperate third-world workers causes wages to fall. Department of Labor data shows that meat-packer workers in the 1980's earned $19 per hour. Today, workers doing the same job earn just about $9 per hour. This is dismaying to American workers, especially chronically unemployed Black Americans and low skilled workers. Hew Hispanic Center research indicates that only 3% of illegal aliens work in agriculture. 97% of illegal aliens take jobs that Americans want and need but are unwilling to do for illegal alien wages.

The President's address on Monday has great potential for raising America 's confidence in his leadership and for energizing the Republican Party ahead of the November election. The chronically unemployed, workers who have been displaced by third-world illegal workers or that have seen their wages drop, environmentalist who are alarmed by the impact of massive population growth, and all of us concerned about our national security are eager to get behind him.

The President must make it clear that there must not be talk of guest worker programs and amnesty until:

The borders are permanently secured and violations are kept at near zero.

I have been a loyal Republican all my life. In fact I am a Republican candidate for the California 41 st Assembly District. The latest Zogby Poll shows that border security and illegal immigration has now surpassed the War in Iraq and the economy as most important to the voters. What I hear from voters, as I walk my district, is that come November, they will vent their anger against all politicians that pander to the crooked employers and illegal aliens.

Let's give the President the opportunity to make his case. If it turns out as you expected, with a tired spin on guest worker/amnesty, there is something you can do. Help build the border fence in Arizona until you can vent your feeling at the ballot box in November. Join my family and me starting on Memorial Day weekend. You will find all the information you need at my website: www.dolz.com

Tony Dolz


Minuteman


Candidate California 41 st Assembly District
www.dolz.com