| San Mateo County, CA | March 2, 2004 Election |
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Illegal ImmigrationBy Thomas J. "Tom" WeissmillerCandidate for Member, Republican Party County Central Committee; County of San Mateo; Supervisorial District 2 |
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The public has the stomach to stop illegal aliens at the border but do not have the stomach to deport them.Illegal immigration is a serious matter our leaders have failed to address. The one single issue that brought more people to the polls in the California Recall Election was Governor Davis and the democratic legislature passed legislation to allow illegal immigrants to have driver's licenses. Over 60% of the vote went to two Republican candidates that said they would overturn this law. This was quite a feat considering only 35% of the registered voters in California are Republican. The will of the people is clear. With 8 to 12 million illegal immigrants inside our borders it is not going to be an easy fix. Our political parties seem more interested in capturing votes than fixing the problem and businesses wants cheap labor. Mexico wants to off-load its people to the United States. It reduces their problem to take care of the poor. It allows their most skilled workers to make money in the United States and send it back to Mexico. It even creates the possible opportunity to reclaim part of the United States by occupation. Our problem today is not the immigrants, but our entitlement programs that bring them here. Historically people would come to the United States to seek the American dream. Now they come here for freebees. The solution is dry up the freebees. I would also like to say that we need a controlled guest worker program. I am not optimistic that latter can work. It would become another failed, expensive government bureaucracy. |
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