Welcome, illegal immigrants! Civics class starts now!

You think that was a protest?

Wait until Tom Tancredo wins the 2008 New Hampshire primary. We'll show you a protest.

Here in Los Angeles, where utility bills come stuffed with dire warnings that THERE ISN'T ENOUGH WATER! and THERE ISN'T ENOUGH ELECTRICITY! and the election campaigns shout that THE SCHOOLS ARE OVERCROWDED! and where the jammed emergency rooms have signs on the wall in Spanish explaining that you are entitled to medical treatment even if you cannot pay, where emergency rooms and hospitals are closing, where there aren't enough paramedics, or police, or jail cells, where the roads are always jammed and often crumbling, where every ballot demands another bond measure to borrow more money for more services for more people, five hundred thousand angry illegal immigrants filled twenty blocks of downtown Los Angeles to demand their rights.

If it had been an animated cartoon, City Hall's pointed tower would have bent at a ninety-degree angle and a neon sign above it would have flashed "South This Way."

Bulletin to illegal immigrants: You're in the United States not by right, but by permission. The permission has been granted by a federal government that has for decades declined to enforce the laws against entering and working in the country illegally.

There is no right to be in the United States illegally.

As long as the taxpayers of the United States are required to pay for education and health care services for people who enter the country illegally, there will be resentment that the United States government refuses to enforce immigration law.

You may think it helps your cause to turn out half a million people for a protest through the streets of Los Angeles. That is only true if you believe it helps your cause to revive Pete Wilson's political career.

To you, it's a civil rights issue. To a lot of Americans, it's a mass demonstration of bottomless need and outrageous ingratitude.

You know what would fix this problem? Not a guest-worker program. Not amnesty. Not mass deportation.

A constitutional amendment.

If the U.S. Constitution stated flatly that no state may be required to provide education or non-emergency health services to people who are in the country illegally, then the people of every state would be free to determine what level of need they have for a population of illegal immigrants and how much they're willing to pay to support that population.

Read more about it in How to Get Congress to Foot the Bill for Illegal Immigration, and Fast at www.SusanShelley.com.

Si se pueda.



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