Lionel Sosa back in May opened up a website known as MATT, Mexicans and Americans Thinking Together. The supposed purpose of said site was to have Mexicans and Americans working together to find solutionos in dealing with the 15-20 ILLEGAL ALIENS in America, most of them Mexicans. He claimed it was a non-partisan organization without and agenda. My time there has shown me said organization has a VERY PRO AMNESTY/LATINO agenda, and so MATT (my version) was born. Join me and other Americans in looking for solutions to the ILLEGAL INFESTATION ruining our nation.
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From Out Of the Shadows
Legal American Screams to be Heard
Today I stumbled across a web site called, “The Voice” which attempts to give the unheard masses here in
People like Billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg, Pro-Illegal Mayor of New York seems to have no reality when it comes to understanding the harm being done to lower and middleclass Americans by a human tsunami of 15-20 million illegal aliens who are stealing our jobs, depressing our family earnings, and in many cases bringing a certain level of ruination to our lower and middle class communities. He does not, and cannot speak for myself, nor any one else who struggles day to day to keep food on the table, and the mortgage paid at the end of the month.
Sadly, those in elected office seem far more interested in winning over a voting block (The Latino Vote) than taking the necessary steps to curb illegal immigration, and restore order to our borders, both of which would stem, and eventually reverse the harm being done to those, like myself, who have no voice because politicians refuse to hear our screams.
I am an American, I am being hurt by illegal immigration on numerous levels…my God, typing that simple sentence makes it sound like I am a member of some 12 step program, makes it sound as if there is something wrong with me if I do not support the concept of granting Amnesty to 15-20 million people who are bent on stealing my dream in the name of attaining their own.
I would put a bumper sticker on my car that gave some small voice to my views, but am afraid that I would wake up the next morning to find my car vandalized, windows broken out, and tires slashed. Marches…forget about it, seems the liberal press only covers marches when they involve illegal aliens demanding full rights to citizenship, and end to deportations while Bush pushes through and Amnesty and Guest Worker Plan that would make all those criminals legal with a stroke of a pen. My God, why has my nation forsaken me? By my reckoning, any one here illegally is in violation of no less than four criminal statutes, and that is being conservative, yet reporters instead want to present illegal aliens in a humanistic light, painting them as victims who deserve our compassion rather than our scorn. Those reporters need to spend a day walking in the shoes of those who are affected by these invading hordes.
My name is Pinto Bean (assumed for personal protection), and I HATE illegal aliens, and am slowly beginning to hate a government that no longer cares about myself, and millions more like me. This is/was my America, and slowly I feel it slipping away, see myself becoming marginalized in the nation where I was born and raised, I am one of those wishing for a platform where my own story can be told, a space where I can share with the world my own loses as illegal aliens steal away what I had once taken for granted.
Where does one begin? My wife and I, both 50, live in a nice mixed moderate income middle class community. (Mixed in this case, meaning people of different races, and different levels of education, all living an average middle class life, and struggling to stay afloat.) We live in an old (built in 1903) Victorian home on a quiet street about one hour north of
Us Americans, we are an accepting lot, perhaps our own immigrant family trees seeing us being overly accepting, always wanting to give people a chance. After all, at first it was ONLY ONE HOUSE, and maybe things would change…soon, one house became two, and then three as absentee landlords out to make a buck bought up some of the larger old homes and began turning them into tenement properties which they rented out, not to one family, but to 20,30 even 40 illegal aliens. Currently, we find ourselves in the unenviable position of having a house full of illegal aliens directly across the street from us, and another one right next door. Some might want to say, “Ok, what’s the big deal?” and all I can say, is stop for a visit, and you tell me.
For starters, let’s talk cars. Most streets I have ever been on have only so much space where one can park a car. This is not something I (nor my neighbors) had ever given much thought to, it was never a problem. I and my wife had just enough space in front of our home to park two cars, as did all the neighbors. Living in New York we have alternate side of the street parking in the winter, so come that time of year, my wife and I as one of the few people on the street with a small driveway would move one of our cars into same, and block it in with our other car, thus creating and extra two spaces on the street for our neighbors. Our street (both sides) has 16 houses, and basically enough on street parking for 32 cars.
Now, as I have said, there is a house full of illegal aliens beside and across from us, the only two homes filled with illegal aliens on our street. Between the two homes, there are in the ball park of 60 people where there should be two average families (say ten people including children). Now, most of these people in these two homes are adults, and many of them have decided they should OWN A CAR. So, two houses have, at last count, 23 cars…are we beginning to get a picture here? That leaves only NINE SPACES before our neighborhood has a parking problem where before there was none. Further, they are sneaky…realizing parking spaces were now at a premium, they starting parking in such a fashion that one car would claim TWO SPACES until one of their own came home from work, where upon they would pull the one car up and let the other one in. Calls to the police were fruitless; they informed us it was
These illegal aliens seem to have a sense of entitlement about a lot of things, not just parking spaces. My wife and I have some nice landscaping, and as a part of that, some beautiful lighting. Never would we envision that lighting creating PROBLEMS for us. These illegal aliens buy what I would call BEATER CARS, old hand me downs that take a lot of work to keep running. Our beautiful landscape lighting apparently was taken as and invite by these illegal aliens to turn the street in front of our house into a repair shop for their cars, and the steps leading up to our home was a perfect tool bench. This was BAD ENOUGH, but gets better. We noticed our water bill had increased, and at first thought maybe there had been a rate hike we were not aware of. Imagine our SHOCK and surprise when one of our neighbors knocks on the door one night to inform us that the illegal aliens living beside us were using our hose and water during the day while we were at work to wash their cars, and water their small vegetable garden! There is something wrong when I have to go down into our basement and turn my outside water supply on and off when I want to water my own flowers and lawn.
Like most towns, we have once a week garbage pick up, which is more than adequate for homes that have a reasonable number of people living in them. However, when you have 30 people in one house, a whole lot of garbage adds up in a week’s time. Enough garbage builds up in fact to attract both cockroaches and RATS. Last spring we had just gotten our pool open, and came out the next morning to find one of these rats had gotten up onto our deck, and drowned in our pool. We now have to routinely have a pest control service to our house to keep these vermin and cockroaches at bay.
Our illegal aliens are all Latin. They in numerous ways seem to think they have the right to FORCE their culture on the rest of our block. Further, if their actions are representative of the Latino culture, I have some problems with it. First, perhaps because they come from a warmer climate, they seem to enjoy congregating OUTSIDE, and have a propensity for consuming LARGE AMOUNTS of alcohol. Now, not saying these are traits unique to
We do not urinate in our front yards here in
We have a nice back yard, off of the back porch we have a small covered patio with table and chairs that we enjoy sitting out under. I woke up one night in need of a snack and headed down to the kitchen when I heard voices. So, I quietly made my way through the kitchen to the small half bath which has a window which looks out over our back yard. Imagine my surprise when sitting on MY FURNITURE, IN MY YARD were sitting five illegal aliens drinking beer, smoking cigarettes (that they were putting out on MY DECK) and talking. When I went outside to confront them, they wanted to get INDIGNANT, informing me that I was NOT USING IT, so what was the big deal. I had to go back inside and get my Louisville Slugger to show them that it was a big deal. This is not the first time, nor the last time they have accessed our yard…do we have reports from neighbors that a couple of their children sneak into our back yard when we are at work and swim in OUR POOL.
We've caught them peeking into the windows of our house when drunk like common peeping toms, had to call the police when they were so drunk they thought our house was theirs at three in the morning, but the worse affront occurred this past winter. We had gotten a huge snowfall here in
Some may see these things as and inconvenience, at best a nuisance, the cost we pay for being a welcoming nation. However, these actions and behaviors on the part of illegal aliens have a measurable cost in dollars. Their presence in our community, the tenement houses next to and across from me have lowered the value of our home by over $50,000 and I am wondering who it is that is going to give that money back to me? That is our hard earned equity, which was money we had considered as banked for our retirement. Perhaps to a George Bush or Michael Bloomberg $50,000 is pocket change, not and amount worth fretting about, but for my wife and I that loss is more than we can afford to have lost, represents us having to work a couple of extra years before having a chance to enjoy our golden years.
Americans are a compassionate and giving people, we routinely are the first to open our hearts and our wallets when disaster hits those less fortunate than ourselves. Our nation already has the most liberal immigration policies in the entire world; we legally allow millions to immigrate here each and every year. However, even if our politicians in their quest for CHEAP LABOR fail to recognize it, we as citizens have our limits, can only be pushed so far before our backs are up against a wall and we decide to fight back. We are losing our jobs to illegal aliens, our wages are being depressed (over eight percent per year on average) by illegal aliens, and our neighborhoods are being ruined by illegal aliens…in short, our backs are up against the wall. I fear what will happen if the government fails to heed the voices of the majority, I fear what will happen if they go against our wishes and grant AMNESTY to 15-20 million undeserving criminals.
(This is just one part of my own story, my own pain…perhaps in another writing I will share with you the reader how illegal immigration has interfered with my ability to earn a decent living wage.)