More “economics of illegal immigration”

Steven R. Berryman

[from The Tentacle May 14th 2012]

A fresh face, Hispanic-featured, appeared in the columnists’ corner of The Frederick News-Post on Saturday; it was a doctor, formerly from my medical group, Parkview Medical. I looked forward to learning his views on illegal-immigration.

The title intrigued me: “Some economics of illegal immigration.” It turned out to be a free commercial, in support of the illegal community, sanctioned by the paper.

Dr. Menocal had removed himself from Parkview to strike out on his own with a new practice. He admitted that one of his specialties was in knowingly serving the children of illegals; his dismay was that he had to serve more of them to make the same money he had been accustomed to, as most were on social (government) assistance.

This was clearly stated in the column.

The editors of The Frederick News-Post forgot to add his link to their Internet edition, so there was much to explore in print only. This also meant that no comments would be forthcoming; convenient! My experience is that the paper never make this mistake unless the content is to be avoided, or is embarrassing.

In the late afternoon Saturday the editors finally posted this link to his column; I searched it out on its archives: http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=135631.

Conflicting thoughts raced through my head; this bright man was providing a needed service and “taking care of his own,” on the one hand, and aiding and abetting illegal activity on the other. Yes, I know that the Hippocratic Oath is blind, deaf, and dumb.

By broadcasting his practice, both he and The Frederick News-Post created a free advertisement attracting illegal Hispanic immigrants – specifically – to come in from the cold and get discount medical treatment. The doctor admittedly profits by his “looking the other way.” Dr. Menocal is making our community even more of a “magnet community” in the face of efforts to the contrary by our proactive Sheriff Chuck Jenkins.

Giving away a free, no-questions-asked, publicly funded education in Frederick County (again, with free medical clinics in some schools) is incentive enough.

Justification of the embracing and support of illegal activity came at the top of his column: “Without a Hispanic presence, the Golden Mile would be in steep economic decline.”

Of course, the West End, or Golden Mile, has been eclipsed for 20 years due to gentrification and revitalizing downtown Frederick, and due to the consequent dipping prices of townhouses and apartments, it has attracted a uniform enclave of Mexican, and South and Central Americans. Part of the impact is to allow for a transplanted Hispanic community, where the natural tendency to assimilate is retarded as everyone speaks Spanish already, anyway. Of course, this is pure human nature, and natural economics as the author points up.

Do ask the Frederick Police about the drug and gang activity in the Golden Mile area as a trend, though. At night, others fear to tread.

Dr. Menocal then praises the illegal’s purchasing power as a justification for allowing community building in a forsaken stretch that nobody else wants. Does that really make a no-go-zone more palatable to our community and state at large?

His closing paragraph sums it all up: “The support from the Latin community, legal and illegal, has allowed the practice to eke out a living while paying for nine full-time employees. All of these employees pay federal, state and local taxes.”

I read that as: Nine full time employees share in the spoils of a medical practice benefiting from – presumably an all cash paying – illegally present, large group of immigrants. How the good doctor knows that they all pay federal taxes is something of a mystery to me, though. Maybe they just get the benefit of the doubt?

IRS take note!

Again, I’m all for helping out the medically distressed, especially those without means; I’m one of them myself. But this facet alone does not allow for the harboring and enabling – knowingly by this account – of illegally present families in Frederick County, Maryland.

Until we sort out the elements that continue to make this open support of border violators so acceptable, we will continue to be “the magnet state of Maryland; all illegals welcome.”

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More “economics of illegal immigration” is the original link

Please re-post this as you see fit, as I believe it is a moment of honesty and clarity by a professional that says it's ok to break the law...... and underlines the severity of our problem upholding the rule of law in America.

----Steve.

The Subjugation of the American Male

The Subjugation of the American Male

Steven R. Berryman


[from The Tentacle March 19, 2012]


In 1972 liberal forces in America concluded a masterstroke of legislation known as Title IX, and the liberation of women became defined as the subjugation of men. The math is inescapable.


In a zero-sum world, when one gender is pushed up, the other necessarily goes down. 


 Flash forward to today, and you will see the long term impact on our nation; what should be a presidential campaign season – dominated by the president’s record and a focus on the economic outcome of four years of Barack Obama - has been replaced by consideration of the financial rights of women to free contraception…


…even in the face of organized religion’s complaint!


Think that’s a fluke and women’s issues do not permeate our society? Even illegal-immigration has been infiltrated by the Violence Against Woman Act (or VAWA), in that an accusation by an undocumented woman against a husband will automatically generate a visa status keeping her safely in our country. This, ostensibly, is to enable the due process of a modern American society ready to protect even the non-citizen as the “fair sex.”


Is the above scenario ripe with benefits for social service as an industry, and to immigration lawyers as a practice? You bet. Follow the money trail. 


Is there now a cottage industry in sham weddings – many times completed by concocted abuse allegations – that earns millions for participants and bolsters our population? Is there a willingly complicit media that won’t deal with this topic for fear of retaliation? You bet; and the willingly provided cover by compliant and self-censoring media follows the line of money in the calculus.


So, are we saying that a donation to some women’s political action groups may result in protection of illegals? Yep! 


But examine Title IX even superficially, and know that what was intended as gender equality – to be fully enjoyed by women – contained affirmative action elements that would only succeed in an environment of winners and losers to the basis of the law: A “more equal” female must surely result in a “less equal” male. 


In the case of the male and female tie in fair competition, the tie goes to the woman. 


Back to the topic of “violence against women,” current laws are constructed to give the female in a violent incident an edge truly monumental. A protective order is always granted her even in the case of simply an unproven accusation without witness or injury mark to any female seeking sanctuary.


Just the accusation and the always sanctioned protective order results in the male being denied access with no notice to his own home until a hearing date that may be five weeks down the road.


Additionally, it is easy to catalog the fact that our social-justice bureaucracy is overwhelmingly populated by women, many of whom are heavily biased to their own cause. 


Don’t get me wrong. There really is an epidemic of spousal violence that requires protection, especially in our era of economically (money) related feuds within marriages that are becoming zero tolerance, zero sum, and winner take all games. But it cuts both ways, and abused men are now common as well.


Bizarrely, media portrayal of the American male, especially the non-minority variety, in Hollywood and television has made it politically correct to portray him as the dim sexist buffoon and butt of jokes. Reverse the roles to female, and threats of advertising cuts surely would ensue! 


The traditional male value as protector and provider, hunter and leader have been replaced by a modern woman who – in many cases – wants to enjoy all of the benefits typically awarded by society for a male’s role, andthey still insist on also retaining all pleasures bestowed on what we had once termed “the fair sex.”


The well-accepted, diminished and emasculated male of this age is being manipulated into a female-acceptable form that is termed a “mangina” in the popular lore. He is reliably lower in muscle and testosterone both. The programming and conditioning language assures a fairer-man, as opposed to what had been admiringly a “masculine man” in the past. 


They forget that this club also includes exclusive right to be conscripted off to wars for the honor of potentially dying for ones country!


Today, in the final analysis, women’s push groups eclipse any semblance of protection groups for men. Women out-populate men in the world by an ever stretching margin. More and more, the wealth of the world is controlled and concentrated by the fair sex.


Advertising and purchasing power is ever-concentrated on the female as well, consolidating an ability to dominate men. (Check the exclusive money spent on cosmetics, fashion, jewelry, and feminine attire alone!) 


Where do we go from here? 


Our current environment, with relative prosperity and safety, as compared to ages long gone, has engendered a period where the interdependence of men and woman as being needfully reliant upon each other is vastly reduced. 


And mainly for what are ultimately financial reasons, the impact begun by Title IX marches on strongly today, and for reasons of control, the battle of the sexes rages on, but under new flags.


srbmgr@gmail.com 


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Considering Correctness

Considering correctness Originally published October 28, 2011 The Frederick News-Post By Steven R. Berryman (also, be sure to read the postscript at the end!)

Of course the words we choose define us, and reveal the messages we attempt to convey; isn't that what language is for? English has twice the number of available words to choose to enunciate our meaning as the next closest language, German. Although the context of usage is critical, we are being driven mad by the "political correctness" demands of a liberal education system. Should a pejorative word with a political charge be chosen, is it fair to the targeted recipient and to the casual reader, especially as some become inflamed? For instance, we don't say "stimulus" anymore. [We say "jobs bill."] In this week's Monday Advance section, FNP columnist Frankee Lyons passionately explored the word "illegals," treating readers of this paper to a fresh new discussion. The value of anonymous comments in response -- available to the online edition -- was clear as they peaked at 87 responses posted the next day. Tracking comments is a good indication of the public mood. These comments fell quite predictably along partisan lines, scribed by many with views already on record. Each response took one side or another quite distinctly; the long debate on what is undeniably the national dysfunction of uncontrolled borders still seethes. Before I forget, Lyons is the freshest in age of the FNP columnists, and so is to be especially commended for learning how to strike such a resonant chord with so many readers. Despite views to the contrary, writing an opinion column is not about being absolutely right on any given issue, it's about generating the conversation. "'Illegals'?" was brilliant in this respect. But that's just my opinion! Followers of this column and my blog already know well my position on what I shall now call "the ongoing phenomenon of noncitizens breaking into America without visa or legal status of entry." This will keep me from the impolitic shorthand of "illegals." Forming a position early on, my association with the group Help Save Maryland goes back a full year before this became such a hot topic. The enforced political correctness of those with a stake in the game -- immigration lawyers and CASA of Maryland, for instance, was instrumental in labeling my group both "nativist" and "extremist." This was formally pronounced by a group called the Southern Poverty Law Center. Racist accusations are the ultimate in words that carry baggage for many; talk about words that carry a political charge! To inflict the damage, the charge need not even be true. What gets lost in the semantic argument we choose is the argument itself. Is some false sense of "fairness" to those who made it over the fence more important than our national sovereignty as citizens with something to protect? Very clearly in our public education system, the value of being a U.S. citizen has become subjugated to some Walt Disney version of fairness; we have a diverse culture, a history, and a heritage worth protecting. Sticks and stones may break our bones ... -- Steven R. Berryman writes from Frederick. (srbmgr@comcast.net)

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Murder charges filed Suspect ID'd in March shooting death at Burger King Originally published October 29, 2011 Frederick News-Post By Brian Englar News-Post Staff

NEW! Click photo to view additional photos Courtesy Photo Mejia-Varela Advertisement "> Frederick police have obtained an arrest warrant for a Salvadoran national wanted in the shooting death of a Burger King manager in March, Frederick County State's Attorney Charlie Smith said Friday. Jose Reyes Mejia-Varela, 21, is in Baltimore in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service awaiting sentencing on charges of illegally re-entering the U.S. after he was deported. Mejia-Varela is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Jacinta "Patty" Ayala, 32, who was shot and killed in an apparent robbery as she was opening the Burger King on East Patrick Street in Frederick, where she was an assistant manager. He faces additional charges of armed robbery, first-degree assault, second-degree assault and theft of between $1,000 and $10,000, according to Frederick police. Smith said during a news conference Friday the warrant would be served after Mejia-Varela is sentenced on the federal charges. His office hopes to begin trying the case within six months after he is brought to Frederick. Smith said that in the absence of eyewitnesses or a confession, cracking the case was a painstaking task requiring hundreds of hours of work by investigators. He described the case against Mejia-Varela as "very strong." "This was a case that really took a lot of diligence looking at each and every piece of evidence possible," Smith said. "One piece of evidence that would be presented would reveal a need to investigate three, four, five different avenues." Police would not release any details about the crime itself or say how Mejia-Varela -- a former employee at the Burger King -- was identified as a suspect. Frederick police spokesman Lt. Clark Pennington said detectives interviewed Mejia-Varela during the original investigation but did not consider him a suspect at the time. Pennington said they discovered he was in the country illegally and reported him to immigration authorities.......ctd on link above... ========================================================== Ref: Also, the column this refers to is here: http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_columnist.htm?StoryID=127434

Is this 'discrimination'?

Is this 'discrimination'? Originally published February 18, 2011 The Frederick News-Post By Steven R. Berryman

Should Maryland "discriminate" by law against offering in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrants? Testimony was taken in Annapolis on Wednesday concerning Prince George's Democratic Sen. Victor Ramirez's bill SB 167, which would allow just that. Discrimination has various meanings; we all know that race and color distinctions are "illegal" as a basis on which to discriminate in America. Illegal means "against the law," for the benefit of some liberals who wish to ignore definitions, choose their own facts, and obfuscate information contrary to their immutable positions. The term "illegal immigrant" defines those entering our country without a visa, or overstaying a valid visa. Discrimination also means to choose, as in choosing your spouse or girlfriend by selecting him or her out of your various other acquaintances. Your actions tell the world that you have a preference. In Maryland, we have our share of legal residents who have difficulty finding a slot in state-subsidized colleges. More want to go to the University of Maryland, for instance, than will fit. Many, including the leader of www.helpsavemaryland.com, (the link is down temporarily, go here instead: helpsavemaryland.blogspot.com), Brad Botwin, believe that maintaining a preference for lawful residents works best for most in our state; it's morally defensible! Our laws and Constitution do not qualify anyone to an automatic higher education; it is a privilege, not a right. Granting in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrants makes no sense, as it is illegal to hire them upon graduation anyway. Plus, offering illegal (or undocumented, if you are a liberal) immigrants preference for college makes Maryland even more of a "magnet state" if we enact SB 167. Offering anyone any incentive to come to America illegally for free health care and cheap education compared with their home countries is a bad financial move for us at the state and federal levels, but has even more terrible costs. Gang violence is on the rise, primarily by illegal immigrants from Central America. Our chief of police in Frederick, Kim Dine, recently attended an Arizona conference confirming just that. County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins is second to none in being proactive on this issue. Only last week, in nearby Northern Virginia, Jose Oswaldo Reyes-Alfaro, a criminal from El Salvador in the U.S. illegally, was charged with committing a triple homicide. Had this man been stopped at the border or detected in-state after overstaying a temporary visa, these three people would still be alive today. This is but one of many examples of the negative consequences of illegal immigration in America. A proposal such as in-state tuition that is automatically granted -- essentially as a right -- can have far-reaching, unintended consequences as described above, even with the best of intentions. In an era of negative state and federal bank accounts, and where our own Immigration and Customs Enforcement readily admits it does not have the manpower to find even our visitors who intentionally overstay their visas, why would we intentionally allow our own children to get bumped out of the college that we fund for taxpaying citizens? Or are we satisfied with the policy decisions by our lawmakers to keep Maryland a "sanctuary state" in the eyes of lawbreakers who illegally take advantage of our good humanitarian nature? Do discriminate against illegal immigrants. Steven R. Berryman writes from Frederick. srbmgr@comcast.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Post your comments » 42 comments February 18, 2011 @ 01:58 AM: br5ju19 He’s right...a total squirrel with next to no ability to write a newspaper column, but today’s message is dead-on correct. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 03:39 AM: milt You have written a very good column Steve. Your comments are exactly correct. Keep it up. Thank you! REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 04:04 AM: seandupree What I object to is the implication that liberals are responsible for illegals. Not once has this columnist, or any of the other conservative demagogues like him, ever recognized the real source of the problem. It is turning our heads as big business imports and hires illegals. Liberals don't own the business that continue to pay these people and make them in fact citizens of the State. Many of their children are, by dint of conservatives, legal Americans who have broken no laws. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 05:24 AM: Bbbbbbb9095 Great column Liberals are by far willing to support illegals. The state of Maryland proves it. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 06:24 AM: Oldog3 Seandupree , It is you liberals that enable illegal’s the most amigo ..........I am all for throwing the employers that enable illegal’s in jail along with the Los Mojados !!……………………. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 06:25 AM: qoph Spot on, Steve. And very well written today. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 06:37 AM: jill.king8 Mr. Berryman, although I do not like how you define discrimination, this is a very well thought out column. I think most would agree. Foreign students have been attending universities in the US for decades; a vast majority of them EARNING their way through college through grades and technological advances. Never should we give a discount to those unworthy. If created there should be a scale or grade level to achieve, never the less earning a right to be there in the first place. Have them sign a commitment paper to make use of education in their home country. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 07:31 AM: Crustybachelor A pro discrimination column. And who is next on the list ? Blacks ? Jews ? Women ? REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 07:39 AM: friedhard you forgot to mention that they spread leprosy. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 07:46 AM: LastAngryMan In state tuition for illegal aliens should never be granted. If anything, they should be charged the same rates, and meet the same requirements as international students; after-all, that is exactly what they are. If you grant in state tuition to illegal aliens, then why not grant in state tuition to American Citizens from out of state? After all, the parents of American students pay federal taxes every year, which is far more than the illegal aliens do. In state tuition was designed to provide a financial break to residents of a state that actually pay state taxes which support the state funded universities and colleges. Illegal aliens don't, and have not supported these instiutions. Last, by granting in state tuition to illegal aliens, we will be giving them preference over American citizens (once again) at a great cost to the American taxpayer. If this garbage bill passes, I predict public outrage and more than a few recalls even in a liberal asylum like Maryland! REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 07:53 AM: doreenmcgill Is state Sen. Ramirez looking for votes from the illegal community by proposing SB167 in state tuition for illegals? Illegals voting??? No problem in Maryland. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 08:06 AM: doreenmcgill The actual definition and meaning of the word "discriminate"?--Alas, thanks to lawyers and politicians the meanings and definitions of words have become fluid and whatever anyone wants them to mean in any given situation. Remember President Clinton famously saying, "it all depends on what is means". Great column this morning! REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 08:08 AM: ManFromMontCo This column is just another meaningless rant by the FNP's own illegal immigrant baiter. He does not understand even the most simplest of things, namely, that the word 'illegal' in "illegal immigrant" is just a label with no legal significance at all. The bill is a good one; it simply continues the long-held practice of allowing in-state residents, i.e., people who pay in-state taxes and generate in-state cash flow and business, a more favorable tuition rate for a higher education, independent of immigration status. SB167 should be passed forthright. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 08:15 AM: touscents Very good column. Though I might argue that in some ways illegals help our economy, I agree that giving them in-state tuition would be a drain. I would also point out that illegals would still have to earn their way into the college system with grades, etc. Some people would like to extend Steve's thoughts by preventing children of illegals from attending public schools, as that is also a drain on the economy. That, I think, would be a mistake, leading to a dangerous, uneducated lower class. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 08:25 AM: niles_johson Steve you have never written a column about the foreign soldiers in the salt mines under the Great Lakes waiting in ready to implement the New World Order. Do you not believe this anymore? What about the jack-booted thugs you always used to go on about -- do they not exist? Inquiring minds want to know where preeminent scholars such as yourself stand on these issues. Screw the low-hanging fruit of race-baiting adulation, we need the dirt on the conspiracies! REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 08:27 AM: pumper Dirty hand indivduals whining about equality is like a criminal whining about his sentence. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 08:34 AM: qoph @Crustybachelor--Only the Blacks, Jews and women who are here illegally. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 08:40 AM: Rockbjohnson It is the Federal Govt. job to arrest and deport all ILLEGAL aliens. It is time for Obama and congress to step forward and do the job they were elected to do, instead of suing states like Arizona who are trying to stop the invasion. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 08:43 AM: qoph @ManFromMontCo--Man, I don't know where to start with you. How about "most simplest"? And "illegal" has "no legal significance at all"? If the latter be true, how come it is "illegal" for employers to give them jobs? You must have started drinking early this morning. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 08:50 AM: mike.rowley Steve: You are a smart guy. Please stop pitting the political parties against each other. The blame game is for halfwits and hacks who can't muster an argument. Good letter. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 08:51 AM: qoph @touscents--I actually agree with you this morning. Except to note that we already have a "dangerous, uneducated lower class." REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 08:55 AM: joelp77440 Big business is the cause of illegal immigration. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 09:02 AM: amphibo A last gasp from the white minority. Steve, if you think a blond haired blue eyed angel will be servicing your needs at the nursing home... good luck! REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 09:09 AM: djsmjp Good column, except their is enough political blame to go around on both sides of the "aisle". The Sainted Reagan's amnesty program. Long story short, neither politcal party is going to get rid of 12-20 million consumers and cheap labor. Heck, they don't have the will to balance the budget- but I do think that an well educated workforce, no matter what their status is a plus. The well educated pay more taxes and generally are not involved in crime. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 09:17 AM: niles_johson Qaf, they are equivalent in Wallace Beeeryman's mind. And you stoop to name-calling? Sad, dude, just sad. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 09:30 AM: public The author doesn't go quite far enough. Not only should in-state tuition be withheld from illegal immigrants, it should also be withheld from Maryland residents whose academic preparation for college is worse than an illegal immigrant's. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 09:32 AM: drumdigger1976 Maybe if Maryland becomes enough of a magnet state, bigots like Berryman and Botwin will leave. If only it would become so... REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 09:33 AM: public Also, I like how Berryman has managed to annex the headline area as yet another space in which to improperly use quotation marks. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 09:51 AM: qoph @niles_johson--Okay, niles, you have my attention for a few seconds. I called no one names. Your post I ignored as not deserving comment. Please enlighten me. But read carefully first. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 10:02 AM: kapahuluhaole Welfare is the cause of illegal immigration. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 10:25 AM: qoph @public--If you are concerned with proper English usage, stop splitting infinitives. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 10:27 AM: public Splitting infinitives is okay. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 10:50 AM: Oldog3 According to the punk Boy O’Malley they are not illegal they are “NEW AMERICANS “ REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 11:50 AM: Sunsetblues48 Excellent column, Steve! I'd like to see a series of column's on the burdon that illegal immigration that falls on the American taxpayers with the perks that they recieve when they enter this country illegally and the organizations that help them get it. With the help of O'Malley, Leggett and Bab's Mikulski, they have made this possible by financially supporting Casa de Maryland to open up Day Labor Centers, provide cheap housing and social services to them with our tax paid dollars. Casa would not be able to operate with out our money. But hey, they got voted in again so we're still stuck with the same ole, same ole diry handed deals. We also need to make people who hire illegals accountable and fine them heavily along with enforcing E-Verify and making it mandatory. And enough about us being decendent by immigrants! My ancestors arrived at Ellis Island, signed the book, were processed properly and were held accountable. This constant allowance of illegal immigrants to cross the border and expect us to take care of them has got to stop. Just ask the border agents families that were targeted and killed this week all because they were just doing their jobs. Our elected officials including Reagan, Bush and McCain didn't help this situation but Obama has the power to stop this and control the borders. They all have blood on their hands. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 12:21 PM: glen.krc public - My understanding is the FNP staff titles these pieces. Previous columnists have indicated so. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 02:40 PM: morissa2n @Bbbbbb9095 "Great column Liberals are by far willing to support illegals. The state of Maryland proves it." REALLY? Lets have a look at Perdue shall we? You MAY have heard of them. Located in MARYLAND, 20,000 employees in MD. Here is a link to information on how many illegals they hire. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2eb_1271188280 Here is a link to their campaign contributions for 2010 via the National Chicken Council PAC http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00034272&cycle=2010 (46% to Democrats, 54% to Republicans) And here is a list of their contributions throughout the years: http://www.newsmeat.com/ceo_political_donations/Frank_Perdue.php (58% Rep 19% Dem) Is Perdue a company who supports "liberals"? Seems to me that Perdue supports the GOP because the GOP supports them. Illegals and all. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 02:41 PM: morissa2n @Bbbbbb9095 "Great column Liberals are by far willing to support illegals. The state of Maryland proves it." REALLY? Lets have a look at Perdue shall we? You MAY have heard of them. Located in MARYLAND, 20,000 employees in MD. Here is a link to information on how many illegals they hire. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2eb_1271188280 Here is a link to their campaign contributions for 2010 via the National Chicken Council PAC http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00034272&cycle=2010 (46% to Democrats, 54% to Republicans) And here is a list of their contributions throughout the years: http://www.newsmeat.com/ceo_political_donations/Frank_Perdue.php (58% Rep 19% Dem) Is Perdue a company who supports "liberals"? Seems to me that Perdue supports the GOP because the GOP supports them. Illegals and all. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 03:33 PM: amphibo OldDog... Punk boy O'Malley? Time to grab your musket and women and head for the morman compounds out west. As for 'liberals'... what the patriotic capitalists can't outsource overseas they stiff the working man at home. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 05:40 PM: touscents Qoph, "we already have a dangerous, uneducated lower class." Are you talking about the Great Qoph again? Just kidding :-) REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 07:01 PM: bb67chev It makes zero sense to provide a subsidized college education to an illegal alien. After graduation from college they still are not allowed to legally work, vote or abtain a drivers' license in Maryland. Don't force our children to attend college out of state by allowing illegal aliens to bump them out from the limited seats available at Maryland colleges and universities. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 09:14 PM: lemmiwinks5747 Good read Berryman- Pleasant to see you got you moxie back. Please continue with politeness and consideration of ALL political persuasions. Too many within the realm of formal writing (and posts in particular) choose an aire of viciousness that is of a 3 rd grade mentallity which has become (unfortunately) representative of the majority of society. Yeah people are stressed out, pissed off, tired of supporting those that have an entitlement mentallity, however we ALL need to keep our witts about us and try hard (HARDER) to maintain civility. It is odd though- If I had to put up with the crap conditions that our hard working (NOT THE CRIMINAL ELEMENT) illegal bretheren had to put up with where they came from-I would risk my life and family too to live here. Maybe perhaps our Feds should think outside the box. I wish I had a magic bullet. REPORT TO MODERATOR February 18, 2011 @ 09:31 PM: nwyrkghos All the illegals working for local hick owned landscaping and construction companies must be working for "liberals". REPORT TO MODERATOR Print this Story Email this Story Post/View Comments (42) Purchase Photos Egypt, heart & soul Detente disintegrates My trust in guns A new 'red dawn' Lampooning the predictions 2011 What's in & out 2011 Lotto Christmas Mistaking a mandate? 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