“Desperate Filth--The criminal element (government, business & media) are DETERMINED to keep their cheap exploitive labor, and to the point they are paying to have “POLLS” fabricated and widely announced – all at a CRITICAL time.”

Zoo in “Phoenix News” in reaction to Time Magazine’s polling that concluded that 79-percent of Americans favor a “guest worker” program.

This attitude is what stands between the American people and a sound reasonable law that will tighten up border control, and allow for a legal temporary work force.  Lastly, this attitude propounds arrest and deportation of millions of people from over 150 countries around the world, including Ireland, Canada and Mexico.

On the other hand, Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean -- who has no idea there are Mexicans on the plant Earth -- makes wild-eyed statements that are in the same wacky world as Zoo of Arizona.  He says, “The President (Bush) has a moral obligation to rein in the right-wing extremists in his party and stop this divisive rhetoric about immigrants.”

Amid all of this hysteria President Bush stands in the middle. He is leading the country towards solving the problems of illegal immigration, the border and of what to do with those millions among us who sneaked into the country.

Neither the hard right of Zoo, Congressmen Tom Tancredo or other hard-liners including California congressman Dana Rohrabacher who wants prison inmates to pick our crops and prepare our food or the hard left wing of Howard Dean have a clue as to what the people want.

Certainly there is a hysterical element of our population.  There are the failed Minutemen who haven’t had any effect on illegal immigration other than to inconvenience a few television cameramen. There are a handful of congressmen like Tancredo, Dana Rohrabacher, J.D. Hayworth and Iowa’s Stephen King who talk of the “Scarlet Letter A” for “amnesty” and there are those behind these weak minded folks, the penultimate racists among us who disguise themselves as patriots.

These people  are  supported by media shills like CNN’s Lou Dobbs.

Some among us actually pay attention to these people.  If Rohrabacher’s proposal to have prison inmates produce our food, where would we be?  There are hundreds of thousands of farm workers from Mexico producing our food for the lowest prices in the world.  With 170,000 prison inmates in California, how could a congressman make such a stupid statement.  The prisons could only deliver one fourth of the necessary farm worker force to produce out food.  Is Rohrabacher stupid or just a plain ordinary racist along with his buddies Tancredo, Hayworth and King?

Here is what hundreds of thousands of people are demonstrating for on the nation’s streets. From efforts offered up by Senator Arlen Specter’s Judiciary Committee we have:

BORDER SECURITY --

1.      A doubling of the Border Patrol in the next five years (12,000 agents).

2.      1000 new interior agents a year for five years.

3.      New technology on the border.

4.      Border checkpoints checking people leaving the country.

5.      Fences at points on the border that will slow entry by illegals.

6.      New highway checkpoints away from the border.

7.      Better logistics to deport arrested illegals.

8.      Criminalization of under-the-border tunnels.

9.      Assistance to Mexico to control Mexico’s southern border (through which Central American illegals must cross to come tot he U.S.A.)

INTERIOR ENFORCEMENT --

1.      Increased document fraud detection resources.

2.      Biometric identifiers to fraud proof immigration documents.

3.      No more “catch and release” of Other Than Mexican illegals.

4.      More detention beds for illegals to be deported.

5.      Expands immigration hearings in prisons to deport illegals before their prison sentences run out.

6.      Expand local participation in immigration law enforcement.

7.      Stronger employment verification of workers.

8.      Injunctive relief against employers who hire illegals.

9.      Adds 10,000 new work site enforcement agents and 5,000 fraud detection agents.

EARNED LEGALIZATION FOR SOME ILLEGALS --

1.      6-year visas that provide work permission, free cross-border travel.

2.      $1000 penalties and background checks for those already here with good character.

3.      $1000 more in penalties upon application for a “green card” after 6-years.

4.      Can apply for citizenship after five more years—a total of 11 years, more than double that required of other immigrants.

5.      First clearance of current backlogs for “green cards” before these new people can apply for “green cards.”

6.      Expanded “green card” numbers.

7.      400,000 new temporary worker permits for “essential” workers.

8.      3 year visa with 3-year extension that can be used at more than one employment.

9.      Employers must seek American workers before asking for new foreign worker.

10.  Employers can sponsor worker applications for new “green card.”

FARMWORKERS --

1.      Those who can prove they worked in agriculture for 150 days during a two year period ending December 31, 2005 can apply for a new “blue card” work permit.

2.      “Blue card” holders will be able to earn “green card” if they work for 100 days a year in agriculture for 5 years or 150 days per year for three years. These workers can do other work legally as long as they keep up the minimum number of days per year in agriculture.

3.      There is 1.5-million cap on this farm worker program.

STUDENTS --

1.      Kids who illegally entered before they were 16 and are present for five years and who have graduated from high school can apply for a 6-year conditional legal residency permit.

2.      Within 6-years, if graduated from college or completed two years in a degree program or served in the Armed Forces of the U.S.A., the conditional status will convert to a permanent “green card.”

Tancredo, CNN’s Lou Dobbs, Congressmen Stephen King, Rohrabacher and J.D. Hayworth are against most of these Senate proposals.  It remains to be seen as to where all Americans come down on this Senate proposal.  

We do know that when an American sees all of the proposal and is asked if he supports the total effort, the American says yes in polls taken by Republican Ed Goas (Tarrance Group) and Democrat Celinda Lake (Lake Research partners). Of those surveyed 71-percent say yes (70-percent of Republicans, 64-percent of Independents and 74-percent of Democrats).

The American people consistently reject the Tancredo (et al) approach of arrest and deportation at the ballot box; i.e., Pat Buchanan’s half of one percent vote for President and Minuteman Jim Gilchrist’s wipe out in an Orange County special election in December, come to mind.

The American people will pick through the hysteria and settle the issue; they will support the President and the Senate’s Big Picture bill.

Contreras’s newest book—THE ILLEGAL ALIEN: A DAGGER INTO THE HEART OF AMERICA published by Floricanto Press is available and reviewed at www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com