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Here’s some real good old-fashioned left wing liberal bull spin from the New York Yimes today. In an article by Julia Preston entitled “Fewer Latino Immigrants Send Money Home “, she blames it in the slump in the low wage job markets and the crackdown by the evil Bush adminsistration on illegal immigration.

She sites statistics from a poll that shows over the last couple of years, fewer latinos are sending money south of the border to their families in Mexico, and South America. And that illegal aliens are saying things ike “The anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States is making it more difficult to send money to my family.”

Sergio Bendixen, is the Miami-based pollster who conducted the survey.

From the NY Times article:

More than three million Latin American immigrants in the United States, responding to the economic downturn and new uncertainties about their future, have stopped sending money home to their families in the last two years, according to a survey released on Wednesday by the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington.

Only 50 percent of some 18.9 million Latino immigrants in this country now send money regularly to relatives in their home countries, compared with 73 percent two years ago, the survey found.

The drop in the number of people sending remittances, as the money transfers are known, is a sign of pressures on Latino immigrants as a result of the slump in the low-wage job market and of the Bush administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, the survey shows. Of the immigrants interviewed, 47 percent said they did not have legal status. The others were American citizens and legal immigrants.

As a result of the difficulties, the numbers of immigrants who said they were considering going back to live in their home countries increased notably. Among immigrants who have been here less than five years, 49 percent said they were thinking of returning home, while only 41 percent said they planned to remain in the United States.

Do you now who Sergio Bendixen, that Miami-based pollster works for?

Bendixen is a Democrat pollster on Hispanic issues for the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Oh yeah, and the stats he gives are misleading, because he says fewer immigrants are sending money home, but what he doesn’t tell you is that total moneies being sent to Latin America from family members here in the states have actually increased since 2006, from $45.4 billion to $45.9 billion, because those who continue to send money south, to their families are doing it more often and in larger amounts.

Then there’s the area of entitlements. Public services and rights afforded to citizens and legal aliens that illegal aliens do not have, but now seem to be wanting to file lawsuits in order to get…

This from TBO:

LINCOLN, Neb. — Anne Hobbs was angry. The head of the Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission had just learned of a Hispanic couple who said their landlord asked for their driver’s licenses – but didn’t ask the same of non-Hispanic tenants.

Hobbs said it sounded like the couple were “treated differently than everybody else because of national origin,” and sent the case to the state’s top prosecutor, hoping he would sue on their behalf under fair housing laws.

When Attorney General Jon Bruning received the case, he was angry, too – for a different reason than Hobbs.

“I’m not going to use taxpayer dollars to file lawsuits for illegal aliens,” said Bruning after learning the couple was in the U.S. illegally. “You’re not going to get a free lawyer” from his office, he said, “if you’re not a citizen of this country.”

Critics say Bruning’s legal rationale is so off-base that he may end up in court after all – and not as a prosecutor. Immigration activists suggest they may be laying the groundwork for a first-of-its kind lawsuit, with Bruning as the defendant.

Bruning argues that the federal 1996 welfare reform law prohibits him from providing legal services to illegal immigrants. He points to a section that says only legal residents should get state or local public benefits. The law defines them to include welfare, disability and health services.

It doesn’t mention legal services, but Bruning believes they are included in wording that denies “any other similar benefit for which payments or assistance are provided to an individual, household or family eligibility unit.”

Immigration advocates say the interpretation is unprecedented and mean-spirited, and that discrimination should be prosecuted regardless of the victim’s immigration status.

Finally, there’s the moral issue of what to do with illegal aliens once we encounter them. The Pope inhis recent visit touched on this. The Jesus actually commissioned that the hungryshould be fed, the naked should be given clothes, if someone needs a drink of water, you give it to them?

But what about harboring illegal aliens in the church sanctuary?

Now I’m not personally Catholic, if you wish to label/pigeon-hole me then non-Denominational Protestant will do fine, although I simply prefer Christian, or a Believer in Christ. The differences between protestant and catholic, and the number of different denominations within the “protestant” label is very high, but I would say (putting on my preacher’s voice here) doctrinal differences pale when compared to the basic tenents of faith in Christ. That said, I like this Father Morris guy, he seems quite genuine to me, and he brings up a very good point regarding illegal immigration, the caring for illegals that knock on your door, and then the responsibility you have as a citizen of this country:

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Then there’s the whole thing Jesus taught about rendering unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar’s (paying taxes etc) and follow the lawful laws of the land in which you reside (Rom 13:1-2 and 1Peter 2:13-17).

The laws of our land say immigrants should not be here illegally. So if they show up at your door thirsty, hungry and with no shoes, then give them water, food, shoes, and then call immigration.