Myths Circulating about Illegal Aliens

There is a huge amount of propaganda and myths circulating about illegal aliens, particularly illegal Mexican, Salvadorian, Guatemalan, and Hondurans.
Before we can intelligently discuss the problems with our illegal aliens, we all need to establish the truth of how & why this all began.

The foundation for the invasion started back in the 1950's when American economists were predicting a huge increase unskilled labor's wages, they felt it was necessary to have a large infusion of unskilled labor to counter the natural supply and demand pressures, that they predicted for the United States.

It stated by helping the rural Black in the South with the civil rights movement, which mobilized many to migrate to the industrialized inner cities of the North.

When the Black population stabilized and the economists had proved their value, the next candidate they targeted would be the women's movement which was again viewed as a population resource for unskilled and semi-skilled workforce. Women generally proved to be brighter, better educated, and more skilled than expected; they also demanded higher wages for those skills.

This meant that economists needed another source of cheap labor that would not be able to demand higher wages.

The Latin Americans was in the midst of several civil wars, and all but the ruling & criminal classes were impoverished. All of this added to the pressure for migration which is exactly what the economists wanted.

With the tacit approval of government, the border doors were left ajar for the largest migration in world history. If the government would continue to ignored their presence and keep them in an illegal status, they would never be able to make demands for better working conditions or payment for their services.

With the exception of Caesar Chavez, and the Farm Labor Movement who organized for a more humane working condition, the vast majority of our illegal Latin population has never been able to improve their own working environment. Business for more than 30 years has had the ability to have a near slave relationship with its workforce. There no winner in the unskilled labor world, business continues to spew out lies about competing with China, while paying out bigger profits to the shareholders. The Latinos were brought here counter the wage demands of working Americans, and accepted a form of slavery for their effort.

Below is an insightful list, created by a retired Border Patrol Agent, and it is a well-articulated insight into illegal immigrants. I have done some editing on this paper, but I have tried to keep the original thoughts in place.

While you are reading, remember that there is a fair and equitable way to correct the injustices and return America back to its citizens.


1). Illegal aliens generally want US citizenship.

Americans are very vain thinking that everybody in the world wants to be a US citizen, Mexicans and other nationalities want to remain citizens of their home countries.

Their main attraction is steady employment, and they also want our social benefits that are earned and subsidized by working middle class such as employment, medical care, instate tuition, government subsidized housing and free education for their offspring.


2). There are jobs that Americans will not do

Illegal aliens are doing jobs that many Americans would take if given the opportunity. Illegal aliens take unskilled labor jobs, then live dozens in a single-family residence; they will share expenses, and send money to their home country.

There are no jobs that you can offer that an Americans will not do, and with unemployment, under-employment, & those that have given up looking for work approaching more than a third of job seeking Americans, we need every job. How many of you know someone who has lost their job due to no fault of their own? How many of you know someone who has lost their home, and may have been able to save it if they had found even a small job. This is America, the land of opportunity; but charity should start at home.


3). Every person who enters our Nation illegally, left poverty

Illegals are not homeless and impoverished, most have excellent jobs with good salaries. It costs them thousands of dollars up front to pay the coyotes to bring them here illegally

They come to send money to their real home as evidenced by the more than 20 billion dollars sent out of the country each year by illegal aliens.

Illegal aliens knowingly and willfully entered this nation in violation of our laws and therefore assumed the risk of detection and deportation.

Those who bring children do so at the peril of those children. Expectant Mothers plan their entry into America so they can have what they call an ‘Anchor Baby,’ on American soil, as to make the child an American Citizen. This is done to complicate the deportation of the family, with no real regard for the child.


4). Illegal aliens are Critical to our economy

This politician’s lie, it is shameful and should be illegal to blatantly lie to the American people, which is what has been happening more and more recently.

Illegal aliens constitute less than 3% of America’s work force; their reduced and undeclared wages are so small as not to reflect any income at all, they did send $20 billion to Latin America last year, with no known taxes paid.

The place where Illegal Aliens really show up is in the Social Welfare and Criminal Justice systems, they make up 80% of the welfare and 60% of the criminals. These are the real costs to have them here in America,


5). This is an immigrant nation.

There are 280 million native born Americans, while it is true that our nation was settled, then founded by Legal Immigrants, it is also true that there is not a nation on this planet that was not settled by immigrants at one time or another.

Even our Native Americans trace their origins back to the Mongolian plains, and there are scholars that claim Japanese fishermen were settled in the Pacific Northwest long before the first Mongol trekked across the frozen Bearing Straights.


6). The United States is not welcoming Immigrants.

Let us break this myth down Illegal aliens are not immigrants by definition.

The United States of America has procedures and laws that handle Legal Immigrants, and they contribute to the colorful fabric of our Nation from their very first day here. America accepts more Legal Immigrants every year than the rest of the world combined.


7). What about the "Hispanic vote”?

Hispanic Vote is an important voting coalition, is a fools dream. The Hispanic Community is white, brown, black, and every shade in between; they are Republicans, Democrats, Anarchists, Communists, Marxists, and Independents. No one has ever been able to claim that the “Hispanic” vote is controllable.

Pandering to illegal aliens to get the Latin Voters is going to backfire this voting cycle, because it will be about Bread & Butter issues.

Bread & Butter refers to food on the table of their homes, the working class Americans is being hit hard by the Obama Administration in the wallet, and the American dream is vanishing before our eyes.

The Illegal Alien issue will not negatively affect the Conservatives in this next voting cycle at all. The reason is, that the WALL STREET REPUBLICANS will have been replaced by MAIN STREET CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS, which will offer solutions that will help everyone.


8). Mexico is a proven friend of the United States

Ever since September 14, 1848, When the United States Marine Corp beat General Santa Ana and the Mexican army into submission in Mexico City. Mexicans have quietly held a resentment of the United States:

• During World War I, Mexico openly allowed German Spies to operate freely in Mexico to spy on the US.

• During World War II, again Mexico allowed the Axis powers to spy on the US from Mexico.

• During the Cold War Mexico allowed spies hostile to the US to operate freely.

• The attack on the Twin Towers in 2001 was cheered and applauded all across Mexico.

• Today Mexican schoolchildren are taught that the US stole California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.


9). Illegal Aliens come to America for a better life,

While this may be true in most cases, there are 6 billion people on this planet, at least 1 billion of those live on less than one dollar a day.

If wanting a better life is a valid reason to break the law and sneak into our country, then let's allow those one billion to come to America and we'll turn the USA into a Third World nation overnight.

Besides, there are 280 million native born Americans who also want a better life, and I'll bet even Bill Gates and Donald Trump also still have dreams of a better life. When will the USA lifeboat be full, and since when is Envy and acceptable behavior?


10). There is a labor shortage in this country

This is a lie, there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Americans including the unemployed and underemployed, the disenfranchised and most housewives, senior citizens, students, and newly Graduated who would gladly take most legal jobs for a livable wage.


10). It is racist to want secure borders.

What is racist about wanting secure borders and a secure America? What is racist about not wanting people to sneak into America and steal benefits we have set aside to assist senior citizens, children, minorities and other legal residents?

What is it about race that entitles people to violate our laws and taking the American Dream without any entitlement?

For about four decades, American politicians have refused to secure our borders and look after the welfare of middle class Americans.

These politicians who have groveled at the altar of wall street gods and their pseudo-intellectual economists that have driven our Nation into the ground, all for the want of higher dividends.

You, as a politician, do you have the courage to do what is right for America? You have a choice send the illegal aliens who have broken our laws back to their home countries and have the gratitude of us who are defenders and contributed to our country.

Or, will you bow to the narrow political ambitions of a insane phonies who have stolen & abused the power of America?

David J. Stoddard
US Border Patrol (RET)
Hereford, Arizona