Carlos Who?

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Maybe Santana should come to the plate and pay for all the damage the illegals do to the state of Arizona. I would like to see him out there picking up there trash from the deserts. Oh he can dodge bullets as he walks through the national parks that American citizens can no longer go to because of cartels and illegals attacking our citizens.
You are a dumb a** Santana.

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why not make it illegal to sit on your (insert whatever phrase you care to use) and do nothing yet still receive free education, free govt subsidies, etc.
if you are here to work….. come on in. if you refuse to do even the most menial of jobs…… hit the road.

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It is time these people with celebruty status shut up, they are so out of touch with the American people, I wonder how many joints Carlos smoked before making an idiot of his self .

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“Go look at the NEGATIVE impact in AZ. ”

You mean kidnappings, murders etc by illegals?

“I DON’T diasgree with immigration reform BUT allowing a bill that WILL bring RACIAL PROFILING is not a good move for GA!”

If you’re legal, you have nothing to worry about.

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The most violent crimes in this state arent from illegals. Heck I dont recall one story on Fox5 or AJC about illegals committing a murder in the past 4 months

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Hmmm how about legal immigration is fine but keep the illegals out. They are draining our education and health care. Stressing our public safety and public assistance…not to mention more and more of them are fostering illegal activities…duh…come legally and strap yourself to the same taxes and crap the rest of us are bound to.

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“The most violent crimes in this state arent from illegals.”

You’re right, they’re from black people.

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This new law is discriminatory, mean spirited, and unconstitutional. Immigration law enforcement is a Federal matter, not a state matter. This law will target certain immigrant groups, even when their status is legal. Nathan should have signed a bill that both helps solving our immigration system and helps our state economy, this bill only worsen both issues. This bill will only bring anger, lawsuits, and boycotts. Way to go Georgia!

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Currently there are an estimated 9 to 11 million illegals in the U.S., double the 1994 level. A quarter-million illegal aliens from the Middle-east currently live in the U.S, and a growing number are entering by crossing the Mexican border.

FAIR research suggests that “between 40 and 50 percent of wage-loss among low-skilled Americans is due to the immigration of low-skilled workers. Some native workers lose not just wages but their jobs through immigrant competition. An estimated 1,880,000 American workers are displaced from their jobs every year by immigration; the cost for providing welfare and assistance to these Americans is over $15 billion a year.” The National Research Council, part of the National Academy of Sciences, found in 1997 that the average immigrant without a high school education imposes a net fiscal burden on public coffers of $89,000 during the course of his or her lifetime. The average immigrant with only a high school education creates a lifetime fiscal burden of $31,000.8

80% of cocaine and 50% of heroin in the U.S. is smuggled across the border by Mexican nationals. Drug cartels spend a half-billion dollars per year bribing Mexico’s corrupt generals and police officials, and armed confrontations between the Mexican army and U.S. Border Patrol agents are a real threat. There have been 118 documented incursions by the Mexican military over the last five years.

Illegal aliens have cost billions of taxpayer-funded dollars for medical services. Dozens of hospitals in Texas, New Mexico Arizona, and California, have been forced to close or face bankruptcy because of federally-mandated programs requiring free emergency room services to illegal aliens. Taxpayers pay half-a-billion dollars per year incarcerating illegal alien criminals.

Immigration is a net drain on the economy; corporate interests reap the benefits of cheap labor, while taxpayers pay the infrastructural cost. FAIR research shows “the net annual cost of immigration has been estimated at between $67 and $87 billion a year. The National Academy of Sciences found that the net fiscal drain on American taxpayers is between $166 and $226 a year per native household. Even studies claiming some modest overall gain for the economy from immigration ($1 to $10 billion a year) have found that it is outweighed by the fiscal cost ($15 to $20 billion a year) to native taxpayers.”

“In the NAFTA era, a staggering 87 percent of Mexico’s imports go to the United States, while Mexicans living in the United States send home more than $8 billion annually. Fox has said he considers his constituency to include the 22 million to 24 million Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the United States. Mexican candidates now make campaign stops in U.S. cities like Los Angeles, Phoenix and Fresno, Calif.” (Mexico’s muddle, Ruben Navarrette Jr., March 26, 2003)

For more information, see The Washington Times article and series Chaos along the border, October 6, 2002, the FAIR reports Immigration and the Economy, Immigration Lowers Wages for American Workers, and the article Record amount of remittances sent from US to Mexico.

Remittances
$60 billion dollars are earned by illegal aliens in the U.S. each year. One of Mexico’s largest revenue streams (after exports and oil sales) consists of money sent home by legal immigrants and illegal aliens working in the U.S. Economists say this will help Mexico reduce its $17.8 billion defecit and may bolster the peso. $10 billion dollars (as of 2003) are sent back to Mexico annually, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, reported in an Associated Press article, up $800 million from the previous year. ($9 billion dollars were previously sent back annually, according to a September 25, 2002 NPR report). That figure equals what Mexico earns annually from tourism. This is a massive transfer of wealth from America – essentially from America’s displaced working poor – to Mexico.

A May 28, 2004 study by Bendixen & Associates6 found that legal and illegal immigrants send a total of $30 billion to their home countries on an annual basis. Mexico receives $13.3 billion a year. The largest amount in remittances ($9.6 billion) is sent from California, followed by New York ($3.6 billion), Texas ($3.2 billion) and Florida ($2.5 billion). Of those surveyed by the study, 24% were Latin American-born U.S. citizens, 39% were legal residents, and 32% were illegal aliens. Sixty-one per cent of those surveyed send remittances overseas at least once a month. A typical remittance is between $150 and $250. (See this state-by-state map of remittances.)

Education costs
The total K-12 school expenditure for illegal immigrants costs the states $7.4 billion annually—enough to buy a computer for every junior high student nationwide.9

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Illegals should be called “undocumented Democrats.”

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Mr. Santana,

The people of Atlanta, Georgia have purchased expensive tickets to your shows for years and helped support you. I’m ashamed of you for disrepecting my city. GFY!!! (You shouldnt need any translation). Take Atlanta off your tour list so we don’t offend you anymore. Adios Santana!

JP

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“This new law is discriminatory, mean spirited, and unconstitutional. ”

Gotta love stupid people.

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“This is a blog”

Dern, you’re one smart dude. (sarcasm)

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“Where are your facts and data? Back up your claim and if you can’t then do yourself a favor and stop.”

LOL!!!! You just chastised someone for not backing up claims and here you are asking me to! Priceless!

here you go, Gump.

Kidnapping Capital of the U.S.A.

In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370 cases last year alone. But local authorities say Washington, DC is too obsessed with al Qaeda terrorists to care about what is happening in their own backyard right now.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6848672&page=1

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“Where do most of these drugs end up??? ”

In your blood stream.

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lisa you are an idiot…..race has NOTHING to do with being illegal …try another angle

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All I know is its not Hispanics that make me scared to go Downtown or ride MARTA.

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If it wasn’t so easy to sneak across the border, protest right in front of the Capital (legal and illegal) without fear if illegal you will be arrested and we aren’t and weren’t so sensitive that we are going to offend someone (i.e. 9/11 hijackers) maybe the drugs wouldn’t make metro Atlanta as the cross roads of the illegal drug trade basically coming from where? Mexico

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@Joe- Thanks for giving me credit for pulling the race card…..in addition to being a racist, I bet you’re a Christian, too!

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Illegal is illegal is illegal. What part of illegal do you idiots not understand ?

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Perhaps the Braves’ organization should do a little more research or exert more control over their “honorees” before giving them a forum from which to pontificate their political views. Civil rights and all that goes with it may be a noble cause – but in my opinion, not for a professional athletic venue.

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Very disappointed that the Braves (or anyone else) would give this apologist for common criminals a forum. He’s a “Beacon” alright, a shining example of the sort of vermin we should take whatever steps necessary to rid ourselves of.

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Illegal immigrants are criminals, and should be dealt with accordingly. How can a bill, that enforces an existing law be discriminatory? Who is this Carlos Santana person anyway, is he an illegal? I’d be ashamed if I were in the greatest nation on the face of the earth, Illegally.

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I’m very disappointed in Santana. First, to be invited to a city to receive an honor, and, in return, blatantly insult that city is simply rude and classless. I thought Santana had more class than that. Second, to equate support for illegal immigration to fighting for civil rights for US citizens who were born and raised here and denied their fundamental rights is insulting to anyone who believes in true civil rights. Third, over the last few decades, I’ve hired multiple people to clean my house, scrub my toilets, etc., and they’ve all been white anglo-saxon American citizens. To assume that Americans consider ourselves above honest labor is pure racial prejudice and it’s highly offensive to me.

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“Useless arguing with racist and uninform people… Wait a couple of years and you’ll see.”

Sucks to be you, little girl.

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