POSTVILLE, Iowa — Antonio Escobedo ran to get his wife Monday when he saw a helicopter circling overhead and immigration agents approaching the meatpacking plant where they both work. The couple hid for hours inside the plant before obtaining refuge in the pews and hall at St. Bridgets Catholic Church, where hundreds of other Guatemalan and Mexican families gathered, hoping to avoid arrest.

“I like my job. I like my work. I like it here in Iowa,” said Escobedo, 38, an illegal immigrant from Yescas, Mexico, who has raised his three children for 11 years in Postville. “Are they mad because I’m working?”

No, we’re mad because you broke the law.

Now, there are some who call these people “migrant workers” or “undocumented workers” to try and change the conversation. (Because he who controls the conversation controls perception.) The reality is no matter what you call these people, they are illegal immigrants. They jumped the line. They broke the law. And they continue to break the law by:

1. Staying in the United States illegally
2. Using forged documents
3. Driving without drivers’ licenses
4. Using stolen Social Security documents
5. Failing to pay taxes on their income

This is a simply matter of supply and demand. We have a supply of money and jobs; illegal immigrants have a demand for money because their home country’s economy isn’t doing well. The way to fix the problem is to cut off the motivation — money — which will encourage these people to stay (and go) home. Here’s a free idea for the law-makers (Congress) and law-enforcers (the President):

Since most illegals send substantial amounts of their money home, impose an 80% export tariff on any wire transfers (Western Union and bank-to-bank) going to Mexico and Guatemala. Use 2/3 of the money collected to build the border fence and then build a detention center where illegals who are arrested wait for their “out-processing”. Give the remaining 1/3 to hospitals, based on the number of illegal immigrant patients treated per year. With the primary reason for coming to the United States negated, illegals will be more likely to fix the problems in their own country, rather than coming here and forcing us to endure bi-lingual ATMs and phone prompts.

Unfortunately, such common-sense legislation would never happen because the politicians in Washington are courting the Hispanic vote, and are more concerned with getting re-elected than they are with doing what is right for this country. That’s why they propose such things as amnesty and Social Security benefits for illegals, and “free” healthcare to fix a problem that has been caused in part by illegal immigration.

It is time to call a spade a spade. These people are breaking our laws by being in this country illegally, therefore they are illegal immigrants. We should treat them — and call them — exactly what they are: lawbreakers.

From across the pond, the Daily Mail reports that asylum seekers are trying to break out of Britain. Why?

[...] because they are fed up with the poor healthcare and bad weather.

And England has — say it with me — socialized healthcare.

Perhaps the proponents of a socialized healthcare system here in the United States, like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, are actually trying to eliminate one of the reasons border-jumpers come here in the first place: our top-notch healthcare system. Perhaps their plan is really an anti-illegal immigration plan in disguise.

That would be believable until you remember that these presidential hopefuls are courting the Hispanic vote as well.

Conclusion: proponents of socialized healthcare systems can’t learn the lessons from other people’s failures. Instead they insist that “it’s a good idea, but it just hasn’t been implemented properly,” while trying to convince everyone that their way will work. For everyone who’s been paying attention, socialized anything never works, never has, and never will.

I’m paraphrasing, but that’s basically what he said at a closed-door fundraiser speech to political fat cats in California:

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothings replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

And its not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Observations:

1. 25 years is a long time to be out of work. Classify this as an exaggeration in the extreme.
2. All red-blooded Americans cling to guns. Guns keep us free. Guns founded this country. Stereotyping small-town America as “clinging to guns” is simply ignorant. (This also clearly shows Barack’s anti-gun bias.)
3. For someone who defended his pastor’s racist, bigoted statements so vehemently, Barack sure is being hypocritical of those who are strong in their faith. Or is it just because these people don’t believe the same way you do, Barack?
4. So Barack, you’re calling all small-town Americans racist bigots? 
5. Since this was at a closed-door fundraiser, where reporters weren’t allowed to be, this is quite telling about who Obama really is, and what he really thinks about the American public, not just what he says in front of the cameras and microphones.

It sounds like Barack is the one who is bitter and frustrated by those who are different from him.

Barack, we’re bitter because of people like you. Not because of the color of your skin, but because of your elitist attitude and your socialist lies.

We’re bitter because you want to take our guns.

We’re bitter because your policies — and the policies of other like-minded politicians from both parties – have ruined this country by thinking that you know better than the common American what’s good for us.

We’re bitter because you — and politicians like you — have created a situation where gas prices are near $3.50 a gallon, because you won’t let us drill for our own oil, won’t let us build new refineries, mandate 30 different blends, and then tax the very fuel of our economy.

We’re bitter because you — and politicians like you from both parties – have artificially divided this country.

We’re bitter because you — and politicians like you from both parties – have taken our liberties.

We’re bitter because you — and politicians like you from both parties – have betrayed our trust.

We’re bitter because you — and politicians like you from both parties – have enacted policies to “fix” problems that don’t exist in the first place, then introduce new policies to “fix” the problems you yourselves have created.

We’re bitter because you — and politicians like you from both parties – have perpetuated the racial divide for your own political gains.

We’re bitter because you — and politicians like you from both parties – are bad-mouthing America and Americans.

And we’re sick of it. All of it. And we’re sick of you. All of you.