http://www.cityofmanassaspark.us/Public_Documents/ManassasParkVA_Assessor/Residential_Sales_Considered_for_2008_AVs.pdf

What a piece of work she is. No surprise she’s found some reason to attack you. I think Rush refers to these types as “Donner Party Democrats”, although I doubt she’s in any danger of starving. She looks about ready to hibernate.

On immigration, actually immigration in the early 1900s was far less stringent than today. Essentially there was open immigration until the start of the 1920s and the passage of a quota act in 1921 and a more comprehensive immigration act in 1924. TR made the speeches you quote at a time of open immigration.

I urge you to contact Senator Colgan’s office and talk to him about what you want done. From what I understand, he is very approachable. I think you might feel better after you talk to him about what happened with that other bill.

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Why not come to the Help Save Manassas meeting Wednesday night and put your questions to Congressman Frank Wolf’s staffer.

I guess Frank is tied up in Darfur or Sierra Leone or some place that’s more important than his district, and can’t make it.

“Eastern Europeans heard rumors of horror about Hitler’s Army in the early 1900’s but the Holocaust didn’t actually occur until 1933 to 1945.”

Hitler didn’t have an army until he took control of the German government in 1933, and even then it was the Wehrmacht, not the SS. The German troops in WWI were not Nazis. First there was the SA, Sturmabteilung the “brown shirts” who propulgated Kristalnacht and were all-in-all neighborhood/local thugs who harassed communists, Jews, gypsies and other so-called “undesirables.” Hitler did away with them in the late 1930s (Night of the Long Knives) because he was prepping for war and wanted his own personal security unit/elite military corps - the SS.

The Holocaust did not begin in 1933. The Holocaust began with WWII. Now while the Nazis were practicing with eugenics (forced sterilizations, termination of the mentally ill, etc), they didn’t begin killing wholesale - as in the holocaust with box cars of families sent to death - until 1941 after Der Wansee Conferenz (The Wansee Conference) where the “final solution” was put into place.

Your chronology is still off.

I expected this bill to make it. Utterly ridiculous that it failed.

Eastern Europeans heard rumors of horror about Hitler’s Army in the early 1900’s but the Holocaust didn’t actually occur until 1933 to 1945. In the early 1900’s immigration in to the U.S. was much more stringent compared to today. American’s wanted assurance that their own needs would be met before considering the needs of immigrants and American leaders made it a priority to take care of their own first.

As Freedom has pointed out, we have become so absorbed with political correctness in our Nation, that instead we turned a blind eye until the over crowding of schools and hospital emergency rooms could no longer be ignored.

If Theodore Roosevelt gave this specific speech today, our society would want to flog him publicly calling him a racist and a bigot.

There can be no divided allegiance here. . .
We have room for but one language here,
and that is the English language,
for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans,
of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty,
and that is loyalty to the American people.
January 13th, 1919

If an immigrant is not fit to become a citizen, he should not be allowed to come here. if he is fit, he should be given all the rights to earn his own livelihood, and to better himself, that any man can have.
(Before Knights of Columbus, New York City, October 12, 1915.)

http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/tr%20web%20book/TR_CD_to_HTML280.html

There are many, upstanding, good people who come here from other countries (including many people from Spanish speaking lands) who wait their turn in line to receive green cards and become Americans. I hate to hear anyone disparage Hispanics, but I don’t think a lot of people on this board or other boards really do that. They seem focused on people who have presumably broken at least one law by entering the country by stealth.

There is no doubt that overflowing housing have become an issue in many areas. Drive the zoning enforcement people nuts until they crack down on the landlord. Pester your Supervisor. If you see cleanliness type violations, make a health department complaint. Make several. I hate being the pain in the butt neighbor, but I’m willing to do it, as are many people in my neighborhood. In many places, you may have no more than four or some similar number of unrelated people in a house. Trash cannot pile up. Cars cannot be parked on the grass. If you see violations or what looks like violations, drive the County inspectors nuts until they look into the situation and resolve it. We had a nuisance house in our neighborhood, but it is a nuisance no more. The landlord was actually as innocent as he can be (I think you are never resolved of responsibility for property you own) - he had rented to two people. Six people moved in. (They were not Hispanics, either. They were white.) They parked cars on the lawn, they didn’t mow the lawn, and they didn’t take out the trash. No matter who it is, those in neighborhoods that end up with “that house” can pester officials until they get off their butts and do something. They will do their jobs eventually. They get sick of the calls. The house now has new, responsible occupants. The old ones were tossed out on the street as soon as the complaint was made known to the landlord.

As far as foreclosures, where I live most of them have been against foreign homeowners from Asia. A lot of them barely speak English. I don’t know what they do for a living with limited English. A few of them seem dressed for restaurant work, which doesn’t fit with owning a house that sold for over a million dollars. They probably got taken advantage of by shady mortgage lenders catering to their immigrant community. These people moved a bunch of relatives and distant relatives in - at least they tend to walk and have bicycles instead of piling up cars - but they still couldn’t make the payments and we started seeing pathetic “must sell this house” flyers, sometimes written in rather halting English. What puzzles me is why they just didn’t buy what they could afford in the first place, like most of us would? There were many cheaper houses around of similar size. Again, though, there is a sucker born every minute. The trick is not to be one, no matter who you are or where you come from.

It truly is criminal that they sent me this bill and have the gall to claim that loss in value due to foreclosures is not taken into effect. Like hell it’s not. This town and its government are an abomination to mankind. It is so sad to see what has happened here and how such a teeny little town could have so many foreclosures. That’s probably 20% of the town’s entire home numbers in foreclosure. Anyone know where to find how many homes are in the town? It would also be very interesting to go through all of those foreclosed homes and generate some data on who the realtors were, who the mortgage companies were, which banks gave the loans, etc and try to find out the biggest culprits. I would love to do this is I had access to the data. I could then maybe get a class action lawsuit arranged for the rest of us left in the town to sue the company, the owners and the banks for every penny they are worth.

It might be good for him to conduct some legal due dilligence so that this bill doesn’t conflict with any federal laws, as the last one did.

It is past time that someone “in the know” and has the resources to begin checking out those who gave out the no paperwork, no money down, no ID check loans and make them pay for their criminal activity. It should not be hard to trace back those who completed these transactins and have them answer for it.

While saying we disagree on nearly every other issue is an understatement, you hit the nail on the head with this one.

As my husband and I read this story last night from the paper, we asked ourselves several questions:

#1 - How come an ILLEGAL immigrant can get a mortgage?? No tax ID, no paperwork, no nothing…..and yet he is handed a 200K mortgage on a landscaper’s salary? We immediately envisioned an overcrowded townhouse open to at least 3 families “renting” from him to make the monthly payment.

#2 - What about the immigrant community’s involvement in marketing these subprime loans and their involvement in circumnavigating the law and good business practices? Seems as if a lot of them duped their own and made it back to wherever they came from with a nice fat check - in turn sticking it to their own and everyone else. Why no mention of them? THAT is a story that needs telling

#3 - Why are we presented with the plight of a man and his family who have no right to be here (in the US)? What about Joe Schmoe who has seen his/her neighborhood turned into swiss cheese because of all the foreclosures? Joe’s housing value drop like a lead balloon? Joe’s neighborhood now full of empty homes (or soon to be) - homes that are prone to vandalism, squatters and decay? In my small development we went from an over population of white vans, lawn-care trucks, homes that WERE nice transformed into worn, multi-housing duplexes….to….vacated homes left in shambles and unable to be sold leaving those remaining watch those properties decay as time goes on. Why no talk of the people who still remain in these neighborhoods? You know, the people who didn’t bite off more than they could chew and still pay their mortgage?

There is a second round of foreclosures yet to come as another round of ARMs re-adjust in May - what is next? An “In Memorium” column dedicated to the vacating illegal immigrant community of PWC? The tragic loss of pupuserias detailed ad nausieum? The “loss” of such landmarks like El Mercado Hispanio and La Herradura off 28?? Boo friggin hoo…

More attention needs to be paid to the people who live here, and have lived here instead of focusing on those who literally got off the boat and are now moving on to greener pastures because, well…they can and don’t give a damn.

If you allowed people to continously come into your house without leaving here is what would happen:

1. Your food would run out. Your water would run out.
2. Your house would start becoming overcrowded and dirty and suffer massive wear and tear.
3. The people in your house would suffer from unhealthy living conditions due to overpopulation.
4. Your home’s infrastructure…furniture, walls, structures, etc. would soon collapse due to the excessive wear and tear.
5. Soon…you would have no house.

This is no different than our country. Our country is our “house” on a larger scale. So please people….we must be good stewards with what we have and we must use our legal process to slow down the influx of people coming into our house. That is why the process takes TIME…because it allows our house to adjust.

The illegal invasion can only be understood by the corrupting influence on politicians of money for cheap labor for the Republicans or the Welfare votes for the Democrats that makes them dishonor their Oath of Office, the US Constitution against Invasion, and Enforcement of our Immigration Laws!