Asking for all your thoughts and whatever help you can provide in our fight in Indiana. Our legislators are suppose to vote this fall on making it illegal to hire illegals. It was left on the table last spring. Some of us thought this was a ploy to let the heat on this issue dye out so the bill would not be pushed thru. When you went to the State House to listen in, there were obviously alot more people there fighting the bill then native born Hoosiers supporting it. Indianapolis was considered a host city and our small towns are really feeling the brunt of all the illegals. In my small town we have the League of Women voters in support of illegals and the newspaper writing in support of them also. Our Gov. Mitch Daniels worked with Bush and left his job in Washington to run for office in Indiana so you see what we are up against. Please keep your eye on Indiana in the next few months and keep your fingers crossed for us.

Good to see Boswell do something right. On the other hand, it took a $10,000 contribution from the telecom companies to convince him that telecom companies should be shielded from lawsuits when participating in government requested surveillance of possible terrorists! He first voted against providing immunity to these companies helping in protecting the nation from terrorists. Too bad a correct vote has to result because of a sizeable donation, isn't it?

This is the FIRST time I was made aware that you have a " BLOG ". I'll be sure to POST here often

 RESPONSE FROM ROY: Thanks a lot. Obviously, we would appreciate everybody raising the profile of our blog so that it shows up high on search engines and gets wide readership.

Bob Conley is another anti-illegal immigration, anti-mass immigration Democrat. He's running for the Senate in South Carolina.

http://aimhighwithbob.com/

He's running against pro-illegal alien amnesty Republican Lindsey Graham. It's hard to believe that there are still Democrats who care about keeping jobs for American citizens.

Living in the Sacramento CA area, I have just about given up on Boxer, Feinstein and Thompson. I have sent many faxes and emails to all, but feel it has done little to change things. I do find this bit of good news refreshing. There is little here that illegal immigrants have not taken over. Maybe the chance of change depends on other states, as I do believe it is too late for California.

Robert3548 of UT said: “Obama's or McCain's election will be the beginning of a comprehensive (secular-progressive) approach to immigration.“ And just what would that be?

I am a hardcore liberal, as well as a secular progressive, and I am fervently anti-open borders, as any pro-labor (liberal) person logically should be. The current massive influx of “undocumented” workers is the biggest scab action in the history of America’s beleaguered workers. There are few “jobs Americans won’t do that I haven’t done. I lost the best job I ever had to legal H1B workers, so just making illegal immigrants legal will not solve the problem. I had to go back to school to retrain in another field: nursing. And guess what? Now they’re trying to bring hordes of nurses from third world countries in on expanded H1B visa quotas, leaving those countries with too few nurses and nurses’ wages in this country depressed.

The most influential spokespersons FOR open borders were conservatives, many of them on your local Chamber of Commerce. I’d say it’s a CONSERVATIVE immigration policy we should fear.

And it’s the mostly CONSERVATIVE employers I blame, not the illegal immigrants. If I were in their desperate situation I’ve little doubt that I’d do what they’re doing. The blame lies on OUR side of the border.

Roy, You are so right in your response to me. I keep beating the bushes at work and at home, but most folks want to keep their heads in the sand with an attitude of, "There's nothing we can do anyway." I, too, feel hopeless, but at the same time when I read your website and see some of the gains I feel like all is not lost. I will keep fighting the fight right along with you. Thank goodness Utah has Congressman Rob Bishop here in the 1st District to keep things mostly in check...he still has more work to do, but.... Thanks for giving us hope and let's keep up the fight.

RESPONSE FROM ROY:  Thanks so much. There really are a lot of signs of improvement going on.  We try to accentuate that on our home page.  A lot of enforcement happening now that didn't use to occur. Plus, Utah voters retired Rep. Cannon from Congress. That is a big sign of hope, don't you think?

We should remind all of those in congress (both parties) that the state of the economy has taken a drastic turn for the worse since last summer when they tried to push this amnesty/guestworker cheap labor baloney onto the backs of the American worker.

This is very good, but I feel, with a Democratic controlled congress, no matter what liberal between Obama and McCain gets elected, we'll no longer be able to pass new laws or enforce existing laws on immigration. We are staring our demise right in the eye with little or no hope for reform. Obama's or McCain's election will be the beginning of a comprehensive (secular-progressive) approach to immigration. Nancy Pelosi must be just giddy with herself knowing come January she will have her way with opening the floodgates of legal and illegal immigration.

RESPONSE FROM ROY: You are right to be pessimistic about Obama or McCain as President. But I don't see either of them being any worse than Bush. The fact is that we the American people withstood a horrible Bush presidency on immigration 2001-2006 with a Republican Senate Majority leadership that was pro-amnesty and with a Republican House Majority leadership that was mainly wishy washy.  Then 2007-2008, we withstood Bush with a pro-amnesty Democratic Majority leadership in both Senate and House.

The bad news is that we are likely to have just as big of a battle staving off immigration disaster the next four years as during the last eight. The good news is that our situation shouldn't be any worse than the last two years if regular Americans like us continue to man the battle lines.

Unfortunately, not enough Democrats or Republicans have the guts to buck their so-called leaders. Unemployed teens have always been a problem. As a matter of fact, any unemployed is a problem.

RESPONSE FROM ROY: You are so right about how few Members of Congress will stand on principle when they think their Party leadership is wrong. That is why we try to give a lot of attention to those who do.

I think its great to see people with at least some of our interests stand up and be counted. Thanks for the report..