Commentary and opinions by CAIR's representatives - Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform

Gov Owens supports amnesty for illegal aliens (article on various topics)
By Dave Kopel, Rocky Mountain News, June 3, 2006
State, U.S. would be far better off without flood of illegal immigrants
By Mike McGarry, Rocky Mountain News, June 3, 2006
Globalization: A solution that makes the problem worse
By Marty Lich, Vail Trail, March 22, 2006
When doing the right thing goes very wrong
By Marty Lich, Vail Trail, February 22, 2006
It is all in the words - read the fine print
By Marty Lich, CAIR Western Slope writer, WEBCommentary, December 11, 2005
Articles below this point include excerpts.

Race baiting: the new (deadly) McCarthyism
Guest opinion by Mike McGarry, Aspen Times, May 30, 2005
...About three years ago in Colorado, a 15-year-old boy was staying overnight at his grandparents’ house, dozing off in his sleeping bag under the summer stars in their back yard, something it was said he really liked to do. That night he was viciously murdered, with his throat slit to the bone. His grandma and grandpa were also killed, by bullets to their heads, shot at close range.
Reading the trial transcript of the murders is chilling and revealing. The killings were executed by a handful of teenage vigilantes, led by a Guyanian national.... The killers, you see, were infected with toxic levels of pathological self-righteousness. Trial testimony showed that the members of this gang were bonded by the curious, stated mission of “fighting drug use and racism.”...
The state’s media covered the story, but not very probingly. None explored the question about just how such wanton violence could come from a relatively innocuous (alleged) “racist” word. Tellingly, there were no editorials demanding an end to casually spewed but highly inflammatory, murder-motivating accusations of “racism.”... Notably, there was nothing from the editorial department of The Denver Post, also guilty-as-charged of race baiting. Nada from The Aspen Times,...
In the spring of 1999, I actively jumped into the immigration debate. I had not, however, anticipated the hate mail and threatening telephone calls I would be subjecting myself to, coming solely from my exercising my free-speech birthright...
But with the horrifying murders, compounded by the glaring absence of appeals for a halt to ever-increasing, murder-inspiring rhetoric, I realized that some of the more aggressive threats aimed at me posed a real, potential danger, so I vowed to stop them where possible and before they might escalate, using whatever it takes....
After a dispute I had in the eighth grade with a particularly mean playground bully, my father, who had an Irishman’s proclivity for brawling, admonished me with, “Son, win or lose, never let any man threaten you without cracking him good, or I will see to it that you don’t get any dinner.” I’m a growing boy; I need my dinner — and I value my life.
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Bush proposal an insult to America's citizens
By Mike McGarry, The Denver Post, February 22, 2003
A healthy nation is like an extended family. A balkanized, polyglot, teeming mass of strangers is not a national family. The Bush plan treats America as just a place on a map and workers as mere interchangeable units of production on a board game of globalism. But America is, essentially, an elegant idea, engraved in a social contract of shared rights and obligations. The president would rip up that contract.
Facts contradict illegals' fear of deportation
By Mike McGarry, Aspen Daily News, August 23, 2003
"... all the king's horses and all the king's men in our upside-down, inside-out Bizzaro World, where everything is opposite - are conspiring to ensure only a handful of illegals receive their pink slips, for 'small offenses' or high crimes.
To be eligible for a free ride home, an illegal would have to do something tantamount to throwing himself in front of a speeding BICE vehicle on a donut run, and there's no guarantee that would do it."
Nation's leaders should deal forcefully with immigration
By Yeh Ling-Ling and Donna Locke, The Tennessean, February 25, 2003
"If President Bush and Congress are serious about providing jobs for unemployed citizens and existing legal immigrants, they should temporarily halt job seekers from entering the U.S. by passing legislation to reduce legal immigration from an average of 1 million a year to no more than 200,000.
Deportation of millions of illegal immigrants would open up jobs to legal residents who need work. The benefits of such measures are multi-fold and extend beyond the issue of employment.
With illegal-immigrant children removed from public education, school districts in Tennessee and in other parts of the United States could immediately ease their burgeoning budget deficits... Simultaneously, all adult able-bodied welfare recipients and unemployed or underemployed low-skilled workers could take the positions held by illegal immigrants, jobs that Americans had decades ago."
[Yeh Ling-Ling is a member of CAIR's Advisory Council and director of Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America]
Speakout: Illegals might swamp U.S. 'lifeboat'
By Charles King, The Rocky Mountain News, February 7, 2003
"By our continued winking at our immigration laws, we are slowly redefining 'illegal' to mean 'legal.' It is high time - past time - that our immigration service, now under Homeland Security, begin restoring respect for the law...
Radical as it sounds, our immigration services (under Homeland Security) should waste no time in not only identifying the 8 to 10 million or more illegal aliens in our country (including 3 to 5 million Mexicans alone). It must, as impossible as the task might seem, immediately start rounding up all aliens here illegally and ordering their swift departure (under armed escort if necessary) to their home countries - wherever their home countries might be...
Who owes them a chance for a decent life? Their home countries. We don't - except to legal immigrants from any of the world's many nations. We have been taking in half of the world's immigrants for decades. We must not swallow the Big Lie circulated by open-borders advocates that America, the most powerful nation on Earth cannot and will not defend its own borders against a veritable invasion from abroad. If allowing only legal entries into this country is impossible, then we Americans have lost our nationhood and, in a short time, we will lose our freedom and prosperity..."
Charles L. King is a University of Colorado at Boulder professor emeritus of Spanish and a member of the CAIR advisory council. A book of homage to him was published in Spain in 1999: Ramon J. Sender y sus coetaneos: Homenaje a Charles L. King (Ramon J. Sender and His Contemporaries: Essays in Honor of Charles L. King).
Consider the legacy immigration leaves
by Fred Elbel, Lakewood, CO
"America has an obligation to openly discuss and shape its demographic future. Yet Americans choose not to confront this terribly important issue, and this selfish action is surely a hate crime against future generations."
(See full article under ethics).
Population back on enviros' agenda: Solutions global and local
by Mike McGarry, Glenwood Springs Post Independent, August 14, 2002
Immigration-based growth is unsustainable
by Mike McGarry, Other Voices Editorial, Colorado Springs Gazette, June 11, 2002
Immigration will determine your future
Guest Opinion by Mikc McGarry, Spokesman, Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform (CAIR), Colorado Daily (Boulder, CO), May 24, 2002
Is licensing illegal immigrants a good idea? - NO - it would weaken terrorism fight
by Mike McGarry, Denver Post, February 22, 2002
Too much diversity can be divisive
by Mike McGarry, Rocky Mountain News, December 7, 2001

For additional articles on how our border National Forests, Monuments, and National Wildlife Refuges are being annihilated by illegal aliens, drug runners, and incursions by the Mexican Army, see www.DesertInvasion.us.

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