Hazelton Manages the Illegal Immigrant Problem

I'm one of the people fed up with how the Federal government is NOT protecting our borders. If I still lived in Southern Arizona, I'd be a Minuteman. This is the group of men and women who watch the Mexican border and do their best to discourage illegal aliens from trespassing into our country. The United States has been illegally invaded by more than 12 million Mexicans. But instead of repelling this attacking army, our Federal government has launched a plan to grant them amnesty. Get off my street! Get out of our hospitals and schools! And go home! Vamanos!

The top elected city officials in Hazelton, Pennsylvania, have the right idea. This is not a major metropolitan area - being a city that had only 23,000 citizens in 2000. Now that the wetbacks have started moving in, the city has grown to 31,000 in just the last 6 years. The Mayor of Hazelton noticed the problems caused by the rapid invasion. "Our crime rate went up ... gang violence appeared on the weekly reports ... graffiti appeared all over the city ... " said Mayor Lou Barletta. "The biggest problem is illegal immigrants using city services without paying taxes!" he adds.

What has the city of Hazelton done about this problem? "As we stumble across illegals here," Barletta explains, "we're going to punish businesses who hire them and landlords who rent to them." The city has also made English its official language. Businesses are fined $1,000 for each illegal immigrant and face the possibility of being shut down completely for 5 years. You know what? The plan has worked! It's time for this kind of get-tough policy across the United States. The problems in Hazelton provide only a snapshot of what true Americans are experiencing nationwide. Stand up and take our neighborhoods back!

Personal note: I've had my illegal immigrant neighbors arrested for stealing my cable. Like Lou Barletta, each of us can take a stand to reclaim America.