6 Catch and Release Questions
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Photo Courtesy of Associated PressGospel Fiction is not a political site, but I need to ask some questions that have been sitting on my chest since last night about Bush's immigration reform address. Maybe you can help me. so that I can return to plotting my novel.
The border should be open to trade and lawful immigration and shut to illegal immigrants, as well as criminals, drug dealers and terrorists.
1. We have more documented terrorists coming in from Canada, than Mexico. So why aren't any troops guarding the Canadian border?
It is important for Americans to know that we have enough Guard forces to win the war on terror, respond to natural disasters, and help secure our border.
2. Where were these 6, 000 troops during Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma? Why didn't Bush think it was imperative for those troops to stop the terrorism in the SuperDome? And why aren't troops helping out in New England this week with the floods?
More than 85% of the illegal immigrants we catch crossing the southern border are Mexicans, and most are sent back home within 24 hours...
3. a. Border Patrol catches 85% of 12 million illegal immigrants. Where are the other 1.8 mil coming from? Remember Cubans become legal the minute they step foot on American soil. Haitians and their boats are returned courtesy of the Navy National Guard. So who's left? Who's here without papers?
More than 85% of the illegal immigrants we catch crossing the southern border are Mexicans, and most are sent back home within 24 hours...
3. b. And what about the ones that are not caught? The ones that fly in on commercial airliners? The ones that come through from Canada? How many illegal immigrants do Border Patrol never see?
As a result of these actions, we have ended "catch and release" for illegal immigrants from some countries.
4. If you're stopping the catch and release system for some countries, then why not all? Who are we letting stay here? Cubans? Irish? Saudis? Pimps at the Watergate Hotel?
"...the US will not militarize the border..."
5. Will Georgia have to send Presidente Fox an invoice for jailing the 85% caught illegal immigrants here like the sheriff did in Oregon?
This program would match willing foreign workers with willing American employers for jobs Americans are not doing.
6. What jobs are we not willing to do? My aunts cleaned homes for sixty years and made $25 a week the entire time. It is illegal to pay a citizen wages that low. Yet they took those jobs because that was the only job most black women in South Georgia could get. What jobs are we not willing to do? Laying asphalt? Mowing lawns? Turning fries at McDonalds? Babysitting? Working without benefits? Working under the table? Come on. We all know someone in our family that does at least one of those. So what jobs are we not willing to do?
It is a myth to believe that these laborers are working for less than minimum wage. In Georgia Mexican laborers are not They are making upwards of 9-15 an hour cash money. I know this because--I can't tell you why I know this. :) But you can ask any contractor that employs them and they will tell you that these men and women are compensated well. The reason businesses say that they are hiring them is because they work faster and harder than most Americans, not that we won't do the work.
Unfortunately, I do not agree. I think this problem along with many other problems in our country have become to big to hide anymore. I think there are too many illegals in this country. I think race is still an issue in this quasi-Christian country and the demon behind this melee. I think it is sad that Mexican illegals are being singled out, while Mexican and other Latino citizens are being ill-treated because of it. My daughter's father is Puerto-Rican and my fiancee is from Panama, both are legal, second generation Americans. Both not treated well in this country. But neither am I...and my grandma Annie was Native American and my Grandaddy Frank fought in WWII for a country that didn't treat him like a citizen, because he was the son of slaves. So I'm waiting for your answers, to give me a better view of this reform bill before I send a letters to Senator (GA)Saxy Chambliss.
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Happy Birthday to Dee
Friday, February 03, 2006
It's my brother, David and my birthday and I'm wearing a ruby red lipstick in support of the American Heart 
Association's Go Red Day. I hope you are wearing red today. This organization has been my saving grace after five years of living with peripartume cardiomyopathy(post partum heart failure.)
Association's Go Red Day. I hope you are wearing red today. This organization has been my saving grace after five years of living with peripartume cardiomyopathy(post partum heart failure.)Join me at my new site Gospelfiction.com to celebrate. I have e-cake!!
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5 Ways to Better Extra-Biblical Effectiveness
In africa, In fictionSunday, January 08, 2006
Scripture Reference: 2 Timothy 4:3-53. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4. and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
5. But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
From time to time I write a topic over at my blog called Why Fiction Matters. It discusses ways I've found where fiction helps us on a daily basis as Christians. One entry spoke on HBO's movie The Girl in the Cafe and how it interlocked the theme of global poverty and romance together in such a way that the script couldn't have one without the other. Another topic on Christian Gaming and how this new form of entertainment will meet the need of the gaming community without creating children who are numb to pornography and sin.
Usually I find my examples for this topic in the news or from observing some form of fiction entertainment. But yesterday at McKendree UMC I witnessed it during a sermon...
Oh-oh.
To read the entire entry click here.
7 Soldiers Killed in 2 Blasts
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Click on pic to get to the news article regarding today's Iraq explosions. Five soldiers killed in one blast; the other in another roadsibe bomb blast.
How do soldiers guard themselves against these popular MOAs?
Who's the Smart-E-st?
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Angela Benson, author of the Amen Sisters, Abiding Hope & Awakening Mercy named me one of the smartest people on the internet. I'm so honored.
Now my mind is going bonkers with all the smart people I've met via the Net. Before I make a final decision, who have you found to be the smartest E-person?
Dee
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Mayor Franklin hosts The AIDS Memorial Quilt
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Mayor Shirley Franklin Hosts World AIDS Day Memorial Quilt Display in City Hall
| WHO: | Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin will host the 2005 World AIDS Day display of The AIDS Memorial Quilt in City Hall. The display will include more than 50 3-foot by 6-foot handmade panels including the panel Rosa Parks created in memory Deborah Haynes for The Quilt. The opening ceremony for the display will feature remarks by Mayor Franklin; Julie Rhoad, executive director of The NAMES Project Foundation; and H. Lamar Willis, Atlanta City Council member and board member of The NAMES Project. The program will also include the traditional reading of the names on The Quilt and a Quilt dedication ceremony at which time new panels will be presented to The NAMES Project including those created by Pearl Ann Walker and Mamie Hughley, both in their 90s and members of Reynoldstown Quilters. |
| WHAT: | This display is presented by The NAMES Project Foundation, the international caretaker of The AIDS Memorial Quilt, now headquartered in |
| WHEN: | 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005, at City Hall Atrium, |
| WHY: | World AIDS Day is the ideal time to remind the community that HIV/AIDS still poses a serious, lethal threat and a display of The AIDS Memorial Quilt is a vivid and poignant way to illustrate what has been lost and what is at risk. With teddy bears and Boy Scout badges, The Quilt is our most powerful educative tool in the fight to curb the tide of new HIV infections. With more than 45,000 handmade panels, The Quilt stands as the largest piece of community folk art in the world and the most democratic memorial ever created. Known as a leader in the fight for civil rights, Rosa Parks was one of the more than 100,000 individuals who have created a panel for The AIDS Memorial Quilt. Her panel for Deborah Haynes will be among those on display at City Hall on World AIDS Day. This World AIDS Day (December 1) also marks the 50th anniversary of the day Mrs. Parks refused to relinquish her bus seat in |
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