That’s the rallying cry of a group of “concerned state legislators.” The group, State Legislators for Legal Immigration, was founded by State Representative Daryl Metcalfe or Pennsylvania.
Metcalfe is a colorful character. In 2009, he held up a resolution declaring October “Domestic Violence Awareness Month” because he claimed that the bill “had language in it that brought men into the situation”, citing this as evidence of a homosexual agenda. Again in 2009, he criticized Operation FREE, an organization that works to raise awareness of the national security threat posed by climate change by saying “As a veteran, I believe that any veteran lending their name, to promote the leftist propaganda of global warming and climate change, in an effort to control more of the wealth created in our economy, through cap and tax type policies, all in the name of national security, is a traitor to the oath he or she took to defend the Constitution of our great nation!”
I guess you can call this guy a teabagger. Hell, he was a teabagger before teabagging was cool (in the GOP).
His new soapbox has the following mission statement:
State Legislators for Legal Immigration is a nation-wide coalition founded by Pennsylvania State Representative Daryl D. Metcalfe (R-Butler) to provide a network of state legislators who are committed to working together in demanding full cooperation among our federal, state and local governments in eliminating all economic attractions and incentives (including, but not limited to: public benefits, welfare, education and employment opportunities) for illegal aliens, as well as securing our borders against unlawful invasion.
It gets better. Under the “problems and solutions” link, we find the following:
Problems
Increasingly documented incidences of homicide, identity theft, property theft, serious infectious diseases, drug running, gang violence, human trafficking, terrorism and growing cost to taxpayers are just some of the most detrimental ‘imports’ being brought across America’s unsecured borders by illegal aliens.
Solutions
1.Legislation has been introduced by state legislators across the nation to address the illegal alien issue.
2.All levels of government, working together to end access to the economic attractions for illegal aliens, will bring an end to our illegal alien invasion. Turning off the economic faucet that illegal aliens draw from will create a situation that will facilitate the illegal aliens returning to their home country of origin on their own volition.
3.The federal government must secure our borders from the entry of illegal aliens.
4.American citizens, both born and naturalized, along with legal resident aliens must be shown the respect that they deserve by requiring each and every person who desires to reside in our nation do so through the legal immigration process.
Now why am I writing about something that some schmuck in Pennsyltucky is organizing? Well, our very own Rep. Deborah Hudson is the Delaware member of this group. Yeah, that Deborah Hudson, the Greenville matron who got her Greenville address by marrying Louis Capano (yeah, that Capano family), who opposes any tax on the rich as oppressive.
So a few questions for Ms. Hudson:
1. Where is your proof (or your organization’s) that immigrants, whether legal or illegal, have caused an increase in the number of cases of “serious infectious diseases” in the US?
2. Will you force your Greenville neighbors and constituents to turn in their maids, nannies, gardeners, etc., or will you turn a blind eye to any of them who employ suspected illegal immigrants?
3. Since your organization supports Arizona-type immigration laws (which have been held up by the courts as being unconstitutional), do you also support racial profiling as a way to determine someone’s immigration status?
Ms. Hudson, you’re on the wrong side of this issue, as you are on many other issues.