Immigration Impact: Idaho

Immigration Impact:
Idaho

State Population (2004 CB estimate):1,393,262
Population Increase 1990-2000: 287,204
Foreign-Born Population: 80,600
Percent Foreign-Born: 5.9%
Illegal Resident Population: 19,0001
2025 Population Projection: 1,739,000

All numbers are from the U.S. Census Bureau unless otherwise noted. Additional Census Bureau, INS, and other immigration-related data are available for Idaho.

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Estimated Annual Fiscal Costs to Idaho Taxpayersfor Emergency Medical Care, Education and Incarceration Resulting from Illegal or "Guest" Workers andProjected Costs Based on an Amnesty in millions
Current 2010 2020
$84 $148 $264

Profile in Numbers

Population Growth

Idaho’s population increased by 29 percent, or 287,000 people, between 1990 and 2000, bringing its population to 1.3 million people. Idaho is the fifth fastest growing state in the country.

Between 1990 and 2000, the city of Boise was the seventh fastest growing city in the nation, increasing by 46 percent. Boise County increased by 90 percent.

Foreign Born Population

Idaho’s immigrant population more than doubled during the 1990s, increasing by 122 percent. Idaho gained 35,000 immigrants during the decade, bringing the total number of foreign-born residents in the state to 64,000.

The increase in the foreign-born population during the 1990s accounted for 12 percent of the state’s total population increase during the decade.

About 166,000 people in Idaho are immigrants or the children of immigrants, 13 percent of the state’s population.

Demonstrating the impact of recent policies of mass immigration, 47 percent of Idaho’s immigrant population has arrived in the state since 1990.

Trends for the Future

The Census Bureau projects that Idaho’s population will grow by 29 percent between 2000 and 2025, to 1.7 million.

NOTE: Naturalization: Fewer immigrants in Idaho are naturalized U.S. citizens.
In 2000, only 33 percent of Idaho’s foreign-born residents were naturalized
U.S. citizens, versus 41 percent in 1990.

Impact on Environment and Quality of Life

Water: Population growth is endangering Idaho’s water supply. United Water Idaho, the Boise area’s major water supplier, expects demand to almost triple by 2050. Unless new water supplies are tapped, United Water predicts that it will have trouble providing water to Southeast Boise within two years. 2

Traffic: As population growth put more traffic on the roads, the average commute for Idaho residents increased 16 percent during the 1990s, from 17 minutes in 1990 to 20 minutes in 2000.3,4

Disappearing open space: Each year, Idaho loses 18,400 acres of open space and farmland due to development.5 Urban development is expected to double along with suburban development, which will nearly quadruple by 2050, resulting in a total loss of 4.5 million acres to urban and suburban development.6

Crowded housing: 8,000 Idaho households are defined as severely crowded by housing authorities, a 83 percent increase since 1990.7,8 Studies show that a rise in crowded housing often correlates with an increase in the number of foreign-born.9,10

Affordable housing: As population increases, the affordable housing supply often drops. Idaho workers who earn minimum wage must work 77 hours per week in order to afford a two-bedroom unit at the area’s fair market rent. Idaho’s housing wage (the amount a full-time worker must earn per hour to afford a two-bedroom apartment at fair market rent) is $9.87, but its minimum wage is $5.15.11

Finding affordable housing is even more difficult for the working poor since little low-income housing is being built, despite rising demand. What little housing is built is filled almost immediately after opening. Forty-one percent of Idaho renters pay more than 30 percent of their income for housing (30 percent is the maximum recommended by housing experts).12

Sprawl: The city of Rexburg issued over $58 million in building permits in 2002, more than ten times the value of permits issued in an average year.13 Such unprecedented growth is not without its costs. After such developments are completed, new streets will be needed, along with other financial responsibilities, all of which must be paid by the city. Other cities face similar challenges as a result of rapid development challenges created by sprawl. Since 1998, Pocatello has spent close to $9 million (with another $2 million to be spent by 2004) in rehabilitating and expanding its sewer system in order to meet the demands of its growing population.14

Idaho's total energy use has increased by 57 percent since 1980 and 36 percent since 1990, making it the leading northwest state for energy consumption. This increase, according to Northwest Environment Watch, is directly attributable to rapid population growth in the state.24

Air pollution: As population increases, pollution usually rises along with it. Many in Idaho are worried about the negative effects population growth will have on public health, since more people mean more cars, which increasing gas consumption and air pollution.15 Canyon County saw the worst levels of small particulate pollution in a decade during 2002, with up to a third of its pollution attributable to vehicle emissions.16

Poverty: Twenty-two percent of immigrants in Idaho have incomes below the poverty level. Among non-citizens, the rate climbs to 27 percent.17 Education: Between 1990 and 2000, Idaho’s elementary and high school enrollment increased 20 percent. Between 2002 and 2012, public school enrollment is expected to increase another 13 percent, to 287,000.18

School overcrowding is becoming a costly issue for Idaho, one that many communities cannot afford to bear. In July 2002, Idaho Falls School District 91 voted to spend $1.3 million to alleviate junior high schools crowding.19 The cost of the renovation is in part responsible for District 91’s current budget crisis, which has its leaders looking to cut expenses and raise supplemental levy in order to survive.20 With many Idaho communities facing similar financial hardships, schools may have difficulty expanding to meet growing enrollments in the near future.21

Labor Issues: The wave of immigrants flooding into Idaho leads to population increasing faster than job creation, leading to rising unemployment. As of December 2002, Kootenai County, Idaho’s third fastest growing county, faced an eight percent unemployment rate (versus a national average of six percent); the Idaho Department of Labor says that “population growth exceeding job growth” is a primary reason.22

Illegal Residents

19,000 illegal aliens resided in Idaho as of 2000, according to INS figures. This is 19 percent higher than the previous INS estimate in 1996 and 72 percent higher than the estimate for 1990. 23

Idaho authorities requested compensation of $3.3 million from the federal government in FY’99 for the incarceration of illegal aliens in state and local jails and prisons (under the federal State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, or SCAAP), but it received only $1.3 million in compensation, leaving $2 million in uncompensated costs to be borne by Idaho taxpayers.

Endnotes:

1. 
   “Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: 1990-2000,” Office of Policy Planning, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, January 2003.
   
2. Craig Quintana, “Growth in Idaho Takes Big Swig of Water,” Idaho Statesman, January 15, 2002.
   
3. “Table DP-1-4, Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000,” Census 2000, U.S. Census Bureau.
   
4. “Table DP-1-4, Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 1990,” 1990 Census, U.S. Census Bureau.
   
5. “State Rankings by Acreage and Rate of Non-Federal Land Developed,” Natural Resources Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture.
   
6. Editorial Board, “Planning for Growth Must be a Top Priority,” Idaho Press-Tribune, June 30, 2001.
   
7. “Table DP-1-4, Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000,” Census 2000, U.S. Census Bureau.
8. 
   “Table DP-1-4, Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 1990,” 1990 Census, U.S. Census Bureau.
9. 
   Haya El Nasser, “U.S. Neighborhoods Grow More Crowded,” USA Today,July 7, 2002.
   
10. Randy Capps, “Hardship Among Children of Immigrants: Findings from the 1999 National Survey of America’s Families,” Urban Institute, 2001.
11. 
    “Rental Housing for America’s Poor Families: Farther Out of Reach than Ever,” National Low Income Housing Coalition, 2002.
12. 
    Matthew Evans, “The Search for Affordable Housing,” Idaho Falls Post Register, March 21, 2002.
13. 
    Brian Davidson, “Rexburg Construction Sets New High- Number of Building Permits Up Tenfold,” Idaho Falls Post Register, January 9, 2003.
14. 
    John O’Connell, “City Sewer in Midst of Three-Part Overhaul,” Idaho State Journal, January 18, 2002.
15. 
    Sam Bass, Growth Threatens Air Quality,” Idaho Press-Tribune, June 12, 2002.
16. 
    Nathaniel Hoffman, “Here is a Sign of a Problem, Growth,” Idaho Press-Tribune, December 5, 2002.
17. 
    “Idaho State Factsheet,” Migration Information Source, Migration Policy Institute.
18. 
    “Table 4—Enrollment in Grades K-12 in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools, by Region and State, With Projections: Fall 1993 to Fall 2012,” National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core Data, U.S. Department of Education.
19. 
    Matthew Evans, “Taylorview Expanding to Accommodate Population,” Idaho Falls Post Register, July 30, 2002.
20. 
    Matthew Evans, “District 91 Struggles to Find the Money to Pay the Bills,” Lewistown Morning Tribune, February 19,2003.
21. 
    Kathy Hedberg, “Idaho’s School Saga Resumes,” Lewiston Morning Tribune, November 10, 2002.
22. 
    Kathryn Tacke, “Kootenai County Profile,” Idaho Department of Labor, January 2003.
23. 
    “Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: 1990-2000,” Office of Policy Planning, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, January 2003.
    
24. “How Idaho Measures Up,” Measuring What Matters, The New Indicators Project, Northwest Environment Watch.

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The following information I got at FAIR. If you are doing research for your state you can go here: Immigration in Your Background.

Where have I been?

Well everyone, sorry about my absence. In June my training got really advanced and I was waiting to graduate so my mind was elsewhere.

Once I got home I spent a few weeks just hanging out with friends and getting back to my civilian life.

Now I'm just chillin waiting for school to start.

Memorial Day 2007

Memorial Day 2007

On this day may God be with all soldiers, or anyone who has served to protect America. May He be with all those families who have lost someone who has served. God bless the American soldier. God bless his sacrifice. May God have mercy on his enemy because he will not.

I would like to thank Cox & Forkum for their great cartoons and their dedication to our troops. I did some research today and it saddens me to see so few sites giving thanks to those who give them the right to create their sites and blogs. It angered me today to see that the US was conducting talks with Iran on Memorial Day. This is a slap in the face to all those who have died by the hands of these monsters. The Bush Administration should be ashamed.

Well, I'm off to the local Veteran's Memorial.

Memorial Day Links: Memorial Day History

Armed Forces Day

Thank a soldier today

The Top 10 Myths about the Virginia Tech Massacre

The Top 10 Myths about the Virginia Tech Massacre
By Brant McLaughlin

We all know that on April 16th, 2007, a new Day That Shall Live in Infamy was tragically born when a 23-year-old South Korean man who had lived in the US since he was eight and was attending a good American university in the state of Virginia shot to death 32 students and faculty before committing suicide. 33 senseless deaths by guns--the worst non-gang related gun incident in modern American history, and a chilling encore to the Columbine High School massacre of 1999 which claimed 13 lives.

Needless to say there have been some very strong reactions among the American citizenry, not to mention the South Koreans who feel a collective sense of guilt (needlessly). The expected calls for stricter regulations and the finger-pointing emerged immediately while relatives, friends, and fellow students grieved for their lost ones.

But who is offering real solutions? Are most people thinking rationally, considering the facts, at this stage? There are 10 myths emerging regarding the Virginia Tech Massacre that need to be closely analyzed, with facts considered, before we end up compounding the tragedy.

Myth #1. Tighter gun control laws would have prevented that massacre.

It happens all the time: someone does something wrong with something and people want the something taken away...from everybody. Does it work for the betterment of society? No.
Consider what we found at Rapid Intelligence's Factbites. "Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, 13 million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally ill, and others, who were unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated....That places total victims who lost their lives because of gun control at approximately 56 million in the last century." "Gun-control laws have noticeably reduced gun ownership in some states, with the result that for each 1% reduction in gun ownership there was a 3% increase in violent crime...with no academic evidence that gun regulations prevent crime, and plenty of indications that they actually encourage it, we nonetheless are now debating which new gun control laws to pass."

Myth #2. Virginia's gun laws are too loose.

Is that so? We found something very interesting when we searched at Factbites. "The fatuity of gun-control laws is nowhere better illustrated than in Virginia, where high-school students in rural areas have a long tradition of going hunting in the morning." Furthermore, according to the FBI, Virginia's background check regulations for buying guns are the most rigorous and the best of any of the 50 states.

Myth #3. This is exactly the kind of thing that happens in "gun-toter" states like Virginia.

With all those teenagers in Virginia bearing arms, that's surely the case, right? Not exactly. Rapid Intelligence's StateMaster statistics service tells us that Virginia only ranks 25th among states with regards to the number of gun-related deaths per 100,000 people in the state.

Myth #4. The US Constitution's Second Amendment encourages gun crimes to flourish in America.

At first, there seems to be something to this. Rapid Intelligence's NationMaster statistics service reveals that the United States ranks fourth among all nations for the most murders committed with guns annually. The US also ranks eighth among all nations in the world for most murders per capita annually with guns.

But in this context, the stats are deceiving--because there is additional information.
According to 'The Armed Citizen', "Studies indicate that firearms are used more than two million times a year for personal protection, and that the presence of a firearm, without a shot being fired, prevents crime in many instances. Shooting usually can be justified only where crime constitutes an immediate, imminent threat to life, limb, or, in some cases, property." Recent instances of this noble use of guns--made available to citizens by the Second Amendment to the US Constitution--include Topeka, Kansas gas station owner Dean Yee using his gun to protect himself against two armed robbers who demanded money from him at gunpoint. Yee shot one robber and that caused the other one to flee. Had Yee not had his concealed weapon permit and his gun, he would very likely have been shot by the robbers--perhaps to death. These instances also include Las Vegas homeowner Raymond Hill, who was awakened in the night by his 12-year-old daughter and told by her that two armed men were breaking into their house. Hill loaded his weapon, called the police, then went downstairs and killed one of the burglars, who was coming into Hill's house through a window from which he had removed the screen. The other burglar fled on a bicycle, but police nabbed him.

It is most logical to conclude that what the statistics about US gun murders really reveals is that if more Americans took advantage of their Second Amendment rights, violent crime rates would go down--not up.

Myth #5. The US needs to follow the lead of other Western nations like the UK and Australia and make just about every gun illegal to private citizens.

That would at least mostly rid the nation of all the Seung-Hui Cho threats, wouldn't it? This is what a Factbites search came up with: "Ironically, both [Trent] Lott and Handgun Control acknowledge that the reams of gun control laws on the books in Washington and in all 50 states have been ineffective in eradicating mass shootings or preventing children from bringing weapons to school...Since Australia banned private ownership of most guns in 1996, crime has risen dramatically on that continent, prompting critics of U.S. gun control efforts to issue new warnings of what life in America could be like if Congress ever bans firearms."

There is also something else to consider. The United States is not even placed among the top 48 nations of the world in terms of police per capita. It is far more logical to conclude that we need more police officers to enforce the laws that are already on the books, not more laws. More police with guns, in fact.

Myth #6. "Mass shootings have come to define our nation", obviously because of the "easy access to increasingly lethal firearms that make mass killings possible."

Josh Sugarmann's irresponsible quote, which he stated as direct reflection on the Virginia Tech massacre, is not only void of statistical evidence, it does not fit the facts as they have been observed. While it's true that mass shootings began happening more frequently than previously in the US in the 1960s, if such things have "come to define our nation", then so have car accidents and plane crashes, and that would just have to be because far too many people are privileged to be able to drive or fly. Sugarmann's quote is toxically emotional.

Turning to a search at Rapid Intelligence's Factbites reveals the fact is that "Mass shootings essentially disappear in States that pass laws allowing qualified citizens to carry concealed handguns...So, to conclude, the facts are clear--more firearms in the hands of honest, responsible American citizens means the thugs on the streets commit less violent crimes, and the thugs in the government are less likely to assault the citizenry with storm trooper police state tactics of murder and genocide... it is lamentable that 30,000 Americans die yearly from firearms."

Myth #7. This massacre proves that Americans have too many liberties and need to have their rights curtailed.

Cho was South Korean, not American, although he clearly had assimilated into American culture. Beyond that fact, let's look at a couple of statistics at NationMaster.

Do you enjoy having the freedom to choose your own lifestyle (provided that you work for what you want)? Most people do. Let's note that South Korea, the nation from which Cho came originally, is not among the leading nations for offering freedom of lifestyle choice; the US ranks second in the world, just barely behind Finland. In other words, the person who came from the more suppressive culture was the one who abused the freedom of decision making that US citizens enjoy. Another statistic at NationMaster shows forth that the worst mass shooting by an individual in American history was carried out by someone who had a background of significant cultural and economic suppression of freedom compared to what Americans enjoy. And keep in mind, he raged against "rich kids”—those with the privileges that he clearly coveted (and would have been able to enjoy for the rest of his life had he peacefully graduated from the American university he attended). Cho murdered because, in his darkened mind at least, he was prevented from having freedom--not because he had too much of it. While Cho was enjoying a life of upper middle class privilege, he clearly had the suppression and poverty of his boyhood years imprinted on his psyche--he considered himself a "have not" among "haves".

Myth #8. Cho only did what he did because he was bullied by the privileged American rich kids who surrounded him; it was not really his fault, but the fault of the Americans who bring these things on themselves.

Virginia Tech is a good school, but it is not the Ivy League school that so many Korean parents covet for their children; and the students at Virginia Tech do not come from particularly affluent families. Cho's parents were the owners of a $400,000 house that Cho grew up in later years; he would have to have been stretching his imagination a long way to believe that he was surrounded by super-wealthy white kids who were somehow unfairly advantaged or keeping him down. Cho had acquaintances among the white American students who went out of their way to try to include him in fun, college-student-type activities. Cho in fact accompanied them sometimes when they went out, and he would drink beer with them and engage in a game of tossing ping-pong balls into glasses of beer; he was apparently quite adept at it, too. But he played the games without expression.

Even before he went to the university, Cho was known to be sullen and quiet among his family. One thing he enjoyed a lot was playing video games--something he had in common with Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, the pair of killers at the Columbine high school massacre-shooting in 1999 whom Cho cited in his twisted manifesto as one of his inspirations. Cho had no history of being picked on except when he set himself up to be looked at strangely--such as by writing the disgusting plays he wrote for English class, or deliberately reading aloud English literature passes in a dark, guttural accent. Or writing down his name as "?". Cho was mentally diseased long before he went to Virginia Tech. His outgoing older sister came out just fine--at an Ivy League school called Princeton, where she would have been surrounded by the sons and daughters of millionaires. If Cho had been so abused and scarred by America, then how come she hadn't?

Myth #9. The gun shops that sold Cho his guns should have known better and should be held legally accountable and perhaps forced to shut down.

The FBI and the Virginia State Police concur that the local gun shop, Roanoke Firearms, acted in full compliance with the state and the federal law. A background check was performed and Seung-Hui Cho was found clean. Although Cho did have mental problems, he was not listed as a possible danger because he had never been involuntarily committed to a mental hospital. When he was taken to a mental ward once, he was only held overnight, did not resist, and was deemed of sound (even if bleak) mind by a professional psychiatrist. This was in spite of the fact that a special justice had, in 2005, found Cho mentally ill.

The other gun shop, which sold Cho one of his weapons via the Internet, was in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and it, too, filled out the right paperwork and did the background check that it was supposed to do.

While it is perfectly reasonable to consider revising the law so that it is more comprehensive (meaning Cho's visit to the mental ward would have shown up in his record as would his having been found "mentally ill"), it is completely absurd to point a blaming finger at the gun shops. The businesses did exactly what the law says they are to do. Suing them or shutting them down will accomplish nothing except to harm the business owners and their employees.

Myth #10. Poor Seung-Hui Cho was deeply troubled. Somebody should have helped him when he was crying out for help, and then this would never have happened. We brought it on ourselves with our indifferent society.

There is nothing evidential to back up the notion that Cho was deeply troubled by anything other than his own self-centeredness. Cho was not a victim of anything or anyone. In the words of one of his former poetry and creative writing professors, Cho "was just mean". She goes on to say, "We're talking about [his being a victim] and crap like that, but troubled youngsters get drunk and jump off buildings; troubled youngsters drink and drive...I've taught crazy people...It was the meanness that bothered me...[In his writings] the threats seemed to be underneath the surface."
If anything, the United States needs to wake up to the realization that there are mean young people out there, full of self-centered anger for no good reason, and they neither need nor want "help". They need to be straightened out.

The US ranks third in the world in murders committed by young people (ages 15-24). That puts the U.S. in the company of two very violence-and-corruption-prone South American nations and a Russia still struggling its way from the shards of Communism to the building of a free, capitalist-based society. In the light of a lot of Americans' reactions to the Virginia Tech Massacre, we really need to take a shot of cold reality and wake ourselves up, instead of making ourselves sick with guilt.

Cho was just mean, for whatever twisted reason. Had more people accepted that and acted accordingly, he probably never could have done what he did.

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The ACLU and the War of Freedom

The ACLU and the War on Freedom

I firmly believe that the ACLU is the biggest threat against all that the USA should be. It says it stands to protect the freedoms of the citizens, but all you ever see is it attacking the people. It does protect people from prosecution though such as Nation of Islam, Ku Klux Klan, draft dodgers, commies, jihadists, and the sick perverts of NAMBLA.

It pushes the majority of America around while “protecting” the minority. They are nothing, but a bunch of thugs. They protect what rights they think will help further their own sick ideals. I wrote an article long ago on the original Conservative Life, but here is a revision.

Corrupt Roots

The ACLU was founded in 1920 and has its headquarters currently in New York City. It was founded by Communists to assist each other in dodging the legal bullet among other things. The General Secretary of the Communist Party at the time stated that ACLU functioned as a transmission belt for the party.

A report by the Special House Committee to Investigate Communist Activities stated:

The American Civil Liberties Union is closely affiliated with the communist movement in the United States, and fully 90 percent of its efforts are on behalf of communists who have come into conflict with the law. It claims to stand for free speech, free press and free assembly, but it is quite apparent that the main function of the ACLU is an attempt to protect the communists.

Many people are surprised to hear that the founders of the ACLU have Communist ties, but then you read about Roger Baldwin, a founder, saying things like:

My chief aversion is the system of greed, private profit, privilege and violence which makes up the control of the world today, and which has brought it to the tragic crisis of unprecedented hunger and unemployment. Therefore, I am for Socialism, disarmament and ultimately, for the abolishing of the State itself. I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

War on Christianity

It is funny to think that a bunch of commies would support the American constitution since under communism organized religion is abolished. Most Liberals would mock you for even stating that the ACLU and the Left in general are waging a war on the Christian faith, but lets take a look here.

In September of 1986, the ACLU sued a school teacher who kept a Bible on his desk and won. He was forced to remove it even though he never read it to his students and only read it during silent reading time.

In May of 2000, they stated they didn’t think that Arizona’s Governor’s, Jane Hull, proclamation celebrating the birth of Buddha violated the Consititution, but in 1998 when the same governor issued a proclamation declaring a Bible Week the ACLU wigged out claiming this was a serious violation of the Constitution.

In recent years the ACLU has attacked seals that have crosses on it such as in LA County, towns such as Groom, TX for having a cross in public view, or wanting to remove the Mt. Soledad War Veterans Memorial cross.

They opposed any Christian value being taught in school, but haven’t argued about all this pro-Muslim crap being taught in the school system.

Disarming America

The Second Amendment states that “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

The ACLU for some strange reason believes that the American citizen is not constitutionally protected to own any fire arms. They believe that the Constitution only guarantees police and the military with the right to keep weapons. This belief comes from their support of US v Miller in 1939. The ACLU uses this tactic of using judicial branch to override the will of the people.

Taking away the common defense from the citizens is a common theme with Communism and other forms of oppressive governments.

Endangering our Children

The very future of our nation is being sought after by this filthy organization. They threatened to sue a school if they did not put pro-homosexual propaganda in their libraries. Regardless of what the parents want the ACLU believes that you the parents shouldn’t have control over what your kids are taught.

The vision of the Boy Scouts of America states that “the Boy Scouts of America is the nation's foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training.” This club instills values and moral into our future leaders and yet the ACLU opposes them because the BSA opposes homosexuality. The ACLU threatens any state organization who would support them in any form.

While trying to stop the BSA in their attempt to set values the ACLU then turns around support disgusting creatures in NAMBLA. They even support the distribution of child porn saying it’s a constitutional right.

The ACLU opposes most policies that advocate national security, they oppose closing the borders, and they defend terrorists. They defy logic and common sense in everything they do. They want to destroy all that is right in America. Their only true goal is to force their Communist agenda on Americans. It should be every true American’s duty to oppose these criminals every chance we get.

Happy Mother's Day

I wish the best to all the Mother's out there today.

Since I am down in Arizona doing military training, I called my Mother and wished her the best.