A day without illegals, is like...

M&M's in the jowls of a bulldog, "It's gonna be a good day tater". My apologies to Ron White. It has its plusses per Representative Tom Tancredo, (R) Colorado. For an article in National Review Online, Tancredo states...

Hospital emergency rooms across the southwest would have about 20-percent fewer patients, and there would be 183,000 fewer people in Colorado without health insurance.

OBGYN wards in Denver would have 24-percent fewer deliveries and Los Angeles’s maternity-ward deliveries would drop by 40 percent and maternity billings to Medi-Cal would drop by 66 percent.

Youth gangs would see their membership drop by 50 percent in many states, and in Phoenix, child-molestation cases would drop by 34 percent and auto theft by 40 percent.

In Durango, Colorado, and the Four Corners area, the methamphetamine epidemic would slow for one day, as the 90 percent of that drug now being brought in from Mexico was held in Albuquerque and Farmington a few hours longer. According to the sheriff of La Plata County, Colorado, meth is now being brought in by ordinary illegal aliens as well as professional drug dealers.

Colorado taxpayers would save almost $3,000,000 in one day if illegals do not access any public services, because illegal aliens cost the state over $1 billion annually according to the best estimates.

Colorado’s jails and prisons would have 10-percent fewer inmates, and Denver and many other towns would not need to build so many new jails to accommodate the overcrowding.

Our highway patrol and county sheriffs would have about far fewer DUI arrests and there would be a dramatic decline in rollovers of vanloads of illegal aliens on I-70 and other highways...

Sounds like statistics Representative Steve King, (R) Iowa, was skewered for by the Ragister last Thursday. According to King, if there were no "illegal invaders...there would be no one to smuggle across our border the heroin, marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines that plague the United States. . . . The lives of 12 U.S. citizens would be saved who otherwise die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day. . . . Our hospital emergency rooms would not be flooded. . . . Eight American children would not suffer the horror as a victim of a sex crime." King called the May 1st boycott, "Nothing Gringo Day" and "Bite The Hand That Feeds You Day." Actually the May Day celebration in Mexico was called, "A Day Without Gringos." There boycotts against U.S. goods and companies were endorsed by government officials. Mexico's restive union movement, which traditionally holds rallies on May 1, dedicated this year's march to the legalization of undocumented workers in the United States and President Vicente Fox called for a migration accord that would legalize the millions of undocumented Mexican workers living in the United States. Undocumented? I don't think so! These people purchase fake licenses and social security cards. Which is illegal, I do believe! The Associated Press ran a couple of interesting quotes, "We are the backbone of what America is, legal or illegal, it doesn't matter, said Melanie Lugo, who joined a rally in Denver. HUH? Let me say that again backwards....HUH? Then there's this gem, "I want my children to know their mother is not a criminal," said Benita Olmedo, a nanny who came here illegally in 1986 from Mexico...Seems to me illegal actions would make one a criminal. The A.P. also noted, "In Chicago, illegal immigrants from Ireland and Poland marched alongside Hispanics". I don't care where they're from if they're ILLEGAL! My Italian grandfather migrated to this country and became a legal citizen, even learning the English language! I did find it interesting that WHO TV13 had a news story stating that Victoria Cleaners could not offer their usual same day service because of workers who took part in the boycott. The taped piece showed workers of Southeast Asian heritage toiling away pressing clothes. The owner stated they were offered the day off too, but chose to work. Isn't that ironic! I'm going to take a silly, wild ass guess and say they're LEGAL immigrants! CNN's Lou Dobbs weighed in with this....It is no accident that they chose May 1 as their day of demonstration and boycott. It is the worldwide day of commemorative demonstrations by various socialist, communist, and even anarchic organizations. Dobbs noted, "that ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) has become an active promoter of the national boycott." Even those among the left admit that ANSWER is a Marxist organization. Dobbs also took on meat-packing companies like Cargill and Tyson who closed many of their plants."The meat packers are confirming what we know," says University of Maryland economics professor Peter Morici, "and that is that this large group of illegal aliens in the United States is lowering the wage rate of semiskilled workers, people who are high school dropouts or high school graduates with minimal training."In fact, a meat-packing job paid $19 an hour in 1980, but today that same job pays closer to $9 an hour, according to the Labor Department. That's entirely consistent with what we've been reporting -- that illegal aliens depress wages for U.S. workers by as much as $200 billion a year in addition to placing a tremendous burden on hospitals, schools and other social services...Looks like I need to get back to buying my beef from my friend T.J. He has a small family owned business butcher his cattle. I feel good having done my part to derail the boycott by spending my money, but I'm only one Gringo!