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On a recent trip to Colorado, I entered a debate with a local regarding immigration reform. He was happy the recent bill had failed because it would grant amnesty to current illegals residing in the U.S. They were using up our resources. They were taking our jobs. We have laws and they need to be obeyed.

I could have started with: not passing the bill is, in effect, the equivalent of amnesty as it maintains the status quo. I could have mentioned that any new law passed would be as unenforceable as the current laws. I could have mentioned that I don’t want to pay $25 for a hamburger.

But I started with this: If the obeying the law is so important, why don’t we start with obeying the speed limit?

He asked if I was seriously comparing the speed limit to immigration.

Yep. We would reduce our dependence on foreign oil. We could get out of Iraq. We could get out of the Middle East, for that matter. We would have less pollution. We could reduce global warming. And there would be more than 12,000 fewer speeding-related deaths per year.

[Note – that’s PER YEAR! That’s more than 3 times the number of soldiers lost in Iraq and Afghanistan since the war started! That’s 120,000 dead in the last decade – the numbers stay pretty much the same every year. Can you imagine if we had an event that killed 130,000 Americans? We’d have to declare war on Detroit!]

His response? Illegal immigrants are responsible for one-third the road fatalities in Colorado.

Well, how can you dispute that? I mean, the numbers appeared to have come out of his ass. My number for the 12k a year death toll for speeding came from the government; I had looked it up http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/Rpts/2005/809_839/pages/809-839_Final.pdf. As you can see per table 1, that number is understated for the 10-year period listed. No year had fewer than 12,500 speed-related fatalities.

But then, I thought, maybe he’s right. Maybe I better look it up. It would explain an awful lot, such as the large animosity we third and fourth-generationers have against these firsters. They’re cleverly sneaking over the border, cautiously making their way into the workforce, quietly acquiring living space, and then – when all is calm – they jump in their cars and fling themselves willy-nilly all over the highways and into the legally-driven cars of honest, decent Americans. Those bastards.

So when I got home, I checked it out. Here are some quotes and links:

“This young family was utterly destroyed by illegal alien crime; Sean, 24 and his 5-month-old daughter were killed by an illegal in a head-on crash that left Natalie with permanent brain damage. Neither young pregnant women nor elderly men are saved from this scourge. FSM Editors demand of Congress: what will it take for you to end this unspeakable carnage?”

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/homeland.php?id=952468

“It is worth repeating that NOBODY IS TRACKING the illegal alien component of the traffic accident carnage.”
http://www.usillegalaliens.com/impacts_of_illegal_immigration_traffic_accidents.html

“Harvest of death on the Eastern Shore”
http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=93408&ran=120909&tref=po

“INVASION USA

How open borders turnAmericans into roadkill

Illegals drive up highway deaths as U.S. hitsnew highs for unlicensed, uninsured motorists”

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51667

So, clearly, I was wrong. Illegal aliens are trying to get us. Run now. Run for your lives.

Sneak into Canada.