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Penny Press Las Vegas, NV Volume 3 Number 28 APRIL 6, 2006 Why Aren't These Kids In School? And Why Are Our Grandparents Turning Over In Their Graves? See Commentary Page 3 THE PENNY PRESS, APRIL 6, 2006 PAGE 2 www.pennypresslv.com The Penny Press is published weekly by Penny Credits: 5010 Productions, Inc. All Contents © Penny Press 2006 Publisher and Editor: Contributing Editors: Letters to the Editor are encouraged. They should be sent to our offices at 418 1/2 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Press Fred Weinberg Brent Jordan Al Thomas Vegas 89101. They can also be emailed to: Logotype Circulation: Doug French Bill Here [email protected] No unsigned or unverifiable let- Pointedlymad Charlotte Weinberg Brent Jordan Pat Choate ters will be printed. licensed from: Rich Gast Joyce Meyer Bob Jennings 702-740-5588 Fax: 702-920-8215 Penny Press LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 16 PAGES VOLUME 3 NUMBER 28 APRIL 6, 2006 A Limited Window Of Opportunity By FRED WEINBERG would expect me to call for send- these people had. ically but all of us as a group—have Penny Press Publisher ing the army of illegal aliens, now And second, America beckoned, done nothing to limit the attractive- estimated at 12-million, back, not as Ronald Reagan would put it years ness of that shining city or to limit Despite the relative stupidity of only is it not practical to attempt, later, a shining city on a hill. access to that city. the little girl pictured in the Las but it would not honor the basic We know these things for a fact So we now have about 12-mil- Vegas Review Journal demonstrat- tenet of this nation as a melting pot because my sister Susan, curious as lion people here who are not citi- ing against “immigration reform” of people. to how our family came about, spent zens, who do not live here legally, with a Mexican flag painted on her You see, my sisters and I are an enormous amount of time study- but for the most part are hard work- cheek like she was a cheerleader at only second generation Americans ing records created from the steady ing people who just want the best a football game, we have a serious ourselves. flow of immigrants through Ellis they can do for their families. And, but for four people flee- Island in the first 20 years of the Which sounds an awful lot like ing pogroms and forced conscription 20th century and interviewed those the American Dream. in the Russian Army—from which who were still alive. Further, we pretty much had an Commentary Jews rarely, if ever, returned—we That those records were avail- open door policy to white Europeans would not be here at all. able says an awful lot about this back in the first part of the 20th cen- You see, Samuel Weinberg, Mery nation tury. By contrast, our legal quota problem that even scares many of Raichel, Ben Schiecher and Sima Fast forwarding to the past from Mexico has been, shall we say, the politicians who would normally Kishlansky all came to the United decade, we have a neighbor to the less than that. use the issue to make a little politi- States for two reasons. south which, while not conduct- Yet we are now in legitimate cal hay. First, conditions in Eastern ing pogroms, has a long way to go danger of being overwhelmed by Which means that there is a rela- Europe and Russia were not particu- before our nation will no longer those who want to come to that tively short window in which com- larly hospitable for those of Jewish beckon to its citizens like a shining shining city on a hill and we have to mon sense might actually prevail. extraction—even those with skills city on a hill. make some decisions. And while many regular readers and a desire to work—which all of And we—our politicians, specif- Continued on page4 WE GET LETTERS PAGE 5 The Conservative Weekly FRED WEINBERG PAGE 6 Voice Of Las Vegas DOUG FRENCH PAGE 7 BILLHERE PAGE 8 Inside: Penny Wisdom PAT CHOATE PAGE 9 AL THOMAS PAGE 10 Only the educated are free. Stupidity Is Common —Epictetus BULLRING RESULTS PAGE 11 JOYCE MEYER PAGE 12 Denominator DIANE GRASSI PAGE 13 See Editorial Page 6 BRENT JORDAN PAGE 14 PET OF THE WEEK PAGE 15 THE PENNY PRESS, APRIL 6, 2006 PAGE 4 Dealing With Illegals Requires Tough Love Continued from page 3 One immediately popular decision may be to turn 12-million illegals into felons, pack them up and send them all back. That sounds good except for two things. First is a practical matter. It simply cannot physically be done. And the second is more a rhetorical question about what kind of a nation we are. What would Samuel Weinberg, Mery Raichel, Ben Schiecher and Sima Kishlansky, all now deceased, think about that? How would it reflect on all of us who are here because at one time— some in the 1700s, some in the 1800s and some in the 1900s—one of our forefathers showed up on our shores and said in broken English or perhaps no English at all, “I want to participate in the American Dream.”? Yet we still need to do something. It appears that whatever we do will require a dramatic rewriting of the immigration law to allow for the fact that by doing nothing for the last 20 years we created the situation in which we currently find ourselves. It’s not a Democratic or Republican thing. It was a lack of foresight thing. And we’re all equally culpable in a very non-partisan way because, as citizens, we didn’t insist that the politically motivated folks we allow to spend our money do something. The first thing we need to do is to shut down the border. Despite blathering on both sides of the issue, it is very doable. We have the technology, the manpower and the money. What we lack is the willpower. The next thing we need to do is to create a track on which those who are already here can become first legal residents and then citizens. This will require some tough love. Something along the lines of giving everyone who is here illegally a relatively short period of time to go through the modern equivalent of Ellis Island, announce themselves, be processed for taxes, criminal records and skill levels. Just like my grandparents. Those who qualify—which really means those without criminal records—will be given legal resident status and a 10 year visa. During that 10 year period, they need to stay out of trouble, stay employed and, impor- tantly, learn English. The English is important because it will raise their income to the same level as the rest of the nation’s immigrants. Not learning English dooms Some $20-billion a year is earned in the United States and sent back. people to minimum wage jobs. If that business is shut down two things will happen. At the end of that period, if they have done all those things and passed First, there will be less of an incentive to sneak into the United States the normal test for citizenship, like my grandparents, they will become and, second, there will be more of an incentive for a nation, historically citizens. more corrupt than our state of Louisiana, to clean up its own act and, per- If not, or, if at any time during that 10 years they choose not to complete haps, create an atmosphere in which its citizens actually want to stay in their their obligations, or, if they do not present themselves for processing, they own country. will be deported. With no further appeals. Finally, we must rework our quotas so that persons who legitimately Most Americans are opposed to amnesty. wish to immigrate to the United States can apply and then see a light at the This is not amnesty. This is roughly the same process that my grandpar- end of the tunnel. ents went through from the time they came through Ellis Island until they This isn’t something which can be accomplished by a bunch of venal became citizens. politicians seeking a political advantage over each other. We also must stiffen the Mexican government’s backbone to stop it from This can only be accomplished if we scare the hell out of those politi- encouraging its citizens to leave for the United States. cians en masse until they do the right thing. We can do this by shutting down the money transfer business which And then, maybe Samuel Weinberg, Mery Raichel, Ben Schiecher, constitutes the second largest influx of cash to Mexico behind the oil busi- Sima Kishlansky and the millions of their fellow immigrants who made this ness. nation what it is today will stop turning over in their graves. THE PENNY PRESS, APRIL 6, 2006 PAGE 5 We Get Letters... Editor: hear Small Claims court cases two places of work. However, also pres- of the security check required is In regards to your March 30, 2006 or three times a month on average. ent in court on any given day are misplaced. Blame the persons who Opinion column, We Talk You Listen- Those cases can, as you might imag- the victims of those criminals, the caused the problem in the first place. Got That Bubba?, you definitely got ine, become very emotional. friends and families of the victims That would be the “bad guys” who my attention, Bubba.

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