Dorchester Times: Illegal Immigration Has Profoundly Affected Our County, Country

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Illegal Immigration Has Profoundly Affected Our County, Country

Latino gang graffiti spotted in Crete, behind the former CarQuest store.

One key difference between this blog and so-called "mainstream" news sources -- like the Lincoln and Omaha papers, or the national news media -- is we focus on issues and events that impact our readers. And we write about it no matter how politically incorrect it has been deemed by societal elites.

Here you won't read about seven gay marriages in Douglas County or other issues that divide the nation over 2% of the population. That won't change no matter how many e-mails or nasty comments we get from those who put rainbow flags on their vacuous Facebook posts or from young people still living with their parents -- or off their parents.

Instead, today we focus again on illegal immigration and its negative impact on our county and country. We do this because we believe burying our collective heads in the sand is not only unwise, but dangerous.

In 2008, this blog took on the Crete News editor over the issue of illegal immigration and the additional crime it has brought to our county. Back then, the Crete News editor disputed our analysis that showed nearly 40% of the stops and arrests by local law enforcement involved individuals with Hispanic surnames. They included those charged with using stolen identities, as well as a habitual criminal who was booked on felony charges of committing terrorist threats.

What has happened in Crete since 2008? One estimate given to this blog says approximately 40% of the white residents residing in Crete in 2005 are no longer there. Some have passed on, but many more have moved away.

The point of this post is not only to recall our point-counterpoint with the Crete News, but to keep our readers focused on the bigger picture. Illegal immigration (and legal) is impacting every corner of our nation –- not just Saline County. Consider these statistics from around the country according to a nationally syndicated columnist:

Immigrants admitted before 1970 made more money, bought more houses and were more educated than Americans. The post-Kennedy immigrants are astronomically less-educated, poorer and more likely to be on welfare than the native population.

Although America is admitting more immigrants, they are coming from fewer countries than they did before 1970. The country is becoming less "diverse," but a lot poorer and a lot more Latin.

America has already taken in one-fourth of Mexico's entire population.

In 1970, there were almost no Nigerian immigrants in the United States. Our country is now home to more Nigerians than any country in the world except Nigeria.

The government refuses to tell us how many prisoners in the United States are immigrants. That information is not available anywhere. But the ancillary facts suggest that the number is astronomical.

There are more foreign inmates in New York state prisons from Mexico than from the entire continent of Europe.

In some areas of America, law enforcement authorities have given up on prosecuting statutory rape cases against Mexican men in their 30s who impregnate 12- and 13-year-old girls, after repeatedly encountering parents who view their little girls' pregnancies as a "blessing." (Sex with girls as young as 12 years old is legal in 31 of the 32 states of Mexico.)

The same North Carolina newspapers that gave flood-the-zone coverage to a rape that never happened at a Duke lacrosse party completely ignore real rapes happening right under their noses, being committed against children by immigrants providing cheap labor to the state's farming and meat-packing industries.

Since 2004, Mexican gangs have beheaded at least a half-dozen people in the United States.

Mexican drug cartels -- not ISIS -- pioneered the practice of posting videotaped beheadings online.

An alleged "ISIS" beheading video making the rounds in 2014 was actually a Mexican beheading video from 2010.

If you would like to report illegal aliens, please call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at 1-866-DHS-2ICE (347-2423). They will need to know names, locations (either work place or residence) and any other specific information you can provide.

Despite the current administration's inaction on illegal immigration enforcement, they must follow the law, eventually. Keep calling.

If you are a legal resident of this country and are paying taxes, it's your right.

5 comments:

AnonymousJune 28, 2015 at 11:05 AM
Couldn't agree with you more! Unfortunately, for the most part you are preaching to the choir. The very people who need to be aware of all this nonsense won't be reading this blog, or they won't be taking it seriously. Or worse yet, they will be disputing it just like The Crete Rag editor did. Let's hope "the choir" pays attention to your last three paragraphs. The snooze button has already been hit too many times.
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AnonymousJune 28, 2015 at 5:12 PM
This is just one of a dozen areas the country has just surrendered on. I'm 59 and always told people "love it or leave it" when it comes to bashing america. I gotta admit that the past few years has made me rethink that phrase. It might be easier to leave it after all.
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AnonymousJune 29, 2015 at 3:04 PM
Donald Trump said: "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best...They're sending people who have lots of problems. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists, and some, I assume, are good people."

He's right.
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AnonymousJune 29, 2015 at 8:29 PM
I would trade the illegals, even the gang bangers, for the light in the loafers and butches anyday. Take it to the bank. Put that confederate flag in you pipe and inhale deeply.
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Dorchester: A Good Little Family Town

Dorchester, Nebraska (est. population 630) is located in northern Saline county. Close in proximity to Interstate 80, Dorchester is only 25 minutes from the state capital of Lincoln (est. population 250,000) and about 55 minutes from Omaha (metro population 725,000).

Dorchester's median resident age is 37 years. In 2005, Dorchester had a median family income of approximately $35,600. The median house value was about $63,000. About 95 percent of Dorchester residents commute to work via Interstate and highways.

The village has a quality public school, which received a $4.1 million expansion and modernization in 2008; it offers a small classrooms and individualized attention. Total enrollment of grades K-12 is around 230-250 students.

Ancestries of the Dorchester area are primarily German (42.4%), Czech (24.9%), Irish (12.5%), English (5.4%), and Dutch (4.9%).

Dorchester Historical Facts

* On July 4, 1871, the railroad reached Dorchester.
* Incorporated in 1881, Dorchester's population grew from 200 to 500 by 1882.
* In 1882, Dorchester had 90 buildings, 35 of which were businesses or public facilities. Brick buildings lined both sides of Washington Avenue for two blocks.
* Dorchester's longest-running newspaper was The Dorchester Star, which was published until the late 1940s.
* By 1889, Dorchester's population is said to have reached 800, while the town housed an opera house, a two-story brick schoolhouse with a bell tower, and four churches.
* By the 1910s, Dorchester had electricity, a water tower and a fire department.
* Dorchester's main arteries, Highways 6 and 33, were graveled in the 1940s.
* Dorchester's first irrigation well was drilled on Chris Weber's farm and rural electrification was finished following WWII.

A Village with History

Dorchester is one of the "alphabet towns" on the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad line built west from Lincoln. The town site was selected for its pleasant location in the northern part of Saline County, about eight miles west of Crete. This situation is an attractive one, being on the level prairie land, midway between the West Blue River and Turkey Creek. The first named stream is three miles north, and the latter about the same distance south from the town. Dorchester was platted in 1870 and incorporated in 1881. The name "Dorchester" came from either for a suburb of Boston by that name or a town in England. No one is sure. Two of the very first settlers were James Seely and Edward McIntyre, who both made Dorchester their permanent home.

Dorchester: In The Beginning

Here is a look at Dorchester around 1890, less than a decade after its official incorporation, as documented by Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska:
* POPULATION: "About 300, and is made up of a substantial and progressive class of citizens, who are moral and industrious. ... The town grew but very little until the year 1879, for the reason that Pleasant Hill, on Turkey Creek, a short distance south, was the county seat and naturally drew a trade for quite a large scope of country."
* BUSINESS: "The business and professional interests of the town are represented by three general merchandise stores, two drug, one grocery, one furniture, two hardware, and two millinery stores, one bank, two restaurants, two hotels, three livery stables, a post office, one newspaper office, two elevators, two lumber yards, two coal yards, two blacksmith shops, two lawyers and four physicians."
* SCHOOL: "The schoolhouse is a good one. The schoolhouse was built in 1872, since which time the public schools have been continually kept up. The present schoolhouse is 24' x 40' in size, two stories high. The school is graded and consists of three departments. The house is found too small, and arrangements will soon be made to increase its size."
* CHURCHES: "There are three substantial churches."
* HOMES: "The residence portion of the village is made up of neat houses of different styles of architecture, but none of them very large."
* NEWSPAPER: "The Dorchester Star, which was established August 21, 1881, by H. C. Bittenbender, who edited it until January 19, 1882, when he sold it to Ryerson & Bullock, the present proprietors. The Star is a bright weekly paper, five-column quarto, in size, and is Republican in politics."