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These "uninvited guests" take away part-time jobs that your son may have had in order to afford a down payment on a car or to pay for his college tuition or supplies. Or consider the next emergency room visit you make to take your newborn in for a sudden illness and you are sent away because the emergency room personnel have their hands full due to treating the first-come first-served illegal aliens.

Is it fair? Is it correct? That is for you to judge on Election Day, but what is not open for debate is the level of liberty that we are being asked to surrender week-by-week, community-by-community and sanctuary city-by-sanctuary city.

FAIR has identified the adoption of "sanctuary" policies by cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego and Houston as a growing barrier to combating the illegal alien invasion despite a 1996 Congressional ban and a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court March 22 ruling in the case of Muehler v. Mena, which removed barriers that prevent local law enforcement officers from questioning the immigration status of individuals they suspect to be in the United States illegally.

In 1950, the United States Department of the Treasury had 55 full-sized replicas of the Liberty Bell cast and shipped as gifts to all states and territories of the United States and the District of Columbia. The bells were displayed with the slogan "Save for Your Independence" and were to be rung on patriotic occasions. I believe that November 7th fits into that category.

What is the Liberty Bell to mean to our children and our children's children? What meaning will "sacrifice" and "honor" and "principle" and "one union" have for them? Will they have to study the sacrifice of our forefathers in Spanish because it has replaced English as the primary language? Would "sacrifice" be defined in new textbooks to mean "making it successfully across the border into the United States and successfully dodging border patrols (soon to be the bad guys in the textbooks) to take advantage of the politically corrected political system that has torn away our heritage and ravished our culture"?

Think it can't happen? Just remember the little brouhaha earlier this year when Spanish-speaking artists came up with the novel idea of changing the words to the Star Spangled Banner and having it written and sung in Spanish. The new Spanish version of our "The Star-Spangled Banner" called "Nuestro Himno" in Spanish -- translated "Our Anthem" which could handily dispose of our U.S. national anthem and our strictly English-language tradition in our nation's classrooms.

So for whose liberty will the bell be tolling on November 7th? Our Liberty Bell is not a "Compromise Bell" or a national symbol of "Come-and-Get-It" or even a "Tread On Me Because We're Suckers Bell".

What is wrong with our nation when we are so ready to compromise our freedoms? With each successive generation the nation and its life, its values, its traditions, and its language will disappear because we Americans were too preoccupied, too narrow to see that an illegal alien invasion was taking our children's liberty. We have to stop ringing the bell for them and start ringing the Liberty Bell for us once again.

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