In common English, if I told someone: "Hey, I've got an extra Knicks ticket if you want to buy it!" and he responded: "No thanks. I don't want to spend another 50 plus bucks watching them lose." I would anturally assume that they had spent more than 50 dollars on a previous outing.
why not simply lobby -- openly and fairly -- for an increased/adjusted formula
In itself, an excellent idea. However, what about the several million already here who have actually kept their heads down , worked hard and not caused any further trouble.
Do we expel them, or do we come up with some way of dealing with them?
Anything "personal" you may (or may not) be sensing, here, is solely your own creation and responsibility. Keep the bloody abomination in your own yard, if you'd be so very kind, and away from my lawn. ;)
In common English, if I told someone: "Hey, I've got an extra Knicks ticket if you want to buy it!" and he responded: "No thanks. I don't want to spend another 50 plus bucks watching them lose." I would anturally assume that they had spent more than 50 dollars on a previous outing.
*sigh*
Again: "Not wanting another 50mil+ MORE illegals forcibly rammed down our collective gullet" is not even remotely equivalent to "deport every illegal immigrant already in this country." Straw man argument.
There. Now you no longer have even the frayed fig leaf of an excuse remaining for misunderstanding what was previously stated, and can/will soldier on from here without further assistance on my part.
However, what about the several million already here who have actually kept their heads down , worked hard and not caused any further trouble.
This is a decidedly odd response to my own previous:
Not even remotely enough reason to surrender our borders -- and, hence, both our sovereignty AND our national security (isn't Juan supposedly running as the "defense-savvy" candidate, this year?) -- obviously.
Let's finish what's already on our plate, first, before going back to the buffet for seconds. Are you ceding the previous point, then...?
"Further trouble?" Apart from stealing social security numbers, indirectly supporting organized crime by making it so doggone difficult to find drug smugglers, counterfeiters, and other criminals among their huge numbers, and corrupting our own government officials?
I am not surprised when politicians are a little sleazy, but getting amnesty money is beyond the pale.