Posted on 03/29/2017 8:00:07 AM PDT by PBRCat
One-hundred years ago, my grandfather immigrated to the City of Chicago. He was just 13 years old. He had no money. He spoke no English. He knew no one, except for a third-cousin he had never met. He came to Chicago to escape anti-Semitism and the pogroms of Eastern Europe. He found a city where, if you work hard and play by the rules, you can succeed — regardless of your faith or national origin.
My grandfather came to a city of opportunity, not a country that breaks up families at the border. He came to a land of liberty, not a place where federal agents stop people on the street to ask for their papers. He came to a country that has prospered with each new generation of entrepreneurs, innovators and dreamers of every faith and nationality who have sought the promise of a better life in America.
Whether our families traveled across the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Rio Grande or up the Mississippi to arrive in this city, we are all equally Chicagoans and Americans and we share a common destiny that is bigger and brighter than the petty and misguided views of bigots and racists.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
Notice the moral equivalency: his grandfather (a legal immigrant) is no different that an illegal immigrant.
In Emanuel's view, anyone opposed to illegal immigration is a bigot.
Rahm Emanuel has no shame when it comes to political pandering. Chicagoans stand to lose millions of Federal dollars because of his "sanctuary city" scheme.
When did America start “breaking up families at the border”?
He and his predecessors should not have made Chicago dependent on Federal Funds in the first place.
He’s got rat turds for brains if he feeeeeeels that “breaking up families at the border” didn’t occur - not that I don’t recognize the strawman).
He came here LEGALLY and received NO EBT, Health Care, Education, TV,Phone,Rent,... from the TAXPAYERS!
the answer is simple, all costs for any person that entered the country illegally or remains in the country illegally shalkl be the financial responsibility of the Public Employees in the State. To be paid for by a special assessment on the incomes of Public Employees and Public Employee Retirees.
This article is completely fact-free - it is merely a collection of leftist slogans, fear-mongering, and attempts at emotional blackmail.
When I read the title without noting the author, I figured this would be a call to end the madness the Dems keep stirring up.
Sorry, but my computer screen kept excreting a brown slimy fluid.
Had to abort.
If any of his spiel is true-his grandfather was processed through Ellis Island, and anyone who was shown to have disease, or be a potential burden on the state ( taxpayers), or potential subversive-they were not allowed in.
Now we have the recurrence of diseases like polio and TB, and the introduction of diseases we never had, thanks to unchecked illegal invasion.
Same old, same old. The elites demand ethnic cleansing of the existing American population with mass importation of third world populations.
Business lobbies join with the elites for the cheap labor in order to lower effective wages.
If you object, you’re an anti-Semite and a racist.
Rinse and repeat.
American Families are the only concern. All others are insignificant as a matter of policy. Unless you are a TRAITOR to the United States of America.
What part of the phrase “play by the rules” does not include obeying US immigration laws?
Seriously, illegal aliens begin by breaking one set of laws, but Emanuel thinks that they will obey other laws? Absurd!
We have enough people.
No more immigration for 10 years.
All illegal aliens out.
What’s it going to take for this idiot to draw a distinction between legal and illegal immigration?
Sounds like we should have had tighter immigration controls 100 years ago. We ended up with this sack of crap, not to mention the rest of the family.
Liberals, progressives, socialists, Democrats — all base their views on lies. Then pass on the lies as knowledge. Terrible people. They are the ones truly full of hatredcand ugliness.
To them, Illegal and taking welfare = legal, working hard and playing by the rules. Killing babies inthe womb = choice. Faggotry = alternate lifestyle. Christianity = a stupid cult. Al Franken = genius.
The very saddest part is that our young people have been indoctrinated by our pubic schools to gulp it all down without question, and to be attacked if they ever do question.
Lord, please help America, President Trump and the few true Americans left in Washington, DC.
The same sort of miracle required for him to distinguish between, "He found a city where, if you work hard and play by the rules, you can succeed — regardless of your faith or national origin." and today's ethos of come here with no skills, no education and spend your whole life on various welfare programs kicking out bastard children who grow up to be just like you.
“He spoke no English”
Yeah but I bet he learned it as fast as he could.
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