In anticipation of how this thread will be received, I would like to cite 2 recent experiences.
1. FIOS - the town where I reside has contracted with FIOS to lay cable throughout the entire town - 58 square miles. I live n a townhouse community of 89 units. Prior to their arrival, National Grid visited the development and planted yellow and orange flags to mark existing electrical and cable lines. The FIOS team was comprised of, what looked like, South American/Mexican men. The soil here is thick, dense clay. The work began on a very hot and sultry summer day. The men dug down on either side of each resident's driveway to waist level, placing the heavy soil on plastic tarps. Special equipment then ran the cable under the driveway and the men then replaced the soil and the sod, with such precision that you would not have known they had ever been there.
2. A neighbor's property borders on a glacial hill that is slipping. The stone wall, erected several years ago, began to fail this year. She contracted with a local landscaper to remove and replace it. Once again, I watched as 2 Hispanic men were sent to remove and replace the wall. Over the span of several days, they cleared weeds and other debris, and physically carted off a large volume of stone with only a wheel barrow. A truck arrived with the new stone: massive blocks of granite that were hand transported by these same 2 men to the rear of the property and positioned into place. Where necessary, stones were cut to precision for proper placement.
Temperatures hovered in the lower 90's as they worked and I observed from the comfort of an air conditioned home. The men took a short, 20 minute break to enjoy some lunch brought from home. I brought them a large pitcher of filtered water and plenty of ice to cool them down. They were appreciative.
Watching these immigrants, I reflected on my own ancestors who arrived in the US, practically penniless. My great great grandfather, orphaned when his parents were killed by the Prussians, was found by French sailors, clinging to the body of his mother and taken aboard their ship. They educated him over the years and he learned 7 languages. Yet, when he arrived in the US and married an immigrant Irish Catholic woman, the only work he could obtain was in a meat packing plant. Due to prejudice, they could only find a residence in the most dangerous Manhattan neighborhood, Hell's Kitchen. There, they raised 5 children.
I know many millenials who have graduated college with degrees but would never consider doing the menial work required by FIOS or local landscapers. While you may not like or agree with this immigration from Mexico and South America, consider a very important point: They are Christians!. Throughout Europe, the immigrants brought in to do similar work are Muslims. Before you judge our immigrant situation in the US, be grateful for the gift of christian workers to fulfill the demands of a society so blessed by God!
Bully pulpit, ping!
Defy ? This was planned.
This was a set-up.
Your anecdotes have no bearing over whether a nation should enforce its immigration laws.
Sorry, but emotion does not trump reason.
“...be grateful for the gift of christian workers to fulfill the demands of a society so blessed by God!”
There are some web sites on the internet, ignored by the media, that contains lists of people murdered by illegals. Their families are not grateful. Nor the millions of unemployed who have been robbed of their livelihood. Nor the taxpayers who have had to finance them all with billions of tax dollars.
Gosh, Americans could -never- do that kind of work. If I wanted to live in Mexico, I would. And a Mexican Catholic is Christian in a sense, but they are also a highly superstitious one, mixing in many strange pagan Indian beliefs.
I love them, and want them to stay south of the border unless THEY show a desire to embrace my culture, not the other way around.
This very timely, made-for-TV-moment reminds me of the story of Bill Clinton on the beach at Normandy where he came across a pile of stones and made a cross in the sand.
And then it turned out that because the beach didn’t have a single natural stone on it that someone on Clinton’s staff put the stones on the beach so Clinton could have his scripted moment.
Likewise, I don’t believe that a little girl managed to get past heavy security so she could see the Pope. It’s cute but it’s not at all believable that an illegal alien little girl would conveniently have a cute moment with a pro-illegal alien leftist pope just in time for him to push his agenda on the USA.
I’m not fooled.
How endearingly staged—this happens everyday. Dissidents in Cuba couldn’t push through but 5 year old could?
That will work right up until the time, Johnny jihad straps a bomb to his little girl’s chest and send her off. All in the name of Allah and Mad Mo.
Awww! Watch the little girl run to the Marxist co-conspirator!
“Cruz began. “I would like to ask you to speak with the president and the Congress in legalizing my parents, because every day I am scared that one day they will take them away from me.””
A pantload. And like how the little Mexican broke through a line of security because she wants to go somewhere she isn’t allowed. A nice metaphor for her family.
Thank you for sharing. My wife looks out of her office windo and sees low pants thugs dealing drugs, peeing in the bushes behind the convenience store, and cop cars everywhere trying to keep ahead of the scumbags. Oh and sleeping till 2:00 pm then going out and doing their “commerce” which is poisoning our youth. I would much rather have these fine hard working men as neighbors as the louts here.
Tell Kate Steinle about Christian Mexico.
Jesus said: “Suffer the little Children who come unto Me”
Luke 18:16
Matthew 19;14
Mark 10:14
Thomas had a God Complex. LOL
Deport her.
As you read through these excellent posts, NYer,
please note smart Freepers are not easily fooled!
Your straw man is made of...straw.
He’s still a Marxist sympathizer. Even Stalin, Mao, and other Marxists took touching pictures with the children of the serfs.
This pope is an abject idiot!
No Sweetie, hopefully one day your Illegal Invader Parents will take you to their Homeland. The generous American Taxpayers might even pay for your Family trip.
Nobody will be taking you away from your Parents unless you are a full term Fetus and your Mommy chooses to visit Planned Parenthood.
I am so sick of this crap. The Law is the Law. Politicians who use Empathy to gain Power should be Hung.
TOTAL SET-UP.
I smell a “brilliant muslim radio invention” here.
Stayed. Political theater. Sickens me that a Pope would be part of such.