[AnnaZ]

Just a little shout-out to my peeps (LOL), just 'cause it's been a while.

xo!

[EveningStar]

Worth repeating:

I have paid my dues and I have paid my fees. I have stood in lines, been fingerprinted and background-checked, answered questions and opened up and said "Ahhhh." Had the lines been longer, I would have still waited in them, had the fees been higher, I would have still paid them. My sentiment was always "I understand", because although I was born in a country that many people in the world consider a promised land, Canada, I was still as desperate as anyone could be to be an American.

Which is why I am out of my mind over the teeming, screaming, demanding masses taking to the streets. You're here and you're not daily kissing the ground? You're here and you're not doing everything you can to repay the gift? You're here and you're not weeping to the strains of the Star Spangled Banner? Good grief, are you really still hoisting a buzzard over your head? (My favorite protest sign has been the "We're not criminals!" one. Uh, well, yes, frankly, you are. Shut up. Go back to the job you've been blessed to be given. Be happy you're not back in some unpronounceable province grinding corn.)

[Squantos]

OMG Anna Z ?!?!?!? I thought you'd run off to Bali errr something young lady.

Well said well said..... Stay Safe !!!!

[Feiny]

I had trouble reading this, can you post it in Spanish?

[Cold Heat]

I share in all that frustration.

The hyperbole on both sides has ratcheted up as a tit-for-tat battle to see who can get the most media coverage. Last week, Mexican flags were seen at a demonstration in California, and now Today, Mexican flags are being burned by some border group.

As the debate winds up like a coiled spring, the various activist groups who have no other issues have garnered the bulk of the attention and infected the debate with disease that can lead to only one thing, and that is chaos, anger and in the end.....violence.

Meanwhile we face global issues of great importance that require total unity and patience to solve.

Yes, I am quite frustrated with everyone right now, and that frustration will certainly translate to actions during the election cycle. I plan to find some adults to vote for, and if I find only a few, then the voting will not take very long.

Then I will go fishing.....

[martin_fierro]

opened up and said "Ahhhh."

Maybe -- no, probably -- it's just me, but I don't think that's a standard part of the immigration process.

[GarySpFc]

My wife is a Patrick Henry American. I say that, because for 3 months prior to her naturalization ceremony she went around telling everyone, “Just give me liberty or give me death.” And she did almost die in the immigration process due to severe reactions from a required INS immunization.

In August 2002 we applied to bring her then 22 year old daughter to America, and now as the adult daughter of a CITIZEN she will be able to legally immigrate here approximately 8 to 10 years after our application. In the interim she is not allowed to visit her Mom in this country, and that due to American law, NOT Russian. Five years after arriving she can apply for citizenship, and that totals 13 to 15 years. However, they would make illegal aliens eligible after 11 years. Some relatives of citizens have to wait 23 years to immigrate here legally, and add 5 years for citizenship for a total of 28 years.

Excuse me, but the man behind the curtain is telling us illegal aliens will have to go to the end of the line. How can it be illegal aliens will have to go to the end of the line, when they grain citizenship in 11 years, and legal immigrants arrive at that point in 10 to 28 years? Not only that, but the illegal aliens get to wait in line in America, whereas the 4 million attempting to immigrate legally have to wait in their countries. By the way, in the last 15 years almost twice as many immigrants have come here legally from Mexico than all Europe combined, and that does not include the illegal aliens. What ever happened to truth, justice, and the American way?

[DoughtyOne]

Hi AnnaZ. Nice to see you out this morning. I'll read this later today and respond. Thanks for the Peeps Ping.

D1

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"For a long time I have been very sympathetic towards immigrants, even the illegal ones, here in America. As an immigrant myself, and as the daughter of immigrants, suffice it to say, "I understand". Or at least I did. Today, I still just have two words for them, but now those words are, "SHUT UP!"

I have paid my dues and I have paid my fees. I have stood in lines, been fingerprinted and background-checked, answered questions and opened up and said "Ahhhh." Had the lines been longer, I would have still waited in them, had the fees been higher, I would have still paid them. My sentiment was always "I understand", because although I was born in a country that many people in the world consider a promised land, Canada, I was still as desperate as anyone could be to be an American..."

AnnaZ

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Great perspective on immigration from AnnaZ PING

[Travis McGee]

This is going to end with cities on fire.

I hope the illegal alien slave-traitors choke on their profits.

[Argh]

Well done, Miss Anna!

[blogbat]

Nice, post, Anna. Well-said

Let's hope terrorists don't smuggle a WMD into town under protest cover ;-)

[LibertyGrrrl]

AMEN, SISTAH! I'm so proud of you and my Korean grandmother who became an American citizen a few years back at 83 years old. My family waited, studied, waited, paid fees, waited and they all eventually gained American citizenship AND they all own their own businesses now employing Americans.
xo Rose
ps.... It was great to hang with you the other day! You soooooOOooo incredibly rock!

[ohioWfan]

This is GREAT! THANK you, AnnaZ!

(And thanks for the ping, Tonk)

[Madame Dufarge]

Thanks for the ping, Anna - great synopsis of the current mess.

Let's hope the gutless wonders in Congress do the right thing for once.

Well, that was a nice vacation, but back to reality.

A thousand more laws won't make the petrified immigration bureaucracy any more effective than it is right now.

The Milquetoasts in Congress are bathed in sweat at the thought of offending "advocacy" groups.

The public educrats are churning out PC little automatons, their heads filled with anti-American propaganda.

In a couple of more generations, we'll be France.

[lowbridge]

[JustPiper]

A most excellent Bump Anna!

[jla]

You're here and you're not doing everything you can to repay the gift?

Thomas J would very much appreciate that sentiment.
I remember your announcement here of you finally becoming an American citizen. You left no doubt to anyone who read your words how much you truly understand and appreciate the American ideal.
If more immigrants, and more than a few born here, would share your outlook we would indeed be a more perfect nation.

[philman_36]

Anna, I could pour my heart out for hours in words and it wouldn't make a bit of difference. The past has proven that amply enough.
Yet on your query...Clichéd or not, are they with us or against us?...I can't help but respond.
Their actions show that they're not with us.
The Mexican flag display on the first day's protests quickly followed by the American flag display, after the handlers realized what a mistake that action was, told me all I needed to know about the people directing these illegals and the illegals themselves. No spin can take away that visual.

For years I told folks what I thought was going to happen and look now, here it has happened.
You rightly call our nation a Republic. What you see here is Democracy in action. Before too long there will be a 51% majority through simply breeding and then where will true Citizens be. (the same holds true for Isreal...lots and lots of "Palestinians" breeding till the Jewish people are simply voted out or laws are passed because of "a majority")

Viva Zapata and Tierra y Libertad (Land and Liberty)? Well, Zapata is dead and the illegals can kiss my backside cause it is the liberties and lands of Americans that are going to be lost! And these poor dupes are too ignorant to realize that they won't have Tierra or Libertad if they keep following Marxists and Communists.
Got to stop now before I start getting irate.

[Mr.Atos]

It looks like you and I have come to the same place on the issue of immigration, only my two words are...

"Get Out!"

Well said! I had not seen your blog before, but I will check it often.