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.)
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And people scoffed and laughed. Heck, people in the other states laughed at we in CA exclaiming: It's just CA. CA always has a problem. And we asked for help from the other states. The resounding answer and reply:
"It wouldn't... it couldn't happen in MY state. It just only happens in CA."
I've heard numerous pro-illegal protestors argue the "jobs" aspect and refuse to answer questions about being in the USA, illegally. Breaking the law. Yeah, it's the same rant the pro-illegals delivered in the early 90s over CA's Prop 187. That they weren't criminals. Uh-huh.