It's bad enough that the GOP got it's clock cleaned this go around.
Now we get to listen to this hysteria (I would say it's hysterical too) for at least the next two years.
Anyone want to bet an Amero that this post gets flamed?
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"Anyone want to bet an Amero that this post gets flamed?"
Betcha a quarter, not like that isn't what you intended.
What's the matter, your posse shrinking ;)
Illegals have been entering America for centuries!
Ellis Island was not only NOT the only entry point in America, that process immigrants, it wasn't even the FIRST one in N.Y.C.!
Prior to the Ellis Island center, immigrants entering America in the N.Y. port area ( BTW, others were situated in South and West ) went through CASTLE GARDEN, which was located in lower Manhattan. Many people fearing that they wouldn't "pass muster", for many different and assorted reason, would jump ship and try to swim to shore. Sometimes, they had American contacts ( the coyotes of that day ), waiting in ships, at various locations, who who then get them to shore in Jersey, or another spot in New York, or to some other place.
And as "thorough" as some of you seem to think that the "inspectors" were, they weren't! Certain illnesses were checked for, but many sick people and carriers DID slip through the cracks...and criminal checks were virtually nonexistent.
Now, let's talk about CHEAP LABOR.
It wasn't ONLY on the West Coast, where Chinese were imported into America ( and no, they weren't checked for ANYTHING !) to be primarily used on building the railroads.
Now, let's fast forward just a very little bit.......
Our Southern border has been a problem, for more than a century, vis-a-vis Mexican gangsters crossing it, cheap labor coming for jobs, and all just staying here. The Pancho Vila mess was the first time that our government actually did something about it. Things sort of settled down, but by the late 1940s-early 1950s, the problems were as bad as they are now; except that smugglers were also trying to bring in Nazis, Nazi sympathizers, and Commies into this country, ILLEGALLY.
Ike did "something", but that didn't really last all that long and NOBODY has done anything much since. Oh, wait a minute, lots of border and non-border states/cites/locals have actually been doing SOMETHING for the past 50 odd years. And just WHAT have they been doing? That's the next topic!
What ALL of you who continually blame Bush forget, is that many different places have made their areas SANCTUARIES, thusly encouraging and protecting ILLEGALS.
What else has been done? Well, many different places have made it ILLEGAL for teachers, doctors, nurses, social workers, the police and firemen, etc. to tell the INS/ICE about the ILLEGALS that they know about.
And then there is Reagan's BLANKET AMNESTY; which no amount of excuses and words games can make go away, or make seem "reasonable".
Last, but by no means least, for all of you hysterics, who ONLY scream about our border with Mexico and talk about 9/11, NONE of those who flew those planes, on 9/11, came in across the Southern border; NARY A ONE OF THEM! They also all came in LEGALLY! And many terrorists DO come in across our NORTHERN BORDER......the one we share with Canada! And yet, you guys appear to not give a damn about that one.
All of your complaints about how we are losing our country, are, word for word, exact repeats of what was said about people more than 150 years ago! I do suggest that all of you go look up the KNOW NOTHINGS; hey, you will even find some "new" crazy things to throw around, when you post to FR....such things as "AMERICA WILL NO LONGER BE A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY, BECAUSE OF ALL OF THOSE CATHOLICS" and oh so much more. But sorry, the "WE WILL LOSE OUR CULTURE" is also more than a century old.
And before you start the personal attacks and name calling. NO, I am NOT for open borders and I AM all for enforcing ALL of our laws!
Poor Ohio Mikey. Has to listen to the hysterical Californians howl about illegals. It must be tough being you.