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To: Madame Dufarge
The common thread was that the vast majority wanted to become Americans.

Right. And I think we should spend our efforts trying to convince modern immigrants to do the same. Yelling at them, calling them "illegal", is not a pursuasive argument to make them want to be like us. It is the exact opposite.

By the way, despite your tippy-toeing around the issue, they were legal immigrants.

Yes. Because we had virtually no limits on immigration in those years. We have stupidly, at the behest of communists like Cesar Chaves and his union, lowered the number of legal immigrants to unreasonably low numbers.

This is a whole different breed.

No. They're human just like anyone else.

376 posted on 03/28/2006 5:25:20 PM PST by narby (Evolution is the new "third rail" in American politics)
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To: narby
And I think we should spend our efforts trying to convince modern immigrants to do the same.

If they have to be "convinced," they're in the wrong place.

Yelling at them, calling them "illegal"...

They are illegal. Don't words have meaning to you?

Because we had virtually no limits on immigration in those years.

Yes, we did. We had limits based on the number of immigrants who were able to be assimilated. What makes you think that US immigration policy started with Cesar Chavez?

They're human just like anyone else.

Please, taking the cheapest shot possible doesn't enhance your argument.

391 posted on 03/28/2006 5:32:41 PM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: narby
We have stupidly, at the behest of communists like Cesar Chaves and his union, lowered the number of legal immigrants to unreasonably low numbers.

About spewed my coffee on that one.

Ridiculous.

395 posted on 03/28/2006 5:34:37 PM PST by EternalVigilance (20 million+ illegal aliens here now...a billion more coming behind them...be very afraid!)
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