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Simply put, the debate in Washington isn’t about “immigration” at all – and that’s the problem.
Posted on 04/03/2006 6:27:37 AM PDT by conservativecorner
I like the way you think!
During the past two decades our national birth rate has dropped to just below the 2.1 births-per-woman replacement rate.
Another elephant in the room. I believe the main reason people do not have as many kids anymore is economics, pure and simple. Too many taxes, wages stagnant, etc. When women used to have more children a family could make it on one income. I can't remember the last time I saw a family where the woman didn't work too. If staying home and raising a family was still an option for a woman, families would have more children.
Two incomes are needed to support our family plus support the illegal immigrant and his extended family.
I went to a cinco de mayo celebration at my son's school when he was in third grade. After walking around, and noticing what a good job the kids and teachers did, I went and shook hands with the principal. I then asked him what they did for Veterans day. He was kind of puzzled, and said nothing, and asked me why I asked that. I told him that I was amazed that this much effort goes into a Foreign Holiday, yet the very reason they can celebrate this holiday, the freedom they enjoy, came from the sacrifices our Veterans have made. I said all this in a very friendly tone. Ever since then, that particular elementary school puts on a very nice veterans day. All it takes is polite confrontation, and things do happen........
And add to all this the fact that we keep
hearing: Politicians are afraid of
losing a large portion of their base
if they come down too hard on illegals.
In one mindset jump, they would have us
ASSUME that those 12 million (it was
11 million a week ago)are about to
step up to the polls! And I don't
believe for one moment that EVERY
Latino/American will be emotionally
torn or upset about keeping out
illegals from south of the border
when THEY themselves came across
with valid papers. The citizens
of TX, CA, AZ, and NM, and more
recently UT have realized just
how expensive this immigration
mess has become what with all
the educational and medical
expenses these people receive gratis.
The Congress is a mess, most of them
thinking of padding their own polls
on the issue. That Jerk Durbin (Il, D)
keeps insisting we need laws to protect
the talented, mensa-rated children of
undocumented Latinos. He avoids mentioning
the illiterate Mexican, gun-toting teens
who join gangs and kill anyone caught in
their line of fire on the Chicago streets!
Durbin names ONE genius kid but avoids the
hundreds whose names appear daily on the
police blotters.
Your pic is from VJ Day.
"But, ask any school child today about the significance of May 5th and chances are the answer will be ...SeenKo-DAY-MY-O"
Probably because VE Day is May 8th.
VE day is May 8, not May 5. But I agree with you otherwise.
La Raza IS an un-American, racist group.
After all, if some white guy said "For the white race everything, for those outside the white race nothing", it would be rather obvious he was a virulent racist, right?
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Meanwhile, VD Day was Jan. 20, 1992.
Hope I'm wrong, but I've seen little about stopping the tsunami of illegals coming across the border.
Simply put, the debate in Washington isn’t about “immigration” at all – and that’s the problem.
Ain't that the truth!
If you want to come to America and become a citizen -- that's great!
Wait in line.
Learn to speak English.
Expect nada from the United States government or its people while you wait. No food stamps, no licenses, no schooling, no housing, no medical care, no nothing. Should Vicente Fox send us some cash for any emergency assistance, we'll be glad to help you in that circumstance.
Abide and we'll all get along just fine.
You are so right and yet to listen to the MSM and the activits, they use these terms (or their equivalents like undocumented workers) as though they are the same!! Wrong, wrong, wrong, My gtandparents were immigrants and they came here and assimilated into the US. They fought for this country and were ready to die for it. You know any illegal aliens that are willing to go and fight and die for America - think not. They are here ONLY FOR THE WAGES AND WHATEVER BENEFITS THEY CAN SCAM.
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