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Immigration "Solutions" (Thomas Sowell Slams Open Borders Lobby's Insult Of American People Alert)
Townhall.com ^ | 06/11/06 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 04/10/2006 11:30:29 PM PDT by goldstategop

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To: goldstategop
One nit to pick with this otherwise outstanding article:
Both liberals and free-market libertarians laissez-faire utopians often see this as an abstract issue about poor people being hindered from moving to jobs by an arbitrary border drawn across the southwest desert.

This free-market libertarian believes that all markets must sometimes be subordinate to other concerns, security among them. Destruction of the idea of nation states is a Marxist conception. Laissez-faire capitalism is fine as far as it goes, but it can be blind to its own destruction at times.

41 posted on 04/11/2006 9:53:07 AM PDT by NCSteve
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To: Gordongekko909
Thomas Sowell -------------

There is a God.

42 posted on 04/11/2006 9:55:43 AM PDT by beyond the sea (Oh, for the days when "disrespect" was just a noun.)
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To: snarks_when_bored

ever wonder why Cinco de mayo is a bigger deal to them than the 4th of July?


43 posted on 04/11/2006 10:06:15 AM PDT by Rakkasan1 (they love you in Mexico until you pay in pesos.)
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To: Rakkasan1
ever wonder why Cinco de mayo is a bigger deal to them than the 4th of July?

Well, I have to admit that I do like mayo, especially Hellmann's...

44 posted on 04/11/2006 10:08:49 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: gogeo

Krauthammer :"1st a wall,then amnesty"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/06/AR2006040601380.html


45 posted on 04/11/2006 10:17:56 AM PDT by Rakkasan1 (they love you in Mexico until you pay in pesos.)
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To: Churchjack
Did you even read the article?

"people in a welfare state have legal claims on other people's tax dollars and expensive services in schools and hospitals, not to mention the high cost of imprisoning many of them who commit crimes"

How many more hospitals do you want to see closed? Our infrastructure cannot bear the burden, nor should we have to.

We don't need to keep the drug cartels happy to survive as a nation. That's lunacy.

46 posted on 04/11/2006 10:23:23 AM PDT by monkeywrench (Deut. 27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's landmark)
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To: Gordongekko909

Thanks for the ping. Dr. Sowell is right again.

In a few words he summed up what is a huge problem. Many immigrants coming to the US now whether legal or illegal, are more interested in what's in it for them rather than wanting to contribute and assimilate to our country.


47 posted on 04/11/2006 10:32:53 AM PDT by jazusamo (-- Married a WAC in '65 and I'm still re-enlisting. :-)
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To: goldstategop

We have now outsourced our immigration policy to illegal aliens who should not even be in this country. We have an illegal death wish. This great nation is commiting suicide.

Semper Fi'
Jarhead


48 posted on 04/11/2006 10:38:52 AM PDT by Buffettfan (VIVA LA MIGRA! - LONG LIVE THE MINUTEMEN!)
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To: NRA2BFree
His last name is Lopez

That'd be Larry Lopez, who has adopted the name "Nativo". He's famous for angry rhetoric.

When you start doing research on the supposed 'grass roots immigrants rights' organizations, you discover that there's about a dozen names that keep appearing. George Soros is one of them, Larry Lopez is another.

49 posted on 04/11/2006 10:42:10 AM PDT by ArmstedFragg
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To: goldstategop
I'm a "free market libertarian". I see the illegal immigrant issue as one where said migrants are perpetrating fraud, theft, and property tresspass.

Otherwise, a fairly good article.

50 posted on 04/11/2006 10:56:16 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.)
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To: jazusamo
Dr. Sowell is the most brilliant conservative in America.
51 posted on 04/11/2006 10:56:42 AM PDT by cpdiii (roughneck (oil field trash and proud of it), geologist, pilot, pharmacist, full time iconoclast)
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To: goldstategop

The more pressure we keep on Mexico, immigration-wise, the more reformers
inside of Mexico can be emboldened and empowered to scale back monopolists'
abuses down there which keep our own country flooded with economic refugees.
Here's an interesting new thread on new legal reform progress that finally
emerged in Mexico I think as a result of immigration reform's failure:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611677/posts

We can make a difference for our sake, and their's as well. Isn't it the
neighborly thing to do?


52 posted on 04/11/2006 11:49:14 AM PDT by Shuttle Shucker
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To: ArmstedFragg
That'd be Larry Lopez, who has adopted the name "Nativo". He's famous for angry rhetoric.

When you start doing research on the supposed 'grass roots immigrants rights' organizations, you discover that there's about a dozen names that keep appearing. George Soros is one of them, Larry Lopez is another.

Yep, that's the guy. Is he an immigrant or a natural American? He's really nasty. Kinda reminded me of Bob Muhollahan (sp), that I used to see spewing his rhetoric on FOX News. He would get so angry he would actually drool on himself. LOL He is/was with the RAT party. I can't stand that guy. Lopez reminds me of him. Having those kind of people at the head of ANY Mexican group is dangerous.

53 posted on 04/11/2006 12:16:27 PM PDT by NRA2BFree (NO GUEST WORKER PLAN! IT IS REALLY AMNESTY, SHAMNESTY OR SCAMNESTY - IT IS THE SELL OUT OF AMERICA)
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To: NRA2BFree

Larry's American born. There's a reason why some call him the Latino Al Sharpton, as you observed. His antics while a board member of the Santa Ana Unified School District make entertaining reading. Here's a Google cache article:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:LOtPdYmeD-cJ:www.ocweekly.com/ink/03/22/news-arellano.php+nativo+lopez+born&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=8

If you do a search on "nativo lopez recall", you'll find a number of stories on the long-lasting battle to get.. and keep... him off the school board.


54 posted on 04/11/2006 3:12:12 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg
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To: goldstategop

The Mexican constitution does not allow foreigners to participate in the political affairs of the country.

That ban applies to participation in demonstrations.


55 posted on 04/11/2006 7:43:40 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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