Replies

Fox's take on this sums up what many of us feel, but have been berated for on a pretty regular basis on these threads! I do NOT consider myself racist, but I live in California, one of the areas most impacted by the illegals. We have watched our emergency hospital system become decimated, with many hospitals having to discontinue emergency room services. Gang activity has increased, as has much petty crime. Our state colleges have had to increase rates to legal citizens to cover the cost of offering "in state" tuition to illegals. You can barely make a phone call to any agency without going through multiple messages requesting that you punch one number or another to have the message given to you in English.

I grew up in a neighborhood, and went to a parochial school, that was predominantly Irish, Italian and Hispanic. I have always been surrounded by legal immigrants and find them to be wonderful, productive people. But the new breed of illegals is much less interested in assimilating. They are more interested in demanding their rights to be catered to. I've been bashed by many on these threads, asking how I can possibly know the illegals from the legals. That is unbelievably condescending to the many hispanics here legally! Mostly you can tell by the fact that they take pride in being American.

One of the great loves of my life is 1/4 Hispanic. my granddaughter is 1/4 each Irish, Italian, Norwegian and Spanish (her other grandmother is Spanish but raised in Mexico City). Her Norwegian and Mexican grandparents both came here legally, with neither speaking the others language, and her grandfather only speaking a bit of English. They assimilated well, both now speak fluent English and raised four children in Southern California. They are well off financially from many years of hard work. My daughter's sister in law is engaged to a man from Mexico, who has spent much time and money on getting to this country legally. His papers are in order, and he is working and living in Northern California. He, his fiancee and future in laws are appalled by the marches and Mexican flags they've seen on display.

As Fox says, you can't deport all those here illegally, but we should certainly be able to deport those who break any of our criminal laws, and those who feed off the welfare system. At least that would be a beginning, and would work well with working harder to secure our borders. We need to start somewhere, rather than throughing up our hands saying we can't do anything!

Rant off...........flame away!