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1 posted on 05/02/2006 7:08:49 AM PDT by Keyes2000mt
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Well said....

"Many immigrants from Mexico believe that the American Southwest – including parts of Idaho - rightly belongs to Mexico. They believe that the reclamation of “Aztlan” will come through the sheer force of numbers. They have no desire to assimilate into American culture; in their minds, we are the illegals who should be required to leave.

Our national slogan is “E Pluribus Unum,” “Out of many, one.” We have found unity as a people by merging our original ethnic identity into a new and higher identity as simple, un-hyphenated Americans.

A recent Gallup Poll found that 81 percent of us think illegal immigration to the United States is out of control. Now is the time to act, to protect our security, our economy, our values, and our national character."


2 posted on 05/02/2006 7:12:29 AM PDT by dcnd9
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I definitely do not endorse their "love the alien among you" comparison with our illegal and criminal aliens. These people came here, knowingly breaking our laws because they had heard that the U.S. did not enforce our laws against illegal immigration.

That is hardly the fault of the citizens of the United States - this was an illegal collusion between our elected leaders and businesses who desire labor under the radar of the government.

When the American South engaged in slavery, America decided that it was not correct and chose to end that practice, but it took a violent Civil War to do so.

What our government in collusion with businesses, are conducting is a way to supply a continual "sweatshop" supply of underage serfs with little to no education to work until they either drop dead or get educated and fine other jobs to fill. Yet the business demands for this same unskilled labor will continue, so there will be no end in sight until the entire population will look like countries where there are the wealthy elites and the unskilled, uneducated underbelly, i.e. China.

This is more of that "One World Order" that the No Borders crowd have seduced Americans to accept as "humane treatment to our undocumented workers."

This is not American and certainly NOT Constitutional and should be stopped immediately.

4 posted on 05/02/2006 7:23:43 AM PDT by zerosix (Romans 5:8)
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I think we should make a point by trading one for one -- one legal immigrant waiting list person for one illegal immigrant. We should finance the transportation of the illegals with the fines we impose on the businesses and individuals that hired the illegals in the first place. Also, leave the returning-to-Mexico illegals with, say, $1000 for food. I mean, we did dangle the carrot. Still, they broke the law along with their employers. So if the workers are so necessary, trade one for one. Give us the legal immigrants who have waited.

Until you fix Mexico you will never fix this problem.

6 posted on 05/02/2006 7:29:02 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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Burn 'em at the stake!!!


10 posted on 05/02/2006 7:38:11 AM PDT by orionblamblam (I'm interested in science and preventing its corruption, so here I am.)
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Good points.


15 posted on 05/02/2006 9:10:48 AM PDT by Earthdweller
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Midwest News
Minn. Officials Look for Ways to Teach Immigrants What Tornado Sirens Mean

May 2, 2006

Officials in Minnesota are looking for ways to teach new immigrants what tornado sirens mean.

Mao Thao had no idea when it meant the first time she heard a tornado siren go off. The recently arrived Hmong refugee spoke no English, and she grew terrified when the loud wailing erupted.

Thao thought she was about to be arrested. She dropped her bicycle and ran all the way home. "I thought the cops were coming after me,'' she said.

As tornado season returns, emergency officials statewide are increasingly concerned that some of the state's newest residents may not know that the loud wail means seek shelter immediately.

Many immigrants have no idea what a tornado is or how deadly Minnesota storms can be.

Selena Lee of the Neighborhood House community center in St. Paul said one of her clients was killed in a thunderstorm last year in Minneapolis. He was unaware of the dangers of being outside in the storm. He left his car and died when he was struck by a falling tree branch.

Lee said the man was one of many Hmong immigrants who don't know what to do during a storm or what the sirens mean. In many cases, new immigrants speak very little English so warnings on the television or radio don't help.

In Stearns County, officials are preparing for a severe weather drill designed for the growing numbers of recent immigrants.

The drill is planned for late May at a St. Cloud-area mobile home park. It will test how management and emergency workers are able to communicate with the estimated 300 residents who don't speak English.

Bel Clare Estates has more than 800 residents and would be one of St. Cloud's most vulnerable areas if a tornado hit, said the park's general manager, Vern Larsen. He said the residents don't always use the park's shelters.

Marv Klug, Stearns County director of emergency management, said local media have been contacted to develop Spanish-language announcements for TV and radio. But different approaches may be needed with other languages, Klug said.

The Somali language, for example, has a relatively new written form, so literacy rates vary, Klug said. County officials plan to identify major contacts in an immigrant community, such as restaurant owners, to start a chain of disaster communication.

In Redwood County of southwestern Minnesota, where many Hmong work in food processing plants, officials are taking a different approach.

County officials are working on translating severe-weather brochures into Hmong, Sheriff Rick Morris said. But, he said, the most effective way to get out information is through the students who speak English and can bring that information home.

Some immigrant groups are also getting involved to help alert new residents about severe weather.

Thao, the woman who was frightened when she heard her first tornado siren, now works with Emergency & Community Health Outreach (ECHO). She has hosted several short public TV programs in Hmong. One tackled severe weather. One bit of advice she gives: Look at the colors on radar screens.

With such a vast array of cultures in the state, new immigrants and refugees can come up with unusual misinterpretations of the warning sirens.

Abdi Warsame, a Somali refugee who works at the Brian Coyle Community Center in Minneapolis, said a woman he knows thought the first tornado siren she heard was one of the great horns signaling the apocalypse.
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http://www.claimsguides.com/news/midwest/2006/05/02/67834.htm


19 posted on 05/02/2006 11:16:18 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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As Charles Krauthammer says, a wall built to keep people in is a prison; a wall to keep people out is an expression of national sovereignty.

Laws to keep people in (penalizing Americans who emigrate to escape taxes) have been proposed in Congress. I don't know if any have been enacted yet, but be sure they will be. What is totalitarianism but national sovereignty carried to its logical conclusion? So far, there are not many people wanting to emigrate from the U.S.. That may change.

History teaches that a fortress becomes a prison very easily.

23 posted on 05/03/2006 5:11:06 AM PDT by Christopher Lincoln
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