Posted on 05/02/2006 10:21:15 AM PDT by Tolik
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As someone quipped about the Palestinians, so too Latin Americans never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
That's been an historical pattern that has routes back on the Iberian penninsula.
Observe what's happened with the recent lurches to the Left in Veneuela and Bolivia.
Watch for more fun times with the pending Peru and Mexico elections.
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Mike Reagan said yesterday the only thing he noticed about the Stinko de Mayo day was that the highways were less crowded and, he was sure, almost everyone out on the freeways had insurance.
Weren't those demonstrating ilegales really saying, "America, help us! Our own countries stink! They are rotten! They are full of lousy governments! They are full of hopeless conditions! They are lands with no hope! They are places with no futures! Our own countries don't have enough food to feed us, jobs to occupy us, hospitals to take care of us, schools to educate us. They are cesspools reeking from wasted lives because those lives lack opportunity! Help us, America! Help us! Our own leaders, our own lands, our own homes are not worth trusting, are not worth staying on, are not worth living in. Please, help us!"
Wasn't this also part of the lesson to be learned yesterday?
Combine that with the oil industry nationalization in Bolivia and incoming elections in Mexico with more slide to the left. The Latin America is not going to get any healthier anytime soon. Unfortunately.
too bad W & the Gelding Old Party doesn't get the "lesson"...
If they were saying it, I missed it and it must have gone unreported because I have been following the news pretty close on this issue.
"- that the fight is eminently winnable."
By whom?
Oh, they never said it with words. They never said it as they "proudly" waved their nations' flags. No, they said it by their very presence on foreign soil, seeking all the advantages that a legal presence on tht soil brings. If their homelands were so full of the promise and hope that America holds out, why would they leave?
Isn't that the reason for most, if not all, immigration--the promise of something better?
"But it cannot be denied that guests, particularly uninvited ones, are not in a position to make demands."
Gold Star comment of the Week!
I think the American taxpayers are the ones who need "a just and fair solution". Illegal immigration is bleeding us dry.
They don't want to pay for anything, they expect (and demand) that we take them on as dependents for the rest of their lives. They get free medical (how many of us do?) Some lawmakers want to give them in-state tuition to colleges (my American citizen grandson pays out of state tuition). They're overloading our schools and demanding "special" attention because they won't learn English. They're drying up our social service system here in California. They're filling our prisons. They're taking American jobs, working for cash, and paying few taxes.
Each one of them in the end costs us over $50,000. WHY IS THIS OUR RESPONSIBILITY? If a "just and fair solution" can be found to relieve the American taxpayers of the burden of these locusts, maybe some of us would be willing to listen.
I'm sure it was part of the lesson learned. But IMO, one that made clear we should have learned a long time ago to say no, to enforce our border, to punish employers of illegals, and to do thorough background checks before doleing out welfare.
Of course, the old socialist slogan was "Workingmen of all countries, unite!" The subtext was: "You have nothing to lose but your chains." Now it's, "Illegals of all countries, unite!" The subtext is: "to reconquer Aztlan and expel the gringo."
Does it take mind-reading to think that they are here (illegally) and not in their homelands (where, according to existing laws is where they belong) for a reason? Does it take mind-reading to assume that those reasons may just have to do with living conditions in their own lands? If they had it so good in their own lands, why would they risk coming to this country (Illegally), risk breaking the law for a job that (as we've heard ad nauseum) no American would want to do? It must be that what they are leaving is less desirable. That is merely deductive reasoning. Sorry if you can't see that (or the hyperbole in my remarks--everything okay?)
I do not begrudge them wanting a better life. I'd want the same for my family and my children. I do abhor their presence here, which is illegal, and their insistence that i somehow accomodate them as has been the case with other immigrants. The issue is, as it has always been, a legal issue. Immigrate legally, you are one of US. Do it illegally, you are Entrometidos--interlopers.
Give me a break!
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