How about showing all the OTMs sneaking in?
Posted on 03/30/2007 1:09:58 PM PDT by John Jorsett
DALLAS (Reuters) - In the gritty documentary, a medical technician delivers Mexican babies on the U.S. side of the border, joking that they have "won the lottery" because they get automatic American citizenship as a result.
A funeral director devotes much of his time to retrieving and cremating the bodies of Mexicans who die in the desert while trying to make the illegal crossing into America.
On the Mexican side, a young man looks into the camera and says he has little choice but to make the attempt to cross if he wants a better life and higher wages.
All of this is captured in "Borderlands," director Robert Kelly's film looking at life in two small towns separated by an international line in the sand: Columbus, New Mexico in the United States and Palomas, Mexico.
Kelly said he wanted to portray the human side of a complex issue.
"I would like to be able to show people that it is not black and white, that there is some ambiguity here, that these are real people and that simply putting up a wall isn't the answer," he told Reuters after a screening at the AFI Dallas International Film Festival, which runs until Sunday.
"If people can see the human reality, see the human stories, then I think their rhetoric might be a little softer on both sides of the issue."
(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.com ...
It's black and white. They're here illegally.
How about showing the dry wall hanger who can't get work because illegals are now doing it cheaper than him? How about showing the mother whose husband and child were killed by a drunk illegal alien truck driver?
Fixed the link.
I know that link is screwed up, and tried to fix it. Guess my low-tech background isn't serving me very well.
Not a problem! Just trying to help ya out.
Everyone who has been victimized by an illegal alien should make a point of contacting this "producer," who is actually a cheap propagandist.
"Kelly said he wanted to portray the human side of a complex issue."
He could have a mini-series if it were about the *human* effects on the people of the US. IMO, a much more complex situation.
How about showing all the OTMs sneaking in?
Mexican criminals...I mean politicians should be ashamed that despite having a willing workforce, natural resources and proximity to the world's most lucrative market, they still can't make it. Throw in remittances and the massive aid that we've given this country makes it all the worse. It's like retired parents who have their 40 yr. old kids living in the basement, using all the amenities, taking their cash, then assaulting and insulting them in public.
Mexican legislators should wear brown paper bags over their heads after election.
Proving what a corrupt cesspool messico is. All those natural resources tied up in a handful of Euro-decended-elites while they shovel their "problems" over our border to be dealt with at the US taxpayers expense.
"How about showing the dry wall hanger who can't get work because illegals are now doing it cheaper than him?"
You've got that right. And how about switching the names & duties of the IRS and ATF with the ICE?
If the feds were as diligent in going after illegal aliens as they are American taxpayers, cancer/MS patients, gun-owners and smokers, we wouldn't have this problem.
But in exchange for new Democrat voters and cheap labor, Congress and President Bush are prepared to kick this can down the road until another 10, 20 years go by and our children have to deal with it.
And our president and congress abet. Totally disgusting.
Doogle
It's time the American people start to BOYCOTT companies that willingly traffic in illegals!!
Oh yeah,remember that vacation in Mexico you had planned?
Doogle
My church is on this "poor misunderstood [s]illegal[/s] immigrant" kick and wants to help them. Great - send money directly to the Mexicans in Mexico to ease your conscience.
And IMO this is just another reason for the fence - keeps the poor darlings over in Mexico for their own protection so they won't get hurt or killed in their brave attempt to cross our borders illegally.
Yeah, sure. "They" may have "won the lottery" but US taxpayers are the ones stuck with subsidizing the lifelong needs of these invaders.
The invaders operate under a grandiose sense of entitlement---that the US govt and US taxpayers exist to subsidize their every need. Taxpayer provided goodies include---earned income tax credits, social security benefits (which invaders collect under more lenient rules than Americans paying into the system), unemployment/disability payments, free medical care, schooling at all levels, free legal advice, welfare, food stamps, and so on, and so forth, ad infinitun, ad nauseaum.
Also health, car and homeowners insurance the invaders benefit from but don't pay for------we end up subsidizing invaders by having to pay higher rates. The evidence also shows that for items the US govt won't provide, they just shoplift and steal whatever they want. Store patrons subsidize shoplifting through higher retail prices.
American retirees will soon be enjoying a Third World lifestyle retirement plan courtesy of George W Bush (if his Social Security Totalization agreement for illegal aliens is signed). The Mexican-style system consists of retirees standing on street corners selling sticks of gum.
Too bad they didn't include some of the thousands of deaths of AMERICANS caused by aliens. They wouldn't want the public to know more die at the hands of the 'undocumented' than have died in Iraq!
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