Posted on 05/03/2007 3:01:49 PM PDT by Sleeping Beauty
Is it Dane??
ROTFLOL!
Best regards,
SJB
Anyone who will cross the Florida Straits from Cuba to the U.S. mainland on a raft to reach freedom deserves U.S. citizenship. That area is one of the most dangerous waters in the world. The Rio Grande it is not. It takes a lot of courage to take a risk like that. As one who has found these wood & styrofoam rafts as far north as 29 degrees and as far west as 88 degrees in the Gulf, I often wondered about its occupants...whether or not they lived...the weather they had to endure. In the 1994 raft exodus I found four in a one week period. Only one had the orange paint that the CG sprays a raft with after they rescue someone from it. They spray paint the raft and leave it in the water. Captains are alerted via ‘Notice to Mariners’ in such events.
Some of those loop currents around Cuba are murderous.
It went so quiet once I said that...
teehee
It sure did : )
“What I do realize is that we very much need that 2 percent for our farms.”
But why do they have to be illegal aliens?
Many Mexicans are guest seasonal workers with proper legal papers...
They go back home after their seasonal contract is finished..
Illegal aliens are not here legally...The word is ILLEGAL
BTW I’m not sure what your post is about....
“splitting up families and destroying the lives of many people whose only crime was coming here outside the process.”
Nobody is splitting up families... why would a mother desert her children and leave them behind in the US?
At least you admit that a crime is committed when an illegal alien enters the US without prior permission..
“The majority of illegal aliens in this country are otherwise law abiding and productive”
No, they continue to be criminals who are not law abiding because they have not answered for their crimes...
And, no, they are no productive, but a drain on the US economy, demanding and receiving social services and free government handouts which are denied to the American citizens; the same American citizens who struggle to pay the large tax bill the illegal aliens cost...
“the idea of hunting down those who are here now, except felons, is unduly hurtful and unnecessary”
It is indeed hurtful, and unnecessary, but only to the American citizens who are struggling, and who are denied the same social services and free government handouts that are given to lazy criminal illegal aliens..
As to the hunting down... that’s what happens to you when you break the laws of a sovereign nations of laws...
“Given the grevious economic conditions”
NO Mexico is one of the richest countries in the world...
“lack of opportunity in Mexico”
How do you know there isnt? The Mexicans should riot in the streets and demand opportunies and “fair wages” and “good medical plans” They know how to do that quite well...They have had several dry runs and lots of practice in our country...
“a young father would be evil to allow a shallow river and paperwork keep him from feeding his family”
A young father is evil to break into another country and steal the bread from the mouths of another young father’s family...Why do you bleeding hearts never pity the children of Americans?
Why doesnt the same father protest his own Mexican government for the chance to feed those starving children?.....What’s stopping that brave desparate man?
Finally, what they going to offer? Special privileges and opportunties that aren’t available to the gringo? Gonna make it illegal to discriminate against folks who can’t speak and read English?
In any case, pandering to “Hispanics” compromises the conservative principles that used to be part of the Republican Party platform. If the “Hispanics” are the future the ‘Pubby Party, then conservatism and the country are doomed.
BTW: Aren’t “Hispanics” tired of being lumped into a single group? Guatemalans are different from Mexicans who are different from Brazilians and Cubans. Besides, if you’re a citizen, wouldn’t you rather be an American?
And why on Earth would any decent person knowingly have children when he or she well knows that they won’t be able to support them unless they illegally enter into and work in another country? Is that commendable behavior?
You’re not suggesting that poor Mexicans should have abortions, are you?
Not getting pregnant is the appropriate way to avoid this problem. Are you suggesting that it’s the duty of the U.S. to pay for the child-rearing costs of the rest of the world?
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