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To: B4Ranch
What percentage of these “troops” do you think will go through the trouble of learning English and paying a $5000 fine to become an American citizen?
.0001%.
The vast majority won't because they don't want to become citizens anyway. There is no fear of capture or deportation because if it was going to happen it would've been happening consistently for the past dozen or more years. So few have been returned to Mexico with an "I got busted crossing the border" t-shirt that everyone thinks they won't even be looked for...and proportionally they're right.

What advantage is there for them to be an American citizen?
Since they get almost everything that citizens get now, and sometimes even more, there is none. Better to stay below the radar and weather out this latest squall.

18 posted on 06/13/2007 7:50:57 AM PDT by philman_36
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To: philman_36

That is exactly the way I see it.

When I look around, we have traitors in Washington and unfortunately noone is going to put them on trial. Us voters seem to think that elections are enough of a trial and we can’t be bothered with going thru the time and expense of rounding up the signatures for a recall.

We have the ignorant voter who knows diddly squat about this imigration bill and could care less because they only vote in presidential elections if at all.

Then there is the American who doesn’t care who’s in office as long as him and the wife have decent paying jobs and the kids aren’t mugged on their way to public school.

We elect politicians who seem to consistently be about 180 days behind what’s posted on FR. In some cases 640 days but they’ll sign any bill placed in front of them as long as their favorite lobbyist doesn’t object.

These are the ignorant buggers who are schocked right out of their underwear when the people start calling his office and demanding that he withdraw his support for a bill. Then he has to back out of the deals he’s already made with the lobbyists for contributions.

This idea of ‘elected for life’ needs to be vigorously opposed by the voters if we are going to have any chance at all of saving America.

DRIP = “Don’t Return Incumbent Politicians,” – two terms, and they’re out.

The first term they make friends and learn how to get a bill passed. The second term they can actually write some bills that will help us and then get out of DC.


33 posted on 06/13/2007 8:36:57 AM PDT by B4Ranch (DRIP = "Don't Return Incumbent Politicians," – two terms, and they're out.)
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