Posted on 09/04/2007 5:01:27 AM PDT by theothercheek
I agreed with your post on the reasons for our prior policy of forced assimilation. So it should follow that since that policy WORKED and current policy of multiculturalism doesn't, we should have changed policy long ago.
But, ignoring the wisdom of prior generations, and making believe today's "immigration" problem with Mexico is no different than prior immigrations, has allowed the situation to deteriorate to a point far beyond where you believe it to be.
Calderon's declaration makes it apparent that he sees Mexicans coming to the US not an as an IMMIGRATION but as a COLONIZATION! Our country needs leadership that deals with the Mexican government accordingly.
I wasn’t cherry picking.
I guess I didn’t communicate my thoughts effectively. What I meant to say is that Mexico’s president claims were nothing new.
Illegal immigration is wrong on so many levels. I’m sure if you have looked at my other posts you would know that I am not in favor of illegal immigration.
Whatever you meant when you wrote “the Italians were no different” is unclear.....esp parsed against the cites.
When we lived in Mexico (8 years), to have Article 33 waved over an American expate was one of the biggest threats we faced. If the immigration enforcers arrived at your door for any reason, you had to leave Mexico within 24 hours or go to jail. The enforcers stayed around until they saw you leave. Let’s have our own enforcers in ICE or local police) do the same thing here.
My grandmother wouldn’t teach us Italian because she said we are Americans and we speak English now. However, my father’s side came here from England in 1633 and I think we have the language down. I suspect that my grandmother, my mother and my aunts used Italian to talk about us.
Time to open the eyes, ears and engage the thinking apparatus. Even short sighted, comfort seeking, consumer oriented, self gratification, brainwashed, media reprogrammed zombies can see this spear flying at the heart of the USA. Jane Fonda, John Kerry and the clintons have made treason an outdated concept. Now folks don't focus on it, and don't see that Treason is the spear and it isn't only being committed by radical liberal Democrats.
If I do, do I get a decoder ring?
And I won’t get in trouble for posting on the *66*th post of the thread, will I?
Whatever, you clearly won’t see or hear it.
The same in my house. My grandmother and great-mother spoke Italian to each other while they were cooking or when they were gossiping.
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McDonalds and FreeRepublic.com
Threads like this, Hunter's campaign, it's all just a distration to keep the 'outraged' busy and distracted.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2007-08-29sm.html
>>Both studies found that immigrants used government services at a greater rate than native-born residents did. The New Jersey study found, for instance, that the typical immigrant family received about $4,044 annually in government services, about 11 percent higher than the average native-born family. At the same time, immigrant households paid about 8 percent less in taxes. The net result was that “the average native household generated an annual fiscal surplus of $232” to government, while “the typical foreign household was a net burden of $1,484.” The gap was even wider in California, where immigrant households produced a net deficit of $3,463 each, because so much of that state’s recent immigration had been in the form of low-wage, low-skill workers.
Though the study did not distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants, it did break down foreign-born households by the regions of the world from which they had come. In both states, the study found the steepest deficit in Latin American households, which in New Jersey consumed 26 percent more in government expenditures than the average native-born family, but paid 38 percent less in taxes. By contrast, immigrant households in New Jersey that hailed from Europe or Canada actually consumed, on average, less in government services than the typical native-born family, and paid nearly as much in taxes.<<
There was a report put out by the Dept. Of Homeland Security that states “up to 10 million” illegals entered the country JUST LAST YEAR ALONE.
No way are there as few as 12 million. Even the pro-illegal groups have stated closer to 40.
Speaking of which....are you getting television commercials in your area about the possibility of a pandemic? In Ohio, we are, but I’m not sure who’s behind them.
Just curious...do you support Bush’s comprehensive immigration reform and giving illegal aliens a path to citizenship? And are you for or against our borders being effectively secured?
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Jorge El Segundo, El Presidente de Los Estados Unidos del Norte y de Mejico.
George Bush with the aid of his congressional Cronies - all of the ‘Rats and all of the Rinos (we need a zookeeper in congress) is responsible for this outrageous effrontery and bombastic rhetoric.
In ancient times, cities had walls.
Now we know why.
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