Give it time. Perhaps some Americans might move back in. There is absolutely no excuse whatsoever for tolerating porous borders through which flow the scum of what exists south of the border. Additionally, a gateway is provided by clueless politicians through which pass terrorists mixed in with the other illegals.
These illegals must be rounded up (ala Eisenhour administration in the 1950's) and shoved back across a secure border.
A nation has completely lost its idenity when he allows its population to become adulterated with the castoffs of another nation's populace.
Let's cut our own grass or give the neighborhood kid a job. Get him off his duff.
Yes, but the difference is that those waves of immigration happened back when we were a "melting pot," when everyone more or less had a deep sense of themselves as being Americans, where there was love and respect for American culture, and the concepts of "diversity" and "political correctness" were not yet a gleam in the eye of our nation's academics and political leaders.
It was also a time when immigration laws were enforced, and new arrivals could not live off free US government benefits while not paying taxes, hording their cash, and sending it out of the country.
Very sensible response.
While driving home yesterday, I went by a new business construction that is going up. Shift was over, 8-10 workers sort of milling around - not a single one of them was Latino. All these black guys and white guys, doing jobs Americans won’t do. Whodathunkit?
Well, we all know that Spain ceased to exist after they expelled the Muslims. </s>
What happens when immigrants go away? For starters, Miami might revert to being an American city instead of a Third World outpost.
It bugs me that this debate is beginning to morph “Immigrants” and “Illegal Aliens” as identical concepts: they ain’t.
If you went thru border control and did the paperwork and made the sacrifices, then you are an Immigrant.
If you sneaked across and cheated your way in, you are an Illegal Alien.
Two different animals.
I am proud to be an Immigrant to New Zealand. It took bloody hard work to get here. I had to earn the right. And now I am a Citizen. These are *achievements* that took *effort* and *commitment*, and I had to jump thru reasonable hoops to get here, and make sacrifices, and go thru processes that were, at times, inconvenient. But all in all, this was worth doing because it is something that I wanted, for my family and for me.
An Illegal Alien sneaks his way in, and cheats, stealing from the rest of us who have jumped thru the hoops, and from those who were born here and whose citizenship is theirs as a birthright.
So it really brasses me off when these two concepts become blended. I earned my right to be a Citizen, and earlier to become an Immigrant, and how *dare* somebody jump the queue and seize by cheating what I had to earn!
My two-cents worth anyrate.
*DieHard*
Though I'm sure the Miami Herald would agree that economic strength is more important than the health of our citizens.
((yes that was said tongue-in-cheek)
Probably the downtown was deserted by the law abiding citizens when it was overrun by MS-13 and other thugs in this country illegally. If it is safe and there is a reason to go downtown, people will return. Until the libs take over again.
Another example of a writer deciding on his conclusion first and then finding facts to support it.
Almost comical, because we all remember firsthand what happened when the illegals walked out last year to protest the immigration bill. Nobody noticed. In fact, traffic was lighter, there was less crime, and we all saved some $$ by not eating out. The only people who missed them were the restaurant employers who saw revenues tumble.
I wish they would take off a whole week this year. And we’ll see if anyone misses them (I think not)
Ironically, many of the Portuguese who came to the US in the 1960s and 1970s (fleeing the draft for Angola in many cases) were illegal as well. I don’t seem to remember the law being enforced to deport the thousands of illegal Portuguese in Newark, Harrison, Riverside, etc. back then either.
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Lawmakers with sensible solutions have been outflanked by a resilient minority.
I wonder what the writer meant by that? That the citizens of this country flooded the switchboard to stop the amnesty bill? That, IMHO is NOT being a resilient minority.
I have only seen two lawmakers with 'sensible solutions', and the MSM tries to keep them (and their solutions) out of the public eye: Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo.
What happened here is what happens when ILLEGAL INVADERS go away. They all can;t go away fast enough for me.
If we need more immigrants - and that is for the U.S. and its people to decide, not Mexico or some other power - we should expedite the process for allowing legal IMMIGRANTS into the U.S. and revisit the quotas.
In any case, the deliberate efforts of the left-wing drive by media to confuse IMMIGRANT with ILLEGAL INVADER is a transparent attempt to cloud the issue. The issue is people who are here illegally don’t belong here and should be made to leave. Period. Immigration is an entirely different issue.
We welcome immigrants with open arms. Illegal aliens, who are interested in leaching from the USA and nothing more, we do not welcome.
Better yet, what happens when illegal aliens go away. Let’s try that...and soon.
These illegals must be rounded up (ala Eisenhour administration in the 1950’s) and shoved back across a secure border.
A nation has completely lost its idenity when he allows its population to become adulterated with the castoffs of another nation’s populace.
Let’s cut our own grass or give the neighborhood kid a job. Get him off his duff.
Perfect remarks......Congrats
” It reflects the love-hate relationship with immigrants that has existed since before our nation’s founding”
Uh, these are not immigrants!