Posted on 04/06/2008 9:31:42 AM PDT by vietvet67
Problem?
PROBLEM?
I don’t know about you but where is the ‘bad’ part in this story? Illegals don’t deserve anything that has to do with tax-paid related services in this country, period. The people and businesses that caters to them also don’t deserve any sympathy. The people (i.e., builders, speculators, homeowners, and politicians) who support them also don’t deserve any sympathy; they deserve prosecution.
It’s an outrage when a country prefers to export it’s brightest and most energetic strivers.
If this forced repatriation gradually forces Mexico to reform it’s rotten-to-the-core tax/regulation/education/land ownership system it will be the better for all of us.
But I thought you can't just ship 'em home. We can't just deport everyone. /sarcasm
They walked (or rode a bus) here. Let 'em walk (or ride) home. Good riddance to 'em all.
It’s not an outrage, it’s another country’s problem, not ours. Because they (Mexico) have some sort of economic problem should be no imperative for us to resolve the situation. THe illegals here in the country are sucking it dry slowly, they use our public resources, choke our schools and hospitals, bring crime and disease — all for a house sold no cheaper (because the builders reap the profit) and a cheaper lawn mowing....no thanks.
The “valley” will simply have to learn to start paying a fair wage, they’ll find workers all right.
I’m thinking back to a poster here earlier that came up with a downright Solomonic solution to the H1-B dilemma: Allow Bill Gates and his gang to sponsor all the H1-B workers they want, with the stipulation, however, that they are free to work for anyone they want for the three years of their visa for whatever pay they can get—rather than serve as indentured labor. Then we’d see how much of a “shortage” of IT workers there really is.
“’You fire your cousin or you fire your friend,’ he says. He pulls on his third Corona.”
I call BS. Non of the mexicans I know drink that crap. They ALL drink Bud or Miller Light. :-)
Government officials must have LIED when they said these illegal immigrants are PAYING taxes.... Who would've thought?
Definitely not going to mention my state which doles out housing, food stamps, health care, etc. to illegal immigrants because I don't want those people here.
I’d also like to see the return of sponsorship requirements, where the sponsor is responsible for ALL the costs bringing someone into the country.
Sure, maybe we should root for another great depression. That would solve the immigration problem.
A heartwarming story.
We don’t—and can’t—know the effects all of this will have.
For example,
the drive to unionize farmworkers in the 1960s led to the cancellation of the Bracero program, which allowed workers
legally into the country for 6 months.
Without that, the workers then took to crossing illegally, and bringing their families with them (to avoid having to recross continually).
Result: large numbers of illegals residing here with their families as permanent residents (a consequence never envisioned as being part of the unionization drive).
Now, there is a drive to send these illegals back to Mexico.
Possible unforeseen consequences?
Civil war(s) in Mexico as the corrupt system there collapses due to lack of jobs and money from US?
Further pressure on US banks as thousands of empty housing units go unrented/unsold, prices fall, and mortgages
are dropped?
Who knows? Nobody.
But maybe the government ought to also re-institute a guest worker (Bracero) program at the same time as it encourages illegals to go home.
Otherwise, the cure may be worse than the disease. . .
Hooray. Good riddance. Don’t let the screen door hit you on the way out.
So long, farewell, aufedersein, adeiu,
to you, and you and you and you and you....
Thousands of Okies and Texans were living in Fairbanks and clogging up Alaska's welfare system with claims for money to keep them alive.
The state of Alaska offered each family a thousand dollars to leave the state and go back to their original home.
The exodus on the Al Can highway was a sight to see.
It might be in California's best interest to do the same thing for our illegals.
“The “valley” will simply have to learn to start paying a fair wage, they’ll find workers all right.”
A “fair wage” to pick crops in 110 degree heat in Yuma is maybe $10 an hour in the Mexican economy.
So Mexicans and Central Americans who are sending the money home will do that work because it’s a great wage in their home economies.
But Americans won’t do that work for the same wage; they need more to be enticed to do that kind of work if they live in this economy; and nobody’s going to pay $30 an hour for picking crops in Yuma; the wage disparity is just too great.
adios
“It is Thursday night, and the family has eaten rice and beans every day this week. Martinez’s oldest son, 6-year-old Eric, asked for milk with his cereal this morning. There was none.
“We’re living like we did in Mexico, just surviving,” Martinez says.
He borrowed $700 from his employer a year ago; he has yet to pay the money back.”
This is the way most LEGAL Americans now live. The global utopian stupidity of Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2 have now left America a hollow shell of waiters, food servers and burger flippers. Oh lets not forget exporters of massive domestic debt, those they call speculators and Wall St. Bankers.
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