Posted on 04/22/2008 5:03:52 PM PDT by antonia
Wonder how long it will take our open borders enthusiasts to find and attempt to trash this thread?
I best not verbalize my solution to this growing problem...
I welcome them.
But it's embarrassing to have battles of wit with unarmed persons...
I think state and federal officials are aware of all this. For some unknown reason they have elected to destroy this nation, and there’s little the average guy can do about it, except continue to work so they don’t come and get him.
I’m so disgusted right now. We are at least another five years away from any relief, and truth be known, we can most likely add another four years at least on to that.
Good by USA. It was nice while it lasted.
Hell, another 15 to 25 million illegals and we can hoist the red white and green over a good portion of this nation, as they sway more influence than citizens do.
I once had a Cambodian student whose family had been in the U.S. for two years. No one in the family had a job during that time. She wrote a bitter essay about the government’s pending withdrawal of funds to pay their rent and other benefits. Her parents couldn’t work, she said, because they spoke no English. TWO YEARS!
I have the greatest sympathy for immigrants who are truly strangers in a strange land, but we all have choices, not all of them pleasant.
I might be more liberal on this issue if I hadn’t seen hundreds of such cases.
By the way, she hated this country. She felt that her family did not receive enough benefits to be comfortable.
Well, thanks to the last purge, there are far fewer of them to battle now.
I am the son of an immigrant — a LEGAL immigrant. My mother played by the rules, respected our laws, studied American history and civics, and became an American citizen. I remember her studying for her citizenship test, sneaking little moments here and there when she had a free moment from raising three kids and maintaining a household, and helping out my father at his office as he was developing his company. We would quiz her in the evening after dinner, and she would answer with confidence, and pride. She has been an American citizen for almost fifty years. She would not want to be anything else.
“But it’s embarrassing to have battles of wit with unarmed persons.”
laughing here, great response
mrs
If it's any consolation, my solution would probably be similar to yours.
Would it help to think of that $24 billion as a tax sent home to Mexico?
This “study” is puzzling. As they all are. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that we are all paying the $2,500 x 1,100,000 medicaid bill ob/gyn for the hundreds of thousands of anchor babies born each year to illegal immigrants...
BUT WHY DO THEY INCLUDE LEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN THIS “STUDY”?
My family came here legally 39 years ago and we have never taken one red cent in gubmint handouts or even one bite of gubmint cheese. (unless you count my mothers pension and free medical courtesy of the generous taxpayers here in the Democratic People’s Republic of NJ, but she slaved for 35 years driving around in a state car with no AC or radio to earn it).
WTF?
There are lots of highly educated legal immigrants who add a lot to the country. Go to any of the McMansion developments here in the DPRNJ and the only people who can afford the houses are Russian, Chinese, or Indian immigrants who are doctors, dentists, engineers or scientists.
Why not just limit the study to illegal immigrants? I don’t get it.
I wonder how the people losing their homes, and struggling to survive feel about this?
My family came here legally 39 years ago and we have never taken one red cent in gubmint handouts or even one bite of gubmint cheese.
Good for you and your family. However, we have NO supportability test like most countries. Many immigrants are sponsored which means the sponsors signs papers saying they are financially responsible. Immigrants sign papers stating they will not collect any benefits for 5 yrs. It is NOT enforced.
I wish we had a means test for immigrants. There is absolutely no reason to let people in who cannot or will not support themselves.
If only all immigrants were like your family but I don’t think most are. The welfare state siren calls.
Since my parents retired, my Dad has taken up free lance social services as a hobby. He signed those support agreements when my uncles came here years ago. You’re right, they are meaningless for Gubmint purposes but they mean something to people with honor. His older brother put him through school after my grandfather died.
It runs in my genes I guess. We can’t stop trying to help people even if it hurts us. And they say only libs care about people.
Having said that, I am a little but taken aback by your seemingly callous attitude towards legal immigrants.
I thought this was a war against ILLEGAL immigration. Am I wrong? What am I missing?
Now Phyllis says the legals are twice as much of a problem as the illegals.
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