Posted on 05/18/2008 9:31:35 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
He does seem like a passive, effeminate version of Wayne Brady.
I would have liked to have seen that! Perhaps that’s my he was so passive in this interview—still licking his wounds.
Illegal children are learning English, Riley is correct about that. In fact children of illegals slowly become Americanized (pop culture, etc) within three generations. HERE IS THE IRONY. These kids will attempt to follow their dad’s footstep inconstruction. When queried during an interview they are not hired because their ENGLISH IS TOO GOOD!!!! Meaning they cannot be silently exploited, so the American business men would not hire them. What this means is that the children of illegals will be unemployed because the American business men will look for more illegal immigrants instead, thus triggering another wave of illegal immigrants. If we do not close our borders, this problem will snowball as the process will repeat itself - hire illegals, reject their children (more on welfare and underemployment) and hire new set of illegals, thus creating new wave of illegals while at the same time balloon the size of American underemployed poor in this country. Both have financial and social consequences to this country.
The children of illegals are in many cases, AMERICAN citizens. Yup, anchor babies. Get ready as they line up to vote.
It's bad enough that we have to carry the deadwood base of the democrat party without adding 20 million more freeloaders to the welfare roles.
Kick 'em out!!
These smarmy little faggots with their Ayn Rand books want the United States to do what they would never do in they own private lives. Anarchists and phonies. They need to get the shit beaten out of them by construction workers who got put out of business by illegal aliens
LOL! Of course. Didn't you love his "arguments" that in order to decrease illegal immigration we must make it legal? And that doing so would decrease the pressure on Homeland Security? Hello Mr. Riley! Anybody home?
The WSJ epitomizes the term "Country Club Republican". If there's a way to make rich people richer (whether deserved or not) they're all for it, regardless of whether or not any conservative principles are violated in the process.
Agree.
If this were 1860, the WSJ would be propagandizing about the ecomonic virtues of the South’s “perculiar” institution — slavery. After all cheap labor is good for the economy.
And if we decriminalize murder, rape and robbery we could empty most of our prisons, also.
I am not sure what Jason Riley is thinking or if he is even capable of thinking. He might as well be arguing for blue skies as open borders. The truth is the sky is blue, the borders are open and are about to become exponentially more so.
When a country has 25 million illegal invaders I do not think “closed” is diction one could very well use and be accurate and/or honest. If the borders were “open” would we have 50 million, 75 million invaders?
The American Sheeple, utilizing their American Idol pop sensibilities and puerile intellect have selected for themselves the Senior backstabber and Junior Marxist. Amnesty cometh, our Republic goeth, so what is your argument, Mr. Riley? The pimps on Wall St. and leftist enemies of America have for all intents and purposes, won. Again Mr. Riley, what is your argument?
The sad thing is that when government no longer protects the citizen, the citizen will turn to organizations like La Cosa Nostra to insure his and his families welfare and safety.
When it happens, I hope Jorge and Juanito don't say they weren't warned.
Absolutely! We can eliminate crime virtually overnight. I wonder why no one thought of that before?
Jason Riley claims the way to solve the problem is to provide more ways to legally immigrate. Ok, what is wrong with what we have now? Ummm nothing but it is too slow is the common response. Well heck, they are right, hopping the fence (if there is one) or wading across the river is much faster. And what they want when they get here is to be legalized. And that would be amnesty. But it is quicker.
Jason claims the Texas controller did a study that indicated illegal aliens are a net plus to the economy. Ok, that would be Carolyn Strayhorn in 2006 and in that study removing all the illegals results in the overall decline in the economy ranges from 0.1% to 2% The average would be roughly 1% However that very study tries to bemoan the fact that it found there would be a rise in wages.
“Wage rates would rise by 0.6 percent in the first year and stay above the forecast rate throughout the entire 20-year period.”
But there is more. Carolyn Strayhorn the comptroller also did an audit of the Texas Residential Construction Commission (TRCC, pronounced “trick”) this week. This Commission has been heavily criticized for its overbearing bias towards the homebuilding industry. Instead of providing protection for new homebuyers, the commission has provided ample protection for the builders. And just guess what makes that industry go? Illegal aliens of course.
So Carolyn, who is part of the Governor Perry team, audits the Commission, which is comprised of Governor Perry appointees. Anyone care to guess the results of the audit?
Jason goes on to claims they are assimilating because the are learning English. Well, I live in Dallas and I don’t see the illegals learning English and for the most part they are dragging the others, legal and illegal back to Spanish because it is their “culture.”
Jason also indicates a sign of assimilation is signaled by the illegals buying houses. Apparently Jason is unaware of one of the larger contributing factors to the real estate collapse is banks handing out mortgages to folks that could not handle them i.e. illegal aliens.
Lastly Mr. Riley claims that the illegals are assimilating because they are “climbing out of poverty.” But it, according to the study, depresses our wages.
Somehow I just can not buy off on Jason’s premise. Just call me mean-spirited I suppose.
A little set up: As I recall, Michelle had criticized the WSJ’s open borders stance and they fired back citing guerrilla attacks, so Michelle lampooned them with a gorilla attack in this video.
The video is of an actual WSJ editorial panel meeting where Gigot calls us irrational and another says it's a cultural thing, code word for us being racists. But then Michelle delightfully points out that all the WSJ editorial page members are middle aged white males and while there is a woman and a black man in the room, there's no place at the table for them.
It's WSJ hypocrisy at it's best:
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/07/new-vent-gorilla-warfare-against-the-open-borders-wsj/
Everyone needs to remind this open border fool of this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017532/posts
In LA, Special order 40 has become interpreted so that the police CAN NOT ASK ABOUT THE IMMIGRATION STATUS OF A SUSPECT. Therefore, they if they do not know the immigration status of a suspect, if the suspect is an illegal alien, THEY CAN NOT TURN THE SUSPECT OVER TO THE BORDER PATROL FOR DEPORTATION!
Jamiel Shaw’s family (His mother is fighting in Iraq!) are upset that Espinoza, an illegal alien gang member who was in county jail, was released back into the community, instead of being deported.
They are currently trying to get Special Order 40 changed, but are apparently getting pressured by the mayor, who acts like a hispanic activist, the chief of police and others, to back off of changing special order 40.
Even if there were no objection to all the illegals coming in to work- what about the criminals of all sorts, and middle-easterners that are crossing the border? Is that good for this country too?
The border issues are not all about one thing- yet many try to make it seem that way. No matter how you feel about illegal workers coming in- the border needs to be secured for so many other reasons.
I am setting up a home theater and had to run over to Orchard Supply and Hardware this morning for an S-video. I had to pass by the paint booth to get to the tv accessories. 3 gal employees all standing there just blabbing away in Spanish. I stopped, looked at them, and said.....speak English. They didn’t know what to say. lol
The argument to use against people like these is....okay, let them all in. No free healthcare, education, food stamps, WIC, section 8, etc. And any children they have are not citizens so the children are not eligible for bennies either.
Let them all in but they must pay for EVERYTHING themselves.
Watch em do the two step.
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