2. It doesn't make me feel better.
3. I'm not trying to fool anyone. I'm an open book on the subject.
4. If it was bad enough to try to stop it 30 years ago, it is more so now, not less, and the remedy must be at least as (draconian? no...the right word fails me just now) as then, not less.
5. 30 years ago I was 14 and living in Utah. Came to Grand Rapids in 1999 after my Army service ended. Whatever beef you have with Rapidians and their ilk cannot extend to me. I have thought there was something serious to be done about illegal immigration since I became aware of it.
6. The day laborers aren't the problem. I wish they were.
7. Your last paragraph makes me wonder why you're fighting me on this.
Peace out, fellow citizen. If the balloon goes up, I have your back, and will not be so ungracious as to remind you of this day and leave you to your fate.
Fair enough. I hope you understand my own anger at this when we could have solved it long ago. But many of the very people now demanding a draconian response were the same ones that told the border states to pound sand, and only because it hadn’t happened to them yet and they could care less.
Well, they care now but only because they see it themselves. I stand by my point that they only have themselves to blame.
BTW - The situation is now almost unsolvable. Anyone who says we will round em all up and deport them then build and an East Germany type wall with armed soldiers and gun turrets along the entireee southern border are living in dreamland.
It’s never going to happen, politically or physically. So we are left with developing a program where we can have some control as they come in, know who and where they are, keep out the criminals, collect taxes and some system of insuring they go home when they are supposed to.
And if you think we are going to do better than that then you should just collect your guns and go live in a hole somewhere because you’re not being realistic.