Posted on 01/01/2012 8:10:22 AM PST by Gen.Blather
I met some illegal Mexicans last night at a party. Several years ago I stayed with a couple of wonderful Mexican families in the Baja below California. These were well-off people. The homes, on average were beautifully tiled and some of them had mahogany inlaid walls, bookshelves and cabinetry that would cost a hundred-thousand dollars here. So, I’m guessing if they aren’t rich they’re very comfortable. The elderly not as well-off grandfather, while living in Mexico was receiving Social Security from the United States and owned a rent-free apartment in California which he used as his address to receive several forms of assistance checks from Californian agencies. He visited the apartment once a week to re-arrange things and make it looked lived in. He had a car, a Toyota Corolla that looked quite nice and had working air-conditioning. I gathered it was supplied as some form of assistance and he generally left it in California at the apartment. The apartment was about 1100 square feet and very livable. The grandfather told me most of entire complex, easily a 1000 units, were like him, on Californian assistance, but actually living in Mexico.
At the party were a couple of teenage boys from this family. Very nice kids. I’d be proud to have them as my own; diligent, hard working, trouble-free and much more adult than you’d expect from that age. They told me that they’d decided to go to high school in California instead of Mexico. They said that the (California) government gave them an apartment and they travel back to Mexico on the weekends. (I don’t know if they’re staying alone or if a family member is staying with them, but if I had to guess, they came alone.)
When I posted information on this family last time, Freepers angrily asked why I hadn’t reported them. Firstly, I was a well-treated guest. Secondly, this must be obvious to the casual observer. Even if I knew who to report it to in California, which I don’t, it is obvious that this is how it’s done. These people are only taking advantage of “benefits” put there for them. Not to avail themselves of these benefits would be like deciding not to take candy freely offered to you.
I take it Winky doesn’t have a pet. :-)
I live in New York.
Far removed from teh border problems, right?
No.
We have teh black dirt onion farms right next door.
Every year the so called migrant workers show up and the crime rate skyrockets exponentially.
They leave, the crime rate drops like a rock.
The ‘officials’ cannot seem to figure it out.
Now, to put the face on it.
ICE did a paperwork and INS card sweep in the area back when they were actually doing “Immigration and Customs Enforcement” instead of “Your website looks good, we want it” stuff, and you know what?
Out of three hundred ‘migrant workers’ on one farm alone, over two hundred were here illegally.
That year turned out to see a drop in the local crime rate.
But they were all so polite...
Winky is the pet, I think.
Uh.............okay.
Pardon me, but did you just say your sister is a lesbian?
Cheers!
He typo’d.
Saw it, corrected it later.
And spawned off the scene from Spaceballs where Dark Helmet confronts Lonestar in the Megamaid self destruct room.
Hopefully he comes back and laughs with us as we poke at the thread originator.
***Sigh***
The things that happen when I leave Free Republic for a short time simply to eat a plate of ham.
That was early in the trhead while I was out too.
O hai. I go to church for a couple of hours, and the place fills up with illegal aliens and serious discussion. Where’s the tamales and Dos Equis, anyway? Did Pat’s mother ship land, too?
In my recent pregnancies, the goal has been NOT to start labor while it’s too early. I’ve mentioned to my family that every time I spend a whole day on my feet and then the evening in the recliner timing contractions, it’s more likely the contractions won’t stop, and then won’t they wish they’d gotten off their keisters to clean up after themselves ... but it doesn’t make any difference.
At least we’re now on the 2012 deductible, and I have all the tiny pink clothes washed. I’ll see Dr. Something-Polish on Wednesday and get an idea about whether we’re likely to make it another week. I’d like to get through one more Monday, so I can teach 2 Samuel and 1 Kings to the 6th grade. After that, we have two weeks off from Rel. Ed.
You watched “Shrek” again didn’t you.
Yowch TC.
Pat’s mothership probably landed.
And it was a resupply mission.
He’s hiding ‘somewhere out of sight’ probably sending his mission report to the high overlords.
The high overlords being Ash and Jake.
He did say it was California.
That would explain the filling-splitting ukelele noises, and Shannon's distressed expression.
I'm going to have to get Tom to move the refrigerator tomorrow: Shannon is *absolutely certain* there's a prey under it.
MMM.. could be.
My silly hat is at the haberdasher's having the parrot re-feathered. May I wear a Homburg and silly shoes?
Alright, but the shoes must be really, really silly.
If you don't make it another week, are you postponing the First-Of-What-Will-Soon-Be-An-Annual-At-Tax-Chick's-Free-Republic-First-Thursday-In-January-Undead-Thread-Potluck-Supper until the first Thursday in February?
When I wear them with the Bermuda shorts and the spats, they scare Shriners clowns. Or maybe it's the tattoo of Thelma Todd dancing the merengue.
The whole family had problems. They kept calling Lassie 'she' and the dog was male.
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