Posted on 07/09/2002 10:43:24 AM PDT by Tancredo Fan
"Refusal to embrace newcomers?" It is not apparently enough to tolerate them, while one sees if they will fit in, and become good productive and not troublesome residents. They must not be expected to prove themselves, or to win respect as others won respect by years of living decent lives. They must be embraced!
Well, I will not characterize that idea at a forum where refined women and some bright school aged children come to participate in patriotic ventures. But I think that I will take a pass on the embracing.
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Yes we do and In the past 8 months, the Border Patrol has apprehended 636,471 illegal aliens crossing the border. The INS Inspectors have intercepted 447,881 inadmissible aliens at the US ports of entry. The INS Criminal Investigators have successfully completed 32,417 cases and the Deportation Officers have removed 81,762 aliens from the United States.
11,000,000+ vs. 20,000+.
Maybe.
BS, I was born here. I am not an Immigrant.
I'm with ya.
I bet if I added just one more inane pro multculti, pro open-borders shibboleth along the lines of 'they're willing to do the jobs Americans won't do' my sarcasm would've been plainly apparent:)
Yeah, BUT,They won't!!
And how do you know what the INS will and will not do?
:)
Mr. Brock believes in free speech, just not for everyone.
There isn't a single place in the Constitution where English is mandated for anyone, or any language for that matter. People who wish to live here without ever learning English, have that right protected under the First Amendment, albeit marginalized by their inability to communicate in a common langauge, as long as they obey the laws of the land, pay their taxes, and are willing to defend the nation when needed.
Like it or not, freedom of speech extends itself unto language.
And no, those who refuse to learn English have no right to expect others to learn any language other than the common language of the nation, they must accept the fact that will live outside the mainstream of society...and that's their right as well, just like if a native-born American decides never to utter another word in any language tomorrow, or go live in the woods "away from society".
Freedom is a scary thing, you should try to understand it.
And BTW, "sir"...not everyone with a Hispanic surname is an illegal.
I always thought the Mexican agricultural laborers were called 'braceros', not 'embraceros'. ;^)
Like I said on another thread, I don't blame you or those in the rank and file of the INS but rather your leadership (Ziggy), and especially Congress who won't appropriate enough money for manpower to deal with this huge problem. 2000 interior agents to enforce laws against 10 million illegals isn't going to do it. And the fact Congress is dragging their feet, even after 9/11 tells me they don't want to confront it.
The "newcomers" we're talking about in this story, in Colorado, home to Tom Tancredo who's been the most outspoken critic of immigration policy, I'd wager are predominately illegal. There's no way the population would be exploding so quickly if they weren't.
If the INS had more field agents and a mandate from Congress, they would be more effective I don't doubt that.
Chad Brock clearly should have given his Chicano fans in the audience a cheery greeting in the language with which they're more comfortable:
¦La Migra! ¦Huya, funcione lejos a mis amigos!
That likely would have done it....
And damned proud to be one.
There's no way that most of these Mexicans are legal, when we have been flooded in five short years, in GEORGIA? How close is Georgia to the Mexican border? About 1200 miles.
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