Posted on 11/29/2002 5:36:44 AM PST by dennisw
Ooooooooooooh! (Hands wringing in Mr. Burns-style glee) This would be cooooool! Who's side would the media take? Who would the government defend? This would be like Hulk Hogan vs. The rock in last year's Wrestlemaina!!! Two "good guys"--who would we root for?
(intro Mariachi music) "In this corner wearing the traditional Lucha Libre mask...acheiving the American dream...gladly doing the work us lazy Americans no longer want to do...taking back their rightful land of Aztlan, one inch at a time...The MEXICANS!!! (cheers from the crowd mixed with random cries of "Aribia La Raza!")
(intro powwow/rain dance music) In this corner...dressed in feathers and ceremonial garb...they've been used, abused, dumped on and pushed around...but no more!!! They're fightin' mad and seein' red...They're the Indians! I mean, The NATIVE AMERICANS!!! (cheers mixed with random tomahawk chops and woo woo woos)
During the match, W would distract the officials (special guest ref Pedro Morales) with bags of money provided by Saudi Arabia, and Vincente the Fox would hit the Indian over the head with a Mariachi guitar and the match would be over...Uno...Dos...Tres!!!
LINE THE BORDERS WITH NUCLEAR WASTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, there is something to be said for, shall we say 'having what it takes' and also there is something to be said for doing what is right for your country - even if it means paying a little more to get that stump dug out - working a little longer and a little harder to do it yourself - or planting ivy on it.
Sorry hiring illegals is not a good thing - and there is no amount of perfume you can spray on it to keep it from stinking.
I also can agree that many illegals (and legals) are good people ---but not all are and around here there seems to be more (of both) living in government housing and cashing in on free health care at the county hospital than there are working in farm work. We wouldn't necessarily have to get rid of all the illegals ---if we actually need some ---I'm not sure but possibly farm workers ---we can make a temporary guest worker program where they're background-checked and limited to certain jobs. We don't need any that are committing Social Security and other document fraud and we don't need the ones on welfare, we don't need the drug runners either or the other criminals. What we see a lot of here are pregnant --often unmarried women from Mexico coming here to have babies that weren't even conceived here but will end up on welfare here and with family reunification are used to bring in all kinds of non working types. The elderly moving in to get on SSI and Medicaid are also a major problem, they also don't come to work hard for anything.
That's a bit extreme.
Our quality of life isn't ruined. Our economic well-being is far from being destroyed. Our medical problems relate mainly to our system of litigation. Our schools are screwed up mainly because they are controlled by the teachers' unions.
Illegal immigrants do cause us some problems. More than a few. I know about that.
But they also bring with them some good things.
The fact of the matter is that this is an issue we need to deal with in a realistic way, and we are not doing that now.
This nation was built on immigrants. All of us -- every one -- is descended from an immigrant. The notion of "legal" and "illegal" is relatively recent. The inscription on the Statue of Liberty is no joke.
As a purely practical matter, the Republican party *must* find ways to mend its fences with minority groups of every type. This is not an option. It has to be done.
If it is not done, there will be no Republican party in a few more years.
We are currently patting ourselves on our collective backs for the outcome of the last election. But, if you look at the demographics, our joy will be very short-lived unless we start reaching out more. Mining the borders is not the way to do that.
It is more than that, however. Much more.
It is the morally correct thing to do.
This party was founded on giving people opportunity, not on taking it away. Everybody. White, black, brown, yellow, whatever. We are all together in this.
I expect people to obey the laws and I expect the laws to be reasonable, but I don't fault anyone for trying to come here.
If you want to make the Republican party obsolete, just keep bashing immigrants and minorities. That will work.
You're kidding, right? Tell that to the employees at the jails and prisons in areas where there are high concentrations of illegal aliens. They've gotten so bold down here that they deal their drugs in broad daylight and don't care who sees them!
Tell that to people who have had to flee once-decent neighborhoods because they got tired of being sleep-deprived from the loud accordian-polka music blasting from cars in the middle of the night as illegals stood around it and drank beer and leaving their trash all over the place.
I could go on, but I won't.
I understand there are problems here.
I want the moral high-ground. I think we all do, and I think we can get it. We have a chance here.
Add that to the fact the EPA considered the estuary "sewage-based", and therefore we would be "altering/changing an endangered species habitat", ignoring the fact that the tern's eggs (the protected species within that habitat) were being eaten for breakfast by the invading aliens..
Ironic, ain't it? No one really raised the issue of the impact of immigration upon the environment for quite some time. Now, with the fence in place, everyone is concerned about the "needless deaths" further East where the wall ends.
Pookie & ME
You must have mis-read that. It was considered to be an endangered feces habitat.
...and he goes by the name, "The Other Harry".
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