[Los Angeles] Council calls for [ILLEGAL] immigrant rights

LA Daily News ^ | Wednesday, December 19, 2001 | Rick Orlov

[FITZ]

And I think it will not happen till Cali and Texas, at minimum, no longer have a star on the blue. Texas really isn't that far behind Cali, at this point.

I don't know if Bush and Fox actually have losing a few states in mind or if they think the two countries will both share the SW. Now the Mexicans can be citizens of both the US and Mexico, they seem to have a region of the US set aside for both countries to share citizens and resources but only the Americans pay taxes for all the social programs and other handouts.

[FITZ]

Maybe it's not just the SW because those dual citizens can go anywhere in the US. It seems to be a one-way deal where Mexico has access to everything in the US but Americans are still restricted by Mexican immigration laws and other laws preventing them from buying land or building businesses in Mexico.

[Dimensio]

What part of "illegal" do you not understand ?

Do I really have to start using sarcasm tags? Did you not notice the wording of my statements? Do you honestly think that I don't realise the irony of asking why we should treat illegal immigrants like criminals, especially when I follow it up with "it's not like they are breaking any laws..."?

[flamefront]

These threads on illegal immigration always are very tricky to handle. People have to really work hard to jokingly be sarcastic since there are many different emotions surrounding all this. So many people just like to get the discussion steered over in to the sinkhole of trying to decide who really is the masked racist, for example.

He missed your sarcasm, it happens a lot since people can't hear your inflection in the middle of their escalating outrage. After all, who, but Orwell, would ever think we would actually see the self-contradiction written in a newspaper:
the Los Angeles City Council unanimously called Tuesday for legalization of illegal immigrants?

Also there have been a number of goofy disruptors on this issue that have shown up recently (but I don't see them now).

Take care, all, and have a good Christmas.