And from another poster:
To: sarcasmThis is being lived out all over the US. I know a family in Manassas, VA, who have had the same travesty visited on their family. Another who lives in Dale City, VA - Ditto. A friend I've met on FR tells me of the same kind of stories in Ohio. It goes all over America - the illegal Mexicans aren't just in the Southwest anymore. Shoot, I even saw a low-slug older-model US-made car with MEXICO tags on it in a grocery-store shopping lot last week. I could only guess that they drove straight here - probably to join members of their family who crossed illegally, and who perhaps managed to get however many could fit in that thing, across the border, 'somewhat legally'???I know, first-hand, the heartache caused by illegal immigration. My beautiful daughter ~ young, bright, talented, and college-bound ~ became involved with a young Mexican opportunist, with 14 siblings and many, many aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, who are all illegal aliens and are all unskilled, uneducated, illiterate, non-English-speaking, and nearly uneducable. They laughed at the fact that still more of their family members "made it" across the border after the WTC tragedy. They have no values, morals, ethics, or standard of living ~ and instead they know how to steal SSN's, how to obtain false documents, how to evade the law, and when and where to change their names. My daughter lives in poverty, her future in the balance, our family torn apart, and my heart cries to think that this large group of people, numbering in the HUNDREDS from one family (not to mention friends back in Mexico whom they constantly encourage to "come on over"), could be granted amnesty ~ and just what would that change? None will ever make the slightest contribution to our society, none will become trained or skilled, and none will hold a loyalty to a country which is not their own. What could be more pathetic? I AM NOT ALONE. I found that there are COUNTLESS everyday Americans who have had the same or similar experiences ~ with their own painful stories ~ all because of ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. THIS is domestic terror at its worst. PLEASE STOP THE MADNESS!
276 posted on 3/9/02 12:39 AM Pacific by HeartbrokenMom
I am so disgusted with Bush's pushing this. Am I the only one who remembers the State Dinner given to honor Presidente Fox on Sept. 8th - at the White House, and how he was quoted in the newspapers, demanding that Dubya have an amnesty and guest worker program in place by the end of the year. The NERVE! He's DEMANDING that our President meet HIS demand?
Then, Sept. 11th happened, and I thought (stupidly) this issue was dead forever. Not so.
Having read Nea Wood's earlier comments, I think she has it right. Bush may know that he's condemning himself to one term over this issue alone, but that won't stop him from pushing this through.
Please, everyone - make telephone calls and send FAXes on Monday and Tuesday. Emails just don't "count" as much, for whatever reason. So, call your Representative, call the White House. Use FAIR and NumbersUSA to send FAXes - as many as they will let you send. We have to be proactive on this, or we are going to all have to learn Spanish, just to buy a burger (already true here in No. VA!!!) Having read the article on the increase of Epilepsy due to uncleanliness associated with Hispanics, I've now sworn off McD's/Wendy's/Burger King. I digress.
CALL. SEND FAXES. Be proactive or we will get this rammed down our throats.
Hyperbole has always been the hallmark of the anti-immigrant crowd. And your hyperbole is just that and the same hyperbole used against the Irish 100 years ago.