Posted on 12/28/2003 10:49:51 AM PST by mrustow
I'm not an immigrant --- neither were my parents --- but what many forget is that even with Homesteading of land where there was so much available land they were giving every immigrant 40 acres, and the Industrial Revolution which was creating millions of low-skilled factory jobs, a third of the immigrants from Europe returned home within a short time. People like to think the boats were empty heading East --- but they were often filled with disillusioned un-immigrants which isn't the case today with Welfare around to make sure no one fails. Now 35-45% of our immigrants end up on welfare programs.
So any foreigner not only has the right to completely ignore our immigration laws, they can ignore our laws on what can be brought into this country? They can bring any drug, food, medicine --whatever they wish? Can they bring over pirated CDs? Any law at all that inconveniences, they are free to break?
Find that in the US Constitution. Or did you find that in Vicente Fox's "The Whole Enchildada"? Where does it say only all able-bodied persons can invade the USA? Even the able-bodied who will end up on Welfare handouts because they aren't so able-minded?
The ER costs the same whether its busy or quiet and regardless of who is being served. Every ER I have ever heard of uses a triage system, taking the most critically ill patients first, then working down to those with their colds and flu. That later group is worked through in the order in which they show up. I find it hard to believe that ER's are turning away people who have had heart attacks or been in auto accidents because they have a room full of people with sniffles. That doesnt happen. So if you have a case of sniffles too and are seeking treatment at the ER learn you are supposed to go to your doctor, not the ER for your non emergency needs.
Of course, no one is stopping you from following up on the writers the author cites. Someone who demands such Herculean effort of others must be willing to do some work himself, if does not wish to be outed as a hypocrite.
I didnt ask you or anyone to do any footwork for me. I only questioned the gullibility of those that accept as true a piece that doesnt offer any evidence for its thesis other than the "estimates" of other so-called "experts".
If you don't mind, I think I will have to remember and restate this remark on some occassions. I've never heard it put that way before and I think it's quite apt.
I had appendicitis and I was sent home three times, after being sent there by my doctor. The ER was busy looking at illegals with the sniffles, so they didn't actually have time to confirm that I had appendicitis and instead decided that I must just have cramps. They let me wait, curled up in agony on the floor, for six hours, though. While they took illegals with the sniffles. I had a long time to watch their supposedly "sick" kids playing around and eating Chicken McNuggets. Emergency-room-sick people do not generally eat, laugh, and play. I know this since I hadn't eaten for about a week. The room was literally full of people who were not having emergencies, and while I didn't inquire as to legal status, most of them were speaking in Spanish (which I also speak).
Luckily, on the fourth time (now days after the doctor first said it was really serious), I was about ready to die and my appendix was leaking, so my husband called an ambulance, and they had to take a closer look and perform some emergency surgery.
Good point. I've seen alot of urban sprawl around where I live and I don't like it. Alot of good farmland will be gone forever. I don't put the full blame on immigration here in the St. Louis area but anyone can figure out that the more people you bring in, the less land there will be to enjoy for future generations. Where will we go to hunt, fish, or even grow food?
As Dan Stein of F.A.I.R. was said "This isn't 1850 anymore".
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Thanks, I will!
you say we don't need em, I say we do. who are "we"? don't speak for everyone.
First things first. Let's get the illegals back home and then regulate their entry. We are a nation of immigrants. Controlled immigrants that are given a fair chance to assimilate rather than simply move their poverty.
What you call scare mongering is actually a probably highly accurate prediction of our dilemma if immigration continues to be unregulated. It's an ugly picture isn't it?
Oops. Your bigotry is showing.
No what you're talking about is chaos. Governments are sovereign for a reason. Sovereignty is required to provide an ordered society and an order society is necessary for survival. It's a successful formula. There has never been a successful society without control of it's boarders.
Yes our national policy does grant to almost everyone on this earth a shot at the American dream but in a controlled manner.
no chief, it's your lazy thinking that's showing instead. re-read my post and the one I was answering and try to understand what I really meant.
Wrong again bucko. The prejudice is against illegal aliens, not a particular cultural group.
Most on this forum see illegal alien. You see Mexican. How unfortunate. I suspect your cultural prejudice is showing.
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