Posted on 01/11/2004 2:37:16 AM PST by carlo3b
Tell that to my brother. He has been in construction trades for 30 years and can no longer find work because the illegals have taken it over. Carpenters do not equal garlic pickers!
Simply not true.
I agree. Immigration per se, with respect to those who applied legally, became familiar with American customs and culture, and arrived here with some desire to become a part of the mainstream culture and work toward a personal goal is to respected. What I take issue with are those who come here with outstretched palms expecting every kind of financial aid the goverment gladly doles out and then refuse to learn English or incorporate themselves into American society.
Did you ever stand on line at a local supermarket where virtually everyone pays for their groceries with food stamps and then leave with overloaded shopping carts. Or how about sitting in a doctors' office when everyone presents medicaid cards for payment, but yet they can't speak a word of English? And my biggest gripe....nice college tuition handouts for those students who barely just arrived in this country while other kids, born and raised here must resort to Federal loans. It'a all very unfair.
He should move to the greater Chicago metro area. There is so much construction work that contractors are turning down jobs.
Careful with the word "legitimate." If carlo was born here, he is just as legitimate as you are. Your issue is with his parents.
Sentimentality makes very bad law.
So right you are sweetheart.. lucky I can't find a switch smaller than my thumb, or I'd show you what fir! Thank God those ole softies didn't repeal those good old fashioned laws that kept people in their proper places! Ahhhh, give me the good old days when everyone had perspective!The phrase "Rule of Thumb" comes from English Common Law which deemed it a man's right to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than the diameter of his thumb.The 1917 Law review article, "Right of Husband to Chastise Wife," 3 Virginia Law Register 239 (1917), states the rule of thumb as the common law rule and cites as examples two NC cases: State v. Oliver, 70 N.C.60 & State v. Rhodes, 61 N.C. 453
NO SUCH THING EXISTS
Taking the props out from under this lie leaves nothing to discuss and renders this whole diatribe meaningless. The continuing concern is with illegal immigrants, a word I notice is conspicuous by its absence.
Welcoming the "huddled masses" yearning to be free is alive and well, thankyouverymuch. Unfortunately, we also need to deal with this other problem, the uncontrolled invasion of parasites.
Once you recognize that logically all persons must be native to somewhere. That somewhere is where you are born. Anyone born in America is native to America and therefore a native American.
Many Americans have come to prefer Native American over Indian both as a term of respect and as a corrective to the famous misnomer bestowed on the peoples of the Americas by a geographically befuddled Columbus.
That's the difference, love. Your family came with the hope of becoming Americans and did what they could to make that happen and to make sure they would fit in.
The current flood has come with the hope of making America like their 3rd world hell-hole former homes.
It's not uncommon to find someone in L.A. who's been here 30 years and can't speak English. You go to a resturant in the blighted areas and find very friendly people but sticky tables, crusted silverware and dirty bathrooms. I stopped in at a KFC in El Paso to ask directions and there was no one working there who could speak enough English to answer questions. The entire crew was standing around talking while there was enough trash on the sticky floor to actually kick out of the way as I walked to the counter.
They vote for Demoncraps because they want hand-outs from our treasure chests. They couldn't get ANYTHING from their previous homelands so will raid ours.
Assimilation. That's what ISN'T happening with the current crop.
Nothing has happened. If you read it you will see it doesn't say anything about: "Give is all your poor, all your tired, all your huddled masses longing to be free.......
Personally I wouldn't have minded if they had added: "and we wouldn't mind if you sent a few of your best and brightest also."
I believe the quote, from Emma Lazarus' poem, "The New Colossus,"You are so right.. thanks.. OK, Now can someone please tell me what has happened to..
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!--Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus, poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty
I know a lady who wanted to set up a scholarship fund at her husband's alma mater (he had died and left her very well off). The university shall go unnamed here, but it's in a northeastern state. She wanted each year's recipient to be a US citizen. The university checked with their legal department and they had to turn down the gift. Why? Because it would be illegal to discriminate against aliens! Sounds crazy, but this is a true story. Eventually they reached a compromise. The university's lawyers agreed that it was okay to restrict it to veterans of the US military and their descendants, which was quite satisfactory to the lady, but the whole thing makes no sense at all.
With all do respect, There is no Statue of Liberty in Texas, Arizona or California... The huddled masses did not cross the Atlantic, they merely crossed the Rio Grande.They don't see 'Liberty' when they arrive, they see entitlement.
Really, I personally know dozens of former illegal aliens operating well within our laws. I vouched for them in the mid 80's when President Reagan enacted a similar law.. However that number dropped by at least 1, when he crashed on a training mission in Saudi Arabia about 10 years ago.. I guess he was entitled to life a better life, but chose not to.
I know a young cabinet maker in South Carolina who spends thre-fifth of his time huslting work, two-fifths actually doing it. The construction companies who do the cookie-cutter developments and apartments won't hire him even though (supposedly) they have to use illegals because there are not enough local carpenters and cabinet makers available. The only work he can get is from individual homeowners who appreciate the quality of work which he does. He has to charge more because he's licensed and legal and pays taxes on what he earns.
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