Yeah, you'd have to be crazy not to want this in every U.S. city.
Has immigration really become the most important thing in the world to everyone, or is this temporary insanity??
You obviously dont live in San Jose, Ca.
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What is more important then no borders, and no laws. Go buy yourself a clue.
It's only the most important thing in the world to some FReepers, Minutemen, and 5-6% of the rest of the population.
Meanwhile, Grand Ayatollah Sistani in Iraq has just said that all Shiites should turn their weapons in to the government, that only the Iraqi government should have weapons.
He is determined to shut down the militias, and told fat boy al-Sadr to disband his, immediately.
This is huge, and helps Maliki get control of the insurgency.
We on the border live in armed camps.
So to answer you question again, yes it is the most important thing in the world to me, and if it is insanity twenty years of nothing is not temporary.
The President and his sycophants don't see it that way. They have no problem with open borders, illegal immigration and amnesty.
It's temporary insanity. This has never been an issue in the presidential elections in my lifetime.
The 9/11 hijackers killed 3000 people, which was horrible. In response we launched two wars, spent trillions of dollars, created the TSA and Homeland Security departments, etc.
Meanwhile suspected illegal aliens make up a huge percent of the outstanding felony warrents in LA, illegals are 33% of the federal prison population, etc. And the response has been ZIP.
The proportions are just all wrong. It might not be a dramatic all at once event, but the effect on the quality of life is as high, or higher.
It's the one and ONLY issue of Tancredo and his followers, who themselves are single-issue voters.
You noticed that too, I mean yea its a problem... one we have had for a LONG TIME.
Nope, Temporary Sanity, of course it will pass, being it's only temporary.
Some folks need to develop a sense of current perspective, and longer term thinking. A dose of right from wrong in law enforcement might come in handy too.
"Has immigration really become the most important thing in the world to everyone, or is this temporary insanity??"
If we don't handle ILLEGAL immigration, nothing else really matters, because the country is gone. If the country hangs in the balance, then, yeah, immigration really has become the most important thing in OUR wolrd.
As a fellow Texan, I'm surprised that you are poo-pooing the immigration issue. I want our President and Congress to do their duty and secure our borders, period. This is one of the hugest threats to our country and we cannot continue to allow millions of people to ignore existing laws and enter our country from a safety standpoint alone. Nevermind that illegals are bankrupting our healthcare and educational systems and using up all of our social services designed to help our citizens. It sickens me that politicians won't drop everything and immediately do everything possible to secure our borders now. Details allowing work visas can be worked out later.
And yes, that's one of the highest things on my wish list, right along with getting our elected officials to listen to their constituents so that we'll want to go to the polls and make sure the dems don't win the majority in the next election. I'm also wanting the GOP to make the tax cuts permanent, revamp the tax code, win the war on terror (and that includes terrorists democrats and the MSM), reform social security and allow oil companies to drill off shore and in ANWR, etc.
It would be nice if many would grow a spine and quit acting like oil companies are the bad guys. Someone in Washington needs to bone up and point out that Exxon-Mobile only makes 9 cents a gallon profit, while taking all the risks, while the blood sucking government makes over 18 cents a gallon in Federal Taxes, not counting State taxes!
I swear, I've worked myself up into a huge mad and need to go have a drink and calm down, but I hope you'll understand where I'm coming from and will never again imply that those of us who are alarmed about illegal immigration and list it as our number one issue are temporarily insane. Afterall, Congress seems to always be the problem and ever since they've brought up immigration reform (and done nothing about it but posture), tens of thousands MORE illegals are crossing our borders in droves.
To some, yes. Probably to the majority here on FR.
But note that they like to make that all-important distinction between legal and illegal immigration, which is roughly equivalent to approving of abortion as a birth-control method for single women but not those who are legally married, as if having that piece of paper makes all the difference in the world.
When asked, I doubt that one FReeper in 10 can tell you how many apply, how long it takes, or which authority of the 1986 Immigration Law pertains to the hordes of potential legal immigrants from Mexico (since that's really what we're talking about, not those coming from Sudan or Bali or Korea) which everyone wishes were "legal." All they will say is there are too many illegals, and they are jumping ahead in line, and they need to go home and wait it out.
Temporary insanity? No, I don't think so. It's more on the order of mob hysteria, bordering (pardon the pun) on xenophobia among those who truly worry about "the American culture" being trampled. Pat Buchanan is a perfect example, along with Prof. Samuel Huntington.
The American culture will survive, as it has through waves of immigrants from Eastern Europe, China, Ireland and Southeast Asia. Each wave was met with severe anti-immigrant feelings, racism and social ostracism. Chinese were relegated to a fenced-off section of San Francisco, now called Chinatown, and prohibited from all but menial occupations. The American culture nevertheless survived, as did the Chinese culture, by some miracle.
When the inflation figures come out in a month or two, we'll see if immigration is really the issue some think it is. My guess is by November, it will be the economy, stupid.
Yes, but you wouldn't believe me
Anyway your tagline describes you, does that mean we should question you, ridicule you? Which?
Yeah, you'd have to be crazy not to want this in every U.S. city.
That's like being at a picnic and asking why everyone's running over to the drowning boy while the meats on the grill are burning.
If Tancredo fixed the borders and did nothing else, I'd be all over it. Clinton did things and I wish he'd been entirely idle.