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To: craig_eddy

How could you possible determine a person is of suspicious legal status by driving by?

Did you hear them speak with an Irish brogue? Did they look to be of hispanic ancestry? Were they reading a foreign language newspaper while waiting for the police and ambulance?

I'm all for booting out the illegals; we have tons here in Westchester County. But I can't tell from looking or listening if the kid is an illegal Irish immigrant living on McClean ave in Yonkers or the Bronx, or a kid at the college I work at (founded by Irish Christian Brothers) on a student visa.

We have a large longstanding hispanic population (Puerto Rican, Mexican, south American, Cuban ancestry). My Spanish (learned in school, not from my Puerto Rican grandparents) isn't good enough to discern the dialect and regional accents. I couldn't tell by listening who might be a recent immigrant, and whether he is legal or not.

You must be very talented to be able to make this distinction.


6 posted on 11/09/2006 5:17:21 AM PST by YankeeGirl
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To: YankeeGirl

Ma'am, with due respect, if the person to whom you're speaking, minors excluded, cannot engage you in simple conversational English, they have a 95% chance of being in the United States ILLEGALLY because the majority of VISA interviews conducted by US Consular's offices are conducted in English.


16 posted on 11/09/2006 6:32:59 AM PST by azhenfud (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: YankeeGirl
A short, dirty hispanic man wearing filthy clothes, standing by one the wrecked cars: Not a stretch to assume he's illegal. And not ignorant or racist either. Just an observation that, taken with the hundred of other observations, forms a pattern.

Your political correctness will kill us all!

22 posted on 11/09/2006 7:00:14 AM PST by -=SoylentSquirrel=- (There will only be peace on Earth when Mecca becomes a glass parking lot.)
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To: YankeeGirl

Oh, and another thing: Illegal Irish immigrants are not the problem.


23 posted on 11/09/2006 7:01:58 AM PST by -=SoylentSquirrel=- (There will only be peace on Earth when Mecca becomes a glass parking lot.)
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