“Can we hold negative comments until we know for sure these families are illegal?”
I understand your point; however, I think you are seeing a lot of backlash from people who are being ignored by our government. The same people who are picking up the tab for the illegals. We just returned home from a one week family vacation in Ocean City, Maryland. The boardwalk had a population of at least 50% hispanic. Were they legal? Don’t know... didn’t hear a word of English from them. One day on the beach lead to one of us stepping in human excrement. Fortunately, we travelled to the Delaware beaches which were cleaner and more family oriented. I read in a local OC paper that the police were finding it difficult stopping huge numbers of people camping out under the boardwalk and on the beach. So, the vacation we saved for all year was not a great one. I will keep my snarky comments on hold for no longer. Just a thought
Oh my. How disturbing! I am sorry to hear that your vacation was negatively impacted by inconsiderate people. I live in New Jersey and stopped going to the beach years ago because the quality of people who frequented the public beaches was so upsetting to me. Sounds like it has only gotten worse.
I went to a Home Depot on my way home from work the other day and I felt like I was in another country. I heard very little English being spoken and unfortunately people were rude and aggressive. Even in my workplace, as a white American woman, I am distinctly a minority and some of the apparently foreign born men are most discourteous cutting me off to get on the elevator first, letting doors slam in my face. Our parking lot is littered with fast food wrappers that they must just push out of their cars. Sorry for venting, but I am just appalled by what is happening to our society. Legal immigrants are welcome when they come to contribute, but it seems we are attracting more people who are here to get rather than give; people who not interested in assimilating into our culture. Many seem to think nothing of breaking our laws and mistreating others. It all makes me angry and sad.
We need to tighten up our borders and return to unfettered free market capitalism. Cut the entitlements. Less government is better government.