Posted on 01/01/2012 8:10:22 AM PST by Gen.Blather
I met some illegal Mexicans last night at a party. Several years ago I stayed with a couple of wonderful Mexican families in the Baja below California. These were well-off people. The homes, on average were beautifully tiled and some of them had mahogany inlaid walls, bookshelves and cabinetry that would cost a hundred-thousand dollars here. So, I’m guessing if they aren’t rich they’re very comfortable. The elderly not as well-off grandfather, while living in Mexico was receiving Social Security from the United States and owned a rent-free apartment in California which he used as his address to receive several forms of assistance checks from Californian agencies. He visited the apartment once a week to re-arrange things and make it looked lived in. He had a car, a Toyota Corolla that looked quite nice and had working air-conditioning. I gathered it was supplied as some form of assistance and he generally left it in California at the apartment. The apartment was about 1100 square feet and very livable. The grandfather told me most of entire complex, easily a 1000 units, were like him, on Californian assistance, but actually living in Mexico.
At the party were a couple of teenage boys from this family. Very nice kids. I’d be proud to have them as my own; diligent, hard working, trouble-free and much more adult than you’d expect from that age. They told me that they’d decided to go to high school in California instead of Mexico. They said that the (California) government gave them an apartment and they travel back to Mexico on the weekends. (I don’t know if they’re staying alone or if a family member is staying with them, but if I had to guess, they came alone.)
When I posted information on this family last time, Freepers angrily asked why I hadn’t reported them. Firstly, I was a well-treated guest. Secondly, this must be obvious to the casual observer. Even if I knew who to report it to in California, which I don’t, it is obvious that this is how it’s done. These people are only taking advantage of “benefits” put there for them. Not to avail themselves of these benefits would be like deciding not to take candy freely offered to you.
Well, that and the fact that I can't even think of a knock-knock joke at the moment.
Where were you when I needed you?
LOL!
“Words fail me as I attempt to convey ... aw, freep, forget about it.”
Good morning. More baby pictures will be up later. I got Tom to upload them, but then couldn’t get him off the computer. He was last seen watching “Big Bang Theory” on the streaming vid from the tv network and laughing uproariously.
Come in! The only hysterical people are those who are outside our little Flying Castle. We’re the deodorant for the armpit of life.
*snork-snork*
Full names and birthdates and birthplaces to start. (Always maiden names for the wives) Remember that some places did not issue birth certificates until about 10 or 15 years into the 20th Century.
Look for census records if you need to flesh things out.
You can go to https://www.familysearch.org/ , which is free, or ancestry.com which is not. Either one is awesome. Or, you COULD send what info you have in an email to someone you know who does genealogy for a hobby....
I read this as "More babies will be up later," and I thought, "What IS she talking about???" I need to wake up.
I need to stay here for awhile. The Zot gun is out on the main board and firing wildly at everything that moves. I might get hit in the crossfire.
See? That’s why I stay here, because sometimes, my alligator mouth overrules my hummingbird brain.
Stay and relax, and check out some of the posted URLs.
EEEEK!!
Let go!
And later she’ll have to walk the school uphill both ways in the snow.
And I thought I had problems over thinking things...
Your post made me feel so much better about myself. Thanks.
Zon is getting up with the other two during the week to get 'em off to school, but apparently Grace doesn't like getting up before 10AM.
Twenty-five miles one way.
“But then I realized we’re almost at the 1,600 mark and we’ll be on another page and people will only see the post for a few more minutes.” As you can see, some of us return to where we stopped last night in order to embrace in toto the complete experience that is the UT. I did like the “booga booga booga” post, though, as I scrolled down to pick up where I left off.
With nothing but barbwire footwraps for traction in the snow and ice.
Loved vampire cat lol! Looking forward to baby pictures.
“You don’t need to work that hard.
She laughs at everything.”
The transparency people should use me to develop their model.
Barefoot.
You had barbed wire? We would have killed for barbed wire!
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