A very intelligent friend I respect very much queried this;
"...how about we spend 600 Million on helping illegal immigrants BECOME legal and educated citizens rather than stir the pot of ignorant gear and hostility towards people ONLY wanting the same that our Great Grandparents wanted for themselves...?" W.W.
To which I unexpectedly purged myself of this...
We actually need to do both at once. JMHO. Secure the border(s), document the ones here and background check, and GO AFTER the ones here who are criminal (other than being here illegally). Give them a warning to get back a cross the border (drug, murder rape, robbery guilty) seal it up, watch every one who goes (so we know if they come back) while we're legalizing everyone else so they can STFU about racism and 'oh, but America was founded on immigrants', make it a crime to hire illegals and a law they need to do SSN checks (I had mine stolen and used by an illegal in SC) when they hire.I may seem hostile. If I do it's because I've encountered obnoxious La Raza in Utah who swear to 'take back their land' and talk about how great it is to be Mexican, running around with their flags all over...how great and wonderful Mexico is, yet they're here? It can't be that great if it's worth abandoning as a lost cause instead of changing. Then again, maybe that American $ they send back (I see it every day) is helping...but helping who? The Country doesn't seem to be getting any better .I've met nothing but (in my drug days) illegals who sell and manufacture drugs, esp meth and are here robbing, raping, assaulting, driving w/out ins, having kids who get put into the system or fall behind in regular school, gangbanging and of course, dealing drugs. We had years of drastic declines in 'meth lab' busts; come to find out the reason is the Mexican drug gangs have taken over and it is brought in, shutting down the skinny dude in his mom's basement, the White Supremacists (again, experience) and the traveling Motel lab couples. If/when they get caught and sent back, they come back with lightning speed and just pick up again. They treat women like shit, they think we're possession (again, personal experience) no wonder Mexican girls are so damned mean to other girls, they've put up with that crap from men. I could go on, but I won't.They have to want to be here for the right reasons, like the people who came here now and help build this great Country. And even the people who were forced to be here (slaves) who stayed and contributed and fought for their freedom and equality (still do) and didn't form groups to 'take over' area's to claim as another Africa or China, but to be A PART OF. This whole 'take back our Mexico' thing is not conductive to being here for the right reasons. We need to move forward, not get into a race war over land which will drag us back to the beginning, or worse.
Wow, I guess I needed to get that out. I've been holding it in so I don't 'offend' anyone or have them take me wrong.
I could have made this longer, but I hope it gets the idea across without making me look like too much of a douche bag.
EDIT to include;
Just watching the evening local news with the situation earlier at our Capitol (sp?) for us, the debate and beginning of the process of our own Illegal Immigration Bill has just begun.
My attention went to the signs tho' since I couldn't get anything else out of it with the yelling and shouting going on (and man, does that place ECHO!) I felt I needed to spew my opinion on some of what I saw on the signs. I saw a few which basically boil down to 'Your ancestors were immigrants too' (said a lot meaner than that) 'this Country was built on immigrants' that topic. Look, people. We HAVE to move past that. This isn't then this is now. This Country is bursting at the seams and we're seriously slacking on taking care of our OWN CITIZENS (yes, we must help in disasters, but as the richest Country in the World, WTF are we doing just leaving our own with no homes, food and medical care???). Our finances are shit and spread thin along with resources because of the fucked-up 'wars' (watch the documentary 'Iraq For Sale') and the key item ppl keep forgetting is it's about *ILLEGAL* people here, not *IMMIGRANTS*.
My computer is over 6 years old. It's pretty much obsolete. It's not as productive and frustrates me quite often. It still works, but nowhere near what a new model can and will do.
This whole 'your ancestors were immigrants too' is pretty much obsolete. It's not as productive and frustrates both sides quite often. It still works, in a way, but nowhere near what a new outlook can and will do.
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