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Personal note - I've been out of the loop; droning at the Dell computer factory in temp status can really take it out of you (I can hardly believe there was a time when a hardworking guy could hire on with a company and be assured of their loyalty and a good retirement). Good genes are kicking in and I'm leaving the illegals in the dust with stamina and intellect. (Thank you, God.)
Yep, there's illegal aliens working at Dell despite stringent filtering that I can't fault their hiring standards over, due to the rampant document fraud industry (a legal resident Honduran chick told me about the illegal's bragging about this). That really hacked me off because I had to provide my birth certificate despite having my driver's license and military DD-214 on hand at initial hiring. Dual standards, real and inadvertant.
Just wanted everyone on the Illegal Immigration/Border Issues List to know that you should post Gubamyster or Hijinx during the weekdays and myself during the weekends so those fellows can get some well-deserved time away. Lord knows how too much of this stuff can threaten anyone's sense of reality.
In Arizona you can register to vote over the web. You don't have to provide any proof of citizenship whatsoever. Just fill in a few blanks and hit "enter".
A couple of years back, one of our "acting" Arizona governors (the real one having been recalled) attended a citizenship ceremony in Phoenix. At the end of it, she gave a little speech about the importance of voting. A bunch of the brand new citizens assured her that they had been voting for years.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday decided against allowing Americans who were illegally deported from California to Mexico during the Great Depression to sue to recover damages connected to the loss of their homes and businesses. The governor vetoed a bill that would have opened a two-year window for victims of the so-called Mexican Repatriation program to file damage claims. The statute of limitations for filing suits against the state and private organizations in California has long since closed.
It was one of two bills by state Sen. Joseph Dunn, D-Garden Grove, that addressed the repatriation, in which an estimated 500,000 to 2 million people, including many legal immigrants and children who were U.S. citizens, were rounded up and forced to move to Mexico to create jobs for white Americans between 1929 and 1944.
The deportations, authorized by President Hoover and carried out in cooperation with local authorities, targeted areas with large Hispanic populations, mostly in California, Texas and Michigan.
Schwarzenegger has not yet acted on the second bill, which would create a privately funded commission to study the deportations and help determine the number of survivors.
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Semantics. American citizens aren't deported; those posing as citizens are (well, used to be). All around our planet countries are finding illegal immigrants to be such a dran that they're rounding them up and booting them out. Only America is villified for this common-sense measure to insure its survival. If everyone else is creating refugees at a time when we display weakness on this front, how can we prevent those countries from making us the primary dumping ground for their unwanted?
I was surprised to find a History Channel documentary about America's Marijuana Tax Act (spelled "marihuana" at that time) to be purported and relentlessly pushed by Southwestern states, specifically Arizona, as a way to expell Mexicans residing here illegally on the basis of their supposed involvement with this drug.
Are they actually threatening to stay away from California? Gee, I'm distraught.
bump and thanks!
Get rid of all that worthless junk listed above. Buy some forged documents and learn to speak with a Spanish accent and you will be in like Flynn.
Since the standards the government sets is higher for you than it is for them, join 'em......
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