Soap opera lures Brazilians to United States

Breitbart.com | Reuters ^ | 8/25/05 | Andrew Hay

[cyborg]

Tis true...I'm in a bad language mood today :o)

[steveo]

They speak Portugese not Spanish!

And have you seen them in a buffet line? They Samba!

My father's second wife was Brazilian. Fastest way to get her completely irate was to suggest she was Mexican.

[nosofar]

I think we have an idea for how to control illegal immigration. Sponsor foreign television shows depicting America as a very undesireable place to be.

[Dallas59]

Brazilian Police Justice...

Click here to watch Brazil Police Get Last Word

[clarissaexplainsitall]

Friends or Baywatch would be a step-up from The Jerry Springer Show. My husbands cousins in Ireland asked me to my face if the people were really like that. I said "Am I like that?" These are educated people too!

[NJ_gent]

Those three can stay; deport the rest. :-)

[Skooz]

Gee, I wonder how we pay for our infrastructure down here in Hooterville. You know, our mass transit, paved roads, public colleges, etc etc etc.

I guess we're just not sophisticated enuff to know that we need to punish the populace with hypertaxation to pay for it all.

[gubamyster]

ping

[Skooz]

I think we have an idea for how to control illegal immigration. Sponsor foreign television shows depicting America as a very undesireable place to be.

Like, maybe, World News Tonight.

[wideminded]

Its amazing how many foreigners I have met, whether from Europe, Latin America, or Asia, who think America is like Friends or Baywatch.

Someone in England told me: "We know all about you Americans. We watch the Jerry Springer Show."

[henderson field]

"...television shows depicting America as undesirable..."

Excellante!
We'll get the Propaganda Minister on it right away.
We'll show dirty tenements and people rifling through garbage cans for their dinner.
That should make them think twice.

[billorites]

"As long as all the immigrants look like the female leads in this soap, I am all for this."

Brazilians are the most beautiful people on earth.

[Regulator]

Brazilians are the most beautiful people on earth

Which makes the ugly reality of their country all the more terrible.

Ask anyone who has lived and worked in the Favelas.

[brytlea]

I used to think the people in Jerry Springer's show were all actors, but after living for 8 years in E. TX I beleive at least some of them are real.
susie

[Eagle of Liberty]

Maybe they will bring the "Carnival" along with them. Brazilian women are hot!

[BIRDS]

Anyone anywhere who can afford plastic surgery by even a moderately talented surgeon has no excuse for engaging in illegal immigration.

Unless they're drug dealers trying to conceal their identity, or some other criminal.

[BIRDS]

Depends upon the point of view.

[Eagle of Liberty]

You mean you don't have "that unmentioned side" of your family?

[MeanWestTexan]

Who is talking about illegal immigrants getting plastic surgery?

[BIRDS]

Please read the thread.