Posted on 03/13/2002 3:24:46 AM PST by Enemy Of The State
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:32:49 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt said he would support the bill with the border security provisions.
WASHINGTON
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Outstanding point. Imagine if we had these America haters in power 250 years ago. They would have closd the borders to George Washington!
I get so sick of this lame point. The reality of the situation is that when George Washington immigrated to this place there were no issues with overpopulated urban areas contributing to urban sprawl, no over-burdened utility infrastructures fighting for life in an era of enviromental activists (all leftists who want less power plants and more immigration, can't wait to see the resolution of THAT one!), and no welfare system for immigrants to turn to with their hands out while states all over the union are making budget cuts, laying off workers, and forcing schools to make huge cutbacks. (And I didn't even mention the issues of health drawbacks, such as immigrants bringing antibiotic-resistant TB and hepatitis with them - it wasn't an issue in the 1700's.)
The simple mind of a liberal refuses to face these facts and insists on reverting to the romantic theme of the hard-working, USA-loving immigrant who only wants to be a part of the American dream. I don't think that those of us with our minds and brains open see it that way anymore. In Iowa, immigrants move into meat-packing plant towns, trash out the neighborhoods they cluster in, and then start forming "activist groups" demanding bilingual education and more "rights." It's a racket.
The one thing it has taught me is the undeniable fact that 3rd world immigrants do not leave the 3rd world behind. It follows them and sets up residence right in our backyards. If leftists cannot see this, then I will add "blind" to the charge of "simple." Ugh!
Just using your logic to another everyday situation.
That's nonsense. Nobody refunded all the speeding tickets that were payed before the law was changed. Yes, the rules were changed, but before the change the rule was the rule, and after it changed, the rule was the rule. Simple.
What about 1000 immigrants who are working for the Mexican drug cartels? The new candidate for Texas governor had a business that laundered money for Mexican drug lords, I don't think his supporters mind that at all.
It's too bad you aren't this charitable with those who oppose your WOD stance.
Dane, VAA, my family witnessed the value of our six flats fall 60%, when the illegal aliens invaded our neighborhood. Crime of all kinds were perpetrated against the non-Mexican residents of the neighborhood to drive them out. All non-Mexicans were forced to cut their losses and move to the suburbs.
Individual neighborhoods and the entire country, as a whole, cannot absorb unlimited, uncontrolled illegal immigration, from anywhere. No nation on earth can.
Our borders need to be militarized and all immigration brought to a screeching halt until the INS has had sufficient time to remove everyone that doesn't have a legal right to be here.
The jobs being stolen by illegal aliens are not all low paying service industry jobs. We read, here, everyday about the illegal alien pilots, airport workers, military base workers, computer industry employees, restaurant owners, doctors, dentists and other professional and semi-professional laborers that are caught everyday.
The un-skilled or semi-skilled jobs stolen by other illegal aliens were once great jobs for high school and college students, that were willing to work their way through school. The wages paid, for these jobs, have been kept artificially low by illegal immigration. I worked many of these jobs, before I graduated.
Illegal immigration is not the victimless crime you two portray it to be. The average American Family loses $6,000 to $8,000 per year in lost income due to their wages being depressed by the availability of cheaper, illegal alien laborers. Add to that, the additional tax burden placed on us all to pay for the additional education, social and law enforcement services required by these illegals and you have crime being perpetrated against the American Family that's unprecedented in our Nation's history.
What gives with you two?
I wish they would come forward and explain themselves.
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