Well the ain't gettin' it, unless they take John McLame too! < /sarcasm >
Posted on 06/21/2002 6:47:57 PM PDT by Mom_Grandmother
Mexico, at least one person anyhow, wants several of our states back, they belong to Mexico. On Hannity & Colmbs Now!!!
FMCDH
The issue is whether we prefer to have cheap lettuce and hire undocumented workers so they can build our houses to save a few dimes at the expense of our own citizens.
The issue is whether these people are here to assimilate and become loyal American citizens NOT loyal workers.
The issue is whether we are ready to simply pretend that our borders don't exist anymore.
The issue is whether money is more important than our liberty, our sovereignty, our constitution.
Yes, we have a beautiful country if you look at the physical attributes of our nation. It can be very depressing when you think about how far we, the people, have fallen.
Ping received. Yeah, well, when "racism" is equated with being "against illegal immigration" and wanting to do something about it, there is going to be a problem. Maybe like Bush they see millions of new future republicans in the making. LOL. Until then perhaps they should ponder on why Mexico tolerates next to no immigration in their country and when violators of their strict immigration laws are found they are summarily arrested and deported. Why if I didn't know any better I'd say this is…..
The problem with LA, is not only the "south of the border" population isn't assimilating, but neither are the Armenians (who have literally taken over Glendale), and some other ethnic groups/immigrants. You have a "melting pot", but the problem is, no one is "melting/assimilating".
You have ethnic communities fighting against others (especially in the gang communities). It's not just black and mexican gangs there. Include Oriental and Armenian in that game. And the unfortunate (well, one of many) things are, that each ethnic gang will teach the other of their "tricks." (this was told to me by a gang task force PD officer). Oriental gang members are infamous for following home someone and robbing/killing them in the driveway. Well, the others are catching on.
Back to illegal immigrataion....Many of the Armenians are also here on the public dole. They bring the family from "the old country" and the elders are on Medicaid/Medicare. It stinks. And they are *extremely* inclusive. Recently they asked the LA Diocese for their own Catholic Church, because they wanted to be amongst themselves (kind of defeats the purpose of catholic=universal).
It's bad. Very bad. And when these groups (illegal) make their own rules, it's a dangerous combination. We had the riots there in '92, but that will be like a Sunday BBQ compared to what can potentially erupt there. Thats why I'm quite comfortable away from there now.
When drugs became really popular, then it started to get overrun with more drugs, crime, prostitution, ect....pretty ugly stuff.
Any "wanna-be starlet" arriving from the midwest or wherever, at that time, must've certainly been surprised that she was NOT in the "glamourous" city it used to be.
And cholesterol, and high sodium, and high sugar, and creeping insulin resistance, and overexposure-induced allergies to wheat, corn, soy, grass, mold, .... and don't forget the Ritalin prescriptions at one end of the age spectrum, and the Lipitor and ACE inhibitor prescriptions at the other, and all the dope-smokin', beer-guzzlin', barbecue-chokin' overindulgence in between.
Look at the CIA estimates of military-age men suitable for service. USA, about 2 million. Mexico, about 29 million. Their guys work outside installing drywall and chopping weeds. Our guys work inside on joysticks while guzzling Jolt! and Mountain Dew and sucking down Bugles and gummi critters. Our guys would need two years' advance notice, a year to get organized, six months to get their weight, blood sugar, and blood pressure under control, and another six months getting in shape physically and training up on weapons. Then they'd finally be as ready for basic training as the Army of the Potomac was in the summer of 1861. Two or three years of hard campaigning and combat, and they'd finally be first-rate troops. Five years, tops, from the minute the Mexicans drop the hankie, our guys will be ready to defend American soil and let freedom ring.
Any problems with that?
Not quite so fast. That's the plan, amigo -- their plan. Do a search in a reference site on "plan" and "San Diego" and "Mexican-American" or "Chicano" or "pachuco".
I consider it racism on the part of the millions of Mexican illegal aliens when they come to the U.S. and refuse to adopt our American culture and traditions.
When I drove by the northern edge of the San Luis Obispo area, near Santa Margarita I guess it was, down to Morro Bay nine years ago, some of the settlements and houses looked like a West Coast version of a Wyeth painting, especially in the fog. In thirty minutes, coming from Bakersfield, I'd driven from 97-degree heat in the valley up over the grass hills of the Panza Range and through a low gap in the Santa Lucia Range of the Southern Coast Range to find myself in blowing fog just on the other side, and a temperature drop of about 40 degrees. I stopped the car, popped the trunk to retrieve a windbreaker (a ridiculous thought 10 minutes earlier), and got a faceful of 130-degree air from the trunk -- one of the strangest sensations I've ever experienced. Some interesting experiences in California! And a very picturesque area, too -- very little people could do to screw it up.
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