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Taz Member (Idle past 3322 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: |
Aside from the legal/illegal question, there is another side to this issue.
We can look at this as a question of fairness. There are many people in the world who are waiting in very long lines to get into this country legally. I know a Vietnamese family that applied and waited for the application to go through for 8 years. When they were finally cleared, they had to go to Thailand and stay in a camp for another 2 years before being cleared to come here. They have told me that they have relatives that have been stuck in one of these camps in the Phillipines since the 80's... and they're still there. But if you live in Mexico, you automatically can jump ahead in line? We are BOG. Resistance is voltage over current. Disclaimer: Occasionally, owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have used he/him/his meaning he or she/him or her/his or her in order to avoid awkwardness of style. He, him, and his are not intended as exclusively masculine pronouns. They may refer to either sex or to both sexes!
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 446 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
But if you live in Mexico, you automatically can jump ahead in line? Doesn't an immigration bill include everyone trying to enter in this country? Also that Vietnamese family are being detained by who, Americans? Also, don't mis-understand me, I am not for Mexicans coming here illegally.
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ThingsChange Member (Idle past 5956 days) Posts: 315 From: Houston, Tejas (Mexican Colony) Joined: |
Then be prepared to pay $5 an onion in the supermarket. OK. Food prices go up. But health care and education costs won't increase as fast. Bringing in a huge number of uneducated laborers is good in the short term for the wealthy who use them to cut their costs, but the ancillary costs to the rest of us for many decades will bleed the middle class and the country as a whole. Poverty is hard to eradicate, and it's foolish to think that these illegal immigrants will raise many engineers and doctors. History does not bear this out. 'Liberalism is a mental disorder' - Michael Savage
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anglagard Member (Idle past 867 days) Posts: 2339 From: Socorro, New Mexico USA Joined: |
ThingsChange writes: Poverty is hard to eradicate, and it's foolish to think that these illegal immigrants will raise many engineers and doctors. History does not bear this out. What history? Did the Italians and Irish raise engineers and doctors? How about the Japanese or Chinese? The only thing foolish is to presume Hispanics are somehow inferior to other ethnic groups.
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ThingsChange Member (Idle past 5956 days) Posts: 315 From: Houston, Tejas (Mexican Colony) Joined: |
You are taking my statement way out of context and bringing race into the issue and ignoring the premise that it's a huge number in poverty.
Our current immigration laws make sense. We limit the quantities per country (and as a whole, and we ask them to learn the basics of what it means to be an American, to increase likelihood of assimilation of the immigrants. There's a limit to how many high-school drop-outs an economy can bear. 'Liberalism is a mental disorder' - Michael Savage
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Taz Member (Idle past 3322 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: |
riverrat writes:
Yes and no. Yes, it's suppose to do that. No, Mexicans are right next door as oppose to people living thousands of miles away across the biggest ocean on Earth.
Doesn't an immigration bill include everyone trying to enter in this country? Also that Vietnamese family are being detained by who, Americans?
That's the problem. Nobody is detaining the family. They were cleared by the Vietnamese government to leave the country. What they needed was approval from the American side. Ideally, they were suppose to stay in the camp in the Philipines for no more than a couple years. But because of our wonderful (sarcasm) immigration system, their files are still sitting somewhere waiting for someone to sign his name. So, there they sit for more than 2 decades already. So right now, technically they don't belong to any nation at all. They just sit there waiting for someone to sign the fucking paperworks in D.C. By the way, because they're not citizens of the Philipines, they can't legally work. And unlike Mexican illegal immigrants in the US, they can't just slip away from the camp and disappear into the population because they are still hoping that their files will one day be cleared by some bastard in Washington. In other words, they are living in extreme poverty, purely at the mercy of the locals.
Also, don't mis-understand me, I am not for Mexicans coming here illegally.
No, but from what I've read, you seem to be supporting us legalizing the illegals. I'm just pointing out that there are plenty of people in this world who are willing to wait for decades for some bastard in Washington to at least take a look at their files. Perhaps we should give them a chance first before worrying about the millions and millions of those that simply jumped ahead in line just because they live right next door? P.S. - I've been labeled a racist for having this opinion. We are BOG. Resistance is voltage over current. Disclaimer: Occasionally, owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have used he/him/his meaning he or she/him or her/his or her in order to avoid awkwardness of style. He, him, and his are not intended as exclusively masculine pronouns. They may refer to either sex or to both sexes!
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anglagard Member (Idle past 867 days) Posts: 2339 From: Socorro, New Mexico USA Joined: |
ThingsChange writes: Poverty is hard to eradicate, and it's foolish to think that these illegal immigrants will raise many engineers and doctors. History does not bear this out. You are taking my statement way out of context and bringing race into the issue and ignoring the premise that it's a huge number in poverty. You said that history shows that immigrants don't create many engineers or doctors. I say they produce around as many as anyone else, so I call bullshit. BTW, unless you are a full-blooded Native American, you or your ancestors are immigrants. Edited by anglagard, : include original quote
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anglagard Member (Idle past 867 days) Posts: 2339 From: Socorro, New Mexico USA Joined: |
If anyone would like to minimize, or even end, illegal immigration the solution is quite simple. Instead of sitting on your ass stuffing your face with Doritos, go out there and start harvesting vegetables, mow lawns, clean motels, and mix chop suey. Get your kids involved too! If there is no money, there will be no immigrants.
If you are not doing this, and are instead just loafing and collecting the benefits from the fruits of their labors, then stop whining.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1435 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
We can look at this as a question of fairness. There are many people in the world who are waiting in very long lines to get into this country legally. That is why a lottery is the bets way to select them. An arbitrary vote. (and immigration is different from asylum for political purposes). What we need are quotas for numbers of workers to come. It seems to me that if we have an illegal worker problem that the immigration quotas have been too restrictive: there is more work available than immigrants. Enjoy. compare Fiocruz Genome and fight Muscular Dystrophy with Team EvC! (click) we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmericanOZen[Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share.
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ThingsChange Member (Idle past 5956 days) Posts: 315 From: Houston, Tejas (Mexican Colony) Joined: |
P.S. - I've been labeled a racist for having this opinion. When there is no other way to counter logic, some people resort to name-calling. 'Liberalism is a mental disorder' - Michael Savage
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 446 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
That's the problem. Nobody is detaining the family. Ok, you marry the guy, and I will marry the girl, and we'll get them here
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Taz Member (Idle past 3322 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: |
Um... uh... I'm a guy...
We are BOG. Resistance is voltage over current. Disclaimer: Occasionally, owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have used he/him/his meaning he or she/him or her/his or her in order to avoid awkwardness of style. He, him, and his are not intended as exclusively masculine pronouns. They may refer to either sex or to both sexes!
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Hyroglyphx Inactive Member |
This would provide a safety-net for US citizens as well as a work-to-citizenship program for immigrants. RAZD, your list for proposed implementation sounds very reasonable, not to mention feasible. It protects the citizens of the nation, both born and naturalized. It protects the immigrant who is seeking a better way of life. And it protects the resources that make any of it even possible-- namely, the economy. "I marvel that where the ambitious dreams of myself and of Alexander and of Caesar should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant”- Jesus ”-should be able to stretch his hands across the centuries, and control the destinies of men and nations." -Napoleon Bonaparte
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 446 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
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Taz Member (Idle past 3322 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: |
Ok, I don't have any sense of humor, nor do I have any sense of metaphorical bullshit, nor do I hvae any sense of... whatever...
Mind explaining the Adam Sandler part? We are BOG. Resistance is voltage over current. Disclaimer: Occasionally, owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have used he/him/his meaning he or she/him or her/his or her in order to avoid awkwardness of style. He, him, and his are not intended as exclusively masculine pronouns. They may refer to either sex or to both sexes!
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