Comments on: Who’s bright idea was this?

By: Remort

Remort — Thu, 18 May 2006 02:26:29 +0000

This will teach the Mexicans to emigrate to the U.S. illegally, a 12ft wall is being erected along the U.S.-Mexican border. Mexicans told me when they want to return to Mexico for a holiday, they just turn themselves into the INS for a ***FREE*** flight home. In other parts of the world THEY SHOOT YOU DEAD.

I wonder why there isn’t a wall being erected to keep those sneaky Canadians out of the U.S. too??

So, here’s the message: if you’re sick or poor, come to the U.S. and get free healthcare and all the other wonderful entitlements.

I think the most famous Mexican(-American) I can name is the Dog Whisperer/Ceasar Millan, only because he was in an episode of South Park. Eric Cartman says to him, “suck my asshole, taco bender!”

By: luxbearer

luxbearer — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:16:08 +0000

Origami
Remember, Roman Empire was destroyed by barbaric invasions and I see the same thing happening here.

well, that is not true, according to Republican Congressman Ron Paul

It is an unbelievable benefit to us to import valuable goods and export depreciating dollars. The exporting countries have become addicted to our purchases for their economic growth. This dependency makes them allies in continuing the fraud, and their participation keeps the dollar’s value artificially high. If this system were workable long term, American citizens would never have to work again. We too could enjoy “bread and circuses” just as the Romans did, but their gold finally ran out and the inability of Rome to continue to plunder conquered nations brought an end to her empire.

By: dogbertt

dogbertt — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 08:15:13 +0000

If people want to get the Latin American population to be reproducing so much

Atually we want them to be reproducing much less.

By: Shenzhen Whitey

Shenzhen Whitey — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 06:57:59 +0000

typo
…to NOT be reproducing so much…

By: Shenzhen Whitey

Shenzhen Whitey — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 06:55:55 +0000

That yellow bar warning its a Non-Korea post practically makes it out like the post is NSFW.

I agree, if you want to be legalized, its not a good idea to wave another country’s flag and the photos on M Malkin’s website are pretty bad, but she’s just preaching to the choir. I wonder if it gets thorough treatment on mainstream newspapers.

If people want to get the Latin American population to be reproducing so much, the best way is to increase their income and job opportunities.

By: michael

michael — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 06:52:47 +0000

In the case of California, it is “contested territory” by a lot of Mexicans, who don’t feel the need to assimilate because the state was theirs (so the argument goes). The U.S. gov’t really needs to deal with immigration in its entirety, but as you say, it’s too much to expect in an election year, besides which there are too many vested interests for the radical overhaul that’s needed.

By: James

James — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 06:16:39 +0000

I did the hiring for a company in California for a few years and for most of the jobs, 99% of the people that applied were unable to prove they could legally live and work in the US. There are a few things about this that caused some problems.
First, “legals” felt they should be paid twice what the company was willing and able to pay based soley on the fact that they were legal and could DEMAND more compared to “illegals” who were happy to take what they could get. Interestingly enough, I also saw many el salvadorenos who were present legally on guest visas that had been granted almost 10 years ago because of the problems that El Salvador was experiencing. These work permits were purely temporary and were granted on the condition that their holders would never be able to apply for legal resident status and that they must return as soon as the US deems the situation has improved enough to do so safely. In the meantime, life has not stopped for these people and they have gotten married and had children (who are citizens) so even a guest worker or other “temporary” solution is not really viable. Take a step back and it is not hard to see there are many, Mexicans, Koreans and Taiwanese who regularly abuse the system by scheduling to have children born in the US.
People talk a lot about the benefits these people provide but what of the costs? Yes someone has to pick the strawberries and grapes (for premium wine grapes they are most often picked by hand when the grapes reach a very specific sugar content. Since there is a very small window of time from not enough sugar to too much, crews normally work 20 hours straight) and milk cows twice a day but by having these people do these jobs for sub-minimum wage, isn’t that preventing someone else from doing it at a higher wage (which would also contribute to the tax base) which would also mean that food would cost more and maybe some farmers would no longer be able to produce because of the cost involved to harvest but I wonder if that would be such a bad thing as far as immigration is concerned.
This is not just an American problem as those of us here in Korea know. It is also a major issue in Europe. Just like in the states, one of the major issues that the people are not adopting American (or European) ways of doing things and I think this is what makes people feel uncomfortable. Europeans have long moved from one region to another and have been good at adopting each others culture and language. This tendency is the main basis for traditional US immigration too but like the EU, many new immigrants do not want to adopt the US (or EU) culture, language and values. I know this is too much to expect, especially in an election year but I hope that the US govt addresses the whole immigration program rather than just whether or not people already present should be granted amnesty.

By: michael

michael — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 04:42:16 +0000

Dude, you got me

By: Wedge

Wedge — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 03:03:51 +0000

Dude–Department of Redundancy Department: “uninsured illegal immigrants.”

By: michael

michael — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 02:47:22 +0000

Wedge–the ERs in L.A. have been overflowing with uninsured illegal immigrants for years, and the system is always at the edge of bankruptcy because of that. But California’s gov’t is so messed up that this is one of the least of its problems.