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My crystal ball says…
The Hispanics are actually cutting their own throat by protesting… (and ours)
If all the illegals become citizens tomorrow doesn’t that mean the cheap pool of working hands suddenly become a hoard of people demanding a fair wage and benefits.
If the playing field is level between English speaking and those who only understand baby talk and universal sign language, who gets the job then?
Universal sign language as in stop, go, point, etc.

The Mexicans aren’t going anywhere.
No one is going to enforce any real punishment upon those who hire illegals.
There will be no wall.

I think the answer is in Mexico itself.
Its way to complicated for this mind to figure out but there is one thing i have in mind.

Mexico could be the vacation capitol of the world if if developed its coast. Couldn’t all the “hard working” Mexicans knock that out?
Perhaps then Americans could go south for work. Oh wait.. Americans don’t do hard work.
Never mind.

Nice Bill Handel clip. I wish he was on satellite.

I read with great interest of the demonstrations of students, who should be in our schools getting an education staying out of school so they can join the protest marches “DEMANDING THEIR RIGHTS.”

I would like to really know: JUST EXACTLY WHAT RIGHTS ARE THEY DEMANDING?

Let me see if I have this in my mind correctly. There are two countries, Mexico and the United States.

The land south of the border is a country of its own recognition, Mexico. The country to the north of the border is a country known of its own recognition as the United States.

The land to the south of the border is “owned” and controlled by the Mexican government and their representative agencies.

The land to the north of the border is “owned” and controlled by the United States government and their representative agencies.

So far, if you noticed, both countries I am referring to have the very same similarities.

This is where the similarities change: the right to migrate to another country and try to force the country to change their laws to suit the whims of a few vs the laws of the land in question.

There are some Mexican origin people who came across the border LEGALLY and become very good and productive AMERICANS. For those people, I applaud them and welcome to the United States.

On the other hand, we have people in the United States illegally. Some of them have been doing very well for themselves, but, this is also questionable in some areas.

If they are in this country illegally, are they paying the taxes needed to support the services of the Federal, State, County, and City governments? I am, and so are you!

Let’s take a look at the protesters, are they United States Citizens? You can bet they are, for the most part. Nobody can be that stupid to risk going to jail without being a legal resident by attending such rallies in support of something they want to see changed so they can get their family members across the “river” more freely and having lesser reprocussions should they be caught.

They clog our streets causing motorists to find alternate routes to and from work. In other words, they impede traffic.

Resulting with the masses of people who number in the THOUSANDS, these rallies of the protesters create enough fear with the general public causing the local members of the general public who frequent those areas housing the masses of people to conduct their business elsewhere.

In other words, a loss of revenue suffered by the businesses in the immediate vicinity of the masses of people, even though their expenses stay the same.

Considering the delicate nature of these deomonstrations, I am suprised there hasn’t been serious altercations between the people “demanding their rights” and the citizens who legally live in this country.

Should these demonstrations become out of control, who pays these expenses of rebuilding? How about the medical costs associated with the potential injuries to be expected? How about the costs of the fire departments (personnel and equipment costs) to put the fires out? How about the costs tearing the potentially burned out or burned down buildings, cars, homes, schools, etc., associated with the rioting and looting in common connection to rioting?

Them, the demonstrators? No, us, the legal United States Citizens. You, me, our families. That is who.

I am not opposed to immagration. How can I? My family comes from Scotland, Germany, and Sweden that I know of. (You can refer to me as a mutt, being a combination of several national origins.)

If people need to come to this country, the United States, to better themselves, I hold the door open for them. They need to follow our laws. They need to follow our policies. They need to become United States Citizens. They need to become AMERICANS.

Don’t group together like children whining and crying they have no rights. They have rights. If they were to do this legally, they may learn they have more rights than the people who are here legally supporting the finances to help them to become established AMERICANS, not illegal aliens!

If all the people in this country were legal Citizens, Americans, of this great land, we could print our voting ballots in ONE language, ENGLISH, instead of two. If we are to print our ballots in ENGLISH and SPANISH, we need to print our ballots virtually in each and every language of the world. Can you imagine the tremendous cost of this?

Considering the fact there are so many languages in this world without a written language, that brings us back to ENGLISH since we can’t show prejudices or preferences to any group or orign of people of this great country causiing our ballots to be written just in ENGLISH.

To become naturalized, you have to show to a competent and qualified person or government agency you can speak, read, and write the English language fluently. To vote, you have to be a US citizen, or naturalized. Why the double printing of the ballots?

I have my rights, too. You have your rights as I have mine. We should demand our voices be heard to protect our rights: To have the right to demonstrate saying nobody has the right to come to this country and dictate to us what we are going to do to help their cause. First become AMERICANS! Pay taxes!

If aliens are hired to work for a lesser than minimum wage, the people and companies who hire these aliens should assume the responsibility of paying for their medical costs. Pay the costs for our schools. Pay the costs of our Police and Fire Departments. If they can hire illegal people, they should pay their contributions that constantly drain our services of the revenues paid for by the legal citizens of this country.

As for paying for the WALL along the Mexico/United States border, if the people of the United States wants to pay for all of expenses associated with the construction of such a wall, remember, it was voted on by US CITIZENS, not aliens!

Hey Wayne –
So I guess I’ve been looking for a place to sound off about immigration and your post has inspired me. I think the clearest argument I’ve heard on the immigration issue was what you said here:

If we treated our illegals like Mexico treats their illegals, the uproar would be deafening.

Most every other country in the world has insanely strict immigration policies.
Most every other country in the world, if they dig back far enough into their history, can claim to be a “nation of immigrants.”
The expectation that the United States, as one of the youngest countries in the world and thus with some of the freshest history, is supposed to have a continuously open border and a constant identity as a “nation of immigrants” is ludicrous.
The expectation that those immigrants be able to force this country to conform to their idea of what a nation should be (and also never become actual legal citizens) is even more ridiculous.
Irish revolutionary Thomas Davis said a nation’s language is the most crucial element to keep alive when that nation is facing an invading enemy or otherwise struggling.
I think the culture of the United States is an especially rich one because of our immigrant past — but the important thing to see here is that those immigrants ceased being immigrants and became Americans. Our culture is an amalgamation, not a string of refugee camps and a babble of different tongues.
I probably just sounded like a total asshole, but honestly I don’t see what the problem is. Just become bloody American citizens and THEN protest if they feel their rights are being disregarded — and please don’t expect our country to change and cater to their wish for it to be more like home (and sound more like home). If that’s the case, then stay home. Gah.

This is in response to the post by Amanda Determan.

Amanda, I read your post regarding the people coming into our country illegally with great interest.

I had a thought go through my head I would like to share with you. You and I are rowing the same boat with the same issue (read my post above yours).

If the people were coming into this country illegaly, they have no voice. If they have no voice, we CAN’T HEAR THEM!!

I guess what I am suggesting let the illegal aleins remain illegal. Then we can LEGALLY ignore them. Have a good day!