Imigration protests today

[sammyg2]

I'm sure most of you have heard about the protests scheduled today in support of illegal imigration.

Well there is one more scheduled, hopefully it will be the biggest one of all.
It starts in San Diego and heads due south for about 20 miles, then stops and does not come back.
If you support illegal imigration, please consider this a personal invitation to attend.
heck, I will even sponsor you

[pbs911]

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[RoninLB]

Mexico should be charged a million bucks for each illegal to cover voter expense.

[Mulhollanddose]

I saw we go rent a bunch of Home Depot trucks, pile 'em all in, and drive 'em all back home?...Who is in?

[sammyg2]

The federal lawmakers are mulling over a new bill that would put some teeth into the already existing imigration laws.

Examples of the what the bill contains are if you are a convicted fellon and an illegal imigrant, you would be deported. if you are an illegal imigrant and you have three or more DUI convictions, you would be deported. I can see why they would protest that, not!

It seems as if half of Mexifornia is protesting it. Guess which half.
On the way to work this morning i saw 6 cars with protest banners or slogans in the rear window or on the sides. Everyone of the vehicles was full. The news channels are showing droves of protesters who think that the borders should be opened up to anyone who wants to cross and not a caucasion anywhere in sight.

I guess the United states should hand over everything we own to the rest of the world including the keys to our cars and houses too.

I personally know a man who came into this country illegally, got a job, and soon after went on disability due to back problems.
He went back to Mexico and lived like a king on taxpayer money until the workman's comp checks ran out, then he snuck back to the US and started the cycle again. Evidently it is a very common scam in southern California.

I'm not saying that other people can't have something, I'm saying they can't have something if I earned it and it is mine!

I put my kids in a private school because the public schools are so messed up around here. A large percentage of the kids don't speak english so the public schools have to teach everything in English and spanish. Great. Half the time they are learning, half the time they are not. Good plan.

I want better for my kids so I pay $800 a month for a private school, plus I still have to pay taxes to support the schools so kids who are here illegally or are the children of illegal imigrants can take their place and hold back everyone else.

A wall in my neighborhood got tagged last weekend. It is the ony graffiti I have ever seen in that neighborhood and I have lived there for 12 years.
i can't tell you what the gang style graffiti says but I can tell you it is not written in english.

To the last US citizen leaving california: please take down the flag as you leave.

[Paul K]

I'm an immigrant. I came here legally, and have paid the immigration service over $2k in fees. I have a job, and pay taxes. Lots of taxes, yet I cannot vote. English is my first language (I am English) so I do not expect others to cater to my language. What do I think? I think those who either enter, work or live in the US illegally should be made felons, deported and tagged so that they cannot re-enter the US.

There, I said it!

Cheers,

Paul.

[pbs911]

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[hoosierdaddy]

I just recently found out that illegal immigrants are allowed to claim dependants that live in Mexico so they get back all the taxes they have paid in for the year and still take advantage of all public assistance offered by the local government . Someone metioned deporting them after 3 dui's , the problem with that is they have fake id and you won't catch the same name and id 3 times . A good friend of mine from England gained citizenship a few years ago and I think it would a crime to change immigration laws to make it easier after hearing what my friend went through . I'll bet if everyone was willing to pay a couple of dollars more for their fast food meal you would find out cheap labor isn't so important .

[on-ramp]

Originally posted by Mulhollanddose
I saw we go rent a bunch of Home Depot trucks, pile 'em all in, and drive 'em all back home?...Who is in?

for once I agree. in another 20 years, this country will be renamed AMEXICA

[hoosierdaddy]

Originally posted by on-ramp
for once I agree. in another 20 years, this country will be renamed AMEXICA

That can't happen , thank god for a two term limit.

[Scooter]

Originally posted by Paul K
I'm an immigrant. I came here legally, and have paid the immigration service over $2k in fees. I have a job, and pay taxes. Lots of taxes, yet I cannot vote. English is my first language (I am English) so I do not expect others to cater to my language. What do I think? I think those who either enter, work or live in the US illegally should be made felons, deported and tagged so that they cannot re-enter the US.

There, I said it!

Cheers,

Paul.

Nicely put Paul!

[juanbenae]

i smell a stromberg appearance.

[Tobra]

Seems to me they could have run down there with a bunch of busses and saved a lot of taxpayer dollars. I am all for immigration, dead set against illegal immigration. The media should be compelled to put "illegal immigration" rather than " immigration" every time they do a story on this(For example, you have a typo in the title of your thread, it should be" Illegal immigration protests"). Public sentiment of legal voters is very strongly against illegal immigration.

Personally, I would like to know if we are just not going to enforce our laws, because if that will be the case, I am done paying taxes, all of them.

[speeder]

Originally posted by Tobra


Personally, I would like to know if we are just not going to enforce our laws, because if that will be the case, I am done paying taxes, all of them.

What needs to happen is a massive taxpayer revolt along these lines, it's the only thing that I can imagine really getting our government's attention. We have been completely neglected by our leaders on this issue, they have simply chosen not to enforce immigration law. All of the arguments in favor of illegal Mexican immigration are bullschit, every one of them. A labor shortage in this country is an impossibility, an absolute insult to the intelligence of a slug. There is an unlimited quantity of people who want to come here, we could always let in as many as our economy needs and control who we let in, which is the sovereign right of all nations.

Why should Mexicans get every available immigration spot + 10 million?? They say that they came here to work as if they are doing us a favor. One of the protesters, in an almost unbelievable display of ignorance and ingratitude declared that "this country (USA) would be nothing w/o immigrants".... If she were referring to the millions who came here legally and actually built the entire country before she got here, she would be correct. An endless flood of cheap, illegal labor benefits no one in the U.S. except for the illegals and their relatives back in Mexico.

I would be in favor of a law that severely restricts non-citizens from transferring $$ out of the U.S., plus all of the enforcement measures currently on the table and then some.

Signed, a "liberal".

[HardDrive]

My wife is from India, now a US citizen.

We followed the law, and spent 5 VERY irritating years dealing with INS. I think people should follow the law.

HOWEVER, all of this 'deport them all' crap is just that: crap.

We need to take a serious look at the function of illegals in society, and deal with economic reality.

Oddly, Bush almost sounds like the voice of moderation in this whole mess.

[Vipergrün]

Originally posted by HardDrive
My wife is from India, now a US citizen.



HOWEVER, all of this 'deport them all' crap is just that: crap.

We need to take a serious look at the function of illegals in society, and deal with economic reality.

No, you are wrong, illegal is illegal is illegal. What part of this do people NOT understand? The "function" as you put it is that they are draining our resources. Thier contributions working the fields and washing dishes does not compare to what they are taking....

[Rick V]

I recomend open season with no bag limits!

[Tobra]

Good friend of mine married a woman from Korea, beautiful, brilliant, seriously I don't understand what she sees in him. It took them two years after they were married to get her here. The entire time, he sent every penny he had to her so she could invest it overseas. They paid no taxes on her income, and the investment income and it cost Uncle Sucker a chunk of dough. When her paperwork finally came through, my buddy says to the guy, "Great, now where is the nearest welfare office?" He was kidding, but the clerk went pale. The people most angry about illegal immigration are the legal immigrants

[mikester]

I don't know that we need these new laws as much as we simply need to enforce the existing. Right now we aren't adding teeth to laws we don't enforce really doesn't make a difference.

Illegal is just that.

[singpilot]

Hmmm.

I think a citizenship status check should be done on all the 'protesters'.