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69Rcode_Mach1 said:
My parents immigrated here as well. They worked hard, and legally went through the processes necessary to come here. They had nothing but after a lot of hard work and schooling they are now banking it and living a very very high quality life.
Amen, brother! My great, great grandfather came over with parents, brothers, sisters, cousins, etc to escape from poverty and hunger (it was called "The Great Potato Famine" as well as try to improve their families' lives over the Irish sharecropper lifestyle they were living "back home". My great-grandfather was born on Ellis Island while they were waiting to be cleared into the immigration system. Similarly, my wife's grandparents immigrated from Hungary in the 30's, bringing along their 3 young boys. While
they were going through the
legal immigration process, my wife's grandmother gave birth to her last child - my father-in-law. The major difference between our ancestors and
many of the protestors of today is that
our families worked within the legal immigration system (then had multiple generations serving in the Armed Services to protect our American way of life); so that
today's protestors can sneak in illegally, effectively thmbing their noses at millions of immigrants who thought it was worth jumping through the legal hoops! What a bi***-slap in the
legal immigrants' faces!
Frankly, that just pi$$es me off enough that I get emotional (some say "reactionary", "pig-headed" or even "bigoted") about the whole subject. But it even gets better.....
They need to speak OUR language, pay OUR taxes (it isn't fair that they are using our roads, schools, welfare (because they will have many kids here when illegal that will be US citizens), and our soldiers are dying to protect their freedom for free), and put money back into OUR society.
Absolutely! 8 years ago; I was working in the Engineering Dept of our local hospital. The long-running joke was that one of our crew would make the daily trip to the Nursery window to try and spot any babies that by chance might
not be first generation citizens. It was a mean statement to make; but, a very sadly accurate one! Because of my wife's job at the hospital, she's privy to some sad facts. For years, it's been
absolutely IL-legal to record any of this kind of data; but
unofficial surveys back in the early 90's indicated that children born to non-citizens represented 75-80% percent of the Hospital's Nursery patients - every other kid had parents either living illegally in the United States or parents who drove up while Momma was in labor, just so they could collect welfare in the name of their newborn citizen. This was only from information freely given - bragged about- by Mom's and Dad's
Since one of the local OB's opened a clinic in San Luis, AZ; the rate has dropped to around 60%. Wow, what progress! Maybe I can hope to see the day my annual checks to IRS and the AZ Dept of Revenue will be a little smaller than the ones sitting on my desk as I type this?
Look back at those numbers again.... we've
increased all the way up to 40% the number of babies in our Nursery born to US citizens; those who pay the taxes and send our children off to the military to defend this country and this lifestyle we love to have. Anybody care to debate that last point with me?
Sure, "It's complicated"; especially if you're an apologist for this reality
(NOT an
"opinion", stangonline!). Your "shades of gray" seem a little more black-and-white to me!
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(Sorry chevy guys but you know it to be true), but it needs to be done properly. They need to speak OUR language, pay OUR taxes (it isn't fair that they are using our roads, schools, welfare (because they will have many kids here when illegal that will be US citizens), and our soldiers are dying to protect their freedom for free), and put money back into OUR society. America comes first, we can't be catering our nation to serve the problems of others. They can get an education, work hard, and legally come to our nation. I personally don't want someone to come into my nation not speak the language, barely scrape a living, then have 10 kids that will have to be supported by my taxes, and then have any money made sent out, then when they get deported I have to worry about increased crime and drugs because their kids weren't raised properly. It just isn't fair, we have standards if you don't meet them then sorry. I am sorry if this sounds harsh but this is the honest and logical truth.
