Re: OT Immigrants

canoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Which is worse, a temporary impact on businesses in a few border towns
with some foreigners deprived of their shopping trips, or the eventual
Mexicanization of our country by criminals? It's been projected by
several sources that 20 million MORE Mexicans are expected to
illegally cross our border in the next few years.

From down here at the border, the ones who are making the shopping trips are the ones with homes, jobs and money in Mexico who, after they shop here will go home. The illegals don't come over to just go shopping. They don't hang around at the border, either.

The current rational is they will do work that Americans won't do. As
the lower economic scale jobs are completely filled by Mexicans, they
will keep moving up the scale until they are displacing our workers.
Then what? More Americans forced onto welfare rolls because they are
incapable of performing more skilled tasks, while the work they are
capable of handling and used to do has been taken over by wetbacks who
snuck into this country.

The Mexicans, South and Central Americans can get the same jobs if they cross the border legally. We've had migrant programs in place for decades. I don't know about you aristocrats, but my ancestors took jobs that "Americans" didn't want, too, but they came here legally and they worked to better themselves and their families. Italians took labor jobs in the factories and construction trades. Chinese and Irish built our railroads. My grandparents rolled cigars. Their cousins sewed shirtwaists in sweatshops. I simply refuse to subscribe to the BS that "Americans won't do those jobs." Maybe if we pulled their welfare and food stamps, Americans would take the jobs that are being filled with illegals. Nothing pisses me off more than watching some young tart purchase her groceries with a Lone Star card (Food Stamps) and then haul out a thick wad of twenty-dollar bills to buy beer, hair curlers, and other items that are expensive and unnecessary to sustaining life.


It's well past time for our 're-elect me' politicians to get off their
butts and control the border, rather than concern themselves with
multi-million boondoggles like a bridge to nowhere, or removing
railroad tracks they laid down last year.

Enough is enough.


I agree. We need to put the same, or greater, resources to protecting our borders that we do to helping other countries become "democracies" We have no business telling the world what to do when we have our own unsolved problems to take care of.

JMHO


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