Some states are really suffering under the strain of all these illegals . . . .
That's what happens when you let the shit-for-brains government take over an important economic sector like charity. Their rules are so dogmatic and their employees are so unmotivated that it's absurdly easy to game the system. It's pretty difficult to cheat the Salvation Army. All the government's laws seem designed to train us to cheat: speed limits, income tax, zoning, business licenses, drugs...
Build a double wall all along the Mexican border to stop the flow of illegals.
When did we become so selfish? The US-Mexican border represents the largest disparity in per-capita GDP between
any two contiguous countries on earth. There are people down there who are literally hopeless. No roads, no jobs, no services, no future. Do you really want to just let them rot? The U.S. government has been supporting tyrannical Mexican administrations since the late 19th century, so a great deal of the misery of its people can be blamed on us. Look at NAFTA: it put thousands of corn farmers out of business, so the people who worked in their fields have to find a way to the corn farms in Iowa in order to support their families.
This isn't an MMORPG. This is reality. These are real people who, with the assistance of our own government and our corporate leaders, are in such deep shit that you couldn't possibly imagine what their lives are like. And your "solution" is to put up a giant barricade
so you don't have to see 'em? Real nice guy.
They broke the law and should go to the back of the line behind everyone who entered legally.
I wish you Rednecks (regardless of your actual skin color) could be dumped in rural Mexico for a couple of years without your American IDs and credit cards. Watch your children starve and grow up with no hope of a better life. Then get a glimpse across the border into a country where the "poor people" all have cars and cellphones and
their greatest nutritional problem is obesity. And then have some MinuteVermin tell you it's
illegal to do the one thing you absolutely have to do in order to fulfill your obligation to your family: get to the other side of that border and start sending them money.
Then we'll talk about the meaning of two words: "illegal" and "immoral."
While not wise, the state of Arizona has always marched to its own tune, including being--IIRC--the only state to refuse federal highway funds in the 80's just so it could set its own agenda and speed limits.
No. That was Wyoming.
It's obvious that Mexicans are Arizona's blacks.
That's a shame. When I lived in Tucson in the 1950s the Anglos and Latinos fraternized pretty unremarkably. It was a racial paradise compared to Chicago, where I was born. There were people who discriminated against Afro-Americans, but it wasn't institutionalized. The schools were integrated. The only ethnic group that was really downtrodden was the Indians.
yes because its "illegals" who comit the worst crimes. oh wait, no its not, the racial profile for the adverage serial killers is "white male between the ages of 20 - 40 generally married with an inflentual job", the racial profile from a pedophile or rapist is "white male between the ages of 20 - 40 generally married with an inflentual job", the racial profile for a sweet shop owner or sex slave owner is "white male between the ages of 20 - 40 generally married with an inflentual job."
There was an article about that in the Washington Post last Sunday. Statistically, illegal immigrants commit serious crimes at about 1/8 the rate of the rest of us.
Remember: All of the 9/11 hijackers were in this country legally! It bugs the shit out of me that the Rednecks are concentrating their venom on the Latinos, when it's the
Muslim immigrants from Africa and the Middle East who are a much bigger threat to the American way of life. They're the ones who send their children to schools in Virginia where they're taught that Christians and Jews are inferior. They're the ones who won't pick up people at the Minneapolis airport in their taxis if they have liquor in their luggage. They're the ones who drive past blind ladies in New York because their seeing-eye dogs are "unclean." They're the ones who blast prayer calls over the the downtown streets five times a day. They're the ones who demand the right to walk into a bank dressed like a ninja.
And all of these people came over here with airline tickets and visas.
The category "white" does not really exist in Europe, at least as we understand it here.
The concept of "white people" and "black-colored-negro-whatever people" was in fact devised in the USA in the early 19th century. Before that, even slavery itself was not limited to Africans. People were not necessarily born into slavery, and there were plenty of ways to become free. As industrialization reduced the gap between the rich and the poor, the rich needed a way of keeping their plantations staffed, so they let the Euro-American poor feel superior to the Afro-American poor by defining skin color as a key difference. That never happened in Europe.
Nevertheless, it's good that you're apprehending the direction this will have to go in, if a white majority is to be sustained - we're going to have to reclassify considerable percentages of Latin Americans as "white."
Last time I was in L.A. I rode down an escalator in a gigantic shopping mall behind a caricatured hillbilly. He looked out over the sea of Indochinese, Indian, Arab and African immigrant faces, turned to me and said, "I hate to say it, but I guess we're gonna hafta let the Messicans be 'honorary white people'."
No, that's if you exclude people who voluntarily mark "Hispanic" on the census. It has nothing to do with last name - a consierable portion of those people don't have Spanish last names (Bill Richardson, for example).
Central and South America are just as big Melting Pots as North America. Just scan down the list of names of their countries' past and current presidents: Pinochet, Guzman, Kubitschek, Betancourt, Fujimori, D'Aubuisson.