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And they wonder why so many are disgusted with them and their actions.
The radicals in the Latino population see themselves as recapturing this land that was unrighteously taken from them. We're handing it back on a silver platter so that left-wing idealogues can feel better about themselves and maybe have a Michelle O'Bama moment.
Heaven help us.
Mexico turned a blind eye, and showed compassion.
Now we look upon these pioneers as heros.
Someday the brave people we call undocumented will also be looked upon as heros, willing to come into a new land, with their future uncertain, all for the benefit of themselves and their posterity.
History may not repeat, but funny how it rhymes.
Let's enforce immigration laws and severely punish those companies that are taking full advantage of slave labor!
But Krikorian also explains that their views are out of sync with the general public.
He calls for reducing legal immigration to about 250,000 a year and coming down hard on those who are here illegally.
The book talks about the impact of immigration on our quality of life (from traffic jams to pollution) and how our government and foreign governments (Mexico in particular) are driving the push for immigration.
Eventually one million immigrants and another one million illegals a year, all with significantly higher birth rates, are going to catch up with us.
The last one out, bring the flag!
I think legal immigration is great, but immigrants that don't assimilate into the melting pot of the USA create the problems outlined in "American Suicide" a speech by Former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm.
People with darker skin than ours the new majority?
The liberals strike again.
Heaven help us.
Just because we broke about every indian treaty ever made and took over their land illegally and just because we took land from you in a war of unprovoked agression, and just because I with regularity break laws including the speed limit DOES NOT MEAN
I don't have the right to complain about you breaking the law.
So don't bother to write and try to defend yourself. All of us have every right to complain about your breaking the law.
SO...please dont divide our nation between, white people, black (you already did that), latinos, chinese etc...We need them, They need us....let work together.
Hard work, speak english, no criminal record, pay inmigration fees, we can make a lot of money out of it!!!
They pay taxes out of their paycheks, they cannot have it back...they dont have social security and because of that they dont have Health insurance for free!!! they pay A LOT more to go to the doctor.
While "white" people who can work but dont like to work can live with the money from the social security!!!
Who do you think you are, white, nazi, special...nope...we can do something together as equals...and remember, the real americans are in places called "reservations"...and please tell Pres.Bush to stop this "businesss" war and spend those millions and millions of dollars here to make our country better!!!
WE CAN DO SOMETHING TOGETHER FOR A BETTER COUNTRY, NO MORE DIVISION, there is no white, no latino, ONE country only, US!!!
They have come to work hard and "live" a new life, those with crminal records, out of our country, but those hard workers families, they need an opportunity!!!
As a minority, I am very sad to this country drifting away from its path. This country is no longer what it was 30 years ago and it is breaking my heart.
When we bought a house years ago, my wife bought me an American Flag and we have been flying it proudly ever since. I don't see a lot of pride in being Americans from the different minority groups, everyone just want to extract what they can and not want to give back to it.
I am now a software engineer and i work with the the DOD to track drug traffickers and terrorists. "Ask not what your country can do for you but what can you do for your country."
Wouldn't you want to come to this country if all you knew was poverty and political strife? I teach ESL classes to hard-working refugees and immigrants who are just trying to have a better life. Many have experienced violence and hardship that we will never know.
Do we work as hard? Will our kids take lower-paying jobs and then work their way up, or get an education? Many opt out of that. I think we have to get our own act together before being so quick to criticise some of these immigrants.
I have a Hispanic neighbor (a citizen) who does feel her initial land was taken from her. (Look at history and see it did happen in California and New Mexico and Arizona.) But she feels illegals are taking jobs away from her relatives, who are legal.
Our "leaders," who are all in favor of an open bridge between Mexico and Utah, will continue to preach "compassion" to us--until their neighborhoods are overrun.
Then, they'll move.
Land of conservative racism.
You mexican haters need to turn down talk radio get out of your 4 door trucks and do something. Yack, yack, yack.
Don't fault the "left wing ideologues", Utah is 100% controlled by right wingers and so has the US government for the most part till loss of congress end of 06. Don't fault the illegals, you would do the same. Fault the system that caters to their illegally living here. Don't fault who sleeps in the bed, but rather the person who left the door open to the bedroom.
The only thing that we have to do is to make English the official language of Utah and the U.S. and then quit providing services in Spanish. That would accomplish one of two things. Either force immigrants to learn English ASAP or force them to go back to their home country. Problem solved without arresting and deporting anyone. Illegal immigration would take care of itself.
I would not expect to go into another country and force them to speak to me in my native language. I would at least have a dictionary or someone to translate for me. Is it too much to ask the same in America?!
Utah is only a step behind the rest of the Nation. By 2030, Hispanics will be the majority in America. That's only 20 years away.
Caucasians have almost stop growing, since they only have one, two or three kids. Hispanics on the other hand have much larger families. It's time for everyone to start learning Spanish!
If the Mormons had come to Santa Fe or Mexico City and DEMANDED, (in the name of compassion) that all the Mexican people conform to their culture, refuse to intigrate into the Latino culture, and then when some Mexicans balked at that notion, cried "racist" then maybe this stupid Mormons were illegal arugment would have some sand to it.
They whine and whine and want to string up everybody with a hispanic accent meanwhile mass-migration worldwide continues on its natural course.
Ask yourself, would YOU want to continue living in squalor?
It's a capitalist thing.
You wrote:"Build a wall to keep out those Illegal immigrants because a small majority of them might cause some issues"
We want to build the wall because they came over here illegally and caused a strain in the system, health care, education.... not because "a small majority of them might cause some issues" They all cause a major issue, they are "ILLEGAL". You sound just like a typical sympathetic liberal democrat, you just don't get it. Wait until the day when the minorities become the majority, all of the things that is wrong with this country will be magnify 300-400-500 % percents. Looks at California for instance, it has a 16 Billions dollars deficits and why is that? All the illegals and minorities groups living there are all on welfare and whoever want to hold office will have to cater to their need. As soon as someone in office decided to cut down the welfare program or crack down on illegal, gets vote out of office. so there you have it folks the future of the entire United States will looks like Miami and the Los Angeles area. Good Bless America, we will need it.
They have a socialist bent and a propensity to take to the streets. Perfect storm for vote-seeking politicians. Just ask Karl Rove.
Mexico whines about our southern border yet theirs is like a police state and their immigration laws are much stricter than ours.
Does the LDS church own the Deseret News?
I'm assuming Mr. Velasco is perfectly legal. The tendency of the pro-illegal contigent is to lump them all together - legal and illegal - and then label those who complain as racists and xenophobes.
Velasco is not the problem; the 20 million lurking about waiting for legalization are the problem!
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