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Quoted: Any research group that has "family" or "children" in the name I take with a lump of salt the size of Lot's wife. |
Agreed - beware of rhetorical devices including family, children, "this-and-that bill of rights", "patriot whatever", etc. A group, study or policy using those words demand skepticism precisely because they try to be disarming.
That said, it doesn't mean the message that more Americans are killed here at home by foreign invaders than die in Iraq is wrong. Are islamic nutjobs coming over? Maybe. See
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here. If the Feds would follow the law (Article IV Section 4 springs to mind. Someone should show Gonzales and Bush that part.) we would probably be in much better shape.
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Quoted: As for the faked SSN's, perhaps if we changed immigration rules so that people wishing to live in the US can actually do it in a process that doesn't take forever and require your own paper-pusher to work it out would mitigate that market for faked SSN's. Then the "omg, terrerists" concern: You think forcing a bank to not work with people who lack certain papers is going to stem a money flow? For a drug that's been illegal, coke sure is making money move, both in the street and off my paycheck when the government uses its taxes to fund a pitiful drug war to hell (Which also factors into illegal immigration: if drug cabals fed by the US-spawned black market of drugs are hurling informant's heads into public places and telling people to shutup, would you want to stay there where the cops wont help you and your life can end in seconds? If there is a so-called crime wave being perpitrated by illegals, framed in the view of the 20's and 30's Prohibition and the beer-baron mobs that ripped up the streets, its our damn fault for letting such idiotic drug-laws to pass. |
Our federal and state governments have enabled illegal immigration, but that doesn't mean businesses have to belly up and cater to them. Maybe if enough Americans boycott businesses that cater to illegals, the companies will feel the pinch and change their policy. That's not realistically going to happen....
Illegal aliens are breaking the law by virtue of being here. Are banks and other companies that do business with them breaking the law, too? It would seem they must be. Remind me to send a thank-you card to DoJ Chief Gonzales for all the great work he and his crew are doing enforcing the law...
hinking.gifImmigration procedures suck -- it takes way too long to get into this country legally. Again, our government is screwing it up: the foreign doctors, lawyers and other educated individuals have to wait years to come here legally, but the poverty-stricken and criminal element of Central America are free to come on over anytime.
Who gets the shaft? We do.
It kinda reminds you of gun control, doesn't it? Criminals get a pass, law-abiding people get the shaft.