That is the trouble with talking about Immigration. Like any complex issue, painting with a broad stroke is likely to put a little whitewash the innocent victim. I said the problem was not Illegal Immigrants, but rather Legal Immigrants.
What I meant by that, and what I should have said was,
"The problem is a failed immigration system. "
What kind of country allows a foreign country to build a manufacturing facility and then staff it with people from the home country. Can Toyota build a plant then put up "little Japan right outside the gates?" I think not.. I hope not. Yet when we are talking about neighbors from the south it happens all the time. People legally in this country with a green card, brought in to work in a plant, while people who live with a mile of it are on state unemployment.
Please understand that there are thousands, even hundreds of thousands of people who immigrate from Europe and South America and Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras for legitimate reasons and become citizen-track Americans. These people need not carry the label immigrant. they are American Citizens.
Such is the problem with painting with a broad brush. Usually when we are talking about the Immigrant problem in Alabama we are talking Hispanic. In New York it is Asian, 40 years ago it was Irish. It has been in the past English, German, Italian, Irish, African, Chinese, Japanese, even Jewish as an immigrant group.
Arizona is absolute right. Something has to be done to stop the lawlessness that flows from the south. I think maybe we are blind to the fact that an invasion of another kind is happening in Arizona. An invasion that may require a military response.
About the new registration law in Arizona. I support it. If only to avoid a military occupation of Arizona. American history is filled with events that required drastic measures. However the Supreme Court seldom asks me about these things. Thus I promise you the law will be overturned before a single arrest is made.
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Oyey-oyey-oyey .. News reports indicate that the Gulf Oil Spill was miscalculated. Instead of 1000 barrels a day, then 5000 barrels a day, now the estimate is 75,000 barrels. - Three and a half million gallons a day.. Oh and the automatic manufacture of huge amounts of deadly Methane Hydrate massing around the spill.
Write it off and Blow it up! Do it Now!
What I meant by that, and what I should have said was,
"The problem is a failed immigration system. "
What kind of country allows a foreign country to build a manufacturing facility and then staff it with people from the home country. Can Toyota build a plant then put up "little Japan right outside the gates?" I think not.. I hope not. Yet when we are talking about neighbors from the south it happens all the time. People legally in this country with a green card, brought in to work in a plant, while people who live with a mile of it are on state unemployment.
Please understand that there are thousands, even hundreds of thousands of people who immigrate from Europe and South America and Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras for legitimate reasons and become citizen-track Americans. These people need not carry the label immigrant. they are American Citizens.
Such is the problem with painting with a broad brush. Usually when we are talking about the Immigrant problem in Alabama we are talking Hispanic. In New York it is Asian, 40 years ago it was Irish. It has been in the past English, German, Italian, Irish, African, Chinese, Japanese, even Jewish as an immigrant group.
Arizona is absolute right. Something has to be done to stop the lawlessness that flows from the south. I think maybe we are blind to the fact that an invasion of another kind is happening in Arizona. An invasion that may require a military response.
About the new registration law in Arizona. I support it. If only to avoid a military occupation of Arizona. American history is filled with events that required drastic measures. However the Supreme Court seldom asks me about these things. Thus I promise you the law will be overturned before a single arrest is made.
______________________________________________
Oyey-oyey-oyey .. News reports indicate that the Gulf Oil Spill was miscalculated. Instead of 1000 barrels a day, then 5000 barrels a day, now the estimate is 75,000 barrels. - Three and a half million gallons a day.. Oh and the automatic manufacture of huge amounts of deadly Methane Hydrate massing around the spill.
Write it off and Blow it up! Do it Now!
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