Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [MLUG][Politics]The great immigration wash-out

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 1 May 2006, Vern Green wrote:

> Well it looks like the big illegal alien walk-out was a wash-out. Oh 
> there were people walking the streets, and a few businesses closed here 
> in California. Most of the people on the streets out here were students 
> who are always looking for a chance to skip school.
>
> The place I normally visit for lunch closed down today, I won't be 
> darkening their doorway again, I don't want to support any place that 
> supports people who break the law. I wonder if they would be so 
> understanding if I skipped out of the restaurant without paying for my 
> lunch sometime?

If your parents moved here when you were 2 years old, and you came with 
them, would you be "breaking the law?"

Sixteen years later after living in California for all 16 years with your 
parents paying California taxes for all those years, you now want to 
attend the state college.  Can you get in?  You are an "illegal alien," 
but that wasn't your choice -- you were born into it.  What to do?


> So if this is how it would be without illegal aliens around, then go 
> ahead and send them all home

No, *you* send them home.  All 11 million of them.  And you pay for it 
too.  First you have to find them - not easy.  Then you have to catch them 
- difficult and expensive.  Then you have to pay for their travel costs 
unless you can force them to pay.  You have to pay for their food and 
lodging during the move.  Do you just take all of their property?  If so, 
you'll have a lot of court cases to deal with, if not, you'll have a lot 
of moving costs.  Then, after you've gotten rid of them, they'll come back 
and you'll have to do the whole thing over again.  Building a fence on the 
border is a moronic (and expensive) idea that will fail miserably - do we 
really think these people can't toss a rope over a fence?

If you don't want them here, you have to go after the people who hire 
them.  If they can't work, they won't come here.  But that leads us to the 
real problem:  We want them to work for us!  We like cheap labor.  That's 
why we have illegal immigrants here.

More evidence:  There are millions of "illegals" with social security 
numbers who pay federal tax to the IRS.  These same people are registered 
with INS because they came in legally but then stayed when their visas 
expired.  So all we have to do is check the IRS records against the INS 
records and we'd find millions of illegals to harrass.  Why don't we do it 
then?  Because we don't want to know.  ("We" in this case is people like 
Bush and previous Presidents, senators and congressmen.)  The reason? 
Getting rid of illegal immigrants would damage the economy.

The Republicans are especially torn on this issue because they have two 
kinds of constituents: those who hire illegal aliens and those who hate 
illegal aliens.  How can you please everyone?  Lie a lot.


> Now I suppose the illegal immigrants will want to take Friday off as 
> well. Cinco De Mayo or some such.

The bastards!

Mike

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