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On May 2, 2:37 am, Ted Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Ted Bennett wrote:
> >
> [Bill Baka:]
> > I hate illegal human trash that refuses to learn our language or customs.
> > Why the hell do we celebrate Cinco De Mayo but Mexico ignores the 4th of
> > July?
> > Do you have the smarts to figure out this is wrong?
> > Try to immigrate to Mexico and demand welfare and literature printed in
> > English and you will find yourself in a Mexican prison in a hurry.
> > If you can't figure out the injustice there then don't bother to reply.
> >
>
> I don't see the injustice, but I'll reply anyway. Mexico can celebrate
> any holidays it wants, just like the US can. It can print its
> literature in Spanish only if it wants to. And the US can control its
> borders if it really wants to. But it doesn't want to, obviously.
> There are about 12 million people in the US who came here illegally.
Well, I think things are more complicated.
First, what Bill says about Mexico is right, from what I read. In
fact, it's been pointed out that Mexico's immigration and illegal
alien laws are far harsher than those of the US. It would seem that
if we matched theirs, law by law, that nobody in Mexico could
complain. But they'd never buy that.
Second, it's wrong to say the US doesn't want to control its borders.
Certainly _many_ Americans - perhaps most Americans - want to control
the borders. But, as is usual with our messy democracy, there are
those who disagree. Some who disagree are hoping their brother Juan
(or, to be fair, Seamus) can someday sneak in. Others are folks who
want cheap, non-protesting labor for their companies so they can speed
up their yacht purchase.
> Why are they not being deported? Because we don't want to pay more for
> food, for construction or you name it.
Well, that's part of it. But just being able to find them is a
problem! And, of course, if we do deport them, we get protesters in
the streets objecting to our enforcement of the law.
It's a weird and complicated world.
- Frank Krygowski
> > Ted Bennett wrote:
> >
> [Bill Baka:]
> > I hate illegal human trash that refuses to learn our language or customs.
> > Why the hell do we celebrate Cinco De Mayo but Mexico ignores the 4th of
> > July?
> > Do you have the smarts to figure out this is wrong?
> > Try to immigrate to Mexico and demand welfare and literature printed in
> > English and you will find yourself in a Mexican prison in a hurry.
> > If you can't figure out the injustice there then don't bother to reply.
> >
>
> I don't see the injustice, but I'll reply anyway. Mexico can celebrate
> any holidays it wants, just like the US can. It can print its
> literature in Spanish only if it wants to. And the US can control its
> borders if it really wants to. But it doesn't want to, obviously.
> There are about 12 million people in the US who came here illegally.
Well, I think things are more complicated.
First, what Bill says about Mexico is right, from what I read. In
fact, it's been pointed out that Mexico's immigration and illegal
alien laws are far harsher than those of the US. It would seem that
if we matched theirs, law by law, that nobody in Mexico could
complain. But they'd never buy that.
Second, it's wrong to say the US doesn't want to control its borders.
Certainly _many_ Americans - perhaps most Americans - want to control
the borders. But, as is usual with our messy democracy, there are
those who disagree. Some who disagree are hoping their brother Juan
(or, to be fair, Seamus) can someday sneak in. Others are folks who
want cheap, non-protesting labor for their companies so they can speed
up their yacht purchase.
> Why are they not being deported? Because we don't want to pay more for
> food, for construction or you name it.
Well, that's part of it. But just being able to find them is a
problem! And, of course, if we do deport them, we get protesters in
the streets objecting to our enforcement of the law.
It's a weird and complicated world.
- Frank Krygowski
