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Originally Posted by Ron61
Wes,
Mexico is not a state and is a different country as is all of the others where the immigrants pour into the U.S from. As for the Okie comparison, that is way off. For one thing they were looking for work, not free handouts and were treated like dirt. They also spoke English and never demanded the country change it's language and customs to theirs. Go into any of the few clinics left here now and all you will find is illegals getting treated while any citizen sits there all day and is ignored. Everything must have a label on it that is in at least 4 languages.
The other thing is that this country is only so big and only has so many people to pay taxes to care for these free loaders. Our economy is as bad or worse than any other in the world and you think we should just keep taking care of these people? If they want to go through the process to become citizens, which used to require they learn our language, then I have no objection.If they can have free drivers licenses and citizens can't then why do you wonder why people are getting tired of this crap?
Ron  |
I apologise if I'm thinking too far out of the box here, again, but most of the time that is all I have to offer the Lounge; a different angle. I admit, I don't have the answers either. Words fail me, I don't always say it very good, and my sense of humor sometimes sucks.
I know, "Mexico is not a state and is a different country as is all of the others where the immigrants pour into the U.S from...", but I kind of ponder why all of us, including me, look at the two invisible boundary lines, in the dirt, as entirely different.
I know both major political parties pander to the potential votes and I was already shocked after the first Reagan amnesty blew smoke in the face of the immigration law.
Would Reagan do it today? My guess is that politics is politics.
Like you, I am particularily irritated by those that would come here, even from other states, looking for handouts and accommodation, rather than work like most Okies. A few years ago, we used to have several hobo's bumming a ride on the trains to get to Minnesota. At the end of every month, they would collect a check.
It only stopped when the both the RR and us guys clamped down after the Mexican drifter known as the
“Railroad Killer” made headlines. Hardly anybody hops a train anymore since. We turn them in, the end of an era.
The other day, on a Friday, we went out for supper with another couple and there was a new drug store being built across the street. I had never seen anyone working on it, yet it was progressing. When we came out, I saw why. It appeared there were all Mexican workers, probably illegal, doing the work late in the evening. I suppose they worked late and into the week-end. By Monday morning they would not be there for immigration to find.
They took work away from local citizens, no doubt. Yet they were working and working hard. I hold less against them than the sleazeball that probably pocketed a huge savings in labor cost.
In the end, was it good for the community? I don't know. I only know how I feel.
Again, I apologise.
Wes
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