Thank you @Alligatorob for such a well said post.
Yep, and if the current trend persists we will end up in the same place. Now is the time to get it under control!unfortunately this tiny Island smaller than Oregon has already 70 million people .,that we know of, and at least another Million or more we don't.. and the govt are not building new schools.. and we have a serious shortage of doctors.. doctors surgeries, hospitals, and housing..
yes your govt really needs to take a lesson from what's happening here.Yep, and if the current trend persists we will end up in the same place. Now is the time to get it under control!
Absolutely! Over the years we've learned much from you, this one is really important.yes your govt really needs to take a lesson from what's happening here
Denver is putting immigrants up in community rec-centers. Obviously, in doing so, the taxpayers who paid for the rec-centers aren't able to use them.
I would tell but I would be delving into politics, and you know the answer anyway.I'm curious to know when not all that long ago was.
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
What's this NIMBY stuff? We need to find a way. We're here. Except for Native Americans, we got here from somewhere else.
Have we gotten so smug and self-satisfied that we insist upon keeping it all for ourselves? Can we not find a way to share and to welcome those who weren't lucky enough to be born here?
Apparently, yes. We have gotten smug and self-satisfied. Repeat after me: entitled. We are entitled and selfish.
Yabbut, illegals are illegals are illegals........there are procedures that should be followed.but not every person crossing borders is coming here for the wrong reasons.
I understand, I do not know the rules and procedures. I am just saying I understand why they do it.Yabbut, illegals are illegals are illegals........there are procedures that should be followed.
This from someone, me, who has immigrated to two countries in my life.
It's obvious that the government actually want them here, as they are falling over backwards to make them feel welcome.WE have thousands arriving by boat every year..all illegal..yet no-one throws them back out..instead our government has closed hotels to the public and using Tax payers money are housing the illegal immigrants in them.. while people who live near these hotels lives are being made miserable by the antics of these immigrants who are hanging around in intimidating gangs.. and also partying until 4 or 5am with loud music etc.. .
It beggars belief.!!
I’m no expert on immigration, but I believe most who are apprehended claim to be asylum seekers. The cartels behind much of the immigration have been shown to provide written instructions on how to claim asylum. Fear of gun violence seems like an easy thing to claim. Personally I suspect that most are simply seeking a better life in general and fear of guns is just one of many elements driving them, economics perhaps being the most important.Over the last few days, thousands of migrants, including many hailing from Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela, huddled along the waters of the Rio Grande, while others waded across the river from El Paso’s sister city on the Mexican side of the border, Ciudad Juarez, to cross into the US.
Many of them are fleeing gun violence. Guess where most of the guns are coming from.
US-made guns are ripping Central America apart and driving migration north
I'm big on doing it rightI understand, I do not know the rules and procedures. I am just saying I understand why they do it.
I'm big on doing it right
Venezuelans, Hondurans......I don't know about them
I just know about one illegal alien
From Mexico
Wrote about him awhile back;
Alien
When I hear that word my mind goes to some unhuman being
From another planet
Put ‘illegal’ in front of that and the subconscious considers a direct threat
From outer space
There’s plenty of propaganda in the media today
It’s up to us to determine the ore from the dross
I have a short personal story
It’s not propaganda
It’s not atypical
It’s as real as any true American story could be
I ask all active in this thread to read this story
An illegal alien
From Acapulco, the seamy side
Was wunna those kids treading water for tourists to toss coins from yachts
At sixteen he hooked up with coyotes to get into the US
Learned how to get along here, the hard way…work, all hours
Deported three times while learning
Came back over, three times, walking the desert at night
Slept where no one cares to be
Worked fields like none other
Wanted to be a ‘landcaseper’
Did OK at it, but didn’t put enough food on the table of his ambition
Became a roofer’s helper
A roofer
A framer
A finish carpenter
Took no hand outs
Paid his way
Now has his own business
I just sent a notarized letter to a dept here in Oregon, telling them why he should remain here while he studies to become a citizen
A recent update;
His mom was assassinated
Right in her home
Point blank to the temple
They (I hear they were federales) were professionals
.22 round
just one
all that's needed
It doesn't go thru the other side
Just rattles around the skull, doing Its lethal damage
His son, my grandson;
Graduated The Oregon National Guard Youth Challenge Program (OYCP)
With honors
I had the privilege of being his mentor
A few pics;
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I will do all in my power to ensure his opportunity
And those like him, and his dad
They may be in the thousands
All the more reason
This is our nation
Nations will come and go
Historically, those choosing exclusivism go sooner than others
Update
My grandson just did a three year stint in the army
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Wants to be a state cop
Right now he's security, on a quick response team
Did some clean up at the Bend OR grocery store shooting
Yeah, this is just one story
Maybe unique
Maybe not
this is what we're told so that we'll except these people into our country.. ''they do the work Brits won't do''... not true. The fact is most come here already very aware of how to work the system.. arrive with kids knowing they will get social security and public housing because they have children with them ... and join up with many from their homeland who are very wise on how to milk the system, and in the meantime our crime rate goes sky high ....Yes! Same deal here in Canada. They are coming in by the plane loads day after day. Many say they will do the work Canadians don't want.
There is now a vast shortage of room at hospitals, schools and affordable housing. Many of them are being "ripped off" as they don't know the "Canadian" way. Some of them are starting to demand their rights.
The immigration system is broken. And I think some people like it that way. It’s putting a strain on our infrastructur as well. I’ve seen what has happened in schools and what’s happened to our crime rate. Something’s gotta give. And I don’t see any politician of any party who is truly willing to fix it.