Why not allow more immigrants in ?
 

It's a whole lot better than reading this kind of shit: http://today.reuters.com/news/newsAr...ECUADOR-DC.XML

Basically, 100+ people crowded in to a boat built for 15 people and risked trying to cross who know how many miles of open Pacific in a bid to reach the United States. The boat sank and it looks like only 7 of the 120 survived.

So, why not allow more legal immigration into the States ?

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We should have a modern immigration policy. We should recruit, and accept people based on education, skills, etc.... We should crack down on illegal immigration, and increase legal immigration so we know who is coming into the country.

But I would not expect any of this to happen anytime soon.

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we are/were a frree country once founded on imigration....... something got lost along the way

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Mike you should start an adopt a mexican program


Poll: 40% of Mexicans want to move to U.S.
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.p...b1_mexicanpoll

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this country was founded on immigration when there was a need for immigration.

a recent poll conducted in Mexico found that 50% of Mexicans would move to the USA if they could and 1 in 4 would do so illegally if they could. and that is just Mexico. 1 country.

Are you going to happily let your entire city become a ghetto as you allow millions more people into the country than the system can absorb? or did you think that a bunch of people previously living on 5$ a day are going to show up with 2.5 million each to buy a nice house and car and invest a little and brighten up the neighborhood?
:)

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I'm taking the liberty of bumping Mike's post up so that it can be read again more carefully.

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Don't want to read it more carefully!
... Cause every time I find Mike and I agreeing, it scares me shitless. http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/smilies/smile.gif

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You should see the starving children here in Cali due to a shortage of Mexicans farm workers :)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?fee...armworkers.xml

of course this all could be easily solved by relocating Oakland and East Palo Alto down to cental vallery :)

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I know nothing.

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i actually just got home a few hours ago from a trip down to San Diego and Los Angeles. i found myself thinking quite a bit while trying to learn spanish to use a bathroom at Texaco, that if they deported all illegals, we would probably be paying 20.00 for a carrot or head of lettuce and that farms would just collapse.

the sensible solution i would guess would to create a better system of giving work permits/visas to those who are coming across and working anyway... legal or not and then police those who have visas and shoot arrest/deport those who don't.

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This country was founded on legal immigration. Go read the logs at Ellis Island. If they want to come in legally, I have zero problem with it. Break the laws and then I get pissed off :)

As far as farm workers - America's kids are obese because they aren't exercising. Get the little brats out there picking fruits and veggies for a couple of bucks an hour and solve two problems at once. Oh, I know, the ACLU would go crazy, but it would work ;)

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it's always a pretty scary day when Mike and i agree on something ;-)

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Sounds like the news down here every other week. It's amazing what they'll jump in to get to Florida from Cuba. Even more amazing is the stuff that actually makes it.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americ...4/cuba.car.ap/

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What we should do is ship out some of the lazy worthless ghetto trash that we currently have infesting the states and bring in the Mexicans. At least they work when they have a job and enjoy doing so because they know it's taking care of family back home...

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First you want my sex partner, Enforcer. And now you're stealing my lines.

Curse you BuzzLightye--, er, Sykkboy!! http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/smilies/box2.gif

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I'd have no problems with that....

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you know thats not a bad idea and it keeps the money in the system
you might be on to something here Peaches

thats what they do in RUssia, school kids have to work few hours a week durring summer picking up fruits on farms or build crates for farms.

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yeap...
http://cotac.com/knight/ZZZ/kolhoz.jpg

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yup lol

WTF is that on your hand ??

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either carrot on a knife or a dildo..
;)

are you coming to Florida in October to Rick's show?

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yup, hope to see you there

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well,
if not exactly there, we can still have dinner. I have a good bottle of Ice Wine from gonzo we can share.

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Production should always be placed where it gives the best ROI... if 3rd world countires can produce food at the same quality, but at a lower cost, then let them. Only national farmers are getting fatter when we are not allowing real competition.

"Carrots" made in China :)

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This is a complex issue, but I'm just stating the obvious. There is no easy answer.

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Then let's just give them back California - they're taking it anyway... Try living in an area where illegals refuse to learn English, but their numbers are increasing to the point where the locals who live here are being forced to learn Spanish just to get a job and see how you like it. I'm seriously ready to leave the state. It's THAT bad.

I know a lot of LEGAL immigrants from Mexico who feel the same way - they are Americans, 1st - 2nd - 3rd generation some of them, and they are getting frustrated with the masses of illegals taking over our valley, trashing our stores and lowering our property values. They call them Mexi-Cali Mexicans - the ones even Mexico didn't want - that hop the fences and come into the desert. It seems that law enforcement can't or won't do much about it either.

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Well, I don't know how it is in Cali, but I know when I see them here it's usually a group of 5 or so men that bust their asses daily doing whatever job they can get. On the other hand, we have blacks(this might sound racist, sue me) that have jobs that they either don't show up for, or if they do show up for them they have an attitude about it and most of the time they are playing with one another instead of doing the damn job they're being paid for. This doesn't apply to all blacks, just the worthless ghetto trash that I mentioned earlier. Even white trash trailer park folk go to work and make a living, what the hell is the problem with the blacks?


And I know all about people having to learn spanish to get a job. My mother moved out to Vegas a while back and couldn't get a nursing job because her spanish is rusty from not speaking it on a regular basis since my grandfathers passing, he was Puerto Rican in case you're wondering.. :)

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All of the illegals I've ever met work like dogs. My husband used to be a restaurant manager for Holiday Inn and his Spanish is pretty much limited to anything that's said in a kitchen. He always had the highest respect for his kitchen staff.

In a way, that's part of the problem. The influx of illegals is causing hospitals to go broke and close in droves. It's causing more problems than you can possibly count, and the Border Patrol - despite having very snazzy uniforms - has no real power to do anything. (You can walk up to a Border Patrol agent in downtown San Diego and say "Hi, I'm an illegal" and all he can say is "excuse me, but we call you 'undocumented immigrants' now" because he has no arrest powers away from the border.) It's made a mess of California. But then...how do you not have respect for a guy who'll strap himself to a car engine just so he can work a minimum wage job, live in a hovel and send the money back to his family?

To say the problem is complex doesn't begin to cover it. I don't have any faith in the people who are supposed to be coming up with some kind of solution, either.

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Sykk, perhaps we should introduce the illegals to some S.O.D. ? :D

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You fuckers like cheap produce as much as I do. You wanna pay 10 bucks for a tomato? The jiggs aint gonna do that work anymore...eat your slave labor salad and pipe down.

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thats all liberal bullshit IMO
cheap labor will always be here even if its homegrown workers
money will be spent here instead of $30b going back to Mexico
just think how much of that $30b will be spent on porn ?? :)

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I fail to see how liking slave labor is liberal BS...but the spending on porn part I like...regardless, who other than illegals are you gonna get to work in the fields for less than/minimum wage? Arabs sure as hell aren't gonna do it. A jigg aint going anywhere near a field again - they see a farm and visions of cotton and "massah" come rolling in. Dont' count on asians and hillbillies sure as hell aren't. You gonna take some italian kids from the bronx and put them in the orange fields of florida for 4 bucks an hour and expect them to stay? This isn't a question of "cheap" labor...these people are essentially slaves.

Answer that and I'll go along with it 100%. The illegal beaners fuel the agricultural sector of this economy - like it or not. Remove them and lettuce will cost as much as lobster. I happen to like lettuce :)

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The pathetic thing about this whole conversation is that it has been had so many times before ... from the 1830s on. There isn't even very much in the way of unique ignorance here.

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what makes you so sure that beaners are getting paid slave lavor wages ??

""farmer David Jackson says workers who make around $6.75 per hour cost him $9.50 in benefits."" >> http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?fee...armworkers.xml

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That's right ... and we all know that every farmer only hires legal workers above the table and is fully compliant with every labor law.