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[ambitious_wench]

You know, sometimes I'm absolutely floored at the stupidity of Americans.

"I know if I was in Mexico I would make an effort to learn Hispanic."

Comments

[adoka.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the south. The old form of slavery didn't work out so now we got us a new one.

[scascot.livejournal.com]

Here in Canyon County (where I live), one of the County Commissioners is billing the Government of Mexico for the feeding and housing of illegal immigrants from their country.

The theory being, since the Government of Mexico basically turns a blind eye to illegals slipping over the border (and since most of them are already criminals that Mexico would gladly be rid of, thus encouraging the practice), they should be billed for the care and feeding of their citizens before we ship them back after serving their sentence for crimes the commit here.

Sounds reasonable to me - why should my tax dollars go to clothe, feed, and house someone who is here illegally, and commits crimes while here? Use my tax money to clothe, feed, and house someone who is a citizen, whether or not they're in prison, first.

I'd be willing to bet something similar is happening in the above mentioned case: the mother is an illegal alien, but the baby (by virtue of being born north of the Rio Grande) is a citizen. Probably even has a nice US birth certificate, issued by the local hospital, who was reimbursed for expenses related to the birth (when mom couldn't pay) with Medicare dollars that come directly from your taxes. Meanwhile, senior citizens who have lived here all of their lives and worked here all of their lives are seeing their Medicare benefits cut because there's not enough money to cover them in their retirement. Hmm...I wonder where the money went?

It's probably all sorts of messy to evict the citizen, which you would have to do, because she's dependent on her mother, who isn't a citizen. Human rights groups would be all over that one.

In my view, the judge has set this woman on the road to citizenship and a paying job, by forcing her to integrate (by learning the language), keeping her from being a burden on the welfare system (by not having any more children until she can afford them herself), and keeping her able to do both (see last aside).

[scascot.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute - what you're talking about is segregation vs. integration here. Not slavery.

So, segregation is horrible and shouldn't be allowed, and now integration is, too? Please, before you respond to this, take a look at the other comment I made on this post.

[adoka.livejournal.com]

I see your point of view.

Is the woman on welfare? Is she a burden on the glorious state? I don't know. The article doesn't give us a run down on the woman and who she is. She could be holding down two or three illegal jobs cleaning houses or any number of things.

What crimes did the woman commit that brought her before a Tennessee judge. Was she a drug dealer, prostitute, burglar? Did she piss off an employer by asking for a little more money so the employer called child services? We don't know.

I think it is a form of slavery to work illegal aliens for low pay just because there is no recourse for them. They cross the border with a wink and and a nudge to pick our lettuce, wash our dishes, and basically do the scut work of life that we don't really want to pay full value for nor do ourselves.

I do understand the anti-welfare point of view. I even share it from time to time.