Note the references to team owners overcrowding residences so they can warehouse soccer players…

Also sometimes when they are in the Emergency Room getting free health care from American taxpayers they get DIRTY LOOKS.

El Lobo, your post @ 5:58 is close to making me get over my self imposed restriction. You really need to go back and reread what you have written.

Furthermore, I live in Sudley and I don’t feel like my neighborhood is a slum. I doubt that the rank and file person driving down the street would feel like they were in a slum. I am not a newcomer to the county either. In fact, Ms. Lafayette has me beat by 7 months.

Does this make you a grand-grand Anchor baby? Guessing on the number of ancestors that came before you…

Soccer fans or not,

When the world cup soccer was going on a few years ago our parking lot was jammed with cars and trucks that didn’t belong, people came home from work and called the tow trucks and had them towed out of their reserved spots. Lots of angry men in the parking lot almost tipped over the tow truck before he just hit the gas and dragged a truck along with him down the road. It’s the rule of law stupid…

From my perspective, we need to illustrate to those who are in this country illegally how wonderful it would be for them in their home countries…and then, as follow-on, encourage them to return home and help their parents, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces and nephews to become stronger and better.

Some deserve to become American citizens through proper channels; the majority deserve to help their families exist. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could save the entire world? We can’t.

A link for you which answers the question:

http://www.foitimes.com/internment/udq.htm

“Years of silence: The untold story of German-American internment”

Many very legal Japanese became displaced persons in their own land and, furthermore had land taken from them, after Pearl Harbor. If they hadn’t looked different than the WASPs and had Japanese names, I wonder whether they would have been treated that way. Looks are important as the Latinos are finding out today.

My ancestors are from Greece and Spain. They came here on a boat, and did not go through Ellis Island (to hear Greg L talk all immigrants used to come through Ellis Island). When they arrived, got a job, got a house, had no visa and no paperwork. They made good lives for themselves. Did not speak or read English. Their children were the ones who were bi-lingual. I am the blessed recipient of their travel to the United States.

100 years ago people didn’t come here with paper work and visas. They were processed through at a port of entry. If they didn’t pass muster, they got sent back. Some of the shipping lines were fairly careful about who got on board, mainly so they didn’t have to bring them back for free.

Thanks for the update. I figured as much. Nothing was ever said re the situation when the church was used for a Mexican Without Borders meeting and one of the large windows was smashed by a Latino drunk. One of the former principals was of the same mindset and her excuse was “if it happens after 3:00pm it’s NOT MY PROBLEM.”

They try to do this so that anti-illegal immigration forces will back down for fear of public shame, but the logic of their attacks is flawed when one looks at the broader picture, and that the previous waves of mass immigration from European, i.e. the “white” countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries came here LEGALLY, made an effort to learn our language and customs, and way of life, and therefore assimilated into American Society. Maybe they were forced to come here legally because they had to sail over an ocean and could not exploit a poorly secured land border, but that does not change the fact that they obeyed the law, and the current wave of immigrants are breaking the law.

The pro-illegal immigration forces that want amnesty are completely out of touch with mainstream American society - just look at most of the comments here - the majority of the posters are against illegal immigration, and most people I know who are against illegal immigration have no problem with LEGAL immigration, regardless of country of origin, ethnicity, etc.

They try to paint us as fear-mongering demagogues because it is the only weapon that they have against the cold, hard facts: that we are a country of dwindling resources being asked (forced, really - they did not ask, they just snuck over the border) to support illegals who are driving down wages for the lower middle class, draining government tax dollars that they do not put back into the system because they do not pay taxes, and creating a division in American society by not assimilating into our culture and refusing to learn our language. To many of them, we are the “gringos”, and some of them even believe in “reconqista”, the re-capture of the American southwest, which they conveniently forget that we rightfully won in both war and by purchasing much of the land from Mexico.

It is not our fault that Mexico is one of the most corrupt governments on the face of the planet, which has led to the impoverishment of their people. And it is absurd that they come here and demand rights that they are not legally entitled to when they should be forcing change in their home country. I think that they are actually taking advantage of liberals that make excuses for them - laughing while the liberal, pro-illegal immigration forces do their work for them, because they have no intention of assimilating into American society. The liberals should also look at the fall of other great nations as Amy Chua has, and understand that non-homogenous societies tend to fall apart, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union.

I do agree with many of Amy Chua’s points from her article, such as strict immigration quotas based on country of origin and levels of education. But she misses the point that Mark Krikorian makes, which is that a mass immigration of unskilled peoples is incompatible with an advanced society that places a greater value on education and already spends to much money on a welfare state.

Plus, what about all the poor and homeless people in the US that were born here and have paid whatever taxes they can their whole lives? It outrages me that our tax dollars are being used to pay for education, hospitalization, and increased law enforcement needed for illegal immigrants when the money should be used to cover the needs of those here rightfully and legally.

The pro-illegal immigration forces are self-righteous hypocrites that fail to see the broader implications to our society, and are actually complicit in hastening it’s downfall. As Mark points out, the public knows that the media, government (and businesses that exploit the inexpensive illegal labor) have no solidarity with the average mainstream U.S. citizen, and no interest in preserving American sovereignty, even if our society has given them rights and freedoms that very few nations offer. What will they say when society starts unraveling? That it was the Republican’s fault? That they wish they could go back to the good old days? They will blame everyone but themselves, but we will all be to shame for allowing them to get away with it, and for it to happen in the first place by not holding our government accountable for the chaos at the border, and for enforcing our laws.