A Day Without Immigrants!

[Hooper]

No Illegal aliens? Aye Carumba!

[fishaholic18]

We should have a Day Without Americans...wonder how that would go..

[Duke41]

My grandfather was an immigrant for Nova Scotia. He came down during WW2 to work at the Boston Shipyard. Became a boilermaker and rose to shop steward. He was a great guy and strong as an ox. I thank God he had the guts to leave his family and everything he had known and grew up with to immigrate to the USA. Each one of us had that one person way back that wanted a better life and was fearless enought to come to the USA. Many could not speak English or could understand how to function in this land, but they came anyway. As I sit here at my desk in my house and consider the life I have I am very grateful.

I believe that this country is the best in the world and if other immigrants want to come here we should let them. We should put up with the hassles of Jose or Pattal at the gas station or donut shop and just smile and welcome them to the club.

[BigFish]

Duke...its not that we don't want immigrants to come here.....its that when they do, before even becoming citizens of this country, they get more benefits from our government than we do for cryin' out loud....many do not ever try to become citizens and they just take advantage of our system, they never attempt to learn the language, they work under the table never paying taxes.....shall I go on??? We all know where we came from Duke......but it is a different world today than all those years ago when immigrants came by boat and more often than not went through Ellis Island and were processed before entering the country.....now they just float over on a banana crate, stow away on a barge, swim or stroll over a dark border or are smuggled over in trucks!!!!! That is the problem Duke....nobody is criticizing your Grandfather.....open your mind a bit beyond your small world.

[BigFish]

Also Duke...Jose' and Patal need to learn the friggin language because I will be Gawd Damned if I am going to learn theirs!!!! Already peeves me that my kids are "REQUIRED" to learn spanish in school!!!!!

[Nebe]

just remember.. for every lazy imigrant that pisses you off for giving you bad service at a place like D&D's, there are dozens of very hard working imigrants working quietly in non-public places that you will never see, doing what they do to raise your quality of life.

No imigrants means a large void in the work force...especially a large void in many jobs that most 'entitled' americans wouldnt dream of doing.

[BigFish]

Yeah....and they get paid plenty under the table for the privilage! Plus government aid.

Eben...its not the fact that there are immigrants here......that is not the issue....the issue is the illegal ones who seek to have the government grant them citizenship without them having to go through the same system many others do to become citizens. Is this the same Eben that hates Bush?