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originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: Night Star
We have the number of languages that our society can bare. If we can function well with 200 languages, then so be it. We appear to be functioning just fine with Spanish quickly becoming a secondary language in this country, so why fight it?
originally posted by: BatheInTheFountain
originally posted by: FyreByrd
Hey if you had health insurance you could have gone anywhere.
Sweetheart they were here first - don't forget it. You could use this as a learning experience. A taste of what minorities go through everyday.
Better learn to speak Spanish.
viva El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles
Actually you have no idea of history, the Spaniards (People closer to ME) and the Russians were more "owners" of this land after the natives then anyone else. Mexican, Guatemalans, Salvadorans, Filipinos, Armenians, Koreans have no historical or moral claim to Los Angeles
originally posted by: blargo
a reply to: Krazysh0t
Great post. I think there is one more thing on top of what you said that would help fix the problem. There should be a migrant worker program that allows for people to easily go between countries due to time sensitive work. Put the things you stated in place and add migrant worker status and I think the whole problem disappears.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
originally posted by: mortex
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: sdcigarpig
Actually the solution relies in making sure that the home country isn't such a s#y place to live. In order to do this, first you'd need to end the war on drugs. This would get rid of the cartels. Then second, you'd need to start investing money into Mexico's infrastructure (possibly in the newly legalized drug trade). This will start funneling tax money to the government legitimately. Then promote good leadership and education. After awhile the flow of illegals will slow down and America would have two neighbors that it is proud of, instead of just one.
Though I know no one wants to discuss real solutions, because real solutions involve America admitting it made a mistake with the war on drugs. Fat chance that will happen any time soon. Instead we'll bitch about the illegals more and more while putting together bandaids that don't do anything to fix the problem.
I'm not an American beaut I curious to know why you think America should pay for Mexican infrastructure.
It's called investment. In business, you invest money into something so that you can see a positive return from it later. If you can't see the gains that helping Mexico climb out of third world status would have for the US, then you are just blinded by conservatism (we've always done it this way so we have to continue doing it this way). I'd rather live with a neighbor that likes and respects me rather than have a neighbor that is trying to get around my excessive security all the time. In business, cooperative relationships make BOTH parties more money in the end.
The real solution is to seal the border and police it effectively and empower law enforcement to do their job. The solution is also to round up all the illegals in huge sweeps and deport them. Document them as much as possible including DNA samples.
That's not a solution. That's a stop gap measure. It's not going to stop illegals from crossing the border and it will just waste a lot of money and time. In order for an idea to be an ACTUAL solution, it needs to actually STOP the problem efficiently.
Did it ever occur to you that if Mexico weren't such a crappy place to live, people wouldn't want to come here so badly? Fixing Mexico, stops the problem from the source instead of trying to plug the flow while the water is running. Then we wouldn't NEED to spend all that money on border security, make laws that aren't always followed, or empower police officers with too much authority.
originally posted by: neo96
originally posted by: BatheInTheFountain
originally posted by: FyreByrd
Hey if you had health insurance you could have gone anywhere.
Sweetheart they were here first - don't forget it. You could use this as a learning experience. A taste of what minorities go through everyday.
Better learn to speak Spanish.
viva El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles
Actually you have no idea of history, the Spaniards (People closer to ME) and the Russians were more "owners" of this land after the natives then anyone else. Mexican, Guatemalans, Salvadorans, Filipinos, Armenians, Koreans have no historical or moral claim to Los Angeles
That's right.
LOL Spaniards gives it away as they were European.
Technically speaking the CONUS belonged to the Native Americans.
And we all know they don't speak spanish.
originally posted by: mortex
So pouring hundreds of billions into building another counties infrastructure is going to give you a positive net financial return?
If it's In the form of loans, I can understand. But that's not what you said.
And as for it being a stop gap measure, sure it is, if you're a leftist who thinks western countries should keep the borders open and let the riff raff flood in unchecked.
What I suggested wasn't a stop gap measure but a PERMANENT solution.
People like you obviously don't realize that the globalist agenda has resulted in western countries having their borders thrown wide open. From south eastern Europe to Australia to America.
Ask your self why governments, all major parties which are sell outs to globalist corporations, do nothing to SERIOUS and LONG TERM to stop illegal immigration and send illegal Immigrants home.
In Australia we've had the smoke and mirrors of turning back the boats. Those people will eventually get in anyway. But why aren't they doing anything about the illegals here already? There's thousands of Albanian illegal immigrants herr on fake passports. Why are they still here?
In Greece, with an economic crisis, tens of thousands of illegals are still being funneled over by Turkey. They couldn't cope with illegals before the crisis how can they now? They wanted to build a border fence...EU reacted angrily and stopped it. WHY? For the same reason why they give illegals citizenship. Because it's part of the globalist agenda.
In France and other parts of Europe further north illegals riot and turn neighborhood's into ghettos...Why don't they deport them?
People like you are too taken in by the leftist ideology that's infested our education systems in the west.
originally posted by: sdcigarpig
a reply to: Krazysh0t
That is an idea, however, what do you do when it turns out that the government and various agencies are highly corrupt?
Building up a country is one thing, but if the government is corrupt and no good, it does no good to pump money into that system as it will turn around and go elsewhere. The facts are that the Mexican government runs on a totally different mentality and is highly different than that of the USA. It is dealing with a whole set of social issues, that will take years to sort out.
And can the US really afford to go into all these different countries to try to build up their infrastructures? How many more millions does the tax payer have to put into corrupt systems and dictatorships, or have their hands bitten before we decide it is not worth it?
I know this sounds a bit isolationist, but the facts are that the US governmental foreign policies and foreign aid is so messed up, it is not even funny, nor should it be something that we should consider. The US needs to stay out of the world affairs for a bit, allow for us to decide who we are, and the direction we want to go, and start fixing our own social and economic problems before trying to fix someone else’s or interfering in another countries internal affairs. Far too often it has backfired and turned out to be a total disaster to the US, and history will show that. Starting in the 1920’s there was Russia and China, and Korea, and Vietnam, and Cuba, and any number of South American countries, and Latin American Countries, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Middle East, Africa.
How many countries do we need to have policies or influence on, which goes and collapses?
We need to be good neighbors first, and this is a 2 fold issue. The first is that US business needs to stop looking at the illegal immigrants as a source of cheap labor, and the illegal immigrants need to stop looking at the USA as a cash machine. There needs to be a full and total change in the immigration policy, to include working with our neighbors to the north and south, and to give a clear cut set of laws and regulations that outline how a person can get into the country, what is expected and what will disqualify a person from coming and living here. And the enforcement of the laws need to be equal across the board. That means there can not be cities or organizations or even states that choose to ignore the laws, while others get over aggressive in the enforcement of such.
i usually dont chime in to these type of threads, but dam the ignorance is deafening. Op your totally correct in your assumption. Every other race i.e. Russians, Germans, Asians, Japanese, Chinese,etc,etc,etc all learned that the native language is English, thus learned it. However we have illegals being flooded south of the border, strickly for political gain and all law abiding citizens "all" whom changed from their former language are suppose to accept this so the melting pot cliche goes all nationalities minus spanish. My god this country is in trouble
originally posted by: Aloysius the Gaul
originally posted by: Kangaruex4Ewe
Why should they not learn to speak english?
English is not the official language of the USA, so they can speak whatever they like and there's nothing you can do about it.
Hasta la vista baby! :p