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Originally posted by foodstamp
You are a professional comedian, right?
Ok, I'll bite, then I suggest you go back to page 4 and read from there. Everyones comments. Every little stupid news clip and so on. And E-D-U-C-A-T-E yourself. Because your CNN program mimics the same statistics we've been talking about.
Originally posted by LoneCloudHopper2
Originally posted by foodstamp
You are a professional comedian, right?
Ok, I'll bite, then I suggest you go back to page 4 and read from there. Everyones comments. Every little stupid news clip and so on. And E-D-U-C-A-T-E yourself. Because your CNN program mimics the same statistics we've been talking about.
This is the same advice you need: go back and READ over all the credible sources which are explaining to you the reality of the situation. Ignoring facts and reality and just accusing others (who are providing them) of being what you are is...in the nicest possible terms, BS. The fact that CNN “mimics” the points that you are denying is rather important to the argument, I would say.
What we have here is a situation where the far-right is pushing for (and at this point protecting) illegal immigration just because it benefits large corporations, to the detriment of the working class, and left-wingers are following suit with Obama in protecting ‘poor, innocent refugees’ who just ‘need a break’. The problem is, these are NOT poor refugees; these are criminals who are breaking into the US, arriving with thousands of dollars to buy false IDs or whatever other documents they need, and residence, to secure American jobs. This in itself is breaking the law, in more ways than one.
Do you believe that Illegal Immigration should be allowed? If so, where do you draw the line? At a billion? Ten billion? If you do not believe in the United States as an idea, a nation of laws, fine. As only a fool would claim to be a patriot while advocating Illegal Immigration, I’ll assume then that you are either a globalist or an anarchist. But there is already a line: legal immigration. If Americans felt that more immigrants could or should be allowed in, they can simply allow more in (there are many people always trying to get into the States lawfully, many of whom will never get in.)
Of course, the United States’ economy cannot handle any more immigrants at this time, as it is overrun. Many Americans are out of work (unable to find any jobs,).
I have no bias. I am reporting truth, obviously a foreign concept to you.
What? Did I not show you I have read them over? Is the fact that these numbers are NOT MATHEMATICALLY POSSIBLE not a good enough defense for you? What are you saying?
Absolutely, Let's work on that AMERICA, not fighting over weather or not we need to shoot illegals and build bigger walls.
I'm not buying the fake ID bit either though. I've been through the walfare system. It's as accurate as a police booking station. Which I've had many run ins with as well.
No I don't think it should be allowed. My argument is that it is not nearly as bad as they say as far as a drain on the economy goes. Ploys like this are easy for the media to exploit to distract from REALLY BIG AND BAD issues going on right now. This is an easy sell to the public because it sounds right, and people interact with these illegals on a daily basis. Most of us anyway. Now, throw some BOGUS numbers in there and now my friend, we have a smaller issue become a much LARGER issue. This issue is about as irrelevent as abortion is right now. They're not NON issues but small ones that made to be large.
This statement is completely false. ANY non citizen is fast tracked into the United States if they have a bachelors degree. And guess what? They really ARE taking jobs away from Americans!
Then report it bud, that's all I'm asking. Cause you haven't yet. You've given me CNN and your opinions. Back up TWO major statements that your arguing. Like show me government numbers from ICE or something that show a 5-15 year data on illegals coming over the border. Show me a Census that got illegals living in the united states in double digit millions. That could easily back up your 3k-8k illegal statement. Something! I'm not too proud to change my outlook
Originally posted by LoneCloudHopper2
I am personally not concerned with exact estimates. Others may argue with you over them, but I am not. As I stated, no one seems to know the exact figures.
“Shoot illegals and build bigger walls”? I’m not sure if you’re being silly or sensualistic here.
Several million Illegal Immigrants are in the States, taking millions of jobs from citizens and legal immigrants, receiving free medical and even free legal representation (if needed,) and you do don’t think this is a significant drain on the US economy?
And as these are criminals to begin with, and are cheating the system, of course many are going to cheat it in other ways as well (welfare and other services,) committing robbery, etc. Remember, these are criminals we are talking about here.
How do you expect the American economy to handle several million Illegal Immigrants? Where do you suppose a large surge of jobs to make up for this large shortage of work will come from? How can the influx of Illegal Immigrants be stopped if it isn’t taken seriously?
This does not make my statement “completely false”. The same thing happens in Canada these days: certain white collar jobs are filled by foreigners with the right papers. At one time, Canadians were actually paid to upgrade their own education to fill such requirements. This lifted lower class citizens and overall boosted our economy.
You stated: “Illegal immigrants receive absolutely no federal healthcare or welfare.” This was total BS and I provided that dated report (which means that things would likely be even worse now,) to disprove this statement.
Ok, If you're not concerned with EXACT numbers then how can you back parrot the same news articles if they've been shown to not be legitimate? You know what? Let's just move passed this argument because your approach later on in your letter (several million illegals) is a number that you and I can agree on and gives a foundation to debate from.
Well, these are again just blanket, vague acusations. I don't really know what you want me to argue? Do illegals receive federal healthcare benefits? No. If they were to go into a hospital with a bullet in there chest just or some other emergency that was critical to life? Yes. As would ALL people with or without health care. We're a nation built on Christian ideals! should we kick them to the curb right there and leave them to die? Absolutely not! That may be your argument but not mine. Certainly it would be a PERFECT time to begin deportation measures as soon as the illegal status had been determined.
As far as "significant drain" goes, again, That's in the eye of the beholder I guess. i would say no it's not a significant drain goes. Do millions, maybe billions go into them? Yes. But that's a drop in the bucket when the last QE numbers to go out were about 7 trillion in ROBBERY against the American people! That was the point i was trying to make earlier when I said these stories on immigration are ploys to distract from the real problems! I mean, Look at us! It's working! Were worried about a billion or so a year on immigration when were being robbed bling and sent to war!
Criminal in the sense that they are illegal status. But no your lumping them into a catagory as though they were all MS-13 so to speak. And this couldn't be more incorrect. So no, you can't just say that these are ALL criminals looking to rip of the government
I expect it to handle as well as it has been handling it now. Quite well. The only thing saying were NOT handling it well is news media whom we've already determined are LYING about their GROSSLY over exaggerated numbers
So you agree with me? Your in support of American citizens losing white collar jobs to non citizens but don't agree with Mexicans taking 3 dollar an hour illegal farming jobs? I smell hypocrisy here.
Dated report? where? If your talking about scams to rip off the government well, perhaps your right. But were arguing weather or not there is a federal policy of welfare to illegals. And there is not! With the exception of course to what we listed above about emergency care. Which again, is offered to all people.
We can tackle this problem much easier to go after business's hiring illegals. Per your CNN clip, we shut down all of three business last year. Therein lies your biggest problem. Eliminate the demand and the supply will decrease. But that won't happen cause this is by design. And if the media can delude you into thinking about the symptom (illegals) then they have total control to do what they want. Which is create demand for more illegals and bring'em in at 3 bucks an hour to save money. While you and I fight about illegals. A simple plan, yet so genius.
Originally posted by Night Star
Since you are so fond of numbers Sir, I thought I would share these with you.
"In FY 2011, ICE removed 396,906 individuals. Ninety percent of all these removals fell into one of ICE's enforcement priorities."
"In FY 2011 ICE removed 45,938 recent border crossers."
"In FY 2011, ICE removed 96,529 aliens who were either repeat immigration violators or immigration fugitives."
In their charts, the numbers have risen every year.
"Nearly 55 percent, or 216,698, of the people removed in FY 2011 were convicted criminal aliens – an 89 percent increase in the removal of criminals from FY 2008, and the largest number of criminal aliens removed in agency history."
www.ice.gov...
Those are just the ones that are caught.edit on 21-11-2012 by Night Star because: (no reason given)
1,119 aliens convicted of homicide
5,848 aliens convicted of sexual offenses
44,653 aliens convicted for crimes involving drugs
35,927 aliens convicted for driving under the influence
ICE remains committed to maximizing the removal of those who pose the greatest threat to public safety or national security.
Originally posted by LoneCloudHopper2
reply to post by foodstamp
So you agree with me? Your in support of American citizens losing white collar jobs to non citizens but don't agree with Mexicans taking 3 dollar an hour illegal farming jobs? I smell hypocrisy here.
Where do you get this from? I am in support of educating our own to fill positions which are needed to be filled instead of bringing in immigrants to fill those positions. If our economies were stronger, we could afford to bring in more (legal) immigrants (but these are tough times.)
You know, the education assitance your country has in place is a wonderful idea! Wish we had the same. I was pointing out though that you understand and agree that America fast tracks immigrants with educations whilsts those same immigrants steal our "important" jobs and you have no issue with that. I find that hypocritical if your stance is illegals are "stealing" jobs. what about the Non citizen legal aliens that are "stealing" our jobs as well?
So you are against Illegal Immigration? I’m glad to see that you do at least acknowledge that it is a problem, just a problem not worth being too concerned about (from your perspective.) I think the States is in a lot of trouble (as we all will be, in the long run.) Our governments are working for corporate interests alone, even singing deals in secret which will only benefit them. Our natural resources are being exploited. We are polluting the land, the air and the water. We are over-populating the planet, over-spending, over-consuming, over-selling. We, as a race, are anything but conservative. This will be our downfall.
Absolutely it's a problem, just a small one. But the remedy is there (tackling disloyal American business's) and nobody wants to enforce. They would rather take billions in tax dollars to implement better tracking and databasing the average citizen and illegal alike. Because that is what I believe this is all REALLY about when you boil it all down. Have the American citizen look at illegal immigration issue and think it's this MAJOR problem so the government can implement better tracking and databasing for all. How else can you justify billions of dollars spent to track and database?
edit on 11/23/1212 by foodstamp because: (no reason given)
You know, the education assitance your country has in place is a wonderful idea! Wish we had the same. I was pointing out though that you understand and agree that America fast tracks immigrants with educations whilsts those same immigrants steal our "important" jobs and you have no issue with that. I find that hypocritical if your stance is illegals are "stealing" jobs. what about the Non citizen legal aliens that are "stealing" our jobs as well?
Absolutely it's a problem, just a small one. But the remedy is there (tackling disloyal American business's) and nobody wants to enforce. They would rather take billions in tax dollars to implement better tracking and databasing the average citizen and illegal alike. Because that is what I believe this is all REALLY about when you boil it all down. Have the American citizen look at illegal immigration issue and think it's this MAJOR problem so the government can implement better tracking and databasing for all. How else can you justify billions of dollars spent to track and database?
Originally posted by Night Star
reply to post by foodstamp
I think it is important to note that anyone who has ever lost a loved one due to a drunken illegal, feels that it is one too many. For anyone who has ever been raped or maimed, it was because of one too many. For anyone who has lost a job opportunity, It is because of one too many. The crimes commited by illegals were all avoidable. Had you have lost your child, wife, husband, parent or whatever, you would be fighting against illegal immigration and realize it is a huge problem.
It’s a big problem, for the reasons I’ve explained above. I fail to see how millions of criminals flooding into anyone’s country and receiving lots of free benefits for it could be considered a small issue.
Originally posted by Sinfulknowledge
Originally posted by foodstamp
You are a professional comedian, right?
Ok, I'll bite, then I suggest you go back to page 4 and read from there. Everyones comments. Every little stupid news clip and so on. And E-D-U-C-A-T-E yourself. Because your CNN program mimics the same statistics we've been talking about.
One that did get me though was the 3-8k illegals a day. ok, So there slick Let's do the math...Let's do an average of the two numbers... Say, 5k into the country a day. that's 1.8 million a year. So in the last 5 years that's what? Around 9.1 million illegals? all the way up to 8k a day over 5 years that's 14.6 million illegals? Ok, now let's use a real number like 15 years and 5k illegals a day. Because that's around how long this has been an issue. That's around 27.3 million illegals. Sooooo....That means...Ballpark figure... 15% of the entire US population is illegal? Well wait... That's not right. Because the latest census average was around .0009% was illegal... Nuff, said..
I know my number and/or math is not RIGHT on, however you get the picture.. When CNN reports that 66% of California's whole education budget is actually a cost from illegals and their offspring, you got skewed numbers buddy..
So yeah... Do the research.....
I'm not even going to go BACK into federal health care benefits... Read from page 4. My fingers are tired..
I do enjoy how you quoted my post then asked me if I'm a comedian like you actually said something... Don't give me a news clip give me research give me verifiable numbers.. Or I'll save you time... Don't do it because then you wouldn't be able to hold the same bias that you do right now. And we wouldn't want you learning something would we? Like maybe the media has been spoon feeding you garbage from an early age? That's a shocking discovery you may not want to come face to face with.
ON POINT BUDDY
no joke, some people are to lazy to do a little fact checking, that leaves us with a lot of mislead individuals
you get a star my good sir ;P