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Some large liberal municipalities have laws against local law enforcement
providing information about illegal aliens to the Feds. It would be a pretty scary world if every cop were a link to the feds. Don't worry though, as long as you aren't doing anything wrong, the current administration won't hurt you. Jose -- Quantum Mechanics is like this: God =does= play dice with the universe, except there's no God, and there's no dice. And maybe there's no universe. for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:nJRPe.285478$_o.259735@attbi_s71... This is AMERICA, and the language here is ENGLISH -- and I shouldn't have to TELL THEM THAT. It's insane, but it's the law -- and there's apparently nothing we can do to change it. It could be changed if the U.S. had an OFFICIAL language. Until the US makes a law saying that English (or whatever) is the official language, the gov'ment will still print IRS forms, census forms, etc., in several languages. There is no incentive for non-English speaking people (legal or illegal) to learn English if everything they need is available in their native language. |
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"Eduardo K." wrote in message ... In article ne.com, Andrew Gideon wrote: Am I following this correctly? Homeland security, having failed to handle the problem of illegal immigration, deported *legal* immigrants? Based upon this, I need to take a better look at my neighbors. Bin Laden is probably living in some suburban US town watching CNN. The largest threat to his health is that he'll kill himself laughing at our "war against terrorism". Very nicely put. And he laughed at pre-9/11 efforts to make the issue a "Law Enforcement" effort (from his fatwa in 1996 until 2001). At the very least, he's been on the run for nearly four years and much of his hierarchy is dead or in jail. To call it a war on terrorism (a tactic) is like having a war against pincers movements or end-runs. |
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:nJRPe.285478$_o.259735@attbi_s71... There is something ironic about US citizens whose families have lived here for less than 400 years complaining about illegal immigrants... Yes, there is. But never before have new immigrants so arrogantly *expected* everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. And which codified law did the immigrants 150-400 year ago break? Which property laws did they break? |
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"N93332" wrote in message ... "Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:nJRPe.285478$_o.259735@attbi_s71... This is AMERICA, and the language here is ENGLISH -- and I shouldn't have to TELL THEM THAT. It's insane, but it's the law -- and there's apparently nothing we can do to change it. It could be changed if the U.S. had an OFFICIAL language. Until the US makes a law saying that English (or whatever) is the official language, the gov'ment will still print IRS forms, census forms, etc., in several languages. There is no incentive for non-English speaking people (legal or illegal) to learn English if everything they need is available in their native language. The only languages they are printed in is English and Spanish -- are you aware of other languages? |
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"grubertm" wrote in message oups.com... There is something ironic about US citizens whose families have lived here for less than 400 years complaining about illegal immigrants... What law did those immigrants, 400 years ago, violate? Anyway, the very real reason why no politician is willing to touch this issue is because the US economy has become dependent on cheap illegal labor. Can you site the percentage of the US economy that interacts with illegal labor? (I suspect you're merely barfing back some phrases your teachers and the MSM have been upchucking for years). |
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On 2005-08-27, Jay Honeck wrote:
they certainly would never have dreamed of all the bi-lingual crap we must deal with every day, from ATMs to voice mail systems. Nothing wrong with multi-lingual ATMs - it's easy, it's just done in software. I rather like it on the very occasional visit I make to France. In fact, the ATMs here won't ask you a language if your bank card is recognised as local. Let me describe this issue in cold economic facts, rather than the emotion of English versus Spanish: For every million shoppers who must spend an average of 3 seconds (probably far longer) trying to figure out which button to push (Spanish or English), that is 34.7 DAYS spent wasting everyone's time in line, making a stupid, unnecessary choice. No it isn't. Most people have realised by now you can swipe your card whilst the checker is scanning the goods. Therefore the tasks are happening in paralell - unless it takes you SO LONG to make that selection that the checker beats you scanning the items. In any case, it certainly doesn't take me 3 seconds to choose the language. It's hardly something that needs "figuring out" unless you're functionally illiterate. The people who are really wasting time are those who insist on paying for $3 worth of groceries with a check! -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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My father brought me here legally from Laos when I was nine as a
refugee. He started working the very first week that we got here. We were never on any kind of assistance program. Neither he nor I have ever collected unemployment. We never got anything translated for us. We got by just find and we learned to adapt to and appreciate this country. If everthing is being translated for them, these newcomers, I think they will have a harder time to adjust because they will wait for assistance every single time. Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone |
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"Flyingmonk" wrote in message news:
My father brought me here legally from Laos when I was nine as a refugee. He started working the very first week that we got here. We were never on any kind of assistance program. Neither he nor I have ever collected unemployment. We never got anything translated for us. We got by just find and we learned to adapt to and appreciate this country. Haven't read a follow-up to this. Without immigration, most countries can't survive. The thing that strangles them is not described by the story you tell. A brief reading of the history of your adoptive land will tell you of the protective resources you should have. And, deserve. moo |
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