Cape Karen
All this immigration news is grating on my nerves. I don't understand it, but that doesn't stop me from being irritated. Seeing tens of thousands of "undocumented" immigrants, flaunting themselves in front of our news cameras, carrying their banners, and shouting for their "rights," makes me wonder why are they still undocumented? If they can come out into the light of day with their banners and shouts of protest, then why didn't they sign-in when they came here? I'll have to research this topic some more, I guess.
Basically, we are a nation of immigrants, as MA Senator, Ted Kennedy, likes to remind us, but we are not supposed to be a nation of illegal immigrants, are we? Last time I looked, "illegal" meant breaking a law. And, when laws are broken, people are supposed to be punished, detained or at least questioned, aren't they? Or is being an illegal immigrant legal now? I just don't get it? And now, they're going to hold us hostage to their demands by refusing to work or shop for a day? If they refuse to go to their jobs, then fire them! You'd fire me if I did such a thing, and I'm even legal. Give me a break!
Here we have all these millions of illegal activists pouring into the streets of our cities in broad daylight. So, round them up and document them! While you have them all out in public - stamp their hands with indelible ink, take down their names and addresses, find out who they're working for. Don't just plaster them all over the news, so we have to actually see how many of them have snuck past our borders in the dead of night.
Eleven million illegal aliens (that we know of) - that's a whole lot of sneaking-in!
In my 'lovely' neighborhood, over the last five years, we have seen multitudes of Mexicans coming to live here; with about 15+ people to a house. From a neighborhood which had five American children three years ago, we now have at least 60 Mexican children pouring off the school bus here every day. Their parents must work in town, most are probably undocumented illegal aliens, and although I'm sure they do work very hard, I don't like what they do here after work; because they play hard, too. And not only that - they have no respect!
Just yesterday, I watched out my back window as one of their beat-up trucks, filled with about 25 big, black garbage bags, rounded the corner on two wheels, loudly blaring Mexican music. Half-way up the road, on the way to the neighborhood trash containers, some of their garbage bags fell off the truck, landing in the middle of the road and splitting wide open. And. . . their garbage is still sitting there, in the middle of the road, today! Gross! They all have to drive past it, back and forth, back and forth; because there is only one road they can take to go in and out of here ~ and, yet, they just keep speeding right over all the the garbage they dumped in the street. DUH?!
No . . . I won't go pick it up. It's a matter of dignity. If they're going to refuse to work or shop - then I refuse to go out there and pick up their dirty garbage! (Uck!)
As far as I'm concerned, if they all went back to Mexico tomorrow, it couldn't be soon enough. Sorry, but this isn't racism or prejudice - it's a human response to annoying humans. I'm sure there are neighborhoods filled with American citizens who are equally as irritating. I'm just reacting to what I'm witnessing - and it's disgusting! Anyone doing this would irk the shit outta me! I don't know what their homeland is like ~ I've only been as far as Cancun, Mexico, and that's just a big tourist trap; but if how they live here is any indication of how they lived there, then it must be a noisy, smelly, dirty place indeed. Obviously, they're feeling right at home now ~ living here in "their" new neighborhood; where they outnumber us 'documented American citizens,' by at least two to one.
And now, they want us to start singing our National Anthem in SPANISH! Pleeeeaaaasee!
There's a limit to how much we can put up with ~ and, I don't know about you, but I'm reaching mine real fast!
I think I'll drive up the hill where they all live, and start blaring my loud American music from the car radio. I'll drive back and forth all day long. Then, from 11:00 p.m. until 3:00 a.m., I'll do it some more, like they do. I'll get out my old tapes and I'll blare-out some Janis Joplin tunes for them! Oh, and I mustn't forget to bring my garbage bags to throw out the window, too ~ I'll have to make sure to throw them hard enough that they'll break open and spew the trash all over the road.
Ahhhh . . . that makes me feel better! I won't get mad . . . I'll get even!
Illegal immigrants . . . I say, "Document who they are and make them legal; or send them all home!" Or. . . perhaps we could send them to China? This report comes from just one industry there that desperately needs workers . . . right now:
"A survey of members by the Asia Footwear Association in Hong Kong found earlier this year that many Chinese shoemakers were understaffed, some by as much as 60 percent. Newly built plants in Dongguan are idle for lack of workers, says Percy Lan, an entrepreneur who publishes a footwear industry magazine. He says the industry employs around 1 million laborers in Dongguan, but needs 100,000 more." Simon Montlake / Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Posted by Karen at May 1, 2006 12:52 PM