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8 Responses to “Not The Least Bit Surprised”

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1. JohnDewey Says:
   April 10th, 2006 at 12:58 pm

   There may have been Stalinists among the 500,000 at yesterday’s Dallas rally. But I didn’t see any as I walked among the crowd.

   What I did see were people who embrace the very values Republicans claim to hold dear: strong pro-life beliefs; respect for family and absolute love of children; self-reliant attitudes; belief in free markets. I saw patriotism. I saw a belief in the American Dream. I saw a belief in the American political system. These folks weren’t plotting overthrow or secession. They were registering to vote.

   What I also saw was passion, as indicated by all the hand-painted signs with original messages. Ones I remember include:

   “Let my chidren realize the American Dream”

   “We are workers, not criminals. Let us work.”

   “I am an American citizen. Please let my mommy and my daddy stay here.”

   “If being an immigrant is a crime, then God help us all.”

   “Why do you hate us?”

   I’m generally a hard-line conservative. But I can’t support hard-line Republican politicians who want to deport all these hard-working social conservatives. I hope the hard-liners don’t turn the Republican Party back to the Goldwater minority days. I want a return to the Reagan days. According to Daniel Griswold of CATO:

   “Reagan had the good sense and compassion to see illegal immigrants not as criminals but as human beings striving to build better lives through honest work.”

   I joined the Republican Party because of Reagan’s vision. I will desert it if that vision is abandoned.

2. Jo Says:
   April 10th, 2006 at 1:45 pm

   If they want the American Dream, why did they feel like they had to break American laws to get it? I don’t want law breakers to be allowed to become citizens — they can’t respect the laws to become a citizen legally, why should I believe they will respect them once they become citizens?

3. john l moler Says:
   April 10th, 2006 at 1:48 pm

   I remember the 70’s i was there when were we told we could no longer do farm labor work because the mexicans crews will be doing it from now on. My car was hit by 5 illegals and they run away leaving their car. good americans run them back to the accident . but the local said they culd do nothing about it and let them go. i was stopped at a red light with cars in front of me and they hit the rear of my car . try being on the front line and see what is really going on.

4. JohnDewey Says:
   April 10th, 2006 at 2:16 pm

   Jo,

   It is unlikely these illegal immigrants would ever have gotten into the U.S. legally. They cannot themselves do anything to make our immigration laws less restrictive.

   U.S. employers have work for them to do. Why shouldn’t they be allowed to do it?

   Try to put yourself in the position of a Mexican parent trying to feed and clothe his children. He’s making $4 a day in Mexico. He can continue to wait in the impossibly long immigration line while his child is hungry or suffers from lack of medical care. Or he can easily evade an unenforced border to find employers willing to pay him $80 a day the first day he arrives. Would you allow your family to suffer severe poverty just so you do not break an unenforced law?

   Illegal immigrant workers in the U.S. do not have criminal minds. They just want to work. Were legal immigration possible for them, they would jump at it. Why do you oppose giving them the chance?

5. Jo Says:
   April 10th, 2006 at 2:22 pm

   I oppose giving them the chance because they broke the law to get here. If they can’t feed their children in Mexico, stop having them and work on fixing their country so it is better for them.

6. Trelaina Says:
   April 10th, 2006 at 3:06 pm

   I find myself walking a fine line between the immigration positions out there.

   On one hand, I very much DO NOT WANT amnesty for those who broke the law to come here. On the other hand, part of the blame for that lies with us, as less of them would have crossed illegally had we enforced our laws.

   I do NOT believe that they are doing “jobs Americans won’t do” but rather jobs that Americans won’t do at the pay scale that illegals will take.

   All that said, I think we are ignoring the root cause. Before we do anything else, we must begin enforcing our laws and protecting/sealing our borders. Once we are confident that illegals are not streaming into our country, we can tackle the more difficult issue of those who are now here.

   When your pipes have busted and water is gushing everywhere, what do you do first? You cut off the lines so no more water is flowing through. Then, and only then, do you deal with the water that is already there. To simply mop up water while gallons continue to flow on top of it is a waste of time.

7. john l moler Says:
   April 10th, 2006 at 3:57 pm

   will i was born and raised in arkansas. i picked and chopped cotton when i was 6 years old and have been working ever sence then. we were payed 3 dollars for 1 hundred pounds of cotton picked and worked 12 hours a day for 6 dollars. i was woring in california farm labor 12 a day days a week for $350.00 a mth in 1969. in arkansas 1967 my dad got $65.00 a week for working at the sawmill 12 hrs a day and 6 day a week. hard work long hours is what made america. but if they become legal just think of all the new meat for the armed services.

8. john l moler Says:
   April 19th, 2006 at 11:45 am

   by the way the illegals are not only doing farm work they work for the goverment offices jobs. they yall we do jobs that americans do not want to do that we can not get..check the move center it’s a goverment run program that moves illegals to other states to work and live. get real they get to go to are schools and colleges that most americans can not afford to go to.