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I have no problem with them if they come legally, but we've been way too accommodating to illegals. And I don't really find employers getting cheap labor as any kind of advantage for anyone but the employers themselves in that it enables them to avoid paying decent wages.
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"Everything is impossible until somebody does it - Batman RIP Kevin Conroy, the one true Batman Last edited by Spartan198; 11-27-2009 at 05:12 AM. |
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Seriously Spartan, how the hell can you feel like a minority? I assume you're white by the way. How can you feel like a minority when 82 percent of Americans speak English and only 12 percent speak spanish. Of course, 12 percent would be over 30 million Americans but comparing that to the 82 percent and you have a huge difference. How can you feel like a minority when 79 percent of Americans are white and white decendents and only 15 of them are hispanic and hispanic decendent? Your claim that you feel like a minority is ridiculous. It's laughable at best. And don't try to say that I support making spanish a official language in any state because spanish is a extremely hard language to learn if you're not born in it. Teaching spanish is federal law in all schools in Brazil for some stupid reason. I can pronounce words in spanish really well but I can't understand what I'm saying or hearing. Spanish is a pain in the ass to learn and I think that the United States has no official language on the federal level is silly. Which is why I think the government should rehabilitate the immigrants not just let them run around doing anythin they want all willy nilly. I know you are in California and there's a huge spanish speaking population in there but to feel like a minority is silly. |
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Sorry to add gasoline to the fire but just one thing. Those folks who are descended from the original Portugese and Spanish settlers are also considered to be "white" or Caucasian. Now those folks who have the various Indians and/or Blacks in their genetic history aren't.
Lately there has been a tendency to consider those who speak Spanish to be "non-white". Well I've been to Spain (and Italy) and I've seen my share of fair skinned, blonde hair and blue eyed Spanish speaking (and Italian) natives. "White" folks are not just Anglo-Saxon descent. Though I know that right now it's popular to think that. |
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It wouldn't cost much to rehabilitate them. Hell, it could even cost less. We would teach the immigrants english in the rehabilitation centers. There's a lot of stuff we could do to immigrants, both legal and illegal, to make them speak english and start coming in legally. I'm not sure I could say what my "plan" is because I would probably go into sperg territory and all of you would make fun of me. So yeah. Now for you Cordell. I know that not only the Saxons are white. My name is Benito Oliveira. Both a combination of a Spanish name and a Portuguese name. I'm white as hell and I'm a direct descendent of the spanish. Hell, my dad named me Benito after my great grandfather who was a veteran of the Spanish Civil War. My mother is black and so is my brother. However, if I came and knocked at your door and you looked at me, I doubt you'd think I'm a immigrant. Especially because Brazilians don't really have accents. Except for Brazilian rednecks who live in the north east. They have really thick accents. |
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The point is they are here ILLEGALLY. Because of that they should be given no benefits and sent back to their home country. It's unfair to people who are in the long process of emigrating legally to give benefits to all these people who essentially cut in line. Last edited by AdAstra2009; 11-28-2009 at 06:02 PM. |
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A bigger problem with many of these Latino immigrants is the fact that so many of them (and I mean, a significant portion, though I can't remember exact percentage) hold revanchist views and think the Southwestern U.S. should be Mexican territory. If these people were interested in assimilating into America, the way previous generations of immigrants did, I might not feel quite so opposed, but many of them aren't. They don't want to be Americans; they're Mexican nationalists at heart.
I have the same problem with Muslim immigrants, too. Many of them see themselves as Muslims first, Americans second. Many of them are sympathetic to the global jihad and may even be involved in terrorism themselves. And they make zero effort to assimilate, instead insisting on special privileges (like we really need prayer rooms and women-only hours at college gyms...) And I know liberals always reference the fact that America has been a melting pot nation, but the problem is that these new immigrants are skiping the "melting" part when they enter the pot. Instead, they come to our country, they hate our ideas and everything we stand for, and then they bitch and whine that they're being "discriminated" against. Sorry, why am I meant to support more of that? The thing that's funny is that despite how much of Europe looks down upon America for not being as "progressive" as they are, it's funny to me that it's been in Europe that we've seen a revival of far-right/fascist-type parties in the past few years. Why? Because the Europeans are learning the hard way why immigration and multiculturalism has its limits. |
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Hey Oliveria, I got a question for you. Did your grandfather fought on the Facist side or the rebels (I read "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Heminghway and can't decide which side fought for the good cause).
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