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RE: illegal immigration

So would you date an illegal alien, lol?

RE: Your favorite "unusual" movie

Yeah, he liked no typos and she had that paper she turned into him with a bug smashed or a worm smashed on it. I can't remember, lol.

RE: Your favorite "unusual" movie

Did anyone get a chance to watch Death Race 2000? They got points for running over people.

RE: Your favorite "unusual" movie

Mad Max. I loved them cars. Max gave that guy a choice of whether to cut his handcuff or his hand off as the gasoline was pouring out of the car. I think there is a twist of irony in there some wheres, lol.

RE: illegal immigration

This may be a little off topic but some people have low incomes and need a little help. It seems some aid is not always given because one does have a job. There has been a tendency for one to quit job because that was the only way they could get help. I have seen the threat that a person can put on another because they are illegal, too. The threat comes in the form of reporting them if they do not do as they ask.

RE: illegal immigration

Sounds like that movie, "Born in East L.A.". Some men and women have gained legal status by marrying someone already legal.

RE: illegal immigration

What about children that were born because of military servicemen overseas like in Viet Nam? Should those children be classified as legal immigrants?

RE: illegal immigration

I have been threaten with deportation before. I lost my German birth certificate and even though I am a naturalized citizen by birth I still got that hassle through the colleges. Luckily, my father's military records were available and I had joined the Army National Guard. Military records can go a long way in helping one.

RE: Happy (almost) Birthday

Erin, Hoping comfort for you. I know you want to see the baby and have it healthy so you can take it home.

Roy

RE: What would you rather have a night out on the town or a night at home?

I think that someone should take you out once in a while.wave

RE: illegal immigration

Haiti and the Boat People

The country of Haiti has had a bloody history. Haiti's undemocratic military rulers have frequently sought to suppress opposition to their regimes. Today, a modern Haitian crisis has moved beyond the confines of this tiny island republic to touch U.S. shores. Thousands of Haitians have set sail in fragile boats, hoping to cross 600 miles of ocean to the coast of Florida. The Haitians say they face harassment, imprisonment, and even death at the hands of Haitian government henchmen. Many in the United States say, however, that most of the refugees are mainly coming to the United States to escape the island's grinding poverty.

In recent years, both the Bush and Clinton administrations have ordered the Coast Guard to intercept Haitian immigrant boats before they reach U.S. waters. Most of them have been sent back to Haiti.

I got the immigrants wrong but remember the incident.

RE: illegal immigration

I would rather have a thread blowed all to hell than to be locked, lol.

RE: illegal immigration

If I remember right there were these Cuban refugees who got on this boat for America. A decision was to made whether they should be allowed into America.

RE: illegal immigration

I think we have got to the point of legal versus moral.

RE: illegal immigration

Good point, Lilly. Do you remember the "Boat People" incident?

RE: illegal immigration

Oh ok. I knew someone said it. grin

RE: illegal immigration

Are you referring about survival of the fitness? I believe Darwin had a theory on that.

RE: illegal immigration

It does get mixed up when debating. Western expansion could have been done differently. Christian expansion could have been done differently. Immigration could be done differently. We could do expansion in Iraq. I had an uncle who was a border guard in California covering Mexico. I had another uncle who was bringing them in illegally. One should be able to take care of one's problem before trying to take care of another's. Illegal immigration makes it harder on those people who are already here. It could be compared to a family size. If one has enough to take care of a large family then it might make sense to have one but if one doesn't then some will suffer.

RE: illegal immigration

I agree. I had a similiar argument while studying geneaology. We were arguing on whose family was older. The other person said to me that they're paperwork was lost in the flood (Noah), lol.

RE: illegal immigration

Pale face speaks with forked tongue.

RE: illegal immigration

That would require a retraction. Hmmm, an amendment to the Statue of Liberty.

RE: illegal immigration

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

At the bottom of the Statue of Liberty. Truth in advertising.

RE: illegal immigration

I have one ancestor who was in Newfoundland in the 1622 catching cod fish.

For a more thorough account of the conflict, we turn to William Bradford's OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION, 1620-1647 [Bradford, the Governor of Plymouth Plantation for most of the period covered in his history was critical of the actions taken by Winthrop and the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Pequot War]. In 1622 a massacre of the settlers at Massachusetts Bay [which was to have been followed by a massacre of the Plymouth colonists, the latter of which was not carried out due to the opposition of the Wampanoags chieftain] had taken place because the Massachusetts Bay Colonists had appropriated corn and other property from the neighboring Natives, were weak from hunger and sickness and treated the Natives with contempt [curiously, much earlier, the reverse situation had occurred in which the tools of the Plymouth Colonists had been stolen by natives, but which were returned due, in large part, to the efforts of Squantos]. Captain John Huddleston placed the overall number of colonists lost in the massacre at above 400.

But the Sparrow also brought a letter from a ship captain off the Newfoundland Banks, Captain Huddleston, warning them of a possible Indian uprising. Sensing a potential friend in a time of dire need, they sailed north to meet Huddleston and seek food, which he gave them free of charge, collecting from other boats in the area what they could spare. This supply enabled the Pilgrims to survive the summer of 1622 until their harvest. It was as if the greed and nastiness of Weston was matched by the generosity of Huddleston and the other ship captains in the area. In mid-summer two more ships arrived, the Charity and the Swan, both sent by Weston containing settlers he was going to establish near what is now Weymouth, north of Plymouth. This time some food was sent the Pilgrims, but again he asked them to shelter and feed his new company until they could establish themselves. The Pilgrim's harvest, when it arrived, was a great disappointment and starvation for yet another year faced them and their unwanted guests. Stealing broke out and stopped only with the departure of the Weston settlers for Weymouth.

RE: illegal immigration

For Pete's sake, lol. That does make sense.

RE: illegal immigration

We have the melting pot here. Proper English, lol. Broken English, lol. Some of my heritage went into the Singing River rather than to be assimulated. So many cultures and we have gained something from all of them. I am a heinz 57, lol. It is hard to knock anybody when we are so mixed, lol. I am afraid I would be insulting one of my relatives or the long screwed up line that I came from, lol. So what the hell is Beothuk anyways, Lilly?

RE: illegal immigration

Hey, now don't be knocking my lady, the Statue of Liberty, lol. I know she acts tough because she is made of concrete but she holds a torch for me.

RE: illegal immigration

I agree. If you are not Native American or Indian then Yankee go home.

RE: MAN TALK...

How noble of you. That knife may cause damage to her. You are such a gentleman. rolling on the floor laughing

RE: MAN TALK...

laugh What do you think of the little knife that Xena keeps between her busoms, lol.

RE: I wanted to share my poem with everyone. Do you like it?

I thought your poem had great flow, showed a great insight into you and you expressed your self well. I write poetry and like to frequent a poetry website where we all reply back forth to each other's poetry by a rating method of one to five with personal evaluations in text.

Roy

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