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2010-05-01 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Beavis 2010-05-01 12:20|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 sometimes it takes a legal immigrant to point out what illegals do: they jump the line, use identity theft (necessary for SSN's DL's, etc.), they abuse overly expensive emergency health services and avoid preventive care, and forget about paying for their healthcare or having insurance - of any kind, including car insurance. In Escondido, here in SD County, the pro-illegals were bitching and moaning about police DL/Insurance checkpoints, not because that was a hardship or smacked of "your papers, please", but because it was overwhelmingly ILLEGALS losing their cars because they lacked DL's or insurance. God forbid you get hit by one - they'll hit-and-run in a nanosecond

Posted by Frank G 2010-05-01 15:44|| 2010-05-01 15:44|| Front Page Top

#2 "Boycott Arizona-stan!" urges MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, surely a trifle Islamophobically.

Steyn must have been about the only one who heard him. Just about everyone else has boycotted the foaming-at-the-mouth Olbersturmführer.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-01 16:39|| 2010-05-01 16:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Some years ago I was the Commander of a military Counterdrug Task Force supporting law enforcement on the border in San Diego. We were going to meet with the Border patrol at Sector HQs. I had some staff with me and we were eating breakfast at a Denny's in Chula Vista, and came out into the parking lot to drive down to Hqs.
There was a van with perhaps 10 people in it in the lot, and three more came up from crossing the freeway and jumped in, clearly illegals, being shuttled to L.A. We started to write down the license, and they roared out of the parking lot, turned the corner, and a huge two-part bang followed. We looked around the corner and two cars were smashed up at the intersection as they had been clipped by the van, which continued on up the highway on-ramp.
We rushed into the street to check for injuries and tell the vehicle operators that we had called the Border Patrol.
This next part is the point... every single person, the occupants of the crashed cars, the bystanders, every single person except me and my two staffers, split, every single one was illegal .....
the BP showed up in about 4 minutes and we were standing in the middle of the street with two empty cars...

Posted by NoMoreBS 2010-05-01 16:41|| 2010-05-01 16:41|| Front Page Top

#4 yep, E St? prolly still had Cabrillo Lanes bowling alley at I-5 exit.

/Chula Vista kid

Posted by Frank G 2010-05-01 16:46|| 2010-05-01 16:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Frank, I spent 4.5 years in that command, and had follks building the fence, working the road widening and doing the cut and fill in Smugglers Gap and the Soccer Field, and doing OP missions for the BP and Customs. People have not idea what the border is like if they haven't worked it and been on it for a protracted time.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2010-05-01 16:49|| 2010-05-01 16:49|| Front Page Top

#6 born and raised there in CV - I KNOW what it was like when they "jailbreaked" across the border crossing or when our little league field had duffel bags of dope hidden in the dugouts for pickup when we got to the fields unexpectedly early

Posted by Frank G 2010-05-01 16:53|| 2010-05-01 16:53|| Front Page Top

#7 In Ciudad Juarez, they all walk away from the cars in accidents because nobody has insurance, the cars are not worth repairing and new ones can be stolen easily enough. Or so I was told by the mayor.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-05-01 16:53|| 2010-05-01 16:53|| Front Page Top

#8 One thing I will give ethnic Mexicans credit for is that they are absolutely not monolithic. Not politically, not socially, and not culturally. All told, if you look at 50 years of Mexican immigration to the US, several things stand out.

1) There are good ones, and there are bad ones. The good ones make good Americans, and a lot join the military. The bad ones are even a pain in the ass in prison.

2) How fast they integrate depends a lot on where they land. The more separated they are from each other the faster they integrate.

3) An oddity of Hispanics of all kinds is that they do not intermarry with Hispanics from other countries. This means that soon after integration, in a generation or two, Mexican Americans will stop marrying Mexicans.

4) When Mexicans go right wing, they go all the way, Jesse Helms, kind of right wing. The money quote from one of them: "Machine guns are a gift from heaven to kill communists."

5) Cezar Chavez, of the United Farm Workers, is held up as a left wing icon, but he was adamantly anti-illegal alien. His UFW workers even got into a riot with illegals who were scabbing, with lots of casualties all around.

6) Much of the current problem with illegals is "too many, too fast", and are a direct result of Vincente Fox's Plan Puebla Panama, that dislocated countless thousands of Mexicans in southern Mexico and sent them North to the border.

7) The bottom line is that time is on the side of the anti-illegals, because the birthrate in Mexico has dropped to just sustainability. This takes a lot of pressure off, because it will force wages to rise in Mexico.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-05-01 21:23|| 2010-05-01 21:23|| Front Page Top

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