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Not Really (none / 0) (#8)
by dissenter on Thu May 01, 2008 at 07:26:53 PM EST
My husband is British and I can tell you that the English are very upset that their borders are not controlled. They are very angry over the number of immigrants from Africa and Asia.  Same goes for France, the Netherlands, etc.

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Off Topic (none / 0) (#12)
by daryl herbert on Thu May 01, 2008 at 08:05:39 PM EST
Muslim immigrants in Europe are nothing like Catholics from Mexico.

There's just no comparison.  To suggest a parallel between the two is to commit a vicious slander against Mexicans.

I'm not saying you did that; you were responding to another comment.  I'm just saying the European experience has absolutely no bearing on questions of what American domestic policies should be.

Europe is also different in that it is under the heel of the EU, which imposes policies on member states that they really don't want, and would be rejected heartily at the ballot box if they were put to a vote.  We are still a free country that can make its own immigration policy if we choose.

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I was not slamming (none / 0) (#14)
by dissenter on Thu May 01, 2008 at 08:49:47 PM EST
Mexicans at all. Having said that, many of the issues are the same - cost to social services, taxes, complaints about cultural change within the country, languages, schools etc. So, you are not right.

The Muslim thing is particularly an issue but it goes way beyond that so don't think it doesn't. I have listened to my husband's family = which is not conservative or prejudice - talk about how there will be no "English" left in England.

I am very sensitive to immigrants. It took forever for my husband to get his green card and it was a hardship on many levels. Having said that, the people that want to secure the borders and stop the mass exodus out of Mexico to the US are not all racists. They have legitimate concerns.

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And BTW (none / 0) (#15)
by dissenter on Thu May 01, 2008 at 08:51:44 PM EST
We did suffer the hardship because we did it the LEGAL way.

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Emma Lazarus for y'all. (none / 0) (#16)
by wurman on Thu May 01, 2008 at 11:50:20 PM EST
The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "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!"
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Don'tcha just love it?

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