Are California's immigrant issues people that just want to work or what we can expect more of everywhere?

Question

http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=13695

Answer 1

Did that guy (above post) say something about the Irish. What Blarney.

Yar--I just don't know.

Answer 2

Living in Southern California, if I wanted to tear down Mexican flags on private property (which I consider different from public property like a school) it would take all of my time.

I just wish people wouldn't tear down the Stars and Stripes when I put that up. They pulled the screws right out of the stucco.

My neighbor has hers padlocked into place because it was torn down so often.

I don't know who is tearing them down, but that bothers me more than private people flying their own flag on private property.

Answer 3

I'm not sure why linking to a white supremacist hate group's message board is a question, but I think that people like those who you quoted are a dying breed of racists who hopefully will die off as women refuse to hook up with losers like that.

What is worse is that I bet those idiots will fly Irish flags on St. Patrick's Day next year, all while complaining about Mexican flags. Racists are stupid.

Answer 4

So many letter writers have based their arguments on how
this land is made up of immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one,suggests we should
tear down the Statute of Liberty because the people now in question aren't
being treated the same as those who passed through Ellis Island and other
ports of entry.

Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to
people like Mr. Lujan why today's American is not willing to
accept this new kind of immigrant any longer.


Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to
come to the United States, people had to get off a ship and stand
in a long line in New York and be documented. Some would even
get down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground. They made
a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new country in good and bad
times. They made learning English a primary rule in their new American
households and some even changed their names to blend in with their new
home.

They had waved good bye to their birth place to give their children a new
life and did everything in their power to help their children as similate into one
culture. Nothing was handed to them. No free lunches, no welfare, no labor laws
to protect them.

All they had were the skills and craftsmanship they had brought
with them to trade for a future of prosperity.

Most of their children came of age when World War II broke
out. My father fought along side men whose parents had come
straight over from Germany, Italy, France and Japan. None of
these 1st generation Americans ever gave any thought about what country their
parents had come from.

They were Americans fighting Hilter, Mussolini and the Emperor
of Japan. They were defending the United States of America as one people.

When we liberated France, no one in those villages were looking for the
French-American or the German American or the Irish American. The people of
France saw only Americans.



And we carried one flag that represented one country. Not one of those
immigrant sons would have thought about picking up another country's flag and
waving it to represent who they were. It would have been a disgrace to their
parents who had sacrificed so much to be here. These immigrants truly knew
what it meant to be an American. They stirred the melting pot into one red,
white and blue bowl.



And here we are in 2006 with a new kind of immigrant who
wants the same rights and privileges. Only they want to achieve it by
playing with a different set of rules, one that includes the
entitlement card and a guarantee of being faithful to their mother
country. I'm sorry, that's not what being an American is all about.

I believe that the immigrants who landed on Ellis Island in t he early 1900s
deserve better than that for all the toil, hard work and sacrifice in raising
future generations to create a land that has become a beacon for those
legally searching for a better life.

I think they would be appalled that they are being used as an
example by those waving foreign country flags.



And for that suggestion about taking down the Statute of
Liberty, it happens to mean a lot to the citizens who are
voting on the immigration bill. I wouldn't start talking about
dismantling the United States just yet.

Answer 5

They're not here for the work, sweetheart, only the free handouts we give them.
Have you read the McCain-Feingold Bill in its entirety?

Answer 6

i think its terrible its sad they don't get it ! i don't see Chinese flags outside of their restaurants and i have been to one who actually had a tribute wall to American soldiers

Answer 7

Both.