My Two Centavos: Illegal Immigrants
I am trying to make up my mind about the on-going debate over our illegal-immigrant population. Congress tried to make it illegal to be here illegally (scratches head) and people of Hispanic origin are staging massive protests around the country to demand the right to clean our toilets and serve us french fries provide a better life for their family. It must really suck to live in Mexico. Regardless of your take on the issue, you gotta respect them for what they go through to be here. (Although, if Mexico is so bad that you’d walk across a desert, live in a house with 27 other people, and work four crappy jobs at once - why would you drive everywhere flying the Mexican flag? Or wave one at a rally? I must be missing something.)
To be honest, I would be happy to grant them all amnesty, as long as we could ban that polka music. I’m serious. They can have citizenship and free health care and maybe even a complimentary, luxury pickup with six little Mexican flags and their last name in big decals across the back window. Just please, no more polka. I want to cry whenever I hear it, it’s so awful.
That’s something the average American could get behind. If the pro-illegal-immigrant faction offered that as an olive branch, they’d be amazed by how quickly the issue was settled: “No more tubas and accordions? Done. What color should we paint your new pickup truck? Green, white and red? No es problema.”
April 10th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
If the Fairtax plan were in place, I would say… let ‘em stay and work to their hearts’ content. Then, they’ll be paying more of their fair share of taxes by being here. Then, they’d be earning and paying towards deserving whatever education and health care like most ever other cititen of this country receive. Under the current law, I do think there should be stiff penalties for companies who are caught using illegal immigrant labor. Illegal is illegal, and illegal deserves nothing from the tax payers of this country.
My biggest problem with granting blanket amnesty is it is a slap in the face to every single person who has come to this country and worked diligently to get through the system properly; I know several. I am all for people coming to this country to live and work, but if you want to reap the benifits of working of this country, you’d best be prepared to pay into the system its citizens already do. Sort of the “when in Rome” thing. I’m not sure many of the illegal immigrants want to be citizens and a productive part of our society.
I do not know the end-all be-all answer to this problem, but I think that would be one step towards equality for ‘em.
However, I’m glad some of the Mexican immigrants (legal or illegal) like to sell burritos out of the back of pick up trucks to my friends, who decide it is a good idea to eat them. Their suffering Montezuma’s revenge is a good source of amusement.
Okay, but is that as important as the polka music? - SF
April 11th, 2006 at 6:57 am
You’re right. I couldn’t listen to the polka music while eating the burrito and having Montezuma’s revenge.
April 11th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
I have a confession to make. I like that polka stuff. I especially love it over crackly AM frequencies and in Mexican restaurants. It must have accordians, even moreso than tubas. If you want to get rid of something, get rid of those stupid electronic drum rolls that pop up at totally random times.
As for the illegals, until you stop the people who pay them, they’ll keep coming, even if you have giant killer robots swarming the borders, armed with whirling blades of death.
1. Now I can’t take anything you say or think seriously.
2. Whether or not you are correct about the illegal immigrants’ level of determination, I think we should always lean toward giant killer robots armed with whirling blades of death. - SF
April 12th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
Oooh! Can I have one of those robots? I think it would be nifty to keep in the front yard.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:04 pm
“Now I can’t take anything you say or think seriously”
I know, it’s shameful. I tried joining a polka 12-step program, but it turned out to be a dance.
September 19th, 2006 at 11:36 am
I heard on NPR that a Mexican worker can make 10 times as much in the US. Imagine if there were tons of jobs in Canada paying $500k to $1M a year. Wouldn’t you sneak up there? Until we address the fundamental inequities between the standard of living in the two countries, they will continue to come.
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