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I'm not sure what your argument is. Even if my Danish ancestors came here illegally, I would still be opposed to illegal immigration. Also, the exact origin of the term "WOP" is unknown. It is actually thought to have derived from the Neapolitan word "guappo" (often pronounced simply as "guap'" in the regional dialect), meaning a person who flaunts an overbearingly cocky and swaggering attitude.
This isn't the same country as it was in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We don't have a vast, untapped expanse of land to the West, which needs to be settled and cultivated. We have created massive entitlement and welfare programs, which have consequently left us trillions of dollars in debt. Socialistic policies cannot support the continuous influx of poverty stricken immigrants, undocumented or otherwise.
True. The past doesn't justify anything today. If someone's ancestors had slaves, that doesn't mean their descendents can have slaves today.
If your grandpa broke traffic laws 50 years ago, that doesn't mean anyone at all gets a free pass on traffic laws today.
It's a stupid argument that because something took place in the past that it justifies anything at all today. That would mean whatever cave-men did is what we're supposed to do?
True. The past doesn't justify anything today. If someone's ancestors had slaves, that doesn't mean their descendents can have slaves today.
If your grandpa broke traffic laws 50 years ago, that doesn't mean anyone at all gets a free pass on traffic laws today.
It's a stupid argument that because something took place in the past that it justifies anything at all today. That would mean whatever cave-men did is what we're supposed to do?
They are all just desperate arguments by the pro-illegals to justify the unjustifiable.
Sir Francis Drake claimed California for England long before Cortez ever knew about it.
Funny how these pro-illegals demonize the English language in this country and yet they will defend Spanish vehemently when all it is is just another "white" European language.
I'm not sure what your argument is. Even if my Danish ancestors came here illegally, I would still be opposed to illegal immigration. Also, the exact origin of the term "WOP" is unknown. It is actually thought to have derived from the Neapolitan word "guappo" (often pronounced simply as "guap'" in the regional dialect), meaning a person who flaunts an overbearingly cocky and swaggering attitude...
So they were overbearingly cocky and had swaggering attitudes, besides being WithOut Papers? Sounds like you are getting the feel for being a regular here, you just have to put those same attributes on Hispanics/Mexicans/illegal aliens (the terms are interchangeable here) to be accepted. I had Dane ancestors too (the origin of my surname, humorously applied to my Mexican wife now), among all of the nationalities, but no Italians.
However, I did visit the slums of Naples back in the late 80's...
This country was built on immigrants and those with such a zest for deportation might not have been able to make their argument as American citizens if it weren't for their illegal immigrant ancestors. We truly have bigger fish to fry than worrying about this topic.
You're painting with quite a wide brush. My ancestors, along with the ancestors of millions of other Americans, came to this country legally.
Where do we get the labor to pick the orange groves and the apple trees? Who will do the backbreaking labor of making sure the cranberries are harvested just right? Who will labor over the wine vineyards and roast the nuts and dig up the roots which have them?
Farmers can get all of the workers they need through our federal government's H-2A visa program.
do u want them to stop coming or what? bottom line, force is the one way possible since its all that illegals understand. look at the drug wars. treat them like they would be treated in their country.
the only way that anyone will stop immigrating here illegaly is if we start executing all violators and make it public. its like this: if someone broke into your home, u wouldnt allow them to walk back in. youd make sure they wouldnt do it again in any way possible.
stop being a softie. we r the greatest country in the world. ill be damned if im gonna let these illegals take it away from me
there r plenty of ppl who agree with me. if u break the law, u lose ur life. tough luck.
Is there something wrong with your keyboard? The last line of your post was totally unreadable.
But hey, at least now the bigots of the country can cry about the blacks and the Mexicans. Everyone wins.
Many of the bigots in this country are the blacks and the Mexicans.
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