On Mar 19, 8:45*am, HK wrote:
Vic Smith wrote:
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:56:58 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Mar 18, 1:33 pm, thunder wrote:
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:26:21 -0400, HK wrote:
That's what my grandparents did when they got here.
Somewhere in the lineage, that's true for most of us.
My niece married a Mexican-American guy. *This guy was born in Mexico
but his parents brought him here illegally when he was 6, of course
his parents are still illegals. *So, for the wedding, they rented a
beach house and we had a great N. Florida redneck Mexican Jewish Irish
Catholic party. *The Mexicans party better than the rest of us.
However, although these people are seriously hard workers and he has a
real job, suddenly the INS came after him. *In spite of legal help,
they have given him 30 days to get back to Mexico with no answer to if
he can come back. *This couple has been married a year and he's a
great guy. *It aint fair.

Following the law isn't rocket science. *Some say we need laws.
I'm married to a Polish immigrant, and have been involved in legally
bringing in family member immigrants.
They got in line. *Usually took 2 years. *Could have come on a visa
and then stayed as illegals. *We always rejected that path.
In fact, it was never considered.
A Polish guy a block away from me was here illegally for about 10
years. *He was a hard-working, energetic entrepreneur, building houses
using mostly other Polish illegals as labor. *He did a terrific job
building the house a block away from me. *It's a McMansion type house..
Looks real good. *He lived in it less than a year, then got in a fight
with his wife. *She ratted him out to the INS and he was deported.
House has been sitting empty over a year now.
My daughter is dating a legal Polish immigrant (American citizen now)
who is an electrical contractor. *He's been in tears a few times
because he doesn't have enough work for illegal Polish buddies, and
they have to pack up their families and return to Poland.
Dreams shattered.
My wife is a cook in a corporate setting and most of the staff is
Mexican illegals. *Mostly good people, and hard workers.
When you think about it, most of the illegals come here to work.
The energetic people. *Layabouts don't bother.
But there are energetic criminal elements too.
It's really a tough problem.
My feeling is the law should be followed with no exceptions.
Sounds hard-hearted, especially in the instance you mentioned.
Brought here as a 6-year-old!
Actually, I would make an exception of him and deport his parents,
who I assume were adults when they broke the law.
He can do the paperwork to bring them back in a couple years.
Legally.
Just my view.

--Vic

ps Mexican and Polish weddings are best. *But Irish is good if you
like to fight.

I've never been to a Mexican wedding, but I'd sure go if invited. I
agree with the comment about Polish weddings - great fun. Never
understood the "Polish jokes," since all the Poles I have ever met were
smart and hard-working.

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The morality police - the bloviating gas bags of the religious right -
have fallen lower than the stock market. It has truly been an amazing
(and amusing) thing to watch these so-called "spokesmen of Christ"
defending their morally indefensible positions these days. Finally -
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It's bigotry, that's all. Just like you are bigoted against
southerners. You lump all of them in a very narrow catagory.
Just like you are bigoted against conservatives. You lump all of them
in a very narrow catagory.
Just like you are bigoted against people who've served in the
military. You lump them in a very narrow catagory.
Just like you are bigoted against people who aren't in a union. You
lump them all in a very narrow catagory.
Just like you are bigoted against people who call you out on you many
lies.