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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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 Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:50 am Post subject: Is CNN LAMENTING this development...? |
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| LOS ANGELES, California -- Pedro Pablo slowly folds up his American flag blanket and stuffs it in his duffel bag. With it goes his American dream...[my emphasis] |
Who says that those who enter our country through deliberately deceptive, illegal means, in some cases, for example, for purposes other than what they state (say "student visa to study English"), and not merely those who smuggle themselves in, ever were entitled to "the American Dream" in the first place?
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:47 am Post subject: |
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I've seen many stories like the one you posted.
Migrants are going home, and the only thing that will keep them in the US at this point is the possibility of amnesty, which is about as likely in Obama's first term as me winning the lotto. Millions and millions have likely already left or are planning to, and few very of the 12-14 million illegals will remain. Better to be unemployed in Baja than in California.
Sucks to be them. America isn't an NGO.
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=134223& |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:01 am Post subject: |
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| Yawn. It's good copy. Reports gotta eat too. Neither does it necessarily imply a value judgment, since the dude had an American dream, legitimate or not. |
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mises
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:46 am Post subject: |
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How about this:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-deportees-side-09-feb09,0,1628056.story
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Home countries frustrated as U.S. deports criminals
Influx creates challenges for residents, civic groups
JUAREZ, Mexico � When he crossed illegally into the U.S. in 2002, Cesar Sanchez didn't plan on stabbing a girlfriend's estranged husband eight times.
Yet there he was, a convicted murderer dropped at the Texas border last month�one less worry for U.S. officials but a source of concern for the cities in Central America receiving thousands of freed convicts.
"I crossed like so many others; for a dream," said Sanchez, 25, wondering how he'd make it back to his family in Veracruz. "And, then ..."
U.S. Immigration officials are escalating efforts to put some 450,000 illegal immigrants serving prison time in the U.S. on planes back home. In 2008, about 113,000 such convicts were deported.
But in the areas on the receiving end, some wonder whether the influx could in turn chase frustrated residents over the border.
"It's just one more variable that Juarez has to contend with," said Lucinda Vargas, director of a Juarez group trying to rescue a city gripped by warring drug cartels.
In El Salvador, where the number of criminal deportees rose 28 percent last year to 6,212, a group called Homies Unidos struggles to reform gang members flooding home, a factor in making that nation Latin America's most violent per capita.
In Guatemala, the influx taxes aid programs for returning countrymen.
After one plane of deportees landed in Guatemala City, disoriented men wandered over to a jobs booth.
Erick Maldonado, a top foreign ministry official, said his agency hopes to soothe the "bitterness" of deportees.
With 28,000 arriving last year, he said, "the more people come, the more social pressures we can expect." |
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mises
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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| mises wrote: |
| America isn't an NGO. |
Exactly. But apparently America's cable news networks are -- and they are all about celebrating this and lamenting that, demonizing these people while declaring those "heroes" and even producing an Academy-Awards-like event to honor them...
Time to nuke them and start all over. CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, the lot of them. Who says we cannot do that from time to time? |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| mises wrote: |
| America isn't an NGO. |
Exactly. But apparently America's cable news networks are -- and they are all about celebrating this and lamenting that, demonizing these people while declaring those "heroes" and even producing an Academy-Awards-like event to honor them...
Time to nuke them and start all over. CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, the lot of them. Who says we cannot do that from time to time? |
You still have PBS's Newshour. High quality stuff. And NPR too. I tend to think of the cable news channels as merely entertainment. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| Time to nuke them and start all over. CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, the lot of them. Who says we cannot do that from time to time? |
Refreshing the tree of liberty with the blood of anchors, I guess. |
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