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And this one makes sense. If San Antonio falls (and it will, if things continue as the dividers would like them to), the bulk of undocumented workers, being nomadic by nature, will go to the next host and suck it dry as well. Meanwhile, those who foster sympathy for illegal presence in this country as the expense of taxpayers (and how can anyone back up the oft-repeated contention that "most" illegal immigrants "pay their taxes", etc.? May we look at their returns? Do they keep them with their drivers' licenses?) continue to foment the notion among these lost souls that they are ENTITLED to be here, to enjoy services we ALL pay for, to swamp our emergency rooms as their alternative to a primary care physician, and all the while they are being reminded that in 1846 the Yanqi came and STOLE this part of Mexico. Well I have an idea! Why not simply cede back to Mexico all this land, the property, the good, the bad and the ugly of the south west, and simply relocate all legitimate citizens to other parts of the country, cease to collect any taxes, give it ALL back, and let MEXICO manage it the way they manage what they have left, which is considerable and clearly beyond their ability or desire to manage in any way at all. People flee Mexico for the US because Mexico SUCKS! The US is a land of opportunity, and as one apologist in the article stated, "It's all about opportunity", which I would suggest makes them opportunists, the way a mosquito opportunistically sucks the blood of one host after another, without permission and to no advantage to the hosts. Once returned to Mexico, the south west would see a drop in property values unheard of since the mesozoic. And rightly so.
San Antonio is a beautiful, diverse city. Ah, diversity! I love it. It suggests DIVISION! While I grew up in what would be described as a "diverse" area in Washington, DC and later its nearby suburbs, the beauty of that diversity was its constant center: being an American citizen. If we simply give that incredible status to anyone who shows up here then it will lost all meaning - if it hasn't already. The Idiot in the Oval Office is in love with the idea of cheap labor and is insulated from you and me by money and privilige and, of course, having been born in the United States.
Illegal aliens are in a bind. So are legal ones, and naturalized ones, because when the backlash from the little binge of left-wing lunacy wears off and the hangover sets in, there will be hell to pay, and just as all middle eastern-looking people (including Sikhs from India, remember?) were targets post 9/11, all the "brown" people who are here on the up and up are going to get the same sort of treatment that the "swarthy" people in our midst got after the Pentagon was struck and the WTC went down. Demanding what one is NOT entitled to, especially during a difficult period in a nation's history, is a sure way to bring down the heat on everyone who even
LOOKS like he (or, of course, SHE)could possibly be One of Them. And nothing will have been accomplished except two steps backward. But a bunch of left-wing lunatics will feel good for a while, just as a bunch of Right Wing lunatics have been feeling good since 9/11.
Everybody's got a problem. Why not try and solve some of them instead of doing that tired old 60's "demand" thing?
