Immigration

I just have to comment briefly on this immigration business that's been in the news lately. Today is apparently some kind of day of protest, with immigrants walking out and calling in to work to show their "power" and contribution to the U.S. economy.


All I can say is WHAT A BUNCH OF SHIT.


Yes, this country was built on immigration...but times have changed. We can barely take care of the people who already live here, never mind a bunch of people sneaking over the border. We can barely educate our own children. There are veterans, who have risked their lives for our freedom, living on the streets and who have inadequate healthcare. There are single parents to bust their asses working two and three jobs because affordable childcare just doesn't exist...I could go on and on. The bottom line is that the welfare system is bogged down by legal immigrants as it is, and we are expected to take on more?


"You snuck in illegaly? Oh, ok...welcome! Here's a check, here's an education for all the children you may have, and here's a job."


Is this what we are expected to do?


There is no other country in the world that has taken in and financially supported as many immigrants as the U.S. has in the last 30 years. I'd like to know when the U.S. will be off the hook. When is another country going to step up to the plate and start helping the citizens of 3rd world countries like the U.S. has?


Here's an idea! Let's all storm a country...let's say France...millions of us, we'll all run into France and wave French Flags and tell them (in English) how they should just open their doors and let us move in. We'll demand that they take jobs away from French citizens so that we can work, and hey, if there's no jobs, then they should support us until we get on our feet. How they should pour more funding into their schools for all of the kids we're bringing along (and the kids we're gonna have). How they should have translators available at all time since we don't feel like learning French because that would DILUTE our native traditions.


Yeah, let's see how that goes over. Why is this shit okay in THIS country when it would never fly anyplace else in the world?