I understand illegal immigration

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

? Speaking Spanish is not a job requirement in SoCal. If it were, I would be unemployed and I had absolutely no difficulty finding a nice position

One word... skillset.

There are certain skillsets where not knowing Spanish is a real impediment. Those skillsets tend to be concentrated in those lacking a formal education.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

? Speaking Spanish is not a job requirement in SoCal. If it were, I would be unemployed and I had absolutely no difficulty finding a nice position

One word... skillset.

There are certain skillsets where not knowing Spanish is a real impediment. Those skillsets tend to be concentrated in those lacking a formal education.

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[Peikko 1,575]

I would like to be able to speak Spanish mind you, it's a nice language but I learned French and German and can't keep more than three languages in my head at any one time

[Ban Hammer 13,465]

on that last one - who will preside over that court room? a federal judge?

A sort of Mayor?

first name soto?

[NickD 203]

Was easy coming here in 1620 when the Mayflower first arrived, NO IMMIGRATION. But after this country was formed, things began to change, in many senses of the word, immigration was more like segregation in limiting certain races. During the 19th Century clear to the end of WW II, Chinese were forbidden to come here as only one example. In 1986, limits were put on the number of people that could come here and only so many from certain countries of 50,000 maximum per year with a lottery system, pulling tickets out of a bucket.

No limits on marriage, in 1986 over 2 million marriage applications with a good share of them fraud, marrying a person just to bring them here, that started the conditional green card with a lot more thorough checks in 1988. The thorough checks eliminated a great deal of these fraud cases, but the I-751 still stuck.

A good percentage of the illegals here came here legally, but overstayed their visas and I-94, another example where we have laws without enforcement, but if you want to stay here legally, but overstayed, that is when you may run into problems with like a ten year ban. Fraud cases result in the sponsoring USC either paying a $250,000 fine and/or a five year prison sentence, but difficult to find these cases on the net. Ironically, that is the same fine as copying a DVD.

We have become a country of agencies that are making their own laws that are suppose to be made by our congress, agencies started around 1900 were only to advise congress, that really got out of hand. With over 1,500 governmental agencies, your congressman doesn't even know that 95% of them even exist let alone what they are doing. Besides, he/she is way too busy worrying about the next election only a couple of months away.

Our founders wanted a simple government with liberty and justice for all, that principle certainly got way out of hand.

What to do about it? Beats the hell out of me, sure doesn't do any good to write or talk to your congressman. That area is so screwed up, when a new guy comes in, he/she is not representing us, but getting coffee and donuts for the guys and gals that been there for a longer period of time. Feel a bulldozer cleaning up Washington DC may be a very good start along with a huge fire to burn up these many laws that were made. And start over again using our US Constitution as a guide, but even those guys insisted on keeping slavery.

[Peikko 1,575]

? Speaking Spanish is not a job requirement in SoCal. If it were, I would be unemployed and I had absolutely no difficulty finding a nice position

One word... skillset.

There are certain skillsets where not knowing Spanish is a real impediment. Those skillsets tend to be concentrated in those lacking a formal education.

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You know A.J. He loves a little hint of controversy

[Ban Hammer 13,465]

I would like to be able to speak Spanish mind you, it's a nice language but I learned French and German and can't keep more than three languages in my head at any one time

na und?

[mawilson 2,133]

on that last one - who will preside over that court room? a federal judge?

A sort of Mayor?

first name soto?

Sonya - Sort of Mayor

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

? Speaking Spanish is not a job requirement in SoCal. If it were, I would be unemployed and I had absolutely no difficulty finding a nice position

One word... skillset.

There are certain skillsets where not knowing Spanish is a real impediment. Those skillsets tend to be concentrated in those lacking a formal education.

#######?????????????

Browse the classifieds. Spanish preferred tends to be mostly in manual labor job ads.

They're also in social services but there are far more labor jobs than those.

[The_Dude 1,142]

On the larger subject, my opinion can be summed up with the following bullet points:

* Illegal immigration is illegal.

* Preventing illegal immigration and apprehending illegal immigrants is a responsibility of the Federal government, a responsibility they've been derelict in performing.

* Illegal immigrants are human beings and entitled to being treated as such.

* State and local governments should not enforce immigration law. They should sue the Federal government for not doing their job.

Wait just a minute there. So it's not the responsibility of half drunk and half retarded militias to monitor the border?

[Peikko 1,575]

I would like to be able to speak Spanish mind you, it's a nice language but I learned French and German and can't keep more than three languages in my head at any one time

na und?

Keine ahnung

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I would like to be able to speak Spanish mind you, it's a nice language but I learned French and German and can't keep more than three languages in my head at any one time

na und?

Keine ahnung

are you guys cybering?

On the larger subject, my opinion can be summed up with the following bullet points:

* Illegal immigration is illegal.

* Preventing illegal immigration and apprehending illegal immigrants is a responsibility of the Federal government, a responsibility they've been derelict in performing.

* Illegal immigrants are human beings and entitled to being treated as such.

* State and local governments should not enforce immigration law. They should sue the Federal government for not doing their job.

Wait just a minute there. So it's not the responsibility of half drunk and half retarded militias to monitor the border?

[Peikko 1,575]

Sicher!

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Sicher!

Ooh that sounds hawt.

[Peikko 1,575]

To be honest, my German sucks . I can speak passably en francaise auparavant. Written, I suck in all languages, can't spell for toffee!