...living conditions are often harsh, including 80-hour work weeks, back-breaking manual labor, and below-minimum-wage pay. It's not atypical for immigrants to live in "tiny pre-fabricated huts, 12 men to a room, forced to wash themselves in filthy brown water and cook in kitchens next to overflowing toilets."
My problem with the law isn't so much what the law wants to do. I also don't have an ethical problem with the result the law wants to achieve. What I have a problem with is the very vague and unspecified standard of what constitutes reasonable cause for a law enforcement official to suspect somebody is illegal. It just lends too many potential shady things to happen from law enforcement officials, and will just lead to too many ridiculous situations happening to innocent people that defy common sense. I have a problem with them just assuming somebody might be illegal just because of their race. Unless an official just happens to fall upon extremely good evidence I don't see how this law can be enforced like people think it should be. If they change it to implement it properly I don't see the law being effective at all in a practical sense. I also have a problem with assuming everybody is always going to be carrying around some form of proper identification at all times. It seems like a well intended law that was poorly thought out and will have a lot of negative consequences because of that. They need to strictly work the law out more to indicate in what situations somebody should be suspected.
They're illegals and technically have no rights outside of maybe some treaties we have signed and what we chose to give them.
Point was it doesn't really matter what other country's do since we all have our own laws and protections. Whether they even live up to their law and rights or not is even less relevant.
Bringing up how draconian, absurd or encroaching some laws are someplace else is irrelevant unless you want the US to be like that. In that case it'd be easier to just go live in the place you would like the US to emulate. <Hoping you get the ironic joke...
@ PlumpRump: Dude, dude, dude, dude...it's not Italy, nor Switzerland, nor Australia, nor Japan nor the UAE...it's the fucking United States of America. Big difference, even if you don't notice.
Pfft, how are you gonna notice, you're American! :tongue:
As I said before, I wasn't making a point about how those "country's," as you so eloquently put it, relate to the United States, I was simply posting scenarios that exist in other countries relative to immigrants and their rights/treatment etc. You were the one who asked how the governing documents of those countries resemble or relate to those of the US Constitution, and I posted some examples. And as far as bringing up what you claim to be "irrelevant" facts, I agree, were I focused solely on US immigration policy generally, and Arizona's immigration policy specifically, that would indeed be irrelevant. But, again, I was not concentrating on the comparisons, but rather posting a simple list of other countries' immigration policies.
So this is what you imagine living as an illegal alien is like? Wow. Seriously...wow.Sounds very close to many illegals' situations I have personally seen...6-10 single men sharing a 1 bedroom apt, or 3 families to a small 1 bedroom rundown apt, dirty and very Mexico-like; babies unsupervised in diapers barefoot playing in areas where sewer overflow gathers, school children living in a small space trying to do schoolwork in an impossible setting (think they help the grade point average of their class/school?), men getting drunk for a cheap good time surrounded by children, teens, and the inevitable sad looking pet dog someone gets to be more "American". Nice truck nearby, and every lame plastic (mostly) broken toy with some comic character or other on it Walmart sells laying around everywhere, all in the name of "trying to have a better life"...right.
The Coyotes do all right, this is true. So do small private car lots, the ones with weekly payment plans; liquor stores, Dollar Stores, Mexican Clubs...they get their share for sure.
It gives a whole new life to slumlords, who were having a hard time getting by before the massive illegal tide rolled in.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and guess HM, the "slow" Charlie Hustle, most of you pro-illegal types... have never been over for a beer with too many illegals. Just guessing, from the ignorant and clueless way you talk about them...
They need to go in massive numbers, it's a lose-lose situation as long as we allow the situation to exist.
Slave laborers live live slaves, and bring their ignorance with them along with various diseases (resistant TB is my personal favorite:thumbsup...
Thank you Arizona...:bowdown:
I'm sure, IF your figures are correct, that these same Hispanic "supporters" fully understand the extent and effect of the law. Try asking these people the same question I asked in my last post: How would you like to be stopped and hassled regularly from here on out?
Your assuming that what the media is speculating about is going to come to fruition. I mean what proof do they have that any of the situations their promoting of profiling is actually happening? I'm being profiled as a terrorist without a jury or a court of law by the media and the regime, because I am unhappy of taxes getting worse. But back on topic the media has been effective of scaring the rest of the country with what could happen? Without any actually event taking place........because they are wrong.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20004030-503544.html
this is a national poll
So this is what you imagine living as an illegal alien is like? Wow. Seriously...wow.
By the way, did you ever look up the facts about illegal immigrants and how little they drain from economy and how much they actually put in? Of course you didn't, but fear not, Google is your friend.
pete [B][URL="https://www.freeones.com/rose said:Rose[/URL][/B], post: 4443802, member: 380567"]Nevermind our booming agriculture industry.
So this is what you imagine living as an illegal alien is like? Wow. Seriously...wow.
By the way, did you ever look up the facts about illegal immigrants and how little they drain from economy and how much they actually put in? Of course you didn't, but fear not, Google is your friend.
Actually, I fully understand. My dad's side is Mexican, who immigrated to America. Immigration isn't some paper you sign and then BAM! you're legal. It took years and years and years for them to finally become a citizen. They applied for citizenship and didn't get it for another 10-15 years. My grandpa was probably the hardest worker I've ever known, so yes, I know a thing or two about a thing or two. You've never experienced it. Ever.As I said, you have no clue what the illegal experience is like, and just spout lame crap you make up as you go along...as usual.![]()
Actually, I fully understand. My dad's side is Mexican, who immigrated to America. Immigration isn't some paper you sign and then BAM! you're legal. It took years and years and years for them to finally become a citizen. They applied for citizenship and didn't get it for another 10-15 years. My grandpa was probably the hardest worker I've ever known, so yes, I know a thing or two about a thing or two. You've never experienced it. Ever.
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By the way, did you ever look up the facts about illegal immigrants and how little they drain from economy and how much they actually put in? Of course you didn't, but fear not, Google is your friend.
Studies of these costs were done in the 1990s by the Urban Institute and by Dr. Donald Huddle, a Rice University economics professor. Both studies found major net costs — after subtracting for taxes collected — associated with illegal immigration. In 1996 the National Academies of Science issued a report titled “The New Americans,” that studied the economic and fiscal impact of immigration — they did not differentiate between legal and illegal immigrants. That study found that, “In the short term, today’s immigrants impose costs on some state and local governments by using more in government services than they pay in taxes… In some states, this burden can be substantial: In California, for example, the panel calculates an additional annual tax burden of $1,178 per household headed by a U.S. native.”
...fiscal cost studies for California, Arizona, Texas and Florida looking at the same cost factors studied by the Urban Institute 10 years earlier, i.e., education, emergency medical care and incarceration. Our findings of the annual net fiscal costs were:
California $8.8 billion ($1,183 per native household)
Arizona $1.03 billion ($717 per native household)
Texas $3.73 billion ($725 per native household)
Florida4 $.91 billion ($315 per native household)
These studies were done in 2004 and 2005, and the rapid continuing increase in the illegal immigrant population in each of these states would result in higher estimates of the fiscal cost today.