Ok I called my local minutemen after I went outside talk to my friends and just came to the realization the world is still out there... But I called and I gave my name and number and I told my mom they are going to call back tomorrow. \n\nShe was like ok; until I said I support them going home and she had a fit, and yelled at me saying that’s wrong and they have been here for years. Really I dont give a mean shi+ what my mom has to say anymore, that woman... But I do think it is off that such a touchy issue can spark such flames in the home of all the places.\n\nMy question is, has your stance on the illegal immigration bill caused tension between people you know NOT off the internet?
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If I had known you were a child I would never have even posted.  (Sorry everyone when it comes to MLK jr....my hero...I regress).\n\nI love your passion....WOW...so much passion.  \n\nSomewhere far in the future...you are going to make great strides.\n\nDon't forget...school...and don't forget your possee...I for one can say they have your back.
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I have noticed that when confronted with the cold truth of  illegal immigration many people do in fact call others racist. And more often than not it is supporters of illegals that are the first to call an American who wants illegal immigration to stop a racist. I have also seen people refer to the minutemen as vigilantes when they(the minutemen) have shown no such proclivity.  An Arizona member of the A.C.L.U said she has not seen any evidence that the minutemen have broken any laws or infringed any civil liberties.
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It HASN'T affected ME negatively....but I can only speak for me.\n\nbut some comments....because I always have comments\n\n1.   I am undecided on the tax impact.  Believe me taxes are no joke in this house BUT I have often wondered how all the "welfare receipients" in this country pay "good honest to goodness taxes"......oh and then get kickbacks....a check for just being them at the end of the year.  I believe that no HONEST, Hardworking person appreciates that too much.\n\n2.  Education is the key......PERIOD.\n\n3.  A criminal mind is a criminal mind, I would never color code deviant behaviour and personally get offended when people do.\n\n4.  OH someone mentioned gangs.  Well while I haven't lived in CA for quite some time.  I was born and raised and left to join the Army.  When I was there my mom worked for the Riverside County DA for close to 30 years at that time.  She came home with HORROR stories but most of the time BACK THEN it was concerning "bloods" and "crips" and no mention was ever made of the powerful gangs that everyone says has the CURRENT grip on CA.  \n\nTo end we have lived damn near everywhere......and oh wait someone mentioned border states.  Yep.....live in a border state and was raised in a border state.  When stationed in El Paso...I found the community amazing, beautifully painted homes, amazing aromas drifting out of well taken care of diners.  See how perceptions are SO different for people.  We made amazing friends (yes locals) and we would go back in a heartbeat.  \n\nTo end...now......doesn't affect me......then......didn't affect......even BACK then......wouldn't have affected me.  \n\nPeace
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how can there be so much hate in one group of people. There may have been a group deportation or mass but not to the extent of the amount of people we a re talking about now. It won't happen it can't happen the amount of money you all a re whining about it costing you in illegal support will continue to come out of your pocket even if there were no illegal aliens. Why? because the government needs the money that money has been decided or the amount and when that is capped out there will be another issue brought up in Congress's next episode of complaints.
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You did a great job at summarizing my feelings too!  I definitely agree with you.  Remember, United We Stand, Divided We Fall.    And I thought the time spent in history class with wasted. I am beginning to see some similarities here.  I still don't understand how any red-blooded American can sit idly by and allow this to happen.  I have become very vocal with my congressmen, senators, representatives, etc.  And you know, they actually act like them are glad to hear from me. The more people they have telling them how they feel about the situation, the stronger our (We the People) voice will be.  \n\nP.S.  I would only go to Mexico and do those things you mentioned if I had a death wish!!
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Right here with you sealrborders!  Keep up the good work!  You have tons of support, believe me!  Don't let the few illegal-huggers get you down!  Ignore the nasty names - that's what they resort to because they really know you are right and they haven't got a single good argument for why they are pro-illegal immigrants, other than because they, themselves, are illegal or they are in love with an illegal, or their parents or other relatives or friends are illegal (they, themselves, are often anchor babies and so want their parents to get that easy amnesty George Bush is promising them), or they own businesses and hire illegals to take advantage of the slave labour, or they hire them to clean their houses, mow their lawns, or look after their children, again for cheap slave labour that they don't want to lose because they are too cheap to pay proper wages to legal immigrants or American citizens.\n\nBelieve me, we loves ya!\n\nPS:  Especially ignore sqwirlsgirl - she's one of the above-described illegal-huggers, I just haven't quite figured out which one yet.
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Be careful friend. Talk like that in here can get you called a racist. Illegal immigration has ruined the town I've lived in most of my life. We can't even take care of our own in this country, but we are supposed to give everything we have to the illegals? We have no health care for so many here, too many are homeless and/or unemployed. All I can really say is would you feed your last bit of food to a stranger and let your kids go hungry?
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Bravo Patriot... I have noticed this (particularly "defender of the hated") here and in almost all forums.\n\nDid you see the CNN town meeting on "Broken Borders"... the woman defending illegals wouldn't answer a question... she merely ran on in her prepared manifesto covering the standard points: the border crossed us, it's our land, your economy can't survive without our work... blah blah blah.\n\nI'm a Californian, and honestly have had no KNOWN contact with ILLEGAL immigrants of OTHER than Hispanic origin.  My Indian, Fijian, and Russian co-workers all have work-visa's (I'm their supervisor and have to know).  My comments are based on first-hand observation.\n\nYet while in the Navy I lived right on the border in San Ysidro... watched lllegal crossings night and day.  I couldn't report them... HONEST !!  My reports were REQUIRED to be ignored by INS /Border Patrol because my reporting would violate the illegals' rights due to "posse comitatus".\n\nI pay my high California taxes, and while in San Ysidro, my daughter had to go to a school 5 miles away because the school NEXT DOOR was reserved for ESL students !!  An investigation in 1992 found that 85% of those students had PO boxes or false addresses... and further investigation found that those students crossed the border back to mexico each day. On falsely obtained student ID !!\n\n230 students... and at the time, the State said it cost $30,000 per student per year... So that's 6.9 MILLION stolen from the tax-payers from ONE school.
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"Doesn't this tell you that she's only supporting what's popular, in order to gain popularity?"\n\nExactly.\n\nI know where you're coming from with the illegal immigration issue, but how do you know what it's like to be in their position? They're working their butts off to pay for their family's expenses while americans on the other half are working to gain money to buy things that tickle their fancy.  Not all money should go to the economy here in the U.S. anyway..... it may cause inflation and the U.S. has enough money to begin with. You probably know immigrants are only doing it for their own good.... but what if you were them?\nSome immigrants do it the illegal way because they have no clue whereabouts to do it legally or don't know a word of English. I know this because my mom came into the U.S from Mexico.... the legal way, though.\n\nBy the way, isn't it funny when the word immigrant comes about, Mexicans are the ones who come to mind? Mexicans aren't the only ones....There are Asians, Irish, Germans, ect. too. Just something to keep in mind.
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Yes I agree. Too many people call the minutemen racist. They are protecting thier country in a peaceful manner and to some people this is an outrage. I don't think they should have rights to put mexicans back into Mexico. But they should work with the National Guard better. \n\nI agree that if you do not support minutemen you are anti-american. Many people don't know what is at stake. Minutemen will help protect our future from illegals.\n\n"Dude you are to stupid turn in your green card and go back to the European country that spawned your ancestors, because I bet at least one of them was illegal themselves."\n\nActually everyone that colonized north america from europe did it legally. It may be shocking to some. But Natie americans in North and South had no immigration law/policy. they had no government for this. So Europeans did have the right to colonize north america. So our ancestors were actually legal immigrants.
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The Minutemen are a tremendous asset to our border patrol.  For the UNINFORMED, the minutemen have saved MANY lives by rescuing illegals from.death on the desert.  But NO, you pro illegals do not want to talk about that.  All you want to state is that they are stopping illegals from crossing the border.\n\nI believe that the Minutemen should get a federal grant to subsidize their efforts.  After all, our politicians are doing absolutely NOTHING!
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As far as the immigration issue, I have no problem with anyone wanting to immigrate, but why all of the sneaking over? Does it just take so long to go through all of the red tape or something? Just curious. I didn't see any of the previous postings, but you are completely correct! Unless you are of American-Indian descent, TECHNICALLY none of the rest of our bloodlines originated in what is now the United States! It frustrates and saddens me to see that people are still so ignorant. Even more so when I see them passing these beliefs and attitudes down to their young children! I think there is no greater crime than that! Where did the innocence of youth go? Way to go though. Great topic!
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We sat watching Tv last night. And both of us were glad that the whole thing would be over today. We received many calls...    and one interesting call from Governor Grandholm-Mi.  She stated that 'this is the last time I'll call you',.... then magically, she called AGAIN. Talk about not keeping personal promises!!!\n\nAnother 'funny' one this morning . . .Jesse Jackson called. .  ... . Thank God for 'delete' buttons\n\nEDIT* - Unbelievable... . I just got another call from Grandholm..  .I politely asked why she has her campaign continue to call after she 'promised' that they wouldn't call again.
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Hayleylov for Prezidente'!! Forget Condi or Hillary - you get my vote! To all those answering against this, think about what the illegal immigrants and their supporters are proposing, and tell me why it's any different? Good for them to do it, but not for us? Hayley, it appears the ol' double standard has once again reared its ugly head! I'm with you, where do I sign?!\n\nAngi (below), in your question 4 days ago, you proudly proclaimed a boycott of everything on May 1st! Why is that different?
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somebody said about no real jobs and the mexicans issue. This anyway doesnt apply on me I am not mexican, but why I cant find a decent Job. I have my education and i am sure not because of the mexicans but because of the OUTSOURCING. My Job aswell of many other vanished for some CHEAP LABOR overseas (india and china), The issue of the illegal immigrant has been  a problem since forever, but why now it was erupted? Because the Big companies are laying off people left and right, and outsourcing the jobs of others, maybe they knew some retaliation will happen so they erupt and paid money in millions to let media concentrate on mexicans.\n\nBeside that someone said the 300.000 on welfare.... Did you trach how many are not mexicans on welfare and they are capable of working but they dont want to do anything beside selling crack on the streets and hang out arround. You know how many are those? MANYYYY.\n\nWhat about the war thats is not OURS!!! war expense everyday was estimated of 100 millions. Gaz for vehicles, food for soldiers, etc... What we have to do with irakians problems? why we still there? thats beside everyday we lose one or 2 soldiers. These are humans !!! THATS where you lose Money!!!\n\nAnd for those who said now we have laws about immigration I am afraid that you missed totally the point of the person who asked this question. He mentioned the settlers as a prove that all white, yellow, black, brown except what called red indians are IMMIGRANT. You accept that fact or not, this country history return back to 300 to 400 years max. \n\nAnyway americans are offensive to newly immigrant? yes but because of some rules in some companies about zero tolerance against discrimination they dont say it out loud. btw If the americans didnt descriminate against others based on their origin...why there is a law prohibit the descrimination !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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SealRBorders,  thank you for asking and please allow me to say....HELL YES!  I AM SICK AND TIRED OF FREELOADING MEXICANS!!!  \n\nLike you, I hate our government also.  They are so useless and spineless.  The Minutemen are not vigilantes.  I find it ironic that dumbass Bush can call them that when they operate within the boundaries of the law.  Yet, he wants to give millions of criminal Mexicans amnesty.  He seriously needs a dictionary.\n\nFor those of you who don't like these comments, we are Americans who have a right to say what we want to say, if you don't like it, please GO BACK TO MEXICO.  We don't want you here.
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HECK YES!!!!! I would join them in a heartbeat!!!!!!!!!!!! In  fact,i have been considering it already.\n All these LOYAL, patriotic, citizens are doing, is trying to secure a section of our border,because the government will NOT do it's job of protecting the U.S. citizens!!!!!! THEY are too busy catering to the illegals!\n\nAnd yes,the Minutemen do a terrific job of reporting sightings of illegals to border patrol. They have never taken the law into their own hands and arrested anyone,and regardless to the popular LIES on here, there has never been ONE incident of the Minutemen being involved in shooting, maiming,or killing anyone!!\nIf you talk to the border patrol agents themselves,THEY will tell you what a big help the Minutemen have been to them in stemming the crossings of ilegals! It's their supervisors who REFUSE to admit it!!! And,when you have our OWN President calling the Minutemen derogatory names,what else can you expect his FLUNKYS to do??!!!