the plight of our ranchers near the borders?
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Their Plight Is Just Another Straw On The Camels Back\nThe Camels Back=The American Taxpayer\n\nIMMEDIATE DEPORTATION FOR ANY ILLEGAL ALIEN UPON DISCOVERY\n\nNOW Is The Time To CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN And Let Your STATE REPRESENTATIVES Know How You Feel About This Issue\n\nIF YOU Want YOUR VOICE To Be Heard THIS IS WHERE IT COUNTS\nFLOOD Them With E-MAIL\nRING Their PHONES\nWRITE Them LETTERS\n\nDO NOT Let WASHINGTON Decide The Fate Of This Issue\n\nIF You Are A STUDENT...ALERT Your PARENTS To CALL TODAY
652693
I dont hate em----I am, however, tired of them moving out here to Wyoming and Montana to escape the city and then trying to change our way of life. THAT PISSES ME OFF. If they wanna move out here, they ought to drop the California Bullshit at the border.
400285
My father farmed cotton in S. Texas in the 1950's. There wasn't the problems back then with people coming across the Rio Bravo to work. We had a family that came up from San Luis Potosi to chop or pick when needed. I worked right along side of them as a teen. Then in '54 came the big crack down and the BP came in force and using aircraft would dive on workers to get them to jump up and run. My father was a victim of one such incident just being missed by an aircraft.\n\nOne of our workers after being caught was pistol whipped by a BPman because he wanted to get his shoes. He asked several times if he could go and even if a BP would go with him. He told them they were new shoes and started to go get them. Our man was pistol whipped and thrown into the back of a truck. When they got him to Harlingen someone noticed how bad the man had been injured and took him to the hospital where he remained for several days.\n\nThen came the Bracerro Act which allowed men only to cross and work in the fields. It worked fairly well but at a huge expence to the farm owner. \n\nToday herbacides are used and planting is different so much hoeing and chopping are not needed. then machines are now used in much of the harvesting. A few of the crops such as onions, cabbage, and the like are hand picked. Much less hand labor is required today. True in the Rio Grand Valley there is enough laborers to do the work but in some areas there isn't. Because those from across the river will work for less pay the farmer or even the contractor will hire them to save money.\n\nToday you are dealing with a govenrment that is out of control and paranoid about everyone, including Americans. True there are those hell bent on drug trafficing etc over the border and that is causing a lot of the problems. Then also the US govenment thinks everyone is a terrorist and sends their gestapo after everyone.\n\nCanada welcomes the Mexican workers especially in SW Ontario where much farming goes on.\n\nAll this is a total "catch 22" no one wins and no one looses and nothing works as it should.\n\nIs there an easy answer to your question? No, not as long as governments of all countries are corrupt. I am a US citizen but the govenment here is an embarrasment to me.
467565
I live in western colorado and we're in a drought right now, last year we almost got out of it but this winter we got about 4 inches of snow, our closest ski resort closed on like March 6th and we grow alot of peaches here so thats realy hard on our economy, it isnt like the patatoe famine in ireland where they all had to move but it does kinda suck.
367079
I think it probably depends more on where you live, as to how you feel about it. Most people closer to the border, our fellow Americans, aren't to happy with ILLEGAL immigration. Always remember to say legal or illegal, that is the issue, not immigration.
1081400
I live in the Southwest and it has been an issue here for as long as I can remember. The problem has become so enormous that the nation is waking to the problem. We wonder whats taken you so long?
643583
Is that like asking 'if God is all powerful why is there suffering'?\n\nBad as it is, it is worse because of illegal immigrants.  You are right, though.  As the 'most powerful nation in the world' we owe it to our poor to put a MUCH more intense effort into border security and enforcement than either of the current bills contemplates.
245421
Go play on a ranch and not with our country.\n\n\nOoh!  That was exactly 10 words....yay me!!
577029
in the early 19th century,the area around Independence and St.Joseph,Missouri was the "far west". Any farther west was for the most part wild and unknown country. The native tribes considered the erosion causing "rolling carts" and the immigrants travelling them to be trespassers. Tribal relations with the Europeans would decide how  these disruptive white people would be dealt with. It is only after many incidences of treachery, slaughter of cherished food stock animals, land-grubbing,and mass immigration that the natives ran out of answers to the great white problems which seemed to divide their culture with roads and unwanted problems.The phrase "Manifest Destiny" seemed to imply that it was a divine right of the settlers to plant themselves anywhere they wanted to. Often small infractions became larger problems. Misunderstandings with native culture became prejudice and hatred. Native misunderstandings of caucasian culture seemed to prophecize the end of their millenium old customs and traditions. When the trails to the west became more proliferant and widespread and immigration robbed natives of sacred ground,food,and heritage--the tribes retaliated in the only way left available to them--with the same hostilities they used against other imposing tribes. You can only imagine their shock and horror at the explosion of migration when the railroads were built. WHen the Santa Fe trail was completed-the expansion of the US was still in full bloom-many people were seeking the gold and silver fields of New Mexico,Arizona,and California. The southwestern tribes were neither allegiant to Mexico or the Spanish,and now, alien  Europeans were coming to stake their own claims,and subdivert the land with their own strange customs and mannerisms. By the time Geronimo died in the early 20th century,most of these tribes had been secluded to small reservations or removed completely to Oklahoma--
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The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal immigration. The actions of President Bush are prompting the exodus among left-leaning citizens who fear they'll soon be required to hunt, pray, and agree with Bill O'Reilly. \n\nCanadian border farmers say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, animal-rights activists, and Unitarians crossing their fields at night. \n\n"I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn," said Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose acreage borders North Dakota. "The producer was cold, exhausted and hungry." \n\n"He asked me if I could spare a latte and some free-range chicken. When I said I didn't have any, he left. Didn't even get a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?" \n\nIn an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected higher fences, but the liberals scaled them. So he tried installing speakers that blare Rush Limbaugh across the fields. "Not real effective," he said. "The liberals still got through, and Rush annoyed the cows so much they wouldn't give milk." \n\nOfficials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet liberals near the Canadian border, pack them into Volvo station wagons, drive them across the border and leave them to fend for themselves. \n\n"A lot of these people are not prepared for rugged conditions," an Ontario border patrolman said. "I found one carload without a drop of drinking water. They did have a nice little Napa Valley cabernet, though." \n\nWhen liberals are caught, they're sent back across the border, often wailing loudly that they fear retribution from conservatives. Rumors have been circulating about the Bush administration establishing re-education camps in which liberals will be forced to drink domestic beer and watch NASCAR races. \n\nIn recent days, liberals have turned to sometimes-ingenious ways of crossing the border. Some have taken to posing as senior citizens on bus trips to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a half-dozen young vegans disguised in powdered wigs, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior-citizen passengers on Perry Como and Rosemary Clooney hits to prove they were alive in the '50s. \n\n"If they can't identify the accordion player on The Lawrence Welk Show, we get suspicious about their age," an official said. \n\nCanadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating an organic-broccoli shortage and renting all the good Susan Sarandon movies. \n\n"I feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can't support them," an Ottawa resident said. "How many art-history majors does one country need?" \n\nIn an effort to ease tensions between the United States and Canada, Vice President Dick Cheney met with the Canadian ambassador and pledged that the administration would take steps to reassure liberals, a source close to Cheney said. \n\n"We're going to have some Peter, Paul & Mary concerts. And we might put some endangered species on postage stamps. The President is determined to reach out," he said.
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"Scary" isn't it ? I don't usually talk about politics or religion But your question is really a good one ! I'm not sure if we can fix this one. I study allot of history and if it does repeat its self we are domed !\n\nWhen the day comes I'll be looking for a spot in Old Mexico "Hell they're all here!!"
1074039
I wish I knew the answer to that one.  The same thing goes on here with the Mexicans pouring across our border hourly.  Our Middle class is slowly being eliminated.  I think its possible that governments are afraid they might get sued or something.  I think citizens should get together and file a class action suit because our rights are being taken away.
857432
Really?\nIn the morning call up the sheriffs office and ask! I wonder how many of them are living out this way?? Not far from you.....Scary....
307170
we all should think about keeping our farmers working  here in this country and not buy ALL our food from other countries like we have been doing.\nwe should tank them TOO !!\nso if our farmers get rich..and the other countries who are trying to ruin our economy does not get any more of our money so what..so be it..god for them\nbut they never will make that kind of money..our government will stop them..because the live in the USA..and the government will make them make more so we can have more and it is supposed to be cheaper for all of us\nONLY  TIME  WILL TELL
1019649
It may sound cruel but all benefits must be stopped to the illegals. Period. That goes for the children they have too. If we can get the guts to deny them it is possible they will leave. I think I read where Texas is sending a bill to Mexico for services to the illegals.  That is a great idea.  Hold Mexican assets and take the cost of services to their citizens. Mexico would then do something about the boarder.
306610
Yeah...this power struggle thing really gets to me too...Unfortunately we as a species have not yet reached a higher conciseness...although some of us are well on our way(including you by the sound of things) and struggle over this territory or that one has been going on since man kind stopped nomadic migration and started up with agriculture and ,,,this plot of land belongs to me and that plot of land belongs to you,...until we find a way to rise above this as a species, I do not see any real hope of improvement!
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We were duped into thinking "migrant workers" came here during harvest and went back afterwards. That, as we have found out recently, was NOT the case. They DIDN'T go back, they stayed and abused our welfare systems, brought in extended family members and produced their 'anchor babies'.  They settled in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Colorado.  The rest of the USA was not aware of it until the media brought it to our attention.  Then we started noticing the subtle changes to our own cities, towns and communities. Some of us have started paying attention.  Some refuse to take their heads out of their butts and really see what is going on under their very noses.