do you  want to pay the minute man for   having a pic-nic at the border?
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------------------------------... Germany is home to millions of immigrants, 3 million of whom are Muslim. The majority were invited to the country as gastarbeiters, or guest workers, mainly from Turkey. Faced with a labor shortage in the 1950s, and 60s, then-West Germany encouraged foreigners to fill positions in factories and in construction.\n\n“The Germans recruited untrained and uneducated people,” said Steffen Angenendt of the German Council on Foreign Relations. “It didn’t seem necessary to have academics come to Germany to work on an assembly line. They were trained on the job.”\n\nGiven temporary visas, the Germans expected the workers to come, make money and then head home. \n\nWhat the government didn’t count on was the employers’ reluctance to let trained workers leave. So the men stayed and then brought their families — along with their traditions, religion and culture.\n\nThe immigrants settled together and neighborhoods slowly began to reflect their new inhabitants. Signs were hung in Turkish, supermarkets sold Turkish products and stands selling kebabs — a traditional meal in a sandwich similar to a gyro — popped up in nearly every German city. \n\n“They came in the sexual revolution and they saw the communes — men, women and children living together. It was a shock for these people, so of course, they put up borders,” said Seyran Ates, a lawyer who works with immigrant women. “It was automatic. They felt, they don’t want us here, and on the other side, we don’t want to be like them; they are immoral,” Ates said.------\n\nAs German industry changed and the need for more qualified workers rose, the jobs filled by many of these laborers disappeared, leading to widespread unemployment.\n\n“The discussion on integration problems you have today is to a large extent a result of this immigration,” said Angenendt, who was part of a committee which suggested future immigration policies for the government. “These workers had no ability to adjust to the labor market.”\n\nAlthough there were efforts at the city and state level to assist in integration, little effort was made on a federal level -- an oversight that has ramifications even today. Language has proved to be one of the bigger challenges. Many immigrants and their families don’t speak German, which makes it more difficult for them to find work.\n\n“Integration never really started,” said well-known actor Mehmet Kurtulus, who came with his parents as a baby to Germany from a small town in Turkey. “The Germans missed the point that workers are people with families.”\n\nThis is especially obvious in the German school system, in which even second-generation children perform significantly worse than their native-born counterparts, according to a report by the international Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. \n\nEven more notable is the finding that immigrant students of Turkish origin perform worse in Germany than in Switzerland, which also hosted a guest worker program in the 1950s and 60s. In addition, the schools which immigrants attend are overwhelmingly homogeneous, leaving little room for students to build relationships with native-born children, according to the report.\n------Sound a little familiar?????
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after spending some time on the border, i asked this same question to a INS agent, i was curious because I'm cheap and wanted to save money...apparently, you can be fined for trying to avoid paying the toll...sort of like tax evasion or something stupid...they won't deport you though, you are a citizen....
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no you have to pay later, may be for the application. a little fee\n\n:> peace\n.
540017
Yeah about that. Also remember to take $100 USD to the embassy, and another $85 in case they want to finger print and photo you.\n\nBetter information from the Mexico City US Embassy (try google.com)
819702
yes, as long as you go to the right place and have photo ID
107518
Great question!  I would love to volunteer with the Minuteman project and help protect our borders!
557888
that's cute.\nyou could submit that to reader's digest for their "life in these United States" seciton and if they use it they will pay a few hundred bucks ( at least that's what the fee was last i looked)!
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I would do it for expenses. I might even do it for one dollar. It would be a wonderful experience to meet the Iraqis on a one-to-one. Great idea! I will do it as soon as the Americans get out, and peace reigns again.
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I have no idea but maybe you can ask this guy for a photo...\n\nhttp://www.scamvictimsunited.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=841&
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IF I AM ALLOWED TO PUT CAMERAS ON MY HOUSE FOR PROTECTION AND DETERENCE, THEN I THINK THAT IS A GOOD IDEA BUT THAT WILL COST ALOT OF $$$ AND COMPANIES THAT ARE HIRING ILLEGALS SHOULD PAY FOR ANY DEBT THAT COMES FROM BEEFING UP BORDER SECURITY!!!!
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No.  Not yet.  It is helpful. \n When you do send for your passport you must give up your birth certificate (they mail it back to you) so you might want to order a new one so you will at least have that and a drivers lic when you cross the border.  It takes several weeks to get a passport.  A certified copy of your birth certificate can be ordered from the county health department in which you were born.\n\nYou can get your passport photo taken at Walmart for a small fee.  You cannot use a pic you took of yourself, it is not ont he right kind of paper.
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Bravo Dave....When Mr. Reagon said those immortal words, the whole world respected our government, and what we stood for.  Now-not so much as a "security issue", but as a "political issue" our government wants to secure the Mexico/USA border.  Why has no money be allocated for a Canada/USA border?  Isn't Canada where they recently broke up a terrorists cell?
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Of course they should. We all have the right to view and report any illegal activities, including illegal immigration. Think of all the tax payer money they save us everytime they stop an illegal from crossing. Thats one less person we have to give free health care to, anykind of welfare, teach their children. All these things cost money. Money that they do not contribute to in the way of income taxes, like the rest of us. The Minutemen might even be saving our lives, when they stop the next terrorist from crossing the border. We owe them a great debt of gratitude.
842766
The usual American way, pay him!
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Not 100%, but it will help.  Any effort is better than no effort. You could volunteer to help the Minutemen patrol and  report to border control.  Just the extra people to keep a watchful eye out is a good thing.  The fence will help slow the intruders down to give the border patrol a little more time to get to the scene. And, no, any money spent to secure our border is not a waste of resources.
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No, the National Guard is for time of national emergency not for a permanent job. The borders will always need guarding, that would be more border patrol & more power for the border patrol. Are we willing to pay more tax for more border patrol - I am but what about everone else?
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I live 5 minutes from the border...what do YOU think???