Number of posts : 8210 Registration date : 2008-11-04 Age : 75 Location : Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Subject: Re: Dream Act flopped in the Senate. Sun Dec 19, 2010 9:27 am
12/19/2010
The dream has gone up in smoke ! Now I've read certain groups are determined never to vote for Obama again, that he double crossed them, they say it will take years before they get what they want , by then it will be too late........Their predicting next week mass demonstrations and riots...
Cheers...Joe
Al Stevens Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1727 Registration date : 2010-05-11 Location : Florida
Subject: Re: Dream Act flopped in the Senate. Sun Dec 19, 2010 10:04 am
"Give me your tired, your poor, your Caucasian, your native language English-speaking..."
LC Five Star Member
Number of posts : 5044 Registration date : 2009-03-28
Subject: Re: Dream Act flopped in the Senate. Sun Dec 19, 2010 3:06 pm
Oh, that's bullshit, Al, and you know it. Right up there with, "You're all illegal immigrants, you stole the land from the Natives!" Tell me where in that phrase you see "open borders," or that a country shouldn't be allowed to set limits on how many it can absorb each year and what the immigrants' skills/health/character should be.
Your inclusion of "Caucasion" is especially egregious considering how this country is getting flooded with non-Caucasion immigrants, such as Somalis. I read that one out of every seven babies born here now is Hispanic.
Al Stevens Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1727 Registration date : 2010-05-11 Location : Florida
Subject: Re: Dream Act flopped in the Senate. Sun Dec 19, 2010 3:39 pm
Easy, Elsie. It was satire.
LC Five Star Member
Number of posts : 5044 Registration date : 2009-03-28
Subject: Re: Dream Act flopped in the Senate. Sun Dec 19, 2010 4:05 pm
Satire of what? That quote is actually what a lot of enraged "Dream'rs" have been posting over and over on message boards on the subject.
Al Stevens Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1727 Registration date : 2010-05-11 Location : Florida
Subject: Re: Dream Act flopped in the Senate. Sun Dec 19, 2010 6:01 pm
It's a satire of the views taken from one side of the issue. And, as with most satire, it exaggerates to make its point. There are, however, people who quote the statistics about percentages of immigrants being hispanic and other such statistics as if they resent the ratios, as if they wish they could make them go away and close the borders to all except those of whom they approve. The satire rewrites one line of the Lazarus sonnet to reflect such attitudes.
A satire that favors the views takes a different approach. We hear a lot of that, too.
LC Five Star Member
Number of posts : 5044 Registration date : 2009-03-28
Subject: Re: Dream Act flopped in the Senate. Sun Dec 19, 2010 7:35 pm
I watched that video and have no idea what it was about. Plenty of non-Hispanics wash dishes, windows, do day labor, etc. Which I don't think is the ambition of the DREAM'rs.
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