QuakerOats;1779746 wrote:Who said anything about "hate".
What is actually at issue is the dramatic increase in crime and the massive burden on taxpayers.
I don't think the Irish or other groups arrived here expecting the 'natives' to house and feed them, effectively adopt their language, nor lend appreciation to the criminal element.
We can never have rational, logical conversations in this country any longer, because liberals always throw out the race or hate cards as soon as a serious examination reveals facts that are uncomfortable.
These roving bands of criminal immigrants - where are they? Don't point to "a" case of an immigrant committing "a" crime and say "see". If it isn't fear of those who are different, then what drives this? Like the Syrians today, European immigrants came hear when they had not good options at home. Since there were virtually no rules or requirements about immigrating here, it was literally impossible to be an "illegal". You just simply showed up. But the groups that were there before often didn't like that ("Irish Need Not Apply").
The Syrians or Mexicans or whomever goes to the extreme pains to get themselves here are not flippantly thinking "Oh gee, I want some free stuff so I can lounge around on the public dole. I'll go to America." The risk much (including sometimes their life) to get here. My guess is that if you every spoke to one of them, you'd learn that instead of being a terrorist mole, they are simply people who found themselves in horrible conditions that are looking for opportunity.
If our society can help them get a foothold, and that in turn speed up the process of making them contributing members, I'm all for it.
We can have rational, logical conversations with people unlike the ones in Missoula holding signs accusing unseen, unknown immigrants of being rapist thugs.
