Read this quote in a recent news article and......

[elmo]

MUST RESIST.....FIGHT IT! DON"T GET INVOLVED IN POLITICAL STUFF!!!!!!

Oh well I tried...I have no problems with people coming into the U.S. legally....but I really want to know who is here. Are they wanted for murder...child molesters...terrorists...etc. When someone comes here ILLEGALLY we don't know their background. I would like to see it the same for all countries. I have some friends from Canada that are US. citizens now and I think it cost them $5000+ and 3-4 years to do it the right way. Why should someone that here is ILLEGALLY just given a free pass? So I guess in a way send them all back and do it the right way. Background checks...proper paperwork...vaccines...passports...why are they coming here...etc...

I am not just saying one nationality...everyone that is here ILLEGAL.

[Ira]

Elmer--that's why the system is so broken:

They don't even do these checks for people who DO come here legally. It's a complete JOKE:

Ooooohhhhhh...someone please come and argue this point with me, taking into account the fact that I brought a Venezuelan bride here and have lived the experience.

Think about it:

How do we learn that someone coming here from Colombia murdered someone there, since it's the local, fractured, totally inefficient local police departments there who provide the applicant with his/her police report to be submitted to the U.S. consulate office?

After all, it's THEIR country--we're not the police there--and we have to take what their departments tell us at face value. But for a hundred bucks, you can easily buy a clean bill of health from your friendly and corrupt police chief (more or less).

More often than not, their records are wrong anyway:

It's hard to power the computers doing the background checks on llama power.

[elmo]

Never under estimate the power of the llama!

The whole system really sucks!!!! You are right about the background stuff...if I was Columbia or another country wouldn't you do some shuffling of paperwork to get the child molester/murderer out of the country. That is why it needs to be fixed!!! There has to be a way that makes sense. I have no issue what so ever of people coming to the US legally.

[Ira]

I had to bribe a Venezuelan judge $500 to get married there.

We were 100% legal in all respects to do this--but the guy wanted 500 bucks anyway.

[Dixie Flyer]

Dang.......I tried to steer clear.....

Today's immigrants exceed in number anything any nation has ever known.

They now come from cultures and countries whose people have never before been assimilated by any First World country. Not only is the Melting Pot broken, it is rejected by our elites.

Minorities are urged to hold onto their own language, customs, traditions. Identity politics is in. And the largest cohort, Mexicans, comes from a country with a historic grievance and a claim on the territory they are entering.

Addressing the Knights of Columbus in 1915, Theodore Roosevelt warned, "The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of
preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to
permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."

Indeed, that cultural unity, that sense that we were one people, is gone.

(Pat Buchanan)