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schmericaWhat the fuck is wrong with you, Oregonians? Ugh.
(Link is to the featured article in the Opinion section of the Oregonian today, about illegal immigration and how up in arms people are about it. Includes interviews/"listening sessions" with people around the area and some racist gems.)
Here are some highlights of the interviews, if you don't want to click:
How would he tell someone is an "illegal"? McAdams responded: "The language. I guess someone speaking Spanish would make me suspicious."
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Immigrants should conform to the American way and recognize themselves as Americans first. It's not about race, and he's not a racist, Weippert said. He's "pro-American."
"We welcome people," he said. "Become American. The country you came from, turn your back on it. Speak English. We don't want Mexico here. But they don't want to do that. They want to exploit this country rather than embrace it."
It makes him mad when people speak Spanish in public, he said. "They should conform. It's a matter of international respect. If I come to your home, I conform to your rules."
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After 9/11, he discovered some of the Middle Eastern terrorists were illegal and later wrote a book, "Fed up with illegal immigration: a fiction nonfiction political thriller." (It was never published.)
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"We can't deport 12 million people," he said. "Well, we can, but I don't want that. It's mean. I want people to leave on their own. If they can't get a job or benefits, they will leave."
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"Soon, my granddaughter will be in elementary school. ESL costs a lot, it's a failed program, and we're throwing millions at it," he said. "If she's in these classes, they're going to dumb down the class and my granddaughter is not going to get the quality education she deserves."
Children of illegal immigrants, even if born here, should leave the country with their parents, he said, because "children always suffer the consequences of their parents' decisions. If a guy robs a bank, will they haul him away? Of course. They won't mind that he has kids. I don't believe I should be paying for the education of the kids of someone who broke our laws."
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Vandermolen, who runs a horse-breeding farm, says many employers hire illegal workers, who displace Americans. Her sister, who lived in Los Angeles, couldn't get a job as a receptionist because she didn't speak Spanish, Vandermolen said.
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The U.S. should have a moratorium on all immigration until the problem is fixed, she added, and then should reduce the number of legally admitted immigrants nationwide to about 300,000 per year.
There is a cultural difference between the European immigrants of the past and the illegal immigrants of today, Vandermolen said, because "Europeans worked hard to be American, to learn English." Today, she said, the motivation to assimilate is missing.
"Latinos, they're the biggest group, but also the Muslims. These cultures," she said, "are interested in assimilating us."
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Bendl is most concerned with Muslim immigrants, she said, because "there are terrorist training camps all over the U.S., and if the Islamic people had their way, they would have all women wear the burqa," the veil.
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Does she believe all illegal immigrants are terrorists?
"There are sleeper people," she said, "ready to activate."
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As to the 12 million illegal immigrants already here, "Issue a proclamation that they need to leave and take their turn," she said. And if they have U.S. citizen children? "If the family is to be deported, they can have the choice and leave the kids here to have them adopted out," she said. "There's plenty of American parents who want children."
(Link is to the featured article in the Opinion section of the Oregonian today, about illegal immigration and how up in arms people are about it. Includes interviews/"listening sessions" with people around the area and some racist gems.)
Here are some highlights of the interviews, if you don't want to click:
How would he tell someone is an "illegal"? McAdams responded: "The language. I guess someone speaking Spanish would make me suspicious."
/
Immigrants should conform to the American way and recognize themselves as Americans first. It's not about race, and he's not a racist, Weippert said. He's "pro-American."
"We welcome people," he said. "Become American. The country you came from, turn your back on it. Speak English. We don't want Mexico here. But they don't want to do that. They want to exploit this country rather than embrace it."
It makes him mad when people speak Spanish in public, he said. "They should conform. It's a matter of international respect. If I come to your home, I conform to your rules."
/
After 9/11, he discovered some of the Middle Eastern terrorists were illegal and later wrote a book, "Fed up with illegal immigration: a fiction nonfiction political thriller." (It was never published.)
/
"We can't deport 12 million people," he said. "Well, we can, but I don't want that. It's mean. I want people to leave on their own. If they can't get a job or benefits, they will leave."
/
"Soon, my granddaughter will be in elementary school. ESL costs a lot, it's a failed program, and we're throwing millions at it," he said. "If she's in these classes, they're going to dumb down the class and my granddaughter is not going to get the quality education she deserves."
Children of illegal immigrants, even if born here, should leave the country with their parents, he said, because "children always suffer the consequences of their parents' decisions. If a guy robs a bank, will they haul him away? Of course. They won't mind that he has kids. I don't believe I should be paying for the education of the kids of someone who broke our laws."
/
Vandermolen, who runs a horse-breeding farm, says many employers hire illegal workers, who displace Americans. Her sister, who lived in Los Angeles, couldn't get a job as a receptionist because she didn't speak Spanish, Vandermolen said.
/
The U.S. should have a moratorium on all immigration until the problem is fixed, she added, and then should reduce the number of legally admitted immigrants nationwide to about 300,000 per year.
There is a cultural difference between the European immigrants of the past and the illegal immigrants of today, Vandermolen said, because "Europeans worked hard to be American, to learn English." Today, she said, the motivation to assimilate is missing.
"Latinos, they're the biggest group, but also the Muslims. These cultures," she said, "are interested in assimilating us."
/
Bendl is most concerned with Muslim immigrants, she said, because "there are terrorist training camps all over the U.S., and if the Islamic people had their way, they would have all women wear the burqa," the veil.
/
Does she believe all illegal immigrants are terrorists?
"There are sleeper people," she said, "ready to activate."
/
As to the 12 million illegal immigrants already here, "Issue a proclamation that they need to leave and take their turn," she said. And if they have U.S. citizen children? "If the family is to be deported, they can have the choice and leave the kids here to have them adopted out," she said. "There's plenty of American parents who want children."