OT The Government Has No Plan for Reuniting the Immigrant Families It Is Tearing Apart

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  1. MarAzul

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    I don't think so dog.

    I don't know how Dad got here but I do know it is 70 some miles from Cuba to the Keys by boat. Only the intrepid make it, but still, doable.

    But 14 year old kid from El Salvador has to enter and cross Guatemala, and then 1600 miles of Mexico to get to Arizona. Someone is letting him through the boarders, not requiring any documentation or protocols. Then someone has got to be helping them, feeding them. Even the intrepid can not walk nearly 2000 miles without food. Whoever is helping is not doing it for free.
    Something is out of focus in this picture.
    The wail over the image of the kid finally getting feed daily at the US boarder is totally misguided and misses the mark badly.
     
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    We should hope so...good Samaritans are still part of humanity
     
  3. MarAzul

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    Oh! I gather, you feel like a Saint!
     
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    now this tops my ignorant post by a large margin
     
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    I can speak and read a little Korean. They have an alphabet of approx. 25 characters with about 9 or 10 dipthongs. Their language is phonetic and not at all difficult to learn. They really are a terribly polite people. My wife can't stand rude people. Well, neither can I. We wear no shoes in the house. Our floors are very very clean.
     
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    Fox News - You gotta be kidding me.
     
  7. MarAzul

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    Naw! But it might be IQ related. :cool2:
     
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    What is false here?
    Why do you say entitlement about speaking one's language?
     
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    You don't think America is why people come to America? That's rather sad. America is a dream, a beacon to the rest of the world. You and @MARIS61 seem to think that majority of people want to come here to use it, abuse it, and pervert it. That's simply not true. Go to a citizenship swearing in ceremony sometime. Witness the tears of happiness and joy when they become citizens. It's not because they've just won some welfare lottery, it's because they understand and have achieved something special, membership in this great country.

    My grandparents could see the growing revolution in Cuba so they moved to Venezuela when my dad was 12 yrs old. It was very tough for them being Hungarian immigrants from Cuba there, especially since civil war broke out in Venezuela soon after their arrival. My dad never returned to school and instead got a job as a courier for Juan and Eva Peron when they were living in exile in Caracas. The bank that he was taking financial papers back and forth for Peron for eventually hired my dad. My dad worked as a teller in the bank and applied to immigrate to the US. My dad came to America at age 21 and worked while using the horrible "chain migration" to bring his mother, father, and brother to this country. Once they arrived my father enlisted in the Air Force, passed his GED on the first try in English, got his citizenship, and married and knocked up a nice American girl.
     
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    Damn River, you romantic freakin’ devil! A honeymoon in NAHA????? I can only pray it has changed since I last saw it in 1974........of course I honeymooned with my wife in Yachats so maybe I’m not one to talk.....

    :blush:
     
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    Damn!
    When I was a consultant working out of Palo Alto Square in Palo Alto, I worked with a guy that had immigrated from Venezuela several years before. His family including him as a boy emigrated from Hungary about 1956. He was a computer performance analyst, really swift with mathematics. I enjoyed talking with him, occasional we even teamed up for work.

    I will skip comment on the fist part here because you inferred the illogical rather than following the point.

    Ha! I just remembered his name, Hank Drews! No doubt Drews was shortened up from something. Perhaps Drewski.
     
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    There is a report that the little girl featured on the cover of Time magazine with Trump towering over her, was not separated from her mother. She had become a symble of the separation issue.

    This is no to be confused with 2000 children that were separated from there families.
     
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    In 89 when we went there after our wedding in Taipei, it was changed from 71 when I first went there....the Navy was gone for one thing...there was a Hells Angels Asian tour going on though...made for a lively night life....damned expensive though....not a cheap place to vacation....beautiful island...we hiked and went through the Guokusendo caves....longest man made cave on the planet...
     
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    Yes and mother is seeking asylum. She left her husband with their child and is now seeking asylum by entering illegally.
     
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    Let's make a huge dent in the illegal population and replace them with some of the 4 million waiting in line.

    https://cis.org/Vaughan/Waiting-List-Legal-Immigrant-Visas-Keeps-Growing
     
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    Last time my wife and I had a weekend at the beach together was a bungalow in Yachats....the wind was so bad looking at the ocean was like standing in front of a sandblaster and that little grocery store charged about 8 bucks for a loaf of bread....beautiful bay though...steamed some mussels and had some nice wine
     
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    The last time I was in Okinawa, I was testing a silencer we built in the Hector's machine shop for a .270 Winchester. Had to use an odd powder load to get that to work somewhat acceptable.
     
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    Great story.

    Never met your dad but I'd certainly like to. Your mom is wonderful so I'm not surprised you turned out so well.
     
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    Can't stand mussels. I guess it comes from when I was a kid and mussels were considered trash. My wife loves them, though. Also, a lot of seafood dishes include mussels. Wish I was born a little later.
     
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