September 03, 2005
And Yet More on NFRA
I'm at the Ronald Reagan Awards Banquet. In a separate entry I will list the winners of the various NFRA Awards. Soon, there will be a showing of
In the Face of Evil, the documentary about Ronald Reagan's fight against communism, and how it bears on the current terrrorist threat. Of course, I've already seen it, at the
Liberty Film Festival last fall, where as I recall it was the world premiere.
At the moment, Tom Tancredo is speaking, and giving an eloquent argument against illegal immigration—an issue that most of you know I've been vascillating on for some time. (Why? Because part of the whole issue has to do with how the economies in our border states are going to conduct their business without the labor normally provided by "illegals," so the "seal off the borders and everything will be lovely" people [those who oversimplify the practicalities of the process] bother me. But the security issues tied into this are sobering, and a good place to start.)
Tancredo discusses the fact that some misguided teachers in schools with a lot of immigrants teach a cartoonish version of multiculturalism, encouraging high school and junior high school students to identify with their native lands rather than this country.
"I don't care whaere you come from," he says. "All I ask is that once you get here, you do what most of our grandparents did, and become part of this nation."
He gets a standing ovation.
And I have a lot to think about.
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i am still on the 'wait and see' fence, too. but it's not just border states. i'm in idaho and the farmers and landscapers have inordinate amounts of illegals working. they h ave been wilfully dependent on them for years. in the summers when i was a teen looking for work in a small rural town, the girls would hoe beets, beans, the boys would set pipe and buck hay, both would work in the orchards. by the time i was a senior, those jobs were hard to find. there are lots of non-border cities that use illegals in industry, construction, domestic help. one issue i find disconcerting is the diseases the illegals are bringing/will be bringing in, particularly tuberculosis. it is an expensive and extraordinarily expensive disease to cure/manage. i think a guest worker/visa think could be one judiciously used part of a policy, but the illegals and legals need to be required to speak english, and take advantage of any opportunity to become citizens. they also need to pay into the systems that provide them health, education. can't pay??? one of the reasons vicente fox doesn't want the border closed is because the workers are sending millions and millions of dollars back home to mexico. if we are going to let them come, there needs to be certain social, legal, and monetary expectations put upon them and their employers. right now, it's free gratis for both.
Posted by: sue at September 05, 2005 10:24 AM (i0+3P)
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