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lizard said:the other day I saw a dude in a dashiki walking into kroger. I almost spewed my soda laughing.
Ha! Excellent mental image.
I have no problem with immigrants, Mexican or French or Japanese, or whatever. I really only get to see the effects of illegal Mexican immigrants here in Texas. The key word being ILLEGAL. If they were legal and paying taxes, and not eating up welfare and healthcare and LEGAL, I wouldn't give a damn.
My two closest friends are Mexican. However, Edward's mom barely speaks English, has a job cleaning houses and being paid "under the counter". That is, when she's not sneaking Mexicans into the US for phat cash. She has so many kids, that she lets random people claim them as their own on tax returns for a percentage of what they get back. She refuses to learn English, and calls Edward to translate. She came over here to HAVE Edward to stay in the county, and he's almost 26. 26 years and she doesn't know the language. My other friend's boyfriend is an illegal immigrant. He has no papers, no license, she can't go out anywhere with him. He drives around with no insurance or registration/inspection, and steals liquor bottles from his job for extra cash. His sister is unmarried, came over from Mexico with him, had 5 kids, is on welfare and other government programs, and they buy her food stamps from her. My dad was in a car wreck recently. The woman was illegal with no insurance.
My boyfriend works for a local PD and a good percentage of most of the workers time is spent processing people that wind up being illegal which takes up who knows how many amount of man hours, and the officers are REQUIRED to learn Spanish.
I know there are probably many white people that do the same, and illegals from other countries. But this is what I run into here. I'd still bitch about the things that most of the people do, but if they were legal, I'd have one less thing to bitch about.