David, there is no question but that economic opportunity is a motive for the migrants from Mexico, Central America and South America making the trek to here. Can you imagine yourself in such a dire financial situation that you would attempt, on foot, to traverse the jungles and dangers encountered on these treks just to improve your fin…
David, there is no question but that economic opportunity is a motive for the migrants from Mexico, Central America and South America making the trek to here. Can you imagine yourself in such a dire financial situation that you would attempt, on foot, to traverse the jungles and dangers encountered on these treks just to improve your financial situation, leaving all that you know and love behind? As for me, my family were among the original white settlors of Texas, fighting in the Texas war of independence. My great, great uncle, William Depriest Sutherland, age 18, died at the Alamo. His younger brother, Thomas Shelton Sutherland, age 16 at the time, is my great grandfather. Texas won the war against Santa Anna in 1836 and on Dec. 29, 1845 the U.S. annexed Texas. This led to the Mexican American War of 1846-1848. The U.S. defeated Mexico and seized one-half of Mexico's territory, including Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah, Nevada and Western Colorado. In my view, we stole it. So, when Mexicans come to this country, I cannot raise a moral opposition to it.
I had no ancestors in any of those wars you mention. But a maternal great uncle, Philip Hornbein, was de facto head of the Colorado Democratic Party for most of the first half of the last century, and gave the speech at the '32 convention recommending an end to prohibition. His sister, my maternal grandmother, was probably the first female Coloradan to earn a PhD. And a second and third cousin on that side of the family left the family name near the top of Everest (the Hornbein Couloir).
I'm a Jew, albeit not religious. I think settling in Israel and making that the Jewish state was a mistake, as it has been the death of many Jews, as well as Palestinians. I don't know the history in any detail, but at the time there was talk of settling in some other place, and I think things would have been much better for us had a Jewish state been set up in some then relatively uninhabited part of the world--perhaps in Canada or Alaska.
Regarding the migrants, they have a lot of gumption to make the trek. What if they put that gumption towards organizing themselves to better their countries, both politically and economically, in much the way the Israelis settled a desert and made it bloom. We're a pressure relief valve, but it's bad for us and it's bad for the planet. It's also bad for our politics. Biden, the best pres of my lifetime, who will likely be thought of in the same thought bubbles as Lincoln and FDR, gets his worst numbers on immigration. Only around 20 of Americans % support his immigration policies. Hopefully most of those who don't support his immigration policies will realize, like I do, that we need to hang onto our Democracy, and that he's doing plenty of good in other areas. But it would sure have helped us if the Dems would have voted for the bill that included a national, mandatory E-Verify last spring.
The Democrats who refuse to see the damage of overpopulation are just like the GOPers who claim that global warming is not happening, or that it's a natural process.
David, there is no question but that economic opportunity is a motive for the migrants from Mexico, Central America and South America making the trek to here. Can you imagine yourself in such a dire financial situation that you would attempt, on foot, to traverse the jungles and dangers encountered on these treks just to improve your financial situation, leaving all that you know and love behind? As for me, my family were among the original white settlors of Texas, fighting in the Texas war of independence. My great, great uncle, William Depriest Sutherland, age 18, died at the Alamo. His younger brother, Thomas Shelton Sutherland, age 16 at the time, is my great grandfather. Texas won the war against Santa Anna in 1836 and on Dec. 29, 1845 the U.S. annexed Texas. This led to the Mexican American War of 1846-1848. The U.S. defeated Mexico and seized one-half of Mexico's territory, including Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah, Nevada and Western Colorado. In my view, we stole it. So, when Mexicans come to this country, I cannot raise a moral opposition to it.
I had no ancestors in any of those wars you mention. But a maternal great uncle, Philip Hornbein, was de facto head of the Colorado Democratic Party for most of the first half of the last century, and gave the speech at the '32 convention recommending an end to prohibition. His sister, my maternal grandmother, was probably the first female Coloradan to earn a PhD. And a second and third cousin on that side of the family left the family name near the top of Everest (the Hornbein Couloir).
I'm a Jew, albeit not religious. I think settling in Israel and making that the Jewish state was a mistake, as it has been the death of many Jews, as well as Palestinians. I don't know the history in any detail, but at the time there was talk of settling in some other place, and I think things would have been much better for us had a Jewish state been set up in some then relatively uninhabited part of the world--perhaps in Canada or Alaska.
Regarding the migrants, they have a lot of gumption to make the trek. What if they put that gumption towards organizing themselves to better their countries, both politically and economically, in much the way the Israelis settled a desert and made it bloom. We're a pressure relief valve, but it's bad for us and it's bad for the planet. It's also bad for our politics. Biden, the best pres of my lifetime, who will likely be thought of in the same thought bubbles as Lincoln and FDR, gets his worst numbers on immigration. Only around 20 of Americans % support his immigration policies. Hopefully most of those who don't support his immigration policies will realize, like I do, that we need to hang onto our Democracy, and that he's doing plenty of good in other areas. But it would sure have helped us if the Dems would have voted for the bill that included a national, mandatory E-Verify last spring.
The Democrats who refuse to see the damage of overpopulation are just like the GOPers who claim that global warming is not happening, or that it's a natural process.
David, your posts keep ending up in my spam folder. I replied to James Wheaton's post below.