my family lives in galliano. i'm a chauvin, as well.
and on the immigration issue, I don't disagree that the system needs reform,
but i wholly disagree that they should be shipped back to wherever they came
from. cajuns were for the most part forcibly relocated, but most people came
to america looking for a better life, a better shot for their families, a
chance to live out the "american dream"....these people are no different,
but 100 years ago you just showed up at ellis island and they said
"Welcome!" and there was bread and soup (and voter registration) right off
the boat (well, as long as you were white, at any rate). Now there's the INS
and a lengthy immigration process, and you have to practically sell your
soul to get a greencard. Should people be "getting off the boat" and jumping
right into a welfare line? absolutely not, but most of them don't. most of
them are trying to work hard and give their families a better life, and it
should be made EASIER for those people, not harder, and certainly not
sending them back to squalid third-world dictatorships.
and if my racism remark was off-base, my sincerest apologies, but almost
every article you've posted on the subject has been about sending mexicans
back to mexico; and even ignoring the lumping of all latinos into the
"mexican" category, and the asinine fence proposals; i haven't seen much
directed at illegals from other countries.
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