Who is gonna be the nannies for your children, or gardeners for your gated communities, or clean up the hotel room you dirtied if EVERY illegal is to be deported? Who’ll pick the fruit? Who? No teenage American I know. Hell, no HOMELESS American I know. Illegals wouldn’t come here if there wasn’t a high demand for their services. Keep deluding yourselves into thinking a Guest Worker program is not necessary…..

That’s funny. In Ohio, where I was born and raised, we didn’t use nannies. We used babysitters. And none of them were illegals. When our grass got tall we mowed it ourselves. I spent the night in many motels over the years and never saw any non-English speaking maids. When I spent the summer in Utah with relatives…..we picked our own fruit. Their is no demand for illegals to do any work. There is only demand by businesses to pay slum wages. Don’t kid yourself into thinking that illegals are NEEDED for anything. Wanted? Yes. Needed? Never. You need to learn the difference between jobs Americans won’t due and jobs Americans won’t do for $6 an hour.

Who is gonna be the nannies for your children, or gardeners for your gated communities, or clean up the hotel room you dirtied if EVERY illegal is to be deported? Who’ll pick the fruit?

Anybody else here find this strangely racist?

Who is gonna be the nannies for your children, or gardeners for your gated communities, or clean up the hotel room you dirtied if EVERY illegal is to be deported? Who’ll pick the fruit? Who? No teenage American I know. Hell, no HOMELESS American I know. Illegals wouldn’t come here if there wasn’t a high demand for their services. Keep deluding yourselves into thinking a Guest Worker program is not necessary…..

The Sinner on July 1, 2007 at 12:23 PM

Then save your ire for the upper middle class of the United States – the ones with gated communities, and leave the rest of us out of it. What is the percentage of Americans who live like that? Since when have they comprised the majority?
How about removing the restrictions on American kids to be able to work? How about removing tax penalities for their income? We will be taxed for our teenagers’ work income. At what rate? 38%?
Illegals get their money and run. Americans get whacked. Illegals accept lower than law wages … and how about the fact that by law, Americans require most tradesmen to have certifications that Mexicans typically don’t have – meaning the investment of schooling and training for jobs. Have you not heard the many complaints of builders as to the shoddy work done by many illegals who picked up some basic work competencies in say, masonry, but make mistakes that schooled masons wouldn’t make? The illegals got the job because they were cheaper and initially appeared to have the skills. The trained masons were “too much money” and didn’t get the work. There are a lot of perverse factors here that impact on this, it’s not the simplistically insulting “Americans can’t clean their own toilets” line.

Since we’re all these things that society disdains we then deserve what illegal aliens are up to.

We in her opinion should be replaced and be ashamed of ourselves for not appreciating those doing the replacing.

The only thing we should be ashamed of is allowing it to happen.

I am an American who is neither fat nor lazy nor live in a McMansion. I have defended this country for 22 years as a member of its military, a job I am sure you are too lazy to do.

Something you may not have factored into your addlebrained analysis on the bravery of illegal aliens is why they come here to work. You admit that they come here to work hard, for little pay and in often bad conditions. This begs the question, how bad is their home country? Mexico must really, really suck. Otherwise, why would someone endure such astonishing privation and risk?

I’ve got an idea, do an article on how much Mexico sucks. And while you’re at it, please ponder these points: Americans are historically welcoming and forgiving; Americans want folks to immigrate and assimilate; if you left a country to come to the US because the former country sucks, maybe you should assimilate; otherwise, you’re importing more than cheap labor; your importing the same corruption that made your former country suck.

And for those of you who will accuse me of being racist, I have no gripe with Mexicans. I’d welcome responsible immigration laws that allowed more Hispanics in. But they’d have to be legal and assimilate. 60+ years of socialism, some of those years rivaling the Reign of Terror, has destroyed their economy and their culture. The cure for Mexicans is not for them to leave their country and bring their socioeconomic woes to the US where they are exploited by unethical businessmen and politicians. The cure is to reform their own country.

Rosa Brooks of the L.A. Times writes in praise of immigrants, comparing them favorably to Americans, whom she labels “fat, decadent and getting dumber all the time.”

So, Rosa Brooks is an American, is she? I am not sure.

I don’t know if she is fat. Usually liberals do not want to hurt people by calling them ‘fat’ so I can guess she is conservative.

Is she decadent? Since she must be a conservative, she is probably not decadent. Sodom and Gomorrha were the gold standards of decadence, sodomy, free sex, and pagan worship.

Is she getting dumber all the time? That I can answer.

No.

She can’t get any dumber.

She hires illegals? What a great woman. No use hiring a fat lazy dumb American to cut the grass.

Not like she could get her fat, lazy dumb ass up and cut her own grass when she can pay someone else to do it under the table.

Did she even catch on that when her illegal gardener agrees that Americans are fat lazy and dumber then a tick on a butt he is looking dead on at her?

She had two different inflections for the word “home.” One meant England, the other the U.S.A. The inflection for the U.S.A. was used more often than not.

She learned to cook southern style, but remembered her English roots. There’s nothing like sitting down to a Sunday dinner of roast beef and yorkshire pudding with purple hulled peas and fried okra next to it.

God Bless America!!

Or is that her brains?

She should be deported for anti-American slander.

Let her live among the thifty, healthy, courageous peasants in some backward, pestilential rathole and see how she likes it.

Self-loathing crapulent clown.

Rosa Brooks of the L.A. Times writes in praise of immigrants, comparing them favorably to Americans, whom she labels “fat, decadent and getting dumber all the time.” By contrast, she says: “Immigrants put us to shame. They’re healthier, stronger, thriftier and braver.”

Don’t have the exact quotes, but wasn’t that almost exactly how Hitler viewed Americans versus his new and improved Germans? And Tojo and his warlords? And more recently, Saddam, particularly at the eve of the First Gulf War, with his “Battle-hardened” Iraqi troops against the inexperienced and out-of-shape American soldiers?
Wasn’t Tojo warned by Yamamoto that his concept of lazy and fat Americans was a dangerously poor assumption?
Rosa Brooks seems to have the dismissive anti-American attitude of a typical fascist dictator.

[W]hen it comes to illegal immigrants, just getting here takes astounding courage. Illegal immigrants endure astonishing privation and risk — just for the chance to improve their lot

One could apply that reasoning to bank robbery.

I must be getting old already…I can remember when I was in middle school and the word ‘illegal’ had a stigma to it.

Dark-Star on June 30, 2007 at 7:42 PM

No kidding, now it’s something to be proud of not to mention proclaim your pride by marching and screaming racist European illegals go home!

And no, I’m not a fat, lazy racist. My inlaws are all from Mexico, immigrated legally and are all against ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. Only in this double-speak world would people simply asking for law and order have to defend themselves from being labled racist.

And if we beat up, kill, and steal from her and her kids and pets that’s ok too right? (Hypothetically of course!)

Hmm… I don’t see her address in her article…

If Mexico is so great, why don’t they want to stay there?