Immigration

If you think that this picture is out of the ordinary for the rally, you would be mistaken. This is a pretty good example what flowed by my workplace today. There were some American flags, but not nearly as many as foreign flags.

From Boxer blasts migrant proposal: sbsun.com

Boxer said a jobs program needs to be created for illegal immigrants that would help them receive proper documentation.

Here we go, another program paid for by the taxpayer to reward law breakers. When are the elites like Sen. Boxer going to understand that the people are fed up with paying for subsidies for illegals. Hospitals closing, states going backrupt all so they can get the latino vote.

From The Washington Post
Calif. City to Enforce Immigration Law

COSTA MESA, Calif. -- A new city policy that would give police the authority to enforce federal immigration law is hurting local businesses even though it has yet to be implemented, merchants say.

G-d forbid that someone should enforce the law. The businesses that are complaining about losing customers? They deal with the illegals that do not speak English, so they buy exclusively from these stores that cater to the unintegrated.

From CONTRA COSTA TIMES
Some never adopt English as second language

Nearly everything the 44-year-old janitor needs can be had in her mother tongue. She shops in Spanish, files police reports, talks to nurses and teachers and voice-mail systems. For 17 years, Alvarado has lived in a Spanish-speaking world, first in Los Angeles and now in Concord's Monument Corridor.

17 years and can't speak English.

About 10 percent of the households in the Bay Area are considered "linguistically isolated" with no adults speaking English proficiently.

Dozens of businesses up and down Monument Boulevard cater to Spanish speaking customers. Spanish is heard on every corner. Alvarado says she can get everything she needs without having to speak English.

"The world is changing for them and it's hard for them to accept those changes," said Yee [Assemblyman Leland Yee, D-San Francisco-ed.], who is also a psychologist.
"I understand how these individuals feel. The reality, however, is that is America - America was made of immigrants who came with all different languages and customs and cultures."

And, in the past, learned to communicate.

If the U.S. continuse to cater to the law breakers, the citiaens are going to lose respect for the law. Things are just to tight, we cannot afford to pay for everyone to come here and live the good life if that person is not equipped to move up the ladder of success offered because they are unable to communicate with the people they work with.

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin has her as always excellent coverage of this. Please scroll down to the quotes from past presidents on immigration.