[PRCo] Immigrants

[Jim Holland]

 > Jerry Wrote:

 > Jim apparently you haven't been to Florida lately,
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Not since 1960~!~!~!~!
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 > Orlando in particular, 1 in 5 are speaking in another language
 > and it isn't Spanish, besides tourists aren't staying away
 > they are all coming in as aliens, illegal aliens and I would
 > prefer if they all just stay at home!
 > And they all have cameras and they all are taking pictures!
 > Jerry "Matt" Matsick
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You have an Interesting Sense of Hummer, Jerry~!~!~!~!       To step out 
of character and be Cereal for a moment  --  The  *Tourists*  of which I 
speak are those who come here on Vacation and have plans for returning 
home.       In spite of the lower dollar which works to their advantage 
in an Huge Way when visiting here  --  as it Used To Do for us in the 
past when we visited foreign locales  --  these Peebles Are Not Coming In.
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My  *Geese*  is that FL is much worse relative to illegal immigration 
than CA // AX // TX even though we have a land connection to a foreign 
country whereas FL immigrants arrive by sea  --  if they are 
lucky.       CA may have more bleeding hearts than FL, at least in the 
SF Bay Area, and SF has declared itself a harbor for illegals.       
Sends the wrong message, doesn't it~?~!~?
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I have met Many Wonderful People from Many Different Nations here in 
SF.       One was an illegal Mexican but this was early 1990s  --  he 
was a passenger, his step father had been killed in an auto accident, 
and I stepped in to help out.       It was easy then to get the 
immigration thing worked out and I sponsored him on a Legal Student 
Visa.       Good Kid, Good Student, Great Desire to get his feet on the 
ground to do the right thing but he didn't feel he had done anything 
wrong when he was illegal  --  he couldn't see the problem.       Takes 
time to learn some things.
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His girlfriend in Mexico City didn't understand his desire to live in 
the USA  --  she had a successful career there and was happy at 
home.       She told him to come home Or Else  --  He went home  --  
still got Or Else.
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He came back to the USA but to Houston, met a Very Nice Girl there and 
married on the rebound.       I went down to visit just before his first 
child was born.       Has two boys, first named after me, haven't heard 
anything since.     Such is Life.
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My favorite foreign passengers are the Arabs  --  MANY  from Yemen  --  
Very Small Country  --  Very Much Amazed that so many can come from such 
a small place~!~!~!~!       Very warm and friendly people, genuinely 
appreciate the bus service, work together with their friends as if 
Family  --  Family Values are  *Truly__Family__Values*  with them and 
make our Family Values look like HippoCrazy~!~!~!      (As an aside, 
when it is time for me to leave I ask about anyone missing, they get on 
cell phones to call, and we wait if they can make it or else we move 
on~!~!)       Yes, Terrorists were very warm and friendly so we Just 
Don't Know.       But that is true of everyone  --  King David writes 
that someone with whom he went to Synagogue Every Day  --  His Own 
Countryman  --  stabbed him in the back  --  we Just Don't Know  --  
need to take everyone at face value and trust our instincts.
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Dassn't matter the subject  --  there shall    ALWAYS    be people on 
either side of an issue  (orange--vs--Orange comes to mind~!~!~!~!,)  
180-Degrees apart.      USA is a nation of immigrants  --  yes,  most of 
us born here but the nation was formed as a result of immigration not 
many centuries ago.       And while we are a very wealthy nation, we are 
not a bottomless pit of money and can't do right by everyone and anyone 
who wants to come here.       We have rules concerning immigration and 
they should be followed.       I am not interested in the Letter of the 
Law  (as some of the Self-appointed Geesestapos on transit / rail 
facilities)  but the Spirit of the Law which allows room for compassion.
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Jim  Holland
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Studying Pittsburgh Railways Company (PRCo)
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