Message #58124

[reddrogue]

This reply is a bit after the fact, I know...

I have many hispanic friends, and I love them.  I do not appreciate, however, illegal residents protesting in the streets about their "rights", and waving Mexican flags.  If Mexico is so great, why are you here?  I understand that no one should be mistreated, but I'm sorry, if you are here illegally, you don't have "rights."  You have basic human rights, yes, but not "rights" to federal aid, "rights"
to employment, "rights" to public education.  You are strapping a system that is already strained to the max.  Your "rights" are back in your own country where you are a citizen, and if you don't have any there, what makes you think you deserve them here?  And this whole bit about how illegal residents "pay taxes too"--GIVE ME A BREAK.  The only way an illegal resident is paying employment-related taxes is if he/she has a BOGUS social security number and other bogus documents.  Hmmm...I thought that was also ILLEGAL.  And if you talking about sales tax, so what?  You're here, you buy stuff, you pay taxes.  That is no basis to  guarantee that you get "rights."

It is downright offensive to see illegal residents on TV protesting in the streets trying to FORCE the United States to give them "rights."  GO HOME and protest Vicente Fox.  Or, do it the correct way and enter the country legally.  

Rr