"GeekBoy" <geek@geek_five.net> wrote in
news:480d61e7$0$5732$4c368faf@roadrunner.com:
I appreciate your finding the video, and I promise that I'm not even mad
about the ten minutes of my life that I'll never get back.
But I can't imagine what thread it was relevant to. I'm mainly
interested in being annoyingly rational on the subject of illegal
immigration and pointing out factual absurdities ("Illegal immigrants
have no rights under the Constitution."), legal idiocies ("The 14th
Amendment doesn't grant citizenhip to anchor babies."), and other kinds
of nonsense ("Illegal immigrants are taking my stoop labor job!")
It was an Obama thread, hence why I thought of that video.
Barack Obama's immigration policy is too vague to be useful as a
practical guide to policy. (I went here:
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/pdf/ImmigrationFactSheet.pdf)
But I generally don't tout one candidate over another, and in any case, I
don't rank illegal immigration very high on my issues list.
Because it's not "immigration," but rather undocumented aliens.
Yesterday was "Earth Day," but stories like these go silent by the so called
enviromental groups.
By Tony Davis ARIZONA DAILY STAR Tucson, Arizona | Published:
07.30.2006
http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/140004
After three years of cleanups, the federal government has achieved no
better than a 1 percent solution for the problem of trash left in
Southern Arizona by illegal border-crossers.
Cleanup crews from various agencies, volunteer groups and the Tohono
O'odham Nation hauled about 250,000 pounds of trash from thousands of
acres of federal, state and private land across Southern Arizona in
2002 to 2005, says the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
But that's only a fraction of the nearly 25 million pounds of trash
thought to be out there.
Authorities estimate the 3.2 million-plus entrants caught by the
Border Patrol dropped that much garbage in the Southern Arizona desert
from July 1999 through June 2005. The figure assumes that each illegal
entrant discards 8 pounds of trash, the weight of some abandoned
backpacks found in the desert.
The trash is piling up faster than it can be cleaned up. Considering
that the Border Patrol apprehended more than 577,000 entrants in
2004-05 alone, the BLM figures that those people left almost 4 million
pounds of trash in that same year.
Can you remember what we were talking about?
Not exactly.
And I'd still be interested to find out the details and disposition of
the case.
