Crossing Over: Embracing Illegal Immigration
Hollywood is trying to tug at your heartstrings over illegal immigration. Again.
Last year’s Oscar-nominated film, The Visitor, told the emotional tale of an illegal immigrant chased from his home despite the protestations of an aged college professor. And now we have Crossing Over, the new Crash-like drama about a disparate group of illegal immigrants trying to make a home in the U.S. Or, as the film’s creators might call them, undocumented workers.
But while The Visitor tells a compelling story with its messages neatly interwoven into the narrative, Crossing Over wears its intentions all over its sleeve, jacket, and trousers.
The main story involves Max Brogan (Harrison Ford), a disgruntled immigration officer who doesn’t relish breaking into sweatshops and carting off illegals. During one raid he takes pity on a Mexican mom (Alice Braga) who fears her capture will leave her son alone and unprotected. So Brogan tends to the child himself, a noble effort but one undermined by the lack of depth given to Ford’s character. Just what drives Max to work as an immigration official by day and then attempt to undo that damage at night and on weekends?
The Mexican immigrant isn’t the only illegal featured here. The story also introduces us to Claire (Alice Eve), an Australian actress looking to follow in the footsteps of Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts. But when her green card paperwork gets lost in a bureaucratic haze, she luckily crashes her car into Cole Franklin’s (Ray Liotta ). Franklin just happens to work on immigration cases. He can make her green card a reality if she becomes his sexual concubine for two months. Claire also has a boyfriend, a sensitive singer-songwriter (Jim Sturgess ), who is doing his own illegal maneuvering to stay in the country. He’s pretending to be a Jewish scholar in order to fast track his green card status. It’s the most original plot line in the film, even if it makes as little sense as the other sob stories. And Cole is married to Denise (Ashley Judd), an immigration defense lawyer. When she’s not looking like she cares for the downtrodden more than anyone else on earth, Judd is paying visits to a young African girl waiting to find a foster family.
There’s also Brogan’s partner, Hamid (Cliff Curtis, supplying the film‘s most natural performance), an Iranian-American whose parents are about to take the citizenship oath. And then there are two Korean brothers also on the fast track to citizenship, although they don’t appear to take that honor seriously.
I thought Crash was ridiculous; I cannot believe that it has spawned an entire subgenre of overwrought and contrived navel-gazing movies about the evils of our society.
The odds are overwhelmingly high that “Crossing Over” is a sure money loser. I am repeatedly amazed by this sort of financial madness. Is this a tax write off for the movie’s investors? Are they behaving altruistically? We can take it for granted that Harrison Ford worked for far less than his normal earnings. Nonetheless, that’s not going to be enough. I can’t imagine “Crossing Over” bringing in more than ten million dollars total from both theater and DVD sales. Will this even cover the advertising budget?
First of all, they are not “illegal immigrants”. They are “illegal aliens” or “illegal migrants”. The twisting of the language is a sure sign that someone is trying to slip something by.
Illegal aliens have no right to be here. They all have citizenship in some other country (more than one, often) and back to their country is where they need to go. End of story. There is nothing to discuss.
This is what sovereignty is all about.
The best thing any of us can do is boycott most of what comes out of Hollywood. And here’s a thought: if Congress can add taxes on to corporate executives why not high paid actors? I think a 99% tax on their earnings would help solve the budget crisis. And all the good little Marxists in the entertainment industry should agree because they are pretty much non productive and the case could be made that they are “parasites on society”.
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Who is John Galt?
Embracing Illegal Immigration…
Ruben Navarrette is wayyyyyyyyy ahead of you.
It’s not the stilted script that hampers Harrison Ford. The guy is simply a very stolid and very limited actor.
What a twisted piece of propaganda.Suck it in all you sheep.
To paraphrase Lady Dorothy…..”there is no there there”
What do we expect from liberal Hollywood? They like all those illegal workers, they are ones who care for their children, cook their meals and do all their lawncare.
Was Hollywood saying something? I’m sorry. My attention was elsewhere. I prefer to converse with people in posession of rational sense.
Displaced immigrants/undocumented farm workers (Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter’s term)= U.S. immigration law breakers. As the job market gets harder so will the critics of junk movies like this.
the itinerant world sojourner, hows that for PC,cares not one iota for me and mine, so good luck in your journey were ever it takes you. in the world of capitalism and competition, may the best man win.
luck is when preparation and opportunity meet.
(Gen. Boomer)
As long as they want to BE an American, i’m ok with that. multiculturalism works only if it adds to the American culture, it fails when it tries to replace it, like a soup were you add a pound of salt. if you’ve never had a Thai coffee, fish tacos, or a green beer, danced Salsa on the Dia de San Juan, or gone to an Oktoberfest, my favorite, fry bread at a pow wow, only in America.
When will Hollywood get around to asking for *their* Federal taxpayer bailout? Pelosi is Californian so is presumably sympathetic to the cause of keeping Liberal talking points on the silver screens of the world.
I predict that as soon as the last newspaper goes slooshing down the toilet, we can start watching Hollywood studios and distributors start flopping over and going bellyup because they simply refuse to read the handwriting on the all and make patriotic pictures that Americans *want* to see, and will pay to do so.
I also predict that movies, when they’re finally dead and gone, will not be missed any more than newspapers will be since no one is going to them – or has been – for years now.
(P.S. Always excepting the foreign market, which it appears are the only human beings still watching the drek being put out by Penn, Sarandon, Spielberg, and – now – my beloved Harrison Ford.)
I’m all for immigration. Not all Americans are born in America. However, one must play by the rules. If you won’t do that, then I don’t want you here.
Coming here is SUPPOSED to be hard. Those who came here in those small ships like the Mayflower often paid a terrible price to get here, as 1/4 did not survive. If you brought your family along, you could expect casualties, mostly your children. When they got here, there was no social safety net waiting. It was work hard or starve. Sometimes you starved anyway. You had to want it bad!
When we settled the West, the same thing was true. The trip was hard and fraught with peril. Only those with very big dreams need bother, for the reward had to be worth the incredible risk. You left your whole world behind for a future of unrelenting hard work and terrific risk. Sometimes, they didn’t survive. It’s SUPPOSED to be hard! You had to want it bad!
Now, many still take terrible risks to get here, paying coyotes from Mexico, or using a handmade raft to come from Cuba. or stowing away in a cargo container from China and living in their own filth for a week. Once they get here, there is all this abundance awaiting them. I don’t want them to have this largesse. I want it to be HARD! I want the risk to be greater and to be worth the reward. I want only their best, not their multitudes of mediocre.
Americans need to turn their backs, en masse, on the propaganda being churned out of leftist Hollywood. Perhaps if they see their lifestyles dwindling away they won’t be so quick to churn out this anti-American drivel.
#13 Nahncee: Dirty little secret of California politics: we have sectional political factions, because the state is so big. People from San Francisco and the upper half of the state tend to despise Southern California. The last time San Francisco had a real mayoral election, the *conservative* candidate (who won) is a liberal Democrat…his opposition was a Green party candidate even further to the left of him. They oppose grubby money-making projects, especially ones that have appeal to mass culture, like Hollywood (whether this movie does that or not).
Given what I just told you (California has sectional politics), will you be surprised to discover that Feinstein (former mayor of San Francisco), Boxer (former Representative from Marin Co., to the north of S.F.) and Pelosi (Representative from S.F. itself), are all probably supremely indifferent to any travails involving the movie industry. Quite frankly, Los Angeles and the movie industry (not the actors, who are shallow idiots for the most part, I mean the guys who construct sets, sew costumes, and actually shoot the scenes) doesn’t really have much representation in Congress right now at all. Witness the attempts over the last decade or so to ship productions to Canada or other states in the Union. Nobody in Southern California politics is taken seriously, and so it hasn’t happened (so far) because so much of the infrastructure is already here, and people simply don’t want to move it somewhere else.
#3.
Very good. Now if you will allow me to further clarify your point. It is an invasion, not immigration.
Please read up on the Iranian agents in South America, there by invitation of the governments.
We are in fact, at war.
Govern yourselves accordingly.
..I liked Harrison Ford so-o-o-o-o much better when he played Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. Sadly, he is just another moonbat liberal hollywood loon. Rarely will his movies benefit from my ticket dollars.
“Liberals are in control of the vertical”.
“Liberals are in control of the horizontal”.
Is there any wonder Liberal Hollywood enjoys free license to ‘sell’ their message via their genre?
An “Illegal Alien” vote is a “Democrat” vote…the Dems don’t give a flying flag about the law-breaking discredit to HONEST people who come to our Country and go through the process of becoming Americans legally.
These Hollywood and hangers on type just love to denigrate, ridicule and criticize our country and our people. But they sure love our money, protections and such. I wish they would move to their socialist paradise of Mexico or such and leave us alone.
Then again I have not watched a Hollywood movie in years-except the grand kids SpongBobSquarePants and Dancing Princess movies. I have gone to two funerals of people killed by Mr. Ford’s Hard Working Immigrants. Odd, I did not see Mr. Ford at either one.
Call them “illegal immigrants”, “illegal aliens” or “illegal migrants” my dead are still dead. Thank you Mr. Ford.
And Harrison ford goes from being all American badass Star Pilot/Archaeologist/CIA Agent/Doctor/POTUS to yet another lib shill
Although after that last rectal reaming that was “Crystal Skull”, I’m not entirely surprised.
Hang up your hat, Harrison, and call it a career
Marc Malone writes:
“Now, many still take terrible risks to get here, paying coyotes from Mexico, or using a handmade raft to come from Cuba. or stowing away in a cargo container from China and living in their own filth for a week. Once they get here, there is all this abundance awaiting them. I don’t want them to have this largesse. I want it to be HARD! I want the risk to be greater and to be worth the reward. I want only their best, not their multitudes of mediocre.”
You may yet have your wish, Marc, as the risks these poor, pitiful people are facing when they cross the deserts have to be braved yet again on their return trips because there is no work for them here.
It is, at least, one good thing to arise from our hard times. Oh, and spare me the sob stories, Pelosi.
The other would be, perhaps, the rising gorge of the American public and commensurate lack of sympathy for these pour souls when we find ourselves without jobs and security.
Another wasted effort from demiwood and WHY I seldom go to the movies anymore. Grand Turino is a good film to compare this puck laden attempt. While I did not agree with GT’s story and theme all the way, Clint Eastwood is a still a stellar actor in my book, even at his age.
To the IILEGIAL ALIEN problem, my grandfather immigtaed here Legally in 1892 with $15.00 in his pockets. he did all that was asked and REQUIRED of him by his employers and the United States. He became a very succesful furniture merchant, As noted by others, it Has to be hard to become US citizen. Who wants to dumb it down so just about anyone can pass? The leftards from the demisocialista party, that’s who, for the most part. They see all those future votes as the illegal alien numbers swell the roles entitlement programs, causing problems for AMERICANS who are truly in need right now. We can rest assured the mighty mullah obamaham will have a change and dope solution for this problem too. Can hardly wait. I concur, we are at war and we are being invaded. I would totally support troops on the borders and to take whatever steps need to be taken to secure them.
David Thomson, remember that today Hollywood movies collect a large share, sometimes a majority, of their revenue from foreign sales. That’s why Hollywood movies about the Iraq War are so anti-American. The studios are trying for sales in France, Indonesia, and India instead of Florida or Kansas. Expect a strong marketing push for “Crossing Over” in Latin America.
“David Thomson, remember that today Hollywood movies collect a large share, sometimes a majority, of their revenue from foreign sales.”
Nope, I don’t think you are right regarding these very ideological type of films. Have you actually tried to watch, for instance, “Lions for Lambs”? It was so boring that I could not finish it. Nobody in their right mind outside of the United States is that masochistic. Am I wrong? Well, show me the financial results of these movies.
Jack, I don’t know where you have formed this opinion or if you are some kind of insider, but nothing from past movie revenues would support this.
“Rendition” made the same amount here as it did internationally, and still fell well short of the budget of the film. “Stop-loss” brought in less than $300,000 internationally. “Redacted” depicted American Soldiers raping an Iraqi woman, and failed to even make back its five million dollar budget. “The Kingdom” was successful, but that was essentially an action film with a dash of war commentary in it…I think it was also far less Anti-American than any of the films it is grouped in with. “In the Valley of Elah” and “Lions for Lambs” both did well — 3 times better internationally — but both made disappointing amounts of money for the amount of screens they were on.
It’s hard to find pro-American movies in the past decade to draw comparison. “Vantage Point” is one of the few that come to mind (although it could be dismissed for the same reasons as “The Kingdom”), and it made twice as much as “Lions for Lambs” did internationally.
Oddly enough, something like “24″ enjoys success both here and internationally.
I feel sorry for poor Mexican villagers who come to the US to work hard to try to support their families.
But Why the heck should I feel sorry for an Aussie. Last time I looked, they weren’t exactly living in poverty…
as for the Iranians and Koreans: Many of the are proud to become US Citizens…including those who took the oath with my adopted son. Why paint them as not caring?
I feel sorry for the poor Mexican villagers who come to the US to work hard to support their families, too. And if they got here illegally, I’ll feel bad about sending them back. Sometimes we have to do things that we don’t much like for the long-range good. A significant percentage of illegal immigrants are not here to work hard or to support their families. They come for the free goodies. And when the goodies aren’t good enough, they turn to crime. It’s an easy transition, since their mere presence here is a crime to start with. There’s a big difference between being compassionate and being a sucker. It’s the difference between inviting someone to be a house guest, and coming home to find a dozen squatters in your living room.
Harrison Ford is over the hill. Illegal immigration must be ended and reversed.
Maybe, so as to increase the film’s domestic b.o. potential, they could shoot and edit in a crowd-pleasing scene in which the ungrateful foreign gal who “defends the 9/11 hijackers” is killed on the spot by an outraged citizenry.
I live next to DC, the city in which Chandra Levy was killed in Rock Creek Park by an illegal alien who should have been behind bars or deported. Did that make it in the movie? I’m guessing no. Unfortunately, when you import poor people from a third world country, its not like the movie Trading Places where they suddenly become good upstanding members of society. Most live in poverty, crime, chaos, etc and so do their children, and unfortunately we don’t know how to deal with just the problems we have, let alone eradicate poverty for the whole world.
The good news is that the world isn’t divided into Marxist class structures. Any person, just on their own, can get an education and some work and lift themselves out of poverty. It’s easier in this country than in some others, but possible in any country, and Mexico actually has *higher* GDP growth than the US since 1995 and low inflation.
When immigrants say that they are “proud to be an AMERICAN” 65% of them are QUESTIONABLE because they CRITCIZE OUR CONSTITUTION!!!
Illegal aliens are consistently portrayed with more sensitivity than American troops, and it’s not just in the movies.
You ever notice that if a serviceman commits a crime, the fact that he’s in the armed forces is announced in the story’s headline? Yet try to find out that Chandra Levy’s killer was an illegal alien—it’s not even mentioned in the body of the story.
Santa Anna said they would take back Texas without firing a shot. He was correct, and we are losing. You know it is amazing that he could predict this, and it is like he could see the future. Did he know we would turn into a Socialist Country?
David Thomson, Chris: I looked up a few movies on the Box Office Mojo database and I did find that several movies with anti-American themes collected more revenue in foreign markets than in the USA. “Redacted” made 92% of its revenue overseas; “Rendition”, 64%; “In the Valley of Elah”, 77%; “Lions for Lambs”, 76%; “Bowling for Columbine”, 63%; “Fahrenheit 9/11″, 46%; “JFK”, 66%.
Foreign sales outweighing domestic sales does not, of course, make a movie profitable any more than the opposite would. A director who wants to “make a statement” or “send a message” by portraying the Iraq War as one big Abu Ghraib might still fail to sell a profitable number of tickets and DVD’s to foreigners more interested in seeing Steven Seagal beat the daylights out of somebody and seeing as much of Sharon Stone’s skin as possible.
It is shameful how the Democrats see illegal immigrants as just another group whose support they can capture in its entirety.
Anyone want to hazard a guess as to the number of illegal immgrant votes that were cast and accepted last November?
And don’t forget to add ACORN into the mix…
http://trackacrat.com/?s=honorary
What’s that smell? Oh, just another Hollywood stinker.
Why can’t these buffoons figure out that we want to be inspired by the greatness that is this country rather then be depressed by their lefty version of how bad this country is. Boo-who. I’m predicting another under a million movie here. Don’t these dorks want to make money?
Let my bleeding heart drip on all of you:
It IS a drag to haul people trying to work out of their jobs and away from their kids. Especially when i see streets infested with droves of white and black (but almost never hispanic) mendicants, each pestering passersby and drivers for money. The hispanics are hard workers by an large, and good people. They won’t insist you wear a burkah, they don’t pray 5 times in the middle of the work day. They work a full day and they enlist in the military in sizeable numbers. We may need their help to oppose other ethnic groups who are not so accomodating and are also giving birth in large numbers.
The time to “stop them at the boarder” was in the past: its gone; Clinton ignored it; so did George W. Its too bad they got here in such numbers: but they are here: they work here; their kids are US citizens. Only a heartless automaton or federal official–OK same thing–would not care. Only an idiot thinks its possible to expell them all.
There is no way the government is going to send “tham all back.” And news flash: we have a sizeable number of US citizens with illegal parents: what do you want those kids to do when they are enlistment age? When they vote? WHo wants to split their loyalties? Not me.
Forget the “old days” –the italians and irish etc were an ocean away: the mexicans are not. The boarder is one big Ellis Island with open gates. The feds let that happen.
Its a problem that might be eased if we taxed remittances to Mexico (its money people send back to their families-26 billion a year to mexico alone). That money could make up for some of the enormous losses imposed on the iddle class here. But no one has proposed that.
They are here: we need to co-opt them into the system; teach english; teach US history; yes, we need to tighten the boarder. But the federal government’s “johnny come lately” approach is absurd; like all draconian efforts, too little, too late. The time to act was in the 90′s and the last 8 years.
This movie sounds about how I feel. And i bet how all you would feel if you saw it in real life. Nothing is going to change the fact that they are HERE; lots of their kids are US citizens; we let it happen (probably all that wasted effort opposing gay marriage and abortion, instead of focusing on immigration).
If the GOP wants to get their votes, let the GOP recognize that it won’t get them by listening to the same short-sighted people that got us into this mess: the ones that diluted conservative voices with religiouos messages– anti-abortion planks decades after Roe, and opposing gay marriage. The hispanic community is socially conservative: 70% of the hispanic parents in LA supported english only instruction. Reach out now tot he parents and the kids; ensure a GOP mahority tomorrow. Keep up this whining about the past and you’ll be whining tomorrow too.
PS: Jack #34: look on the bright side: those movies help ease the balance of payments deficit.
Mr. Bleeding Heart (#37) is just that, a bleeding heart with no clue. Do you know that many of the Mexican Americans in Texas want the boarder to be secured and they do not want the illegal’s coming across right now, and do you know why?
There are a few reasons, but many Illegal’s are murderers and many are selling drugs to their children, and look up the number of crimes on Mexican Americans by illegal aliens. Many are not willing to lose their jobs to any Illegal Aliens, and I cannot blame them.
I agree with one thing you said, they are hard workers, the honest decent hard working Mexican Americans, but many of them running across our boarder is not, they are in gangs and are drug addicts and involved with the same underworld that is causing all of the trouble at our boarder daily.
I am certainly not condemning the hard working Mexican Americans, but I refuse to condone the Democratic view of allowing them to run across and take over our State by committing ruthless crimes against our citizens. Many of the citizens in danger are of Mexican heritage and feel as I do.
That movie looks like it will be another stinker staring Harrison Ford and I will not waste a dime on it. The Holly-weird crowd have gotten out of hand, and people wonder why we watch TCM channel, well if we have time to watch a movie give us “Jeremiah Johnson” over some Sean Penn crap any day.
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BROTHER, I’M IN COMPLETE ACCORD WITH YOU – I COULDN’T HAVE
STATED IT BETTER MYSELF !
S.M.
#38: Tonya
I’ll drip some more on you, and please read what I posted before you dismiss me as a clueless, soft-hearted open-borders softie. I am a charter member of the “Sean Penn Sucks” club (except for “Fast Times at Ridgment High” where he was outstanding).
I didn’t say not to secure the border: I’m all for it. Yesterday! Last year! Ten years ago! Not having it secure is what caused the entire problem to mushroom. And I am all for locking up violent crimials whoever they are and possibly deporting illegals instead of paying to support them (my reluctance to deport them is for fear they’ll get out at home and come back).
I am though, synpathetic to the plight of ahrd working law-abiding illegals here (who obey the law once here), who have had kids that are now US citizens, and who work and do not commit crimes. I assume you are too: yes they need to pay taxes and not be paid in cash (that’s a problem with employers who like cheap labor–lets get after them!). Yes they need to be taught english.
But for me, the feds move to arrest and deport a few thousand aliens who have lived here for years is silly. They should secure the border first. Those arrests are just for show.
And lest you think rounding trhem up is good for the US lets think: in the midwest the feds rounded up Mexican illegals at a meat plant. Their replacements…..muslim workers who now insist on the right to praty 5 times a day, and who have replaced the Mexican workers. A good result? not from where I sit.
Excuse me, I have to go to yoga and eat some sprouts.
#40 Blackwell, do you know of the Drug War going on at the Texas Boarder right now?
There is a drug war in Mexico right now, and the Drug Dealers are killing the Mexican Police, and it is spilling out into our Boarder towns.
I am a charter member of the Secure Our Texas Boarder Today. Not yesterday, not last week, not years ago, but TODAY.
I agree with many things you wrote, except we must secure our boarder today.
I liked “Fast Times At Ridgmont High” too, but nothing else staring the whiner.
#41: I agree: seal it. Grant more liberal immunity to border agents and criminalize the behavior of groups that leave water and food in the desert for crossers (aiding and abetting and inducing others to risk their lives).
Yes I am aware of the drug war at the border. How could I not be aware of it? Its disgraceful and scary. Worse, with the economy in the tank, our manufacturers going under, and a free fire zone at the borders, we still have people insisting the country’s top priorities ought to be opposing gay marriage, raiding pot stores and harassing fun-loving guys like Elliot Spitzer.
Do you remember any of the old Cowboy movies where the outlaw is riding his horse as fast as he can to get to Mexico so he will be safe from the Posse?
Today the ironic twist is that the Mexican outlaws are running as fast as they can to get away from the Mexican Authorities. They are running as fast as they can straight to Texas. They are wanted in Mexico for murder, crimes, drug dealing and they are running straight to our towns.
Now that would be a funny comedy that would be true to life and they could get a really good young Actor that could pull it off like Cheech did back in his youth, and it would be hilarious. It is politically incorrect for Holly-weird to tell the truth today. I say the truth would make a good comedy up on the big screen.
Harrison Ford would not be in this movie, because it would star Mexican Americans.
That cowboy comparison is one of the funniest things anyone has ever said on this blog. “Its the cops! Quick! Let’s high tail it to Estados Unitos! We can hide out in texas till all this blows over.”
The individual states have a self defeating issue with money in the Stimulus/Omnibus, when our elected Senators and Congressman promote illegal immigration. For instance when you have a budget deficit of $47Billion dollars with not much to show for the drain, this extraordinary amount must be going somewhere? Look no further than the policies of “Sanctuary Cities” in the state of California. They have an open border state assembly, judges, mayors and elected officers, that spend your money on free social services for illegal immigrants. Yes! Our immigration system of laws are broken, mainly because the 1986 Simpson/Mazzoli law have never been enforced correctly? The prisons are overflowing, schools are far below average performance and many clinics and hospitals that thrived have closed down.
The powers in Washington have done everything to undermine any new illegal immigration prevention law. One reason is for propagation of the free trade treaties, but the unquestionable movement of cheap labor for the corporate overseer’s of our puppet politicians. We are after all a nation run with a minority of corporate elitists. Wall street plays a major roll in how our country is run, and displayed its greed with the AIG bonuses disclosed in the Stimulus/Omnibus Another massive controversy is the arrogance of Democratic leaders lawmakers who killed the Federal E-verify system of identifying people in the workplace, who illegal and had no right to jobs.
American Workers each day are inundated by foreign nationals in competition, at unskilled, blue collar and even to the management class. E-Verify has been subjected to adverse assessments, by its critics with everything to gain from its destruction. The question is, why send the American people, grandchildren to the poorhouse, when we could remove 40 million (analysis of Heritage Foundation) quartered here. We underwrite with hundreds of billions of cash benefits and services that should only be for legal masses. Blame Madam Pelosi, Sen. Reid and 48 other legislators who are playing havoc with American worker, by denying ongoing funding for E-verify. It is our only efficient, easy access tool to remove the blemish of so-called undocumented workers.
Read all the ignoble facts kept away from the public view at NUMBERSUSA, JUDICIALWATCH, CAPSWEB. Call your Senator–DEMAND E-VERIFY. 202-224-3121
What part of “illegal immigrant” do people not understand? They are here illegally. I am tired of seeing signs on houses in Tucson- “Humanitarian Aid is Never a Crime” because I know that they do not understand that it is an invasion. We “took”, “won”, “bought” the Southwest from Mexico and they are taking it back, plus more. Yes, a lot of them are hard workers, and yes, a lot of them are criminals. Actually, they are all criminals if they are here illegally. The dumbing down of public schools and of our country is a result of this invasion. I know there is no easy solution, and I also understand the diversionary tactics of abortion and gay marriage, to deflect attention from the more vital issue of this invasion. And politicians can definitely cut the crap that they do jobs that Americans won’t do. That is BS, Americans used to do those jobs and would still do those jobs, and those jobs would even pay better, maybe even a living wage.
As for Hollywood- 99.99% of what comes out of there is bilge- propogandisc bilge. Thank God for TCM. My sons told me that for punishment they woud make me watch color movies.
We have to start putting America and our citizens first for once. We can’t just let millions of people illegally invade our country and take our jobs and leach off our gemerous free medical and schooling services. That’s one of the main reasons why our healthcare and education is so terrible and expensive compared to the rest of the developed world.
It’s especially appalling in these tough economic times when millions of Americans have lost their jobs and can’t provide for their families. And we’re just going to stand idly by and let these illegal aliens take jobs that supposedly “Americans just won’t do.” Since when did Americans start refusing to take jobs in construction work and house painting? I’m pretty sure Americans are PERFECTLY WILLING to take those jobs. But they can’t because illegal aliens are doing them for $20 a day.
This entire illegal aliens crisis is absurd. Republicans won’t do anything about it because they’re deathly afraid of being called racists. And democrats won’t do anything about it because they know these illegal aliens will vote democrat for generations. I really wish the next Republican presidential candidate would grow a pair and make tackling illegal immigration one of his top priorities. The entire country, left and right, would RALLY behind them and they’d win in a landslide.
And crap like this from Hollywood just brainwashes our entire country into supporting things which harm our nation. I’m sick of it. Yeah, let’s allow 15 million people to just randomly run into our country without any idea who they are. Brilliant idea. A lot of these people have low IQs and no skills and join violent gangs which kill people and sell drugs. They’re a drain on our society. It’s also a huge security risk.
I wish we had a sane attitude towards illegal immigrants like Australia has. If you enter Australia illegally they throw you into a detention facility out in the middle of a desert. Where you’re held until they can swifty send you back to your country of origin. We need to do the same exact thing.
#47 Blackwater
“I really wish the next Republican presidential candidate would grow a pair and make tackling illegal immigration one of his top priorities. The entire country, left and right, would RALLY behind them and they’d win in a landslide. ”
There is a Congressman from Texas with big ones and he is a good one, one of the good ones. His name is Congressman Ted Poe R-Texas.
When he was Judge he made the bad guys hold signs up saying their crimes, he is tough as nails and I wish he could be President.
Look him up and read what this Representative of Texas does for the good guys like us.
I am a fan of Ted Poe, and when he was just a Judge my husband used to say “That guy should be President” and I agree.
Why can’t we have more good guys like him in Washington?
The solution for immigration is very easy. If you have a degree from an American school or you’re willing to invest US$25K in an American home or business, and can pass an English test and prove no criminal history, then you can come to the US legally. Otherwise, the second you try to buy nachos at 7-11 and can’t prove status then you will be jailed for three months and then deported. Liberals will do absolutely anything to avoid having anyone, either inside this country or outside, shoulder some responsibility for their situation and then dare to call you a racist when you point out that basic fact.
This is cinematic agitprop,designed to prepare the ground for Obama’s amnesty,and the Acorn-led mobilization of illegals.The purpose is to create another bloc of welfare-leeches(democrat voters),and consolidate Obama’s libtard empire.
One feature of illegal immigration – and for that matter some legal immigration – is that usually the people who arrive are willing to work hard at often menial and low-paid tasks to thus establish themselves, perhaps even becoming model citizens.
However their offspring grow up to find few jobs for them in this “new land” and soon exhibit a sense of alienation. With nothing to occupy them in the way of work or a chance to share in what they see as a prosperity denied, they yearn for their “old culture” which, taken second or third hand, they romanticize. In turn, when frustrated, these kids reject their parents’ adopted inclusion and as a consequence develop social problems, maybe even turn to crime.
Efforts are then funneled into social cohesion; increasing amounts of money and resources are handed over to try to contain trouble, but without a viable or effective solution. Ghettos spring up, language starts to become a barrier and resentment among the settled population grows.
Somehow all this escapes governments, but why am I not surprised?