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Originally Posted by Trakehner
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I was just speaking to a girl from Maine yesterday and surprisingly ALL of the stablehands at her barn are hispanic, 10 years ago they didn't even have hispanics in her town. Anyway, what % of these Central American laborers do you think are illegals?
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Probably 99% of them are illegal.
At the risk of being flamed by people like JohnDoe, Howitzer, Botnst and all those haterz I will tell you this anyway:
Listen: I sponsored my wife through this country, and she was from Peru.
She became a Legal Resident. Later decided to become a naturalised US citizen
Did it the legal way. It was a long, tortuous, process (K-1) Visa, huge amounts of doucmentation collected and compiled (The INS is innundated with applications that are fraudulent.), expensive, long waits, fees to pay, one time a lawyer to consult. It takes a long time, but it worked.
Now those people you see (they are everyplace in big cities all over the country), - minimal skills, barely able to speak English, utterly uneducated, decent, good people except for the fact that they knowingly came here illegally, from $hithole of a 3rd world country with no opportunity to get ahead.
Their home countries are GLAD to be rid of them, because they contribute nothing, and are a burden. What they get instead, is Millions and Millions of dollars remitted to their home country.
Places like Nicaragua get 60% or more of their ENTIRE GNP from $$$ remitted by illegals (and legals) that worked in the USA and sent $$$ home. They all did it. Even my wife and I sent $$$ every month to her family in Peru. It is just done, that is how it is. You see the places in every Latin barrio "ENVIE SU DINERO A MEXICO, EL SALVADOR, NICARAGUA. In San Francisco we used "Jet Peru"
Many Americans, and LEGAL immigrants HATE those people. It is because they Jumped The Line. (The legal way to get to the USA - through the INS line. I know how that works. I got someone through it, so I too despise people that jump the line.)
AMERICANS *HATE* LINE JUMPERS. Try it the next time you are in line for the movies, the bank, the supermarket, or in traffic and just see the reaction you get.
The illegals live in a parallel economy. They try to keep a low profile, with fake ID, no insurance, income tax, things like that, and worry about the police and INS (La Migra)
I have been amongst some of them, met them, shared meals with them, been to their apartments. They are just people trying to make a better life that's all. Very hospitable and good people for the most part, if they trust you.
I despise what they are doing, but then if circumstances of biology and geography had put me in their country, with no hope for better, I likely would be tempted to consider it, ((Jumping the Border) myself.
They call going to El Norte, "La Lucha" ("the fight")