A Nun is dead because of an illegal - Maybe AZ does have it right

[Anonymous]

No, I lost my job because my husband had a stroke and I stayed at home to care for him as long as I could and huge medical debts were incurred, which were paid and I did not declare bankruptcy. I'm not feeling sorry for myself and I'm not asking you, or anyone else, for sympathy or weeking and wailing for my misfortune; I'm grateful there was enough money for me to stay with him as long as I could. You should really try to be an bigger ass that you are, I can't imagine that you have reached your zenith.


My point is that you have a lot of nerve to compare your circumstances, which are unfortunate, with the circumstances of people who feel they have no other option but to leave their country and come here to make some money to feed their children. The fact that you had so many options at your disposal in your time of need does not in any way put you on the same level of suffering as the people who come here.

I wish your husband a speedy recovery. And I wish for you to grow a heart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a liberal, but calling a poor person an immoral monster for not moving to the U.S., legally or illegally, is ridiculous. In your attempt to defend the poor, you are stripping them of dignity. There is more to life than to be rich or poor. A good liberal may be against poverty but should not lose sight of that fact.

You may have misread, but I stand by my original point: if you were given an explicit choice between breaking an immigration law and sparing your kids a lifetime of poor health, ignorance, and early death then any human being would break the immigration law in a heartbeat. Many, in fact most pf the worlds poor (including Mexicans and Central Americans) are never given that choice. Immigration--either legal or illegal--is usually an arduous gamble.

And frankly, liberal or no, it sounds as though you're not particularly familiar with actual third-world poverty (and I'm not talking about folks who have a modest apartment and don't go to restaurants, I'm talking about folks who don't have access to potable water). There's absolutely nothing dignified about it.

The fact that it's both official Mexican *and* unofficial US policy to encourage illegal immigration makes it even more ridiculous to blame undocumented aliens who come to our country.

I did two stints in the slums of Haiti. I think it is you who needs to learn about poverty.

[Anonymous]

Nuns decry focus on immigration status of driver in fatal Va. crash

The religious order that was home to three nuns whose car was hit Sunday morning by an alleged drunk driver in Northern Virginia said it is upset at what it views as the politicization of the incident.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/03/AR2010080302519.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nuns decry focus on immigration status of driver in fatal Va. crash

The religious order that was home to three nuns whose car was hit Sunday morning by an alleged drunk driver in Northern Virginia said it is upset at what it views as the politicization of the incident.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/03/AR2010080302519.html

Well, that kind of puts a cap on this post, doesn't it?

[Anonymous]

OP, I hope you get deported.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, I lost my job because my husband had a stroke and I stayed at home to care for him as long as I could and huge medical debts were incurred, which were paid and I did not declare bankruptcy. I'm not feeling sorry for myself and I'm not asking you, or anyone else, for sympathy or weeking and wailing for my misfortune; I'm grateful there was enough money for me to stay with him as long as I could. You should really try to be an bigger ass that you are, I can't imagine that you have reached your zenith.

My point is that you have a lot of nerve to compare your circumstances, which are unfortunate, with the circumstances of people who feel they have no other option but to leave their country and come here to make some money to feed their children. The fact that you had so many options at your disposal in your time of need does not in any way put you on the same level of suffering as the people who come here.

I wish your husband a speedy recovery. And I wish for you to grow a heart.

Thank you. Unfortunately, my husband died. Also, I already have a very generous heart and nature. I have my beliefs and you have your beliefs and, as Americans, we are entitled to our own opinions and beliefs. I don't believe in breaking US immigration laws.

[Anonymous]

It absolutely has to do with immigration status. If people feel ACCOUNTABLE ( a foreign word in the D.C. area, at best), there would be less crime. How would an illegal feel accountable for someone's death, if they live day to day under the radar?

I though the D.C. area was supposed to be progressive and educated. If this thread is any indication, it is naive and despicable.

People in this country should be doing it the right way. As those before them had. It was NOT an option in the past - for a reason. There will be less victims. Why is it okay for your neighbor to have 5 or more aliases? There are criminal networks designed specifically at keeping illegals under the radar because they are up to no good. Why are you in denial? Does this sound safe or reasonable to you? It would have been unheard of for past generations to "get away with" such crimes. Surely you are not that stupid and short sighted. It is not humanitarian to advocate for illegals. It would humanitarian to advocate for those of legal status, for the greater good. Have you any idea at all?

Apparently, the bulk of you have no problem living in a third world country. But my ancestors did not come here for me to live in "America, Another Third World is Good Enough". I would imagine yours did not either. Think about what you advocate. REALLY think about it.

[Anonymous]

"The fact the he had DUIs is really poignant, but he's a child of God and deserves to be treated with dignity," Sister Glenna Smith, a spokeswoman for the Benedictine Sisters, said of the driver. "I don't want to make a pro- or anti-immigrant statement but simply a point that he is an individual human person and we will be approaching him with mercy. Denise, of all us, would be the first to offer forgiveness."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It absolutely has to do with immigration status. If people feel ACCOUNTABLE ( a foreign word in the D.C. area, at best), there would be less crime. How would an illegal feel accountable for someone's death, if they live day to day under the radar?

I though the D.C. area was supposed to be progressive and educated. If this thread is any indication, it is naive and despicable.

People in this country should be doing it the right way. As those before them had. It was NOT an option in the past - for a reason. There will be less victims. Why is it okay for your neighbor to have 5 or more aliases? There are criminal networks designed specifically at keeping illegals under the radar because they are up to no good. Why are you in denial? Does this sound safe or reasonable to you? It would have been unheard of for past generations to "get away with" such crimes. Surely you are not that stupid and short sighted. It is not humanitarian to advocate for illegals. It would humanitarian to advocate for those of legal status, for the greater good. Have you any idea at all?

Apparently, the bulk of you have no problem living in a third world country. But my ancestors did not come here for me to live in "America, Another Third World is Good Enough". I would imagine yours did not either. Think about what you advocate. REALLY think about it.

This part is untrue. Illegal immigration goes back as far as we have had an immigration policy. And that includes illegal immigration from Europe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After his 3rd DUI, a 23 year old illegal killed a nun and critically injured 2 other nuns on their way to church at 8 am

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=2016921

As I wote a few weeks ago, more and more poeple in the court system --nevermind this makes me so sick, this could have been anyones kid that got killed by this person who enterend the country illeglally yet so many people think they should be allowed to stay.

I bet the "illegal" who caused this accident can write better English than OP.

Hardly. I doubt he can even speak English.

Um, that's my point. OP's post was clearly written by someone who is barely literate.

Sigh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I hope you get deported.

THIS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It absolutely has to do with immigration status. If people feel ACCOUNTABLE ( a foreign word in the D.C. area, at best), there would be less crime. How would an illegal feel accountable for someone's death, if they live day to day under the radar?

I though the D.C. area was supposed to be progressive and educated. If this thread is any indication, it is naive and despicable.

People in this country should be doing it the right way. As those before them had. It was NOT an option in the past - for a reason. There will be less victims. Why is it okay for your neighbor to have 5 or more aliases? There are criminal networks designed specifically at keeping illegals under the radar because they are up to no good. Why are you in denial? Does this sound safe or reasonable to you? It would have been unheard of for past generations to "get away with" such crimes. Surely you are not that stupid and short sighted. It is not humanitarian to advocate for illegals. It would humanitarian to advocate for those of legal status, for the greater good. Have you any idea at all?

Apparently, the bulk of you have no problem living in a third world country. But my ancestors did not come here for me to live in "America, Another Third World is Good Enough". I would imagine yours did not either. Think about what you advocate. REALLY think about it.

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FYI--"illegal" is an adjective, not a noun. I don't know why I would expect someone who is so ignorant in one area to have any command of grammar or correct usage, but I keep hoping...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not ignored but I am not a nun or a saint but a person who is fed up with all of this. I will go call the nuns in the school I went to and tell them I let them down.

Are you talking about being fed up with people with multiple DUI's back on the road drinking and driving again? Because I am too. I had friends and people I went to High School with die because of drunk drivers. While I was in High School! They were just kids! And most the time, the person that did it, was back on the road coming home from a bar a few days later. I think THAT is what we need to focus on, the DUI laws and how they don't even get a slap on the wrist anymore!

I admit, anytime there is anything about ANYONE getting killed by a drunk driver I get very emotional, it is something I had to deal with alot when I was younger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

People in this country should be doing it the right way. As those before them had. It was NOT an option in the past .

Some of my forebears were illegal emigrants. They left home against the laws of their country, to come and make a better home for themselves. Should all of us, the product of 8 or 9 generations, return to where our ancestors came from, because they didn't "do it the right way"? Or perhaps WE get a pass, because our family's crimes were committed longer ago. How convenient for all us white folks. I'm not sure what imaginary "past" you're talking about, but I think if you look far enough back, and deport everyone whose ancestor broke a law to get here, the U.S. will get pretty quiet.

Oh! I also have ancestors who claimed to be something they weren't-- white-- because those American laws, of which you're so proud, denied them the right to live on the land they had called home since long before the white men stormed these shores. Perhaps I should shuffle myself off to a reservation, where my kind belongs. After all, the LAW was broken when my native american great-great-(great?)grandfather lied on his Homestead Act application.

You should be very glad that you will be long dead in 200 years, when our current immigration policy is viewed as an embarrassing and backwards and inhumane part of our history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I hope you get deported.

THIS.[/quote]

What does "THIS" mean?