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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]vs. "invaders"

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"invaders!"
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Why not offer a meal, you racist? Make them your guests.[/quote]

I have hosted undocumented families and also been a guest. Have you? 
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The one time eh? So you can use it as PROOF on a dcum thread.[/quote]

No. We are family friends. They’ve only been in this area once. We’ve shared several meals together there though. They are very generous and hospitality hosts.

And you? 
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Which country do they have more in common with culturally, Mexico or the US?  If they are looking for asylum, in Mexico their children could immediately have school continuity in their L1 language, and they could most likely find work in the same field (unlike Uber drivers here who were doctors in home country). What's going to happen in America is the parents will work manual labor, the family will be susceptible to obesity from junk food and not matriculating from school (where it will take years for the kids to catch up in basic literacy and then English), the gangs and television will be waiting here to raise the kids while the parents work all day. The 2nd/3rd generation might do better, which is really an economic migration story--not asylum. If you really care about the well being of the families whose images you've shared you would support encouraging these families to stay in their own countries and contribute to a better future, or seek "asylum" in Mexico with cultural assimilation, or come here as legal seasonal workers, or have their families here legally sponsor them. If we need to work out new agreements and laws then Congress should get going. But that's the humane approach. Not you hosting one family for a meal in your house. BTW, my family were refugees and relocation took years and years and was devastating to the first generation. This type of migration has a dark side, and people should only undertake it with many supports and if in true and gripping danger--usually from a government agent.[/quote]

Uh no. Your post is full of false assumptions and condescension. No, thanks.

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The majority of the central American "asylum" seekers are unskilled workers, maybe a few shopkeepers etc. They are not doctors and nurses (though as I pointed out, they don't fare that well when they migrate here either unless they are sponsored). Many of the central American immigrants do not have home literacy, much less English language skills. They will have oral Spanish for the most part, which means they could much more easily integrate into the first country of relief-Mexico. If they want to come here to work, send dollars home for building a house, buying a farm, investing in their children's education--then we should expand our guest worker program and they should come without their families. If you admit them as families you are putting a huge strain on our social services and educational services, and it is unlikely the first generation will thrive. The second generation is a roll of the dice. Like all immigration waves, some will do well. Some will be raised by TV and gangs.  I've worked with these children and the teen pregnancy, drop out rate and gang membership (getting "jumped in") in the US is rampant. It happens while the parents work round the clock cleaning your office. The help you are offering isn't necessarily a boon for the child depicted above. Is that the child dining at your house? What more help are you offering?[/quote]

More generalizations, more condescension...

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