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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Which Part of Temporary Don't They Understand?

From: AP Wire

MIAMI - The Bush administration has decided to extend special temporary U.S. residency for Central Americans for another 12 months, a spokeswoman for Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said Wednesday.

The decision means hundreds of thousands of Central Americans will not have to return home when their Temporary Protected Status ends next month.

The U.S. provided temporary legal residence and authority to work in this country to Nicaraguans and Hondurans after Hurricane Mitch in 1998 and to Salvadorans following a devastating earthquake in 2001. That status has been renewed several times.

The residency was due to expire this year amid criticism that the program was never meant to be permanent.

But Central American leaders and several members of Congress have been pushing for a renewal. Immigrants and their advocates say allowing the special status to expire would devastate not only these individuals but also their families - and the Central American nations - who count on the billions of dollars the immigrants earn in the United States and send home.
MJ and I were just discussing this and she likened the view of the rest of the world as little piglets who see us as nothing but a great big money tit. I am furious about this, goddamit! Let's consider the name of the program.

"Temporary legal residence" doesn't the name say it all. They needed a place to crash for a while and we helped them out. Now that the time has come they don't want to leave.

Hmmm, what does that remind me of, a guest worker program perhaps?

Some of these people have been here for SEVEN YEARS!!! Seven years, and suddenly they decide they must stay to support their families, where? in their home countries.

This is important. I don't want people here who don't see this as their home except in very small numbers. This will happen every single time we try to "help" people in this fashion. Why in God's name would they want to leave. And of course our race pandering whore of a president cannot say no to any person on the planet willing to demand American citizenship as a right not a privilege.

American citizenship is a precious commodity. Clearly far too precious to entrust in the hands of the race pandering whores that currently inhabit our government like termites, termites that will hollow out the tree of liberty by filling this country with those who call another country home or view America as nothing but a cash tit for them to suck on until they drain it dry.

I'm appalled by this story on a number of levels but here's another. This is like the friend whom you let stay with you and then they won't leave. I'm sure most of us have experienced this, I know I have and I know how hard it was to ask them to leave, but I did and we should. If a country can't get it's act together after SEVEN YEARS maybe they'll never get their act together. Shall we just make everyone on the planet a citizen?

To the lunatics out there that think that's a good idea, please don't answer, it's a rhetorical question.

H/T Immigration News Daily

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