My daughter is now 23. Her best friend from kindergarden on, came to us over a year ago, and told us her family came here illegally from Mexico when she was a baby. She speaks english without any trace of accent. She knew only this country. She never went back to Mexico, so she knew no one there. With all the talk of putting 12 million Mexicans on buses and sending them back, she decided to try and legalize her status. She was told she had to return to Mexico and apply from there. No one could promise how long it would take. We all hoped she’d be given a Visa and be back home in a few days. It took one year. She lived in a strange and foreign country for an entire year, waiting for the letter that would allow her to return here to the country that is as much her’s as it is mine. I admire her so much for the terror she went thru waiting. She is now waiting for her Social Security card and she will be ready to start her first real job. She will then learn to drive and get a driver’s license. I don’t condone illegal workers sneaking into the US, but when a child of illegal immigrants have been here all their lives, lived as model citizens all their lives, they deserve a break. I was so ashamed that this country sent her away like that. It should have been possible to apply for residency while living safely in the only country she’s ever know. Well, she’s home now, and it’s over in her case! We need to help the other offspring who have spent their entire lives here, and not put them through an experience that was both dangerous and so unnecessary!

You failed to mention that these “students” were illegal alieans committing felonies. To have felons on the steps of our capital would be horrid. Obviously they need to be jailed until they can be deported. This isn’t a post, this is a lie by TP to not simply state these are illegals not students.

You can add that delusion to the sea of delusions in which you are already drowning.

Comment by obrienr — October 25, 2007 @ 12:01 am

I guess that wouldn’t be yours, now, would it? You’re a vapid one, even for a rightard.

Comment by obrienr — October 25, 2007 @ 2:02 am

No, I obviously have beaten you into the ground. Nice sidestepping, little girl, but your Eurocentric crap has no basis in fact or history, and has nothing to do with your party’s abject failures over the past century, or the prevailing stupidity of a right wing that would allow a pig like Bush to screw up an entire country, then worship him for it. You have no defense, no matter how you may like to twist facts and history to fit your lame-ass narrative. Y*ou are a loser, without a thought of your own, and you can wear that mantle for the next 50 years or so. You are in the rapidly-falling 24% of idiots who still swallow the GOP crap whole, and you are done, ruined and over. Good riddance.

You have already demonstrated your lack of native intelligence; there is no need to beat it into the ground.

Iraqis? I think you mean Mesopotamians/Sumerians/Babylonians stupid; ‘Iraqi’ is a modern designation. In any event, mathematics was discovered by several different cultures. Europeans, however, are responsible for discovering and developing modern mathematics. The same goes for medicine. You need to read more than coloring books, dude.

Comment by obrienr — October 25, 2007 @ 12:17 am

what’s the difference between them and George Bush, a sociopathic mass-murderer? besides the fact that the Indians had great personal courage, something Bush knows nothing about? You wouldn’t last ten seconds in the native Aemrican world, you pussy.

Comment by O. Bigfoot — October 25, 2007 @ 12:59 am

which repukes talk about, but do nothing to implement. they love tools like you.

Comment by obrienr — October 25, 2007 @ 12:10 am

sorry, iraqis invented math, you idiot. Egyptians invented modern medicine, you tool. You’re a complete idiot, and thanks for proving it.

Yes, if only America could be transported back to the halcyon days of yore, when there were only teepees, dirt, and human sacrifice in Mesoamerica. If I sport a loincloth and warpaint, can I join in your atavistic vision for America?

You would not be on a computer typing this revanchist drivel were it not for Europeans. Also, you should not be driving a car, attending any institutions of higher learning, or going to a hospital to take advantage of modern medicine. (Go to the local medicine man instead!)

They were immigrants too. They immigrated from Asia via the land bridge many thousands of years ago.

Who are you to decide your family was “legal”?

I do not decide; the U.S. Constitution does.

Comment by Chris L — October 24, 2007 @ 6:05 pm

Actually “tancredo” is the yeti word for “complete moron”. So, yes, it’s Li’l Footie’s real name.

Comment by bilbobaggins — October 24, 2007 @ 8:37 pm

I’m just showing my frustration at Democrats attacking their own. Censuring MoveOn, Pelosi spanking Pete Stark…

I’m sick of it.

Comment by Billy Hill — October 24, 2007 @ 8:25 pm

were they excited by your plastic beads, cheap booze, and small pox blankets?

Ok, I’ll bite. Why in hell should Durbin apologize to anyone. It’s Trancredo who should be apologizing.

Comment by Marie — October 24, 2007 @ 6:30 pm

The Eagles song, The Last Resort, comes to mind for me:

She came from Providence,
the one in Rhode Island
Where the old world shadows hang
heavy in the air
She packed her hopes and dreams
like a refugee
Just as her father came across the sea
She heard about a place people were smilin’
They spoke about the red man’s way,
and how they loved the land
And they came from everywhere
to the Great Divide
Seeking a place to stand
or a place to hide

Down in the crowded bars,
out for a good time,
Can’t wait to tell you all,
what it’s like up there
And they called it paradise
I don’t know why
Somebody laid the mountains low
while the town got high

Then the chilly winds blew down
Across the desert
through the canyons of the coast, to
the Malibu
Where the pretty people play,
hungry for power
to light their neon way
and give them things to do

Some rich men came and raped the land,
Nobody caught ‘em
Put up a bunch of ugly boxes, and Jesus,
people bought ‘em
And they called it paradise
The place to be
They watched the hazy sun, sinking in the sea

You can leave it all behind
and sail to Lahaina
just like the missionaries did, so many years ago
They even brought a neon sign: “Jesus is coming”
Brought the white man’s burden down
Brought the white man’s reign

Who will provide the grand design?
What is yours and what is mine?
‘Cause there is no more new frontier
We have got to make it here

We satisfy our endless needs and
justify our bloody deeds,
in the name of destiny and the name of God

And you can see them there,
On Sunday morning
They stand up and sing about
what it’s like up there
They call it paradise
I don’t know why
You call someplace paradise,
kiss it goodbye