If this country is sooooo bad, then why are so many trying to come here from other countries???

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Looks like nobody's trying to immigrate to West Virginia.

Because they can bitch without getting shot or thrown in jail...
U know all the illegals protesting was an eye opener..
But i'm white and keep my mouth shut for fear of being a racist... JOKES!

Many Europeans no longer want to come here, the Irish in particular. 100 years ago, they came in DROVES.

Originally Posted by Viper Pilot

If this country is sooooo bad, then why are so many trying to come here from other countries???

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They could be from various countries that have been destroyed by US foriegn policy in the past 30 years.

Colonise the colonisers!

We certainly wouldn't want to live in the US. It's not even on our list of places to visit anymore, now that they've started fingerprinting and photographing everyone who comes in. As a foreign visitor on holiday, I think I deserve to be treated with a bit of dignity, and respect; not as a criminal, in the same way that I'll treat the country I'm visiting with dignity and respect.
We took a holiday in South America last year - we could have flown via the US (with a US airline) and spend a few days there on the way over, or the way back, or both, visitng different cities. That was certainly an option which we looked at., and we did that the last time we visited South America. Instead this time we flew direct from Europe on a European airline.

Now that the present US administration has removed the welcome mat for visitors on holiday, we won't be going there anymore. Sorry.

Originally Posted by dll932

Many Europeans no longer want to come here, the Irish in particular. 100 years ago, they came in DROVES.

I Pick up a Irish couple not to long ago hitching out of new Orleans
I didn’t ask them for there papers
But I did drive them to a shelter...

There here and in larger numbers then you might think
Don’t know much about Ohio...
I mean they have good food coffee jazz, blues a slacker culture?

New Orleans is like a magnet for these folks..

They don't have the same mindset of there fathers 100 years ago

Most of the one's I meet a little 80s tune goes of in my head

Singing
My europeans wants to party all the time party all the time...

Nobody really says the U.S. is soooo bad. Use of the phrase and many others like it ('liberals hate america" etc.) is a crude attempt to demonize those who oppose present U.S. policy. The technique is invariably used by those who support the policies.

That's pretty much the same point I was going to make. This whole thread is based on a shameless strawman argument.

Maybe a shock, NORITE, but I don't give a flip whether you come or not. Just for giggles, though, where are you from? So I can make a big deal out of not going there, either. England, maybe?

howell

Yeah, he's sure missing a lot by not visiting the exotic tropical paradise of Beaumont, Texas.

It doesn't matter where he lives because the Bush administration is offending tourists from everywhere, and it makes a bit more difference to the economy of my neighborhood than it does to yours.

Originally Posted by dll932

Many Europeans no longer want to come here, the Irish in particular. 100 years ago, they came in DROVES.

100 (and 100+) years ago they were coming as indentured workers working on the railroads, mines, canals, etc.

Originally Posted by norite

We certainly wouldn't want to live in the US. It's not even on our list of places to visit anymore, now that they've started fingerprinting and photographing everyone who comes in. As a foreign visitor on holiday, I think I deserve to be treated with a bit of dignity, and respect; not as a criminal, in the same way that I'll treat the country I'm visiting with dignity and respect.
We took a holiday in South America last year - we could have flown via the US (with a US airline) and spend a few days there on the way over, or the way back, or both, visitng different cities. That was certainly an option which we looked at., and we did that the last time we visited South America. Instead this time we flew direct from Europe on a European airline.
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Hope you had a great time in South America
They do need it more then we do
The future devolvement of that part of America is a key interest of we North Americans
We hope to see it flourish over the next 100 years …it is a diamond in the ruff..

I have my own little personal boycott of France has been going on for some 5 years now
I know it's not much but the last B2B meeting I went to I think we where at the 100 million dollar mark
I know it's chump change…But I do understand the power of Money and I keep a Promise..

Originally Posted by Usta Bee

100 (and 100+) years ago they were coming as indentured workers working on the railroads, mines, canals, etc.

Most of them came in hopes of more work than where they were from. That's not a problem anymore.