Originally posted by: tom
Candy - what are we supposed to do with the 8+m that biden let into the country? Most are living in tents , hotels and on the streets. They don't speak English & have limited education. How about the illegals that just raped two 13 year olds in Queens, the illegal who just cut up a 12 year old girl, the illegal who killed the mother of 5 & the illegal truck driver who killed a driver. All this happened this week.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ny-migrant-crisis-spending-which-is-at-nearly-2-billion-is-unsustainable-gov-says/ar-AA1j6QRX
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/nyregion/adams-nyc-migrants-cost.html
I'm aware of all that. Wish I could wave a magic wand.
I can only quote something I read today and have no better words:
"We live in an era defined and overwhelmed by grievance--by too many Americans' obsession with how they've been wronged and their insistence on wallowing in ire. This anger relects a pessimism that previous generations didn't feel. The ascent of identity politics and the influence of social media...are better at inflaming us than uniting us. They promote a self-obsession at odds with community, civility, comity and compromise." Sad, but IMHO true. [Italics are mine.]
BTW, just yesterday a lone gunman opened fire at a grocery store in a small town in my state. Killed 3, including a small child. Injured 10, conditions from stable to critially ill now. He was shot by police before he could do more damage, survived and identified. NOT an "illegal", BTW. The grocery store is the only one in the city, a major source of jobs and groceries for the town. It is closed, of course, probably for days/weeks, and low likelihood of being able to bounce back from the loss of revenue.
How many readers and link posters have been personally involved/affected by some of those 'living in tents, hotels, and on the streets"? Not that I doubt the truth of those news links (though now I have to have a grain of doubt as to the full veracity of many of those).
Surely nobody believes that all crime is committed by illegal migrants, and none by American citizens.
Candy