That is a rather nonsensical observation. When a motorist is charged with making an illegal turn it is a violation of the law. They are therefore committing an illegal act. They are then liable.

It is indeed!

[QUOTE=LiverpoolWalrus;1775126]Any time I hear someone say "I suspect" it usually means they are just guessing.

Attachment 84361

The following figures show where these EU immigrants to the US come from. We have divided the EU into four regions.

East: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia

North: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Sweden

South: Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, and Spain
West: Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Looks like 33% came from Eastern Europe, the rest from the North, South and West

Canadians can come down here for 6 months a year to enjoy a nicer climate, they don't need to emigrate and become US citizens.

It is also possible that a native-born American (AKA a real citizen) was TRYING to reach up the ladder for success at a 1st job or better job and it was taken away from them by a legal or illegal intruder whose parent NEVER paid US taxes or served in the US Armed Forces.

Too much snack food, no nutrition classes or knowledge, and little exercise. Not something to brag about.

The "Native American Indians" were also immigrants. The accepted theory is that they migrated across the Bering Straits.

That small amount of tax they pay doesn't even make a dent in the cost this country pays for them living here using our social systems. The law classifies them as illegal aliens regardless of silly, meaningless semantics.

In reality, if you look at a world chart or list of countries, The US is behind the UK at about # 11 in upward mobility. And around 30th in other issues like quality of life. The Scandinavian countries are the best. Canada is also better than the US and much harder to enter.

And how does that change the fact he was here illegally? When you break the law and are caught you have to deal with the consequences. He knew that but chose to ignore the law.

[QUOTE=GoodLife;1775158]I was indeed taking "educated guesses" on both Canada and Eastern Europe. Okay, fair enough that if Canadians just want nicer weather they can get it as snowbirds without emigrating, but let's look at Eastern Europe, according to your data:

Eastern Europe's population cohort is the second smallest of four, but yet they account for the highest share of total EU emigration to the US.

America needed immigration in the frontier days. Now when AI and advanced Robotics fully hit in about 20 years the US will have a permanent 30 to 40 % unemployment. Problem is politicians do not believe it or plan ahead more than the next election.

[QUOTE=LiverpoolWalrus;1775194]Irrelevant. Eastern Europe's percentage of total EU immigrants to USA is 33%. The rest come from other areas. That's not "most"

The US WAS the top country in quality of life from the end of WWII until about 1975 when the slide began. Some have not noticed the sliding board we are all on. All great civilizations have a peak and a slide.

True that!

Yes, very true!

[QUOTE=Bucco;1774833]Seems some must have someone to hate and immigrants are one of the selected. Must make some feel special.[/QUOTE

You are right on.
Racism has been around since the beginning of time, Slavery as well. Slavery still exists in Africa. I m not saying it’s ok but it is unfortunately a part of the human condition.

This is the problem. Not everyone will ever agree on what constitutes fair and equal.

That gave me a good laugh. Keep up the good work!

I agree........:bigbow:

Best humane solution.

Please explain. Millions of illegal immigrants have a "fake" Social Security card, a legitimate job, and pay taxes to the IRS? I know the IRS is not perfect, but I find it difficult to believe they are that incompetent to ignore millions of bogus taxpayer accounts without question. Are millions of people using someone else's SS account and depositing money into their account for someone else's benefit? Whose address do they use? Or, are the SS numbers just made up and the IRS accepts payments into an account that doesn't exist? And, if the SS number is made up, I doubt that the employer would be sending money to the IRS for deposit into an employee's account that doesn't exist. I think they would just keep the money. I also doubt that an illegal immigrant would be filing a tax return using a fake SS number.

And yet another one did not see your sarcasm. Try a different tact next time.

Immigrants
 

Hope is irrepressible. Hope is why immigrants braved the ocean and the processing at Ellis Island. Hope is why so many still come, to work and send money to impoverished family in countries of their birth.

Hope is what makes the Statue of Liberty a beacon of promise.

Hope is something we all have in common.... I understand why they continue to come and why in some cases in the face of unequal treatment and dwarfed opportunity people who are challenged by an imperfect system still have hope.....

It's try a different tack dear.

"To create or decode sarcasm, both the expressers and recipients of sarcasm need to overcome the contradiction (i.e., psychological distance) between the literal and actual meanings of the sarcastic expressions," said author Francesca Gino. "This is a process that activates and is facilitated by abstraction, which in turn promotes creative thinking."

No, they have learned that we offer free housing, food stamps and other entitlements, so they are coming in droves.
Does anyone pay attention to our deficit that funds this? Going to be real ugly one day.

So true. Worth the risk of life all the free (not, we must pay) stuff.

I also like to use sarcasm sometimes to "promote creative thinking." But alas I have found during my many years of participating in online chats that many people seem to take things literally - at face value. Not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing, but I wonder what it says about a predisposition to think creatively.

Did you know that gullible is not in the dictionary?

Now THAT is an excellent example...of being "gullible." :1rotfl:

GULLIBLE (don't click here, or you'll be electrocuted...:D)

Ohiobuckeye
 

Then we can call it, “Morse’s Town”, instead of “Jones Town”, LOL.

Statue of Liberty says it all. And, no, it’s not obsolete.