1. Free medical care for my entire family. |
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This is a product of the fact that hospitals' cannot deny treatment for lack of ability to pay. The emotional argument could be turned around if you got mugged, your wallet stolen, and stabbed in the throat so you couldn't talk, you'd hardly want to be held up in the emergency room while doing charades to communicate what insurance you have. If the counter-argument is that you'd be held up anyways due to a full emergency room with non-emergency cases, see below.
If the complaint (which isn't specific at all since the chain email is so passive aggressive) is some non-emergency medicaid/medicare type program, ideally we would want all persons residing here to receive adequate preventative medicine. One, to prevent non-emergency cases from filling emergency rooms (or to complicate to the point of being emergency - think diabetes cases loosing extremities). Two, to prevent a general lack of healthiness from causing disease to spread the the rest of the population. Three, even for those "less that optimally documented", the economy is bolstered by healthy workers. Most likely the "family" will be 2nd generation and will grow up to be or as citizens. I'd like them to be healthy and educated.
2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services
I might need, whether I use them or not. |
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Without citation, these are all hard to argue against. For example here, there should be some capability for the government to communicate with people with different language needs, perhaps in the case of emergency services on a readily available basis. This is what comes of living in a melting pot, with all the advantages that brings.
3. All Mexico government forms need to also be printed in English. |
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Ehh, in the near future, all forms should be online/electronic, so just throw them through a translation service.
4. I want my kids to be taught Spanish
by English-speaking (bi-lingual) teachers. |
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Maybe Helen Keller could be taught language with no common basis for communication, but I'd like to think since we have an easier way, we'd teach in the described manner. Also, see #1, these 2nd generation immigrants being educated would be better for us then them not being so.
5. Schools need to include classes on American culture and history. |
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Seeing as we are their "neighbor to the north", I'd assume some amount would be necessary.
6. I want my kids to see the American flag on one of the flag poles
at their school. |
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Well, yeah, obviously not this. If this is referring to the Montebello School incident, this was not standard policy but a protest action.
7. Please plan to feed my kids at school for both breakfast and lunch. |
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8. I will need a local Mexican driver's license so I can get easy
access to government services. |
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Or maybe to drive?
9. I do plan to get a car and drive in Mexico, but, I don't plan
to purchase car insurance,
and I probably won't make any special effort to learn local traffic laws. |
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Expect fines if you're caught, same as everybody else that makes that decision?
Ironically, the desire not have the government communicate brought up in points #2 & #3 would contribute to this problem.
10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo
from their president to leave me alone,
please be sure that every patrol car has at least one English-speaking officer. |
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Once again, no citation. The Gates incident?
If the local services were dealing with a large minority I think they should adapt to better service both the minority and so the majority.
11. I plan to fly the U.S. flag from my house top, put U S. flag decals on my car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th. I do not want any complaints or negative comments from the locals. |
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This happens. If given a chance integration happens.
In case that link doesn't go through it's a cite from Italian-American Folklore By Frances M. Malpezzi, William M. Clements pg 107.
In 1909, Columbus Day became a legal holiday. New York Italian Americans staged three parades that year--two in Brooklyn and one in Manhattan, the latter characterized by the New Your Times as "the most brilliant parade ever given by Italians in this city." Italian residents of the East Side also marked the occasion on a domestic level: "Not a window in the Italian districts but held an Italian or American flag. And in many a window was the picture of Columbus."
Notice Italian flags. Somehow Italian-Americans are a well integrated part of the American melting pot.
12. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, or have any labor or tax laws enforced on any business I may start. |
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Without a cite, I have no idea what's being argued. But from some short research this doesn't seem to be the case.
Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social Security With Billions
By paying U.S. taxes, illegal migrants risk deportation
Not having labor or tax laws apply seems just plain wrong. Unless it's some weird multinational conglomerate issues, where the problem is a loophole.
13. Please have the president tell all the Mexican people to be extremely nice and never say a critical things about me or my family,
or about the strain we might place on their economy. |
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Ehh.
Also, OMG! Red text!
Peace,
[fugacity]
