Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
This is nothing other than the continuing century-long aftermath of Plutarco Elias Calles. And remember: the “peepup” voted for him. Reject God and persecute His Church, then behold the inevitable results: drug lords and gangsters move in where Jesus is not wanted.
And remember: the “peepup” voted for him.
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General elections in Mexico prior to 1983 were performative.
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Having a gushing immigration pipeline is ill-advised, especially when it is composed of people who are not proficient in English and displace low skill workers. Not sold on the idea that they’re all that resentful. California Chicanos are in favor of the Democratic Party by massive margins. Texas Chicanos are not.
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As for ‘welfare’, please note that about two million people are on the TANF rolls. About twelve million were on the AFDC rolls thirty years ago (when we had a smaller population). About eleven million live in households which receive some sort of housing subsidy (of which about two million are in public housing). The splashy expensive welfare programs for those neither elderly nor disabled are public schools and Medicaid, illiquid benefits which have their counterparts abroad.
Envy-whether on a personal or a collective level-is an ugly thing, and rightly do the Scriptures speak rather bluntly about it and its fruits:
For God created man incorruptible, and to the image of His own likeness He made him. But by the envy of the devil, death came into the world: And they follow him that are of his side. (Wisdom 2:24-25 DR)
Fix your own country; don’t come to ours and then complain about it. And if you do and don’t like it here, rather than riot, just go home.
The reality is the elephant-in-the-room – which is that the gap between wealthy and poor Mexicans is vast andcriminal activity is rampant. The fault lies with their corrupt government – it’s corrupt from the bottom all the way to the very top. You could live a comfortable life n Mexico if you were a corrupt politician. These aren’t the ones crossing the border into the US.
I wonder what happens to people who riot in their home countries …
“Any state government that does not make legal status a condition of receiving state aid will have no federal funding for that particular form of aid.”
If blue states want it, let THEM pay the bill.
“No federal status, no federal aid.”
By the way, lack of ability to support oneself is supposed to be a disqualifier to receiving a green card, but the immigration courts long ago decided that that only referred to aid that was cash in hand and the immigration service no longer even tired to enforce that part of the qualifications. Once again our LAWS are fine, it’s their enforced misapplication that has caused a mess.
I’ve noticed a recurring theme among interviews of English-speaking Hispanic “mostly peaceful” LA protesters/rioters: their insistence that California was somehow stolen from Mexico and therefore, by their ‘logic’ and dubious grasp of history, Mexican nationals cannot be here illegally— they never left ‘Mexico’. It’s the American Californians who are trespassing on Mexican soil, by their reckoning. Hence the waving of the Mexican flag.
That is a recipe for a particularly nasty stew of resentment, racism and violence coming to a boil…