Comments on: Illegal immigrants are terrorists?

By: Patrix

Patrix — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:12:09 +0000

Ashutosh, no re baba! Sorry not required. Your anger was justified.

By: Ashutosh

Ashutosh — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:10:48 +0000

Sorry…I WAS really pissed off. It really gets on your nerves when politicians continue to spew nonsense under the guise of responsible, self-righteous moralising. Please feel free to delete the comment.

By: Patrix

Patrix — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:25:11 +0000

Ashutosh, you seem really pissed off. But I see no reason why you shouldn’t be. You’re right about the crime stats too. Next time they use that argument, someone should just use a bar graph to show the comparison. Prolly people will understand it then.

By: Ashutosh

Ashutosh — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:28:29 +0000

Oh, and everybody conveniently forgets that the per capita rate of crime is more among citizens than illegal immigrants, isn’t it?

By: Ashutosh

Ashutosh — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:26:07 +0000

Tancredo says, “I am saying this because someone needed to say it”. Yes, there was a reason nobody said it before Tom, because it was f**** retarded. Despicable.

By: Patrix

Patrix — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:10:15 +0000

Ujval, I guess Spitzer had proposed this measure as well i.e. to have three levels of drivers licenses, the third one being applicable for immigrants whose status is undocumented. Most people often don’t understand that the states aren’t meant to enforce any kind of immigration policy and are only expected to process requests from anyone that needs them. Asking everyone to prove their citizenship before rendering services would in fact be unconstitutional.

Sampada, heh. Mil jayega. As the compounder said to the people waiting in the doctor’s reception area, please be patients.

By: Sampada

Sampada — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:04:40 +0000

Patrix, that it just evil!

By: Ujval Gandhi

Ujval Gandhi — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:12:15 +0000

Patrix - Most of the people who come here have some sort of state id - like most have have a Mexico issued state id. They should make a second level of id which could be like a counter-sign by an american state authority. You are right, everywhere insurance rates are up because of the illegal drivers in nearly every state. but then the people who make the policies dont make the insurance payment, right ?

By: Patrix

Patrix — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:18:32 +0000

Sampada,

I was really hoping for the illegal immigrants’ driver’s license thing to work.

But you are a legal immigrant. Sorry, couldn’t resist :)

By: Sampada

Sampada — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:08:49 +0000

You just end up looking xenophobic which you just might be.

There is totally xenophobia at play here… very reminiscent of Nazis and Hitler and sticking to one race.

I was really hoping for the illegal immigrants’ driver’s license thing to work. But of course, it was obvious that it was going to fail!

By: Patrix

Patrix — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:23:52 +0000

Ujval, True. And am glad you brought it out. The illegals are anyway freaked out to avail of any legal or official services or channels. Texas has one of the highest rate of uninsured drivers thereby jacking up the rates of those who do buy it. Making them get insurance would actually make economic sense to most.

But most people liken giving them few documents to condoning their illegal status. Although no one talks about it, I strongly feel xenophobia is at play here.

By: Ujval Gandhi

Ujval Gandhi — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:14:25 +0000

Patrix - One more issue (Biased view since I work in auto insurance). With illegal immigrants not being given licenses, a lot of them drive without appropriate coverage or in several times no coverage at all. Having some sort of license information on them would at least allow them to get insurance protection. Very sad that the entire safety issue got buried in politics.