Discussion: Buses With Migrant Families Rerouted Amid Protest

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USA! USA! USA! FREEDUMB!!!one11!

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Looked like the resistance to desegregation in the 60s…The mayor and his people should be ashamed.

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Typical looking “outrage” crowd: old, white, Medicare, Social Security recipients protesting people “leaching off the government”

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Recycled Headline:
Relocation Decision Sends ‘Shrieking’ Conservatives Into ‘Hysterics’

jw1

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Just wait till they find out ‘Hoverround repair’ isn’t covered under the ACA!

jw1

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1939: cruise ships.
2014: buses.

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Isn’t that Bull Conner in the tie?

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In a related story homeless verterans were trampled by the hillbilly immigration protestors in a hurray to meet the buses.

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As the oligarchs take a bigger and bigger slice of the pie for themselves and divert attention to those less fortunate as the cause of the problems, the easily-distracted masses scrambling for the remaining crumbs are going to get more and more belligerent.

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Yeah, screw those huddled masses yearning to breathe free!

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Thanks for the insight Huey.

jw1

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Being a mean, petty, small-minded dick is a badge of honor to the modern American right wing.

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No. They are human beings. The original “illegals” are the Europeans–the ones who’ve made a mockery out liberty and freedom, with their thieving, enslaving ways. So it’s only natural that their descendants behave so shabbily. The founding fathers certainly didn’t come to these shore legally. And they stole an entire country for the indigenous people and nearly annihilated them. I’d love to see one document from a European immigrant of the 19th and 20th century demonstrating their legal status. All are here illegally and so are their descendants. What a horrible, shameful way to deal with a humanitarian crisis, yet it’s the American way, placing the demands of whites ahead of everything else.

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“The New Colossus” is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–87), written in 1883.[2] In 1903, the poem was engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the lower level of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Those folks waving the flags are not American!

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How about we flip this around. You don’t like them and want them out? Go down there, and volunteer yourself. We’ll take your number of 20-30 you claim we can supposedly fit in our basements, and we’ll make that your goal. So your mission is to go down there, and physically remove 20-30 children from the country, if you feel so strongly that they don’t belong here. Surely you can do that if you’re a big strong REAL CHRISTIAN AMERICAN™. With your Chuck Norris grip and all it should be easy.

Deal? Or are you so cowardly and lazy that you’d rather have big government do the hard work for you?

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[quote] “We can’t start taking care of others if we can’t take care of our own,” protester Nancy Greyson, 60, of Murrieta, told the Desert Sun newspaper. [/quote] Another GOTPer that just doesn’t get it. WE’RE NOT GOING TO TAKE CARE OF AMERICANS! We Have the 51st state (Iraq) to take care of first.

Enough of this sh1t - The National Guard (with the first ten using rubber bullets) should accompany all these buses to/from all facilities. Anyone getting in the way will be head-shot, arrested and imprisoned - just like during the Bush Administration - with no lawyer, no outside contact. Maybe never heard from again.

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Language, language, language! Is this about migrant families (many of whom are US citizens) who have a certain route for picking crops or doing other temporary work OR about undocumented immigrants who are coming in from other countries seeking asylum or a better life?

A curiosity question … was the town of Murrieta named for Joaquin Murrieta, a famous or infamous (depending on point of view) opponent of the US invasion (again depending on point of view) of California? This would be too iranic

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sorry … I hate my computer ! I meant ironic an iranic

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The town of Murrieta was named after two Basque sheep ranchers, the Brothers Esequial and Juan Murrieta who grazed sheep in the area around the turn of the 19th-20th centuries and not the “Mexican Robin Hood”, Joaquin Murrieta.

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