Turtletits can have his opinion. I served this country to give him the right to be stupid. He needs to spend about a week with one of our local deputies to see what impact they have had on this community. I'm sure he'll see things in a different light then. If Mexicans or anyone else wants to come to the US, let them go serve in our military for 4 years. I won't have a problem with them being here then.
Too bad HE is not a HE and she is not STUPID. Putting all Hispanics or any other group of people into one category is STUPID!!! Yeah, you served in the military.....YAAAA for you!! Doesn't make you any smarter! As for the Deputies.....I have family members who are in the police force. Are u kidding......
Given there are about as many legal immigrants as illegal immigrants in the state, how does one determine whether they are legal or not by just looking at them? That determination would be the basis for the claim of racism, IMO.
http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=375 Under Siege is based on a survey of 500 low-income Latinos — including legal residents, undocumented immigrants and U.S. citizens — at five locations in the South. The locations were Nashville, Charlotte, New Orleans, rural southern Georgia, and several towns and cities in northern Alabama. The survey findings, coupled with accounts from in-depth interviews, depict a region where Latinos are routinely cheated out of wages by employers and denied basic health and safety protections. They are racially profiled by overzealous law enforcement agents and victimized by criminals who know they are reluctant to report crime to these same authorities. Even legal residents and U.S. citizens of Latino descent said racial profiling, bigotry and other forms of discrimination are staples of their daily lives. A number of immigrants in the survey described the South as a "war zone." "The assumption is that every Latino possibly is undocumented," Angeles Ortega-Moore, an immigrant advocate in North Carolina, told SPLC researchers. "So it [discrimination] has spread over into the legal population." The complete report: http://www.splcenter.org/legal/undersiege/
Then maybe you should ride around with your family members for awhile. I'm sure our Sheriff can give you some insight of the problems in the area.
If they are SO unhappy then they need to go the hell home. I just know that there was hardly any hispanic/latino population in the state 20 years ago. I guess all the legal ones all of a sudden moved to NC.
i have to agree with this - people get a whole different perspective when they are the ones having to enforce the laws and see first hand what is happening - that is what i was told by a law enforcement officer anyway.
Since WV won't answer..... Kaci, you think it's ok to group the entire Hispanic population into one category too? or any group of people based on the actions of one? or are you just agreeing with the ride with the law officer part?
Hey that was good... actually shocked there was no picture to it... you are slipping there young lady...