Mr. Trancedo is totally right, just walk down S.W. 17th avenue and 5th street or any are within a 6 mile radius of that point any time of day or night , and you'll be in a hellish cesspool of 3rd world latin america.
Miami IS a Third World country! Crime is like that of Mexico City or Port Au Prince, Haiti! Try and find someone who will converse in English in Miami proper! I just left down there and moved to the northern part of the state, and I was never so glad to have someplace in my rearview mirror!!
As happens quite often, the debate is not centered around the real issue. Tom Tancredo's comments, though most likely coming from a biased stance, should be taken seriously. Miami, like many cities, IS like a third world county. The very rich exist beside the very poor, with vastly different opportunities and services for each. The problem is not that people might speak a different language--this argument is a red herring. There are many cities like Miami that suffer from so-called third world conditions. I think that the reason this comment is receiving so much attention is that most Americans are shamed by the idea that our great nation is evidently not as great as we like to believe. There are savage inequities that exist. As for the question of immigration, let us not forget that we are a nation of immigrants (this is an old argument, but many seem to forget). I live in South Florida and I happen to love the fact that the world comes to me, that I have access to so many cultures and so many diverse peoples. I am also a French teacher and so am not so perversely afraid of different languages. We need to work on making the U.S. a strong, welcoming nation that knows how to maintain our values no matter the constituency of our population.
Would I send my son to this war? You might ask would I send him to World War II? Or Vietnam? Maybe you would distinguish those conflicts and whether you would send your son to fight in them. But that question is misdirected in a very important way: I can't command my son to go to war. He has to make that choice. So the better question would be: would I volunteer to fight in Iraq, WW II, Vietnam? Would I volunteer to fight in any war? Respond if drafted? I don%u2019t know. I'm not equivocating, only addressing that it is a hypothetical. To a hypothetical, I can answer, sure I'd fight. But I have nightmares of battle (from my past life as a Jacobite). So how do I feel toward those who do volunteer? Impressed and maturely knowing that many things go into their decision. But I do strongly believe that a country that can't find those men is doomed. The fact that we can find them is one reason why I say there is no failure in Iraq. Objectively, I also believe it for other reasons. An attempt to establish democracy in the Middle East is a bold, brilliant, noble effort, facing a high chance of failure. That's why I greatly respect and admire those who have made the attempt--the Bush administration. They have been resolute, something I have not seen in my lifetime. They may not succeed, for reasons outside their control or fault: traitors on the home front being a big one. Now those traitors have apparently occupied the high ground. Yet... we're still in Iraq. Why?...I'm waiting.
I think Mr. Trancredo's comments are right on the money. As an english only speaking floridian, I find it increasingly difficult to live here. Most of the people I work with that can speak english perfectly well but chose to talk in spanish as if I was not even there. The last time I went to Miami I found very few english speaking people when asking for directions. Spanish, Haiten, Finish or any other foreign lanquage; thats what I call Third World. What else would you call an area or people that treat you like your not from thier country? That's my question to Jeb!
If you mistakenly think that Miami FL is the only one of El Presidente George W Bush & The GOP's 3d World Cities,then come see Phoenix,AZ as we also have a Boy Scout Do Gooder Mayor Phil Gordon and A Can't Catch A Dead Mouse Police Chief Jack Harris,who refuse to enforce our State and Federal Immigration Laws,and so we now have over 500,000 Illegal Aliens,living here and doing their best to turn Phoenix into trash heap and a cheap labor mecca for greedy big business! So its time to wake up America as it will only get worse now that the Democrats under the San Francisco looney tunes mental midget Nancy Pelosi and her Democrat Senate countepart Sen Harebrain Harry Reid are already publically stating they not only support Illegal Alien Amnesty and Even Higher Temporary Worker Visas on top of that,and don't forget Senor Sell Out Amnesty John McCain has become President Bush's pointman on the Republican side! So stand up and fight or we will not have a United States of America since Bush & Company are already building a "North American Union" between Mexico,Canada and the US without our even voting on it! Impeach Bush & Cheney!
All you racists continue to confuse Latino-Americans with illegal immigrants. Hate to tell you this, but Miami is full of Americans who happen to be Hispanic. Not everyone with brown skin is an illegal alien, you ignorant fools. Racism is what's wrong with America, not immigration.
I wonder what Tancredo says about Bush's "North American Union",,, That will create 3rd world cities all through America.. And the GOP's doing it without informing Congress.
Wrong. We don't need illegal labor. It's driving down wages and if a small business can't make it without hiring slave labor than maybe they should not be in business.
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only one of El Presidente George W Bush & The
GOP's 3d World Cities,then come see Phoenix,AZ
as we also have a Boy Scout Do Gooder Mayor Phil
Gordon and A Can't Catch A Dead Mouse Police Chief Jack Harris,who refuse to enforce our State
and Federal Immigration Laws,and so we now have
over 500,000 Illegal Aliens,living here and doing
their best to turn Phoenix into trash heap and a
cheap labor mecca for greedy big business! So its
time to wake up America as it will only get worse
now that the Democrats under the San Francisco
looney tunes mental midget Nancy Pelosi and her
Democrat Senate countepart Sen Harebrain Harry
Reid are already publically stating they not
only support Illegal Alien Amnesty and Even Higher Temporary Worker Visas on top of that,and
don't forget Senor Sell Out Amnesty John McCain
has become President Bush's pointman on the
Republican side! So stand up and fight or we will
not have a United States of America since Bush &
Company are already building a "North American
Union" between Mexico,Canada and the US without
our even voting on it! Impeach Bush & Cheney!