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Published: 2008-10-22 09:37:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 1733; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 0
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~Illegal Immigrants~The mother is Mexican but the 2 kids are US citizens, born right here at the former Arizona capital. The mother crossed the border without papers last Spring just to have her kids born in America. By the current US legislation, the kids can stay but the parents shall be deported and can never come back. The mother has become an "illegal" as soon as she crossed the border, and in general terms will live as a wanted criminal from that on.
Luckily this particular mother will never have to worry about any of that because the law doesn't apply to birds. They are free to cross any borders, have their kids wherever they want, and raise their families wherever they fancy.
Perhaps birds are the only ones still entitled to freedom in this world? Something to think about...
Photograph was taken from my backyard using an ancient Sony Mavica FD-73, which stores pictures on a built-in 3.5" floppy disk drive before flash memory existed for digital cameras.
Hope you like it and thanks for coming by!
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google or youtube it.. i bet you will hate them. i have one snakehead, see at my youtube profile: wanyusri84
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Oh I see, they are predators like piranhas.
But what does that has to do with migratory birds?
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bleh... birds doesnt ruin any ecos.. i guess.. but the snakehead does.
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Oooooh I see the idea now.
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i keep snakehead as a pet.. its awesome.. (smart killing machine).. they dont use gill.. they use lung. i put no filter.
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Lungs? So they are not fish?
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I don't think that people want to split up families, but the fact remains that illegal immigrants are doing serious damage to our already failing economy. The bank of Mexico reported that $2.4 billion (that's billion with a B) was funneled to Mexico from the U.S. last year alone. That's just from people sending money tot heir relatives in Mexico. I live in an area with a lot of illegal immigrants, and for the most part they are nice people, but what about the ones who come here, commit crimes, then sit in our jails being fed and clothed with our tax dollars? What about the illegals who come here just to get on welfare? I think that the illegals who come here to work and who genuinely want to become Americans should be offered a path to citizenship, not amnesty, but a path. Anyone who comes here to commit crimes or live off our tax dollars needs to go . Now.
The sad fact is that being American is a privilege, not a right. And there are two ways tob ecome privileged in any way, be it money or some other way: One is to be like Paris Hilton and be born to it, the other is to be like Bill Gates and earn it. I'm sorry, but any person who is not a citizen of America needs to earn the right, they can't just steal it. Illegal is illega.
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The sad fact is that our immigration system doesn't work - even to those who are eligible to become citizens. Even the last 2 presidents already admitted that in public - it just doesn't work and nearly every month another immigration officer is caught involved with some of the now countless immigration schemes led by corruption. Bush has fired a lot of people from what was once known as "INS" and renamed it to "DHS" back in 2003, but nothing much changed besides the 1st two letters of it. So much that in the last few months yet another bunch of immigration officers were [again] caught involved with corruption schemes. Those schemes include (but not limited to) blackmail, extortion, stealing and selling documents to the highest bid.
Here in Arizona the amount of corruption involving immigration got to such a point that the office was finally closed half a decade ago, and transfered to California. To get a simple "green card" (not citizenship) here in Arizona it may take anything from 3 to 11 years. To become citizen here in Arizona, add additional 5-15 years to that. If you make your math, to become citizen while being 100% eligible, it might take as long as 26 years!!! That is - if you are not caught by the corrupted system, where immigration officers simply let the paperwork pile up and never do their jobs.
Now that's what politicians call "legal path to citizenship" and that explains why there are so many illegals here. And that's also how every 20 years we get this many dozens of millions of illegals piling up and worsening the problem. This has been happening for the last 60 years and is nothing new, getting critical in 20 intervals (which means now).
So you are absolutely right: being American is a privilege, not a right - because if it were a right, those who are eligible should be able to get it through the legal path. Both presidents Bush and Clinton already admitted in public that this is not happening because the system got corrupted and doesn't work. And if it doesn't work, then there is no "legal path to citizenship". That's just pretty speeches for politicians to brag about, and now it's the time for that.
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Personally for me I view the illegal imigration thing as basicly they want money for nothing. Curse those illegal birds
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well, we can't exactly complain about birds taking our jobs or anything, lol
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It's not like there is a huge lack of jobs offers out there. And like in the current Oklahoma harvest crisis, would you quit your job to work on a 4 months-long harvest that only happens once a year? There's a whole bunch of jobs that Americans are not eager to do, and many of them make some of the fundamental infrastructure the country depends on. Not exactly something to laugh about.
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good point. I was just making a joke about how people are always saying things like "those mexicans keep taking our jobs". I live in new york, were alot less imigrants come to work, and I still hear that frequntly.
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That excuse is hard to buy when you open the NY newspaper and see how many job offers are there. Here in Arizona, in general the Mexicans work at the infrastructure level, of which some states already realized how essential they are to the country.
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yeah. I guess people just love to complain about things, even if it's not a big problem.
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It would not be a problem if we didn't have waited so long to do something about it, and we now have about 20 million illegals living and working here. With the broken immigration system mentioned by the last 2 presidents, that comes to no surprise. If the immigration system doesn't work, then renaming it from INS to HLS will not change that fact: changing the name didn't make it start working, and the numbers kept escalating. And then we still have to hear politicians bragging about the "legal ways to immigration" when it obviously doesn't work and that's why all this is happening... O_o;
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Q: Why is this so obvious to some and not to others?
A: Because of the elections...
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"Photograph was taken from my backyard using an ancient Sony Mavica FD-73, which stores pictures on a built-in 3.5" floppy disk drive before flash memory existed for digital cameras."
SmartMedia existed then, it came in 1,2 and 4mb cards, was about the size of SecureDigital cards, but it was a lot more fragile since it was quite a bit thinner.
It never caught on. It was also quite expensive.
It's still around now, but hardly anything modern uses it.
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I know they existed, but I am almost sure digital cameras didn't use them way back then because the cost was rather prohibitive. Flash memory only became cheaper much more recently. ^^
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The olympus brand did; I had one.
it was one of the first to use digital memory.
(non-built-in, that is)
I even had a FDD adapter to put the memory in so I could read it in my floppy drive instead of using the usb cord.
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Oh yes, I remember now! The Sony Mavica FD-73 comes with a dual storage that includes a slot for their (now obsolete) MemoryStick. That is one reason why I don't buy Sony anymore: every single thing is Sony-proprietary, from MemoryStick to lenses and even the battery. Everything becomes over-expensive and Sony batteries are over-priced and short-lived.
My new Canon PowerShot IS3 can use any regular SD cards, and regular A3 batteries that last many times longer than Sony proprietary ones. Canon lenses are also superior to whatever Sony [usually over-priced] sells. Sony cameras used to be unable to shoot on low light as well. The IS3 number of features also leaves Sony to shame. Very happy with Canon!
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Here in Mèxico, we call those white wing pigeons, we use to have one in our house a long time ago, she came to my house around 1983-1984, she was with us for a very long time, one day, door open, she just flew away, that was in 1997, we were very sad, but, i think it was as good thing, she came in flying, she went flying...
Good memories...
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Birds have seasonal migration embedded into their brains, so they feel irresistibly compelled to do it when the time comes. That is because they know they cannot hatch eggs on cold weather, so it's more like a matter of survival of the species. ^^
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Thank you! This is an analogy to human migrations. ^^
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Thank you! It's an analogy with human migration. ^^
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birds can come and go, but humans need monoriting....lol
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Conclusion: birds are better than us.
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anything that can fly and shit at the same time is for sure better....lol
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LOL good point! Great thing that cows can't fly then. God is really wise.
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Quite a scary fairy tale now that I think of it...
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Nice job
Where are you that you have inca doves nesting
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Thanks! The photo was shot in Prescott, AZ (former state capital). ^^
These birds fly from far, far away.
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We have them year round here
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Texas is like a peninsula that goes right inside of Mexico, so perhaps it's easier to see them there year round. 
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We are much milder here but I am about as far north as you are
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Also have to consider that Prescott is 5,200 feet high and it gets cold really quick over here.
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Yeppers Our elevation is 4029 ft. I just repainted the sing myself
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That's the only thing I can image. 1,200 feet can make quite a difference, because Prescott Valley is only 200 feet lower and one can feel the difference in both pressure and temperatures. Not to mention it snows in Prescott but rarely in Prescott Valley, which is only like 8 miles away. ^^
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Oh yes
I use to work up on the glaciers in Oregon 30 feet can make a huge difference sometimes
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Wow Oregon glaciers... that's why I like Arizona so much.
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Yes, I use to work for the University Of Oregon and part of my job was to help the science grad students to build the equipment they needed to do their research. Most of them learned that if you would feed me I would also go help set things up. The meteorology students did a lot of things on the glaciers In Orgon and Washington.
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Oh my wife is a meteorologist! It's one of most difficult courses I saw so far. ^^
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I have a great of respect for your wife
Where is she working
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Unfortunately she is not working on meteorology.
She started her own cleaning company and is making more money than me! LOL
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