[csmkersh]

The latest telephone poll taken by the California Governor's office, asked whether
people who live in California think illegal immigration is a serious problem:

29% of respondents answered: Yes, it is a serious problem."

71% of respondents answered: "No es una problema seriosa."

 

[stand watie]

csmkersh,

CHARMING crowd they have out there in the State of Kalifornication.

yours, sw

 

[Javlin]

The latest telephone poll taken by the California Governor's office, asked whether
people who live in California think illegal immigration is a serious problem:

29% of respondents answered: Yes, it is a serious problem."

71% of respondents answered: "No es una problema seriosa."

 

[William R. Moore]

Several decades ago I accidentally chased the housekeeping staff out of the California hotel I was staying in by yelling "Halto, Federales! Carte verde!" (the running joke of my largely Chicano crew was that they were illegals, I played into it) one morning.

When I mentioned this to my point of contact at the job site, he noted that if you chased all the illegals out, every food joint in Cali would be serving on paper plates.

The really surreal thing was that during a water shortage, where washing your car wasn't allowed and watering the lawns was restricted, there was an unannounced exception. Every morning on the way down I-5, I'd see miles of sprinklers watering the roadside plants. I'd have expected the tree huggers to embrace native growth that didn't need artificial support.

 

[csmkersh]

Several decades ago I accidentally chased the housekeeping staff out of the California hotel I was staying in by yelling "Halto, Federales! Carte verde!" (the running joke of my largely Chicano crew was that they were illegals, I played into it) one morning.

My long time friend, Phil Petmecky did the same thing at a Taco joint one morning. As he entered Rolando's Super Taco to buy breakfast he hollered, "Immagracion!" He heard the back door and screams of terror. He wasn't welcome there for a while. :wink:

 

[William R. Moore]

The term of art for the street folks appeared to be "La Migra". Since I know maybe 30 words & phrases in Spanish, I've no idea what that means. I'd kinda think it's some reference to the abused term immigrant.

Since he'd heard the story, my older boy used my phrase once the summer he worked as a roofer. All the carpenters/laborers at the job site left.

 

[csmkersh]

Phil doesn't speak Spanish. La Migra and pinche rinche are over his head. Yeah, he's a Native Texas, but from one of the colonies settled by Prince Solms, Fredericksburg, about an hours drive North of San Antonio. He didn't speak English until he started the 1st grade; just Hill Country German.

 

[stand watie]

csmkersh,

My mother taught school, in Elysian Fields, TX before WWII & she said that in those long ago days that any number of her students still spoke English poorly in 9th grade. = Shortly before WWI & well after the War, many immigrants moved to that area from Russia, Ukraine & other "war-torn" areas.

Also the town of West, TX had many students who spoke only CZECH, when they came to public school in the pre-1960s era & the public schools taught "English as a 2nd Language".


yours, sw