11/26/2005 7:01:31 AM by anonymous
I wonder why people like you don't stay in your own country and address your own political issues in order to make your home country a better place to live.
Instead, you seem to be content in moving enmass to the US and driving up the cost of real estate while bringing the social problems of the cities like LA to the quiet western US country lifestyle.
11/26/2005 11:51:12 AM by wilsonmar
Whenever I read an idiotic racist comment like this, I appreciate the freedom of the internet more.
But the internet also gives ignorant people voice,
people are still today fighting the civil war or whatever war has them filled with fear and hate.
I read from a historian writing about Bisbee that during pioneer days,
blacks were not allowed to work certain jobs, Native Americans and the Chinese were not even allowed in town,
etc.
Are these prejudices part of your "quiet western US country lifestyle?"
In fact, immigration brings talented cooks, doctors, and others
with something to contribute.
Immigration does not mean a higher rate of crime, just as a large group of Hells Angels bikes mean higher crime.
Freedom of movement is what enables Katrina and victims of other natural disasters to build new lives.
A lot of Arizonians appreciate the rise in real estate value.
Nevertheless, growth is a concern.
But it's not legal, moral, or helpful to control it by the skin color or national origin of immigrants.
Those attributes have no relation to the conjestion and other issues of real concern.
12/03/2005 6:26:34 PM annoymously
I do agree with some of the things the first commentator stated. Immigration is out of hand. 400k a year from Mx....the list goes on. The negatives outweigh the positives, any half educated lunk knows that. I am from Northern AZ and am disheartened at the amount of move'ins from primarily SOCAL. The question should be why cannot Mex and CA maintain states that people want to stay in? They have resources galore, beauty, climate, how is it that so many places fail to create a state that people want to stay in?
Regarding the housing prices, AZ is like a giddy little working stiff who suddenly came into money and attention. The property increase in value is not all roses. There are taxes, the little people (workers through teacher/cop) types get the short end when some family sells their house in Chino Hills ca for 600G then pay anything out here? Why, because the teacher next door would have to sell their house and move to Dakotas to reap benefit. Only thing that happens is their taxes and escrow accounts go up.
Your justifications for immigration (be it from LA or MX or any where are unsubstantial to say the least. Traffic is horrendous in Prescott/Prescott Valley, accidents are up, illegal workers abound, lower income areas are trashed with 10 people to a house, 8 or 10 new house permits are California buyers, this brings companies buying houses to lease rent which increases crime, it makes it impossible for a cop to buy a house; sad especially if you are from here and have family. Cannot even afford to live here. The LA attitude is imposed on this town and issues such as those we are talking of are now part of debate. Exactly the kind of thing the locals do not want any part of. Move-ins are the guests in a sense. I do not care how sophisticated of civil planners there are and how much realestate has "benefited" the region.
If you are moving now due to financial windfall from the retarded Cal market, then you should come in quietly and leave your liberal rhetoric behind. The first commenter did not bring up race, you did. He or she had a valid question, why don't move ins stay in their own community and work it out there. And by the way "staying in your own country" as the commentor said does not imply race. The fact you associate home country with race is telling of your attitude. Citizenship is hardly race based in any country aside from a few who tie religion and state together and by proxy race. I am no country bumpkin, I have several degrees and have spent time in europe, asia/china/mongolia, central America, lived in mex for a summer....studied cultural geog, intl affairs, Spanish......so I am familiar with the knee jerk arguments.
BOTTOM Line: mass move in immigration be it international or interstate, is not always healthy.
At the very least the new guests should control their impulse to stir up the "diversity" pot and control their desire to impute what they self perceive as sophistication. We would not need more sophistication to deal with crushing populations, traffic, crime, language barriers, watered down education, increased taxes, and blurring of the local culture if Y'all were not so giddingly cashing in on your California equity to get a bigger house here in Arizona. Greed is bottom line......People just wonder why Yall do not stay home and work it out. No offense meant. It just cuts deeply to see home state taken over by Cal.
regards....
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