Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   A Thought To Ponder Date:   1/20/2019 5:41:39 PM

I am in total agreement with you.  I'm not sure any of us retirees have a complete handle on how quickly things move and change now.  It is a full time job just keeping your immediate life's balls in the air, much less study and poinder and seek muliple sources to cross check what we hear or read.  And even doing that, I still don't know all the facts regarding illegal immigration.  I have some observations about these immigarants, just through seeing them standing around on street corners in Northern VA, looking for work as day laborers, and then the long lines they stand in on Fridays, sending their pay off to whever it was they came from.  

This morning I was watching on that George Steponoplous Sunday morning show.  They were interviewing immigrants who are waiting some would be immigrants, who told how they left their countries in this case, Honduras and El Salvador because of gang violence.  So I am asking myself why they would walk through these other counties if they were just rying to get away from the violence. Or why did they walk north instead of South?  One woman was 22 and already had 3 children, whith no father present.  What kind of skills is she bringing to our country that will allow her to work and support those 3 kids?  

And they interview the Border Patrol who says that they really need the wall.  I mean, why would they lie about it?  They are not Washington lobbyists or other lounge lizards, but guys that have skin in the game.  

And another things that confuses me - why are Democrats so insistent that we have to take these people in.  And just because we used to be a haven for immigrants - why do we have to continue to be?  Why can't we set standards like other countries?  I struggle with the logic.