Letting immigrants off the hook

golden20 · **Posted:** Sun May 18, 2008 10:15 pm

i know i love going to thrift stores, i can get a whole basket of clothes for 35 bucks i used to get clothes from the girl down the street all the time. she would just drop them off for me to look at and i would keep anything i liked then pass the rest to my cousin.

Finn · **Joined:** Tue Jan 01, 2008 9:58 pm **Posts:** 315

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ALASKA · **Joined:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:30 pm **Posts:** 2194

This is what happens to americans when they reach Mexico.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080519/us_ ... 9XHems0NUE

golden20 · **Posted:** Tue May 20, 2008 8:07 pm

yikes!

Rob · **Posted:** Wed May 21, 2008 8:17 am

No mention of "they were just tourists". So perhaps they weren't.

TLDriver · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:30 pm

In the UK, anyone that wants to live here, must pass a test, which shows knowledge of life in the UK, and the fact that they speak fluent English. It should be the same in the US.

I'm 1/8 Native American, and most of my family lines have been in the US since prior to 1700.

pipsqueak · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 6:54 pm

TLDriver wrote:

[color=#0000FF]In the UK, anyone that wants to live here, must pass a test, which shows knowledge of life in the UK, and the fact that they speak fluent English. It should be the same in the US.

I believe this was introduced in 2005? From Autumn 2010, there will be more strenuous English tests - and this requirement will apply to spouses and fiances etc. But it still does not apply to immigrants from the EU. Ironically there are many who have been in the UK for 10 - 20 years and who scarcely speak the language.

Privateer · **Joined:** Mon Mar 15, 2010 5:18 pm **Posts:** 2601

TLDriver wrote:

In the UK, anyone that wants to live here, must pass a test, which shows knowledge of life in the UK, and the fact that they speak fluent English.

As you can imagine, that caused some raised eyebrows in areas where people's first language is more likely to be Gaelic or Welsh. Everyone there can speak English, but that's not the point, really.

London is a shocking pit of ignorance, really.

TLDriver · **Posted:** Fri Jul 16, 2010 4:51 pm

ALASKA wrote:

This is what happens to americans when they reach Mexico.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080519/us_ ... 9XHems0NUE

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