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The US actually doesn't have an official language. I'm working on my Navajo, though.
If you are legitimately trying to learn Navajo, good on ya!! The Navajo Nation is the largest Native American tribe, with a little over 300,000, out of nearly 2 million First Nations/Aleut/native Pacific Islanders, and the largest reservation.
 
If you are legitimately trying to learn Navajo, good on ya!! The Navajo Nation is the largest Native American tribe, with a little over 300,000, out of nearly 2 million First Nations/Aleut/native Pacific Islanders, and the largest reservation.

Lol, once. It was hard. There's a reason that particular piece of linguistic diversity won a war🙂
 
Woah, now you are quoting hate groups (CIS has been cited many times as a hate group). Can you find a report directly from a scientific body, not a hate group? Thanks.

It's one thing to say you support an organized and fair process, which we all do, but you mix that up with unsubstantiated vilification of people based on their immigration status. These are two different issues, and your claims (by a hate group, not a nonpartisan think tank or governmental boddy) of the high crime rates perpetuated by immigrants indicates that you seem to think certain people are more violent or undesirable based on their immigration status, which is unsubstantiated and untrue. So, you think the DACA kids are more violent than native-born Americans? That people applying for asylum who enter illegally are more likely to commit crimes? None of this is true. This is stereotyping people, or worse.

As to how illegal immgration benefits Americans, since we don't have a process at all for many people to come and work here, workers and employers are dealing with a dysfunctional system. IF there were a process for people to come legally, which in many cases there's not, we'd still have to provide health care to people. Are you suggesting we let people die in the streets?

I'd love to see all the Americans on disability and welfare toiling in the fields and doing home health, but they won't. Salaries in agriculture have reached $20 an hour, but Americans still won't do it, even with paid vacation and 401ks. Since they won't, we need workers, and we have a dysfunctional system, people work illegally. They pay taxes. They pay into social security, but don't receive anything back. If we require these workers, which we do, since Americans won't do this work, then someone has to pay to educate their kids and for healthcare.

I'd buy that you wanted a fair process if you didn't vilify undocumented workers so much. But citing hate groups smacks of...hate.
 
Also, this worked well- jobs were totally taken by Americans:

 
Yes, but unfortunately for the rest of the year you are in...Texas. Texas is great for making money (although less so recently), but I personally hope to never live in a place that's all LCOL and minimal QOL just so I can escape for a few weeks a year to stay at fancy hotel in Paris.

Have you ever lived in Texas? There are very few things in NYC that Houston or Dallas won't have - minus the graffiti, trash, rude people.

Anyway, everyone has different priorities. You value the great outdoors. Some people value having a 4000 sqft home with 6 bedrooms and plenty of money left over for investments, compound interest, vacation, early retirement. To some people, easily affording luxuries at reasonable price points leads to a better quality of life. Starting at mountains isn't necessarily as much joy to some people than having a space for a home theater in their 4000+ sqft house. Different people value different things.

I've lived in 4 states, spent several months in NYC, a couple of months in London, 18 years on the other side of the world in the 8th largest city of the world, and about 10 years in Texas. Texas is one of the best places to be if quality of life for you means being able to afford luxury. Also, yes Texas is hot, for 5 months, with some incredibly moderate climates the rest of the time. Just like NYC is incredibly cold for 5 months.

Quite honestly, the quality of life in London and NYC is inferior to that of the third world country I grew up in.
 
Which I do not recall, to my error, but you are not an EM regular. I do not deny your credentials, but do not recognize you (honestly).

No worries.

I'm a regular here, but since I'm not an EM doc I just lurk mostly. I'm just one of the couple mods reading the multiple complaints about some posts in this otherwise interesting thread.
 
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