The Los Angeles Times is reporting something I suspected was true, but it is nice to see documentation. THe paper analyzed the backgrounds of the 500 Californians who have died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and found that 59 were immigrants. Dozens more were first generation children of immigrants. Does anyone see any irony here? The antis regularly question whether today's immigrants are really assimilating as past generations have. And they claim that immigrants are just coming over here to get our goodies - our welfare, emergency room care, public schools, etc. - when they're not claiming they're coming to steal our jobs. How sad that these types of nonsense claims still find believers when immigrants are dying every week for their new country. Sorry for not posting this earlier, but I only just saw the article today.
Brought to you by ILW.COM
About Greg Siskind
Immigration Daily Signup
- Free unmatched news source on immigration
« NO FUN FOR YOU! | Main | MATH »
June 11, 2008
TrackBack
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d834521fa969e200e5534c977c8833
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE:
Comments
You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.
Verify your Comment
Previewing your Comment
This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.
Your comment could not be posted. Error type:
Your comment has been posted. Post another comment
As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.
Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.
Not only are immigrants dying for their country, some of them are facing deportation once they get out of the military. One of the greatest travesties of the 1996 immigration laws.
Posted by: Edward | June 12, 2008 at 08:56 AM