Delegate Todd Gilbert will be on this panel. I don't get this channel, so if anybody watches it, post about what it said.
WVPT to air illegal immigration documentary
HARRISONBURG —WVPT will broadcast "Virginia Reports: The Latino Underground" at 9 p.m. Monday. The broadcast will feature interviews with several undocumented immigrants; Dr. Laura Zarrugh, a cultural anthropologist and adjunct professor at James Madison University; Charles Bowden, an author and investigative journalist who has spent more than 20 years writing about illegal immigration; George Taplin of the Virginia chapter of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps; Hobey Bauhan, president of the Virginia Poultry Federation; Micah Bump, a Georgetown University research associate; and others, including an immigration lawyer, Del. Todd Gilbert and Donald Ford, superintendent of Harrisonburg City schools.
The show will repeat at 10 p.m. Oct. 26, at 3 p.m. Oct. 28 and at 9 p.m. Nov. 1.
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Charlie Hoke introduced a resolution that the Board passed, asking the state to take stronger measures to keep illegals out of Virginia. Todd Gilbert, our Delegate, is on the governors panel to study this.
I think we are getting some illegals in the county. Why is this happening? Do we have jobs here that nobody is willing to take?
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Why is this happening? Do we have jobs here that nobody is willing to take?
low cost of living, rural agricultural area. The willingness to work very hard, with no sense of entitlement (ie benefits of any sort).
There has been immigration here for 400 or so years, you can't just pass legislation and tell them to go home. We need to be prepared and determine how we are going to deal with the influx.
The three points that I worry the most about are.
1. drugs within the immigrant community
2. How the influx will influence our social services
3. educational needs, if they are here we must educate them.
JMHO
First of all, it is way to easy to become a US Citizen. We have changed our way of living to benefit immigrants that come over here legally. I can understand why people from other countries want to come to the US to live and raise their families. It is my opinion that if anyone want to be a citizen of the US, they must speak this language and accept this culture. We should not have to change for them. What other countries change for us? If I was wanting to move and live in another country, I would want to speak their language and live their way. I do not expect them to change for me. Remember I would be wanting to become a citizen of their country. The US has allowed to much immigration over the years and now it is too late for our country. I blame the Liberals. And not to mention all the illegal immgrants that are here. They need to be deported and banned from this country. If want to be a citizen, do it the legal way. We as a nation need not to change our life style and culture to benefit the immigrants. If they want to live here, do it legal, speak our language, and live in our culture or go back to where you came from. I have a lot of friends that are immigrants and they respect our way of life and then don't expect us to change for them. They are just happy to be living in this great nation.
I for one, support an oderly legal immigration system. Blaming a specific group (or idealogy) for the current Federal Immigration policy - or, well lack-there-of, is grossly oversimplyfying the issue...
Either way, Delegate Gilbert's stances/positions on immigration are starting to make me somewhat suspect. Let's face it, Todd see this very issue as some "bloody read meat" and, in my opinion, he's just trying to stir things up to fire up the base...sure, he has some legtimate concerns, as do I, but his approach is starting to make me wonder...then I read this today...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/20/AR2007102001154.html
Delegate Gilbert, do you need to tell us something? Are you affliated with any other organizations? Particularly, one's taht like to wear all white and burn things?
You are starting to became an embarresment to this region, and its people...
anonymous
Anonymous Gilbert Basher: If you actually saw the documentary, you'd see that Gilbert is trying to research solutions that Virginia can use...but he basically states that the biggest issue is that the federal government isn't doing a good enough job of enforcing the laws on record right now.
I hate seeing people paint Gilbert as some raging anti-Hispanic zealot. I'm hispanic, my mother immigrated to this country when she was 16, and I rather like the guy, personally.
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