Tom, take a ride on a NY subway. Posters in multiple languages!!! Go to an ATM Machine, which has a choice of languages to accomodate the communities. In elementary schools non-speaking English children are put in classes with English speaking children, which holds up the progression of education for them because......well the teachers have to focus on the non-speaking English children to help them progress. In the US the police have people whose mother tongue is not English so that that can communicate with communities where Russian, Spanish, Urdu, Arabic is the spoken language.
The UK and US is getting so screwed by immigrants, legal and illegal, who don't want to learn English or blend into society and who live on the tit of the government and you, yes, the taxpayer.
I have mentioned it before. Illegal immigrants who have children in the US, and those children become US citizens, the parents are documented illegals. Those parents are elligble to apply for food stamps, welfare and medical benefits for their children - from the day they are born. Those children are entitled to free education and child care centers.
There was discussion sometime back about giving the parents a choice, leave the country with the US citizen children, or leave their US citizen children in the US and go back home. Personally, I second the first option; as US citizens the children could always return to the US if they chose to when they reached adult age. But, hey, the bleeding hearts wouldn't dream of separating parents from children and didn't think the first option was fair because the children were US citizens.
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Tom Jones wrote:Bethsmum wrote:Now TJ you have certainly learned how to push BM's buttons. This is absolutely bloody ridiculous. You wouldn't believe the amount of money spent by our government translating documentation and providing translators to people who come to Britain and cant be bothered to learn English. If you are required to have an interview by a government department it is up to the government to provide the translator, how mad is that?
I don't think Sheikh Mohammed would be that accomodating of me, do you reckon? And why should he be?
If these Polish lot are working in Britain and leave their families at home, then my government pays them child benefit. So my taxes are paid out to some kids who have never set foot in Britain. Sack the lot and send them home and make all the unemployed get off their backsides and take the jobs, we'd be quids in.
Your reference to the benefits paid to Polish children reminds of a funny friend here in America. When I went to see him one evening in his apartment, there was too much noise coming out of the apartment next door to him.
He told me it was a party that his (female) Mexican neighbor threw to her friends every week. He said she was living on welfare and that he had four children (by different men). The children were also being supported by welfare. He joked by saying, "I know I'm supporting at least two of those children, but sadly I never had any of the fun of making them!!!"
Seeing as how I was always a taxpayer (and still do) I believe that I should be entitled to claim one family on my return every year.