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Yesterday, I saw an interesting post on one of my “favorite blogs” (well; I really like this blog and the kind of writing – but I am not always agreeing with what they are saying….. but hey Bobo = hope ya feeling well soon !!).

a list of Mexican immigration laws – and the writer of the article is asking if those could be interesting laws in the USA.

The  little list of “laws/rules”……;

1. If you migrate to this county, you must speak the native language

2. You have to be a professional or an investor. No unskilled workers allowed.

3. There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools, no special ballots for elections, all government business will be conducted in our language.

4. Foreigners will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they are here.

5. Foreigners will NEVER be able to hold political office.

6. Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers. No welfare, no food stamps, no health care, or other government assistance programs.

7. Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.

8. If foreigners do come and want to buy land that will be okay, BUT options will be restricted. You are not allowed waterfront property. That is reserved for citizens naturally born into this country.

9. Foreigners may not protest; no demonstrations, no waving a foreign flag, no political organizing, no badmouthing our president or his policies, if you do you will be sent home.

10. If you do come to this country illegally, you will be hunted down and sent straight to jail.

Of course I (partly) do understand why some people would like those laws/rules…. and surely you can see that in the comments; “I agree with all of them,….” – “I’ve read these many times and wish they were ours.  I so wish. “ – “It all sounds reasonable to me.”
But I did put some a remark on all this – which I added to the comments;

“So – to make it all clear; the people who are agreeing to this……Because of those laws….. at the moment I decide to move to the USA – you do not want me to own an house at the waterfront….I would never be able to vote and would not be able to become Governor of some silly sunny State……At the moment there will be a big raise on tax – I would not be allowed to protest….or say the President made a STUPID decision….
??????
Wow…. I would really feel “welcome” -> think I will just stay in Holland then….”

Of course we do have similar kind of situations in Holland……. one of the discussions is “at the moment the immigrant do have a Dutch passport – they should not be allowed to have a 2nd passport” and “all those immigrant have to speak Dutch”.
But then I show them another situation; what about my child, his mother is Canadian and me being Dutch; while living in Canada he is not allowed to have a Dutch passport? And if he would move to Holland – he should give up his Canadian passport…?
And he should be speaking Dutch…?? While everybody in Holland is able to understand and talk to him in English…??

The weird part is; most (Dutch) people think about this as being “another case”…… They would let my son have 2 passports and he would be able to just live here while speaking English….

Interesting uh….??

To me it seems that all those people who are screaming for “just one passport and speaking Dutch” are just referring to a part of the immigrants….. a part they seem to be disliking a bit more than… uh… for example Canadians or US people….

So – these above mentioned laws; would you want them in your country…? And if so; why…??
(maybe because you just dislike A PART of the immigrants….?)

The article;

the Bobo Files – Proposed Emigration Laws in the U.S.

is based on;

an article of TexasFred