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Oscar Gonzalez (Human Torch) is a cook. Originally from Oaxaca, he sends home $350 a week.

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ThXs for telling us how much more than American workers he is making. If he can afford to send that much back to mexico, then he's making more than US!!! There you go ICE; go get him!

Posted by: Nancy on 04/14/08 at 12:33 PM  Respond

BTW; he's not a 'undocumented IMMIGRANT' but a 'CROOK' and a 'CRIMINAL' breaking our laws and bragging about it!

Posted by: Nancy on 04/14/08 at 12:34 PM  Respond

$350 a week? Get over it Nancy.

Posted by: Tabachi on 04/14/08 at 12:43 PM  Respond

If all of these illegals have to come here to support their families, then why doesn't our illustrious government put more pressure on the Mexican government to take care of its own! They send part of their wages home and we Americans foot the bill for medical care, crime protection, prisons, anchor babies, etc. etc.

Posted by: Zeldar on 04/14/08 at 1:02 PM  Respond

No, Nancy. He just chooses to send that money to his needy family instead of spending it on overpriced lattes, pricey clothes and shoes, or purchasing a McMansion... Unlike the average American who choose to live BEYOND their means, he lives well below them so he can give his family the opportunity of a better life.

Posted by: Manuela on 04/14/08 at 1:52 PM  Respond

I hear that with a DNA test they are able to tell if your ancesters have been in this continent over 5000 years ,anyone care to back where they belong .
dave

Posted by: david on 04/14/08 at 8:52 PM  Respond

Hi Nancy:

I would like to point out that no, immigrants usually make less money than we do IF they are undocumented workers. What we Americans do not understand is a life without "consumer driven euphoria." Undocumented workers live in apartment buildings with many roommates to be able to save the money on rent and send it home. I agree with Manuela. Nancy, get informed on the situation before you assume like so many Americans do.

Posted by: TEX on 04/15/08 at 4:09 AM  Respond

Illegal aliens make good scapegoats. Yes, they do work for less, but who among us wants to care for other people's kids, dig ditches, bus tables, pick fruit? Our real economic problems come not from these illegals but from the outsourcing of American jobs. When was the last time you bought a garment made in the US? When was the last time you bought anything made in the US? Blame the greedy corporations who have no problems sending our jobs to China and to other countries instead of investing in our workers. God, we're even outsourcing our security.

Posted by: selenafan on 04/15/08 at 6:27 AM  Respond

Nancy, Whoa! What a good christian woman you are. Wow, god must really love you and your kind.

Posted by: martin Flores on 04/20/08 at 9:39 PM  Respond

im mexican and here in mexico we have americans too working hard trying to get a better live just like we want, so some of mexican go to us illegal but you to and the diference is we treat you like human being

Posted by: israel on 04/21/08 at 11:30 AM  Respond

Hey People,

It makes me sick the way some peole are pushing to let all these Criminal Aliens become citizens..!!! Go home, get ni line behind the other Millions of people who want to come here.
Why do mexicans think that they have a "Special" ability to enter the USA...?
ICE needs to start doing MORE raids and sending ALL 20 million home, along with the anchor babies.

Bill

Posted by: Bill Nigh on 04/22/08 at 10:28 AM  Respond

Actually, Bill Nigh, Illegal aliens are Americans. They are descendants of the many tribes that first inhabited the southern region of this continent. True, they are not US citizens, but their bona fides as Americans are more valid than yours, I'll bet.

Posted by: selenafan on 04/24/08 at 6:36 PM  Respond

Mexicans do not think they have a special ability to enter the US. They are just hungry, their family is hungry. When have you ever seen an illegal alien living as a middle class American? Yes there are some living as lower class and most in poverty, but they will not attain the (US) American Dream, so American Citizens do not have to worry about competing for the American Dream. Most illegal aliens from Mexico, China, and yes even Canada come here to offer an honest days labor and live in American poverty standards so they my send a few bucks to their families. What these people are sending back to their families is change in most Americans' pockets. This is not hurting our economy in any way, in fact the labor these people offer is what supports our lifestyles by keeping most remedial labor wages down. If we as Americans would work hard on our education, go to college and get our degrees then we would never ever be competing for jobs illegal immigrants would hold. I have seen these people work and for what they get paid compared to the quality of work that is given is a huge rip off to the worker. Finally, What ICE needs to do is give the money back to the Feds and work on the real economic issues in our own government before it attacks people from another country.

Posted by: Daniel on 04/27/08 at 11:03 PM  Respond

Hey selenafan,

I think you may misunderstand what transpired in the last 100 yrs or so. Mexico LOST the war...!!! They signed a treaty and released ALL claims on the territory.
Didn't you pay attention in school that day..? When two countries go to war, the winner keeps what is claimed in the papers signed to end hostilities.
I mean, we could have kept fighting all the way down the WHOLE continent, but I guess that the President at that time decided in his great mercy, to let the mexicans keep it.
What outcome would you have preferred...?

Bill


Posted by: Bill Nigh on 04/29/08 at 9:11 PM  Respond

Oscar Gonzalez represents one of the best ways of efficiently distributing foreign aid. He directly works for the money and what money he makes goes directly to the people in need, as opposed to the money coming from US taxpayers and then funneled through the US government to a potentially corrupt foreign government, which may or may not actually let those dollars trickle down to the common citizen.

Posted by: thomas on 05/01/08 at 10:13 AM  Respond

too bad the politicians are afraid to address OVERPOPULATION.

All socio-economic problems stem from this singular reality.

Posted by: TruthSerum on 05/02/08 at 2:14 PM  Respond

Overpopulation, really? It's not overpopulation, it's that Americans live the most extravagant lifestyles, and when people want to emulate it, the earth can't sustain it. Americans simply think that they can live a certain way and then blame other people for their choice to copy.

Posted by: Justin on 05/16/08 at 3:54 PM  Respond

Bill nigh and Nancy,Mexican, chineses, canadians and the whole inmigration population might not had it as easy as you did growing up in the suburbs or at lease with 3 meals every day.I am pretty sure God will be so proud of you looking down on people just 'cause they are different.I got a question for you. Have you ever go work on the fields,skyscrapers cleaning windows or at lease a dirty job on a farm I can almost tell a big "NO", you americans don't want the tough jobs,well only with a few exceptions, next time you go to the grocery store,please thank the american farmers and the inmigrants that keep it working for nothing but a minimal wage, living in deprodable conditions in 4 to 6 per room just to save money to do better for their lives and their loved ones.OHH I almost forgot, next time think about who is the real american,the one that was here hundreds of years or the one that came to wipe them out and imposing force to take over, once you think about that, you may wanna relocate back to england or somewhere back in the other side of the world, that is where your family tree comes from, right?. Next time do the math correctly.

God bless you guys.

Posted by: R. Torres on 05/18/08 at 11:31 AM  Respond

Hey r. torres,

I did work hard as a laborer when I was in high school and college, but now kids can't get those jobs anymore because, ILLEGALS have taken them all..!!!
Good American kids have been pushed out by the dirty illegals, and they need to go.
And if you had studied your history in school, you would have know that your GOVERMENT signed a treaty after we kicked your a** in the war, and all claims were given up by mexico. SO if you want you will have to come up here and TRY and take it back...? But you don't have the cajones since our country has about 500 million guns, and will fight every step of the way.
God bless the USA...!!!

Bill

Posted by: Bill Nigh on 05/20/08 at 10:38 AM  Respond

Who in the hell do you think you are bill nigh? You think you are some big shot,USA paid that land taken away from mexico with the California gold for pennies on the dollar, you need to take your history lessons again,and that without a social no illegal can get in a good paying job, besides working on the fields.Is that the best you can come up with you racist S* of b** 'cause the impresion I come up with if ain't white,you ain't right, is that the way you look at it? . If you are different you ain't worth none? Is that it , and I am not talkin' about just mexicans, I am talkin' about everyone else on different cultures.
If you are talkin' about fighting,maybe your mama did not give you enough love when growing up. GOD BLESS YOU

Posted by: R. Torres on 05/25/08 at 4:42 PM  Respond

we tried that in france... didn't work...

Posted by: blablah on 05/29/08 at 1:45 AM  Respond

what did you guys try in france, man.
To give therapy to angry people that just wanted to fight like bill nigh?

Posted by: R. Torres on 05/29/08 at 3:29 PM  Respond

Cajones means "drawers" as in, put your socks in your drawers

Posted by: Bill Nigh is an R-tard on 06/04/08 at 12:35 PM  Respond

this message is for bill.this nation is full of animals like you. that's got no heart but peer racist .i bet you would not work in the fields for 5.25 an hour and working all day in the sun. think obout it that is why economy is going down right now.

Hey People,

How can you think it is racists to tell the mexicans that they will NOT be able to reconquer the US..? We took it fair and square, and it will NEVER return..!!!
If your people want to LEGALY immigrate to the US, GREAT..!!! But if you want to sneak in and suck off our generosity, then we will hunt you down and deport your butts.!!! There is now a phone number in S. CA, that we can call if we see illegals gathered ANYWHERE and ICE will respond VERY quickly..!! Welcome to the USA...

Bill

Posted by: Bill Nigh on 06/10/08 at 8:41 AM  Respond

Where are all the super heroes?
Shouldn't there be a MESTIZO MAN
and BEANER BOY? Sheesh.

Posted by: Phil W on 06/14/08 at 5:26 PM  Respond

This is sick. Getting away with crime and bragging about it.

Posted by: Anonymous on 06/28/08 at 11:30 AM  Respond

Bill, you're an idiot.

Posted by: bizona on 07/02/08 at 12:10 PM  Respond

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