I’m in a foreign country right now, and I just called home to hear that my wife because a guy has been calling the house and harassing her. This started on Saturday, before I left. He was calling and breathing heavy and muttering things in Spanish. I kept telling him he has the wrong number (in broken Spanish), but since I left he has been asking Paige to speak Spanish. She called the police, and they sent a Spanish-speaking officer over. When the guy called, the officer told him to stop calling and it was against the law.
So what did the guy do? Naturally, he waited until the officer left, and started calling again. Needless to say, Paige is freaked out, and I get to listen to her being freaked out from a hotel room 1,700 miles away, with absolutely nothing I can do about it except pray for her safety and my children’s.
Somebody tell me again why it’s so important that we let lots of non-English-speaking, unskilled immigrants into this country? I don’t know with absolute certainty that he fit into that category…but I would be willing to take 10-to-1 odds that he does.
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I’m assuming she already called the police again and/or did a *-whatever to report the harassment?
A sidearm is a girls best friend.
Eric, do you think you or your wife would feel better if this guy spoke perfect English?
I feel badly for what you’re going through here, but we have plenty of domestic perverts to go around. I’ve gotten calls from them too. When one called me in the middle of the night, and told me in perfect English that he was gonna kick my @$$, I called the police.
A Latino officer responded.
It’s terrible that your wife has to go through this. But I feel obliged to point out that there is simply no conceivable connection between an individual’s status as pervert and either his education level or his native tongue.
Gordon, yes, we’re pursuing things with the police.
Puzzled, you are absolutely right — and we’re way ahead of you. Any home invaders will get a free .38 caliber surprise when they arrive at the Johnsons.
I think you guys are missing my point: if we didn’t admit so many people to the U.S. whose demographic profile tends toward criminality (poor language skills, no vocational skills, young, male, barely educated) then there would be at least one fewer harassing voice on the phone. If we were importing lots of English-conversant, skilled, middle-aged females with Ph.D.s, that probably wouldn’t be the case.
Exactly Eric.
You haven’t mentioned the phone company’s call-tracing service, but I assume you already have that lined up.
What are the odds that we didn’t really “admit” this guy to the US?
Importing more poor people is of no benefit at all to middle and working class Americans but it is wonderful for the agricultural, food and hospitality industries. It’s also wonderful for the domestic help and general contractors and the landscaping industries. Compared to that, the rest of us have to like it or lump it as far as our politicians are concerned.
I hope that your stalker gets found and arrested quickly. That being said, the reason to allow lots of immigrants in is that, first of all, we need them. The only reason we have a fighting chance at beating the odds and not imploding is because we’re unusually fecund for a first world nation. Our “demographic exceptionalism” in large part depends on high levels of immigration. There’s a freight train headed towards your kids and grandkids that will either eviscerate our economy because the bond buyers head for the exits, cripple their wage earning potential with obscene tax levels or both. What’s your solution in a 1.8 TFR environment. Most restrictionists simply don’t have one and all of the solutions depend on highly unlikely changes in social programs.