I can't remember how I got this:
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Gideon is one of the "Lost Boys," a group of more than 400 teenagers - some as young as 13 - who authorities in Utah and Arizona say have fled or been driven out of the polygamous enclaves of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City over the last four years. His stated offenses: wearing short-sleeved shirts, listening to CDs and having a girlfriend. Other boys say they were booted out for going to movies, watching television and staying out past curfew. Some say they were sometimes given as little as two hours' notice before being driven to St. George or nearby Hurricane, Utah, and left like unwanted pets along the road. Authorities say the teens aren't really being expelled for what they watch or wear, but rather to reduce competition for women in places where men can have dozens of wives. "It's a mathematical thing. If you are marrying all these girls to one man, what do you do with all the boys?" said Utah Atty. Gen. Mark Shurtleff, who has had boys in his office crying to see their mothers. "People have said to me: 'Why don't you prosecute the parents?' But the kids don't want their parents prosecuted; they want us to get the No. 1 bad guy - Warren Jeffs. He is chiefly responsible for kicking out these boys." The 49-year-old Jeffs is the prophet, or leader, of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The FLDS, as it is known, controls Hildale and Colorado City. The sect, which broke from the Mormon Church more than a century ago, has between 10,000 and 15,000 members. It believes in "plural marriage," that a man must have at least three wives to reach the highest levels of heaven. The Mormon Church forbids polygamy and excommunicates those who practice it. Polygamy is also illegal, and in recent weeks law enforcement has turned up the heat on the FLDS. |
I expect to have more on Immigration later. But fundamentally, the problem has its' roots in over population. Presently, the United States is a dumping ground for the poor and peasants from around the world, and to a lessor extent from the religious practices promoting large families by churches such as the FLDS, and Catholics and Mormons.
If we are honest: The immigrants coming across our borders are less of a burden on our society than the infants dropping out of the womb. Immigrants, are by and large adults who can accept jobs and be productive. Babies require: medical care, day care, and schooling; and won't be productive until they are nearly 20 years old.
Sooner or latter we must realize: we need to follow China's lead in putting limits on family size. And we must get rid of the silly law that any child born within our borders is automatically a citizen. That law was put into place to placate our stealing the country from the true natives of this land.
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