Thread: COMMENTARY : THUMBS DOWN ON BORDER FLICK

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To Remember Maria Guadalupe Beltran wrote on Dec 14, 2007 11:50 PM:
" She was not killed by an Illegal American. "

ILK wrote on Dec 14, 2007 11:57 PM:
" When one uses ilk, as in the phrase men of his ilk, one is using a word with an ancient pedigree even though the sense of ilk, "kind or sort," is actually quite recent, having been first recorded at the end of the 18th century. This sense grew out of an older use of ilk in the phrase of that ilk, meaning "of the same place, territorial designation, or name." This phrase was used chiefly in names of landed families, Guthrie of that ilk meaning "Guthrie of Guthrie." "Same" is the fundamental meaning of the word. The ancestors of ilk, Old English ilca and Middle English ilke, were common words, usually appearing with such words as the or that, but the word hardly survived the Middle Ages in those uses. http://www.nctimes.com/content/articles ... 052007.jpg "

Chris wrote on Dec 15, 2007 12:09 AM:
" At a time when America is in crisis, one man ventures to the southern border of Mexico in a big blue bus to discover the truth about illegal immigration. Filmmaker Chris Burgard’s movie is a striking and awakening vision of the true immigration story on our southern border. "Border" is a fresh and controversial documentary that takes a firsthand look at America’s failure to secure its borders and at regular citizens trying to take control again. "Border" takes you on a journey from state to state and exposes a failed system and a failed policy who few dare to unveil. Burgard’s courageous journey includes powerful footage in the border crossing regions of America where dead bodies, armed Mexican military incursions, “rape treesâ€

Mercado said his wife had health insurance, provided through her U.S.-born children

Does that mean her US born children are paying for her health insurance - or does it mean because she has US born children, she is getting taxpayer funded healthcare?

I do wish they would be accurate and specific.