We need to get serious. I just don't think we're serious enough.

Another reason the issue of sincere assimilation should be taken seriously. Immigration is not a joke. But the immigrants think it is. People seem to think America is nothing more than a giant theme park.

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N.Y. Cracks Down on Mystery Meats

By ADAM GOLDMAN Associated Press December 2, 2006

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NEW YORK -- A food safety inspector noticed an interesting special posted in the front window of a market in Queens: 12 beefy armadillos. In Brooklyn, inspectors found 15 pounds of iguana meat at a West Indian market and 200 pounds of cow lungs for sale at another store. A West African grocery in Manhattan sold smoked rodent meat from a refrigerated display case.
All of it was headed for the dinner table. All of it was also illegal

Authorities say the discoveries are part of a larger trend in which markets across New York are buying meat and other foods from unregulated sources and selling them to an immigrant population accustomed to more exotic fare. State regulators have stepped up enforcement, confiscating 65 percent more food -- 1.6 million pounds -- through September than they did in all of 2005...

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