Mexican Consulate Opens In Downtown Indianapolis. (Shop after shop, sign after sign in Spanish)

WISHTV 8 ^ | 11-2-02

[Joe Hadenuf]

Shop after shop, sign after sign in Spanish. There are now some 34,000 Latinos and Hispanics in Indianapolis, and 60% of them are Mexican.

Welcome aboard Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky.

[glc1173@aol.com]

"Shop after shop, sign after sign in Spanish." (WISH-TV8)

This is what illegal immigration is all about - colonization. These people are not here to become Americans - and as such cannot be analogized to any prior group of immigrants to the U.S. They live in the U.S. only physically; psychologically, they still live in Mexico - watching Mexican TV on satellite, watching Mexican soccer leagues rather than the NFL dubbed in Spanish, watching videocassette Mexican movies instead of ours dubbed in Spanish.

Get the sticker!

[bleudevil]

I am eating some delicious tortilla chips I just bought at a Mexican grocery store on East New York Street in Indianapolis. I like most of the Mexican grocery stores I've been in. The one at Sherman and Washington is just as cheap as the Marsh next door and has a good selection. I'm not the only non-Mexican who shops there. The last time I shopped there, the checkout clerk was a black girl. I would rather see a thriving business than another closed-up store on Indy's east side.

[Joe Hadenuf]

You bet, and many that have cable television are paying to have about 15 percent of their channels in Spanish Korean etc.

When you call the TV cable people and ask them *why* you are paying for stations in foreign languages, they will tell you, "we are trying to appeal to everyone". But we do get a kick out of some of the stations where they are constantly shooting and killing each other every 5 or 6 seconds. Some of them appear as comedies, but sadly they are not.

[Joe Hadenuf]

I am eating some delicious tortilla chips

And that's what it's all about, tortilla chips.

Enjoy.....

[Joe Hadenuf]

Mayor Bart Peterson's

I am sure Mayor Peterson thanks you for your support.

[muawiyah]

Speaking of how immigrants can take over a place, German used to be "the" legal language in Indiana. Indianapolis had once had it's own "dialect" - See James Whitcomb Riley - but it was routed by the rough speech of the Deutschlanders. They rolled through the area at Warp Speed, took over every American business, ran all the American newspapers out of town, even demanded that elections be done "their way"!.

When my Grandparents were still kids, if you had to go to a court in most parts of the state and you spoke only English, you'd need an interpreter.

WWI and WWII devastated the German community and they became fully assimilated. Today people like Senator Lugar are well respected and they use English quite well, all things considered. He's a real credit to his race, eh?

Now, these Hispanics? Would it help if we conducted a war against Mexico or something? Certainly they are at least as smart as the Germans were and they'd get going on that assimilation part right quick. Maybe just a small war - that'd do it - run a couple of humvees over to Juarez and demand their surrender.

[bleudevil]

Give me tortilla chips or give me death! :->

I realize after I posted that how it sounded. I am concerned about illegal immigration, too. But someone running a legit business like a grocery store, I don't have a problem with. I assume they're paying property taxes, etc.

[widowithfoursons]

I worked for many years in Mexico, and they are wonderful people. They are caring, religious, and peaceful. But if I wanted to buy property there, I must be prepared for all kinds of hoops, and A LEASE (not purchase). These folks (if they are here illegally) are draining our taxpayer dollars to the max. Why cannot I move to Mexico and get the perks they receive from us? (And I would be a legal alien).It boggles the mind.

[afraid]

Aint nothing better than a latin woman guys. I got me one right here in south texas. Immigration from mexico is fine by me as long as they look as good as she does. She will have my last name someday. Schmidt.

[Servant of the Nine]

But can they tune a car for Oval Track Racing?

So9

[Joe Hadenuf]

Yes, it seems incrementally, one town at a time. I know of other towns where everthing, all the signs are in Chinese.....I mean everything.....And I am not talking about $50. signs. I am talking big commercial signs that cost $100,000 and where the people are living in $900,000 homes.

Interesting, aint it?

[glc1173@aol.com]

"Would it help if we conducted a war against Mexico or something?"

It would help if we at least had as much of a BORDER with Mexico as I do with my friendly neighbor!

Why is it so much easier to illegally enter the U.S. from Mexico than to illegally enter my backyard - over a 5' chain-link fence all the way around, with anticlimbing slats, plus unpredictable dog-run times - from my neighbors'?

[SamAdams76]

You think that's bad? I hear they are opening up an American consulate in LA.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Aint nothing better than a latin woman guys

And that's what it's all about, totilla chips and cute latin women!

HeeHaw!

[Joe Hadenuf]

I think President Bush was opposed to that, and it's off the boards.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Tortilla chips too......

[dennisw]

I have only contempt for someone who would write such pro-Mexican crud. My country is America, not Mexico.

[dennisw]

TOWER OF BABBLE BUMP!