Posted on 04/14/2005 10:03:07 AM PDT by HiJinx
Thanks to both of you for putting this up. I'll lend you some extra credibility, because I've been down there and I've seen it. Every American ought to see it.
Now, what we need to do is find some pictures of the damaged ranch fences and what they do to the livestock.
I just noticed the change in your title....great!
These groups would be stampeding Washington if this was happening anywhere else and for any other reason. Taking note of this will require them to acknowledge illegal immigration as a problem.
Thanks for the idea...
Not a U-Haul. But a big stinky garbage truck with protest signs on it. It would be wonderful to see on national news a huge pile of stinky, fly-ridden criminal invader trash dumped at the front gate of the White House. Whoever drives the truck should expect to be thrown on the ground at gunpoint on national TV. He would need to be a border area resident who personally gathered some of the trash and had a good story to tell about the damage that illegal aliens have personally caused him and his family.
The truck would have stopped at city after city on the way there and small rallies would be have held with displays educating people about the problems with the border. A national spokesman and other associated organizations would hit all the radio and TV talk shows leading up to the big delivery. Political theater at its finest.
Do you think, even then, that the President would get the message that we're FED UP with this mess?
If it was happening in Crawford, Texas President Bush would have already called out the 3rd Infantry Division to put a stop to it. Hmmm...Crawford would be a good stop on the way to Washington, DC with our stinky illegal alien garbage delivery caravan. Maybe a smaller truck could make a delivery there too....
Why is such a fine President completely missing the boat (and the people's desires) on this issue??
Maybe a cross country caravan of big trucks carrying part of the garbage with big signs saying "This is just a fraction of the garbage on our southern border."
That would get someone's attention!
Have you seen this thread?
From your link above....I was right about the environmentalists.
As DumpsterDiver says, this may be a way to get more exposure about this problem. These people must be squirming over this.
Dumping of Trash, Waste, Endemic in State with Flood of Illegal Immigration
Bitter Division for Sierra Club on Immigration
By Felicity Barringer, The New York Times, March 16, 2004
Immigration is creating a bitter leadership struggle in the Sierra Club, a 112-year-old organization of 750,000 members that works to bring conservation and pollution issues to public attention.
Barringer writes that the Sierra Club is struggling over "whether to advocate tough immigration restrictions as a way to control environmental damage that has been associated with rapid population growth."
U.S. Census Bureau figures show that nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population growth over the last 10 years has been a result of direct immigration; many of the immigrants have settled in California, the Sierra Club's home base.
http://usinfo.state.gov/eap/east_asia_pacific/chinese_human_smuggling/smuggling_in_the_press/environment.html
absolutely disgusting! where's the enviro wackos?
Exactly what I want to know!....see post #53
interesting that the radical enviro's of tucson are not down there protesting. (/s)
The Sierra Club has pretty much kept its hypocritical mouth shut about illegal immigration and its impact on the environment. They don't want to rock any boats.
Sierra Club Revisits Issue of Immigration
April 12, 2005
A year after a bitter election for the board of the Sierra Club that focused on candidates' stands on immigration, the issue is now before the membership, this time as a ballot initiative.
Neither side said it expected a victory for the proposal, which would commit the club to support "lower limits on migration to the United States to address our nation's rapid population growth and its harmful effects on the domestic and global environment."
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Last year, the debate was tainted with allusions to racism and character assassination, and although a taste of that vitriol was evident in interviews with the chief combatants, the comments and the contest this year have a pro-forma feel.
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There are a lot of articles here at Google.
Kolbe, Bush Amnesty Proposals Protested in Sierra Vista
By Todd Evans
Cong. Jim Kolbe (R-AZ), whose amnesty/guest worker legislation closely parallels President Bush's amnesty proposal, found a surprise at his town hall meeting in Sierra Vista this past week. Awaiting his arrival were a dozen protestors who disagree with the Kolbe-McCain-Flake guest worker legislation and Bush's Temporary Worker Program proposals which would provide amnesty for illegal aliens.
Among the protestors' signs were some that read, "No Amnesty! No Rewards!", "Terrorists Love Open Borders", and "Deport Kolbe."
Protestors displayed several bags of trash gathered from a campsite in a wash near two of the protestor's homes. The trash was laid out on both sides of the sidewalk leading to the entry of the city hall where the town hall meeting was held. Items in the trash included clothing, backpacks, spoiled food, cans and wrappers bearing Mexican labels, toiletries, medication and a number of black ski masks.
At the door to city hall was a full-sized, stuffed Border Patrol agent who was kneeling, slumped over a bench, with a large knife in its back which bore the labels, "Bush Amnesty" and "Kolbe Amnesty."
Upon his arrival, Rep. Kolbe was met with chants and catcalls from the protestors. One protestor used a bullhorn. Chants included, "No Amnesty! No Rewards!", "Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Illegal aliens have got to go!", and "No Bush Amnesty! No Kolbe Amnesty! No McCain Amnesty! No Amnesty!" Kolbe approached the building using an alternate sidewalk in order to avoid acknowledging the trash. When the protestors noticed him and aimed their comments his direction, Kolbe simply forced a chuckle and walked on. Kolbe did not acknowledge the Border Patrol agent with the large "Kolbe Amnesty" knife in his back placed at the entrance of the building.
The town hall meeting was standing room only with more than 100 people crowding the room and spilling out into a hallway. The meeting was repeatedly interrupted by loud and angry audience reaction to Kolbe's explanations of his and Bush's amnesty proposals. Two attendees voluntarily ejected themselves from the meeting after they stood up and loudly denounced Kolbe's amnesty plans.
After Kolbe explained the supposed economic benefits his guest worker plan would bring to employers in other parts of the country, among other things unrelated to people in his district, Kolbe was loudly interrupted with the comment, "There isn't a person in this room who will benefit from your plan! You represent us, the people in your district =- not the rest of the United States, not the economy! You represent us! Act like it!"
After the meeting, Kolbe was met again by angry protestors who loudly denounced his amnesty legislation. He refused to acknowledge their presence as he and his aides walked quickly to their cars.
Protestors later delivered the illegal alien trash to Kolbe's Sierra Vista office, leaving it leaning up against the office door. Along with the trash was a printed list of the names of 174 people from all around the country who claimed responsibility for the last time bags of illegal alien trash were left on Kolbe's doorstep. All trash was bagged in "Cochise County UDA Cleanup" bags provided by the county. UDA stands for "Undocumented Alien," and the bags were purchased by the county after receiving a $4 million grant from the federal government to clean up the thousands of illegal alien campsites, lay-up points, drop points, and open latrines that pervade the desert in the county. The county provides bags so that citizens can do the clean up themselves. The county does not allow the citizens to dump the garbage in the county's dumps free of charge and instead charges them to dump there.
http://www.azconservative.org/kolbeprotest.htm
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