Posted on 05/06/2006 4:14:36 PM PDT by Crackingham
In the political cartoon, the Latino vegetable picker has the stereotypical sombrero, checked shirt, bushy hair and black moustache. The heads of ugly "bigots" are popping out of the ground. (A sign in the field says "Bigots" so we know what they are.) The farm worker dripping with sweat is plucking the heads from the soil and depositing them into his bag. The caption reads "... and what grows in the fields illegal immigrants pick?"
According to the image, there is justice in serial decapitation for these, uh, cabbage heads. The word "bigot" settles all arguments and implies the final solution.
Cartoonist Mike Lane of The Sun of Baltimore surely would count us among the bigots: We do not support illegal aliens. Neither do we support the mobs that march in the streets attempting to cower us into abandoning the rule of law.
Other childlike minds in the media desist from making a sharp and meaningful distinction between legal and illegal immigrants because they do not wish to expose the consumers of their claptrap to the barest inkling of critical thinking.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
It's not about RACE.
It's all about what all our other LEGAL immigrants did - they went through the LEGAL process.
I had it out with a Code Pinko moron yesterday. She called the Minutemen a bunch of biggoted racists etc and said that she could be proud of being a follower of "Mother Sheehan".
I sent her David Dukes website and pointed out that he pledged his support for Sheehan. The Code pinko moron never responded, she just closed her account like a coward.
The only problem with this whole thing is that they are in our country...not Mexico. In other words, Mexico has refused 'FOREVER' to do anything to upgrade their OWN country for their people.
The issue of a guest worker program is separate from the issue of illegal aliens. If illegal aliens take jobs from Americans (and they do) they take even more jobs from foreign nationals who apply by the legal route to work here and wait years for the chance. Illegal aliens steal that chance from them.
They are different groups of people, regardless of their country of origin, and the political issues that concern them are different in their effects and needs. Confusing the two may be lethal to our society, economy and sovereignty.
We already have a guest worker program, which may indeed need to be reformed. But illegal aliens are those who have not applied to be guest workers. There are 11 million of them by some estimates, 20 million by others. The only thing needing reform concerning illegal aliens is to enforce the existing laws respecting their presence and their employment here. Our sovereignty and rule-of-law demand it.
Border security is the number one problem in this debate. The flood of illegal aliens is a major factor in relation to our lack of border security but it is only one factor. There is also a matter of national security in a time of war and in an age when terrorists have set their sights on inflicting mass destruction on our society.
After the issues of border security and millions of illegal foreign nationals on our soil the matter of guest workers is very small in comparison. Until the first two problems are thoroughly and firmly addressed the guest worker issue should not even be discussed.
The President and the Senate need to get that message with unambiguous resolve.
The best methods to control the border have been studied and debated for a long time now. There are many good ideas and proven solutions. What is lacking is only the will to do it. The cost of controlling our borders will be insignificant compared to the price we will pay, both in security and economy, if we do not.
It would be nice to help everyone in the world lift themselves up out of poverty. But we cannot take that responsibility upon ourselves especially if we ignore our own welfare to the point that we are no longer prosperous.
Other nations of the world have an obligation to help their citizens every bit as much as we have to help ours. It is one thing to help other nations prosper it is quite another to relieve them of their own responsibilities. Beyond that it is simply not realistic to think that poverty can be ended around the world. We still have some in this great nation.
We must stop pandering to American employers who criminally employ illegal foreign nationals. Dry up the jobs and illegal foreign nationals will go home. Home where they can do what they must to put their house in order just as we must put ours in order.
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