Cue the "Poor Illegals" Violins

Flopping Aces ^ | 09-30-09 | Wordsmith

[Starman417]

The NYTimes has another illegal immigrant sob story and heartstring tugger, by Nina Bernstein (who specializes in such anecdotal propagandized tales):

Frail and dignified at 88, the man leaned on his cane and smiled as the story of his immigration in 1936 flashed behind him on a museum wall. Like tens of thousands of others who managed to come to the United States from China during a 60-year period when the law singled them out for exclusion, the man, Tun Funn Hom, had entered as a “paper son,” with false identity papers that claimed his father was a native citizen.

For years, it was a shameful family secret. But Mr. Hom, a New York laundry worker who helped build battleships in World War II and put three children through college, outlived the stigma of an earlier era’s immigration fraud.

A narrow legalization program let him reclaim his true name in the 1950s. His life story is now on permanent display at the Museum of Chinese in America, which reopened last week at 215 Centre Street. And it illuminates an almost forgotten chapter in American history, one that historians say has new relevance in the current crackdown on illegal immigration.

“When we think about illegal immigration, we think about Mexican immigrants, whereas in fact illegal immigration cuts across all immigrant groups,” said Erika Lee, the author of “At America’s Gate: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943.”

We think about Mexican ILLEGAL immigrants in large part because we share a border with Mexico, a country who can't provide stability and prosperity for a vast number of its citizens. Consequently, around 70% of the illegal immigrants are coming from our southern borders.

That said, there's also this worrisome thing known as "Islamic terrorism"? It'd be nice if we could at least keep the Islamic crazies who enter this country down to at least the bare minimum of those who do so legally; is that too much, too unreasonable to ask for?

No, opposing illegal immigration has nothing to do with racism.

Long after exclusion laws were repealed by Congress in 1943, after China became a World War II ally, that vast power over noncitizens was deployed in raids against immigrants of various ethnic groups whose politics were considered suspect.

And rightly so. (The dangers of espionage and sabotage within our own borders by aliens and descendants of Axis nations was real- this includes but was not exclusive to, those of Japanese-American ancestry- read Michelle Malkin's In Defense of Internment).

[Frantzie]

Go to www.numbersusa.com to fax for FREE to stop amnesty and illegal immigration. They have canned letters they come up with on a regular basis and it is easy to use. It takes me 2 minutes a week to do all the faxes.

Also keep hammering them on Obama DeathCare. See below for calling and faxing.

www.faxzero.com and www.getfreefax.com. Both services allow 2 FREE faxes per day or 4 in total.

Fax and call. Do their DC offices and in-state. Google their name and write down ALL the phone numbers and faxes.

No crying or hand wringing. Tell friends, neighbors, family members etc.

[La Lydia]

Many of the illegal Chinese who are entering now are coming here from Mexico.