Do you see any assimilation in this photo?I didn't see too many friendlies in the streets this week!
WSJ just wants cheap labor for the companies, these are the Rockefeller wing of the party.
They disregard or are ignorant that the GOP took control because of the larger social conservative wing of the party.
They feel it's their country club republicans who are the driving force of the GOP,
Next year, they are in for a rude awakening when a democratic controlled congress starts to tax the heck out of them. And the social conservatives don't back this 3% of the population.
The illegal criminals who are mexican are NOT NEW IMMIGRANTS ones who respect America and Americans and our laws, they are illegal "immigrants" better known as invaders, so get your blasted facts straight idiots!
PS notice that the Evangelicals, Falwell, Robertson, have been extremely quiet about this issue that has turned into a crisis.
tancredo has either worked in govt.(teacher or legislator) or in a non-waelth producing think tank.
"To wit, do Republicans want to continue in the Reagan tradition of American optimism and faith in assimilation that sends a message of inclusiveness to all races?"
Not with La Razza signs and Mexicans hoisting their flag over US schools.....the author is clearly a dolt!
The GOP has sold out it's base, plain and simple. This will cost them dearly. They will lost control of the whitehouse and congress if this amnesty sham passes.
The open borders elitists of the WSJ at it again.
...but, but some of them held a rally and some of the protestors waived Mexican flags. Surely this means that the 20+ million hispanics who came to this country to live a better life represent an immanent threat to our sovereignty. /s
Shills for the President and the elites of both parties.
If the GOP becomes the party of Tom Tancredo, it's no longer the party for me.
Ronald Reagan had respect for the rule of law. He had that 1986 amnesty forced down his throat by a Liberal Democrat congress.
Bush doesn't have that excuse!
Go, Tancredo, Go!
'Inclusiveness' carried to its logical extreme.
Just how many illegal aliens does the WSJ think America can handle? The twenty million plus we have now?
The 50 millions more that will come if they succeed in passing another disastrous amnesty now?
100 million?
A billion?
Everyone left on the planet?
The writer's language gives him away: He's an anti-conservative elitist.
'Inclusiveness'?
'Migrants'?
'Chauvinist conservatism'?
Sheesh...
A little warped don't you think, for people that willingly break the law by coming here illegally. Typical rhetoric from the appeasers of law breakers.....apparently 11,000,000,000 of these aliens will permanently hate me – while taking from the largess of this country. The only rational idea here is to return to a country that respects and follows the laws of its land rather than the feel good politically correct mistake of the Kennedy/McCain amnesty – Carter made the same mistake.
The fact that some have been living here for years, knowing they were breaking the law, is no excuse for amnesty – it is analogous to the law breaker who hides from the law for years before he/she is caught and pays for the crime…they knew what they were doing.
The guest-worker with the proper papers should work, it did in the past – IF – we have a proper INS and people in place that respect and follow the law.
The editorial writer and most of the posters here are at odds, but the real issue becomes one of politics. IF the GOP cannot make this into a law-and-order issue and becomes a more racial/polarizing issue, I agree with the WSJ- it will cost us big-time. The issue must be framed as one that is PRO immigration/anti-ILLEGAL immigration. The media will spin it thier way, regardless, so Bush and the GOP members need to to begin taking back the territory in the public arena - even if Bush needs to do so in Spanish.
Yes, we're all fired up about it. Yes, nobody wants to see some blanket amnesty program. But this has now become a real firebomb; a wrong move here will be a boon for the Dems, as all they are doing right now is watching us implode. We need to tread wisely.
I keep thinking about the claim that all Muslims evidently support terrorism as evidenced by the lack of world wide protest condemning terrorism being staged by Muslims.
If that holds true, then I must also reason that Americans support illegal aliens on our soil as evidenced by our inability to stage massive protests condemning illegal immigration.
Theodore Roosevelt had it right;
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Do you see any assimilation in this photo?
