[billybudd]

Inspired by the millions of illegal immigrants who took to the streets to demand legal residency...

There, fixed.

[Cinnamon]

now we just need to have lots of INS buses on location to shuttle them home once this meeting is over.

[Mr. Mojo]

Latino advocacy groups and politicians have called for a national Latino congress to keep the issue in the political spotlight.

The last thing they should want to do is keep the illegal immigration issue front and center before the American people. These groups had it best when everything was flying under the radar.

[Vision]

America, stand up and remove this irritating tick or you'll have this forever.

[Jameison]

"These mobilizations have shown that the immigrant community and the Latino community have political potential in impacting public policy,''

Yep.
They pissed off most Republicans in this country, made immigration the # 1 issue for the California 50th District and the November elections, gave the Republicans a solid win there, and strengthened the resolve of Republicans House members to kill the Senate Amnesty Bill.
Let's have more of them rabid, illegal immigrant demonstrations shall we?
We need even more ammunition to clobber you suckers with.

[Polybius]

.... to draft an agenda to strengthen immigrant rights, health care and education.

Except for the right to be President, we immigrants already have all the rights that any other citizen or legal resident in the U.S. has consistent with our citizenship status.

Illegal aliens, however, have no right to be living here in the first place.

[Fruitbat]

"These mobilizations have shown that the immigrant community and the Latino community have political potential in impacting public policy,'' said Angela Sanbrano, president of the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities.

...we need to create coalitions, and include Middle Easterners, especially in a post-9/11 climate.

And some wonder why some of us are for keeping Islam outta here! Substitute "Islamic" for "Latino" and it's a scary statement.

[machogirl]

"we want to invite the whole family", he joked.

this is not a joke, this is how a majority of Latinos feel that I know, granted, I don't know everyone, but I do know a lot of Latinos here in AZ. In school the first(not born here) and the second(born here) groups of kids don't integrate well. Even when they learn English well enough, the allegience still seems to be to mexico or another country and they hang out in mass. Most of their parents do not emphasize education, as the parents are able to operate well within a sizable society with all the necessary business, that are Hispanic and speak Spanish. There is no need to assimilate. This kind of immigrant is different that what I saw 20 years ago, as a Native Arizonan. They have such a large community, it's just like Mexico. When they sell a house, "they want to keep it in the family". This means they won't sell it to anyone unless they are hispanic. Anyone that thinks this group will be inclusive instead of exclusive needs to think back to those marches, mexico flags, aztlan

[Roccus]

Seeing stuff like this happening in my country makes me glad I'm single, have no kids and am old enough to know I'm gonna die soon.

[FlingWingFlyer]

...to draft an agenda to strengthen immigrant rights, health care and education.

That's going to cost the U.S. taxpayer some bucks.

[szweig]

If these stupid bastards would start referring to themselves as Americans rather than anything else they and the rest of the nation would be better off for it. There is no need for any separate anything. And anything resembling what they are calling for is separatist and racist by design...SSZ

[TLI]

Next month, Calderon's group plans to meet with white members of a Presbyterian church who employ Latino gardeners and housekeepers.

"Latino interests are the interests of many working-class communities of color (as well as) working-class whites,'' Ochoa said.

Organizers of the Latino congress are inviting elected Latino officials -- now about 5,000 -- from government, chambers of commerce as well as from the National Council of La Raza,

It is my opinion that mr ochoa and associates are racist pond scum. No place for that in this nation.

[FerdieMurphy]

[ASOC]

The Marxist buzzard start to circle....

Hopefully, smarter folks will prevail.

[NapkinUser]

"Inspired by the millions..."

Millions? What a fantasy world some live in.

[umgud]

"That will take a long-term effort of voter registration, getting people out to vote, training local leaders and new candidates,

It's a good thing illegals need papers to vote.

[BW2221]

It will be interesting to see how many Democrats and RINOs attend.

[DustyMoment]

Inspired by the millions of immigrants who took to the streets to demand legal residency, Latino advocacy groups and politicians have called for a national Latino congress to keep the issue in the political spotlight.

What a great idea!!! Apparently, these bozos haven't felt the palpable anger they have stirred up in this nation and they want to fan the flames even more.

Geniuses like this need to expend their energies fixing their own countries, NOT trying to make this one into a carbon copy of the one they left to invade this one. IOW, Mexicanos GO HOME!!! Mi casa NO ES su casa!!!!

[ckilmer]

The trouble is that no one quite sees that the very best thing we could do for Mexico is to send their now well trained citizens home.

Suddenly Mexico would have a skilled workforce who knew something about how a world class country worked.

Think these folk would propel a great leap forward for Mexico?

I do.

Basically the ruling class in Mexico will not change of its own volition. But it can be forced to change.

The Mexicans in the USA have had the picture of what a well run country looks like tatooed on the back of their eyeballs. And they'll have an idea of how to get there. Send them back to Mexico and they'll get a revolution in Mexico that'll do that country some good.

The shock troops for that would be the 12 million repatriated Mexican citizens. Having seen what a well run country looks like they would not want to be stuffed back in the old wineskin.


There's something more.

I follow water desalination research pretty closely. While water desalination costs have dropped to about a third of what they were 15 years ago--the rate at which prices will drop over the next seven years will accelerate considerably. imo in even the next five years we will see desalination costs drop to 1/10th of today's costs.

Basically, the foundations are being laid today to make it economically feasable to to turn all the world's deserts green. (The proper way to look at this is to recall that cars, tv's and computers were at first rich men's toys but when prices came down they changed the world. Desalinised water is still relatively speaking -- a rich man's toy. But when the price drops sufficiently--desalinised water will change the world--because most deserts are right beside the ocean.)

imho cheap desalinised water will do for the republicans (if they can get this on their agenda) what the great dam building projects & the tva of the 1930's &40's did for democrats because 1/3 of the US is deserts. We would increase the habitable size of the USA by 1/3.

Dirt cheap desalinised water will also do things like make it possible to double the habitable size of Mexico.

And desalinated water in tandem with repatriation of now skilled Mexican citizens would propel Mexico into being a world class country.

[RedMonqey]

Latino congress could convene in Los Angeles

OK now, remind me again WHO is the racists in this arguement demanding elevated "special" rights for themselves?

Yeah, I thought so....