Beachhead [Houston Chronicle supports illegal immigration, Mexico's agenda]

Houston Chronicle ^ | 9/10/06 | Chronicle editorial board (unsigned)

[lonewacko_dot_com]

FOUR years ago, Mexico closed its New Orleans consulate — essentially, for lack of interest. The Mexican government was pinching pennies, and closing the mission signaled a new focus on U.S. cities with significant numbers of Mexican nationals.

New Orleans now counts as one of those cities. That's why Carlos Gonzalez Magallon, Mexico's consul general in Houston, has launched plans to reopen a Crescent City mission — he hopes by Dec. 1. Gonzalez is right to act quickly...

...[A study shows that] nearly half of the city's new construction workers are Latino, and about a quarter of that new work force is undocumented...

...A consulate could offer limited but important protections for undocumented Mexicans...

...The New Orleans consulate can also offer "matriculas," or Mexican identification cards, which workers can use to open bank accounts, cash payroll checks, even obtain medical care. And a consulate can register children born to nationals in the United States and speed the transport of nationals' bodies home when they die...

[lonewacko_dot_com]

This editorial goes beyond simply un-American and fully supports illegal immigration and Mexico's agenda.

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[weegee]

Houston PING

[TexasCajun]

Cómico de Houston

[stevie_d_64]

Viva La Migre!!!

[pax_et_bonum]

Texas pingggggggggggggggg

[gubamyster]

ping

[demkicker]

thanks.... bttt

[Dog Gone]

I read this editorial this morning while getting ready for work and it made me hurl. Fortunately, I have a tile floor and cleanup was a snap.

I really need to skip the Houston Chronicle editorial section if I'm going to get a good start to the day.

[fantom]

Who owns the Huston paper ? it may be the tribune group. They also have spanish news interests.

[Dog Gone]

The Houston Chronicle is owned by the Hearst Corp.

[deport]

People will go to the work or so it seems.... There is a contingent of some 300 workers from India scheduled to be in the Orange Tx area within a few weeks.... These supposedly will be legal....

Worker Shortage Prompts Business to Hire From India
September 9,2006
Inside Signal International's assembly hangars in Orange, there's plenty of work to be done building and repairing offshore rigs, but there's not enough qualified workers to keep up.

Signal International-Texas General Manager Tom Rigolo says Hurricane Rita drove away many of his employees and other skilled laborers.

"Right now there's a shortage," Rigolo said. "We need to keep our contracts moving to keep building our workforce."

So to do that, Signal International has dug up an idea to make sure the work doesn't have to grind to a halt.

In about five weeks, 300 welders and other skilled laborers from India will arrive and clock in.

"Most of them have worked in this field for quite a few years," Rigolo said. "Most of them have 8 to 10 years experience and are good workers. Certainly they have the certification requirements that we need for the type of work that we deal with."
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A couple of months ago another employer in Vidor was looking to hire some 200 or so fitters/welders from Mexico with cards but ran into a problem with the city about housing them onsite. I don't know the outcome of that one.

[Dog Gone]

It's not terribly surprising. Unemployment is low and it's not as if we have a bunch of skilled workers who want to work looking for work.

[deport]

Also hunting season is fast approaching and some of them take a little time off to chase the critters........

[ruination]

The Dallas Morning News also had a similar editorial today.

[Dog Gone]

Thanks for the reminder. I need to get a new license myself.

One of these years, I'm actually going to get that buck I've been fantasizing about.

[Vortex]

consulate can also offer "matriculas,"

Every time I drive past the mexican consulate on I-35E in Dallas it's packed with lines around the building.

[HoosierHawk]

I rolled my eyes at the end.

Most important, it would nudge New Orleans officials to ready their own institutions for the city's new, Latino-tinged identity.

With libs, it's all about race and ethnicity.

Nothing else seems to matter.

[texastoo]

McAllen, Texas only 9 miles from the border has 2 consulates.