Posted on 05/27/2007 2:50:56 PM PDT by Sleeping Beauty
Some people just don't like Mexicans or anyone else from south of the border. They think Latinos are freeloaders and welfare cheats who are too lazy to learn English. They think Latinos have too many babies, and that Latino kids will dumb down our schools. They think Latinos are dirty, diseased, indolent and more prone to criminal behavior. They think Latinos are just too different from us ever to become real Americans.
What is said today of the Mexicans, Guatemalans, Salvadorans and others was once said of Germans, Swedes, the Irish, Italians, Poles, Jews and others. The only difference is that in the past, the xenophobes could speak freely, unconstrained by a veneer of political correctness. Today, they speak more cautiously, so they talk about the rule of law, national security, amnesty, whatever else they think might make their arguments less racially charged.
Where once the xenophobes could advocate forced sterilization and eugenics coupled with virtually shutting off legal immigration from "undesirable" countries, now they must be content with building walls, putting troops on the border, rounding up illegal aliens on the job and deporting them, passing local ordinances to signal their distaste for immigrants' multi-family living arrangements, and doing whatever else they can to drive these people back where they came from.
There is no chance this small group of xenophobes will succeed. The victories of their predecessors have been short-lived and so obviously wrong-headed we've always finally abandoned them, from modifying and then repealing the Asian exclusion acts to scrapping the nationalities quotas. But we need to quit pretending that the "No Amnesty" crowd is anything other than what it is: a tiny group of angry, frightened and prejudiced loudmouths backed by political opportunists who exploit them.
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It’s going to happen. It happens about every twenty years because we don’t seal the border.
You know what they say about rape and inevitability, don’t you?
The same way we can explain a similar phenomenon in Western Europe, in which the first generation of Muslim immigrants is far less radical and far more assimilated than the second generation thereof and its European-born descendants.
I had a very dear friend living in England, and when she decided to visit the United States, I was thrilled.
When her Visa ran out, she snuck into Canada and hid there for about a year until the Government tracked her down.
Out of desperation, she crossed the border into Minnesota and begged me to hid her.
I turned my friend over to Immigration, for violating our laws.
Sorry, but even a personal friend is not allowed to become an illegal alien, and that had NOTHING to do with race.
BTW, my son-in-law is a LEGAL alien and has always obeyed our laws. For him, I will do everything possible to help, as he follows our legal system to become a citizen.
How dare they call me a “xenophobe” for protecting my country!
My greatgrandparents didn’t get food stamps, social security, welfare, paid hospital visits and free everything else.
In fact, they never expected anything other than becoming citizens and paying their own way.
I just watched the movie ‘Cocaine Cowboys’. I don’t think of them as freeloaders or welfare cheats.
It’s your choice to be a defeatist.
Every citizen and legal immigrant is allowed to apply for a Z-Visa on an equal basis as the illegals. This means they can select two out of five years to get all of their taxes refunded with interest and reimbusement with interest of all their fees and travel costs paid to get their papers in order for legal immigration status. They would be exempt from paying the fines because they did it legally in the first place, but they would be entitled to all the other benefits of a Z-Visa.
Are our overlords willing to try this experiment just so citizens and legal immigrants can be put on an equal playing field with the illegal immigrants?
Are they?
Good luck with that deportation. Fifteen or twenty million takes a lot of buses.
The writer of this article is the one living in a dream world if he really belives the crap he has smeared us with.
Better yet, every American citizen should apply for these same bennifits!
I would not have to pay taxes for a minimum of five years, until they could confirm my legal status as being born in the United States?
COOL!
This is an old tired argument also. We don't need to round up illegals, we merely need to shut off the reason they are here, I.E.: JOBS and WELFARE. If we deny them medical care, schools, welfare, jobs etc. they will deport themselves. First we have to enforce our existing laws and make sure we jail employers who hire illegals. The only new laws we need are stiffer penalties for employers that hire illegals. I would say a 10 year jail sentence should put the fear of god into most of them.
One thing is true, if we don't make an effort we won't accomplish the job. Defeatist such as yourself are actually open border asshats.
Come now, Ms. Chavez. Just break it down and tell it like it is: the “angry white male” is standing in the way of your plans to destroy this country by means of massive illegal invasion.
We got buses, so what is the problem, get the friggin invaders out....all the arguments for Amnesty are a fraud!
Jeez, if you think about the huge number (20M+) of aliens in this country and the very real popssibilty of another 9/11, and the subsequent martial law implications , you would see the problem with this AMNESTY!
Close the border. It should have been closed twenty years ago. To call me an asshat or an open-border guy is no better than calling people xenophobes for being against illegal immigration.
“That said, comments on FR attacking illegals as being on a level with urban gangsters and/or terrorists are based either on xenophobia or bigotry.”
Then you probably haven’t worked around many illegals.
No, it doesn't. It takes sending businessmen who hire illegals to prison for 20 years. Then watch the mass self-deportation of illegals.
Think 20 years is harsh for the suits? Ask the Enron guys.
I wonder if MS Chavez has similar concerns and labels for LaRaza or MEChA or LULAC or The Hispanic Caucus?
Isn’t this Mitch McConnell’s wife?
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