What I found unsettling was the author's complete certainty that we "xenophobes" are such a "TINY MINORITY." Do you think we are?
Am I so immersed in my FReeper world, that I'm missing something real?
Have we been marginalized (by congress and the President)? Are we irrelevant?
How much welfare did the Germans, Swedes, the Irish, Italians, Poles, and Jews take once they got to the US? I’d say VERY LITTLE, IF ANY!
I had to laugh when I just saw Jeff Gordon’s racing suit with the word “Nomex”. For just a moment, I thought he was making a statement about illegal immigration. Turns out that is just the maker of the flame retardent suit.
I like Linda, in spite of her illegally employing her household help, but think her conflating xenophobes with folks against illegal immigration is bait and switch.
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. I can’t tell which. I only know there is an awful lot of it.
If you have to ask, you probably aren’t a xenophonbe.
If they pass this bill and we do nothing...
YES
I would DIS respectfully disagree with Chavez. ALL of these aliens are criminals, and many more, after invading our country, commit more crimes. She showed once before the law meant nothing to her. It still doesn’t. She is a disgrace.
Ms. Chavez,
If I have to abide by the law, so does everyone else.
Anything else is injustice.
-SF
I heard she learned how much money La Raza, etc. was getting from the Chamber of Commerce, and wants a piece of the action. (just kidding...???)
Or maybe she’s just worried the Bush/Rove/MSM plan to define all opposition as racist is losing steam.
I don’t see that, MSM and Liberals are sufficiently scared of being called racist and don’t seem to be relenting. Never is a liberal who opposes the bill, like some Senators, given a voice, their concerns weighed equally.
Instead we have the Rove/Chamber narrative validated and repeated without question. Last year, with just a few directions from Rove, the MSM ran with the “House conservatives” are the problem.
the tactic this year was to create a sense of bipartisanship, coopting one “conservative”, Kyl, a sell-out, into a bill WORSE than last year’s to present a sense of “compromise” and momentum.
That failed when the bill wasn’t ready but “agreed upon” and the people got a peek. things are still problematic so the Admin and lobbies are pushing the racist angle again...with the MSM liberals playing along ironically like Bush stooges.
But “house conservatives” don’t rule the House,
The big, unspoken, problem is House Democrats who might not like the bill.
When and if the MSM relents and opens up debate on the facts, the bill will be in deeper trouble.
I think the difference is that some immigrants who come and have come here legally do not have a sense of entitlement.
Ms. Chavez not only defends entitlement but believes that she can eliminate the consequences== that she has control. She believes that the creation of a permanent underclass is due to the bigotry of onlookers, instead of the narcissism of those promoting a policy that treats some individuals as less competent and thus less accountable than others.
Linda Chavez is one of the White House’s designated ‘marginalizers’.
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In a letter to the WSJ signed with LINDA CHAVEZ, Grover Norquist, Tamar Jacoby, Newt Gingrich, Cesar Conda and others she promoted Bush/Kennedy Amnesty as the only workable approach.
snip] The Wall Street Journal February 6, 2004 Welcome to America
President Bush has proposed a new legal path to work in the U.S. through a temporary worker program that will match willing workers with willing employers. We applaud the president and believe his approach holds great promise to reduce illegal immigration and establish a humane, orderly, and economically sensible approach to migration that will aid homeland security and free up border-security assets to focus on genuine threats. The president has shown courage by calling on Congress to place reality over rhetoric and recognize that those already working here outside the law are unlikely to leave. Congress can fulfill its role by establishing sufficient increases in legal immigration and paths to permanent residence to enable more workers to stay, assimilate, and become part of America.
Immigrants are crucial to our competitiveness and future labor and economic growth, as well as our military strength. Our country’s welcoming attitude to immigrants will permit the U.S. to grow and prosper, as the populations of many other nations stagnate and decline.
Co-authored by Stuart Anderson, Jeff Bell, Linda Chavez, Larry Cirignano, Cesar V. Conda, Francis Fukuyama, Richard Gilder, Newt Gingrich, Ed Goeas, Tamar Jacoby, Jack Kemp, Steve Moore, Grover Norquist, Richard W. Rahn and Malcolm Wallop
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836137/posts?page=65#65
This line is so stale. It ain't 100 years ago.
Come to think of it, the race card and the bigots lines are pretty stale too. And all they do is say "look at me, I've lost the argument."
Yup, that's us "xenophobes" (anyone who disagrees with her) alright. < /s>
Linda, shame on you for for writing such trash.
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.
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?
The writer of this article is the one living in a dream world if he really belives the crap he has smeared us with.
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.
Isn’t this Mitch McConnell’s wife?