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?
I thought they were going to muzzle this reporter all she does is slam Americans while making the hispanics look like they are always the victims.
“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.”
Unfortunately, that’s exactly the impression many have. And who’s to blame for that? the media?
Frankly I don't care where they come from or what language they speak. If they came here without following our immigration laws, pay no taxes, and use public services while at the same time refusing to do anything to fit into our culture while waving their home nation's flag in our faces, then yes, I have a problem with that.
I would hope that our opinion on this vital matter is not irrelevant. I would add, that my anger is with the illegal invaders, not with the people wanting to enter our country via legal means.
If ya ain't got substance ya use name calling, no matter left or right it seems. It happens.
Ms Chavez is an America hater. :)
She in promoting the unassimilated mass illegal immigration of only one race ..one she see as her race...
If it was another race coming in unassimilated mass illegal immigration displacing what she saw as her race...would she talk the same talk?...no... the racism is on her part...
It's no diffrent then the total hypocrisy of Mexico in general on illegal immigration...
Mexico and Mexican would never stand for illegal immigration and the demands that illegal make on there nation that they expect we in the US must except from them
You can test hypocrisy by putting the shoe on the other foot... when it comes to illegal.. do to Mexico what they do to us... they scream
“Have we been marginalized (by congress and the President)? Are we irrelevant?”
Yes. And Yes, again.
I think my relatives (Germans) were rather admirable, hiking across the Swiss Alps to escape that lunatic Hitler, rather than be part of his genocide. Great Grandpa & his brother lived in Switzerland for a short time, then made their way to America.
From what MY Grandpa has told me, they both worked like dogs to live “The American Dream.” And knowing my Grandpa as I did (we were very close) he learned his lessons well at his father’s knee.
During The Great Depression, my Grandpa NEVER went without work (he held three jobs at a time while others milled around in the ‘Bread Lines’) and never took a penny of charity. Providing for his family was his pride until he died a few years ago.
My Dad is the same way. Navy man, Biblical scholar, never let us kids or his wife miss a meal, go without shoes, or any other basics...even in the early 70’s when he was earning what would now be considered “below minimum wage.” My Mom never worked outside of our home once we girls came along. Dad wouldn’t have heard of it!
And this nut hasn’t fallen too far from the tree, either. I love to be productive. I’m a total Capitalist Pig, and I love to take care of my family. I’ve served twenty years in the Army. I LOVE my country; what’s being allowed to happen to Her just breaks my Red, White & Blue heart!
Are there legal Mexican, Guatemalan, etc. immigrants that are just like my German family? You betcha. Are they they majority today?
Nope. :(
My husband’s family is the same way, though they came from Sweden. When his Grandpa came to America, he changed his last name to the Swedish version of “New Mountain.” He knew he’d be “climbing a mountain” to start a new life in America. ;)
So you don't deny all the bigotry, you just deny that you are a mitority. Lovely.
Yeah, when you white skinned, gun toting, over aggressive ice people going to learn to stop being prejudiced?
(...see the irony? the left doesn’t/sarcasm)
Alright, let me be frank here. I am of Irish descent. My mother told me that when her father came to this country, around the turn of the last century, there was a great deal of discrimination against Irish immigrants. Even as a girl in the 1930s, she had a taste of it. But she admitted that much of what was said about the Irish immigrants was true. My grandfather said the same thing: the Irish really were dirty, inclined to breed lots of babies, inclined to violence and crime. They really were dirty (of course, it’s not easy bathing when you live in a slum and have no running water). They didn’t have the American work ethic and some of them joined Irish gangs. Just as with modern Hispanic immigrants, some chose to escape the ghetto by joining the cops, the fire department, or the military, while others became professional criminals. There was a lot of murder among or by Irishmen back then.
Perhaps the same might be said of Italian immigrants, though I won’t venture to speak for the Italians and do not have first-hand experience of them.
Here’s the difference between those immigrants and modern Hispanic immigrants: our ancestors in the last century were in a small minority so they had to assimilate. And they spoke English. Today, Hispanics are immigrating in such numbers that they have no need to assimilate at all. Even thirty years ago their numbers were such that they, and the social problems they represent, were controllable. That is no longer the case.
And of course, immigrants of previous generations did not demand to take part in social entitlement programs. They didn’t demand free health care, which is becoming costlier each year. Nor did they demand to take over the United States. The Irish and Italians of the last century not only assimilated, but became the most American of Americans, and with the possible exception of the Kennedys, America has the right to be proud of those descended from Ireland. But with the Hispanic tide, things are getting worse, not better.
Still, over a billion Hindus and a billion and a half Buddhists in East Asia know that letting in the 20,000,000 Hispanics will substantially undercut the justification for immigration by themselves in the foreseeable future.
Still, we don't need to use the Senate's xenophobia as a reason to oppose this bigoted bill. Think about it, if 20 million more Hispanics are going to be a wonderful addition to America, then 20 million more Hispanics moving back to their own home countries would probably usher in a golden age previously unimagineable in those parts of the world. In fact, their pathway to re-assimilation would be markedly improved since they already know the language.
The writer should be sent back to gradeschool BTW, but that's just my humble opinion.
They're ILLEGAL and have shown their unworthiness as potential citizens by the violation of our laws. What's more many are socialists that expect to be taken care of at our hospitals, schools, and soon will want retirement services. I swore I'd never consider moving to a socialist country. Dang sure I don't want one moving here.
People who engage in race baiting are the worst racists of all.
Ms. Chavez, you racist, I hardly knew yee...(thank God)...
I helped with a yard sale yesterday and I was amazed by the differences in the Hispanics that stopped to take a look around and the eastern Europeans. One group spoke good English, were respectful and were obviously trying to assimilate into American society.
Guess who?
Et tu, Linda?