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 was deployed with a soldier whose wife (also a soldier) was an American with Mexican heritage. IIRC she was born in the US but had many relatives who were immigrants (both legal and other...).
At the time we were deployed they called for Mexicans to stay away from work on a certain day to show how important they were. Her family was pressuring her to do it but she argued that she could get in trouble.
I told the Soldier that I welcome legal immigrants (regardless of race and nation of origin) who come here looking for a better life. They must learn English so they can reach their full potential.
I likened it to the concept that if you knock on my door and ask for help I will grant, in God’s name, all that my house can afford. If you come through my window seeking to do evil you will have earned violence.
He repeated my words to his wife the next time she spoke. She said she had to think about what I had said. No one ever explained it to her that way.
My Uncle ((a Vet of 28.5 years) Thanks Uncle Robert and all vets) asked me this question today, and here is as good of a place as any to ask it. He also wanted me to “get the word out”.....
“Once all of these illegals get amnesty will they be required to register for the draft”?
Maybe someone here knows or can find out.
Gimme a break.
I don't like people who break into my country -- don't care if it's four million Germans, four million Chinese, or four million Mexicans. It's the "break into my country" part that gets me.
Mexico protects it's southern borders from South Americans trying to get into their country - are Mexicans also "xenophobes"?
“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 Germans, Swedes, the Irish, Italians, Poles, Jews and others all came through Ellis Island as REAL immigrants...
And this female doesnt quite go back far enough...
The immigrants who came here during the Civil war were consripted right off the boats..does she want that to happen now? or is she content with the illegal aliens not fighting in Iraq for “their” country?
“The only difference is that in the past, the xenophobes could speak freely, unconstrained by a veneer of political correctness”
That’s right..at one time the COTUS was the law of the land...free speech was protected..
We must realize that Linda Chavez is an 8th generation American from Mexico. She has held her MEXICAN-American heritage very close and very strong. She will defend the illegal immigration of Mexicans into this country without the legal means of applying, then entering this country. She lives in Washington DC or Arlington or one of the other states around DC. She does not have the privelege of dealing with the non-English speaking South Americans that we do, “on the border”. They expect us to learn Spanish. I already speak 5 languages, 2 European and 3 American Aboriginese, why do I need to learn Spanish? They are the foreigners, I’m an American, since before the first Eurpoeans set foot on this continent, let along the Mexicans. During the American/Mexican War, the northern Mexicans helped the American troops. We should, then, have annexed Northern Mexicao into the American Union. They would have been better off, because they are mostly Indians, people who were here before the Spanish invaded their part of the continent. Now we must deal with with Mexican who are mostly of the Indian Nation that first settled that country before the Spanish took it over and made the Indians 3rd world citizens. The cross-breeds and the Indians are the poorest of the poor in that country and come here because their country will not take the time or energy to incorporate them into their society. The European/Mexican nation is of the old world thinking. “We are the superior people, and these “natives” are to be expoloited. This has been going on since the 15 hundreds and the Indians there have not caught on. The reason so many of them are coming to this country. I sometimes resent the attitude of the “new” Mexicans in this country, because they think they are the privileged few. They are not, they are the “new comers” and must learn our ways, and leave their ways behind them. If only our weak kneed politicans had the comption to say so. I say if often, one of the reasons I’m no longer invited to Mexican parties.
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Yes. We have been marginalized, and the only thing that makes the honest taxpayer relevant is the money harvested from it.
Ms. Chavez proved that she has a small problem grasping the English language. She doesn’t know what “illegal” means.
I hope she gets a lot of fan mail from folks who waited, sometimes years, to be able to come here legally.
Act like a Democrat, expect to be treated like a Democrat: dogmeat.
Hey, if it's Fear and Loathing you want...
Why should the US Government be "fair" to non-US citizens? The US Government has no business being fair to anybody but it's own citizens. If one penny of US taxpayer money is going to support non-citizens, that is one penny stolen. If one public policy is biased to favor the non-citizen over the citizen, that policy is wrong on it's face.
The US Government is constituted by US citizens. It should have no other concerns.
Now, if somebody wants to make the argument that instant legalization of 20 Million law-breakers will somehow benefit the US Citizenry, I guess they are welcome to make it, but I don't think it will be very convincing. Unless they are going to make such an argument, I don't want to hear any blathering about "fairness".
Looks like she's transforming back...