I've had it.

[superloser]

"gringo" is a racial epithet as used by Hispanics and qualifies as a "hate crime" in most states. It is akin to calling a black person a "ni**er" (you guess the two middle letters)

[BeerSwillr]

GRRRRRRRRRRR.

That makes me so mad I'm ready to split into two.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Just a question, if a Mexican calls someone a gringo, is that an insult, or just similar in connotation to Americano?

What is with these dumb, juvenile questions. Is this suppose to be an intentional distraction or diversion from the this real crisis?

[Brian Allen]

The only way the kids hear it is as a sneered and snarled insult.

But bigoted, envy, hatred and rage-driven, hesperophobically-racist Central and South American Indians, like Africa-decended blacks, are imune from racism charges and hatred allegations.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Crisis, what crisis would that be?

I have already implimented all of your suggestions, not on principle, just because I do not have a great deal of disposable income. Write my representatives and senators? I have. What other suggestions do you have?

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

I remember the first time I was in Walmart and heard, "Jose Gonzales, your vehicle is ready in the Walmart Tire Center." Sounded odd to my ears, but now it's commonplace.

Hubby and I own a business, and we've only had one hispanic worker. Now our crew consists of a son and son-in-law.

But re: sending the $$ back home, we purchase all our inventory from a company in B'ham, and one of their employees does just that -- he works here most of the year, and supports his wife and 7 children and his parents in Mexico with what he makes in Birmingham. He's got a green card, so it's not just illegals which have this practice.

[Conspiracy Guy]

The only problem I have is with the illegals of any origin. I'm not anti-Hispanic or anti-Anyone wanting to make a better life. As long as both their status and means of making a living are LEGAL.

[CMClay]

I agree eith your rant 100%
Just a suggestion though, invest in a new lawnmower and tell him to go around your neighborhood offering to mow lawns.
People would much rather pay a neighbor to cut grass than the truckload of mexicans that usually come out.
My son makes a couple hundred dollars each month.
...and it's tax-free!

[Osage Orange]

You wrote:

"Yes there are a lot of Hispanics in Al & Ga.Are they all illegal? No. They are honest hard working people.Many are buying homes and starting buisnesses.When the economy turns back up most of the places they work will be begging for workers.You could not build a house or plant a ball field in Atlanta without Hispanics.They are the only ones willing to work 12hrs a day in the sun. "

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IMO....you should have stopped after your first three sentences. Your last sentence is painting with as big and broad a brush as the poster who say's "all hispanics are illegally here".

Maybe you could buy a smaller brush?

Just an observation.......BWDIK??

FRegards,

[Major_Risktaker]

You Nail It! The rich working with the rich to keep the rich in power.

I'll join a private boarder patrol for a few weeks a year if all of you will help!

Yip-n-&-Yap-in will not get it done!

We need 1 million new volunteers of america and forget the Senate.

[Osage Orange]

You wrote:

"So why did your account sit totally unused for over two years, only to be activated to attack people on this thread?"

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Appears like you caught a mole..........

Nice work.

FRegards,

[spodefly]

You could not build a house or plant a ball field in Atlanta without Hispanics.They are the only ones willing to work 12hrs a day in the sun.

As someone born and raised in Georgia and who has spent many a 12 hour day working outside during he summer, let me just call BS on your assertion that only Hispanics are willing to work for a living. There are plenty of people here in Georgia that were earning a living doing work that has been supplanted by cheaper* illegal and immigrant labor.

* Cheaper because they are willing to live 12 to a house in many cases ... is that what we want America to become?

[kcat]

BeerSwillr, I have been saying the same thing for the past few weeks. My 16 yo has been looking for a summer job for the last two months and I am noticing that the new fast food places around our area are hiring a lot of Mexicans. Even the garden shop where he worked last summer is now hiring Mexicans instead of neighborhood teenagers.

I guess I can't blame business owners for wanting people who will probably work longer than two months. Too bad for us parents. Too bad for the kids who need a little humility working at a usually crappy job making sandwiches or washing dishes.

P.S. I noticed last night that my daughter's math book has a spanish glossery. I thought that was interesting.

[BeerSwillr]

Yes, It's a damn shame. Summer hire used to teach kids valuable things about the workplace. Those days are sadly over with as I now realize.

I remember fondly my summer hire jobs. One summer I worked as an assistant at a plumbing & sanitation company. They had a contract with restaurants around town cleaning out their grease traps and guess who's job it was to insert and remove the suction tube at each job site. Man I'll never forget that smell.

[WRhine]

Hispanics are now the number one minority in the US. GWB isn't going to do anything about this until after 2004.

You honestly believe that? You have seriously misread the man I think. IMO, the only action GWB will take on illegal immigration "after 2004" (and it could be before) will be to exacerbate the crisis with amnesties and more Hispanic Welfare programs.

GW "wants" to do this. He has proven this point time and again with statements that openly condone Illegal Aliens coming across our borders and his strong arm tactics last year to ram through the 245(i) Amnesty bill---Tactics that left many in the republican house leadership befuddled and angry.

Legal or illegal, any attempt to fix the problem will influence legal minority voters to vote against GWB, and Rove's plan is to make bigger dents in conceded D voting blocs like Jews, Hispanics, and Blacks.

So it’s come down to this: To retain “political power” a republican president must cave into every minority demand even though it would do great harm to the country? I don’t think so.

Did you know that OVER half of Mexican/American "Citizens" are against Illegal Immigration and want something done about it? So exactly whose vote is GWB actually going after by conveniently forgetting his constitutionally mandated duties to uphold the U.S. Constitution and laws of this nation particularly as it relates to protecting our borders, sovereignty and enforcing our immigration laws?

I'd like to know, because it seems to me that the Hispanics Voters who would react favorably to leaving our borders open to this invasion and want more taxpayer financed welfare programs do not exactly fit the political profile of a conservative or a republican for that matter.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

But, aren't Cuban Americans staunch conservatives? Don't you have to break up the Hispanic vote into different groups?

[tame]

Tiffany is totally against illegal immigration. Trust me. I know her very well. She went with me to a few rallies in Fresno(as well as the SoreLoserman rallies in Westwood)--She's pictured with myself, Jim Robinson and others during a Fresno rally (see my links page). Tiffany is precious, and very conservative.

[WRhine]

But, aren't Cuban Americans staunch conservatives? Don't you have to break up the Hispanic vote into different groups?

Yes--for the most part and Yes. Social Planners, for largely governmental/political purposes, conjured up the general term “Hispanic” years ago. It has little basis in reality today.

[jetson]

It is time to stop being such sensitive Americans and DEMAND that all contractors or american citizens' be fined big time for hiring illegals.

[txdoda]

Tiffany has been banned. >>>>>>>>>

Gee, too bad......:o)
I was hoping she might have been DEPORTED !!