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A number of photos were taken at yesterday’s Dallas illegal immigrant protest, including this one of a Democrat recruitment flyer encouraging Mexican immigrants to vote for Democrats in 2006.
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The fact that the Dems are recruiting at these protests isn’t a surprise. It fits into their big picture of race and politics (which is why the flyer’s visual puts Texas and Mexico together). The Democrats classify people based upon race and then work to corner the racial voting collectives. At this point, the white vote is already split down the middle, half voting Democrat, half Republican. The Dems have cornered the black voting collective with over 90% voting Democratic. If Democrats manage to corner the Hispanic vote like they have cornered the black vote, Republicans won’t win the White House for a very long time. This is the Democrats’ dream, so they are trying very hard to collectivize the Hispanic community by turning the immigration issue into another civil rights issue.
Immigrants who come from south of the border usually don’t see themselves as a part of a collective. They tend to be more individual-minded, which works to the Republicans’ benefit. However, these rallies and protests are helping reshape how these immigrants view themselves. As Power Line points out, one of the organizers of these rallies is A.N.S.W.E.R., a communist organization.
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Some legal immigrants are against illegals getting citizenship. Of course, their views rarely get covered in the media and are drowned out by the mass protests:
Contrary to scenes of hundreds of thousands of united Latinos marching across the country in support of immigration reform, a sizable number of the ethnic group opposes the marches and strongly objects to illegal immigration.
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“There are a lot of Hispanics that are upset about the illegal just the same way as the Anglo population,” said Barrios, a third-generation Mexican-American who traces his family’s roots in Arizona to the 1870s. “That group is larger than many people would believe.”
South Phoenix resident Elsie Orta said she has no plans to participate in Monday’s march in Phoenix.
“Other Hispanics have told me to go to the demonstrations,” said Orta, 55, who said her mother is from New Mexico and her father’s family traces its roots to Spain. “I think it’s hurting them. They’re making a fool of themselves.”
The Phoenix native believes Arizona is under siege by illegal immigrants who speak Spanish, use public services and take jobs away from citizens. Illegal immigrants, she said, should be deported.
“They want us to cater to them all the time,” she said. “They’re coming over here, they’re taking our jobs. And now, everything has to be in English and Spanish? I don’t think so. They need to go back.”
Update: The folks at Polipundit are really disgusted with the stand some Republicans are taking on immigration reform.
The following Republican politicians, who would sell US citizenship to millions of illegal invaders, have permanently lost my support for any elected office:
President George W. Bush
Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL)
Senator John McCain (R-AZ)
Senator Bill Frist (R-TN)
Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Senator Chuck Hagel (R_NE)
Senator Mike DeWine (R-OH)
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA)
Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM)
Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL)I donated thousands of dollars to these politicians when they were running for office. I urged PoliPundit.com readers to vote for them and volunteer for their campaigns. No more. They are agents of Mexico, not representatives of the American people.
Immigration is now one of the top issues weighing on Americans’ minds:
When people were asked this past week to name the top national problem that came to mind, 13 percent said immigration — four times the number who said that in January. Roughly the same number, 14 percent of those polled, named the economy, according to the poll of 500 adults conducted April 3-5. The survey has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
Update II: What an interesting collection of groups that are attending these immigration protests. Michelle Malkin has the details.
Update III: More to my point, Michelle Malkin notes that Ted Kennedy is scheduled to speak to the crowd in DC at 4:30 pm EST today.
Update IV: Rush Limbaugh referenced Wizbang and my post on his radio show today. Thanks, Rush! You can read and listen to what Rush had to say here.
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Deport Yourself Commie , and you dont know Jack.
Who’s Jack? Your husband?
This is getting way off subject for me so adios all you lefty greencard holders, may the maggots of a thousand flys infect your bed pans
>>may the maggots of a thousand flys infect your bed pans
Hmmm…that would be prety much like the inside of your head
Virgos Fan
i knew you would backstab as soon as you thought i was not here .. is,nt it time to turn in your library card and get off the computer so some other needy person can use the it .
I’ll stab you in the front. ha ha ha.
virgo – “name 1 crime that men make it a law to break that would not be a sin”
It’s against the law for a public school to host a Christian prayer group. Are you saying it’s a sin to pray, virgo?
To all those whose knowledge of Scripture seems to begin and end with “Where much is given, much is required …”
IMO, Jesus wouldn’t wait for the illegal immigrant to cross our border before He’d step in and help him … He was always big on GOING to others and rendering aid — and not just the Band-Aid of short-term relief that has the appearance of “doing something”.
I don’t see any of you lining up to go down to Mexico and do just that … rendering aid not only by delivering physical necessities, but in confronting the corruption that is oppressing these people and forcing them out of their nation.
No, instead, it is always America that is either the cause of the problem (and therefore deserves to alone be burdened with its resolution), or the cash cow that alone must be milked to solve the problem.
We didn’t cause this mess to begin with … and there are more resources than ours that should be applied to rectifying it. I’ll tell you where the prejudice is here … it is the prejudice of those who persist in viewing America as a greedy nation, facts be damned, and therefore deserving of all the burdens being placed on it, and it alone.
BTW, that same Jesus also told us to render unto Caesar’s, what is Caesar’s … and the way I see it, now that “we the people” have supplanted Caesar, that commandment carries extra weight.
Illegally slipping into this nation, and avoiding obedience to her laws … including, but not limited to, her tax laws … is not conformance to that commandment by any definition.
And if you want more reinforcement for this position, go read what Jesus’ spokesman Paul had to say in Romans 13.
Finally, what makes y’all think that Jesus would approve of people speaking for him, whose socioeconomic worldview can be summed up as follows:
We’ll guarantee your right to …
… get stoned …
… get your jollies …
… get a free Band-aid …
… get a check …
… and “get by” …
… by taking your right to get ahead, as we ignore your right to live
Read the parables … Jesus had a healthy respect for both the profit motive and the work ethic, as long as it did not get in the way of one’s relationship with Him. He also took a rather dim view of living like a libertine … even in the case of the convicted adultress, He told her to “go and sin no more” as He protected her and forgave her.
And, regarding the war we are presently in … the same God whose Son told us to turn the other cheek (which is quite different than forgiveness) gave us a total of four cheeks to turn … and a brain to discern an alternative course of action, prior to running out of cheeks.
Nice, Rich.
Everytime there is an amnesty, the processing of those LEGALLY petitioned gets affected as processing grinds to a halt. In the entire 2002 processing for children of Immigrants only moved by 1 month. I know because my petition got affected by it.
If Illegals want to protest they are most welcome but do so but conduct their protests and flag waving back in their country of origin!
They are not immigrants… they are Illegals! Immigrants are those who came in LEGALLY following the process set forth by the USCIS.
These Illegals do have some nerve to demand for changes in Immigration law and ask for a path for citizenship and jump in front of the line…even ahead of those who followed the legal process and filed petitions.
If they want to migrate to the USA, do it LEGALLY.
We’ll guarantee your right to …
… get stoned …
… get your jollies …
… get a free Band-aid …
… get a check …
… and “get by” …
Sounds good to me!
Where do I sign up?
Antigone
i think theres something wrong with that law dont you ?
Backstabber
Franken and the rest of your loverboys are waiting for you over at queer america , dont be late.
Actually, virgo, I find nothing wrong with that law. But you didn’t answer the question. Would it be a sin to break it?
NO.
Gee. So you get to pick and choose those laws you get to break?
And who decided that breaking immigration law was a sin? You?
Man, that’s horrible.
About as horrible as handing out voter guides in church.
What concerns me is all namecalling and ‘criminal’ comments in the national debate. By those standards Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Stonewall Gays, Women Liberation marchers in the 1920s, all these people are criminals. They were breaking the law and, in all cases, were arrested. But they were criminals b/c the laws were unjust. It was their duty to stand up to ridiculous, unfair laws which prevented them from living like average people.
When government laws contradict basic rights and principles (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness) it is not only our right to break the law, it is our duty. That is why we have protest, that is why we have an entire court of appeals. Government makes mistakes and has bad laws on the books. In those cases, it is up to the people to have a redress of grievances in the courthouses, legislative chambers, and the streets.
It is illegal to cross the borders into a nation without a passport. But when your family is going hungry there is no law in the world which is going to prevent people from trying to put food on the table and provide safety for children. If I was a Mexican man and I had the choice between being a law-abiding citizen that watched my family suffer while I waited years for a green card OR just crossed into America to start work so I could send money home, which choice makes sense? Which choice would you choose? I think most people -Mexican or American- would cross that border, laws be damned.
This is the fundamental underpinning of American democracy. Read Thomas Paine, Jefferson and our founding fathers. Protests is necessary and that is why it is in the Bill of Rights (right to assemble peacefully). And it is our duty not just to write people off as ‘scourges’ (Rep. Tancredo) or a bunch of ‘felons’ but to really look at this issue and come to a compromise.
Antigone
I commented on 1 specific law that i disagreed with, it is just my opinion.
I do not break any of these laws.
I did not write or screw up the current status of immigration laws either.
Do you have a point ?
If I was a Mexican man and I had the choice between being a law-abiding citizen that watched my family suffer while I waited years for a green card OR just crossed into America to start work so I could send money home, which choice makes sense? Which choice would you choose? I think most people -Mexican or American- would cross that border, laws be damned.
Finally, a reasonable opponent. You see here’s the reform I really want:
1). Get control of the border.
2). Reform the immigration process.
The current immigration process is typical of government policies in that it is inordinantly complicated, agonizingly slow and horribly inefficient. I’m all for making it easier for people to immigrate here legally. But you can’t have 2) without 1).
Without control of the border, no legal system of immigration will be sufficient to deter illegal immigration. You may remember that we passed this same amnesty nonsense 20 years ago. It worked so well that the number of illegals has doubled since then. We can’t sustain this.
If you were a real Mexican Man with a family in Mexico, you would stay and protect your family there and protest your own governmentS maltreatment instead of practicing the art of guilt transference to the U.S.
Those protests had hundreds of thousands of citizens. Many were the children of undocumented immigrants. Keep on trying to fire up your racist base.
The Marxists are alive and well and marching with the illegals. Brothers in crime. Breaking our laws, taking advantage of our benefits. Lovely bunch of people. GET RID OF THEM, THEY DON’T BELONG HERE. And as a taxpayer I am tired of paying for people to screw me without even a kiss.
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Right or Left, it’s amazing the levels people will lower themselves to because of their views. As a junior in high school, I can’t help but sit back and laugh at all you “adults” debating with one another.
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in the name of the good mexican people that are here only to work ,and do pay taxes ,I m going to ask for mercy,mercy not to the US gov, but to the american people because i feel theyre the real owners of this lands,
please have mercy
you can do anything u want with the bad immigrants that do cause trouble,
im not demanding a right or law that i know it doesnt belong to me ,but ill ask for mercy,thats my only right š
I say the rest of us “legal” Americans protest and not pay taxes!
We don’t need ANY illegal immigrants here, end of story. Either make them LEGAL or send them home.
Texas’ village idiot, Pres. Bush, said through a White House spokesperson regarding the “A day without immigrants” protests that “although he is not a fan of boycotts and protests, people have the right to organize and execute peaceful demonstrations of their veiws.” To that I say BULLSH*T!!!! AMERICAN CITIZENS have that right through the Constitution of the UNITED STATES. Illegal immigrants or illegal aliens have NO RIGHTS under the U.S. Constitution. They are criminals and should be dealt with as such. I am in no way against immigration. I am an electrician in Texas, and work side by side with Mexican immigrants everyday, weather they be fellow electricians or other tradesman. I am however a believer that if they want to be here, they should be required to pursue the proper avenues and file for the neccessary documentation. For years, illegal immigrants have worked here in Texas, providing ficticious Social Security numbers to employers. The Republican controlled government has turned a blind eye to this. Why you ask? Because these people will pay into Medicare, Social Security, and Unemployment for years through there taxible wages and will never collect on any of it. At the same time, these people have driven down the standard wage rate in every trade. When I first moved to Texas almost 4 years ago, the scale for a Journeyman electrician was $19.90 an hour. As of February 2006, the scale for a Journeyman electrician is $17.65. Over $2.00 an hour in 4 years. Is it getting less expensive to support a family in Texas? Absolutely not. Yet pay scales continue to go down for skilled labor. Part of the blame rests on the shoulders of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, who has issued Journeyman electrician licenses to people who have worked in the trade for over 8,000 hours, regardless of weather or not they have completed an apprenticeship program or passed a Journeyman electrician exam. The blame also goes to the Republican government, whose weak, ineffective, and more often than not, non-existent approach toward illegal immigration has allowed a tremendous influx of workers into the field of skilled labor. I have completed an apprenticeship program. I have also passed both the Journeyman and Master electrician exams for the State of Texas. It makes me sick that the license I have worked hard to earn is worth very little today.
Democrats support unions, unions support working families. Unions have strict requirements for acceptance into their training and apprenticeship programs. Requirements that would block acceptance to illegal immigrants. Vote Democrat. Return union strength to Texas. Return strength to American citizens. STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
are you people kidding me? does anyone see a frightening similarity to nazi germany? the fact is that this country depends on illegal immigrants to function. our lawmakers wont acknowledge them because there is just too much money being made exploiting these people! i feel that if someone is in this country illegally and is stupid enough to committ crimes then he/she should be deported, but if someone is here just trying to earn some money honestly and make a better life for themselves and their families then they deserve the same chance everyone else was given. unless you are a native indian no one has any right to demand that another person be deported! people are always scared of what they dont understand..that is human nature, so why not embrace our latin brothers and give them the chance they deserve? lets face the facts, these guys are hard working intelligent people and are no different than anyone else. remember the term no taxation without representation? well thats what this is. maybe this country needs a new revolution to remember where we all came from! i support the cause
our corrupt government is fighting a war in iraq to defend human rights while our lawmakers are trying to take away the most basic of all human rights in our own backyard! im sad to say that the american people have been “led by the nose like asses” by our lawmakers to the point that we dont even realize that this country doesnt care about human rights anymore like it used to but only oil! oil! oil! i do however support the men and women who have fought for our freedom, but not the government for which they stand for.
joyce it isnt the immigrants who are screwing you but your own beloved america has become a wolf in sheeps clothing!
Not unlike Alaska, et al, we paid the Mexican Government 18 million dollars plus, in cash, for what thay are now being brainwashed to believe is stollen property when there were only a few Spaniards and a LOT of indians. Hispanic blood is derived from the Indians. What do you expect from a crime ridden, communist people. They have NO idea they’re being used with historical lies. Dumb. I hope they continue marching. Not only is there already a political backlash in yesterdays elections, but without them on the streets and hogging the isles at Walmart with their non-mannered offspring, the traffic was light … no, awsome! NO waiting in the ERs, etc. The only businesses they hurt was their own. Like I said. Peanut brains …
hello im donovan weaver and i just wanted to say that i against MEXICANS………………………… even though i am one myself!!!!!!!! thats how much i hate them