Dems Trying to Rewrite History on Immigration Reform
During the lead-up to the November elections, some fairly prominent Democrats are frantically rewriting history and trying to portray themselves as friends to the Latino community on immigration reform.
But a more careful and truthful reading of the facts should make one thing plain to America’s largest minority: with friends like these, who needs Republicans?
* Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a gathering of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute that the blame for the fact that there has been no action on a comprehensive immigration reform bill lies squarely with Republicans. Napolitano accused Republicans in Congress of acting in bad faith and “moving goal posts” by saying they want to secure the border and then failing to give the administration credit for doing just that.
Here, the secretary actually makes a good point that there’s a big difference between securing the border (what Republicans say they want) and sealing the border (what they seem to really want); one can be accomplished, the other can’t. Then, Napolitano urged Latinos to turn out and vote their displeasure in November.
“Your voice is your vote, man,” Napolitano told the mostly Hispanic group. “Your vote is the currency this town lives on.”
* A few days later, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that he plans to add the DREAM Act to a defense policy bill that the Senate is scheduled to take up. The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act was originally proposed in 2000 by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind. The bill targets young people in the country illegally, offering them “conditional permanent residency” if they came before they were 16 and if they attend college or serve in the military. Once they graduate or complete their enlistment, they would get permanent legal residency with a chance to eventually apply for U.S. citizenship. Reid framed the issue as settling for half a loaf since Republicans wouldn’t give up the whole thing.
”I know we can’t do comprehensive immigration reform,” Reid said at a news conference. “But those Republicans we had in the last Congress have left us.”
* The day after those remarks, President Barack Obama appealed to a Hispanic audience to support Democratic candidates in the November elections despite the fact that he failed to keep his promise to pass an immigration overhaul — or even make it the top priority he pledged he would while campaigning for president. “You have every right to keep the heat on me and the Democrats, and I hope you do. That’s how our political process works,”
I guess it doesn’t matter a bit to you that the majority of Americans DON’T WANT MASSIVE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION to be amnestied. You are like the rest of the left wing fascists who drape themselves in the mantle of “democracy” while shoving their will down everyone throats. In fact, most of us want MASS DEPORTATIONS and are no longer afraid to say so. The name calling, intimidation, and left wing mind control tactics are sooooo yesterday. Aliens are ruining our economy, depressing wages, destroying hospitals, schools, neighborhoods, occupying a great deal of jail space, refusing to blend and want to be catered to, their language to co-exist alongside English, their “culture” elevated as superior to American culture, and to conduct a stealth reclamation of the American South. Nothing they have done endears them to the public in general and they don’t even think they should try. Just by being a “minority” they can DEMAND we succumb or else WE pay the price. We all know what they want by being allowed to steal citizenship, but here’s the more important question: JUST WHAT GOOD ARE THEY FOR AMERICA? Our interests are paramount or they used to be. It’s time we start allowing QUALITY individuals to become Americans, and not the hostile, criminal, uneducated and unskilled to threaten and bully the rest of us. Nothing they have done in their campaign to hoodwink has fooled many people, including waving American flags at their protest rallies. The gringo just ain’t that stupid.
The most vile “His-pandering” seems to originate from this author’s writings, by
equating THE ACT OF ENTERING A FOREIGN COUNTRY ILLEGALLY with “comprehensive immigration [reform].”
I’ll echo what scythe said. And this on top of it… Mass (self-)deportation will occur when the fedgov starts prosecuting and jailing the traitors who hire illegal aliens (note: it isn’t just us, the French deported Gypsies recently). When illegal aliens can’t get a job, they will go home (note: ask the Italians about that). Further, we need to do away with birth-right citizenship and anchor babies (note: it isn’t just us, the Irish amended their constitution to deal with this recently). Ditto on legalizing the end of access to emergency services, schools and all the other attractive nuisances that make life better here for illegals than it is in their country of origin (90% likely to be Mexico). Based on the capability of our colleges and universities and the general employment picture, we need no H1B visas either. In fact, with rare exception, I see no reason to allow immigration to the US at all, and family reunion is certainly not a rationale. At 300 million people we’re full up.
A page right out of LBJ’s play book. Recall that LBJ, as a Senator and Senate majority leader, never voted for a civil rights bill of ANY kind that had Federal enforcement provisions. [The Voting Rights Act of 1957 only had state and local enforcement provisions.} On the other hand Hubert Humphrey worked with Republicans to craft a bi-partisan bill that finally passed in 1965. JFK, ever the pro-labor man, was none too keen on civil rights laws, either. Unions were always against black membership, except railway porters. Of course, it was that paragon of “progressive” liberalism, Woodrow Wilson, who brought “Jim Crow” to the District of Columbia.
The Dems have never been in favor of any immigration bill that would cut Union power and influence.
Look, Ruben, this isn’t working.
There is no upside to 20 million more illegal immigrants being granted amnesty. Not for the US taxpayer. That’s me. Not this mythical Mexican who pays taxes and never sees one cent of services.
I’m stuck paying the medical bills for the anchor baby.
I’m stuck paying the emergency room visit bill for the migrant worker who is clumsy.
I’m stuck paying for the illegal alien who commits a felony and winds up behind bars.
You are not honest about the true cost of illegal aliens. You are not honest about the true cost of stolen elections.
You are dishonest and without honor, Ruben.
The illegal aliens are not immigration. They are an invasion. You know this and you lie about the facts.
Tooo bad you are still rooting for the law breakers. What up next week? Poor bank robbers need our support because its just too hard to earn a living the honest way? You are such a tard.
I’m really getting tired of all this Comprehensive reform stuff.
Experience teaches that anytime congress does anything “Comprehensive” We the People end up getting all of the Hensive and none of the Compre!
Message to Congress — First Things First, Everything else NOT First!
Fix the Border!
What up PJM? Dont like people calling your writters tards then do have tards write for you.
Bob I hate to snark on you but, um..if you are going to use the offensive word “tards” I recommend that you pay close attention to your spelling. I am a writer; together we are writers, not writters.
Troll.
Go speak again of “the dignity of the profession” where appropriate;
this is a Ruben Navarrette La-ti-no Über Alles thread!
You should know Wally, you should know.
Heil! Wally demands Amerikkkan Lebensraum! Mexicans OUT.
*Secret handshake*
(headshake? legshake? whatever wally whatever)
It’s a given that when Harry Reid is defeated this term he will be choice pickings for an internal independent investigation into all his high crimes and abuse of power which will certainly bring enough information to the front to get rid of the POTUSINO and a few other crooks in the administration and the Congress. What the he** are the lawmakers waiting for to get this country back on track. Are they all so worried about what the POTUSINO will think of them that they forget “We the people” are the ones they work for??
I pity the author. If Navarrette wants to convince the general electorate that there isn’t an ugly stripe of nativism in the GOP, he should disable comments on this thread.
I pity Russell who sees nothing wrong with allowing the further dissolution and ultimate destruction of our nation’s culture, traditions, values and laws by giving away our citizenship to persons who don’t want it. I further pity Russell because he undoubtably does not know what it means to be American. Russell must be pitied because he hates his very existence as a white person so much that he supports the ending of white Americans as the majority race in America. Russell should also be pitied because he obviously has become so indoctrinated in progressive hatred for America that he cannot think for himself.
Hey blotto, good morning!
Sorry to pour cold water on your hate-fest this morning but dude…destruction of our nation? True Americans? White race majority? Are you a member of the KKK? Is your post satire? Wow, this is more than just hyperbole, this is nuts!
You understand of course that there is no solution to your problem. Mass deportation will never happen. Even if it did – your non-white-people problem will still be here.
You have a lot more to worry about than culture and values. You need to work on your personal humanity before you are let out in public.
America isn’t owned by white people. Until you grow up and understand that fact you will be limited. You will be limited in your ability to interact, to socialize and eventually make your way in our increasingly diverse and wonderfully free society. To use an old farming phrase, “You have a long row to hoe”.
Hey Nate: Not to worry your progressive heart. I am fine. You may think what ever prejudicial thoughts you may in order to make you feel good about yourself but it is only yourself who is delusional. In the first, Russell was trying to make a prejorative of the word nativism and use it against the right. I soundly refuted that. Next, according to you and Russell there is no more American; according to you and him we are a multicultural society and for us to become Northern Mexico is NO BIG DEAL. Well it is a BIG DEAL to me and millions of other real Americans who love this country. You may not although your retort will feign patriotism but you do not.
If you deny that the white race is the majority then you are WAY too loony to debate. We are and SHOULD always be here in America. Maybe that’s not PC to you but then who gives a sh&t about being PC.
Similarly if you do not think we are witnessing the destruction of the US and furthering it head-long dive into third world status then those blinders are on way too tight.
I don’t care about a non-white people problem. As long as everyone is AMERICAN and not some hypen-American I am okay with whomever you are, color or ethnicity. The key dear Nate is being an American. Something obviously throught indoctrination or too many bong hits or just drinking too much kool-aid in college you have no clue what that means.
No the loss of our culture and values is the key to the mess we are in. It is specifically because the left-you-have torn asunder our culture and dicarded our values that we are in the cultural morass and economic dogpile we are in. Happy??
No America isn’t owned by “white people” (showing your bigotry here, we are white Americans) but it was white Americans who made this nation the best country on this planet. We saved Europe and Asia from fascism. Every major invention that revolutionized the world was invented here. I am sick of you self-loathing like yourself trying to curry favor with blacks and now hispanics by denying your ethnicity, race and culture. If you are not proud to be white then I pity you.
Whats your ethnic composition friend? Before you call yourself white.
Prove that you’re descended from Virginia tidewater aristocracy and a purebred anglo upper class and I’ll accept you as white, graciously
Otherwise you’re a ragtag NASCAR ruffian and member of the underclasses. Not quite white, that.
Yes I’m calling you teabots/crackpots “black”. ( Kettle, get it? heh heh. hold the applause)
No I don’t agree with mass influx of any ethnic group ILLEGALLY either, but not out of idiotic supremacist hatred. Learn where YOU came from.
Yes because its always better to silence debate when you know your position is so weak it can not withstand it. Since when is it ugly to be pro america? I’m still waiting for all the lawsuits against the santuary cities for violating federal law by not enforcing it. Funny how the government will spend money to help those trying to evade the law and sue those who are trying to enforce it.
No, I’m happy that these comments are visible. I think Navarrette wants to present a GOP face that seems calm and reasonable. I think what shows in the comments is much more reflective of the GOP base.
Not only that, in regards to the “base”, but look at how the new Pledge chickened out on Medicare and Social Security. Stiffing the government out of FICA is starting to sound real good now, considering its “pay as you go” and not being saved for me.
What’s your problem with “nativism”, another Marxist code word to intimidate and silence? I AM A PROUD NATIVIST. GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT? You see Russell, your rejoinders are RUSTY and no longer work. Are you nativistphobic? You want to make it personal instead of keeping it a discussion about the FACTS, will be happy to oblige. But if you think the rest of us are going to lie down and be mowed over by a bunch of preening, self righteous, holier-than-thou types like yourself, you’ve got another thing comin’ bro. The rest of the country doesn’t want this crap either. But you want to shove your will down everyone’s throats so I guess that makes you eminently qualified to be a …demorat. By the way…since you are so hell bent on following the dogma of your Marxist religion, why don’t you ask the “black community” how they feel about being stampeded by other “persons of color”. You’ll find most of them agree with we nativists so that would make them what? Part of the GOP establishment? Your brain (what’s left of it) is on autopilot. Your responses are so REACTIONARY because you can’t handle the revolution that is coming.
It was the black communities’ fall to the siren sway of the Great Society which created the voids through which hispanics since 1965 rushed the turnstiles. In another words, what Arkie (and a good many conservatives say behind closed doors) says below in his last sentence.
Considering most ‘Hispanics’ consider themselves caucasoids, I think this whole cry of ‘racism’ is patently false.
Eat crow, Illegals.
You’re breaking the law from the getgo. You are CRIMINALS who don’t want to even assimilate. Our country is pathetic to even give you your own language with a “Press 2 for Spanish” bullshite. Time to rid this country of its fleas and lice.
No soup for you!
I’ll support any SB 1070-like law in the land….if there are stiff fines for false accusation of illegal status.
Will Hispanics ever realize that all they are is a pawn for whatever politcal party that is in power at the time. When will the USA emulate the immigration policies of every other country in the world? Why not take President Eisenhower’s lead and deport everyone that is not legal? We the People permit this to continue by the way we vote. We don’t need cheap labor, we just need to eliminate the government hand outs to people and see how fast those former handoutee’s find a job.
Anyone who dares tie something such as the DREAM Act to the Defense Spending Bill should be fed to wild hyenas. Only a dirty, filthy, rotten, corrupt SOB would do such a thing.
When it comes to boarder security we could learn something from the Iranians, they do it right. Not to mention the fact that they charge a half-a-million dollars just to get out of jail and leave the country. He*l with a profit margin like that, it would almost pay to send troops cross the Rio Grand two or three nights a week.
How could Hispanics forget recent history.
Remember Carter, eager to bring in more African and mid-central Asians, while cutting down the legal entry of Latinos? He couldn’t touch the high visa quotas established by Congress for Cubans fleeing Castro, so he did the next best thing: he cut down the staff processing visa applications in Gitmo. As visas slowed down to nothing, desperate Cubans took to boats to try to enter the US. Carter used the Coast Guard to “protect us”, much as Obama would do 30 years later, to block cleanup efforts in the Gulf on technicalities. As the 1979-1980 boat people hit the media, Castro opened his prisons and released homosexuals, his political enemies and quite a few outright criminals. When Carter was forced by public pressure to allow these Cuban boat people into the US (most of whom should have been given visas under then-current quotas and standards), he arranged for their resettlement, mostly in northern areas (including Alaska), with a few thousand being sent to Arkansas. When they got to Arkansas, then-Ark Governor Clinton decided it would be cool to keep them imprisoned in a field within Fort Chafee, without food, water or sanitary facilities, to see how they liked the US. The expected riots broke out after some ten days, Clinton called out the Ark. National Guard, and ordered the rioters to be shot. Now, this kind of “human rights abuse” would lead to imprisonment if it took place in Chile, Uganda or Peru. But for the Dems, killing Latinos indicates a man of presidential caliber.
Later on, when Clinton became President, he realized that folks “won’t fall for that ol’ “banana in the tailpipe” gag, so he tried something new. He had the IBM Selectric typewriters removed from Gitmo’s immigration area, leaving the three staffers to fill out visa applications by hand.
The predictable result? Another resurgence of boat people fleeing Cuba.
Democrats have consistently done all they could to block the legal immigration of Hispanics, preferring instead to maintain their paternalism and control over a constituency that they owned in the early nineteenth century, and have felt entitled to since then, regardless of any so-called “Emancipation Act”
Let us not also forget Operation Wetback as executed by Eisenhower rarely took place outside the work site. It was….hmm….FDR who contracted the Southern Pacific RR for boxcars and literally had Mexican-Americans scooped up from the streets of LA and other cities (yes even Chicago, NW Indiana, Toledo and good ol’ Detroit were deep even back then) in the mid nineteen thirties. I’ve talked to a few (I loathe to say Chicano when their not from California) WW II vets of Mexican descent who cursed Roosevelt til their deathbed but never really showed any vitriol toward Eisenhower.
Not to call you out on it, but could you provide some links to such info?
I’ve never heard of these things and want to know more.
I’ll search, but if you have something available or a book to read I’d appreciate it.
Thanks.
I am really tired of the Mexican supremacists insisting that Mexican Citizens be allowed to not only violate US law, but to jump in front of every other countries’ citizens that want to come here.