Patriotic Hispanics Missed a Golden Opportunity During the DREAM Act Debate
Despite the concerted effort to paint all Republicans as anti-brown, I think it’s fair to say, if one were being honest, that most Americans agree with the premise of the DREAM Act. What American, regardless of skin color, believes in holding children responsible for the sins of their parents? But the leftists in America, along with their willing accomplices in the mainstream press, have managed to focus the entire country on the wrong problem. Think about it. The whole reason the DREAM Act is necessary is because over the last four or so decades American politicians have not earned their taxpayer funded salaries when it comes to border enforcement. Now, our nation is starting to deal with the sticky and often heart-wrenching consequences of their dereliction of duty. Does anyone believe for one moment that a nation of laws can ignore those laws for so long without consequence? So we’re now seeing the problems that we conservatives warned would come as a result. And here come the liberals with “Band-Aid” laws to treat the symptoms, all the while ignoring the disease. The DREAM Act is one such law.
Aside from being a flawed bill, it does nothing to address the reason why the act was needed in the first place. Americans are naturally suspect, not of the Hispanics affected by the law, but by the fact that more DREAM Acts will be necessary because the root cause, illegal immigration, has not been dealt with. Patriotic Hispanics, because liberal Hispanics couldn’t care less about the rule of law, missed an opportunity in this DREAM Act debate. Latino Patriots could have put the focus where it belonged: on illegal immigration. And they were uniquely qualified to turn up the heat on lawmakers and make them earn a living for a change by passing strong reform. Instead, many were duped by the MSM and the liberals into debating the DREAM Act, an act that, at the end of the day, solves nothing.
Let me say for the record that even though it’s a disgrace that the DREAM Act is even needed, the concept of the DREAM Act is good. The most recent version, and I say recent because there are at least eight versions I know of, comes very close to being a good bill but falls short in key areas. To qualify for the DREAM Act, under the version that failed in the Senate, an illegal would have to have a high school diploma or GED. To attain permanent residence, the individual would have to have two years of service in the military or two years of college. On the military service part … that’s a no-brainer. If you’re willing to wear our uniform and die for America, you’ve proven your worth in my mind. But this GED requirement is laughable. The liberals who crafted this bill felt that a pathway to legal residence and perhaps citizenship shouldn’t require anything more than a GED. That’s completely unacceptable. In truth, I wouldn’t be happy with just eliminating GED as a qualifier. I’m going to go with 2 years in college – a junior or community college because I know money can be tight in Obama’s economy, with an eye toward a four-year degree. Or if one goes the military route, they must execute the GI Bill provision in their service contract to ensure college will be in the individual’s future. I have full confidence in the Latino community, both legal and illegal, to live up to that challenge. Contrary to liberals’ notions of us, we are capable. See, now they’ve got me doing it! Focused on a bill that should have never been needed to begin with. It’s almost as if the lawmakers create problems so they can write laws to “fix” the resulting and inevitable fall-out. It’s job security I guess.
We must not forget the politics of all this. Harry Reid, the unfortunate Senate majority leader, pushed the DREAM Act this last time around. He’s an unfortunate human being and it’s unfortunate he’s in his current role in our government. But I digress. Reid did such a masterful job of putting out so many versions of the DREAM Act that Republicans had no idea which version they were voting on. Also, the little weasel wouldn’t allow any amendments to the bill. Republicans couldn’t address their concerns, even if they had time to research the bill. It was a set-up, pure and simple. It was designed to make Republicans make a vote and drive a wedge between Latinos and the GOP. One problem: the Dems have some political blowback to deal with on this issue too. I’ve laid this out in other articles, but it’s so good it bears repeating. The Democrats were so concerned about Hispanics that after the election of Barack Obama in 2008 and after Democrats gained huge super majorities in both houses of the Congress, their first legislative task was … a massive stimulus bill. And because Obama, Pelosi, and Reid cared so much about Latinos, their second priority was … passing another huge entitlement program that socialized medicine in the United States. That took over a year to pull off. In fact, the Democrats didn’t take up the DREAM Act until just before the midterm elections in one of the most glaring examples of political pandering that I’ve ever seen. Reid tried to attach one of the versions of the DREAM Act to a defense bill. How ironic, huh? The DREAM Act, a bill necessitated by not defending our border, was destined to ride a defense bill. For those not blinded by this blatant attempt at divisive racial politics, the maneuvering was all too obvious. Still, I saw Hispanics, most of whom consider themselves conservative, push this flawed bill. They were all too willing to play right into Reid’s trap, all on account of race.
For those Americans out there who can’t relate to what I’m conveying here, don’t worry. It’s not you. You’re right not to default to race in all things. Unfortunately, some of the staunchest conservative Latinos I know turn to jelly when it comes to Hispanic issues. They seem to throw their principles right out the window. Even though some are second or third generation Latino, and 100% legal, they can’t help but feel kinship to those folks back in their ancestral countries of origin. That’s not me. I have zero love or affinity for the backwater, hell-hole of a country where my father’s ancestors came from. There’s a reason why they fled after all. Mexico pales in comparison to my country. I’ve relayed a story told to me in the last election cycle. A Hispanic woman was asked why she didn’t vote for Republicans. She said that Republicans wanted to send “undocumented” people back to their home countries. She couldn’t support that as they were “her people.” American Latinos need to wake up to the sobering fact that those Cubans, Venezuelans, Mexicans, or any other Latino illegal immigrants are nowhere near “their people.” We are already part of an exceptional people, a breed called Americans. We open our arms with understanding and recognize a serious revamping of our legal immigration system is long overdue. We should take offense at any foreign national whose first act upon entering our nation is to break our laws. Oh, let’s not forget that there are approximately 50,000 OTMs (“other than Mexicans”) crossing the southern border every year. So a secure border isn’t really a race issue. And don’t forget what’s being called our third war. Violent killings escalate on that border courtesy of ruthless drug cartels. Because conservative Hispanics went all weak-kneed on the DREAM Act, they allowed America to take her eyes off the real issue, illegal immigration. And in so doing they missed out on a real opportunity to make a difference and to do some good for America.
We have two problems when it comes to borders here in the United States: We have an immigration problem, and we have an illegal immigration problem. They are two different problems with two very different solutions. I often tell a story about Miguel. Miguel works with my stepfather. Miguel came to the United States the legal way. He received a visa, secured work for himself, and began a ten-year process to bring his family here. Miguel, though not skilled when he first came here, learned. Now he has tools to help support his family. I find it unfathomable that a country as great as ours can’t find a way to cut down that ten-year period. It shouldn’t take that long to determine that Miguel isn’t a terrorist, can support himself and his family, and can be a contributor to the American fabric. Again, lazy and cowardly politicians refuse to take on the challenge of reforming our legal immigration system. Republicans hear from a small but vocal xenophobic constituency and cave. And the Democrats get an earful from leftists who have built up a cottage industry that charges exorbitant amounts of money to uninformed illegals with the promise of a path toward citizenship. These leftists also dabble in the political arena. Much like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, they sell the well-being of the Latino community down the river in exchange for a seat of power or political influence. You know the ones. They yell the loudest when America dares propose ways to stop illegal immigration.
It’s sad, but one major reason immigration reform and the DREAM act are so difficult is that we cannot trust our politicians. They have sold us out over illegal immigration for 20+ years now; how can we believe anything they tell us on the topic? So, a lot of illegals who were brought here as small children have to pay the price for their parents’ violations of the law and American politicians’ faithlessness.
We do indeed need comprehensive CONSERVATIVE immigration reform. I hope the new Republican majority in the House realizes this and follows your plan.
“Miguel came to the United States the legal way. He received a visa, secured work for himself and began a TEN year process to bring his family here. Miguel, though not skilled when he first came here, learned. Now he has tools to help support him and his family.”
I do not believe this for a second. The only way Miquel, an unskilled worker, could have immigrated to the US legally is if he had won the Green Card lottery or has close family members sponsoring him (did those come here legally?). An unskilled Mexican just don’t ‘receive’ a visa.
There are literally millions of skilled workers waiting in line to immigrate legally, and that takes years … up to 10 just to enter America.
Yes, we have excellent examples of Mexicans and other Latinos who have contributed to the country they invaded illegally, such as the Dog Whisperer and Salma Hayek. Still, in the end they both broke our laws and ought to be deported along with the hundreds of thousands criminal Latino gang-members.
Anyone willing to serve in our military for four years, and has a clean background, is an another story. Those people we need.
Why accuse Salcedo of dishonesty? Maybe Miguel was sponsored, and if you are able to sponsor someone, you are here legally.
Miguel might have received a fiance visa.
My wife would have been considered unskilled due to the fact she has no university degree. However, her lack of skill has afforded her a job training CPA’s in accounting.
The approach to this problem must be logical and without emotion.
“…I think it’s fair to say, if one were being honest, that most Americans agree with the premise of the DREAM Act. What American, regardless of skin color, believes in holding children responsible for the sins of their parents?”
So. Very. Wrong.
I don’t know just who here you expect to persuade here, Chris.
The parents broke the law.
By staying, the kids break the law, too.
So, please spare us the (to paraphrase you) “heart-turning-to-jelly” metaphor.
The facts are this: we need to fix our LEGAL immigration system so that decent people can come here with all the safeguards to insure they do not become a burden on the rest of us AND we need to make it Hell on people who try to cheat the the system – along with making crossing our border illegally a fatally impossible task.
A system whereby every person comes here has a sponsor who is obligated for his or her care, housing and employment for 5 to 10 years.
Person’s can be recruited into the military under the same rules we recruited Filipinos – 10 years of honorable service gets you a full citizenship and rights.
All persons MUST learn English, renounce all allegiances to their former countries, pay taxes and fees, and become a part of our culture.
Some will call this indentured servitude but as it targets BOTH the immigrant and the sponsor with reporting duties to USCIS and the IRS so they will be legally yolked. If the sponsor is not treating their employees or family members properly they can be prosecuted. Why should the rest of us be indentured to pay for the 35% of illegals who come here and never earn their keep?
We turn the border into a DMZ. I might even suggest using mines in some areas or at least armored units with heavy weapons and armed aerial vehicles. We need to butcher smugglers in really public and startling ways to send a message that they and their ways are at an end. We give a bounty to anyone who kills a drug smuggler. Campion and Ramos were heroes – they should have followed the ba$*ard and finished him off.
The Constitution is only for those who are legally here.
If we have to invade Mexico to push these scum back from our borders – that is a far more sensible place for our military than Afghanistan. Far more Americans are being killed by criminal Mexicans than Al Qaeda and we can’t use nuclear weapons to clear out the infestation near our own borders – unlike the Middle East – which, by the way, is what we should have done long ago.
Mr. Salcedo is essentially suggesting massive increases in legal immigration as part of the solution to illegal immigration. He further claims a “labor shortage” which is ludicrous given our real unemployment rate in California of over 20%.
There is a finite number of people per year the U.S. can absorb and assimilate. Assimilation is actually impossible with our current multicultural education system. Emigration cannot be the sole solution to Mexico’s and other dysfunctional nations’ problems. We’re acting as a safety valve to reduce pressure on these countries to engage in needed internal reforms.
Finally, mass immigration from Mexico, both illegal and legal at some point changes the culture from American to Mexican, making assimilation impossible regardless of government policy. This has clearly happened in California — see VDHs “Two Californias” article earlier this week.
Reynaldo…to be clear, I did not suggest a “labor shortage.” I did suggest a “competitive labor shortage.” We have seen the union’s destructive policies in industries like the auto industry. Currently there are people that make more money on government assistance than they would make taking a lower paying job. Those low wage jobs remain unfilled. I in no way suggest a mass importation of immigrants from Mexico. In fact I went to great length to point out that an emphasis must be made on making ANY LEGAL immigrant assimilate into our culture. California’s woes are a reflection of a leftist government that just doesn’t care. Hell, the people of California just re-elected a know-nothing liberal Senator and a governor that admitted on TV that he had no idea what he was doing the first time he took the job. California is the example that I want to avoid. It is populated with far left extremist ILLEGAL Hispanics that are transforming the once golden state through an open Reconquista style effort. Look up Maywood and Bell California. There you will see what I’m fighting against. I am confident that Americans want immigrants that come here legally, through the front door, with a mind to shed their allegiance to their nations of origin and become Americans. WE WANT THOSE PEOPLE. We don’t want those that come here to take advantage of our good nature and our hard earned tax money and don’t have the courtesy to come in legally. I find it disturbing that the left in this country has a focus on what the United States must do to address this problem. They are critical of Republicans that see their dishonest motives. I’d prefer the leftists save some of their ire for the countries where these people are coming from. If those countries emulated pre-Obama America, they wouldn’t have huge chunks of their population fleeing their borders. Trust me when I say, the problem isn’t legal immigrants…we have to stop the ILLEGAL immigrants. They are the ones who are not invested in America.
Right now we should HAVE NO IMMIGRATION. Why we should continue to import masses of people while simultaneously exporting jobs is beyond destructive. Secondly, should we have a “need” in this economy for more people, let’s make sure they have high level skills and won’t be replacing Americans workers who earn higher pay. Think engineers who have to face being tossed out when those with the same skills come from other parts of the world and are willing to earn less. All immigration does, legal and illegal is drive down wages because the supply is greater than the demand. We need a moratorium on people from everywhere until we get our economy and jobs back. Start with manufacturing. Stop bringing the crap in from China.
Great article! In Texas after the election, a state representative from the southern border area representing mostly people of hispanic ethnicity, changed from the Democratic party to the Republican party. He said the conservative R party is more representative of his voters than the D party. Maybe people are waking up to the 45-year-old media/leftist con game that ultimately traps minorities in poverty. All Americans need to turn off the old media, go to the govt ICE website and read for themselves the rules for legal immigration, then think for themselves. The latest demographic in Texas education reflects 60% hispanic in the public schools…We’ve gone beyond critical mass.
We have already Reconquered Texas… and you gringos can’t do anything about it. We are rightfully taking back the land that you racist gringos stole from us. We are taking over the Southwest. We are just waiting a little longer until we have the numbers to drive you gringos out… Our population is young and exploding, and the gringo population is aging and dying. If you racist gringos have any brains you will leave the Southwest while the going is good…
It is already too late for you gringos, your day has come and gone. 2010 was the last hurrah for White America. If you are already scared of us when we are 15% of the population, just wait till we are 20%, 25%, 30% of the population… We already have the swing vote in swing states like Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico… both parties will listen to La Raza’s issues, or they will pay the price…
Viva La Raza!
As you can see, there are extremists on both sides of this. La Raza is living in Fantasy Land.
You gringos are the ones who are living in fantasy land. We are Conquering — Correction, We HAVE Conquered the entire Southwest already… and you stupid gringos are too scared to even admit it to yourselves. We have Conquered the entire Southwest in broad daylight — without a shot being fired — and you STILL aren’t even willing to face reality.
California and New Mexico are now ours… Texas and Arizona are almost there, but there are still some gringos there who think that they are capable of standing up to La Raza… We’ll show them who’s boss very soon… We are just waiting for our numbers to grow, once we have them sufficiently outnumbered, then we’ll take care of them.
I don’t agree with the premise of the DREAM Act and neither do most of the country. It’s just a back door amnesty for tens of millions of people. Think about it – if the kids is made legal, then they can bring in the rest of their VERY extended family.
Seriously, California and the southwest are gone and people seem to be ok with that. I’m really sick of people trying to justify the destruction of America.
Yes, We have Reconquered the entire Southwest — without a shot being fired — and when we have the numbers we will drive you stupid gringos OUT of our land. You can’t stop us now. It is already too late for you gringos. Even if you elect some far-right politician like Tom Tancredo or Pat Buchanan, it is STILL too late for you to do anything about it.
If you are smart you will LEAVE the Southwest while you still can… If not, you will be dealt with when the time comes…
Can someone please tell me why America needs more immigrants and how it benefits this country. We’re already paving over the whole damn thing and 300 million is quite enough. No more legal immigration. Go to frickin’ Brazil – they’re the ones having an economic boom and who need jungle paved over.
No DREAM Act – rewarding criminal behavior is how this illegal mess has gained such momentum. All illegals should be repatriated or our laws mean nothing whatsoever. To suggest that if enough morons break the law, particularly foreign nationals, that we should change our laws to accommodate the reality of Latin America is lunatic.
We are taking over the USA… and you gringos can’t do anything about it. Our population is young and exploding, and the gringo population is aging and dying. We are just waiting a little longer until we have the numbers to drive you gringos out… We have already conquered California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona… now we are working on Nevada, Colorado and Utah… and after that…
It is already too late for you gringos, your day has come and gone. 2010 was the last hurrah for White America. If you are already scared of us when we are 15% of the population, just wait till we are 20%, 25%, 30% of the population… We already have the swing vote in swing states like Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico… both parties will listen to La Raza’s issues, or they will pay the price…
Viva La Raza!
90% of Latinos in the United States vote Democrat, the only anomoly people of Cuban heritage whose family fled Castro the tyrant. Conservatives must not pander. A legitimate political philosophy will rely solely on it’s message to draw the populous, hence the reason that Communist governments only take hold via violence, coups and subversion – the People will never simply vote them into office on principle.
Legal Immigration is good for our country. Have you ever met a legal immigrant that didn’t LOVE the USA. They understand the exceptionalism that is the United States. After all, they Chose to come here.
I work in the construction industry and we use e-verify. Before we used it, we (the people in the field office) were unable to really question the documents people provided. Our legal department said that if the document was really bad they could do something, but if it was “close enough” we weren’t allowed to challenge the docs for fear of discrimination lawsuits. If all employers were to use e-verify, the illegal immigrants would self deport. if there is no way to get a job, then they will go somewhere they can.
Faisal Shazad was a legal immigrant. I think you can accuse him of many things, but loving the USA is not one of them. Legal citizens of Muslim background are at the top of al-Qaeda’s recruitment efforts.
We should secure the borders, reform immigration laws, and make it impossible to work here illegally, before anything else. Most of the illegals will self-deport if we do that. Of course, we should still be checking and actively deporting illegals as well.
However, for someone brought to the US when they were 2, educated here, fluent in English and in every other respect an American, it would be wrong to force them to leave. That is the premise of the DREAM act, and _IF_ everything else I’ve described above is done, then the DREAM act is the right thing to do next.
For comparison, the Founding Fathers had no immigration restrictions. If you could make it here, you could stay. It only took two years of residency before you could become a citizen. That was the Founders’ answer to the question.
I don’t buy the “its not the innocent child’s fault” argument.
Why couldn’t we apply that to an embezzler who steals to support his family? Would confiscating his ill gotten wealth impact the innocent child, of course it does. But does that mean we should not confiscate stolen wealth?
The embezzler keeping the money harms someone, so it would be wrong to not return the money.
Letting the child who was brought here illegally stay doesn’t harm anyone and is actually good for society, as long as the child becomes a productive member of society. Deporting him both harms the child by reducing his opportunities and depriving society of his production. In exchange, it does not benefit anyone, except maybe his birth country if he becomes a productive citizen there.
I also want to note again that, by ‘child,’ I’m talking about illegals brought here as children and raised in the US, so they are fluent in English, were brought up in a US education system, etc. While legally they are citizens of another country, for all practical purposes they are Americans, having grown up here, been educated here, and having their core friends and family here.
We are Reconquering the Southwest… and you gringos can’t do anything about it. We are taking back the territories that you racist gringos stole from us. Our population is young and exploding, and the gringo population is aging and dying.
We are reversing the brutal gringo invasion of our territories. The Reconquista of the Southwest is almost complete… you can’t stop us. We are taking over the Southwest. We are just waiting a little longer until we have the numbers to drive you gringos out… We have already conquered California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona… now we are working on Nevada, Colorado and Utah… and after that…
It is already too late for you gringos, your day has come and gone. 2010 was the last hurrah for White America. If you are already scared of us when we are 15% of the population, just wait till we are 20%, 25%, 30% of the population… We already have the swing vote in swing states like Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico… both parties will listen to La Raza’s issues, or they will pay the price…
Viva La Raza!
Let’s see, you say the the “gringos” are bad because they are racists, but your whole argument is based on your own belief that you are racially superior, you use a racial epithet to refer to white people, you believe you have a racial claim to certain territories, and you even call yourself “The Race.”
It seems that you and the followers of your racist organization are the evil invaders trying to steal land and brutalize people.
Good post Chris. The media focus on goofs like Luis Gutierrez and the rest of the professional left using this issue totally misses your first point. We have two problems to tackle here.
I absolutely believe it is a lot less complicated than we are always told. We want the best and brightest business minded talent to come here – and there is no reason why we should stop being that exceptional nation where freedom and oppertunity is the greatest lure of all time.
I agree fully with your three point plan as outlined. Gingrich has often made the case that we could solve the first part – the broken immigration system – pretty easily and quickly – by outsourcing it – just scrap the entire bloated gov agencies that comprise the nightmare inefficiencies everyone is familar with. Its a matter of mounting the political will do make it happen.
The other part I do quibble with. Our southern problem (lets face it w/Canada there is no comparison) is a foreign policy issue as well. People see through the transparently political way Obama & Napolitano refuse to deal with this. As Mexico has decended down the path of Columbia in the 80′s – all we get are more reasons why America is the problem (We buy the drugs & thus provide the market for corruption & we sell the guns and thus provide the means for violence and murder).
Besides being suspect logic (esspecially about guns – given the work others here at PJ Media – like Mr Owens – posting that many more military grade weponds are coming from countries like China – who get a pass in the media – besides Mexico be a very unreliable info source on this) – at the end of the day the Obama approach alienates everyone and pleases no one – and most of all has done nothing to begin solving either problem.
Mexico is arguably more dependent today on us than they were when this current wave of illegal immigration really started to surge – that being when the Peso collapsed early in the Clinton days – and – once we bailed them out -we passed NAFTA.
Here we are today spending billions to assist them internally to deal with what is essentially a civil war with the Drug Cartels. Yet there has remained this political pretense against sending our military – be it the National Guard or in my view preferably Marines or the 101st Airborn -to a border that OUR SOUTHERN NEIGHBOR HAS CEEDED TO THE BAD GUYS.
We need to drop the silliness about equivicating about Mexico being an equal partner. Its utter nonsense. The Obama approach is both a failure and dangerous.
Right now the kabuki dance done publicly is about winning votes. As long as Obama turns these issues over to clowns like Gutierrez, whose place in the discussion as a point man for the unreasonable voices on the left is that hes from Chicago and in the Hispanic caucus, he remains totally unserious.
Mexico, and the countries below her, must be leveraged to the conclusion that the subsidy era of quasi open borders (and the monies expats can send south) are over for good. The lie that needs exposed is that America still has a need for cheap labor – a vast difference in the 21st century from prior immigration eras.
To remain competitive we don’t need gardners nannies or manual laborers. We need engineers, scientists, and math wizards.
But to do that we need regime change here first – because Obama nor Napolitano will never do what is necessary to bring Mexico to heel. Mexico must be forced to start DISCOURAGING THE MIGRATION FROM THEIR SIDE – BOTH AS A MATTER OF STATE POLICY AND ENFOREMENT EFFORT.
Hey – Mexico sure changed their tune about oil & energy policy in the 90′s when they needed us to save their ass once there currency collapsed. There is no reason why they can’t be made again to change coruse now – except a complaint Administration until now has seen fit to let them off the hook.
I’d like to see us increase immigration from Asia and Africa while limiting immigration from Hispanic nations a bit. My concern is that the Latino population is growing by leaps and bounds while every other demographic is tagnant (Asian Americans grow at about 2.1% per year…whites and blacks aren’t growing at all). I want a diverse nation, not a nation whose population will eventually be 80% Latino. That’s not diversity.
I’ve long believed that unlimited illegal alien immigration as a foundation position of the democrat party is just more proof of the hatred and disrespect that democrats have for African Americans.
A wetback has much better chances for employment than does a 15 to 20 year old black kid. But, the dems already are guaranteed the votes of the black kids and their families; they work to get the votes of the undocumented democrats who sneak across our border.
Support for illegal immigration is only one thing that the dems advocate that works against the well-being and interests of the black community. If the Republicans advocated any of these same issues, abortion, for example,
the captive media and the black racists would have a fit.
Children of illegals have a nationality and a nation. Please return to it, not at earliest convenience, but now.
While our immigration system may need some fixing, it is not the root of the problem. Before these people can IMMIGRATE into America, they have to EMIGRATE out of their home country…..usually a far more difficult prospect…involving much time and money, mostly bribes. Even if our system is improved, we need to tightly control the numbers. We don’t need a flood of people coming in.
I also have a problem with the bleeding heart approach. Thirty years ago, I was an Immigration Detention Officer. We took in a lot of asylum applicants. My question to them was where would they run to if america was in dire straits. They never had an answer. What would the USA be like if the early settlers all ran away at the first sign of a British invasion. Throughout history Americans have buckled down and fixed things, not just run away. These folks need to do the same….fix their own messes first, instead of just running away.
As for Mr. La Raza….well he is just showing his ignorance. Any hispanic who talks about white folks, knows nothing of his own history. Except for the small percentage of indigenous indians in Mexico, estimated by their government to be roughly ten percent of the population, the rest of the people are descendant from white Europeans, just like Americans. As for stealing land, the Mexican governmdent stole it from Spain, who stole it from the indigenous indians, who didn’t care who had what.
Exactly (the last paragraph)! VDH’s mini amnesty from his Mexifornia book called for hispanics to declare as whites (and I would imagine for some Ricans, Cubans, and Dominicans, black) once such a deal got through. Before the emergence of “Puebla York” , most Mexicans could probaly walk through Bensonhurst or Bay Ridge unscathed.
“We are already part of an exceptional people, a breed called Americans.”
That’s it, in a nutshell. You go, Chris.
Why would you assume that “most Americans agree with the premise of the DREAM act…” when most are against the act itself? First problem. Second problem: the premise of the DREAM act is not fairness to people brought here illegally as children but is what it would actually accomplish: blanket amnesty. Third problem: children always suffer for their parents bad acts. This is not the same thing as punishing them for those acts. If someone is here illegally they should be deported when this is discovered regardless of how or why it happened. This is not an extremist position; it’s the law. Another amnesty of any kind would tell people everywhere that not only does the US not enforce its immigration policy but that it NEVER will. If you think we have a problem now……..! Solution: seal the borders, limit legal immigration and deal with the illegals as their cases are discovered in the natural course of events. Also, one other thing should be done: it should be made law that if you are discovered here illegally for any reason at any time you will NEVER be allowed to become an American citizen. With this done, and illegal hiring practices strictly sanction, almost all those 12 million… no 15 million …. no 20 million (heybiddabiddabiddadoIhave25miilliondoIhave25biddabiddabidda) will deport themselves and come back legally when and if they can.
La Raza:
You are not only racist and deluded you are psychopathic and apparently descending into insanity: you repeated yourself FIVE times! That’s beyond overkill, it’s disturbed. You need to get a grip on yourself before you end up in a padded room. Start with this: there IS no La Raza. #1) you’re Caucasian like everyone else of European descent and 2) THERE’S ONLY ONE HUMAN RACE YOU MORON! Dividing ourselves up based on melanin content is so absurd it boggles the mind. Sane minds, anyway.
Mexican taxpayers can pony up out of state tuition for its citizens children’s education.