Illegal immigrants take to the streets on Monday, "Uno de Mayo", in a "walk out" to demonstrate their value to American society and in support of their cutting in line for a quick amnesty. Cutting ahead of other law-abiding, would-be American citizens from many nations who wait patiently in line to receive their green cards, respecting our laws in the process.
Why should anyone here be surprised by this sense of instant entitlement? Illegal immigrants have learned well how to play the squeaky wheel fiddle while living here in the U.S. Not to mention their power seeking anti-American anti-U.S. government "leadership" who are positioning their "oppressed and maligned" as a voting bloc should they be granted immunity. They are even re-writing our National Anthem! That's just good old fashioned American creativity!
Don't be fooled by the rhetoric. Ilegal aliens do take away potential jobs from the LEGAL AMERICAN POOR in this country. The "non-indentured servitude" employers and the illegals both need to be held accountable for breaking the law, and at the very least get on line and apply for a green card behind those who are registered and respect the law. Without the rule of law, there IS NO SOCIETY.
Meanwhile, south of border, the nefarious Mexican legislature makes possession of heroin, cocaine, and marijuana legal at the individual level. Gee... we wonder how long it will be before Mexican illegals will take to the streets demanding equal protection under our U.S. law for their Mexican right to shoot up dope. If this isn't a sound reason for significantly increasing border patrol jobs (jobs that could go to those LEGAL poor folk we mentioned) while building a state of the art patrolled barrier between Mexico and the U.S., we don't know what is!
Crank up legal local militias, customs, law enforcement and position the National Guard and select military along the border to enforce both our drug laws and our immigration laws! If we can invade Iraq with our "projection of power," we are certainly capable as a nation of protecting our own borders! Washington lawmakers instead are much too busy trying to figure out how to capitalize on, and win the Latino vote, rather than funding and supporting the rule of law!
But then again, the songs of entitlement, as usual, echo in the background, as Senators and Congressmen sit around their legislative campfires immersed in the fragrance of their own flatulence. All the while the demonstrators chant:
"Laws? We don't need no stinking laws!" -- cr. Mel Brooks / Blazing Saddles ("Stinking Badges")
Article comments
1 - Dave Nalle
One point here. Illegals are indeed committing a crime, but the rule of law is still in force regardless if how the government chooses to punish that crime. If, as suggested in one proposed law on the subject, the appropriate punishment is a $1000 fine and the option to apply for citizenship, then that IS the rule of law.
So we don't have to pigheadedly ignore our desperate need for low-end labor just to mindlessly serve an arbitrary interpretation of law that we can change to meet our needs better.
And as for legalizing drug possession in Mexico, maybe it's time we considered learning something from them.
Dave
2 - RedTard
"Not to mention their power seeking anti-American anti-U.S. government 'leadership' who are positioning their 'oppressed and maligned' as a voting block should they be granted immunity."
Great post! I wasn't sure if you were talking about Mexican leaders here or the Democrats. You're exactly right in either case though.
Mexicans are being set up to be the next 'oppressed' minority. Nalle thinks they'll somehow overcome a 50% dropout rate or simply accept being permanent second class citizens, I strongly disagree.
I have not seen an argument yet that would explain how it's better to allow unlimited illegal immigration than to selectively allow legal immigration. If we choose who comes here we get better educated, better English skilled people with more potential. Under the system we have now we get those who have no respect for law.
As for Nalle's theory on adopting Mexican laws, maybe he's onto something, it's a felony to come into Mexico illegally punishable by either jail time or a $5 bill casually slipped to the officer.
3 - Richard Brodie
My son has a girlfiend from Venezuela. She was recently here on a vistor visa and made the mistake of working in a mexican taco shop. Apparently the Hispanic front is not all that united. Non-Mexican Latinos hate Mexicans and vice versa. It could have someting to do with how strictly Mexico enforces ITS OWN southern border, but in this case I'm sure there was an element of resentment and envy on the part of her Mexican co-workers because of her extreme good looks.
Anyway, she got reported to the INS for having worked on a visitor visa. This was discovered at an American airport as she was returning to California after having gone back home to visit her family. They immediately sent her back to Venezuela, saying she could not return to the U.S. for five years.
So what is the rationale here? Is it because of the fear that she might have been taking a job some American citizen might have wanted? But wait. I thought we needed the Hispanics for jobs no American would take!!
She's a pretty good swimmer, so perhaps instead of trying to come in through the established channels and procedures, she should have swum in across the Rio Grande. That way she could have joined the ranks of the 30 million illegals whom the government refuses to even try to deport, but instead holds forth the prospect of rewarding them, for breaking our immigration laws, with instant amnesty and full citizenship.
So to recapitualte: ignore immigration law completely and get a free pass; or go to the trouble of getting a visa, then one slip-up and your instantly deported.
Well, what else can you expect from all the Washington vote whores? Poor little Elainie doesn't constitute much of a potential voting bloc all by herself.
4 - Ankesh
I find that the government has double standards on immigration laws. Awarding some citizenship and amnesty while the others are deported or detained by authorities. The American economy is being held together by immigrants who perform menial jobs for wages that are ILLEGAL!! Though there is fuss about American citizens being unemployed due to the illegal aliens taking their jobs I am sure not many of the model American citizens would like to do the job the immigrants perform. As for the jobs that the citizens are complaining about are not given to illegal aliens but to legal immigrants and furthermore outsourced to other countries for the sake of profits. A lesson learned from this capitalistic economy is to screw over even your own people if it is good for the few selected rich men. In any case it is impractical to even start thinking about deporting a few million people, it will take immense resources to do so and the economy will take a hit anyways due to the lack of lower class workers. As for the proposed wall over the border, anyone will know that you can't build a wall that large without the illegal alien.
5 - Heloise
It's true that it is not that easy to become a citizen or to get a green card. An Indian woman once asked me to marry her husband so he could get his green card!!! I declined naturally. Then a good friend of mine met a woman from Columbia or somewhere and they got married and she was even pregnant.
But guess what they had to wait months for her to come here legally. They had to fill out paperwork and wait.. She don't speaka no English but she is educated and they now have two kids and she lives here legally.
The word in MEXICO is out folks...you can come here work and no one will say a word or arrest you....The government turned its head on purpose.
They need to be taken down a whole bunch of pegs....
Heloise
6 - RedTard
If Americans won't do these jobs as I've been told over and over then we certainly shouldn't make the illegals citizens. Who do the jobs then?
7 - sr
Where are the TREE AMIGO'S WHEN WE NEED THEM. Pancho would say to Cisco the Amigo's went.
8 - Richard Brodie
If Americans won't do these jobs as I've been told over and over then we certainly shouldn't make the illegals citizens. Who'd do the jobs then?
The next wave of 20 million illegals, of course ... and the next, and the next ...
Didn't you know that America is just a population sump for the unending supply of Mexico's human breeding grounds? Well, at least until they've succeeded in equalizing our economy and culture down to their own rotten third world level, at which point the incentive for further invasion will finally have been eliminated.
9 - zingzing
Richard Brodie: "Didn't you know that America is just a population sump for the unending supply of Mexico's human breeding grounds?"
we-ooh! yep! them fuckin mex-y-cans! all the is is human waste! look at em comin thru the plumbin! they gonna come up here, drive our economy into tha ground, and then none of us will be able to work! that's what they want! they don't want a better life! (and it's only the mexicans.) no! they want to destroy our country! i ain't scaird neither richard! together, we will stop this invasion of human feces!
jesus christ. do you really believe yourself when you write shit down? read what you just wrote. if you want to live in a country without immigration issues, TRY LIVING IN THE PAST! every country in the world deals with this. even mexico. fuck. it's a global economy out there. nations matter less and less every day. get fucking used to it. it's not going to move backward. grow up.
10 - Richard Brodie
they gonna come up here, drive our economy into tha ground, and then none of us will be able to work! that's what they want! they don't want a better life!
Of course they want a better life. So do about a billion other Hispanics all the way from Tijuana to Tierra del Fuego. Their cumulative effect on the destruction of our economy, our values, our culture, and our civilization is already well underway.
I notice that you have no answer for Red's question, nor would I expect any answer, from someone who writes in such an imbecilic PC platitude spouting way.
I suggest that Latinos all take a good look in the mirror and ask themselves what it is about their own culture, attitudes, and mentality that has prevented them from developing the same kind of a free and prosperous society in the last five or six hundred years that America has in the last 250 - before trying to make the United States suffer for their own stupidity.
it's not going to move backward
... said one mob-driven lemming to the other, as they approached the edge of the cliff.
11 - zingzing
"I notice that you have no answer for Red's question, nor would I expect any answer, from someone who writes in such an imbecilic PC platitude spouting way."
[Edited] i was mocking you, smarty. i didn't look at his question. i just took a look at it. so, as soon as immigrants become citizens, they will want better jobs? OF COURSE THEY WILL! what the fuck... it's a circular question. what answer does it lead you to? come on now... tap tap tap.
as for your "hispanics need to look in the mirror" junk, take a look at our own history. civilizations take different paths. our history is not stain-free. in fact... anyway, did you read that post about failed states? go and read up. what happened to africa, south asia, the middle east? what happened to mississippi? what happened to eastern washington, what happened to washington, dc? huh?
and as for your isolationist tendancies, go hole up if you want. i figure it's a big world and a short life and i'm going to get the most of it. you be the scared little mouse. i'm gonna go see what's at the bottom of that cliff. neither one of us is going to live through it... at least i'll have a nice ride.
12 - Richard Brodie
it's a big world and a short life and i'm going to get the most of it. you be the scared little mouse. i'm gonna go see what's at the bottom of that cliff. neither one of us is going to live through it... at least i'll have a nice ride.
Typical short-sighted attitude of a hedonistic young punk who has no posterity to worry about preserving anything for.
13 - zingzing
what do you see in your future? preserving what? your world? your world won't exist in a few years. things change, people change, hairstyles change... hedonistic? nah... i'm just going with the flow rather than trying to stop something i can't control.
14 - mschannon
I can't believe you people are arguing over trivia when the most significant error--unforgiveable really--in the article goes unmentioned.
ZZ, how can we trust your opinion, commentary, facts, or ideas when your knowledge is so limited and...dare i say it...contemporary.
"Badges, we don't need no stinking badges" was indeed in "Blazing Saddles," but it was funny because it was stolen from one of Humphrey Bogart's greatest roles, "The Treasure of Sierra Madre, in 1935.
I am, quite simply shocked, shocked. Next I'll find out there's gambling going on in this establishment.
In Decaf Veritas