A different kind of disturbing video
This video of the Wall Street Journal editorial board discussing the immigration bill is troubling. The participants really seem to believe that conservative opponents of the bill are prejudiced against Mexicans and other Hispanic people, but dare not say it — and therefore cloak their racism in talk about “border security.” How very odd. It seems there may be some prejudice on display all right — but perhaps it is the prejudice of the elites who seem to think that main street conservatives secretly harbor these dark thoughts.
And we’ll make a further, political, point. The editorial board appears to believe that the politics of this bill only work one way, that is, to deprive the Republican Party of Hispanic voters if a bill does not pass. There never seems to be any consideration of the idea that there are perhaps many Democrats who are offended by the US’s lack of control of its own borders and who are admitted across them. There is plenty of evidence to the contrary, as we have shown.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
The ad hominem attack, the “bigots,” the “homophobes,” etc., are simply the last resort of those who really don’t have a good answer to one’s argument.
It is hardly “bigoted” when one objects to one’s country being invaded. I wouldn’t react any differently if it were hordes of Canadians coming from the north or wherever, the problem is the easy and unrestricted access to this country by Latin Americans, particularly Mexicans, which creates the bulk of the problem. If China were next door, and the same situation existed, we’d be called Sinophobes, no doubt.
How the WSJ can ignore the closings of emergency rooms by the dozen in California, the theft of identities and the fact that a quarter of the prison population is composed of illegals is beyond me. One must really become insulated living in gated communities with private security. The rest of us have to fend for ourselves.
Add to that the fact that the resistance to assimilation by these people, and the accommodations that government and business make to coddle this resistance, is a continual poke in the eye to natives and legal immigrants, who are the most affected by this continual amnesty and closed eye approach to the problem.
Everyone cries about how “impossible” the problem of deporting 12 – 20 millioin illegals is, and then completely fail to try. Even when they purport to try, things like “catch and release” simply show how little they really care and embolden the illegals even more.
One aspect of this that is overlooked by the press, but must be common knowledge to all of them, is the bolstering of the Naional Ponzi Scheme, er, I mean, Social Security by imput by illegals-made-legal.
Every Spanish announcement and sign at the local Sears reminds me of this problem and throws gasoline on an already burning fire.
Personally, I am not voting for ANYONE that rams this through Congress, Democrat or Republican.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:01 am
The only way that I can be convinced that this hurry-up (and they say we were rushed into the Iraq War, whick took relative eons longer than they want to cram this crap down our throats) on amnesty is not yet another pandering opportunity for our so-called leaders would be if a clause was added that defined all illegals as convicted felons (sentence suspended) that are not allowed to vote.
I suspect they’d lose interest pretty rapidly if that were the case.