August 02, 2005
Cindy Rodriguez of the Denver Post wants us to know: "Bashing of immigrants must stop". ("Beating of wives must stop" was apparently taken.) She reports on the formation of a new group of "Latino" activists. Based on her description, the group seems to have at least two goals:
1. Confuse people over the difference between illegal immigrants and legal immigrants.
2. Smear anyone who wants border control with various names like "bashers", "hatemongers" (two of Cindy's smears) and the like.
For instance:
Civil-rights attorney Adrienne Benavidez, one of the leaders, explains why: "Those who spout mean-spirited rhetoric, seeking to dehumanize immigrants, don't move immigration reform any further along. It's important that we don't allow that kind of negativism to dictate this country's policies or our values."
Who else is involved?
Smart people lead this group - Pam and Ricardo Martinez of Padres Unidos, Nita Gonzales of Escuela Tlatelolco, Lisa Duran of Rights for All People, to name a few
The last group is also named "Derechos Por Todos"; I don't know which is the favored name or whether they've recently changed to the English version.
Duran appeared at the First Data/Western Union forum where an American was reportedly attacked. See the end of this recent post for another speaker at that meeting. She supports driver's licenses for illegal aliens and opposes police working with BICE. She also seems to fall into the "we didn't cross the border, the border crossed us" camp. In 2003 there was a roundup of illegal aliens working at the Air Force Academy. Duran called it "racist."
Looking into the other "smart people" is left as an exercise. It looks to me like we're dealing with people who oppose the best interests of this country out of racial grounds and whose only form of argumentation is to call people names.
Posted to Immigration2005b at August 2, 2005 10:38 AM
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"Those who spout mean-spirited rhetoric, seeking to dehumanize immigrants, don't move immigration reform any further along."
Posted by: Ralph at August 2, 2005 11:34 AM
Politicians Missing the Boat
As I was surfing around Immigration News Daily, and checking out the latest news I found a story by Lonewacko.com on TPMCAFE. After reading his/her writings I found myself wondering why our political leaders just don’t get this issue.
As one of the co-founders of U.S. Border Watch this is an issue near and dear to my heart. But when you try to talk to most politicians about this issue you are automatically considered either a raciest, or a vigilante. Our organization is neither. We will be on the border in October armed with nothing more than photographic, and communication equipment. It’s not that we oppose guns, most of our members, and leaders have gun permits. It’s just that we don’t plan to be close enough to anyone to be a threat. We plan to observe and report, that’s it. You would think that would eliminate the vigilante argument.
We also hear a lot of talk about letting the professionals do the job. But isn’t that the situation we have now? The field agents for the border patrol are doing all they can with what they have but obviously it’s not enough. We have a million people per year walking unchecked into our country. I would much prefer to be laid up on a beach in Florida instead of the border but someone has to do this in order to get our Government to enforce our laws.
To us this is not so much an immigration issue, as it is a National security issue. As of June of this year, 119,000 non-Mexicans have been caught illegally crossing our borders. If the numbers we get out of the border patrol are correct that would mean nearly three quarters of a million will get through, some from Russia, China, Egypt, Yemen, and even Iraq. Eventually al-Qaida will use this very avenue to attack us.
Our elected leaders in Washington have got to see that our National security is at risk. We are being asked to give up some of our own rights in the name of National security, but you’ve got to ask yourself which will make you safer, knowing what books a terrorist read at the library, or keeping the terrorist out of our country in the first place.
It’s time for our leaders to find the funding needed, and the backbone necessary to solve this problem. It’s time to stop pandering for votes and do the job you was elected to do, and that’s defending this country from another terrorist attack.
The bottom line is the law should apply to everyone, and illegal immigration is against the law.
All we are asking is that our Government do there Constitutional duty, and make sure that everyone entering this country do so through the legal process, so we know who they are and what there intentions are.
The situation today on our borders may very well be the biggest National security threat facing this country today.
Posted by: conner collier at August 2, 2005 01:20 PM
To put it simply: Bush-Fox, the illegal alien profiteers, the Mexican race-hustlers and the rest of the foul crew are saying that the US is not a sovereign country and US citizens have no right of self-determination. A sovereign country has borders and a people with the right of self-determination have the right to expect that their democratically enacted immigration laws will be enforced.
Posted by: perroazul del norte at August 2, 2005 11:51 PM
Quite so, there is a huge national security issue here which is traitorously being allowed to multiply and ramify. The advocates for unreasonable immigration have no reasonable arguments for their cause, so they have to use smears and other fallacies. The president is making common cause with these separatists and others, trying to organize a major new smear campaign against immigration restrictionism. It is those who say that immigrants can't be blamed for anything wrong that they do, who dehumanize the immigrant, placing him outside morality, and thus implicitly outside humanity.
Posted by: John S Bolton at August 2, 2005 11:55 PM
I do believe that our government is refusing to protect our borders for political reasons. And those reasons have to do with trying to capture the Hispanic vote. Since the Hispanic vote was traditionally Democrat, the Republicans think that they can bring them over to their side by keeping the border open and trying to pass this "guest worker" program for them. Unfortunately, we not only end up with tons of workers but also drug dealers, sex perverts, gang members and other unsavory characters. The most important thing that our government can do is to try and protect the American people from harm. And as long as our border remained unprotected the government is not doing its sworn job. And since our government will not do its job, I am all for the Minutemen project or any of the other groups doing border work for us. I hope that others will support them also. They are not vigilantes.
Posted by: Debbie at August 3, 2005 12:05 AM
She has written similar things before. Many times.
Posted by: eh at August 3, 2005 05:26 AM
Hey John Bolton, Well said....notice the silence from Ralphie old bean. A little too much reason and rationality for him to handle I'd guess, ;-)
Posted by: aa at August 10, 2005 03:50 PM
"there is a huge national security issue here"
And the vast majority of immigrants pose absolutely no threat to our security whatsoever.
Posted by: Ralph at August 11, 2005 07:06 AM
