I was listening to NPR a couple of weeks ago. They took a break from the program about the huge number of children coming from El Salvador,Honduras and Guatemala. It is no accident that they are all countries we have helped to oppress folks like union members trying to increase local wages etc. The station encouraged the listeners to listen to a program later in the day about the coming crisis due to the aging of the American work force. I couldn't help but think that the answer was available and had been given before the break. Democracy Now had a program on the influx of the children and one of the interviewees was a guy in his late twenties who was studying for his PhD at Texas A and M and had been an unaccompanied minor at 13 from Honduras. Welcome US workers. Another good thing about the children is that they learn English so easily.
Who is behind this influx of illegal immigration? Is it our own government who is actually encouraging this humanitarian crisis? Should a government whose number one responsibility is to protect it's citizens be involved in creating health risks to make a political point? This is not the way to force immigration reform. Learn to make deals! Hire Bill Clinton as a legislative consultant. Stop the insanity on the border. The backlash on this strategy is going to be ugly.
Dems should run hard on the pro-uncontrolled human trafficking of thousands of third world children across the border platform.
Well, Rosebud, community-wide and statutory segregation were obsolete once suburban housing, consumer finance dollars and bachelors-level corporate jobs reached a critical enough mass that most whites wouldn't have to compete with blacks for money, status or space. The the only whites left in unions were in communities so economically isolated that they could only get jobs in salaried industrial shift-work; while those same industrial employers lost their talent base in larger cities and therefore had to hire blacks and hispanics. The more insidious alliance is that between corporate hiring managers and people who won't hire blacks to salaried professional work.
That would make your ilk's abolishing public education, rolling back Civil Rights legislation and legalizing heroin platform look a little less catastrophic or blindingly racist.
We are really going to miss civil liberties when they are gone. "Brown shirts" at the holding facilities threatening reprisals for leaking information? Really?
Here is the Aggie from the show. I have met him before he has a great story about how he survived in America. http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/ne...nted-immigrant-who-ran-for-student-president/
Yesterday I was happy to chant "USA! USA!" with US Soccer but today I am disgusted at those who are using it to intimidate poor children. My America isn't one where people use the flag to bully people but the one that is the symbol of hope and opportunity for people around the world.
Obama will be in Texas in a few days. But he has no plans to go to the border to witness this first-hand. Instead he will be fund raising for the democratic party in Dallas.
nah, they just started counting voluntary returns as deportations to juke the stats http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/05/AR2010120503230.html like "jobs created or saved" the notion that Obama would want to be tougher on illegal immigrants than his predecessor makes no sense, politically or ideologically <iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/iP0tv_ubM6E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
If you're going to be realistic, the US cannot possibly accommodate (physically or financially) immigrants from all the countries where it has directly or indirectly created refugees. There's not really a good solution, but at least it has been shown in the past that immigration can be a key driving force for positive change if handled properly. It's probably more beneficial to turn immigrants into productive citizens than it is to fight them off forever. That is, after all, why America exists in its current form at all. It is super baffling how a country so historically and successfully dependent on immigration can have this much anti-immigration sentiment. You're virtually all immigrants. You and all your great grandparents have witnessed the process of older immigrants being a-holes to more recent immigrants. IMO it is a sign of a really insecure and militant population to have this type of attitude towards immigrants. UNLESS, of course, there is not really a relatively high opposition to pro-immigration policies and it is just blown up by the media.
People running across the border in the middle of the night are different from people who immigrate by following the law. LOL at militant and insecure because you uphold your own laws. You're hilarious.
