Posted on 03/29/2006 10:31:21 PM PST by ncountylee
It's a new chapter in the Promised Land. We are becoming The Land That Better Keep Its Promises - or Else. Even promises that never were made. A half-million illegal aliens and friends and sympathizers have taken to the streets of late, demanding unhampered residency and employment. Their anger is being whipped up against an America that would fence its borders against more coming over, and require proper payroll-keeping and taxpaying from employers who hire them outside the law.
Why? In part because a new myth is gaining currency. It is that illegal immigrants, mostly of Mexican or other Hispanic origin, "built this country." Without them the economy would collapse.
"We are the motor of this nation!" a speaker harangued the 500,000 who marched in Los Angeles on Saturday. "We construct your schools! We cook your food!" Other thousands marched to this beat of indispensability in Phoenix, Denver and Milwaukee.
That people who entered the United States by stealth feel entitled to tie up U.S. downtowns with their grievances is nervy in the first place. But their slant on U.S. history is off the wall. No better clue might be needed that kids should be taught in English, fast!
It was religious freedom-seekers from England who began building this country, followed by natives of every part of Europe, Asia and Africa. And their descendants keep right on building it as e pluribus unum Americans -- "out of the many, one." Don't expect them to honor some dubious economic necessity to let everybody in.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
""We are the motor of this nation!" a speaker harangued the 500,000 who marched in Los Angeles on Saturday. "We construct your schools! We cook your food!""
And we prefer legal immigrants do that. It should be our choice.
Good post, ncl.
Don't ya all worry. This illegal immigration thing will work itself out. Our congress will give us a comprehensive immigration bill just about the time Mexico runs out of people wanting to come here. BTW, they have about 100 million people left and only 60% of them want to come here.
"We are the motor of this nation!"
Why not go home and put some of that energy into building Mexico?
Ping!
ya let um pick a few vegetables and some fruit and this is what ya get.... Go the hell home already , we can do it ourselves.
These just don't look like potential Republican voters.
If the illegals "built" this country our buildings would be made of cardboard boxes and plywood scraps, every city would be a shanty town painted in bright shades of green, red, and yellow.
Well, OK, maybe they did build parts of this country.
If their ancestry is indigenous at all, they weren't this far north.
I'm Choctaw. They can carry their Mayan/Spanish butts back south. If they really want to fight for their rights and against racism, they should go see Vincente.
The Spanish didn't wipe out the indigenous races, the way the Europeans (English Protestants) did in the Northern Hemisphere.
Besides, take a look at the pictures, these people aren't mainly Spanish or any other type of European, they are mostly indigenous.
That is technically not correct either. The majority of them are actually a mix of the two, to varying degrees, much like the rest of Hispanic America (both Central and South). There may be some pure-blooded indegenes in this group of 11 million, not all of whom are even Mexican nationals, but for all of them to claim that, and for us to accept that claim at face value, is ludicrous...
the infowarrior
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.