“Your anti-immigration ideology is harming our cities”: An urbanist’s open letter to Ted Cruz

Salon ^ | November 12, 2014 | Teddy Cruz, urban researcher

[ClearCase_guy]

The big excuse that we need low wage workers is a lie

The Progressives want to bring back slavery. Hey, wouldn't it be great to have live-in maids??? And a personal gardener out in the fields?? And you wouldn't have to pay them almost anything!!! And if they got out of line, you could beat them! Ahhhhhhhhh, just like the good ol' days.

[Fungi]

Nonsense.

[Secret Agent Man]

we must control the language.

anti-illegal-immigration. we want people here tht will respect and obey our laws. foreignrs don’t get to pick and choose what laws to obey in another country. we sure as hell don’t.

[ConorMacNessa]

It's not "anti-immigrant!" It's pro-sovereignty. In one of the few things she ever did that I agree with, Eleanor Roosevelt got up in front of the Daughters of the American Revolution and addressed them as "Fellow immigrants."

My ancestors were immigrants - a few of them came over before there was any Nation - most came after "An Gorta Mor" - The Great Famine.

I have spent much of my free time over the last thirty years documenting the story of their coming to this Nation. Lots of "Statements of Intent", lots of naturalization decrees, lots of census records reflecting that they became naturalized American citizens through legal process.

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free . . . "

Still open - just come legally is all I ask.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Kickass Conservative]

Guatemala must be Spanish for “Auschwitz”.

[Nifster]

Nice graphic. That’s exactly right.

I stand with Ted.

This idiot ‘Teddy’ is clueless (and still has a child’s name....)

[ansel12]

No one is anti-immigration.

Many of us are, in the long run there is no difference between 10s of millions of legal third worlders, and illegal ones.

One gets to vote sooner than the other, and gets to go on welfare instantly, but that is about it.

To the left, their legals just give them a quicker return.

[DallasGal]

My head just exploded reading this. I don’t recall Ted Cruz ever saying he was anti-immigrant only anti-illegal immigration.

Several years ago, the Dallas Morning News declared the Texan of The Year to be the “Illegal Immigrant” I went off on that too.

Like my tag line says, I’m first gen. My parents are naturalized. My paternal grandfather came here to pursue his education and ultimately to give his kids a better life. They did it the right way. What is so hard about that?

[ari-freedom]

“Undocumented immigrants are in fact one of the lifelines of our economy. If every nanny, maid, busboy, waiter, farmworker and construction worker in California who entered this country illegally stopped working for a day (“a day without a Mexican”), the state’s economy would collapse”

well yeah because it means employers don’t have to deal with expensive regulations, such as minimum wage, that apply to everyone else!

[ansel12]

The Progressives want to bring back slavery. Hey, wouldn't it be great to have live-in maids???

A hook that I found to make my rich feminist customers question themselves, was when I would point out to the mother how ironic it was that as she worked in her Boutique shop during the day (rich husbands), her children's female role model was a shy, submissive, 19 year old Guatemalan girl, the live in maid, (it was amazing how many of them were young Guatemalan girls).

You should have seen their faces as that hit home.

[umgud]

Temper tantrum.

If we don’t roll over for illegal immigration, a whole bunch of people are going to be hurt and pissed off.

[ansel12]

Speaking of Guatemalans.

My jaw dropped when I saw Mitt denying his illegals in the 2007 debate, and was not surprised what came of it a week later (well, surprised but not totally shocked).

Governor Mitt and wife Ann, were interacting with the Guatemalan illegals at their private home for 10 years. The landscaper that the illegals worked for, was a naturalized Colombian himself, personally chosen by Mitt, (A naturalized Colombian, Guatemalan illegals, and a sitting Governor during 4 years of that period), IDs better have been checked.

In December of 2006, the republican Governor was exposed, and suffered national embarrassment for using illegals for 10 years.

In December of 2007, in a national debate, Rudy Giuliani accused Mitt Romney of having run a “Sanctuary Mansion”. On national TV, Mitt Romney indignantly denied the claim.

A few days after the debate, the Boston Globe decided to look again at Mitt’s house, and guess what, they found Guatemalan illegals, they were working for the same Colombian, MITT HAD NEVER FIRED THEM!

Ten years and a national scandal, turned into 11 years, and into a second national scandal, with all the same players, the same “contractor”, Guatemalan illegals, and the same Mitt Romney and his wife interacting with them at their home during the week.

[ari-freedom]

“Many of us are, in the long run there is no difference between 10s of millions of legal third worlders, and illegal ones.”

It’s a completely different issue. In Europe, their biggest problem is the legal immigration of all the muslims who want to take over. If they were all high paid doctors, that just means they’ll be able to donate even more money to terrorists.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I don’t like cities anyway, big concrete termite mounds!

[Eva]

LOL! I do think that you have hit on a good answer to the Democratbpish for immigration.

We can add that the Dems want to ease their guilt with a higher minimum wage. The dirty secret is that before the recession, illegals in SoCal, were making $20 per hour and not paying taxes or union dues.

[Fai Mao]

Please note: Ted Cruz is not saying these things. It is a Northern liberal complaining that Ted Cruz does NOT believe these things

Read carefully.

[ansel12]

You didn’t explain why it is a different issue, from the reality that it is, and it has nothing to do with Europe.

Plus we are filled up, we had a fine nation and a fine population size in 1970, immigration has destroyed us since then, and we will never recover.

[Jim from C-Town]

Yes, Senator Cruz, Our inner cities are in desperate need of more poverty stricken illiterates. Preferably those who hale from the third World and speak a foreign language.

[Boogieman]

“And what legitimate interest could these crimnals have in voter identity verification in the United States anyway, Teddy?”

Good catch. The next sentence makes no sense either, outside of the leftist echo chamber:

“Refusing to raise the minimum wage only leads to more immigrants pouring across our borders to offer the cheap labor that you simultaneously depend on and condemn.”

Illegal immigrants are not subject to minimum wage laws, since they work illegally. Raising the minimum wage would naturally encourage more businesses, which cannot afford to raise wages or prices, to hire illegals.

[Jim from C-Town]

Urban Researcher. That is an educated Community Organizer.