The Coming Latino Revolt

Daily Beast ^ | December 2, 2010 | Bryan Curtis

[La Lydia]

It’s zero hour for the DREAM Act...For two years, Barack Obama failed—or, if you prefer, refused—to nudge along a major immigration bill. The last-ditch hope is that departing Democrats, and a few Republicans, somehow band together in the lame-duck session and pass a law allowing illegal immigrants who came to the United States as minors to gain citizenship. Harry Reid promised to bring up the bill for a Senate cloture vote this week. Republicans vowed to scuttle it...

But as Chicago congressman Luis Gutiérrez prepares for a rally at a church in Brooklyn, the DREAM Act seems like the end of his interest in congressional gamesmanship rather than the start. Gutiérrez is one of several Hispanic leaders who have found themselves politically estranged from the president. Moreover, they are numbed by the legislative process that denied them a vote on immigration reform, much less a victory, when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress...“The opportunity to have gotten it done is gone.”

The DREAM Act, Gutiérrez says, is for now his final legislative maneuver. He’s finished waiting for the mythical 60th vote to materialize in the Senate. No, when the lame duck ends, Gutiérrez and his movement allies will ask for a divorce—from the Democratic Party...To hear Gutiérrez tell it, Hispanic leaders are about to stage a full-tilt campaign of direct action, like the African-American civil-rights movement of the 1960s. There will be protests, marches, sit-ins—what César Chávez might have called going rogue. The movement will operate autonomously, no longer beholden to wavering Democrats, filibustering Republicans, and—perhaps most tantalizingly—no longer beholden to Barack Obama...

[Razz Barry]

“When black people in this country decided they were going to fight for civil rights and for voting rights, they didn’t ask if the majority leader was with them and when they were going to tee up the bill. They said, ‘We’re sitting where we need to sit on the bus! We’re integrating this counter! We’re going to march!'”

Gutierrez compares the struggle of those who were brought here in chains to those who broke in. You know, that maybe the reason Obama didn't do anything to pass amnesty. Gutierrez, thank G-d, is an idiot.

[bitt]

[thecodont]

We wouldn't have a problem with illegal immigration if not for illegal labor.

That's it right there. Hit them in the wallet.

Consider a boycott of any business that knowingly hires and employs illegal aliens.

[raybbr]

But as Chicago congressman Luis Gutiérrez prepares for a rally at a church in Brooklyn...

What is he doing in Brooklyn? Must be money there for him. I bet a Soros funded group brought him in.

[raybbr]

Hispanics don’t support illegal immigration.

Then tell why hundreds of thousands of them have/are/will marched/marching/march in the streets of this country demanding we accept them?

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I pray they do this. The political backlash would be legendary.

It was one thing to deny basic rights to a people captured and enslaved against their will, and do this ONLY because of their skin color.

It is something else to extend preferences to individuals, criminals, who violate our laws repeatedly and with intend, even if without malice.

Huge demonstrations by illegal aliens would only accelerate the grass roots power of middle class voters looking for less government regulation and cost and unfairness.

Bring it on Louis. Bring it on. You will set back your cause decades.