Posted on 02/25/2004 1:13:37 PM PST by Indy Pendance
CHICAGO, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Immigrant rights advocates are ripping a pair of provocative campaign ads from Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jim Oberweis as racist and fallacious.
In his ads, Oberweis warns the nation is being overrun by illegal immigrants.
"Illegal aliens are coming here to take American workers' jobs, drive down wages and take advantage of government benefits such as free health care, and you pay," the wealthy dairy operator says in one of the spots.
"How many? Ten thousand illegal aliens a day. Enough to fill Soldier Field every single week." (Soldier Field is the stadium where the Chicago Bears play.)
Advocates for immigrant rights were swift to criticize the ads as racist.
"It is men like this gentleman who continue to project the old Archie Bunker mentality. Those stats are prostituted and fabricated," said state Rep. William Delgado, D-Chicago.
"They're very irresponsible."
Right you are!
That's just a smokescreen. He's upset because Oberweis is talking about democrat voters.
I understand that members of the racist Congressional Hispanic Caucus are also upset over what Oberweis said.
Absolutely. Just like the 40% of Latino voters who voted in favor of Prop 187 in California, which would have cut off most benefits to illegal aliens. Based on the logic of the illegal immigration cheerleaders, all of those Latino voters must be racist.
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