Posted on 04/07/2005 7:55:43 AM PDT by hinterlander
Sickened by the collapse of our border with Mexico, which for years has been trampled into sandy insignificance by hordes of illegal immigrants, most Americans today robustly cheer the news that their fellow citizens in Arizona are blowing the whistle on international outlaws who have no respect for U.S. rules and sovereignty.
The so-called Minuteman Project privately and peacefully is dispatching fed-up, volunteer gringos to 1) patrol the 23 miles of border in San Pedro Valley, 2) spot any crossing violators, and 3) alert federal agents that our immigration laws are in the process of being broken. Although there is an additional 2,000 miles of border to worry about, the Arizona segment poses the greatest threat to U.S. security, because last year alone 51% of all illegals nabbed by the Border Patrol crossed into the USA via that particular state.
The chilling effect of Americans beginning to take the law, even partially, into their own hands has provoked Mexican President Vicente Fox to leave his hen house long enough to cackle "fowl"!--uh, foul! He threatens legal action against the migrant-hunting "vigilantes." This, in turn, inspired Colorado's pro-border Congressman Tom Tancredo to tell the 21st Century Minutemen, "You are not vigilantes. You are heroes, in my book."
Meantime, in Miami, a continent away and a world apart, the problem with unrestricted immigration since 1958 BC (Before Castro) makes the Arizona border problem look in comparison like a New Hampshire summer picnic experiencing a few ants. Called "The Magic City" by its early 20th Century promoters, Miami, after the last 25 years of tsunami-like immigration (overwhelmingly from Latin America, followed by Haiti), has replaced the adjective Magic with Tragic and acquired unique status on several counts. A recent Brookings Institution study of U.S. Census Bureau data reveals the following:
The organization created by Jorge Mas Canosa (and bequeathed to his son, Jorge II) is still kicking and now claims it wants to help the stubborn Anglo fools not driven out of town. The Cuban American National Foundation this week began airing condescending "public-service," English-language commercials on Miami's NBC television station to teach the barely tolerated English-speaking remnants of the local populace how to cope with their personal finances! CANF's brassy TV lesson for us poor Anglos (whose median household income actually is $20,000 higher than Latinos' income) is--and I am not making this up--to "save at least $1 a day, and at the end of the year you will have $360."
I shall not quibble with this truncated, bizarre version of the Gregorian calendar. If King Jorge II and his court jesters count only 360 days in a year, that is OK with me. But five bucks is five bucks! In accepting the premise of CANF's act of chutzpah, I shall save a dollar a day--according, however, to my calendar. That will give me $365 (not $360) in the piggy bank by this time next year. According to Southwest Airlines, it will be enough to fly both my wife and me to Arizona, economy class . . . and one way.
And another happy camper is heard from. :-)
Arizona, where they'll encounter another bunch of non-English-speaking immigrants.
We can start advertising our country as the new and improved Tower of Babel. That is, if the ACLU doesn't think that would be too Biblical.
What's this guy's problem with Miami? It's a great town.
Miami's kind of an anomaly. It's got problems, but it also has a ton of things going for it. It is, in many ways, the economic and cultural capital of Latin America.
Illegals have this wonder technique of lowering their neighborhoods down to similar levels of the one where they came from. Just AMAZING!
don't ya think you're all being a bit racist? come on, life was hard for them over there. sure, it was wrong of them to come over here illegally but you don't have to sit there and talk all that bs do you?
People who refuse to assimilate do bring the sad conditions they have experienced to a neighbohood. Clean house when you can't kick it out of the way by throwing the trash into the backyard, paint gang codes anywhere and everywhere identifying 'your' ground, park your cars on the lawn, turn the boombox up so everyone can hear it, throw the beer cans in the hedges then piss on the fence just like they did back home.
Who said America should be the tit for all the poor and downtrodden from other countries? We cannot feed, medicate, educate or provide jobs for the world without compromising our standard of living. That I am not willing to do.
I apologize if you find the truth to be racist. Are you aware that Ceaser Chavez was the person who originated the word 'wetback'? It means having to swim across the river in order to avoid coming over the bridge at a Port of Entry where your papers would be checked by the immigration officials.
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