Posted on 05/25/2005 3:58:46 PM PDT by lonewacko_dot_com
It's April Fools' Day and Congressman Tom Tancredo... sparks a prolonged standing ovation from the hundred or so assembled volunteers of the Minuteman Project as they kick off their month-long campaign to close down the Arizona-Mexico border. His presence here, at what is most definitely a fringe political event involving armed citizen patrols, is validation -- at least in the minds of the project organizers -- that their seal-the-borders message is finally resonating in Washington. The avenging angel of America's anti-immigrant movement, Tancredo leads seventy mostly back-bench, restrictionist House members in the Immigration Reform Caucus...
...It shouldn't be surprising that George W. Bush, rather than liberal Democrats, should be the target of so much cranked-up ire from the nativist right...
...After a barrage of anti-immigration bills fired off earlier in this legislative season, Senators McCain and Kennedy introduced in mid-May their much-awaited immigration overhaul proposal -- the first step toward comprehensive and bipartisan reform...
...The GOP's share of the Arizona Latino vote climbed to an all-time high of more than 40 percent in last November's presidential election. Pissing off a few Minuteman types might be a small price to pay to have the President become the champion of historic immigration liberalization and the elected official most responsible for delivering the Latino vote to the GOP...
...The danger is that the longer meaningful federal action lags, the more the populist right, the Minuteman-style groups and the Congressional Tancredos will be energized into action. Anti-immigration drives are now under way in about a dozen states...
...While Arizona's Democratic attorney general interpreted the law in a vary narrow way, rendering its effects minimal, Arizona's anti-immigration crusaders are hardly deterred; they believe they are surfing the crest of a breaking national political wave...
...While Pearce sees "momentum, lots of momentum" for his immigrant-crackdown message, other evidence indicates the restrictionist cause isn't quite as compelling at the grassroots. In spite of extraordinary media hype, including millions of dollars in free publicity doled out on a daily basis on CNN as Lou Dobbs aggressively championed its cause, the Minuteman Project was an unmitigated flop...
[Read the full four pages at the link]
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Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Minutemen Patriots ~ Bump!
God bless the Minutemen!
Apparently you don't recall the 280 mikemike atomic cannon. The 15kt projectiles were indeed, capable of critical nuclear detonation and weighed a little over 500lbs.
You sound like a RNC operative.
shhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh !
If your not whining about them darned Messicans....it's Buchanan.
"As long as men must come north to feed their families...bla, bla, bla..."
Why don't the "men" stay home and address the problems with their crappy Mexican goobermint?
"That's what President Bush has been saying for at least ten years. Only his plan calls for temporary guest workers, not necessarily permanent residents."
Reading is fundamental. Remember that from the 70's?
Try re-reading the Bush plan.
It's Shamnesty Lite.
Your tagline about Hillary and my guns reveals a very serious misunderstanding of this country and the poeple who live in it.
Bayourod has become nothing but a mouthpiece for child molesting race hustling leftist Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center. He has joined the anti-American ranks of La Raza and MEChA and the violent pro-invasion protestors who rioted in Garden Grove, CA Wednesday night and Baldwin Park last week.
Wow, that kind of attack is really fun. Thanks for showing me how to do that.
Pure BS! The Minuteman Project did it on a few donations and retirees in lawnchairs. Your numbers are crap - invented to support your position that our national borders are somehow impossible to secure.
"A nation without borders is not a nation." - Ronald Reagan
As long as men must come north to feed their families, and as long as America is dependent upon foreign laborers to replace the 40 million workers we have aborted since Roe v Wade, the border can never be "sealed". President Bush has the most practical answers.
As long as men must rob banks and liquor stores and sell crack to schoolchildren to feed their families, and as long as America is dependent upon their input into our diverse economy, banks and liquour stores can never be "secured" and schoolchildren can never be "protected" from dangerous drugs. Mara Salvatruchas (MS-13) gang leader Rivera-Paz has the most practical answers.There again, you've taught me so much on how to do this. I can just make up any old thing, post it on FR, and see if it sticks. Doesn't matter if it makes any logical sense or bears any resemblance to the truth or reality, you can just post whatever crap you want and get away with it. You've proven that. Cool.
No plan that allows a single illegal border crosser to stay without first returning to their home country is unacceptable. Any plan that rewards invaders with jobs, amnesty, citizenship, benefits like Medicare or Social Security is unacceptable. Any plan that does not first include fulfilling the constitutional requirement to secure our borders from invasion BEFORE setting up any sort of TEMPORARY "guest worker" program is unacceptable.
A HE projectile for a 155 howitzer weighs about 95 pounds if I remember correctly. As far back as the 1970s 155 howitzers had atomic projectiles, I believe. A quick search found info about the W48 155-millimeter howitzer atomic projectile. Yes, I know that tactical weapons are not city busters. But just one tactical nuke could ruin your day nevertheless.
RE: "[most people] just want to keep Mexican laborers from crossing"
No matter how many times we say ILLEGAL ILLEGAL ILLEGAL ILLEGAL ILLEGAL it always goes over your head. Another way of stating your comment is the correct way, "Most people just want to keep ILLEGAL immigrants from crossing."
Why is that so difficult to understand?
IMO, "cheap" legal immigrant labor is another debate best left until ILLEGAL ILLEGAL ILLEGAL ILLEGAL ILLEGAL immigration is ended (at least as best we can).
BTW, great debate so far.
That's the favorite strawman of those who say we shouldn't even try.
We don't need to seal the borders airtight. We just need to signficantly increase the risk of apprehension - to where fewer people are willing to fork over a thousand bucks to a coyote if there is a better-than even-money chance they will get caught.
Next, couple that with more aggressive inland enforcement. And especially make it riskier for employers to hire illegals so that lots fewer do. And cut off illegals from government benefits and schools.
Yeah, some will still come across. But we could probably cut the flow by at least half and probably more if we layer the approach.
The hispanic vote shtick is a loser because 60-40 is well 60-40 do the math. What you amount to is a stalking horse for the left and their dangerous loonieness of open borders.
If they were given orders to shoot to kill I'll bet illegals would stop coming. And I would support any president who gave that order.
And yes I really mean it.
Interesting how things happen, isn't it...?
Marc Cooper... grrrr .... a marxist to the bone trying to masquerade as a slightly left moderate ... a commie, a pinko, another michael moore...
whoa, it must be love, yeah!
Dane is insane and nothing rhymes with bayourod.
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