Posted on 07/08/2005 12:48:56 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana
I often wonder why the "Radical Latino Base" in this nation does not go after the likes of Vincente Fox. Mexico is a nation of wealth. Mineral wise it exceeds the USA. Instead of confronting you "crooked leadership" you come to the USA and fight an uphill battle. You send your money home while you live in the back of pickups and on river banks. GO HOME and take what is yours. That little bunch up at the top can not hold you back. We will show you how to make a democracy. We are doing it in Iraq at this very moment. Do not suck away our energy to support your failing society go build your own. Or should I say rebuild your own. This will probably get me in big trouble here. Truth is truth.
Besides, non-Latino children in Houston have problems too. I'm sure the Rotarians and other similar MAINSTREAM organizations are addressing these issues with ALL of Houston's children, not just the "Latino" ones.
Finally, if it doesn't pass the smell test below, I don't go for it. Would this ever be tolerated if it were an organization targeted just at White/Anglo students/audiences? No, as it shouldn't be in either case. I've never understood this need for American hispanics to hole themselves away in Hispanic organizations rather than "mainstreaming" and "assimilating".
This will probably get me in big trouble here. Truth is truth.
Besides, non-Latino children in Houston have problems too.
I disagree with any organization that:
a) uses *-American in its name
b) states that it exists for the advancement of one ethnic group
c) has a long-standing affiliation with a liberal national organization like the NCLR
You are going to have to explain to me Bushes apparent contempt for our Immigration Law. Law is law. Law is what this nation is built on. Why would Mr. Bush disregard any part of it. Especially the part on immigration. We who are being over run in the American West are hard pressed to understand the logic. Mr Bush does not only not address the issue he tells the American press that they can not ask questions on the issue. I as an American who is being over run by Mexico would like to have few answers. I would like to sit down in a restauraunt and not have to listen to someone jabber in spanish. I am after all living in the USA. Would Mr. Bush please explain this to me. And a whole bunch of other people out here in the Rocky Mtn. West.
"I believe it with Alberto "La Raza" Gonzalez. I think Garza is much more conservative. Simply being American hispanics doesn't mean they'll "throw the border gates wide open". If it were up to me, I'd deport every illegal I came across and raise bricks and razor wire all along the border."
Sorry, but I just don't trust a hispanic to clamp down on the borders. But what we need what you mentioned above.
DrDD
"Why do you think Garza is for open borders? Any evidence for that allegation?"
Well, first and foremost I don't trust Bush anymore. He's too gung-ho about legalizing the illegal. Putting in a Hispanic judge is just going to further solidify that mistaken effort by Bush to make the borders even more porrous than they already are.
DrDD
Probably will be come addicted to it! Thanks for the welcome though!
I think your view is too narrow and that you are generalizing too much. My family and some American hispanic family friends have been here for 6 generations (probably longer than some non-hispanic families), and we are more eager than anyone I know to get these illegals out of the U.S. They give good long-standing citizens like us a bad name.
"I will stand next to you with many of my Latino friends and help you. This is what many forget. A majority of the latino people in this country by birth or legal immigration are against illegal immigration. Probably more so than I am. It raises hell with those in Colorado who have title to land from the Spanish land grants and get real tired of being thought of as immigrants. The same for those in California. If you want to see real oppostion to illegal immigration talk to these people."
I'm all for legal immigration. But I am not for changing the existing laws. I know not all Hispanics are for illegal immigration, btw.
DrDD
The fact that Gonzales has La Raza ties seals my opposition to his appointment.
DrDD
Well, I'm with you on that. But Emilio Garza, on the other hand, has no such ties. He's the "anti-Gonzalez".
Uh, I have a TEXAS flag on my profile, and the term "Chicano" is about as liberal a term that an American of Mexican descent can call themselves. Not sure what your point is, but I don't think you've read my posts thoroughly. I have an education and a job, thank you very much, paid for with dollars earned by yours truly and my hard-working parents.
"I think your view is too narrow and that you are generalizing too much. My family and some American hispanic family friends have been here for 6 generations (probably longer than some non-hispanic families), and we are more eager than anyone I know to get these illegals out of the U.S. They give good long-standing citizens like us a bad name"
Exactly! And I'm not talking about fine upstanding AMERICANS like your family obviously is. And I might add, I am not against open borders SOLELY because of the hispanics coming over (although I do believe that is a threat to our sovereignty groups like the Azatlan peopl and La Raza bear that out) -- but, that I believe ANYONE can come over that border with God-only-knows what. We could have terror cells in this country right now with WMD that came across the Rio Grande.
So, this is not a race issue for me. I have no axe to grind against Mexicans, so long as they come here legally and want to assimilate into our culture. To me, this is about National Security and national identity.
DrDD
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