Posted on 08/14/2005 11:05:01 AM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak
Lupe Moreno knows the immigrant struggle. She has lived all her life in Santa Ana, a gateway community for Mexican immigrants. Her father helped smuggle them into the country; her former husband sneaked in illegally.
Now Moreno is part of the growing movement to stem the flow of illegal immigration.
"I want people to know that there are Latinos who are law-abiding," she said. "We need to protect our borders."
Although polls suggest that the majority of Latinos are sympathetic to illegal immigrants once they have settled in the United States, opinions vary by generation, home country, economic class and personal values. Some Latinos are strongly opposed to crossing the border illegally.
A few, such as Moreno, stand out because they have publicly embraced political activism, banding together with mostly white organizations to register their opposition.
Their participation appears welcome. Indeed, at a May convention in Las Vegas, organized by the staff of a conservative radio talk show and attended by well-known figures who oppose illegal immigration, Moreno and a handful of other Latinos stood together on the stage at Cashman Field, where they were applauded for their position by more than 200 people in the mostly white audience.
"It's important that we have these folks here, because I think it shows that we are attracting a wide variety of people," said Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the citizen border patrol known as the Minuteman Project. "This is not just about white against Mexican. It's not a racist issue. It's about putting an end to illegal immigration."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Lupe Moreno is a true American.
"Lupe Moreno knows the immigrant struggle. She has lived all her life in Santa Ana, a gateway community for Mexican immigrants."
2 sentences...and already the BS is piled high. No mention of the illegality of these
immigrants".
Link to their website is above.
LA Times - hard to believe.
Great article. Another great site you might like is http://www.diversityalliance.org
Knowing the L.A. Times, it's a setup so they can begin running some "Uncle Tom" editorials over the next little while.
Oh Please!
As I have posted before .
Most of my Hispanic neighbors are against any kind of amnesty or illegal immigration.
They are extremely pissed with politicians who want to give away for free what they had to earn.
They are also worried that many politically correct politicians are ignorant of what bad affects illegal immigration has on the USA.
That the issue has even come to be framed in such a way by anyone just bothers me. There's nothing racist about maintaining your national integrity.
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Exactly and there are those here that call you "racist" for even bringing up the subject of what this gigantic disaster is doing to America. Only illegals and their biased supporters will rationalize the destruction of our borders, our soverignty, our demographics, the mockery being made of U.S. citizenship, the legal double-standard, the rape of the U.S. citizen tax payers to fund this travesty, and the ignoring of the Constitutional duties of Washington to protect our soverign borders ----- and that goes all the way to the White House.
This isn't as new as the LA Times would have us believe.
A quick glance at the Alamo defenders' roll shows people with names like Carlos Espalier, Gregorio Esparza, Antonio Fuentes, Jose Maria Guerrero, Jose Toribio Losoya and Andres Nava; I assume the LA Times would have us believe that these are all non-Latino Anglo names....
It is not now and has never been about Latino v. Anglo. It's about defending your homeland from invaders that want it.
"Most of my Hispanic neighbors are against any kind of amnesty or illegal immigration."
That seems to be true of many American Hispanics who are here legally. I used to work with a guy who's parents came to Michigan to work in the war industry. He used to buddy up to the illegals and gather information then turn them in.
The fox guarding the hen house
I disagree.
Of course the fox would disagree.
Never mind....
Some Latinos are strongly opposed to crossing the border illegally.
Would the L.A. Times care to assign a number value on just how many "some" is? (Rhetorical question.)
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