Joseph Sanchez, Long Beach resident brought out his son, Joseph Sanchez Jr., 4, to protest the HR3447 bill. (Tracey Roman / for the Press-Telegram)
Posted on 03/28/2006 2:06:57 PM PST by StoneColdGOP
Joseph Sanchez, Long Beach resident brought out his son, Joseph Sanchez Jr., 4, to protest the HR3447 bill. (Tracey Roman / for the Press-Telegram)
A protester holds up a sign that reads "Revolution is the solution" in spanish. (Tracey Roman / for the Press-Telegram)
School officials keep an eye on marching students as hundreds showed up to Montebello High School and urged those students to leave the school and protest against proposition HR 4437 on March 27, 2006, at the Montebello school. The Mexican flag was raised at the school by the protesting students, shown in the background. Students walked from El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera to Pioneer High School in Whittier, then on to Whittier High School, to Montebello High School and then to downtown Los Angeles. (Raul Roa/Staff photo)
Students protesting wave the Mexican flag as the crowd gathers at Cesar Chavez Park in Long Beach. (Tracey Roman / for the Press-Telegram)
Whittier area students from Pioneer, California and Whittier high schools walked out of classes to protest the proposed federal immigration bill March 27, 2006. The protestors put up the Mexican flag over the American flag flying upsidedown at Montebello High. (Leo Jarzomb/Staff photo)
Students from Marshall High School, Blair High, and Pasadena High School and Muir High School walked to the Pasadena Unified School District Headquarters in protest to denounce a federal legislative proposal that would criminalize illegal immigration and require building a 700-mile wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. (Walt Mancini/Staff photo)
Students holding the flag of Mexico, after the flag of Mexico was put on the flagpole, replacing the American flag and California Republic flag. Pasadena police chief Bernard Melekian with Pasadena police officer Mike Korpal place the flag of California Republic and the American flag to the flagpole at its proper height at Pasadena Unified School District headquarters. (Walt Mancini/Staff photo)
Area high school students raise the Mexican flag at the Montebello High School flag pole as they marched to the school to urge those students to also walk and protest against proposition HR 4437 on March 27, 2006, at the Montebello school. Students walked from El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera to Pioneer High School in Whittier, then on to Whittier High School, to Montebello High School and then to downtown Los Angeles. (Raul Roa/Staff photo)
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They thought my Irish ancestors who immigrated to American during the potato famine were: "Irish Need Not Apply."
Know how they overcame it?
They became tough, and therefore Americans.
Conservatives are realistic, fact based, and solution oriented. I'm a conservative.
They're illegals, no matter how you parse it.
No, it is a realistic solution to the problem.
You and your ilk do not realize that after the Great Society, assimilation as it was is not going to happen,
*You* have just surrendered to the liberals. They are the enemy screwing up this country, not mexicans.
Already, whenever a family member tells the story of escaping Fidel's regime, I feel the need to insert, "Legally!" every few minutes so that there's no misunderstanding. In other words, law-abiding immigrants don't want them anymore than born-Americans do. That was all I was trying to say.
Insults won't get you anywhere with me. I wasn't insulting you, however. You dismiss the entire problem as "some line on a map" so I merely took that thought to its logical conclusion. You care nothing about American sovereignty. It's obvious from all of your lame rhetoric. (you may take that as an insult if you want to) You're a quitter.
To try to lay off your own remark as your clairvoyant insight into the POV of a Mexican illegal is insulting to the Mexican. It assumes that he/she either doesn't know that Mexico and the U.S. are separate sovereign countries or doesn't believe it.
Yes I will insult liars. Do your homework before you spout off. Take a hike
Yes, but you are an exception to the rule in more ways than one, dear lady! :o)
I find it soooo ironic that the Mexican flag has the same colors as the Iranian flag and very close to the Iraqi flag.......
>No, it is a realistic solution to the problem.<
You have not offered an actual solution. Only a broad statement. I'd like to know how you intend for us to process, assimilate, and pay for all these people.
Naaaaaa.....I daresay MOST people on these threads would say the same thing.
At least you've risen to your highest level of incompetance and are receiving your 15 minutes of fame. Enjoy it.
BTW, Mexicans are Americans. In fact, they're North Americans. They are even US citizens, except they are citizens of the Mexican United States ( Estados Unidos Mexicanos), not the United States of America.
I would.
Why don't those people put the same time and effort into becoming legal immigrants?
Right. And I think we should spend our efforts trying to convince modern immigrants to do the same. Yelling at them, calling them "illegal", is not a pursuasive argument to make them want to be like us. It is the exact opposite.
By the way, despite your tippy-toeing around the issue, they were legal immigrants.
Yes. Because we had virtually no limits on immigration in those years. We have stupidly, at the behest of communists like Cesar Chaves and his union, lowered the number of legal immigrants to unreasonably low numbers.
This is a whole different breed.
No. They're human just like anyone else.
And you've surrendered to the idea that you can change their minds.
Would you mind showing the source on that. I couldn't find it on google. What I could find is that the California hispanic vote went 75% for Clinton in 96, following that proposition. And more importantly that Bush is reversing that trend nationwide.
Again, go to the Barrios, hardly bastions of social conservatism.
In any poor neighborhood with bad lawenforcement, you're going to have the hookers and the dealers upfront while the rest of the folks stay in their apartments. That hardly proves they don't exist. In fact W getting 44% of latino vote shows that they are quite prevalent.
Theo! Looky at #374!!!
See? I KNEW I wasn't the only one.. BY FAR!!!!!!
For years now illegals have been killing our police officers and citizens.
The first shots were fired long ago.
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