He's got a point there.......sort of.
Posted on 04/01/2006 11:10:55 AM PST by MRMEAN
WASHINGTON, April 1 (UPI) -- Waving the Mexican flag at pro-immigration demonstrations in the United States has riled conservative commentators and lawmakers, a report said.
U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., said he has appeared on a dozen radio shows in the past week to talk about the "huge and growing problem" of illegal U.S. immigrants, The Washington Times reported.
U.S. Rep. Virgil Goode Jr., R-Va., also was outraged.
"I say if you are here illegally and are displaying and waving the Mexican flag, you should go back to Mexico and fly that flag there," Goode said.
Talkers Magazine Editor and Publisher Michael Harrison said immigration is the current No. 1 talk-radio issue.
"Many of the conservative hosts are against the waving of the Mexican flag (at rallies) and seeing such Mexican nationalism expressed in the United States," Harrison told The Times.
While it was reported that demonstrators waved only Mexican flags, Alvaro Huerta of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles said many also waved U.S. flags.
I suspect that seeing the American flag demeaned angers a far broader spectrum of Americans than just conservatives.
He's got a point there.......sort of.
There's way too much focus on all sides with hispanic-latino and hybrids etcetera.
All on American soil must ultimately be subject to being identify-able.
There are plenty of slicksters who go home after their visa runs out, then come right back in a week's time to rob us.
Waving the Mexican flag didn't bother me near as much as knowing the GOP Congress might be on the verge of granting a backdoor guest worker-amnesty to 15 million illegals. This is a liberal social policy that Bush has been promoting for the last five years. With the help of Kennedy, McCain, Spector, Graham and others, it just might happen. Its a policy which is in direct opposition to mainstream conservatism and traditional American values.
No, the media has just decided that everyone who is offended by it has just become a conservative.
Regarding the Senate's and the president's guest-worker proposals, The Post's Robert Samuelson writes: "Gosh, they're all bad ideas ... We'd be importing poverty. This isn't because these immigrants aren't hardworking, many are. Nor is it because they don't assimilate, many do. But they generally don't go home, assimilation is slow and the ranks of the poor are constantly replenished ... [It] is a conscious policy of creating poverty in the United States while relieving it in Mexico ... The most lunatic notion is that admitting more poor Latino workers would ease the labor market strains of retiring baby boomers ?
Far from softening the social problems of an aging society, more poor immigrants might aggravate them by pitting older retirees against younger Hispanics for limited government benefits ... [Moreover], [i]t's a myth that the U.S. economy 'needs' more poor immigrants. "The illegal immigrants already here represent only about 4.9 percent of the labor force." (For all Mr. Samuelson's supporting statistics, see his Washington Post column of March 22, from which this is taken.)
Likewise, a few days later, the very liberal and often partisan Paul Krugman of the New York Times courageously wrote : "Unfortunately, low-skill immigrants don't pay enough taxes to cover the cost of the [government] benefits they receive ? As the Swiss writer Max Frisch wrote about his own country's experience with immigration, 'We wanted a labor force, but human beings came.' " Mr. Krugman also observed — citing a leading Harvard study — "that U.S. high school dropouts would earn as much as 8 percent more if it weren't for Mexican immigration. That's why it's intellectually dishonest to say, as President Bush does, that immigrants 'do jobs that Americans will not do.' The willingness of Americans to do a job depends on how much that job pays — and the reason some jobs pay too little to attract native-born Americans is competition from poorly paid immigrants."
Thusly do the two leading economic writers for the nation's two leading liberal newspapers summarily debunk the economic underpinning of the president's and the Senate's immigration proposals.
I hope they DO keep waving the Mexican flag. Every time they do, hundreds more people wake up and realize they don't want them here.
You bet I do not want aNOTHER flag flying over the flag my relatives to defend . They want to fly their flags , go back and work in your won countries, I fly mine with pride in mine.
From what I've seen, they're keeping their pieholes shut. The defenders of the Noble Savages know they've overplayed their hand and the gig is up. We're not talking about immigration for votes or cheap labor anymore, it's all about "Reconquista", and the events of the past two weeks have brought that home in living color. It's an invasion now, and these people mean to turn a portion of the US (if not all) back into the third world country they came from. No US citizen, liberals included, want that--it's suicide, nationally and politically.
Not only can should we deport the illegals who were at these rallies first, any legal citizen who waves the Mexican flag at one of these should be understood to have voluntarily relinquished their citizenship.
Importing poverty and welfare recipients, and we taxpayers pay the price for it.
4-15 is just 14 days away. Send a thanks to the govt for importing poverty along wth your check. Oh and enclose a picture of the AMERICAN FLAG.
In addition IRS agents should be at those protests and collect backtaxes from all the good for nothings.
We could probably pay off the national debt collecting all backtaxes from them.
How dare they hang "OUR" American flag upside down!!
No Amnesty!
No guest worker program!
National Guard on the border -- NOW!
Come here legally.
Learn English.
Become an American.
We'll welcome you!
Until then "NO DEAL"
We're all in favor of waiving the Mexican flag: In Mexico. Anyone who is waiving the Mexican flag here is demonstrably not interested in the American dream.
Should we be afraid of or annoyed by people who wave the Canadian, Italian, or Irish flags on US soil? No. As for the people out there who truly believe that Mexico can and will take the southwest away from the U.S., black people deserve reparations for slavery, etc., they're nuts. Plenty of people of Mexican/central/south american anscestry are in that part of the country now, that's life, and it's arguably been the case for centuries. If you want to see what what Balkanization of the U.S. would really be like, look to the Canadian government's approach to Quebec, the reservation system here, autonomy for Hawaiian natives, and increasingly draconian laws designed to cut us off as much as possible from Mexico.
"No, the media has just decided that everyone who is offended by it has just become a conservative."
And there we have the commentary of the day. Spot on.
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