LOl so true. The politcs and how this whole immigration issue has been interesting to watch no matter what one's position is on it if you get into that sort of thing. How many times has the momentum shifted? Look at the alliances they are always shifting. How many times has been this issue been pronounced dead and has come back alive? I have to admit its been the most exciting thing to watch. To be honest this has been the most interesting National debate outside security issues we had in 6 years. Tax cut legislation while important does make one fall asleep at times.
Now if we can only hold on to all our Seats in the Senate and Justice Stevens retires. That will make the confirmation hearing for Alito and Roberts look like a confirmation for a justice of the peace compared to that battle. Fun days ahead with Bush still.
You're the first person I've seen mention that, and you are so on-target. It's the first truly important issue that is INTERESTING since the terror debates.
Taxes and such are important, but if we lose on those issues, we can just come back with a different bill; if we lose on this we are sunk.
Yeah, its amazing its got alot of Louisiana folks conflicted. Many are to the right of me on this issue but this blogger shares some sentiments that at the same time are in their minds at the same time. Ah Katrina and Rita changed everything here in certain areas. This guy in part shows the divided nature of the debate. Of course there is a whole sub issue about the people he is comparing to them too thats interesting, troublesome, too generalized, racially sensative , etc ,etc but you get the point. There are alot of sub issues going on here in different areas of the country.
http://mostlycajun.com/wordpress/?p=1762
You folks don’t make it easy…
I know, deep down inside, that the illegal immigration problem is not going to go away. It’s not going to get better. It’s going to have to be addressed, and the current bunch of politicians in Washington seem bent on whitewashing and ignoring the problem.
But I have trouble. Seems like the only Mexicans I see are working. Note this article. Yep, Louisiana had its own version of the same marches that took place all over the country
Thousands of Hispanics rally in New Orleans
5/1/2006, 4:25 p.m. CT
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Thousands of Hispanics carrying signs that said “Nobody is illegal” and “Proud to rebuild” took Monday off to join a national day of protest and boycotts to show their importance to the country and to the area devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
It makes me really want to scream. You see, this ain’t like the “Million Man March” of a few years back. In this march, people actually left work to march.
Many placards, spray-painted through stencils over discarded campaign signs from a recent election, referred to the many Hispanics who have gutted and rebuilt flooded buildings in southeast Louisiana. One read, “We are not the problem. We are the solution.” The same slogans appeared in both English and Spanish: “Proud to rebuild” and “Orguilloso de Reconstruir.”
Yep! While a sizeable contingent of New Orleans residents languish on the government dole in cities around the country, we got THESE people in New Orleans doing the work.
While we have healthy, able-bodied young men fro New Orleans out on the streets of Houston selling drugs, we have the men and women of Mexico and Central and South America in New Orleans making the city work again.
Oscar Tejeda Sr., owner of Oscar’s Lawn Service, said he and his 12-man crew all were at the march.
“I gave them the day off to come here, not to stay home,” said Tejeda, 32.
He said his mother sacrificed to bring him illegally to the United States from Honduras when he was 11. He is now a citizen. He said about half of his work crew has green cards and he got a required tax number to pay taxes for the rest.
At least that’s a LEGAL living. Here’s some more…
At the Staybridge Suites, assistant manager Corey Roy said 10 to 15 of his 35 employees didn’t show up at the 182-room long-term residence hotel Monday morning. They had notified him of the rally beforehand, he said.
“We just shuffled some people around and got them in early to get the guests taken care of,” Roy said.
Victoria Ramon, a housekeeper at the Staybridge, said, “We want justice for Latin people. I’m a resident here, but many don’t have it. We need it, one and all.”
Those willing to speak about immigration status to a reporter, whether in English or through an interpreter, said they had green cards or were U.S. citizens
It’s hard, folks, damn hard, for me to get mad at people who want to WORK.
Yes, I know there are the normal leftist mooonbats among them, the MechA, the Aztlan bunch, the normal “hate America” hangers-on, but I still want to believe that the brown-skinned guys I see on worksites are a damn site better than a lot of full-blooded American trash that my tax dollars are freely spent to support.
I’m not saying that I want open borders. And I’m not saying that illegal immigrants don’t need to go back home and come back the right way. But I am saying that an awful lot of these people will make a fine addition to America… We just need to figure out how to make it happen…
We had this debate about immigration without Bush and Congress, whose only hope was that the country keep on sleeping. (Thanks to the internet and sites like FR.) It's the Boston Tea Party all over again.
Yes sir, climbing in the poles everyday.