"The Rock wants to ask you a question...que pasa?"
"Si."
"Do you think painting the problem of you illegal gibronis' being here as a racist issue will succeed?"
"I think..."
"IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU THINK! Tell your story walkin'!"
Posted on 07/28/2006 6:37:38 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
LOS ANGELES
Two national Mexican-American organizations are launching a "popular referendum" to collect the opinions of hundreds of thousands of Spanish-speaking immigrants both legal and illegal on immigration reform legislation pending in Congress.
Starting late next week, the Mexican Brotherhood Latin America and the Mexican-American Political Association will begin distributing questionnaires in Spanish at churches, work sites and activist organizations in over 20 states with high concentrations of immigrants.
"This will reveal what immigrants think, what they are willing to accept, fight for and reject," said MAPA President Nativo Lopez.
The nonscientific surveys come on the heels of massive national street protests this spring demanding amnesty for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States.
The forms will be collected and tabulated until November's midterm congressional elections, when immigrant rights activists hope the energy from street protests will translate into voting power to defeat politicians they deem as anti-immigrant.
Only U.S. citizens can vote, but many illegal immigrants have U.S.-born adult children or relatives who have become citizens and thus can cast ballots.
The surveys have 15 questions relating to pending immigration reform legislation, President Bush's decision to temporarily send thousands of National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border and what illegal immigrants think about proposed temporary visas to allow them to work for a few months in the U.S. before returning home each year. The organizations hope to collect more than 250,000 surveys.
The House of Representatives passed an enforcement-only approach to immigration reform in December that included building more fences along the U.S.-Mexico border and making it a crime to lend a hand to illegal immigrants.
In May, the Senate passed a reform bill that included tightening the border, but also a path to citizenship for many illegal immigrants.
To become law, the chambers would have to reconcile the two bills. It was unclear if that would happen.
First of all, if you're a law-breaking illegal in OUR country, you deserve arrest, deportation, and banning from re-entry.
Second, this is NOT "your country", and you have come here willingly, and are REQUIRED to abide by OUR laws, and either become one of us...or go home.
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Who gives a crap what "immigrants" think?
First of all, if you're a law-breaking illegal in OUR country, you deserve arrest, deportation, and banning from re-entry.
Second, this is NOT "your country", and you have come here willingly, and are REQUIRED to abide by OUR laws, and either become one of us...or go home.
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Who gives a crap what "immigrants" think?
First of all, if you're a law-breaking illegal in OUR country, you deserve arrest, deportation, and banning from re-entry.
Second, this is NOT "your country", and you have come here willingly, and are REQUIRED to abide by OUR laws, and either become one of us...or go home.
Re-posted to be READABLE!
Ah, Nativo "don't call me Larry" Lopez, my favorite race-baiting sleazeball and all around crook.
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A thief breaks/moves into my house and I'm going to give him a questionaire to fill out?
The problem is, our wonderful Congress will care more what these immigrants, both legal and illegal, think more than they care about what ALL American citizens think.
Typical Response:
What! I don't get everything I want and get tons more retroactively?
This sure is a heck of a way to start a country like Atzlan!
I don't get what this questionnaire is supposed to accomplish for them, besides to put Larry Lopez back in the spotlight. They'll probably just come off seeming even less worthy of sympathy than they are now.
I really don't know if less-worthy is even available for these low-lifes.
Worse yet, they can't count on all those illegal votes, too!
"The Rock wants to ask you a question...que pasa?"
"Si."
"Do you think painting the problem of you illegal gibronis' being here as a racist issue will succeed?"
"I think..."
"IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU THINK! Tell your story walkin'!"
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