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Local liberals learning new lessons on ‘diversity’ (not "tolerant" when the illegals are next door)
The Washington Examiner ^ | May 31, 2007 | La Shawn Barber

Posted on 06/01/2007 3:56:05 AM PDT by FreedomPoster

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - While President Bush and pro-amnesty members of Congress are pushing an unpopular immigration “reform” bill that would bestow American citizenship on millions of people who have no regard for America’s laws, liberal Democrats across the Washington region are increasingly complaining about overcrowded houses, noise, loitering and general public nuisance — all caused by illegal aliens.

These local liberals are in no mood for “celebrate diversity” chants.

Listening recently to frustrated folks call a local radio talk show to vent about illegal aliens loitering in front of stores and cramming into $400,000 houses in their neighborhoods, I wondered if those same liberals accused pro-enforcement Americans of being “nativists,” “xenophobes” and “racists” for complaining about the same problems.

Now that illegal aliens have migrated to their neighborhoods, such liberals have become pro-enforcement all of a sudden.

A Republican called in to say her Democratic friends labeled her a racist when she’d complain about illegal immigration. She’d tell them something like, “You just wait until it happens to you. Then you’ll be singing a different tune.”

It’s happening to them, and they are singing a different tune. It turns out that liberals in half-a-million-dollar houses don’t like living next door to a single-family house filled to the brim with illegal aliens who park on the front lawn, throw trash everywhere and urinate outside.

Congressional Democrats don’t talk about such discontent among their constituents, but locals are keenly aware that the federal government has abdicated its role as immigration law enforcer. State and local governments are compelled to assume control.

Democrats on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors in Virginia may be ousted in November if they don’t deal with the growing problems. Rick Gordon, a homeland security consultant, told The Washington Post that “Enough is enough. These frauds need to go!”

He complained about an illegal alien boarding house in his neighborhood, and Supervisor Penelope Gross told him “The county’s hands were tied.” (Turque, Bill and Brulliard, Karin, “Overflowing Fairfax Homes Split Neighbors,” Washington Post, May 13, p. A1)

Gordon emphasized that his was no “right-wing Nazi community. … Everybody is a liberal Democrat.”

Local governments are forced to try to fix what the federal government will not. Last year, in the town of Herndon, the people removed the mayor and two town council members who voted for a day labor center. The town applied for and obtained permission to begin 287(g) immigration enforcement training, which will give local law enforcement the authority to carry out federal immigration laws.

Citizens in Manassas organized a group called “Help Save Manassas” to raise awareness of the negative effects of overcrowding and loitering.

Leesburg is considering adopting stricter regulations on overcrowding.

The Virginia House of Delegates passed a measure that would block public funds to charities and other organizations that provide services to illegal aliens.

Some black residents in the Brentwood section of Northeast Washington have gone on record to complain about illegal aliens — who litter and urinate — gathering near the Home Depot in their neighborhood.

Perhaps it will take a lot more overcrowding, loitering and public urination for congressional Democrats (and the Republican president) to understand the urgent need to enforce immigration laws currently on the books instead of writing new ones to reward lawbreakers with American citizenship.

Local liberals are learning a valuable and important lesson: Not all “diversity” is worth celebrating.

La Shawn Barber is a member of The Examiner’s Blog Board of Contributors and blogs at www.lashawnbarber.com.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; democrats; diversity; illegalaliens; immigrantlist; immigration; liberals; nimbys
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One definition of a conservative, is a liberal who has been mugged.

And I think some of our Republican congresscritters are justifiably getting "mugged" by their constituents, over their support for amnesty. But that's a different, but related, topic.

1 posted on 06/01/2007 3:56:06 AM PDT by FreedomPoster
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To: Travis McGee

Ping


2 posted on 06/01/2007 3:56:32 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: FreedomPoster

Deport all illegal immigrants. Period!!!


3 posted on 06/01/2007 4:02:01 AM PDT by blam
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To: FreedomPoster
Listening recently to frustrated folks call a local radio talk show to vent about illegal aliens loitering in front of stores and cramming into $400,000 houses in their neighborhoods, I wondered if those same liberals accused pro-enforcement Americans of being “nativists,” “xenophobes” and “racists” for complaining about the same problems.

The word commonly used on this forum regarding those who believed in law and order were called purists as code word for nativists, xenophobes, and racists.

Now wasn't campaign finance reform all about getting dirty money out of political campaigns??? Well if a contributions comes as the results of profits made from the cheap labor profiteers isn't that dirty money????

4 posted on 06/01/2007 4:03:38 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: FreedomPoster

The funny thing is, they really do park in the yard. It’s a cultural thing.


5 posted on 06/01/2007 4:04:02 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: FreedomPoster
Unfortunately, if the current amnesty bill gets enacted with the instant temporary and renewable Z visa, local enforcement actions will be blocked. Bush will have succeeded in stopping state and local government actions to deal directly with the illegal alien issue by the Feds declaring all of them legal. All that will be left will be zoning violation and enforcement which is notoriously difficult.
6 posted on 06/01/2007 4:04:28 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: FreedomPoster
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and the RATS, take another one in the...............HA ha!!!

7 posted on 06/01/2007 4:07:19 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: FreedomPoster
NIMBY
8 posted on 06/01/2007 4:12:06 AM PDT by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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To: FreedomPoster

Along those same lines, I don’t think liberals will want to do anything about terrorism either, until they’re on fire themselves. By the time they figure out the privileges they think they’ve fought for are gone, they might realize they need to be defended as well, not just given away for free to anyone who wants it.

If we don’t keep illegals out, they won’t stop coming until America becomes as bad as the third world countries they’re fleeing from.


9 posted on 06/01/2007 4:12:48 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: FreedomPoster

BTTT.


10 posted on 06/01/2007 4:13:23 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: FreedomPoster

“One definition of a conservative, is a liberal who has been mugged.”

Speaking of “Mugged”...We of the Conservative bent have been “mugged” from the beginning with “W” as we shined on the cliche “Compassionate Conservative”.

Understandably as we were focused upon the defeat of a “Crackpot Liberal” in the first go, and in the second we were faced with the potential of a “Treacherous/Treasonous Liberal”.

My point is had we not been so focused perhaps we would have been alert to the fact that, as has been promoted by one of fame and notoriety “Words Mean Things”.

Today we Conservatives are being accused of Racism, Bigotry, etc. by none other than the “Compassionate Conservative” himself.

The signs were there weren’t they.


11 posted on 06/01/2007 4:14:36 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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Lets take a collection and buy the house next to Kennedy's in Hyannis. Then move in a family of 100, lets see how tolerant he is of them then.
Then next to McCain and so forth.
Who has the hat?
12 posted on 06/01/2007 4:16:58 AM PDT by Craigswatch (The truth hurts, but you need to know it.)
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Lets take a collection and buy the house next to Kennedy's in Hyannis. Then move in a family of 100, lets see how tolerant he is of them then. Then next to McCain and so forth. Who has the hat?

I LOVE the idea, I've got the hat, here, pass it around!

13 posted on 06/01/2007 4:22:40 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (My House is Guarded By A Shotgun 3 Days A Week.... Guess Which Days.)
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Now that illegal aliens have migrated to their neighborhoods, such liberals have become pro-enforcement all of a sudden.

SO PREDICTABLE......................!

This is always the case! Liberals support causes because "it feels good"! When their "cause" impacts them personally..., suddenly "something needs to be done"!

14 posted on 06/01/2007 4:27:06 AM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: Craigswatch
GREAT IDEA!

Real estate listings for that area????

15 posted on 06/01/2007 4:29:01 AM PDT by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch (If MY people who are called by MY name -- the ball's in our court, folks.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Reminds me of when the windmills off the Cape and Ted Kennedy bumped heads.


16 posted on 06/01/2007 4:32:12 AM PDT by corlorde (New Hampshire)
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To: Craigswatch

http://www.oysterrealestate.com/?gclid=CNu70ujouowCFQWiIwodgROHVQ


17 posted on 06/01/2007 4:33:06 AM PDT by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch (If MY people who are called by MY name -- the ball's in our court, folks.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Deport them all.Impeach bush.


18 posted on 06/01/2007 4:34:40 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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To: FreedomPoster

12 years ago my wife and I lived in Arlington VA. In what we thought was a decent apartment building..We had them living next door to us!!During the summer time they would sit out on their deck (about 10 feet from our bedroom window) and party hard til dawn, then a second batch of them would sit out there all day...we had non stop noise and drunken behavior...After we complained to managment and nothing happened, we broke our lease and moved out...

We moved to another apartment building and a family of them was living in a house across the street. The cops were there all the time, day and night..The Beaners played their music as loud as they could all night. That area of Arlington is now dominated by them...

We finally bought a house in a small town in PA. Now the town’s churches are bringing them in here in droves...
We figure in time some good samaritan will buy a house for a family of them in our area, or better yet the Government will give them low cost loans...Them I don’t know what we will do......
They ruined the Mission district in San Francisco..I know because I was born there, now you take your life in your hands when you go out at night.. I left there 12 years ago and went back about 6 years ago..Mission Street looks like a street in the Bronx now....Any way, I’m rambling..

We have been sold out by the rotten politicians as far as immigration goes... They have more respect for them than they do us!!


19 posted on 06/01/2007 4:37:04 AM PDT by Old Phone Man (ks)
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“right-wing Nazi community. … Everybody is a liberal Democrat.”

They ARE one in the same!!!!

nazi = liberal democrat


20 posted on 06/01/2007 4:48:29 AM PDT by PLM
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