The immigration debate: Xenophobia beneath it all(FR mentioned)

HERALD NEWS ^ | 07/02/07 | ROGER HERNANDEZ

[#1CTYankee]

A supposed letter to the editor making the rounds of the Internet (credited to various authors at different Web sites, including "Albert V. Burns," "Rosemary LaBonte" and "Ann Marie Coviello") compares today's immigrants (bad) with the immigrants of yesteryear (good)

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It explains why a poster at FreeRepublic.com inserted the face of Rudy Giuliani in what looks to be an old movie still of a sombrero-wearing bandito and added the caption "Borders? Borders? We don' need no steenking borders." It explains why Giuliani has backed off the pro-immigrant stance he had when mayor of New York City.

And it explains why even some of the most conservative Hispanics realize that all the posturing about illegal immigrants is really an attack aimed at everybody whose name ends in "ez."

[#1CTYankee]

As in ez to spout crap.

Reach him at rogereh@optonline.net.

[dforest]

We don’t need no steekin’Roger Hernandez neither!

[Paleo Conservative]

"Borders? Borders?
We don' need no steenking borders."

[Bean Counter]

I missed that cartoon of Rudy....repost please??

[grey_whiskers]

As in, what part of "It's the ASSIMILATION, stupid!" doesn't he understand?

As in, what part of higher crime rates, uninsured motorists, bankrupting of hospitals, TB, and Chagas' disease, and drunk drivers doesn't he understand?

As in, what part of identity theft doesn't he understand?

[P-40]

And it explains why even some of the most conservative Hispanics realize that all the posturing about illegal immigrants is really an attack aimed at everybody whose name ends in "ez."

Didn't need to read any more than that to realize that the author is full of sh*t. Come down to Texas sometimes and see that brown skin does not mean you need welfare...which is all the Democrats offer.

[kingu]

Well, gosh, what a shock. Yet another one pulling out the race card in a debate about illegal aliens that includes every ‘race’ on the planet. Deport illegal Canadians (there’s hundreds of thousands still), deport illegal Poles (estimated at nearly a hundred thousand now), deport illegal Brazilians (estimated at a little over 250,000.)

Come on, pull the race card on them too. What? Oh, right, yet another racist publication that thinks that only Mexicans are able to be defended. Drive by media shows it’s true colors, yet again.

[calcowgirl]

an attack aimed at everybody whose name ends in "ez."

Let it be known that the ire I have for one Mel Martinez, or my distaste for the politics of the Sanchez sisters, has nothing to do with xenophopia. Several of my family and friends have names of Alvarez, Gutierrez, Lopez, Rodriguez, etc. These race-baiting "journalists" are shameless.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders!

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Courtesy of a pro-amnesty group, no less!!

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[Viking2002]

Hang him up by his tongue from a meathook and tell the river rats he's a pinata full of new shooz.

[Carry_Okie]

If "xenophobia" means that I'm afraid an overwhelming influx of escapees from tyrannical countries bringing with them expectations of conquest...

You bet I'm xenophobic, and with good reason.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Roger isn’t anywhere near as intelligent as he seems to think he is.

[weegee]

“Tommy” is that you?

[#1CTYankee]

"We don’t need no steekin’Roger Hernandez neither!"

Got that right!

[popdonnelly]

We’re going to get a steady stream of this crap in the near future. I’m not opposed to Mexican immigrants, I just want secure borders and an orderly immigration process - the same things just about every other nation in the World has. But if we insist on this, we’re nasty and xenophobic.

[#1CTYankee]

"I missed that cartoon of Rudy....repost please??"

I'm not familiar with it but someone is sure to provide a link.

[Pelham]

I didn’t know Karl Rove wrote under the name Roger Hernandez.

[#1CTYankee]

"As in, what part of "It's the ASSIMILATION, stupid!" doesn't he understand?"

Understand and ignoring reality are completely different things.

[#1CTYankee]

"These race-baiting "journalists" are shameless."

How much can one expect form a "syndicated columnist" from New Jersey.

[#1CTYankee]

"Yet another one pulling out the race card"

When an informed opinion is in order it's always easier to play dumb and cry wolf.