Posted on 09/10/2008 10:31:21 PM PDT by endthematrix
Washington, DC—Today the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), America’s Voice, Center for New Community, and the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) launched a print ad denouncing known hate group, FAIR (the Federation for American Immigration Reform), for poisoning the immigration debate with bigoted, xenophobic hate speech. In support of the ad, SEIU Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina issued the following statement:
“It’s time that everyone learns who FAIR’s founders, leaders and followers truly are. They are not reformers, but a group of extremists whose leaders are fostering a bigoted, anti-immigrant, anti-American agenda that we must stop.”
“We will not allow such a raging extremist group to hide behind this false veil of reform. By continuing to fan the flames of hate and fear, FAIR has contributed to rising levels of hate crimes and discrimination that we are seeing in immigrant communities across the country. There is no place for such fanatical hate speech anywhere in America today—especially not in the halls of Congress.”
“It’s time to stop the hate. Americans know that hate speech can't raise wages and living standards for workers, decrease gas prices, provide affordable healthcare, end the mortgage crisis, or solve immigration. America doesn’t need zealots; we need smart, pragmatic immigration reform.
“Crude attempts to shut down our border and round up anyone who looks a certain way do not begin to solve our broken immigration system. Instead, we need to go after the bad-acting employers who exploit workers, and find a fair, practical way to get undocumented immigrants out of the underground economy, into the system and under the rule of law.”
(Excerpt) Read more at seiu.org ...
Just more union thug flatulance. Move on folks. Nothing to see here.
FAIR’s response
>>Immigration Reform
Having been unable to convince the American public that a mass illegal alien amnesty was justified or served any public interest, advocates for amnesty have launched an orchestrated and well-financed campaign to smear the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and others involved in defeating last year’s immigration bill.
Instead of seeking to promote rational, intelligent, meaningful dialogue on immigration reform, one of the most important issues facing our nation today the ad utterly distorts FAIR’s 30-year record of advocacy on immigration reform and merely parrots previous distortions. Read the full release. See our response Ad.<<
http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer
I find this hypocritical when the Hispanic gangs are killing black folks whether or not the black folks are in gangs or what the age. They admittedly are killing them for their color. Also when you illegally enter someone’s home and use up all their stuff and ruin their house and neighborhood you can’t expect to be treated with kid gloves nor kindness. Either you are legal or not. Americans love their immigrants that are legal.
the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), America’s Voice, Center for New Community, and the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) Appears to be the only HATE GROUPS I’ve seen in this article. Just another bunch of HATE AMERICA FIRST Groups.. and barely worth the Bandwidth, except it’s good for a LAUGH to think that such BIGOTS EXIST, and that they HAVE NO CLUE!!
IF the RULE OF LAW, and Enforcing Same said laws is Bigoted and Racist... I GUESS I AM TOO.
And I will CONTINUE to happily STAY THAT WAY!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
ICE should take a look at their membership, all their membership.
“reasonableness” instead of reasonableneww!
Are they trying to win some kind of award for robotic sloganeering?
I just want to know why the SEIU wants illegal immigrants here to work? Why do they want them in their union? Do the American union members care that all these illegals flooding the country depresses their wages, takes work from them?
the illegal alien union
Exactly . . . blah, blah, blah, blah.
Why? Money and power. American? I don't see "America" anywhere. I do see INTERNATIONAL. Lenin would be proud.
bear in mind that Andy Stern & the SEIU are putting something in the neighborhood of $85 million towards the Obomination.
Begging your pardon, Sir, but MOST of the “crime”, to which you allude, is perpetrated by those who have shown their disdain for the laws of this country by not even bothering to come here legally! In light of this fact, you are a poor one to be complaining about “crime”!
You speak of changing our laws to suit lawbreakers. As a matter of fact we have perfectly good immigration laws. The only thing that was lacking, until recently, was enforcement of those good laws. Legitimate American citizens are tired of subsidizing the substandard wages paid to your members. This “subsidy” is in the form of taxpayer provided health care, food stamps, education, public housing, etc.
If you do not like our laws, you and your cadre of burger flippers, housekeepers, janitors, lawn mowers, and nannies, are more than welcome to return to wherever the Hell you came from. I'm sure American college and high school students will be delighted to have their jobs back again!
These POS want to end free speech for those who oppose illegal immigration
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