here is one picture of why....it is worth a thousand words.
Posted on 06/22/2010 5:13:32 AM PDT by suspects
[“ ‘The problem is,’ Obama said, ‘if we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support comprehensive immigration reform.’ In other words, they’re holding it hostage.” - Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) recounting a private conversation with President Barack Obama.]
You’re right, Sen. Kyl. And I was one of the hostages.
Sunday afternoon - Father’s Day - I was driving my four kids through Framingham to grab some ice cream and open my Dad’s Day gifts. We rounded a bend on Route 135 and were swamped by a sea of yellow-jerseyed chaos. Brazil had won a soccer match.
Traffic came to a standstill as the streets filled with celebrants waving the Brazilian flag, honking their car horns, hanging off the backs of pickups and (I think I can say this in a family newspaper) tooting their vuvuzelas. And there we sat - a typically American, soccer-challenged family, trapped in the streets by a swarming street party straight from Sao Paulo.
After 15 minutes, my 7-year-old daughter asked: “Daddy, why can’t we go home?”
“Because the Brazilians are celebrating,” I told her.
“Yeah . . . but why can’t WE go home?”
And that is the question, isn’t it? Why couldn’t we drive through an American town on Father’s Day? Why were my American kids stuck in a car for nearly an hour? Because a soccer team from Brazil won a match against the Ivory Coast played in South Africa?
And why did all this happen with the full cooperation of the town of Framingham?
It happened because of our enforcement-averse government. Kyl is right: The “plan” to deal with illegal immigration is to allow it to continue.
Look at the case of Lorraine Henderson, the former Homeland Security employee who was busted for...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
I do have a simple question about this revelation:
Why didn’t the Republican’s make a big issue out of this when it was made? Why did it have to come out in a meeting with a bunch of grannies?
Seems to me that this about ‘high treason’, and it comes out by way of a ‘town meeting’.
It goes to show the ‘disconnect’ with the Republican politicians.
here is one picture of why....it is worth a thousand words.
The story about being held up in traffic by celebrating Brazilians is a poor lead-in for discussing illegal immigration. This is the sort of article that our opponents use to paint us as xenophobic.
There’s no reason to believe Obama would have any more intent to secure the border after granting amnesty anyway.
I agree. I kept wondering where he was going with his little story. The answer turned out to be nowhere really.
The GOP didn’t make an issue out of it because the so-called leadership either has forgotten how to, or won’t, stand up for principles. This is the same reason Rep Barton has been left “swaying in the wind” when he objected to the method 0bamao used to extort money from BP.
“...the so-called leadership either has forgotten how to, or won’t, stand up for principles...”
And so the Tea Party was born.
It, the Tea Party, is filling a vacuum...as neither Democrats nor Republicans have, or exhibit, principled behavior.
We need to purge the GOP leadership! Period! These guys are BAFOONS and incompetents, and guilty of “dereliction of duty” while thieves are raping and pillaging our country.
A fresh Democratic base voting bloc every ten years!!
Whether a train is on the EXPRESS track (Rats) or the LOCAL (GOP), the terminus is the same.
The author hastily put this together and left some info out. I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he was just P.O.ed and assumed that the audience knew that 71% of Brazilians in the community are illegal and only about 25% of those pay any type of taxes.
I'm not sure what can be done about that.
Since you brought it up, however...consider what conclusions one might draw about you from your post.
Repub leaders don’t want illegals out because they want them working, replacing US workers. I say this because Forbes Magazine led with a call for open borders this month.
I think once we make Brazilian soccer fans a nice path to citizenship then whats the problem? Oh, what about a nice path for Indian, Chinese and Korean soccer fans. Once New Mexico, AZ, and Texas are Democrats for a 1000 years we can worry about the border then.
>>I’m not sure what can be done about that.
Well, Graham could have come up with a better lead-in for his article than to relate his astonishment at Brazilian soccer fans celebrating in Framingham, MA. How about that for starters?
I watched his video of the celebration. No one seemed to be bothering him or disturbing the peace. So what’s his problem? Would he have a problem with Italians in Framingham if they were cheering for the Italian team?
I don’t see how his lead-in relates to to the topic of illegal immigration.
Illegal immigration should not be tolerated, of course.
“People in the southern part of the state are not safe in their homes,” Mr. McCain said repeatedly, to the sound of applause.
(Pls don’t believe these idiots that would like you to believe that the security situation hasn’t deteriorated here. They can cite all the statistics they want, they don’t mean a thing. I left in 1998 and returned in 2007. There’s no comparison. Since 2007 things have gotten much worse. Everyone here in the Valley of the Sun knows that you used to be able to get in your car and drive to Rocky Point (Puerto Penasco) and not be afraid. We can’t do that anymore. It’s just not right that Obama is playing with our lives. In fact it’s sinful.)
My town here in MA has a whole section that has been taken over by the Brazilians.
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