Posted on 06/27/2011 12:46:28 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
“I love this country, it has given me everything that I have, and I’m proud to be part of it,” said Victor Sanchez, a 37-year-old Monrovia resident wearing a Mexico jersey. “But yet, I didn’t have a choice to come here, I was born in Mexico, and that is where my heart will always be.”
That’s a quote from an LA Times story on the booing of the U.S. soccer team by an overwhelmingly Latino audience during a U.S.–Mexico match at the Rose Bowl. Examine the odd logic: Mr. Sanchez is booing the country that gave him “everything” while cheering the country that apparently gave him very little. “I didn’t have a choice to come here,” he says; one immediately thinks, “But you most certainly do have a choice to return to the nation where your ‘heart will always be.’” Can Mr. Sanchez not even offer symbolic thanks to the country that blessed him, perhaps a clap or two at the Rose Bowl when the United States is mentioned? And if the immigration service arrived at the Rose Bowl to bus spectators without legality back to Mexico, where his “heart will always be,” would he boo or cheer?
He reminds me of a former student who, during the anti–Prop 187 marches years ago, was marching with a group waving Mexican flags — that is, the flag of the country he did not wish to return to, as a Mexican national — but desecrating the flag of the United States, the country that he most certainly wished to remain in.
That schizophrenia is what confuses so many about illegal immigration — the simultaneous furor over even the suggestion of compliance with federal immigration law and the occasional symbolic expressions of dislike for the United States in public fora, whether booing at the Rose Bowl at mention of America, or walking out of a California high school en masse at the sight of an American-flag T-shirt on Cinco de Mayo.
When a foreign nation is treated as the home team, and when the home team is booed in the Rose Bowl, I think we can see why the entire open-borders, non-enforcement, ‘La Raza’ paradigm of tribal chauvinism based on ethnic solidarity has been proven an abject failure — summed up by one word, “hypocrisy.” Of course, if America asks nothing of the would-be immigrant — no legality upon entrance, no knowledge of the English language or American customs, no proof of autonomy and independence from government entitlement — then tens of thousands of American residents booing the very mention of America is logical and would, of course, continue until and unless fundamental ideas about illegal immigration, assimilation, and national identity change.
“I love this country, it has given me everything that I have, and I’m proud to be part of it,” said Victor Sanchez, a 37-year-old Monrovia resident wearing a Mexico jersey. “But yet, I didn’t have a choice to come here, I was born in Mexico, and that is where my heart will always be.”
No gratitude in their hearts. And the liberal establsihment clearly encourages them in this way.
How could anyone “love” Mexico? It is a failed state, crime ridden, corrupt, polluted, no redeeming qualities (unless you are part of the very small elite). He should love his culture, but not the Mexican “nation”. And he can practice his culture just fine here in the USA and love the country he lives in.
“I love this country, it has given me everything that I have, and I’m proud to be part of it,” said Victor Sanchez, a 37-year-old Monrovia resident wearing a Mexico jersey. “But yet, I didn’t have a choice to come here, I was born in Mexico, and that is where my heart will always be.”
Logic? There is no logic. Logic, knowledge, critical thinking, principle, historical fact, economic reality... all have been banished from the public square, banished from the marketplace of ideas.
Looking for logic in our lives today is an exercise in futility, a waste of time.
There's no more logic here than there is in Israel and the Gaza Strip, where palestinians who are burned or blinded are brought to Israel and treated free of charge, their lives saved, and their parents or brothers or sisters then carry a bomb into the hospital when they come back for a follow-up visit. Try to kill the doctors who saved them and as many others as they can.
There is no logic. Our society is so rich -- in the material sense -- that we don't need logic any more.
And when logic is banished, planning for the ovens and the ash ponds soon commences.
I’ve been meaning to ask this and here might be a good place.
Which of the candidates is the strongest on illegal immigration or border control? And if you say Rick Perry I give up because I live in Texas and know.
It doesn’t seem like any have made this a key issue, but I may be mistaken.
I don’t think the Ruling Class cares. :(
I keep waiting for some illegal somewhere to make a serious bid for Nancy Pelosi or John McCain’s seat. I get the feeling that suddenly illegal immigration would be a big problem.
liberal progressives destroyed california.
I always had a problem with people that leave their country, that they love, when things go wrong instead of staying and trying to correct the problem. You know exactly what they will do if things go wrong for them here. They can’t be depended on to stand an fight for this country of ours. Look at how Mexicans vote in Mexico. Always for the person that says they will take care of them. They’ll do the same thing here. Vote for socialism and free stuff without having to work for it. They expect other tax payers to pay for their claims. And.....we’re dumb enough to let our politicians give them what they want.
Mexifornia needs to be cleaned out with military troops..
A foreign country has literally invaded there..
Mexican citizens need to be removed from the Oregon border on down to La Paz, Baja California..
THEN take Baja as permanent payment for the foreign incursion.. by the Mexican government..
I can understand his loving hisnative country, probably because I so dearly love my own, The United States.
But if I visited Spain or Mexico or Italy, I would not boo their team. That is simply rude.To come to MY country live here and Boo MY country’s team is past rude, it’s unacceptable.
Like so many Mexicans he loves our country for what he can get out of it. Which is what he should do-—get out of it.
Things are going to get really interesting when the Latino succession movements starts to gain steam. This area is almost at critical mass as it is. I have no doubt this will be where the next Civil War will start and it will probably within the next 50 years. I just hope we have a president at the time that will do what must be done to preserve the union, it’s not going to be pretty.
They don't. Illegal aliens and the average American citizen are all the same to them, except the illegals are more easily bought and tolerant of corruption.
Translated from the Spanish.
“I love this country and I am glad that is has been returned to Aztlan. I and my comrades look forward to the near future when Arizona, New Mexico (see it even has our name on it, how can it not belong to us?), Nevada, Tejas, and what the hell, Oklahoma, return to us as well. Viva La Reconquista!!!”
Rats and RINOs have now resorted to kidnapping Mexicans to bring in new voters?
Maybe he was forced to come here by the son of a Democrat Congressman:
<”Boyd pleads guilty to smuggling”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102590/posts
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