Shame on You, Murrieta, for Blocking Immigrant Detainee Buses

The Los Angeles Times ^ | Thursday, July 3, 2014 | Steve Lopez

[kristinn]

Yeah, I know. Illegal means illegal. Thanks for clarifying. And your community has its own challenges without detained immigrants arriving by the busload and no clear plan as to what will become of them. That’s all fair comment.

But still, shame on those of you with bulging veins, clenched fists and hot-blooded hatred.

Juxtaposed against the simplistic and ugly “go back home” rhetoric spouted in the streets of Murrieta this week are the horrific realities of some of the human beings – women and children, no less – aboard those buses.

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And let’s not forget that the influx of immigrants is no accident. The reasons for Central American and Mexican economic and social distress are complex and many, but the United States is a historic partner in the failures of that region of the world. We’ve supported corrupt and oppressive regimes for our own economic gain and we’ve priced foreign farmers out of business by subsidizing American agriculture.

And then there’s the insatiable American hunger for drugs -- one of the more destabilizing forces south of our borders.

Standing in the street screaming at buses is, to a degree, blaming the victims of our own policies and failings...

[ogen hal]

Not “obviously”. Not “over your head”.

[Figment]

Are you sober yet, I doubt it

[ogen hal]

Projection, no?

[Figment]

Projection yes. You made an comment about immigration to a post that had nothing to do with immigration. It had to do with the liberal media. Do you get it now dimwad?

[Figment]

And I’ll double down on the comment that it went way over your head

[ogen hal]

Dimwad? Have some class.