Joseph Sanchez, Long Beach resident brought out his son, Joseph Sanchez Jr., 4, to protest the HR3447 bill. (Tracey Roman / for the Press-Telegram)
Posted on 03/28/2006 2:06:57 PM PST by StoneColdGOP
Joseph Sanchez, Long Beach resident brought out his son, Joseph Sanchez Jr., 4, to protest the HR3447 bill. (Tracey Roman / for the Press-Telegram)
A protester holds up a sign that reads "Revolution is the solution" in spanish. (Tracey Roman / for the Press-Telegram)
School officials keep an eye on marching students as hundreds showed up to Montebello High School and urged those students to leave the school and protest against proposition HR 4437 on March 27, 2006, at the Montebello school. The Mexican flag was raised at the school by the protesting students, shown in the background. Students walked from El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera to Pioneer High School in Whittier, then on to Whittier High School, to Montebello High School and then to downtown Los Angeles. (Raul Roa/Staff photo)
Students protesting wave the Mexican flag as the crowd gathers at Cesar Chavez Park in Long Beach. (Tracey Roman / for the Press-Telegram)
Whittier area students from Pioneer, California and Whittier high schools walked out of classes to protest the proposed federal immigration bill March 27, 2006. The protestors put up the Mexican flag over the American flag flying upsidedown at Montebello High. (Leo Jarzomb/Staff photo)
Students from Marshall High School, Blair High, and Pasadena High School and Muir High School walked to the Pasadena Unified School District Headquarters in protest to denounce a federal legislative proposal that would criminalize illegal immigration and require building a 700-mile wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. (Walt Mancini/Staff photo)
Students holding the flag of Mexico, after the flag of Mexico was put on the flagpole, replacing the American flag and California Republic flag. Pasadena police chief Bernard Melekian with Pasadena police officer Mike Korpal place the flag of California Republic and the American flag to the flagpole at its proper height at Pasadena Unified School District headquarters. (Walt Mancini/Staff photo)
Area high school students raise the Mexican flag at the Montebello High School flag pole as they marched to the school to urge those students to also walk and protest against proposition HR 4437 on March 27, 2006, at the Montebello school. Students walked from El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera to Pioneer High School in Whittier, then on to Whittier High School, to Montebello High School and then to downtown Los Angeles. (Raul Roa/Staff photo)
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Hey buddy any idea where this photo came from, please ping me if you find out, it's important
It will give you the background of that photo.
to get through undergrad I worked third shift at Excel Beef in Dodge City, KS. That's when I first encountered the Illegal question...
Our town's story goes like this..
In the 1980's starting wages at our plant were around 12-15.00 an hour.
This was in 1980's money!
It was hard, nasty work but many worked there and provided for their families.
Excel was then staffed by Americans, either Mexican Americans who had lived in Dodge since the railroad came in 1900, or Anglo-Americans.
About Half Mex-Americans, Half Caucasion, with a few Vietnamese.
By the mid-90's when I was there, starting wages had dropped to around 10.00 and hour, and many of the Mexican-Americans had been squeezed out by New "Mexicans from Texas" (wink wink)
Many Anglos at the plant were also squeezed out to Illegals, and the few Anglos and Mex-Americans that remained were in the skilled jobs, supervisors or in office work.
By the late 90's wages were down to around 7.00/ hour and the Old Mexican Americans of Dodge City, the folks who had been part of our community since the turn of the century, were completely gone from the plant they helped build.
In their place were Illegals working for half the wages, now a mix of Illegal Mexicans, Guatamelans, Salvadorans, etc. The Vietnamese packed up and left Dodge due to rising crime and violence.
The Anglos were now only working in a few office jobs, and a few skilled jobs (Electricians, Safety inspect, etc.)But even these skilled trades were being taken over by the Illegals who had come during the early 90's. They would do the same job for half the pay.
So today Dodge has 3 meat packing plants, each employing several thousand workers. In a town of 30,000, at least 6,000 are employed by the Corporate Beef Industry.
A reasonable estimate is that over half of these workers are illegal. And that's being conservative...I'd put it closer to 80%.
During the 1990's, to accomodate our new friends, Dodge built four (yes FOUR) new schools, two new jails, raised property taxes double digits every year, and the city now looks like Juarez on a bad Friday night. Spanish is the main language of our school system, my niece is in fourth grade and only reads Spanish, because that's what she has been taught in. She and one other little girl are the only native English speakers in her class. (I wish to hell I was making this up!)
People who can, simply get The Hell Out of Dodge and never look back.
This story has been repeated in Garden City, Liberal, and all over Kansas.
It's a damn shame....
not only is the Mexican flag above ours, but ours is inverted.
ooo. fingers in every pot, have they not?
Quadrupling the size of a problem generally isn't a great way to solve it. (But at least you recognize your statement for the nonsense that it is).
Clearly in the fifth photo from the top at the beginning of this thread.
Is there a Vets(and active miliary) of FR ping list?
They all should see this.
Go after them hard every day.
Our representatives need to hear from us every day.
Your congressional Representative should have a district office near you.
Visit their office.
The flags are from Whittier High School in Cali...
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/
I think the arab-Mexican Alliance marchers might be from another protest, but I'm not sure
pingout. please let all active abd reserve servicemen and veterans know of this thread.
Those little sh*ts!
The pic that really burns my @ss is the lonely cop trying to restore our flag while these punks hold up the Mexican flags and taunt him...
That's one job that I would quickly get fired from....hehe
many of you have already seen this, and you have my apologies if my ping annoys you.
however, this massive insurrection in support of invasion needs to be known by all.
I suspect the factor there is simple fear on their part that the program is a trick to get them deported.
And are you kidding me here? Your objection is that they don't want to be citizens? If you're right then a simple solution is a guest worker as a form of earned citizenship. That is, only those planning to become citizens need to apply. Although you couldn't be more wrong on this one.
Fine, excuse 140 billion of the federal budget for each of the last five years.
You're ignoring the exploding entitlements.
Educating the children of illegals...
Wait, so according to you we don't need to provide opportunities for next generation of workers. Just keep em poor or deport? Who's going to pay the Medicare bills and Social Security checks 20 years down the road then?
UNflagburner obviously wants no restrictions whatsoever on immigration from Mexico. Good stuff from the anti-borders crowd these days.
I wonder... is burning the mexican flag "hate speech" yet?
That's okay, KP. Ping away!
Immigrants wanting to work here are not a problem for America. And what I recognize is that some of you think that they are.
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