Posted on 06/03/2015 8:55:19 PM PDT by Mariner
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) —It's a television ad that runs just 30 seconds, but its implication that immigrants are draining resources during the California drought has critics contending its message is divisive and untrue.
"I think those ads are disingenuous," said Sen. Ricardo Lara, a Democrat from Bell Gardens. "They serve to further divide us as Californians."
(Excerpt) Read more at kcra.com ...
“I’ve always said if they’d kick out illegal aliens, California would have plenty of water to survive the drought, plus money saved from public services used by illegal aliens. That they are out of water and broke is their own fault.”
We Californians have no control over immigration. That we are out of water and broke is the fault of Obama, Clinton, and both Bushes, who all have put foreign nationals ahead of California.
I doubt if the quality of the water is improved much after being processed inside a trespassing foreign national.
I’m shocked it even got aired.
I’m shocked it even got aired.
An even more unpleasant fact is that California is Agriculture Central and is, in a way, shipping out its own water to the rest of the country and the world in the form of agricultural products. Thus the state is also Permaculture Central and Locavore Central. It’s not about lawns and swimming pools, and probably only partly about illegals. Good ad, though. Makes people think.
after all we know illegals don’t use water.
Illegals are natural water savers, just like they are natural Republicans.
They save the water and vote GOP making GOP consultants feel warm & fuzzy inside
I agree with the mescan Senator Lara, it is disingenuous.
These are not immigrants, these are illegal invaders of our country and should be rounded up and loaded onto cattle cars and shipped out post haste.
Thanks for pointing this out Senator. Appreciate this.
The article's title limits the ad's critique to water - to make it easier to dismiss - when the ad actually asks FOUR questions:
If Califonians are having fewer children, why... 1) so crowded? 2) so many cars? 3) not enough water? 4) and where are all the people coming from?Senator Ricardo Lara represents a 70% Hispanic district where his openly gay lifestyle would certainly have alienated his voters from him but for one saving grace:
He is the anchor baby child of Mexican illegals whose devotion to open borders is unquestionable.
California has 38 million people, with more than 11 million of them illegal. While the total amount of rainfall this year is less than ten years ago, it’s hard to argue that the 27 million citizens would not be better off in terms of water if the 11 million criminals were not using nearly a third of this scarce resource.
“We’re just pointing out when you have limited resources be it water, be it wildlife habitat, be it anything else, a growing human population has a very serious impact on that.”
Impact? No doubt. Whether it’s good or bad depends on who
and what the population is comprised of. Right now the boom
seems to be from third world immigrants who come from countries
with no running water, paved roads, indoor plumbing, electricity and communication anywhere near what we have here. They don’t and wont and in many cases cant
assimilate. But then again that is the goal of the
liberal left. The creation of a third world American
culture.
The FEDERAL government is responsible for enforcing immigration laws...the FEDERAL Courts overturned Prop 187 passed by CA voters which would have eliminated or severly curtailed any and all benefits or other expenditures to illegals...
CA has many other problems, but it ALL began because the FEDERAL government would NOT do their jobs in enforcing immigration laws and USURPED the WILL of the CA people.
Glad to see that so many purported conservatives are just licking their chops and jumping on the bandwagons of ridicule because of the problems CA faces thanks to the federal aholes in DC...
The propagandists are playing a semantics game again. Just as they deliberately conflate “immigration” and “illegal immigration”, in this case the news report pretends “water shortage” and “drought” are the same thing. Obviously droughts are caused by the weather, but shortages are caused by too many people wanting the limited resource. The commercial didn’t mention the drought, only the water shortage.
These simple propaganda tricks usually work on the low information crowd, but it won’t work here. Most fools have trouble understanding the legal distinctions regarding immigration. But even a kindergartner can understand the simple math of “more people means less for me.”
Make that "more unproductive people"...
How about if California were to use nuclear energy to power desalinization plants?
That would both solve the water shortage AND make the liberals' heads explode!
Nice! Like that ad. It was right to the point.
Rand Paul's immigration speech...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
Obviously, if the US lifestyle is so wasteful, we need to keep new (illegal) residents from coming here, and deport those already here.from the FRchives:
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