Last I heard, illegals make up something between 10% and 15% of California's population, but 25% of our prisoners.
Comparatively, it sounds like they're overachieving in this regard.
Posted on 03/17/2002 6:00:26 AM PST by Love America or move to ......
Hispanics nationwide have a stake in the Texas governor's race. Laredo businessman and millionaire Tony Sanchez won the Democratic primary by about a 2 to 1 margin. If Sanchez unseats Republican Gov. Rick Perry in November, he will become the first Hispanic governor of Texas. Texas, following California, also would become the second state in which Hispanic voters put an end to Republican dominance.
In California, Hispanic voters were something of a sleeping giant. That all changed with the administration of Pete Wilson, the Republican governor who stupidly decided to exploit the state's xenophobes and bash immigrants. Wilson blamed immigrants - legal and illegal - for just about everything from lousy schools and health care to the failure to achieve world peace.
Faced with such abuse, the sleeping giant woke up. Voter registration drives became a favorite pastime in Hispanic neighborhoods. In 1998, Gray Davis became the first Democratic governor of California in 16 years.
He trounced his Republican opponent Dan Lungren, drawing 58 percent of the vote; Lungren got 38 percent. Davis captured just about every voter block except for white men, Republicans and Protestants. He carried Hispanics by a great margin.The Texas primary race, similarly, drew a heavy Hispanic vote in the southern part of the state. Observers said more Hispanics were moved to vote. While the major Democratic candidates both were Hispanic, Sanchez said his opponent, Dan Morales, was embarrassed to be Hispanic.
Sanchez reportedly spent about $18 million to defeat Morales. This is a record for a Texas primary, and it reflects an odd element to the general election. Sanchez is new to politics and wealthy. The family fortune is said to be $600 million. He reportedly threw as much as $13 million of his own money into his campaign kitty.
Hispanics are the fastest growing minority in the country. And as they increase, so too does their political influence. This is the most important political trend since Richard Nixon launched his successful southern strategy in which he urged conservative southern Democrats to switch to the Republican Party. It's a trend that could affect Illinois, New Jersey and some southern states where there is growing Hispanic influence.
Last I heard, illegals make up something between 10% and 15% of California's population, but 25% of our prisoners.
Comparatively, it sounds like they're overachieving in this regard.
Tamales for Christmas is a yummy tradition too.
I missed the part that you had left this area. Lots of people are and it's not just Anglos. Yes it is looking more and more like Ciudad Juarez ---and Ciudad Juarez is looking more and more like hell ----too bad too because not long ago this all was a very nice area ---at one time Ciudad Juarez was a pleasant Mexican town with a fairly low crime rate. My father recently came with an RV to visit ---he was advised by other RV travelers to by-pass El Paso and get to Deming because apparently crimes on retirees has exploded recently. This would be the perfect area for retirees --but El Paso politicians are stupid and prefer to chase out money.
Your comments about the traffic illustrate the point I was trying to make: based on population, El Paso has received less than half of the state highway funding it deserves. Because so few people register and vote, the rest of the state doesn't care about El Paso.
As far as my local taxes go, I'm paying much less than I would on a comparable home in El Paso.
They aren't working there anymore ---it's completely shut down ---too bad too because that place was worth driving past at chili harvest time. They've shut down Furrs, most of Levis, the Casino. More and more the border area is like Mexico itself --people leaving by the thousands, more people from Mexico moving in who don't have skills or education. It's not good.
He made lots of noise, but did nothing to cure the problem of illegal voter registrations, much less illegal immigration. The State and Local Police were told they had no rights in dealing with illegals. Citizens wanted the National Guard on the border. Wilson wanted more illegal pickers for his pals in Fresno. Why it never occurs to anyone that the areas of California with 40% unemployment, like Watts, cannot provide pickers is beyond me.
Under Wilson, illegal aliens became state and municipal employees. He never got the money from the Federal Government to offset the costs imposed by these border bounders on the California budget. $7.5 BILLION in his day, more now.
It was giant exercise in hypocrisy. I greatly fear that Bush, another State Governor with a record of shame in this regard, has upped Wilson's spinelessness to the Federal level.
BTW, California's first governor was a Mexican and a Republican. But I will bet you many Aztlan pesos this will not ever happen again. I will also bet you that within 150 years, the Governor of California will be appointed in Mexico City.
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The African American community bears a great deal of the economic injury wrought by illegal / mass immigration. Illegals will do jobs at the bottom of the pay scale in competition with Af. Ams. And they'll do the jobs for less, everytime. They drive down the wages of industries in which Af Ams. formerly received much employment. Then immigration proponents call these jobs "work that Americans won't do".
From NRO.co,
The vote is also an issue in the Texas Senate race, where Republican candidate John Cornyn is using it to highlight his support of the nomination of Texan Priscilla Owen. One possible Democratic opponent, Ron Kirk, has pledged to block "conservative jurists who oppose Democratic rights and principles, including a woman's right to choose."
No sothern consertive RAT or not will vote for Kirk after what happened to Pickering.....
Tx primaries are always a very low turn thing....
The Rat turn out wasn't that great.....compared to other years......
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