May 1st 2006
What more can be said in regards to the protesting by scores of human debris here in our country illegally? Someone please tell them to keep it up. Their true colors are starting to shine through for all to easily see.
posted by TinyElvis @ 9:06 PM
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This doesn't make sense. What "true colors" are shining through? I'm not necessarily disagreeing, just not getting it.
They aren't interested in becoming Americans. They claim this land was stolen from Mexico and they want it back.
In LA news footage, all you could see were Mexican flags (no matter how hard they tried to hide it).
If they really wanted to become American citizens, they would go through the process.
I am not sure which footage you saw, because if anything there was infinitely more American flags at the LA protests. Some of that footage can be seen at the LA television station websites like ktla.com.
Even the notoriously conservative Orange County Register posted these articles (be sure to look at the pictures they provided):
http://ocregister.com/ocregister/news/homepage/article_1125625.php
and
http://ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1125809.php
and
http://ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/article_1126092.php
It almost seems as if your feed originated from the John Birch Society.
You are right. They were all actually good and decent folk simply exercising their rights to break the law and make demands that future laws are written to suit their personal agenda.
How dare we criticize these honest, hard-working human beings.
[Anonymous #1 here] It seems to me this is a big issue, and that the media has done a horsecrap job of telling us what's going on.
From what I've read, it's several different groups with different agendas that have formed a loose coalition for the purposes of getting numbers up at these marches. Assuming that's correct, I don't think we can make any broad generalizations about "what they want."
Which begs the question of what it is "they" want. Amnesty? Full citizenship? Guest worker status? Open boarders? Some combination of the above? One decent reporter here in Chicago interviewed several different people at the march and got several different answers. There just doesn't seem to be a coherent message. But the media has given us the useless term "immigrants' rights." Well, sure. Who isn't for immigrants' rights? The illegal alien issue has largely been glossed over.
As to the people themselves...I have no doubt that the vast majority of them are decent, hard-working people who want a better life for their families. But I know little of the citizenship process. Is it difficult to impossible for a peasant from Chihuhua to get citizenship in a timely manner? Is it easy to do so?
The media needs to inform the citizenry of such things. The answers could sway a lot of opinions. At least this one. If it's near impossible to get legal, I can't say I blame a dirt poor peasant for crossing over to make a better life for his/her family and him/herself. I'd do the same.
OTOH, if it's easy or reasonably achievable to become a citizen, then I have little sympathy [empathy?] for these scofflaws.
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