That’s what liberal firebrand Maxine Waters, Queen of the Congressional Black Caucus, said at a House Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims hearing last week, according to frequent immigration writer and blogger Heather Mac Donald, who testified before the subcommittee. She writes:
Enter Maxine Waters. Waters has poisoned racial politics in Los Angeles for years; she essentially declared the Los Angeles riots a strike against racial injustice. Never saw a cop she doesn’t think is a racist. Yet here she was at the hearing declaring herself absolutely fed up with the race war between Hispanics and blacks that is raging on the streets of downtown L.A. “Why isn’t anyone talking about the Mexican Mafia (a gang of illegal Mexicans that controls the California prison system)?†she thundered. ‘I don’t care if you’re pink or purple or white or black or brown, I want you out if you’re committing crimes.’ There is no excuse not to control the border, she said. ‘I’m a liberal with a capital ‘L’,’ she said, ‘but I’m sick of it. (Source)
Waters is finally doing some tough talking for the right side…for a change. During Bill Clinton’s impeachment, she was fit to be tied that her guy’s “private” sexual affair was being discussed in front of the whole world. Waters had an attitude problem every day of the hearings. One of her many quips to Henry Hyde, Chair of the House Committee on the Judiciary:
“Mr. Chairman, I don’t want you to default on your good name and leadership. History will not be kind to you and the stark contradictions of your leadership. It would surely be a sad commentary on your long years of service to be regarded as one who led the selective impeachment of the president of the United States, not based on a consistent philosophical belief, but rather on a petty, partisan need to satisfy; the need to retaliate, embarrass or feed the insatiable appetites of a group of hate-mongering, right-wing anarchists who will stop at nothing to destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton.” (Source)
Lots of inconsistencies and errors in that blurb, but I’ll let you pick it apart. The point is that no matter how liberal people may be, everyone has a limit to what they’ll tolerate, and foreign criminals fighting in her district must be hers.
Waters had better be careful with all that “control the border” talk, though. Her liberal friends might accuse her of being a “hate-mongering, right-wing anarchist who will stop at nothing to destroy” America’s wide open borders.
(Take it, Michelle!)
Update: AgJobs provision fails in the Senate. For now.
Six hundred and fifty new border agents are headed south:
The move is a rebuke of President Bush, who signed a bill last year calling for 2,000 new Border Patrol agents each year for five years, as well as increases in the other areas, but submitted a budget calling for only 210 new agents and far fewer detention beds.
“We ask how and why illegal aliens continue to pour into our country, and the answer lies in every Border Patrol increase we do not fund, every agent we do not hire and every illegal alien we release due to lack of detention space,” Mr. Byrd said.
Byrd shares his colleague’s frustration. It’s encouraging to know that liberals are becoming fed up over this national security threat, too.
Like Danny Glover in “Predator 2″, Maxine Waters has discovered that “THERE’S A NEW PLAYER IN TOWN”.
The “new player” are Mexicans. They are moving into territory that she believes belongs to her - and they don’t even know she exists.
This is the worst kind of distress for a self-indulgent “queen of the mountian” like Waters - to be totally ignored.
Maxine is like Jane Fonda - an ageing diva who just can’t stop living in the 1960’s.
Comment by Frank Zavisca — 04.21.05 @ 8:28 am
‘I’m a liberal with a capital ‘L’,’ she said, ‘but I’m sick of it. LaShawn reacts: The point is that no matter how liberal people may be, everyone has a limit to what […]
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I think the next time the Terrorists come, they won’t be driving from Iowa or Indiana. That message is finally beginning to make sense for some politicans… more on the Capital Region People Blog!
Comment by Dave Lucas — 04.21.05 @ 8:47 am
Good grief. So now I have to agree with Waters on something? I hate when that happens.
Comment by RedBeard — 04.21.05 @ 9:31 am
An election is coming up next year, La Shawn. Is this a true change of heart on Maxine Waters part, or another political promise to be forgotten as speedily as possible once the votes are counted? Watch her political spin doctors (the LA Times, the Washington Post, and the network media). If they remain silent or even praise her about this issue, then you can be sure the fix is in and no reform will take place.
Comment by Mwalimu Daudi — 04.21.05 @ 10:13 am
Maxine Waters doesn’t care about Illegals coming across the southern border,she just wants to keep them out of her district so she wont lose votes.If people in her district move out because of violence and are replaced with an influx of Hispanics legal or not she might not be reelected every two years.
Comment by Earl — 04.21.05 @ 10:25 am
Maxine is like Jane Fonda - an aging diva who just can’t stop living in the 1960’s.
Good analogy,, anyone got any chewing tabbaca..Naw Maxine never went to NVN
Comment by Mark — 04.21.05 @ 10:29 am
Maxine you are finally coming to your senses like a ship coming out of the fog.Just one piece of advice: never walk under a bouncing lowrider.
Comment by ratso ferrari — 04.21.05 @ 11:26 am
I do not think Waters is saying that for the same reason that some white people say it. I know that when I lived in the Dallas area, there was a local politician who was running on the issue of ‘brown people’ moving into ‘traditionally black neighborhoods’. He was quoted as saying something about seeing brown faces in his neighborhood and not liking it. Any thoughts on this, La Shawn?
Comment by RepJ — 04.21.05 @ 11:29 am
La Shawn, I just simply do not think that Waters is coming around to your way of thinking.
Comment by RepJ — 04.21.05 @ 11:30 am
I like Earl’s point. Especially when those moving could care less about politics and would be hostile to any outreach from any party. The Dems prayed for more votes via driver license registrations and ended up with anti-socials. Once again progressive ideology meets the brick wall of reality.
Comment by Andy — 04.21.05 @ 12:10 pm
LaShawn,
Senator Brooks of Massachusetts-R, the first black
elected from New England, resigned when it was revealed that he lied under oath about assets in his divorce trial. He was trying to cover up assets in divorce trial. Being a liberal with “L”
is all talk from a politician.
James M.Barber
Comment by James M. Barber — 04.21.05 @ 12:11 pm
Wow. I don’t know what to say about that. I would’ve figured that her “compassion” that she thinks that she has and that Republicans don’t have would have her trying to pass legistlation to put water and food stations on the border.
Until I hear more though I can’t see her breaking ranks with the unity of the Democrat party … even on this ONE issue.
Comment by Baklava — 04.21.05 @ 12:47 pm
James M. Barber Your comment about Senator Edward Brooke’s divorce makes me sad. I remember reading the touching love story about him and his Italian born wife in Readers’ Digest, I think. What is it with being elected to Washington, DC?
Comment by Evon Bachaus — 04.21.05 @ 1:28 pm
i am not letting the republicans off the hook, but liberals have caused/contributed generously to the problems of illegals and having them here. the aclu is sitting on the border watching for any possible “abuse.” maxine’s man, bill clinton, allowed thousands into the country without documents and security checks (so they’d vote for him of course.) many of the russian/eastern european mafia came in then along with other known and notorious criminals from around the world. liberals have indulged and enabled millions of illegals to attain services and privileges at great taxpayer expense in the name of “humanity and rights.” hillary is riding this horse for purely political reasons. how am i supposed to trust that maxine waters or her fellow liberals will now get tough and do meaningful and effective things to deal with the problem???? maxine and hillary are a whole lot about a very vulgar hypocrisy. they want it both ways. (actually, hillary wants it in what ever way the wind is blowing at the moment.)
Comment by bookjunkie — 04.21.05 @ 1:37 pm
Frank Zavisca, Mwalimu Daudi, Earl, and Repj suggest that Maxine Waters might have taken this stand for political reasons rather than out of sincere beliefs. This is unlikely.
Maxine Waters won the last election with 80% of the vote. She lives in a very safe district. She does not need to take stands she disagrees with in order to satisfy her voters. She does not need to worry about demographic changes in her district. An influx of 25,000 foreigners, or even 25,000 Republicans, into her district would not affect her electoral chances. Given her very safe district, the only reasonable conclusion is that she is speaking her mind, as she always does.
Redbeard, the whole point of politics is to win the hearts and minds of people who disagree with you — and to give them an honest opportunity to win your heart and mind.
Bookjunkie, whatevers reason President Clinton may have had to have a relaxed policy on undocumented workers, those reasons did not include an expectation that undocumented workers would vote for him. There is no evidence that non-citizens are illegally voting in U.S. elections in substantial numbers.
Also, it is a myth that illegal aliens are a net drain on government services. They pay into social security but will never draw benefits. They pay various other taxes and draw negligible benefits. There is a germ of truth to your point, and that is that their children in some cases are enrolled in local public schools, which puts a burden on the state and local government, while relatively little state and local tax is collected from them.
There are good reasons to oppose illegal immigration in general and undocumented workers taking jobs that could have gone to American citizens. But the purported reason that they take more government services than they pay for in taxes is not true. I know people are going to attack this point. Say what you want, I won’t take the bait.
Comment by Anomalocaris — 04.21.05 @ 2:46 pm
To Anomalocaris: For Maxine Waters, demagoguery is as natural and necessary to her as breathing. While she herself may not face serious challenge at the polls, other Democrats might. At any rate, given her sordid rhetoric in the past on race matters, what’s wrong with telling her to put up or shut up? For that matter, why not hold her fellow Democrats (and Republicans for that matter) accountable on this issue?
Comment by Mwalimu Daudi — 04.21.05 @ 3:33 pm
Anom continues this myth even though he’s been corrected in the past….
He/She writes:
Also, it is a myth that illegal aliens are a net drain on government services. They pay into social security but will never draw benefits. They pay various other taxes and draw negligible benefits. There is a germ of truth to your point, and that is that their children in some cases are enrolled in local public schools, which puts a burden on the state and local government, while relatively little state and local tax is collected from them.
And Anom, generally they are using hospital resources without insurance (raising costs for those who pay), driving cars without insurance (raising rates for those who obey the law and obtain insurance), and using the prison system to the tune of 25%.
Prisons and you allowed for schools (education budget is approximately 50% of a state’s budget). Is there anymore Anom? I’m sure of it. Roads, WIC, AFDC, ….. I work at the Department of Health Services in CA and can tell you that over 300,000 people are receiving WIC benefits in CA. That’s just one program out of a hundred. You only allowed for the education system being in your comments.
Not to mention the environmental impact on many areas of the CA state and health impact and educational impact on the Citizen’s of this country who have to share classroom resources with non-citizens who put a drag on the learning progress in the classroom.
If you consider all of these factors, as I’m sure the 80% of Americans who are in favor of controlling our borders are probably considering, you’d have to change your myth assertion.
Comment by Baklava — 04.21.05 @ 3:58 pm
Borders and Immigration - Ducking the Unavoidable
Regular readers will note that I’ve stayed largely silent on the questions of border policing and immigration (legal vs. illegal.) That’s been harder to do in the last few days as bloggers I respect focus more and more attention on it. I’ve skimmed …
Trackback by Kobayashi Maru — 04.21.05 @ 4:01 pm
More fun with the border
Maybe there’s hope for some of these liberals after all.
Trackback by bennellibrothers.com — 04.21.05 @ 4:53 pm
We should all wait and see if this is some talking point used to score points or some serious verbage with actions behind it. It would be wonderful for the Hon. Rep. Waters to help push through legislation that closes the border. Knowing her rep, though, I have to see more before I believe she’s a convert.
Comment by Chris Roberts — 04.21.05 @ 5:30 pm
Maxine Waters won the last election with 80% of the vote. She lives in a very safe district. She does not need to take stands she disagrees with in order to satisfy her voters. She does not need to worry about demographic changes in her district. An influx of 25,000 foreigners, or even 25,000 Republicans, into her district would not affect her electoral chances. Given her very safe district, the only reasonable conclusion is that she is speaking her mind, as she always does.
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Anom;
Did anyone even run against her ? 80% that sounds like the numbers Saddam used to get in his free elections.
And you say Maxine is doing this because she cares since when. According to Americans for better immigration Maxine gets an F for her efforts to improve immigration and that was April 15, 2005 and before that she managed a D-, yeah sounds like she really cares about illegal immigration.
Why are the democrats so willing to pass out drivers licenses to all these illegals and Felons, couldn’t have anything to do with voting could it.
Sort of like Chicago, if you are a democrat and your dead doesn’t mean you still can’t vote.
Comment by Mark — 04.21.05 @ 5:42 pm
Hurray for Maxine Waters!
The battle against illegal immigration has a new participant - Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters. La Shawn Barber has a post on her blog pertaining to Ms. Waters’ recent comment about border control. Congresswoman Waters has proven that illegal imm…
Trackback by Lifelike Pundits — 04.21.05 @ 7:08 pm
Nosing around the ‘net
Because I am now exactly 24 hours away from needing to be outta here and starting on our long-awaited vacation (it’s been three years since we went to Ireland, a trip chronicled here, by my 15 year old son, Buster) and I’ve never seen a man who needs…
Trackback by The Anchoress — 04.21.05 @ 7:30 pm
Could this be part of Carl Rove’s Great Plan? Suddenly there are some Libs who are acting more conservative than the Repubs. Will they next give the okay to photo IDs for voting? Eliminate same day registrations for voting? Repeal the McCain-Feingold act (versus “tweaking” it to make it even worse.) What’s next?
Comment by joated — 04.21.05 @ 8:03 pm
Kind of funny that Waters has said nothing (that I’m aware of) about illegal immigration from the south until these gang wars have erupted between them and her voting blo…uh, I mean poor, helpless LA gang members.
She is about as convincing as Hillary Clinton addressing the “sadness” of abortion.
Comment by Jim Robertson — 04.21.05 @ 8:10 pm
On a scale of one to ten….
….where ten is genius and one is concrete brick stupid, the ACLU scores a negative ten.On his Tuesday show on Fox, Sean Hannity stepped over the barbe…
Trackback by Media Lies — 04.21.05 @ 9:30 pm
Michelle’s right. It’s too little too late.
I wouldn’t believe a word this woman says.
I wonder what her ulterior motive is? Maybe she thinks she’s going to be Hillary’s running mate?
Comment by Glamchild — 04.21.05 @ 9:44 pm
There’s a very liberal politician in Chicago who’s from the ghetto, and she said something like, “why is the president of Mexico telling us how to run our city?” when Fox came to Chicago and told the Mayor to let illegals do this and that. I forgot her exact quote, but even though I disagree with her most of the time, she got it right. I think the problem is that there are unemployed, down-and-out Americans who aren’t given a chance or are “too expensive” for jobs, and they’re in Waters’ area, and she’s tired of seeing them passed up.
Maybe the conservatives who care about illegal immigration are being thrown under the bus for larger political gain: the latino vote. They figure they can sacrifice some conservatives for the more numerous latino voters.
Comment by mj — 04.21.05 @ 10:32 pm
The Rs have gone so far left on this, that the Ds could get to the right of us in a heartbeat, and if they have the wit to do so, they will hand us our poopers on a plate.
Comment by Dave Munger — 04.21.05 @ 11:51 pm
So whats she whinning about the minute man project is doing what these usless border patrols cant do and that’s stopping the illegal immigration and stopping potential terrorists from crossing over.
Comment by firebird — 04.22.05 @ 9:45 am
“The Rs have gone so far left on this, that the Ds could get to the right of us in a heartbeat, and if they have the wit to do so, they will hand us our poopers on a plate.”
Yes, you are absolutely right and it is crucial that conservative Republicans recognize and confront this, in order to take our party back from the leftists who have hijacked it. For this very reason I have started my own blog which focuses on this crucial point. I ask everyone to please visit me and feel free to comment.
Tancredo in ‘08 and let’s take our party back!
Or Mike Pence! - Admin
Comment by Texas Republicans Against Bush — 04.22.05 @ 11:09 am
About 30 yrs ago Orange county, just south of Los Angeles,was so conservative that Democrats were scarcer than most endangered species.When the Hispanic population increased there was a big change starting in Santa Ana, then the politics changed.Loretta Sanchez ran against Bob Dornan and beat him, Sanchez had lost before when she ran under her Anglo last name.Now , could the DMV voter registration have had anything to do with her winning or was it because she ran under the name of Sanchez and inspired kindred spirits to vote for her? Maxine Waters may be a lot of things but she is not stupid. I am sure that Waters looked south and said “That could happen to me.”
Comment by Earl — 04.22.05 @ 11:24 am
[…] brand Waters. La Shawn quotes from Heather MacDonald who reports that Waters said: “There is no excuse not to control the border” — More context: Enter Maxine Water […]
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Congresswoman Waters already has mexicans, guatemalans, hondurans, Salvadorans, etc. in her district. She represents Watts and part of South Los Angeles (which is still called South Central by us) that are increasingly becoming more Hisapanic by the day. She needs to be fed up with the illegal street vending in her district, illegal car lots and illegal businesses that have popped up in the district as I am fed up with them. As one of her constituents, I am confident that she is just fed up with local city officials not taking a harder stance. Let’s face it, illegal immigrants can’t vote anyway.
Comment by Kevin — 04.22.05 @ 1:28 pm
President Bush Rebuked - Hurray!
President Bush appears to be soft when it comes to the problem of illegal immigration. He referred to the Minuteman Project volunteers as being vigilantes, although the vast majority of the volunteers have been law-abiding. It is if the President…
Trackback by Lifelike Pundits — 04.22.05 @ 6:05 pm
We have spent Millions on ‘Homeland Security’, changed airport regs, increased metal detectors, X-ray machines and on and on..but for what. To me its like spending 50 grand for a sophisticated ADT alarm system for a 2 million dollar house and then tell the installer , Ah don’t worry about the back door, we don’t use it much any way.
Or letting the Fox guard the henhouse, pun intended.
Comment by Mark — 04.22.05 @ 8:30 pm
I may be ALONE in this, but I have MET and LIKE Maxine Waters. While I can’t/won’t countenace all of her views, she has an authenticity about her that soundbites could never capture. Love her or hate her, she is always Maxine.
Comment by Rafael Daniel — 04.22.05 @ 8:43 pm
Maxine Waters, immigrant bashing neo-con, hates minorities
La Shawn Barber reports Congresswoman Maxine Waters came out with a strong statement in favor of strong border security.
“Why isn’t anyone talking about the Mexican Mafia (a gang of illegal Mexicans that controls the California prison system)?” s…
Trackback by The Unalienable Right — 04.22.05 @ 10:19 pm
Thanks La Shawn for helping to stop the very poor AgJobs bill.
Writing on a regular basis about the important issue of illegal border violations on your popular blog has encouraged other bloggers to link/write about it which has encouraged readers to contact Washington DC with their displeasure, I am sure.
Comment by Jim R — 04.23.05 @ 8:10 am
As Maxine searches for a solution, she should take notes from Germany. Lax border policy : Lax visa policy, either way is bad policy:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4480325.stm
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has dismissed opposition claims that a lax visa policy allowed east European criminals to flourish in Germany.
In a live televised speech, he told a parliamentary inquiry that the opposition claims were “propaganda”.
The crime statistics, he argued, showed no increase in Ukrainian offenders…
Comment by Andy — 04.25.05 @ 11:05 am
Vigilante: An ill-defined Spanish word . . .
As Darleen Click points out, semantics are being used to cloud the debate over illegal immigration — with ordinary words being much misused:Read almost any story on illegal aliens and the MSM almost without fail refers to illegal aliens as…
Trackback by Classical Values — 04.26.05 @ 8:52 am
Did you notice that… standing behind her just look he is lying becuase his mouth is open and thats how you can tell he is lying SQUAWK SQUAWK.
Comment by firebird — 04.28.05 @ 9:58 am
[…] ommunity could be brought on board to oppose illegals stealing their jobs. We already have Maxine Waters recognizing that the Mexican Mafia run the California Prison s […]
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