No wonder some blacks think we’re the most put-upon group on the planet.
First blacks had to deal with legal race discrimination during Jim Crow. Then we had to take on disparate impact “discrimination.” Now some are running to the EEOC because employers are passing them over for…illegal aliens.
As blacks continue losing jobs to criminals hired by criminals, expect to read about more EEOC lawsuits. The question is will blacks finally organize and come out strongly against illegal immigration, forcing Democrats (who can’t win elections without the “black vote”) to do something about it?
Until a thing negatively affects us, we generally don’t pay much attention to it. To many blacks, Hispanics were just another minority group, united as brothers-in-arms against “white oppression.” Now that employers are skipping over American citizens to hire people who ought to be in a jail cell instead of an employment office, I hope to see all Americans, especially blacks, unite against the tide of foreigners flouting our laws and changing our culture for the worst. That’s a new kind of oppression.
Take a look at that photo. It’s the flimsy border fence in Naco, Arizona. That is what separates Mexico from the United States. With George Bush’s amnesty-for-illegal-aliens scam in the works, laughably weak border fences, and virtually no danger of being asked to prove legal status, who can blame central Americans with scant job prospects and living in third world conditions for crossing the border into the land of milk, honey, and government handouts?
Anyone with the IQ of a gnat knows which is the better option. The point is that the option shouldn’t exist. There should be armed agents on the southern border and at the very least a reinforced wall to keep foreigners out. If they can’t get in line with everyone else trying to enter the U.S. through the proper channels, they won’t get in at all. Illegal aliens cost too much money and wreak too much havoc to ignore. That may sound “racist,” but as you know by now, I don’t care.
In an “open letter to illegal immigrants,” Doug Giles has a request for would-be border jumpers and lays out of litany of charges against a they-come-here-to-work criminal class:
Would you mind immigrating legally and learning English? Because, you see, our legal citizens are getting increasingly fed up with your criminal relocation dreams. That’s right. Our American buddies on the Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas borders are especially sick of . . .
• Having their land trashed like a hotel room after Motley Crew spent the weekend there. [One Indian Reservation picks up trash to the tune of six tons a day. Would you please stop that? It’s rude, and it’s threatening the existence of a certain lizard and the Sonoran Pronghorn antelope. Thanks.]
• Having their ranches’ fencing routinely cut and vandalized.
• Having to pick up your pill bottles, used needles and syringes.
• Having to find the half eaten remains of their pets left from one of your impromptu BBQ’s.
• Having their homes burglarized.
• Having their daughters raped.
• Having their vehicles stolen.
• Having their property value plummet.
• Having their sedate streets become unsafe requiring their children to be placed under lock and key after sunset.
• Having to pick up and discard Muslim prayer rugs and literature strafed about the place. [BTW . . . when did so many Catholic Mexicans convert to Islam? I didn’t get that brief. Would you explain that to me?]
• Having the arduous and unpleasant chore of scraping human feces off their front lawns in the morning.
Not too many illegal aliens will read Giles’s column, of course, but the point is made. I was invited to live-blog tomorrow night’s State of the Union address, but I prefer to listen in the comfort of my home. All I want to hear from Bush is what he plans to do about the scourge of illegal immigration. I have no patience for his patriotic preening, posturing, and pontificating on the “war on terrorism” while ignoring terrorism of a different sort on our own soil.
Besides, it would be really embarrassing to get thrown out of the place by Secret Service goons for heckling the president. I can see the headlines:
Blogger Barber Bounced For Booing Bush’s Unabashed Support of Open Borders
(Image courtesy of Arizona Border Watch)
Update: Four Iraqi’s trying to sneak into the U.S. via the southern border are stopped.
Actually, this is one area where I think Bush’s preening about compassionate conservatism has lead him to a reasonable political policy.
He shows appropriate regard for the aspirations of the overwhelming majority of illegal immigrants who “do jobs most [unemployed] Americans would not [condescend] to do.” That’s why he proposes issuing them work permits to integrate them into the workforce (and society) on a more humane basis.
He also recognises the need for greater border control. That’s why he has proposed extending the Tancredo fence further along the Mexican border and flying drones above it to increase surveillance. More border patrol guards would be great. Perhaps some of the unemployed Americans complaining about losing their jobs will sign up for duty.
I take exception to many of Bush’s policies. But on immigration, I think he has it just right. I don’t think Mexicans and other Latinos (illegal) immigrants can be blamed for Ford, GM and other corporate downsizing and outsourcing of American jobs.
Comment by anthony — 01.30.06 @ 8:26 am
Watch out for McCain/Kennedy. They are apparently going to propose a “fine” of $2000 for illegals before they can get a pass to work in this country. Can you imagine this??? Pay $2000 and run to the hospitals as fast as you can to get free medical care; then quick, enroll your kids in school and sign up for free lunch, free everything; then on to the drivers license bureau to get your ID; oh…sign up for low income everything…heating bills…what have I forgotten? Maybe low income housing…oh my brain is swimming with the possibilities..
Comment by dianne — 01.30.06 @ 9:01 am
LaShawn, Terry Anderson (www.theterryandersonshow.com), Tom Tancredo and others are coming to Washington next week. I’m assuming you are going to show up for the Patriot protest in Washington?
Comment by bucktowndusty — 01.30.06 @ 9:18 am
Haven’t heard a thing about it, bucktown, unless the e-mail is buried in my inbox. Will you be there?
Comment by La Shawn — 01.30.06 @ 9:22 am
La Shawn, the good folks of Texas, who normally support GWB, are pretty well *pissed off* at this open border crap…
Give em hell La Shawn, we’ll go your bail…
Comment by TexasFred — 01.30.06 @ 9:29 am
this line did it:
Having to pick up and discard Muslim prayer rugs and literature strafed about the place. [BTW . . . when did so many Catholic Mexicans convert to Islam? I didn’t get that brief. Would you explain that to me?]
i lost my breakfast from laughing over that one….:)
Comment by Renee — 01.30.06 @ 9:32 am
This is interesting because I was just reading about how back in the days of unionized industrial work in the midwest, blacks were being passed over for jobs for the exact opposite reason that they were in this case. Unions had effectively usurped the power to hire or fire in midwestern factories and plants, and in many cases, kept jobs with “protected” wages for white workers and kept black workers at bay, or at least under control. The main reason is because black workers would work for less.
Now its Hispanic workers being preferred over black workers because they work for less, and with few if any expectations as employees.
I suppose that if the government is going to confer upon itself the power to decide who can and cannot hold which jobs (by giving unions so much power, like through the Labor Relations Act and the Wagner Act) while simultaneously ignoring the torrent of desperate Mexican labor who flout our laws and cross the borders with impunity, then I simply cannot be mad at these folks for taking these people to the cleaners with the EEOC.
I would much rather that
1)the Labor market be free without the strangling power of the unions controlling the hiring and wages and
2)the Fed doing its job and keeping out criminal illegal aliens, who cross the border in complete defiance of our laws and customs.
What a sick situation this is.
Comment by American Zealot — 01.30.06 @ 9:35 am
U.S. Nabs Mexican Official Accused of Helping Immigrants Cross Border
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,183168,00.html
Comment by Renee — 01.30.06 @ 10:20 am
LaShawn,
here’s info on the event. Perhaps you can post a blurb about it. I plan on attending.
http://ccir.net/RALLIES/060208-MMP-DC_.html
Comment by bucktowndusty — 01.30.06 @ 10:40 am
I would saying that excuse that they take jobs that “Americans” or according to Fox -Black Americans (because of course we are the bottom of the barrel)-won’t take is ridiculous. The only thing that us lowly (or Black) Americans won’t go for is not having a living wage or benefits and being treated like dirt. Companies don’t hire illegal aliens because there is a lack of Americans willing to work the jobs, they do it because they can have dirt cheap, undocumented labor and don’t have to treat their employees humanely.
Comment by Zakia — 01.30.06 @ 10:44 am
Well said Zakia…….
Comment by tjack — 01.30.06 @ 10:54 am
Thanks for posting on this issue, LaShawn. One thing that I want to take the opportunity to emphasize are that “Latinos” and/or “Hispanics” are NOT a race. They are an ethnic group, historically Caucasian, but today, multiracial like the United States. I am hispanic/latin, and I’m about as white-looking as you can get!
Comment by Theresa — 01.30.06 @ 11:50 am
I don’t understand the pro-illegal immigration people.
Since they obviously oppose enforcement of our immigration laws, why don’t they just work to repeal those laws, rather than doing everything they can to subvert the rule of law.
If the pro-illegal immigration people are permitted to decide which laws thay should obey and which they can ignore, why can’t I do the same. There are lots of lws I don’t like, but I obey them because I believe in the rule of law. Obviously, many of our top lawmakers hypocritically do not.
Comment by D.C. Russell — 01.30.06 @ 11:54 am
Some very good points about the broken down border problem. Excellent.
Comment by RepJ — 01.30.06 @ 1:12 pm
Mine has better aliteration. Check it out:
“Blogger Barber Bounced For Booing Bush’s Blatant Backing of Bare Borders”
And to quote Gordon Sumway, “HAH!”
[And to those who take the above the wrong way, I wrote that in jest. ;-)]
Comment by Carl — 01.30.06 @ 1:24 pm
Ohhh…my terrible typing fingers…
Sumway should have been typed as Shumway.
Comment by Carl — 01.30.06 @ 1:26 pm
A fence or a wall will not keep people out. That is a giant waste of money and effort. The same goes for putting all the illegals in jail, just imagine how fast the jails would be filled.(where would the real criminals be jailed) The only way to stop them is to remove the financial incentive for them to cross the border.
While you people are screaming about a fence or wall on the border, American corporations are cashing in on the Illegals money transfer business. The only way to stop crime and people from profiting from the massive influx of illegals is to expose the people who are profiting from it not a fence.
Comment by Clayton Bigsby — 01.30.06 @ 2:48 pm
Build a fence…
#17 A properly build and guarded fence or a wall would keep people out. WTF are you thinking?
The money transfer corporations are doing something legal.
Some of people profiting from illegal immigration are the illegals - I believe they will still come regardless of Western Union raking 5% of the top of their money transfers.
Clayton, instinctively attacking only the “oppressive white capitalistic Christian corporate Satan” isn’t the only answer for illegal immigration.
How about we build and guard a fence on the border WHILE we pass legislation cracking down of firms that hire illegals? Would you go for that?
Comment by Evan — 01.30.06 @ 4:03 pm
To those who oppose ridding the country of illegal immigrants…
I politely suggest that you live amongst them as I did for 6 years. Among the special treats I was able to enjoy:
Picking up soiled diapers off the sidewalk after one of our “new citizens” changed their baby’s diaper and left the dirty one in front of my doorstep.
Speaking of doorstep, I thoroughly enjoyed hosing vomit off of my steps after one of my neighbors passed out in the planter next to my front door and threw up all over my front steps.
In the same vein of dealing with drunks, I had a delightful Saturday afternoon boxing match with two drunks who decided to mug me and steal my hamburger as I was walking home to my apartment. The only solace was that they were so drunk they could not fight and I was able to keep the burger (a deluxe without onions… mmmmm!)
Oh, and let’s not forget the chickens. Our Central American friends love their poultry. They keep the birds in the front yard. So every morning, just before sun up, the rooster serenade began. Think of all the $$ I saved on alarm clocks!
And if anyone is curious, this was in Los Angeles. (Upon graduation from college I promptly moved.)
Anyone wonder why?
(and before some genius wonders why it took 6 years to graduate college, that covers both under grad and graduate school.)
Comment by Trudger — 01.30.06 @ 4:16 pm
Clayton, Do you have a door on your house? How about windows? Do you have locks on them? Hate to break it to you, but doors and windows, as well as all of your walls qualify as a border to keep “stuff” out. You’re for border barriers alright - just your own.
If a border wall isn’t necessary, let me know, and I’ll refer a good handy man to come remove all of yours. See how fast dust, rain, and theifs figure out the flaw in your logic.
Comment by bucktowndusty — 01.30.06 @ 4:21 pm
The problem is that there is a large economic disparity between the US and Mexico (anyone know what the statistics are for illegal Canadians entering the US?) and relative ease of entry. This results in depressed wages for the “lowest” jobs. But, I don’t see this movement going very far. Companies are very happy to hire illegals. The same goes for H1bs. If an employee causes a problem–you don’t have to deal with them. For an H1b, just fire them and they have to leave the country. For an illegal–report them. Not much worry of lawsuits over wrongful termination…Throw in the bonus of cheaper labor in the case of the illegals and I would imagine companies would be quite happy with the current situation in which they don’t have to worry about “wage inflation”…Maybe I’m just being cynical…
Comment by resigned — 01.30.06 @ 5:12 pm
#18
Why don’t you proofread your posts before you submit them. Your grammar is dreadful!
Comment by Evan — 01.30.06 @ 5:41 pm
Evan, it’s a result of our wonderful education system.
Comment by Carl — 01.30.06 @ 6:04 pm
So after we waste the money on the fence, what do we do when they start using the Pacific Ocean? By the way a small number of Illegals are already doing this.
Evan, do you have any idea how much money is transfered south of the border on a weekly basis? The amount is staggering, that would be why all the American Banks are bending over backwards to upgrade their wire transfer business units. Also, it is the same reason WalMart is getting into the money transfer business.
So, as long as their is a financial incentive to illegally cross the border they will find a way to get in. Last I checked their are more way to enter the country and a wall only stops a few of them.
Also, Evan you are okay with Corporation profiting and creating business for Illegal immigrants here in America?
Comment by Clayton Bigsby — 01.30.06 @ 7:03 pm
La Shawn,
Great post on ILLEGAL alien border crossings.
You did a great analysis and you said it eloquently.
ILLEGAL Mexicans, ILLEGAL Muslims, ILLEGAL anarchists, ILLEGAL dopers and other ILLEGAL criminal felons are not just threatening Blacks Americans but our entire civilization. I have relatives all over the country and they say the same story holds true in and near every metropolitan area, ILLEGALS abound and continue their ILLEGAL or subversive activities.
As you have said, it is not a single race issue — it is an American issue and if Bush, RINOs and MOD-Cons don’t realize it and hasten to close the borders quickly and tightly, Our America will be overwhelmed by the double talking, lying libs come next election. Libs worship at the altar of ILLEGAL aliens and court the vote of all criminal elements.
If I bet, I’d wager that Bush, in the State of the Union Speech, will not recommend sealing the borders to ILLEGAL aliens but will continue to recommend some sort of sieve-like “worker” program which is tantamount to “amnesty.”
THIS IS NOT SATISFACTORY. Bush needs to wake up!!
Comment by ExPreacherMan — 01.30.06 @ 8:05 pm
Some people benefit by having workers enslaved by the fear of disclosure.
Comment by Walter E. Wallis — 01.30.06 @ 8:14 pm
La Shawn,
I feel ya about the illegal/criminality issue. However, if our folk are being passed over for someone whose native language is other than English, I wonder what else is at issue. Sometimes we are too reticent about introspection.
Comment by Craig Bardo — 01.30.06 @ 10:36 pm
Evan, I don’t bother to proofread for perfect grammer because this is a blog. I’m more concerned with content. When I publish in a professional journal (Nature, Phys. Rev. Lett., etc.), it’s another issue.
Chill ;>
Comment by resigned — 01.30.06 @ 11:17 pm
STATE OF THE UNION: DO-IT-YOURSELF
Lorie Byrd posts her list of things she wants to hear President Bush address tonight. La Shawn Barber has one thing on her mind: Illegal immigration. Agreed. In addition to a strong defense of our sovereignty against the rash of…
Trackback by Michelle Malkin — 01.31.06 @ 9:49 am
LaShawn and Michelle want Bush to address illegal immigration.
Pingback by Myopic Zeal — 01.31.06 @ 11:18 am
Enforce the law. We must be ready for a few deaths, wounded people, but we must do it because the alternative leaves good, law abiding citizens exposed to this lawlessness.
Comment by Chief RZ — 01.31.06 @ 11:23 am
Clayton, I’m sure we can agree illegal immigration is a problem that has many facets and will require many approaches to solve. I would assigning a portion of the blame to our government not enforcing laws that would punish business for hiring illegals. I would start there instead of embarking on a campaign to instill self control in corporate America. But that is what is so great about capitalism, clearly the pure market is blind to gender and race (to exploit OR benefit). The law needs to be enforced - that is the bottom line with the corporate side of this issue IMO.
Would you not agree that Southern border enforcement has been and still is lax? This is another part of the problem. Bolster the existing construction and increase personnel & technology. Which leads me to my next point…
The Mexican government is so weak and corrupt that at any time we could see a Chavez type Socialist revolt. Are you really comfortable with one border patrol officer per mile of Mexico turned Cuba?
The Mexican government through it’s long history of incompetence has created permanent poverty, crime and fostered hate and contempt for the US in much of its population. And it continues to do so. Therefore I blame the Mexican government for much of this and the solution here is for our government to ratchet up the pressure to at least stop official Mexican undermining of our border control efforts - Like officially coming out AGAINST a border wall.
Comment by Evan — 01.31.06 @ 2:19 pm
I’m looking at online predictions and not finding any evidence of Bush even mentioning immigration in tonight’s SoTU speech.
If Bush is weak and squishy on immigration during his time in the spotlight - mark my words - Tim Kaine presenting the Dems response, will jump on the issue hard and attempt to outflank the GOP.
Comment by Evan — 01.31.06 @ 2:32 pm
Well, many of the things posted here regarding illegals and both the need to get and keep most of them out are pretty good.
A wall is not the final answer. We are not going to build as comprehensive a wall (or have machine gunners with orders to execute anybody crossing) as the Berlin Wall, and that was not an absolute barrier.
A wall, and not a fence, is a really decent start, especially if the will to perform other measures to control this problem accompanies the wall construction. It also has the benefit of inhibiting drugs, Islamic munitions, and other contraband (such as Freon and nonFDA approved medications).
The cheep labor argument needs to be refuted with the hidden costs. Welfare, health care, schooling, crime, jails, etc. Costs that are paid by the US taxpayer. Probably the law needs to issue fines at some multiple of the probable costs savings by having hired illegals (plus enforcement and legal expenses). Allow local authorities to enforce and collect those fines to cover local expenses incurred because of the illegals. Make hiring illegals not cost effective for those areas willing to enforce the law.
The whole H2b thing is another can of crap, for another time.
Comment by Jhn1 — 01.31.06 @ 3:25 pm
I have to disagree with your assessment of the Mexican government. They are not as weak or corrupt on the point of illegal immigration as you may think. They are profiting off this trade. Here is a simple example why they turn a blind eye to the border. For every dollar that get wired back across the border that helps their economy. So, if you were President of Mexico and you knew for a fact several billions dollars of hard American currency would be pumped into your nations economy yearly why would you stop illegal immigration? But then that begs a bigger question why is our President letting billions of dollars escape our economy? A wall does not solve the problem it is only a band-aid on a bullet wound. You have to remove the biggest reason they are crossing the border FOLLOW THE MONEY and stop the money!!! Then and only then can you tighten the border.
Comment by Clayton Bigsby — 01.31.06 @ 3:30 pm
Thank you, LaShawn, for helping us hold the pols accountable for their failures. Let us remind everyone that Conservatives oppose only the “illegal” part of “illegal immigration.” We really need to drop “immigration” from the calculus, as no one opposes legal immigration - it’s what founded the United States.
Comment by 0.357Justice — 01.31.06 @ 4:21 pm
make the government track the export of money as part of the “balance of trade” and have the figures broken out for ease of public understanding.
Comment by Jhn1 — 01.31.06 @ 4:27 pm
A big amen to all those who protest the lack of outcry from black leaders regarding the complete lawlessness involved in the pursuit and persecution of illegal immigrants. I am a 64 yr old white conservative male who is willing to work for so called below average wages but when I try to apply I get that look like why? Well guess what? I need the money and I have the time plus a sterling work record.
Keep up the good work Lashawn. I enjoy your blog very much.
Comment by HANK LANTING — 01.31.06 @ 6:25 pm
Clayton asks, “But then that begs a bigger question why is our President letting billions of dollars escape our economy?
This is not new. It isn’t just this President. It has been this President and this Congress and past presidents and past Congresses.
Unfortunately this is an 80% issue. We as Americans want something done about it but our representatives do nothing about it. There are 10 ways to tackle it and all of the ways have merit whether you want to ridicule them or not or question whether we want any other of the 10 items done or not.
The question for you is… Why (when this country allows more legal immigrants than all other countries combined) must this country allow “illegal” immigration as well? My opinion… We can and should do many things about it including the Prop 187 measure that we passed in CA but Gray Davis smacked down unilaterally. There are plenty of options and most of them should be looked at and enacted.
Comment by Baklava — 01.31.06 @ 6:34 pm