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  1. Tejano on April 12th, 2006 at 10:00 am

    This looks alot like the Liberal media on Iraq! Only showing the negative, selecting a few individuals or incidents over the positive!

    A bit hypocritical dont you think?

  2. Sonia E. Alaniz on April 12th, 2006 at 10:01 am

    I sure wish you had not posted these pics. BP just shot up. The gall of ‘these’ people is outrageous. My vocabulary is not sufficient to say what I want to say without making a fool of myself by using ’sailor’ terminology.

  3. SimpleSimon on April 12th, 2006 at 10:45 am

    This is an old problem. I am not some fanatical patriot, but I do not like to see the American Flag desecrated in any manner. i.e.

    1. Rocky Balboa’s boxing trunks in any of the Rocky movies.

    2. Goofy “Stars and Stripes” hats at political conventitions.

    3. Flying tattered and ragged American Flags at the local “Pickle-Parks”, Car Dealerships, and the worst location is one of those window clips that were so popular after 911.

    4. The list goes on. Am I wrong-headed on this issue?

    I like to consider myself the voice of moderation on most issues, but this one gets my goat.

    Simple

  4. Robert on April 12th, 2006 at 10:48 am

    Thank you for the opportunity to express myself against those who are here ILLEGALLY and who think they deserve the rights guranteed to them under the Constitution of the CITIZENS of this country. Here is my “Top Ten” list of captions for this picture:

    1) Yeah!!! I’m here for all the freebies. So what!!!

    2) I demand what is not legally mine!!!

    3) I’m here to reclaim this country for Mexico.

    4) This country gags me but at least everything is free. That’s more than I can say for Mexico.

    5) I’m here illegally but I can still register to vote Democrat, right!!!

    6) This is a holdup, give me a US citizenship!!

    7) I hope my father Vicente doesn’t recognize me.

    8) Sorry, my Mexican flag was at the cleaners!!

    9) I’ve got nothing to hide. The INS has got nothing on me.

    10) Other then me being ILLEGAL, what else bothers you about me.

    I hope you all enjoy these.

    Priority One: CLOSE THE BORDERS!!!!!! Enough is enough!!!!!!!

  5. buddy on April 12th, 2006 at 11:19 am

    #1 Tejano
    This just makes it “Fair and Balanced.”

    #2 Sonia
    Same with my BP. I just e-mailed most of the pics on those sites to all my friends and acquaintances to keep this issue alive and at the forefront. I was born and raised in Houston and have seen the changes.

    #3 SS
    I agree. The flag is the flag and not some novelty item. Other than a lapel pin or something as dignified, just fly it or wave it.

  6. Tejano on April 12th, 2006 at 11:19 am

    #4. What makes you believe he is illegal? You see this is the problem with stereotyping! Fact is many of the protestors were U.S. Citizens!!!

  7. Tejano on April 12th, 2006 at 11:21 am

    #5. Ah but not when its the Liberal Media, right?
    Only when it suits you… LMAO I call that hypocrisy!

  8. buddy on April 12th, 2006 at 11:37 am

    I don’t really care to get into a pi$$ing contest about this, but show me both sides. The MSM can’t seem to do that. And I visit/blog/listen to sites that are in line with my way of thinking. I suggest you do the same.

  9. Tejano on April 12th, 2006 at 11:44 am

    LMAO @ buddy! Hypocrisy at it’s best!
    You cant complain about something and then turn around and do it yourself! That makes you a hypocrite!

  10. Eric Johnson on April 12th, 2006 at 11:48 am

    Tejano

    I wonder what feelings of outrage would happen if its John Wayne and its an Mexican flag around his face

    BTW I have nephews of Latino origin

  11. Eric Johnson on April 12th, 2006 at 11:50 am
  12. Tejano on April 12th, 2006 at 11:51 am

    I dont see why that cause outrage?

    Congratulations on your nephews but be careful, such a claim may get you banned! j/k

  13. neocon on April 12th, 2006 at 11:53 am

    Tejano,

    Click on the links in that article read some of the signs these latinos are holding. Then come back here and say it is perfectly okay for these people to say stuff like “f*&k the law.” Don’t blame Americans for defending ourselves from this type of crap! Take up for these criminals all you want, it will change no one’s mind on this blog. LOL AND LMAO all you want, we do not consider this a laughing matter.

  14. Tejano on April 12th, 2006 at 11:56 am

    13. So then you must agree that per the pictures of Abu Ghraib all soldiers torture Iraqi’s? I don’t believe the actions of a few dictate the beliefs of many! Look at the pictures, they are kids, ignorant kids at that. That is the reason why we must play this carefully so we dont lose them to the Socialist Communist Left! I know I will never change anyones mind on here!

  15. FedUpCracker on April 12th, 2006 at 11:58 am

    These thugs need a history lesson. We fought for, and won this land, fair & square. We even paid Mexico $15Million for the land we took. That was allot of money back in the 1800’s. They do not know what they are doing.

  16. Eric Johnson on April 12th, 2006 at 12:02 pm

    Tejano

    there were 7 soldiers (BTW convicted) these were a two mile long wave of lawbreakers

    NOT an isolated instance

    Now my nephews - because of the inflamed rhectoric - could be at risk. Thanks for the help in calming things down

    blessed are the peacemakers

    What are you trying to accomplish? what goals are you setting -

  17. Tejano on April 12th, 2006 at 12:03 pm

    15.They are ignorant misled kids! But not all Latino youths think the way these morons do! The majority love and appreciate this country and land! There is just a small amount of liberal hippies!

  18. Tejano on April 12th, 2006 at 12:09 pm

    #16. A two mile long wave of Law breakers? Even though there were citizens in that group?

    I am trying to get my fellow Republicans to understand the other side of this issue! So we dont lose that voting block that will be crucial in the next elections!

  19. Robert on April 12th, 2006 at 12:23 pm

    Tejano,

    Unless its cold or dusty out there, then my assumption is that he has something to hide. You say there are US citizens out in the crowd, does that mean they condone the breaking of the immigration laws by these illegals. Do they not believe in the abiding to the laws of the country that they are citizens of or is it mob rule dictates their demands be meet. Those US citizens got here the LEGAL way but it’s okay for others to do it ILLEGALLY!!! How about if I broke into your house and demanded you provide free services to me, would you consider me an illegal entrant????

  20. Eric Johnson on April 12th, 2006 at 12:23 pm

    Citizens that support the advocy of breaking the law are law breakers

  21. Tejano on April 12th, 2006 at 12:26 pm

    19&20

    You guys just dont get it! I have made my points, you look the other way! I did my part!

  22. buddy on April 12th, 2006 at 12:52 pm

    #21
    No, you don’t get it. I see things a little differently than most. I’m a high school teacher. I see the waste and bureaucracy up front and personal every day. I know how many of my students and all attending this school get free breakfasts and lunches on my tax money. I know the number of unwed latino students we are supporting. I know how many latino babies are kept for free in the school nursery. This district provides them and their babies’ free transportation. Picks them up at their front doors and drops them off at their front doors on my tax money. They never start school on time in August because they are in Mexico. They are constantly absent on Mondays and Fridays because they are going/coming to/from Mexico. We can’t hold their absenteeism’s against their grading. They are bankrupting our schools and all other public services. And don’t even start telling me I’m a hypocrite. Why don’t you volunteer to pay my e-x-o-r-b-i-t-a-n-t property taxes.

  23. fasternu426 on April 12th, 2006 at 1:01 pm

    21
    The point is, they are breaking our law. They flaunt their illegal status and are led by racist groups, LaRaza “The Race”…. You post here that it is FUNNY to you and you laugh. Not too many of us think it is funny…. Thousands of ILLEGAL ALIENS, with those that support them, taking to the streets waving the types of anti-American signs they wave. No sympathy from me. America is for Americans… Be a guest, Join us, or go away….

    http://www.homestead.com/prosites-prs/che002.gif

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/088txjtt.asp

    NO FOOTHOLD FOR LAWBREAKERS….

  24. Tejano on April 12th, 2006 at 1:17 pm

    #22. Sad to see that as a teacher you just failed at reading comprehension! Try and reread again why I mentioned the word hypocrite! Then come back and talk about it!

  25. Tejano on April 12th, 2006 at 1:20 pm

    LA RAZA “The People”

    And again showing more negativity! Lol Please next time the media calls a U.S. soldier a murderer, rapist, torturer, etc. Keep you mouth shut for it is exactly what you are doing now!

  26. Robert on April 12th, 2006 at 1:23 pm

    Tejano,

    You still haven’t answered my question: Am I an “illegal” entrant if I break into your house and demand free services???

  27. Matt "Zilla" Bramanti on April 12th, 2006 at 1:26 pm

    Come on, Tejano. La Raza is “the Race.” And as the name suggests, it’s a separatist/supremacist organization.

    If you want to say “the people,” you use gente.

  28. fasternu426 on April 12th, 2006 at 1:34 pm

    Yeah, genius, it is negativity. Our laws are being violated and flaunted. Not much positive spin to put on that….. LaRacist….

    “Keep you mouth shut for it is exactly what you are doing now!”

    What are you trying to say? Maybe the reading comprehension is not the problem, but the writing. Buddy, you are a teacher, maybe Tejano needs some help… Or maybe it’s just because I’m a Joe Dirt redneck livin in a dubblewide…. heee heee

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  29. ojo chino on April 12th, 2006 at 1:59 pm

    Everyone,

    Remember that A.N.S.W.E.R. is involved in this, that explains the harsh rhetoric on the signs. True, La Raza means “the race” but contextually it is subbed often times for la gente or “the people”. Not that this is implied in the demonstration, just a heads up.

    I kinda think the later demonstrations (sans A.N.S.W.E.R.) have more of “Old Glory” and fewer foreign flags. True, the left was probably still there but they were dismissed, like in Dallas.

    Tejano, I saw some of your posts on the other thread from yesterday. You and Neocon make some good points (although you both seemed to be coming from different directions, you agreed more than you didn’t), would you be interested in discussing it more? I disagree with your sentiments that the damage is done and irreversable, the fight has only begun. I tend to believe that the GOP (despite its flaws) is the best hope for all of us.

    My take is that this is political opportunism by the Dems, more on it later since I have to get back to work. Let’s get our heads together on this one.

  30. buddy on April 12th, 2006 at 2:04 pm

    #24 Tejano
    For the sake of brevity, I included that remark in answer to your previous post that made the accusation. I really thought you would figure that out. This is a blog, not a thesis. But speaking of failure, the latinos have the largest dropout rate and failures of any ethnic group in our school, yet we are forced by law to provide bilingual teachers and every other form of affirmative action.
    But, that aside, you didn’t make any comment about my comment concerning their mooching all the freebies from the schools and the public at the expense of the taxpayers.

  31. Tejano on April 12th, 2006 at 2:29 pm

    #26. The analogy is irrelevant because they are two different scenarios!

  32. Tejano on April 12th, 2006 at 2:30 pm

    #27. It is slang for “The people”!
    I hear people often say they are hanging out with “La Raza” meaning the people, the group, friends, etc.
    You wont find that in a dictionary though!

  33. Tejano on April 12th, 2006 at 2:36 pm

    #29. Ojo Chino!

    You are correct on the use of “La Raza”

    I am interested in further discussion with someone who has an open mind!

  34. Tejano on April 12th, 2006 at 2:39 pm

    #30. Last I checked the school tax was tagged on to property taxes! So anyone living in a house or renting an apartment is paying thier share. Unless they live on the street then you have a point! And most of the homeless are white, not hispanic. Oh wait the illegals took their jobs right? =)

  35. Matt "Zilla" Bramanti on April 12th, 2006 at 2:43 pm

    As a political/social movement, “La Raza” means the race. At least, that’s what el gobierno de Mexico says.

  36. Texan1957 on April 12th, 2006 at 2:49 pm

    American voters need to check out this article. Very Informative about the Illegal Immigration Bill.(Also known as NO ILLEGAL LEFT BEHIND)
    http://levin.nationalreview.com/archives/094419.asp

  37. fasternu426 on April 12th, 2006 at 2:58 pm

    “I am interested in further discussion with someone who has an open mind!”

    Haaaaa.. and if we disagree? We are racist?

    LaRaza IS a racist organization:

    “It is past time for all Americans to know what is at the root of this outrageous behavior, and the extent to which the nation is at risk because of “La Raza” — The Race.”

    ——-snip

    “Behind the respectable front of the National Council of La Raza lies the real agenda of the La Raza movement, the agenda that led to those thousands of illegal immigrants in the streets of American cities, waving Mexican flags, brazenly defying our laws, and demanding concessions.

    Key among the secondary organizations is the radical racist group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA), one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West.”

    —–snip

    “In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the brutal gringo invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlan from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating the determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of our blood is our power, our responsibility, and our inevitable destiny. … Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and not to the foreign Europeans. … We are a bronze people with a bronze culture. Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan. For La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.”

    That closing two-sentence motto is chilling to everyone who values equal rights for all. It says: “For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing.”

    http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=13863

    Just as bad as these guys, only a different shade of evil:
    http://www.law.du.edu/jenkins/images/kkk.gif

  38. neocon on April 12th, 2006 at 3:07 pm

    Talk to me when U.S. citizens can walk over the U.S./Mexican border and not be imprisoned. Talk to me when U.S. citizens can own property or exercise their political differences in Mexico. Talk to me when U.S. citizens can go to Mexico and demand voting rights (in the English language), demand their children be taught in English, demand driver’s license tests be issued in English. Once those things are in place in Mexico, then maybe I’ll consider such rights in the United States. NOT!

    Why is it that you believe the Mexicans and others should have U.S. CITIZEN rights? They are not U.S. CITIZENS and have NO RIGHTS in this Country if they entered it illegally.

  39. buddy on April 12th, 2006 at 3:12 pm

    #34
    Now you’re splitting hairs and dodging the comment. You know what I and everyone else mean when we speak of the taxes wasted on illegals.

  40. neocon on April 12th, 2006 at 3:17 pm

    Fasternu

    Here ‘ya go!

    http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e6/sargevining/SPOTON.jpg

    There is just nothing Tejano can negate. Facts are facts. Once we agree there is a problem, the sooner we can work to solve it. Just denying it is counter-productive. Tejano cannot say that these groups don’t exist. Maybe they are not the majority or maybe they are. Just denying it is burying your head in the sand.

  41. buddy on April 12th, 2006 at 3:23 pm

    And to add to Neocon’s comment, when illegals are given resident status to attend college and LEGAL non-residents AND citizens of the U.S.A. are not, it infuriates me. Can you tell me you agree with this? This is fair and we have no right to be upset? You, sir, are out of your liberal-a$$ed mind.

  42. fasternu426 on April 12th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
  43. Tejano on April 12th, 2006 at 3:32 pm

    #35. No it does not! You are taking it out of context.

  44. Tejano on April 12th, 2006 at 3:37 pm

    #38. Who is arguing about rights and what you can and cant do in Mexico? So now Americans are opressed in Mexico? lol You are now reaching for straws and attempting to taint Mexicans in any way possible! What next?

  45. jrl69 on April 12th, 2006 at 3:37 pm

    I’m of latin decent but I feel illegals should stop breaking our laws to come her and burden or
    tax roles. what little money you make or maybe pay in taxes doesn’t make up for the free benifits you and your childern recieve off our taxes. Go home and come here legaly.

  46. Tejano on April 12th, 2006 at 3:41 pm

    #39. How can they be wasted if they too are paying them? How about wasted on Caucasians living in the streets? Or blacks in New Orleans! If you are going to make accusations at least make them accurate!

  47. Tejano on April 12th, 2006 at 3:44 pm

    #40. neocon

    I have not said those groups dont exist! And I have said over and over that they are a very small minority! Please reread my post!

  48. Tejano on April 12th, 2006 at 3:45 pm

    #41. Last I checked you pay College taxes from your property so you should get local tuition. Otherwise remove that tax from them and then make them pay out of state tuition! Cant have it both ways!

  49. Robert on April 12th, 2006 at 4:05 pm

    Tejano,

    Since you didn’t answer my question, allow me to answer it for you—–YES!!! I would be an ILLEGAL entrant in your house if I broke in and demanded free services from you. And YES, you have the right to have me ARRESTED and REMOVED from your home. You are a citizen of the United States and have certain unalienable rights which cannot be infringed upon. Your taxes paid to maintain those rights and no ILLEGAL person should be able to get benefits that you may or may not be able to provide to your own family.

  50. Tejano on April 12th, 2006 at 4:22 pm

    #49. These people are not breaking into your house! Two completely different scenarios!

  51. fasternu426 on April 12th, 2006 at 4:35 pm

    “How about wasted on Caucasians living in the streets? Or blacks in New Orleans!”

    The difference… that you keep conveniently forgetting or blocking out of your mind is:
    They are citizens, they are ours to take care of. Illegal aliens are lawbreakers who we have no duty to take care of with our taxes… we have no obligation to feed, clothe or educate freeloaders born HERE, much less ILLEGAL aliens.

  52. Sonia E. Alaniz on April 12th, 2006 at 4:38 pm

    Are Tejano, Jaime and Vic related? Rhetoric or talking out both sides of his mouth.
    You like those nice benefits don’t you? You worked hard for them, so why should a polecat from Mexico come here illegally and reap same benefits, while making no contributions, but to become a burden on society.

  53. Sonia E. Alaniz on April 12th, 2006 at 4:54 pm

    Tejano,
    I hope the illegals appreciate you taking up their cause and that you are bringing in ‘obscene profits’ for your time spent dealing with us. I don’t understand what you want and what would make you happy? Infringement on all levels of our society? NOT.

  54. FedUpCracker on April 12th, 2006 at 6:14 pm

    #34-Tejano, the 20 illegals you might stuff into a rent house or apartment, don’t pay a dime of property taxes. Their landlord does.
    The picture of the Mexican rat with the flag over his mouth is typical of the rats that have taken over my neighborhood.
    Fortunately for you, the Republicans want to keep big business happy, by continuing to allow your slave laborers to work for them, and the Democrats think they have 12 million potential voters. They don’t realize that 97% of them are too stupid or lazy to go out and vote.
    Si se puede?? Not without our help !!!

  55. buddy on April 12th, 2006 at 7:20 pm

    Tejano,
    This is my last tidbit with you. You express yourself well, but don’t answer the questions and from my perspective, you have just enough information to be dangerous, and not enough sense to construe the information before you. Good evening.

  56. Tejano on April 13th, 2006 at 8:43 am

    #51. But you are not feeding, or clothing them. They do that on their own. As for school well they are paying into that by property tax! At least they do that! Why not send all the Katrina evacuees to Mexico and let the illegals stay! haha How would Fox like that?

  57. Tejano on April 13th, 2006 at 8:44 am

    #52. No contributions what so ever? Are you sure about that?

  58. Tejano on April 13th, 2006 at 8:47 am

    #54. Too stupid and lazy! Like in the protest? lol It seems to me like the other side is lazy one! Do you agree…

  59. Tejano on April 13th, 2006 at 8:48 am

    #55. I just express what is reality and what i have seen. Simple as that.

  60. Matt "Zilla" Bramanti on April 13th, 2006 at 8:53 am

    Tejano, how do you address the CIS study that found illegal immigrants are a net financial drain?

  61. Sonia E. Alaniz on April 13th, 2006 at 9:04 am

    Tejano, you are JUST AN AGITATOR. Why do we bother to reply to your postings when all you do is spew out both sides of your mouth with verbiage that means NOTHING!

  62. AsseIspeak on April 13th, 2006 at 10:28 am

    The last time I read the US CONSTITUTION two of the amendments was about due process [5th & 14th]; every one has a right to come here and be treated equally. Try jumping in to the head of the line for any thing [tickets to a ball game or welfare\, you may come to body harm! Will there be affirmative action for the estimated 10 to 20 million or more persons of all the countries that did not get an equal chance at the run for the border! Close the borders, at the end of 5 years if the can not or will qualify for citizenship deport them all, that requires them affirming that they want to be and support America.

  63. Tejano on April 13th, 2006 at 10:51 am

    #60. I have not seen the study in detail! But from my personal experience I see it differently! And I know for a fact the Govt. wouldn’t keep them around if it wasn’t convenient for them!

  64. Tejano on April 13th, 2006 at 10:53 am

    #61. Buzz of Benedict Arnold!

  65. Sonia E. Alaniz on April 13th, 2006 at 11:28 am

    #64
    Now you’ve done it! You have labeled ‘a little old lady’ Benedict Arnold?

  66. Tejano on April 13th, 2006 at 11:51 am

    uh huh!

  67. Tejano on April 13th, 2006 at 12:33 pm

    By JOHN GURDA, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
    Posted: April 1, 2006

    I’m sorry I missed it.

    The “Day without Latinos” march took place less than a mile from where I was working in downtown Milwaukee, but it escaped my notice completely.

    Not until the March 23 demonstration was over did I realize that history had been made.

    Whether the event attracted the 30,000 people claimed by its organizers or the 10,000 to 15,000 estimated by local police, it was Milwaukee’s largest protest march in decades. Not since the 1960s have so many people taken to the streets to vent their anger, and rarely have they done it so peacefully.

    I suspect I wasn’t the only Anglo surprised by the scale of the demonstration. There was certainly nothing in the mainstream media to suggest there would be such an impressive turnout.

    But the message obviously reached the Latino community. The resulting protest may have marked the political arrival of one of Milwaukee’s most vibrant and fastest-growing ethnic groups.

    The protesters, many of whom had taken off work for at least a few hours, were marching to dramatize the economic impact of Milwaukee’s Latinos, but they were also voicing their displeasure with recent attempts to stem the flow of illegal immigrants from Mexico.

    They may not have realized it, but the marchers were touching a very old nerve.

    More than one speaker invoked the Declaration of Independence and the Statue of Liberty at the midday rally, arguing that America was abandoning one of her proudest traditions: welcoming newcomers in search of freedom and opportunity. One banner proclaimed, “Immigration is an American experience.”

    Well, yes, but so, unfortunately, is hatred of immigrants. The truth is that Americans of every generation have harbored misgivings about the newcomers in their midst. The targets have changed over the years, but older groups have always shown their newer neighbors the same lack of respect and the outright hostility that many Latinos experience today.

    It began early. In the 1850s, less than a decade after Milwaukee received its charter, the city had a vocal cadre of Know Nothings, a group pledged to preserve “America for Americans.”

    The Daily American made its debut in 1855. “Let us keep down the newly arrived flood of emigration,” urged the newspaper, “until they understand our language and our laws.”

    The nativists were badly outnumbered. Immigrant families, most of them German and Irish, made up roughly 80% of Milwaukee’s population at the time.

    The Know Nothing movement, which controlled six state capitols at its peak, was eventually derailed by Americans who knew better, but nativism remained a dominant theme in the nation’s life. By the late 1800s, the primary sources of immigration had shifted from northern and western Europe to the southern and eastern sections of the continent. Poles, Italians, Greeks, Jews, Hungarians and a host of other groups crossed the ocean to take jobs few others wanted - not unlike the undocumented Mexican workers of today.

    Older Americans, every one of them descended from foreign stock of some sort, grew increasingly hostile to these “new” immigrants. Some viewed them as an economic threat, while others considered them a blight on the body politic - an indigestible species of invaders.

    Nativists pushed a literacy test bill through Congress in 1896, but President Grover Cleveland vetoed it as an unworthy repudiation of American ideals. The anti-immigrant tide continued to rise, fed by the isolationist trend of the World War I era.

    A literacy test finally became law in 1917, and there was much worse to come. A group of pseudoscientists studied the physical characteristics of the “new” immigrants - my ancestors and possibly yours - and pronounced them genetically inferior to the older U.S. stock.

    This frankly racist thinking underpinned a pair of quota laws that Congress passed in 1921 and 1924. Their effect was to end the flow of free immigration from southern and eastern Europe.

    “Give me your tired, your poor,” urged the poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty. “I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” In the 1920s, that door was slammed shut.

    It was the quota laws, ironically, that opened the door to large numbers of Latinos and African-Americans. In the 1920s, as the economy shifted into overdrive, manufacturers in Milwaukee and elsewhere sent labor agents to the American South and into Mexico itself to alleviate a desperate shortage of workers.

    What a difference a decade makes. In the 1930s, as the economy collapsed, hundreds of thousands of Mexican workers were “repatriated” - deported, basically - only to be welcomed again during the World War II emergency.

    Since the 1950s, resistance to border-crossing has stiffened significantly, and today we seem to be returning to the dead old days of literacy tests and “America for Americans.”

    It seems to me that those who want to cut off Mexican immigration, like their counterparts in the 1920s, are ignoring some basic economic realities.

    Undocumented workers aren’t coming north in search of welfare checks or better medical care. What they’re after is jobs, and countless employers are obviously willing to provide them.

    What’s happening in Milwaukee and elsewhere is Economics 101: the enormous demand for workers has created a correspondingly enormous supply. The market has spoken. To think that you can alter its balance by legislative fiat strikes me as the height of fantasy.

    For the European immigrants of the past, no less than the Latino newcomers of today, nothing has come easy in America. Most groups have encountered economic hardship and entrenched hostility at some point in their journeys. But those journeys, for the earlier arrivals, are over. Although they paid a steep cultural price, the United States ultimately kept its promise to them.

    My grandmother, Mary Gurda, grew up in an extraordinarily close-knit Polish neighborhood on Milwaukee’s South Side. When I asked her, late in life, to name an important change she’d experienced since childhood, she said simply, “The Poles don’t feel so downgraded now.”

    May the Latinos in our midst, who are taking the same jobs as our ancestors and often living in the same blocks, one day be able to say the same - and sooner rather than later.

    John Gurda, a Milwaukee historian, writes for the Crossroads section on the first Sunday of each month.
    http://www.jsonline.com/

  68. Robert on April 13th, 2006 at 3:21 pm

    Reply to #50

    Tejano,

    You deliberately didn’t see the analogy—”Breaking in” is “Breaking in” whether it be a country or one’s home. We have an illegal person intruding—-period!!!! And what’s more, they want something for free which we as taxpayers have to pay for. I would rather spend that money on the citizens of the country rather than illegal aliens. We take better care of the illegals than the legals!!!!

  69. Sonia E. Alaniz on April 13th, 2006 at 3:24 pm

    This is an e-mail from a friend near Hebbronville, rancher. He doesn’t write well, but he was our star quarterback, that’s all that mattered then.

    A lot of our farmers, cattle ranches, chicken farmers, pig farmers would be in a lot of trouble if it were not for the illegal Mexican and cheap labor. They just caught 100 people from India and Pakistan coming in from Canada. This operation has been going on for some time. The illegal Mexicans have been coming and going for years, the government don’t have a clue as to how many are here right now. Some clunk head politician says 12 million and then all of a sudden and all of a sudden that is the figure, nothing but bull shit, they don’t have a clue as to how many are here. All they have to do is move 50 to 60 thousand military people along the border with Mexico and hire an extra 10 thousand border patrol, problem solved. The military has all the high tech. equipment. Have the military build several holding houses like the one at gitmo and hold the people for 6 months, they would stop coming because they can not afford to sit on their butts for 6 months. Build holding places from Texas to California. They don’t have to be fancy like most prisons, these people are use to sleeping on the ground and they are not criminals. The government does not want to solve this problem because they do not have the balls, afraid they might offend somebody. I have never seen so many sleazy politicians in my life, a bunch of ass licking sons of bitches. I’m going to take a blood pressure pill and then a nap. If I can solve anymore problems for you just let me know. If I ran my business like the government does, I would have been broke a long time ago.

  70. Tejano on April 13th, 2006 at 3:33 pm

    #68. Wow… you would rather spend it on the freeloaders than on people who actually work! Suit yourself they will get it either way!

  71. Tejano on April 13th, 2006 at 3:41 pm

    #69.”A lot of our farmers, cattle ranches, chicken farmers, pig farmers would be in a lot of trouble if it were not for the illegal Mexican and cheap labor.”

    He is justifying them being here! Saying farmers need the help!

    “They just caught 100 people from India and Pakistan coming in from Canada. This operation has been going on for some time.”

    Yet we are focusing on the wrong border! We are going to get hit again if we are not careful who we go after!

  72. Sonia E. Alaniz on April 13th, 2006 at 3:51 pm

    You don’t get it, do you? I suppose getting hit with Mexicans is better than Pakistan? Somehow I prefer persons from Pakistan. We don’t want more Mexicans. We have enough Mexican restaurants. Not to mention coming in illegally, you bring in disease, because no medical exams are given before swimming.

  73. Tejano on April 13th, 2006 at 4:00 pm

    #72. Wow your statements are full of ignorance! How can you have so much hate for your own people? Do you not understand the danger people from the middle east bring here? This type of thinking or non thinking is very dangerous! Very dangerous!
    No medical exams before swimming! Wow cant get more ignorant than that! I take it that a Pakistani crossing across the border illegaly does get a medical checkup? Do you not know there are hospitals, clinics and doctors in Mexico?

  74. Sonia E. Alaniz on April 13th, 2006 at 4:03 pm

    They are not MY people.
    Have a great afternoon.

  75. FedUpCracker on April 14th, 2006 at 10:22 pm

    #73-Tejano, how about going back down there and using THOSE hospitals, clinics, and doctors, instead of getting treated here, and never paying a dime. At this point, after your “raza’s ” demonstrations, I’ll take Pakistani’s over Mexicans, any day. La Raza doesn’t understand the damage done by showing your ignorance and arrogance on the streets.

  76. Squawkbox Noise on April 16th, 2006 at 9:33 pm

    I have had a long day.

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