The Dallas Morning News has named their Texan of the Year:
The Illegal Immigrant
He is at the heart of a great culture war in Texas – and the nation, credited with bringing us prosperity and blamed for abusing our resources. How should we deal with this stranger among us?
Not just any illegal alien but THE illegal alien. I wonder why, given the Elvira saga and the millions of illegal alien females, the DMN decided that the Texan of the Year was a male? Interesting.
Historians say that the distinctly American democratic and middle-class ideals grew out of a specific cultural tradition – the Anglo-Protestant. Changed slowly over time by immigrants from the world over, it’s now challenged by a strong competing culture.
If critics are correct, we could be seeing the advent of the kind of fractiousness that bedevils public life in Canada and other nations where peoples who speak different languages, and come from different cultural backgrounds, live together only with mutual suspicion and unease.
On the other hand, perhaps the alarmists are wrong. Maybe these ambitious, hard-working immigrants, whatever their documentation, will write the next great chapter of a story that’s still deeply American, though with a different accent. If the optimists are right, much work remains to be done to incorporate all immigrants fully into new cultural traditions.
The alarmists are not wrong. We are already seeing the type of fractious society described above. It is only going to get worse if we do not continue to enforce current laws, enact new employer sanctions such as those in Arizona and put boots on the border.
The article is actually fairly indepth and a good read, although it never identifies who THE illegal alien is. I’m not certain, but I think THE illegal alien is in this picture:
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Maybe the print version has a mirror sticker like Time’s person of the year.
I think one of them is trying to find his little pee pee and the other thinks we’re number one.
Is that one with the washed out jeans and dirty Green shirt showing us what he thinks of American laws ?
They could all care less !
“Hello Mik, this is Paddy, bring the wagon down here we’ve got company.”
Oh, that’s so racist [hear the lsispth?], Pat & Mike should put me in the wagon too.
These are a good example of what I stand across from on Saturdays. My group aren’t as nicely dressed. I can’t even read the article. All I have to say is ” Oh Brother!”
I just decided. Do not be racist. Let the one who is holding his lunch in his hand, enjoy it ! Chow down !
Sorry to be a spoil sport, but for some reason it seems we are putting so much interest on the Illegals from the south, that we are overlooking the R***eads sneeking up on ws to “Kill us” Lets get some priority’s
WB
Excuse me Willie, but people are also being killed by illegals. Illegal drunk drivers, illegal gang members, etc. Illegals affect our way of life. Terrorists do too, but terrorists aren’t changing our culture.
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These guys look like the ones I stand across from on Saturdays. Except these guys are dressed a little nicer. I can’t read the article…. Blah.
#5
right on
fwiw, Here’s Ron Paul’s latest TV ad on immigration.
The photo looks like the guys I saw in Hooters (Houston) tonight, only the guys in the photo are more clean-cut.
eweuuuu! I’m so over it.
Bite me, Fred.
ugh
and I’m not talking about the guy running for President,
blech!
The gent in the picture is just showing you what the Delusional law-breaking Dunce-n-Jefe really thinks of our laws and Americans.
After all, Delusional Dunce Bushnandez has been giving America and it’s citizens the finger for the last 7 years. I’m sure the guy in the picture crafted the Dunce’s immigration policy.
When the Islamofascists take over through the ineptness of our congresscritters and the White House, the illegals might wish they had stayed in Mexico. How does one say dhimmi in Spanish?
If you’re trying to pick out which of these candidates you want to date your daughter, I’d tell you to pass on the one that looks like he’s got himself a really bad case of the itches.
That picture needs one of my “Top Ten” list of captions. Here, try these:
1) “Yeah, this is where my brains are located!!”
“Yeah, this is my IQ!!”
2) This is the thanks we give you for letting us into your country.
3) See, you don’t have to be a citizen of the US to get First Amendment rights!!
4) Now, don’t you want to hire me!!
5) Let’s see you “PC” this!!
6) You think our country is screwed up, wait until we get through with yours.
7) We’ll work for “beans”!!
9) You think we’re bad, there are worse coming.
10) We’re in line to register to vote for the Dimwits.
I hope you like these!!
#12 bob42
That’s one of the best ads out of the official campaign yet. Definitely an issue I agree 100% with.
# 12 bob42
And Ron Paul isn’t a relative newcomer to the issue like most of the others.
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indigena or native
You thought U.S. was racist? Go to Mejico!
#7 - “we are overlooking the R***eads sneaking up on us to “Kill us” Lets get some priority’s”
What planet are you speaking of? Just exactly which SAME border do you suppose is the primary illegal entry point for the sheet hedz you speak of? (no charge for correcting your spelling - and you’re welcome to correct mahn anytime)
#10 - AW darlin BLESS your Saturday efforts! - we’re still waiting to hear the outcome of the ’swerver’
cMON Hal - cough it UP!
I need to apologize for the double post. I thought Hal ate my first remarks, so tried to reword it a bit and send again.
I wish the Dallas news people could come with me for a bit. Wonder if they would change their socialist minds?
AW, the newsies don’t want to know. Bless you and your compatriots for your vigilance. It made the TV news again last night.
Clarification, the newsies don’t want to know more than the surface– oh those poor people and how mean we are trying to keep them out. Can tell that from how much they slant things and how much face time the illegals get vs. US citizens.
I’m glad the pitt bull wasn’t there this time. We always have two or three men working security. All are armed and have two-way radios. One of the men who works the site is CHL instructor.
If anyone approaches me, one of the guys is always right there.
I’m more scared of the pitt bull.
Michelle Malkin has a picture of Dani Countryman at her site. A 15 year old Texas beauty who was murdered by two illegals.
Every Dani should be the paper’s person of the year.
Here is the link
http://michellemalkin.com/
Gee foks, today the DMN has its spread on the illegal as Texan of the Year the same day as the Chron has its pictorial spread “Crossing the Borderline” in the star section. Coincidence? Maybe the Tooth Fairy suggested it to both papers.
Anyhow, the focus on illegals takes up 2.5 pages; border watchers have 2/3 of a page; nd the remaining 1/3 page is Neutral Ground, aka Sanctuary. Guess they ran out of paper and couldn’t give equal space?
Corrrection and
Here is what Mexico is doing to help Border Patrol agents in the San Diego area.
The Border Patrol’s top official in San Diego,
Mike Fisher, said his agents are taking action because Mexican authorities have been slow to respond. When an attack happens, he said, American authorities often wait hours for them to come, and help usually never arrives
DMN
All the Propaganda that’s fit to Print and honorary graduates of The Joseph Goebbels School of Journalism.
From Merriam-Webster
Propaganda: ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one’s cause or to damage an opposing cause.
What should we expect when the leader of this nation spews the same crap.
Texas needs to get with the program.
Bill would deny ‘anchor baby’ birth certificates
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/105485
The architect of Arizona’s new employer sanctions law, which takes effect Tuesday, is crafting a series of new measures aimed at those who enter the country illegally.
Rep. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, said he is introducing measures this session to:
– expand the state crime of trespassing to cover anyone in this country without authorization.
– require proof of legal presence in this country to register a vehicle or get a vehicle title.
– deny workers’ compensation benefits to undocumented workers injured on the job.
– bar local communities from having policies that prohibit police officers from checking the immigration status of those they encounter.
Pearce also has some “cleanup’’ language for the sanctions bill. He said the current wording might allow employers who pay workers cash “under the table’’ to escape the potential loss of license that applies under the new law to anyone else who knowingly hires an undocumented worker.
But the most controversial — and legally questionable — part of Pearce’s package would deny regular birth certificates to babies born in Arizona unless at least one parent proves citizenship.
We have a president from Texas and a Governor with his leash tied to the president. Won’t happen until we get mad enough they have to.
I can only hope that the DMN”s nomination of law-breaking, non-citizen illegal aliens as ‘Texan of the Year’ results in thousands of real Texans cancellation of their Propagandist rag.
I got the email on the guy who tried to run us over Saturday. He was cuffed and hauled off.
Please, can we all agree to protect the artists who are blessing us with their creativity? Long live the undocumented artist!
http://justgolden.blogspot.com/2006/05/undocumented-artist.html
Are we going to base our views regarding I.A. simply by this photo? Most of the crime committed in the U.S. is done so because we (Americans)have an insatiable appetite for drugs. We account for 5% of the worlds population, yet consume over 50% of ALL drugs produced; legal and otherwise. Before we blame the illegals for our social problems, look in the mirror first. America is a great market to sell drugs!!
The illegals sell drugs, bring in the drugs, make money off the drugs. Blame the illegals.
So, they’re giving us the finger?
Somehow they seem to think that this sort of behavour will change our minds and make us want to like them. This nasty and utterly aggressive stance will only cause most Americans to harden in opposition to them and it also causes a general dislike and distrust of All of them. It makes one wonder who are the idiots who tell them that this is the way change our hearts and minds. I used to not think twice wether or not a waiter or a bus person was an Illegal when going to for an example a restaurant. Now I tend to stay away from or not return to a place where it is obvious that the people which they employ are Illegal. It unfairly hurts the people who are Legal and who really want to just do a good job and earn money for their families. The good people get lumped in with the bad. How are we supposed to tell the difference?
The upside to all this is, that it will cause the dismissal of many a polititian at the next election, we will finally clean house. There is hope that with new leaders we will return our country to it’s former greatness.
41 - American “Indian?” Woman
Are you saying that the purchasers of illegal drugs have no part in our country’s epidemic?
Birds of a feather flock together.
If you were to ask me where to go in order to purchase illegal drugs, I would have no clue where to begin.