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27 Mar 2006 02:01:09 PM |
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Illegal Aliens: Just Mobbing the Streets Americans Won't Mob |
Illegal Aliens: Just Mobbing the Streets Americans Won't Mob
by Mac Johnson
Posted Mar 27, 2006
To the astonishment and delight of the news media, Saturday saw an
unprecedented protest by an estimated 500,000 illegal aliens and their
advocates in Los Angeles. Smaller rallies were held in cities across
the country, opposing efforts to secure the border and finally crack
down on illegal entry into America by millions of unscreened
foreigners. Apparently, the protests prove what a "divisive" issue
illegal immigration is. To me, they simply prove that criminals dislike
the prospect of increased law enforcement.
But that's not all the protests prove. They also prove how
ridiculously out of control our federal government has let the problem
get. Which is worse -- that a half million immigration criminals and
their descendants and sympathizers can be found in a single American
city, or that the current immigration enforcement system is such a joke
that the half million have nothing to fear from openly entering the
public streets and arguing against legislation currently before
Congress?
It's as if thieves thought they could form a union to lobby for fewer
cops.
Sadly, many in Congress will actually consider their demands. You know,
just like Mexico would consider the wishes of any American criminals in
their country for profit.
But mostly the throngs showed how poorly we are assimilating the
unprecedented numbers of migrants we have received in this generation.
The need to limit immigration to numbers that can be properly
assimilated has always been one of the main arguments against
tolerating illegal immigration, and this weekend's
pro-illegal-immigration protests did much, ironically, to support that
argument.
Many of the symptoms of failure to assimilate were obvious. The
colossal crowd, allegedly gathered to tout their pursuit of the
"American Dream", held signs in Spanish, waved mostly Mexican
flags, and chanted "Mexico! Mexico!" and "Si se puede!" (Yes we
can!). Which is, it seems, an answer to the formerly rhetorical
question, "Can the whole world sneak into America?" There was also
the predictable invocation of race and ethnicity that is supposed to
obligate American Hispanics to side with the illegal aliens, at least
in the nationalistic eyes of the illegals themselves.
But there was a subtler symptom of how unassimilated the protesters
were: the quintessentially foreign form of the protest itself.
Due to its size, the protest shocked the American media. A wave of
500,000 people pouring through Los Angeles is one of the largest
protests in the history of the whole country. Thus, the protests have
been reported as an extraordinary reaction to events in American
politics. But they are not extraordinary at all. They are just the
typical way that governments are influenced in many Latin American
nations.
What the protests truly represent is the colonization of America by the
Latin style of politics. Rally, demonstration, march and protest are
the tools of the politically dispossessed. They carry with them the
intrinsic threat that is always associated with the gathering of large
crowds in acts of political demonstration. And they are standard fair
in the lopsided politics of many foreign nations, including Mexico.
Consider the following recent examples, all from the BBC World service
coverage of Mexico:
April 24, 2005: "Hundreds of thousands of people have marched through
Mexico City in support of the capital's embattled mayor..."
September 13, 2001: "Union leaders in Mexico say they expect
thousands of people to take to the streets on Thursday in protest at
plans to impose taxes on some foods and medicines."
March 17, 2006: "Most of the demonstrations in Mexico City remained
peaceful, however, with the violence blamed on a small number of
radical youths."
March 19, 1999: "Tens of thousands of demonstrators brought the
centre of Mexico City to a standstill on Thursday in a protest against
government economic policies."
June 28, 2004: "Mexican President Vicente Fox has said his government
has failed to defeat violent crime, after a protest in Mexico City by
over 250,000 people."
November 28, 2003: "Tens of thousands of people have marched through
Mexico City to protest against energy and tax reforms..."
January 31, 2003: "Thousands of farmers gathered in the Mexican
capital to demand their government renegotiate a regional trade
pact..."
August 28, 1999: "Thousands of demonstrators have taken part in a
march in Mexico City to protest against government plans to allow
private investment in the state-owned electric power industry."
Viewed in this light, one can see that the protests are not unusual at
all -- for a Latin American nation. And it is an unassimilated colony
of Latin America that twenty years of corrupt government inaction on
illegal immigration has built in Los Angeles and Phoenix and Chicago
and Houston and dozens of other cities and towns across America, both
large and small.
For demographic reasons, the examples I gave above were drawn
exclusively from Mexico, but similar patterns of political protest as
the default means of lobbying government can be found in Venezuela,
Peru, Uruguay, and other Latin American nations. They are standard
fare, and institutionalized in the culture of the region.
In the United States, we write letters to the editor and vote and
debate. In the Latin world, people march and rally and muster their
numbers before the eyes of government.
What we saw this weekend was not extraordinary. It is the new normal.
It is the predictable and unimpeded flow of the political culture of
Latin America into the United States.
And unless we address the gaping hole in our border, enforce our laws,
deport illegal entrants, and again assimilate legitimate immigrants
into our unique culture, you can count on the United States becoming
more Latin American, and less American, every day.
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50% of California's prison population are illegal aliens. 18% of
federal prison population are illegal aliens (US DOJ figures)
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| Title: Re: Illegal Aliens: Just Mobbing the Streets Americans Won't Mob |
27 Mar 2006 12:14:25 PM |
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"666" <son0fam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1143489669.121077.137910@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Illegal Aliens: Just Mobbing the Streets Americans Won't Mob
by Mac Johnson
Posted Mar 27, 2006
<snip>
So, you agree with the writer that all of those 500,000+ were illegal
aliens?
If you do maybe you'll understand why the Hispanic citizens were there too.
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| User: "Jim E" |
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27 Mar 2006 06:37:03 PM |
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"Gnostic Archon" <xzzazzz@no.mo.bush.net> wrote in message
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"666" <son0fam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1143489669.121077.137910@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Illegal Aliens: Just Mobbing the Streets Americans Won't Mob
by Mac Johnson
Posted Mar 27, 2006
<snip>
So, you agree with the writer that all of those 500,000+ were illegal
aliens?
If you do maybe you'll understand why the Hispanic citizens were there
too.
Putting a $100 bounty on illegals would clean this mess up quickly.
Jim E
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| User: "Gnostic Archon" |
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27 Mar 2006 10:21:25 PM |
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"Jim E" <YD653126@sea.edu> wrote in message
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"Gnostic Archon" <xzzazzz@no.mo.bush.net> wrote in message
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"666" <son0fam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1143489669.121077.137910@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Illegal Aliens: Just Mobbing the Streets Americans Won't Mob
by Mac Johnson
Posted Mar 27, 2006
<snip>
So, you agree with the writer that all of those 500,000+ were illegal
aliens?
If you do maybe you'll understand why the Hispanic citizens were there
too.
Putting a $100 bounty on illegals would clean this mess up quickly.
Jim E
Do America a favor and go to a Hispanic barrio with a megaphone and yammer
your crackpot ***** at the inhabitants.
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| User: "Sheldon Levine The Machine" |
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| Title: Re: Illegal Aliens: Just Mobbing the Streets Americans Won't Mob |
27 Mar 2006 11:53:34 PM |
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So, you agree with the writer that all of those 500,000+ were illegal
aliens?
If you do maybe you'll understand why the Hispanic citizens were there too.
There are 10,000,000 Latinos in Los Angeles. 500,000 illegals is certainly a
low estimate. The MAJORITY of those 10,000,000 came here illegally.
Why do you support crime in your adopted homeland?
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