When was the last time a Mexican cut your pension?
From 50 years of our overstocked archives
Sam Smith 2006 - Whenever a new crisis develops in an election year and it's not
nature's or the stock market's fault, the odds are pretty good that it's
not a crisis.
Witness
the sudden discovery of immigrants, a much more comfortable topic for
some than Iraq, global warming, globalization, or runaway corporate
greed.
The
debate, however, has its bizarre aspects. For example, the Texas
Rangers, who should know, list their last serious concerns with Mexican
terrorists as occurring nearly 100 years ago when "when authorities in
McAllen, Texas, arrest Basilio Ramos, Jr. Ramos is carrying a copy of
the Plan of San Diego, a revolutionary manifesto supposedly written and
signed at the South Texas town of San Diego. It calls for the formation
of a 'Liberating Army of Races and Peoples,' of Mexican Americans,
African Americans, and Japanese, to 'free' the states of Texas, New
Mexico, Arizona, California, and Colorado from United States. Versions
of the plan call for the murder of all white citizens over 16 years of
age. The goal is an independent republic, which might later seek
annexation to Mexico.' Since then things have been pretty quiet,
although some guerrilla from another continent did considerable damage
in 2001 by using the border crossing technique known as "buying airline
tickets."
But
it's not really about terrorism. It's about finding a scapegoat for
America's increasing problems. What America's white elite is doing is
just what its southern branch did under segregation: teach non-elite
whites to blame their problems on a minority. It worked well then and it
seems to be working now.
But those wishing to test the extent of the immigrant problem might want to conduct this quick test:
1. Has a Mexican ever fired or laid you off?
2.
Was the plant you worked for until it was sent overseas been bought by
Mexicans or is it still owned by the same people you used to work for?
3. Has a Mexican ever cut your pension or health benefits? Outsourced your job to India?
4.
How much does Latin America contribute to global warming and its
results - such as bigger hurricanes and more tornadoes - compared with
the United States?
5. Was Enron run by Mexicans?
6. Are Mexicans responsible for NSA's spying you?
7. Do you think Mexicans or the pharmaceutical corporations are more responsible for high drug costs?
8. How much of the corruption in Washington has been instigated by the Mexicans?
9. Did the Mexicans' make us invade Iraq?
10. Are the Mexicans responsible for George Bush being so dumb?
Chances are most your answers will be in the negative which is a clue
to stop spending so much time worrying about immigration and turn your
attention to something else.
2 comments:
The benefits of technology are not being shared, and that is breaking this country. Sharing the benefits of technology would bring an overwhelming flood of immigration that would simply bury us. Immigration must be shut down now, during hard times, when it is not in crisis, because that is when it is still possible to stop it. It has been done before, in the 20th century, to halt the flow of Italian immigrants. The many Italians here were assimilated, and now many Americans of Italian extraction are emigrating to Italy because Italy has a higher standard of living than the U. S..
Brilliant piece... Capt. America forgets that Mexican families have had roots in these territories for centuries and that separating families should be prohibited. Nationalism inevitably leads to fascism. We must undo the nation-state altogether...
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