Presidential leadership required on immigration

If Congress is going to pass an immigration bill this year, President Bush must take a strong leadership role. To his credit, he began doing so this week. He gave a speech Monday challenging those, primarily from his own party, who are calling for mass deportations. Then Tuesday he met with a bipartisan group of more than a dozen senators. The lawmakers hailed the meeting as a breakthrough that could help the compromise bill — which includes a guest-worker program and a path to citizenship — pass the Senate by the end of May.
The biggest challenge will be reconciling the Senate bill with the House bill, which focuses on border security and would make illegal immigration a felony. That will only happen with presidential leadership.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

74 Comments

  1. Darwin'sDisciple
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 12:14 am | Permalink

    Phillip:”That will only happen with presidential leadership.”

    Which means, Phillip, my friend, that it won’t happen until at least 2009.

  2. Ed Friedemann
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 3:57 am | Permalink

    They seem to know, why don’t we?

    Sweden boycotts air force drills due to Israel’s participation

    http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/710209.html

  3. J M Walker
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 6:22 am | Permalink

    The term, “President” and Leadership” are polar extremes when talking about this administration. Kinda like oil and water.

  4. Ed Friedemann
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 6:43 am | Permalink

    Walker, Sounds like Heaven and Hell to me :-}

  5. raptor
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 7:09 am | Permalink

    His approval rating continues to free fall, which makes it harder all the time to be a leader.

    Consequently, with less leadership, his numbers will continue to fall.

    Seems like GW is in a vortex from which there is no escape. Nope, I don’t feel sorry for him…he brought this on himself.

  6. JWink
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 7:36 am | Permalink

    ATTENTION: Ksfarmgrrl made some very informed comments on the blog slightly below titled, “Liberal, Ks, takes don’t ask (on immigrant workers).” She discusses how the meat packing industry in western Kansas relates to the diminishing water supply out there.

  7. Posted April 27, 2006 at 7:38 am | Permalink

    Bush and Leadership? That’s driving into a brick wall.

  8. Ben Huie
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 8:27 am | Permalink

    Bush has really shot himself in the foot going into this. This is an issue that cries for bi-partisan cooperation; in many ways Bush’s (and Brownback and Tiahrt) position is not all that far from that of many Democrats. However, he has done such an effective job of burning bridges that it may be impossible for him to build this bipartisan coalition.

    This may be a classic example of the result of Broder’s observation. Hastert’s “majority of the majority” can now effectively control Bush.

  9. Ed Friedemann
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 10:21 am | Permalink

    Presidential leadership required on immigration:

    Bush should lead them home and stay there with them, to be sure none return and they him.

  10. RD
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 11:41 am | Permalink

    Presidential Leadership= currently an oxymoron

  11. heartlander
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 2:21 pm | Permalink

    I know some of you agree with some of what I say, and a lot of you disagree with a lot of what I say.

    Raise your hands: Who wants a daily Open Thread, for what you want to say? Post here, and send emails to Phil and Randy.

    “We want daily free-forum blogs.”"We don’t want daily free-forum blogs.”

  12. JWink
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 4:40 pm | Permalink

    Yes, we want daily free-forum blogs … to start in the evening about 8 PM.

  13. Darwin'sDisciple
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 4:44 pm | Permalink

    How about some free beer delivered to my door at about 7:55pm, too.

    Well, actually you could have the guy leave the cereal malt beverages with the paper early in the a.m.

  14. Ben Huie
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 4:51 pm | Permalink

    Good a place as any for this – which would be an open thread topic:

    An idea for River festival entertainment – low cost and bringing it ‘back home’. Have a “Battle of the Bar Bands”. Through the year people vote for their favorites in each genre. Then, at River Festival, the top three in each catagory would be invited to perform. At the end of each evening (one for each catagory) the Best Bands would be crowned, giving them bragging rights for the coming year.

    No big fees to bring in outside groups; I am sure there are a lot of good bands out there who would love to vie for “Best”

  15. Ian Santiago
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 5:32 pm | Permalink

    Politicians who support amnesty and aid, abet and reward illegal immigration are traitors and they deserve to be killed, period.

    Viva La Raza Blanco!!!

  16. heartlander
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 6:27 pm | Permalink

    I once posted that Scandinavians came from the Black Sea, thousands of miles away. I didn’t make this up–this is what I learned in Denmark. Maybe their archeologist-anthropologists are lying.

    Maybe our archeologist-anthoropologists are lying in judging that First Americans came from Asia. Now, some are arguing that some Eastern Indians came from Europe. I have a third-generation Mexican-American brother-in-law. He makes about $70,000 a year. Who’s achieving the American Dream

    “It’s not fair. He works to hard. He’s anti-American.” Of course he is. That’s why he’s a Republican.

  17. justoneman
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 9:22 pm | Permalink

    Tens of thousands of jobs that”nobody” want to do except the illegals. That is what we are told. Right?? Tens of thousands of able bodied folks in overcrowded prisons basically just passing the “time” away. (pun intended) I think I see a solution, if all the fine folks from the south would magically go back home and fix their own country.

  18. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 9:27 pm | Permalink

    My ancestors were here far longer than yours. Even since before your Mayflower, we came in 1492. It is we who brought civility and God’s Church to these lands. Also, prior to the Louisiana Purchase, all lands west of the Mississippi belonged to us. You stole these lands from the native who lived in them and forced them into “reservations” when Jackson was your president. It is God’s Will that we the sons and daughters of God reclaim these lands of north America back from the gringo heretics and apostates. It is fitting don’t you think, that history shall inevitably repeat itself. What goes around comes around.

    Ave Maria

  19. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 9:30 pm | Permalink

    And that is Hen-er-al Santa Ana, pronounced with an “H”, Gringos!

  20. Ian Santiago
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 9:31 pm | Permalink

    Herr General,

    Are you mestizo, indio or Blanco? Talk straight, coconut!

    Viva La Raza Blanco!!!

  21. Sam Houston
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 9:32 pm | Permalink

    That’s right tall talk General.

    I recall we settled this matter once before.You game for a rematch?

  22. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 9:42 pm | Permalink

    Be it 50 or 500 years, it is we the children of La Raza, the people who have been enslaved by the tyranny of Spain in the past, and now presently enslaved under the heretic gringos who shall reclaim the lands you once stole from our people. We shall seize power, and the former glory of Aztlan shall be restored. Nothing can stop us! It shall begin on May Day, we shall boycott the gringo who oppresses us! Paying us unfair, sub-human wages on the basis of our race! We shall hurt them in their wallets, and they shall beg us to work for them again. We shall be slaves no more! La Raza shall reclaim it’s rightful place among the nations!Abante mi amigos!

  23. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 9:55 pm | Permalink

    The only illegal aliens here are the gringo Euro-trash that killed off my people through violence and European diseases! It is they who should be asking US for amnesty!!!

  24. Ian Santiago
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 9:57 pm | Permalink

    La Raza will indeed prevail but it will be the Raza Blanco! Also, I would not throw the term “sub-human” around if I were you! There are millions uf us “gringos”, we are a well armed bunch and our patience is wearing thin, choto.

    Viva La Revolucion Blanco!!Deportacion Total!!!

  25. XXX
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 10:04 pm | Permalink

    Uh, Yeah, Right.

  26. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 10:05 pm | Permalink

    You are a child of La Raza, are you not one of us? Perhaps you are one of those bastard children who is happy to live as a servile dog to his gringo masters. Have you no pride in your heritage, Cubano? I feel nothing but pity for you, hombre.

  27. Ian Santiago
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 10:07 pm | Permalink

    URGENT ALERT: From The Revolutionary Council and>Provisional Government of Aztlan> >April 26, 2006

    > >Estimada Raza de Aztlan and Beyond,> >Our Director of Special Intelligence Services has brought>to our attention disturbing information that threatens the>safety of our families. This information requires that we >prepare a defense strategy to protect our communities.

    > >Due to the recent large demonstrations of our people in>major cities in occupied Anahuac, extremist European >invaders are preparing violent actions against us.

    >They are expected to use physical violence in the upcoming>marches and rallies planned for May 1, 2006 and we must>take steps to protect our families.

    > >The Director of Special Intelligence Services has reliable>information that anti-Mexican forces in Aztlan and in>certain other area of Anahuac, are preparing to utilize>explosives and snipers to kill our people. We urge our>community to arm themselves to protect our families. We>are also urging our soldiers presently serving In Iraq,>Afghanistan and other foreign lands to do everything>possible to return home and fight for your own. The>situation here is critical.

    > >In addition, all political prisoners shall be in constant>alert and ready for action. Also, youth groups in our>barrios shall call truces and direct their energies against>the racist enemy that has vowed to annihilate our families.

    > >Our Prime Minister is instructing every able bodied male to>arm himself to protect the women and children in his home.>We can not depend on local White law enforcement>authorities because in many cases they will join the>criminal elements and participate in the slaughter of our>people. Make sure you have weapons and plenty of>ammunition in your homes at the ready.

    > >Criminal racist elements have already made death threats>against certain “occupation administrators” and they will>not stop at killing our civilians. We hope that the>massacres of Mexicans that the White criminals have vowed>to undertake are just the rantings of cowardly insane minds>but we must take these threats seriously.

    > >Cuauhtli>Minister of Information

    >Nation of Aztlan

  28. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 10:12 pm | Permalink

    I am a proud citizen of Aztlan. You are in my country gringo. I wear my brown beret with the utmost pride!

    Vivas las Chicanos!Vivas las Revoluccion Latino!

  29. Ian Santiago
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 10:16 pm | Permalink

    Were people not whining recently about demorats being “unfairly” portrayed as traitors? hmm…..

    (AP) SACRAMENTO California’s state senators on Thursday endorsed Monday’s boycott of schools, jobs and stores by illegal immigrants and their allies as supporters equated the protest with great social movements in American history.

    By a 24-13 vote that split along party lines, the California Senate approved a resolution that calls the one-day protest the Great American Boycott 2006 and describes it as an attempt to educate Americans “about the tremendous contribution immigrants make on a daily basis to our society and economy.”http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_117193118.html

    Viva La Raza Blanco!!Keep Your Powder Dry!!!!!!

  30. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 10:18 pm | Permalink

    In times of crisis it is necessary to take precautionary measures. At least we are civil enough to use only defensive action much unlike your gringo ancestors.

  31. Ian Santiago
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 10:20 pm | Permalink

    Herr General,

    I ran into brer monkey today and he asked me to give you his warmest regards.

    peace out!

  32. J R
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 10:24 pm | Permalink

    For the record, Sam Houston was a bit of fun on my part.

    “General”? Is it your position to further neglect the criminal corrupt govenment south of the border? What bringing your problems here is gonna solve them at home?

    You “General” are a coward. GO fight the battle you should be fighting.

  33. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 10:25 pm | Permalink

    I must warn you gringo fools that we have infiltrated every sector of your armed forces. We have agents in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. We have agents in the FBI, CIA, State Troopers Highway Patrol, and local police. If you gringos are really foolish enough to be the catalyst of a civil war, rest assured you will pay dearly in lives.

  34. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 10:32 pm | Permalink

    I am fighting the battle. I am fighting for our land that you gringos stole from us!!!

    You should be asking us for amnesty.

  35. steve
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 10:55 pm | Permalink

    Looks like the only thing he’s accomplished is to stir up the mecicans, legal and unlegal alike, and a whole lot of whites/not of mexican heritage.

  36. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 11:15 pm | Permalink

    To my beloved Chicanos & Chicanas,

    Why do many of you take the Anglo as your husbands or your wives? I ask you this; did you forget the brutality with which they killed our people? How they nearly destroyed our proud civilization and culture? Perhaps you forgot how they spread the common cold amongst our ancestors and decimated our populations, herding our forefathers like animals to “reservations”, uprooted and supplanted from THEIR NATIVE LANDS??? It saddens me to see such unions between the Anglo and our brothers and sisters, for they spawn confused children who are bereft of their identity and lose their proud heritage in the successive generations. You are traitors! Your are fools! I declare any Hispanic who copulates with an Anglo is a traitor to their great race!!! Open your eyes, my people! Do you not see how much they hate us!? Do you not see how they try to get their government to denigrate us, humiliate us, and deport us South as if we were cattle!? The Anglo has always been our enemy and the greatest threat to the survival of our civilization and yet here some of you are breeding with them! You copulate with bastards!!! Or did you forget how their ancestors fled across the Atlantic seeking sanctuary from their own countrymen!? They were pitiful! Our ancestors to the East should have never taken pity on them! and look how they repaid our kindness! By committing mass-murder, rape, and pillage! Despoiling our people, and displacing them, banishing them from their homes! Do not think they have changed! Look at “Operation Wetback” in the 50s! Look what they are advocating today! They want to get rid of us again, do not think the gringo are your friends! They will stab you in the back, just like they did to our ancestors. Latino, open your eyes! From the coast of California to Idaho, these were all our fathers lands. They stole it from us! Those they did not kill they herded into reservations like animals. They shall never be forgiven.

  37. Mrage
    Posted April 27, 2006 at 11:48 pm | Permalink

    “I see Mexicans come over here as Sureños,” says Desiree, a 26-year-old Nortenos. “They cause a lot of trouble. They think they can get away with anything ’cause they’re not American. They can just give a fake Social Security Number. Their attitude is if they get deported, they’ll just come back.”

    Sureños say Norteños don’t understand what it’s like to be Mexican, that they’re sellouts. Norteños say the city is being “infested” with immigrants and wannabe Sureños who don’t know what they’re doing.

    It’s people with not enough to do, worrying about it. The goals in America are to be free legally, prosper legally, through education and hard work, create a family, afford the children, cost to raise them and live in neighborhood, peacefully.

    When people want civil unrest or fantasize about some kind of over running America militarily, its a fantasy.

    They create mayhem in our streets, crime to prove some flawed point and fill our jails so working tax payers have to pay for it. Innocents are killed unneccasarily.

    Deportation doesn’t really stop much at all, because they come back is the truth.

    It’s too bad so many desire this country and fail to believe in our flag. There is no giving up this land to any invader, ever.

    You shame good Hispanics who defended our flag with their lives. Shame the children of those defenders of this country and they will join your cause?

    Quit doing drugs and drinking.

  38. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 12:08 am | Permalink

    You really mean: Fighting for the White Man’s Flag don’t you?You mean fighting for the White Man’s Government who did the following to MY people?

    Operation WetbackIn 1949 the Border Patrol seized nearly 280,000 illegal immigrants. By 1953, the numbers had grown to more than 865,000, and the U.S. government felt pressured to do something about the onslaught of immigration. What resulted was Operation Wetback, devised in 1954 under the supervision of new commissioner of the Immigration and Nationalization Service, Gen. Joseph Swing.

    Swing oversaw the Border patrol, and organized state and local officials along with the police. The object of his intense border enforcement were “illegal aliens,” but common practice of Operation Wetback focused on Mexicans in general. The police swarmed through Mexican American barrios throughout the southeastern states. Some Mexicans, fearful of the potential violence of this militarization, fled back south across the border. In 1954, the agents discovered over 1 million illegal immigrants.

    In some cases, illegal immigrants were deported along with their American-born children, who were by law U.S. citizens. The agents used a wide brush in their criteria for interrogating potential aliens. They adopted the practice of stopping “Mexican-looking” citizens on the street and asking for identification. This practice incited and angered many U.S. citizens who were of Mexican American descent. Opponents in both the United States and Mexico complained of “police-state” methods, and Operation Wetback was abandoned.

    PERIOD.

    http://www.pbs.org/kpbs/theborder/history/timeline/20.html

    You still think MY people will fight for YOUR flag after your government pass laws that will uproot them and their families from their homes? You are the one living in a fantasy world, gringo.

    Our time is NOW.

  39. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 12:24 am | Permalink

    How dare you say I shame my people! How do I shame them? By telling them the truth? How many “wetbacks” fought and died for the White Man in his fucking wars? And how does the White Man’s Government repay them? Answer: Operation Wetback. How many “wetbacks” have died and are dying and will continue to die in the White Man’s war on Iraq? How are those “wetbacks” being compensated by the White Man’s Government today? Answer: Possible deportation of their families, coupled with the Gringos verbal-abuse and humiliation and even death threats! So the next time you open your mouth, gringo, you should at least know what the fuck you are talking about.

  40. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 1:02 am | Permalink

    The goals in America are to be free legally, prosper legally, through education and hard work, create a family, afford the children, cost to raise them and live in neighborhood, peacefully.

    I have news for you, gringo. THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT MY PEOPLE WANT WHEN THEY COME HERE!But no! There are “too many” of us now huh? Too many rats, parasites, monkeys, darkies, wetbacks, aka spics! Well excuse me! Mr. High and fucking mighty! I always found the White Man’s Government to be hypocritical and full of shit! Just look at their track record! For instance WWII when Japanese Americans were sent into “internment camps” but GERMAN Americans? Nope! They’re WHITE, so they automatically get the fucking Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card! It’s even more ironic how the “Go for broke” Jap-Americans fought FOR the U.S. while many German-Americans went back to Germany to fight FOR their “Fatherland!” But No! The GERMAN AMERICANS ARE WHITE, so they automatically aren’t a threat to the U.S. during WWII were they!? But you know something, gringo? You’re right about there being an immigration problem here!!! For the past 200 plus years boat-loads of European “illegal aliens” came to my fucking country! First it was those Puritans who sought religious freedom, then it was the Irish during the potato famine, then the Italians, Germans, Poles, and just about every single other kind of Euro-trash illegal immigrant W.O.P’s (With-Out-Papers) and F.O.B’s (Fresh-Off-the-Boat) INVADED MY COUNTRY, and put my people into Reservations!!! Gee, aren’t you glad that my people didn’t put your immigrant ancestors into “Reservations?” You really must be lucky gringo! Lucky that the Anglo Government didn’t threaten to deport your immigrant ancestors’ Euro-trash asses back across the Atlantic!!! All we want is exactly what our Native ancestors wanted… TO BE LEFT ALONE!!! But you fucking gringos are incapable of that aren’t you? Your greed won’t allow you to leave us alone! Look at how you enslave my people, paying them sub-standard wages barely enough to live in a shithole apartment in some fucking ghetto! And when you’ve exploited our labor and when you feel that their are too many of us, you plan to deport us from our ancestral lands!? Deport us from the lands my ancestors hunted, fished, and lived in harmony with since before your White asses were anywhere in the Western Hemisphere? You gringos are the locusts here! Look how fast you’ve multiplied over the span of 200 years!!!

    Just leave us the fuck alone!!! You’ve brought enough grief upon us!!!

  41. Mrage
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 1:18 am | Permalink

    A lot happened to many different people because of racist laws.

    Your historical people suffered like many others.

    But you know what happened, many who had no rights in America still fought proudly in wars overseas because they were defending the ideal of this country.

    It was temporary politics that caused racist laws and flawed people that re-elected those politicians. Believers in America had patience. Still must have patience because this country is young in world history.

    Believers in America is what your fighting against. Regardless of skin color or ethnic background,its Americans your thinking of battling and your group won’t win.

    There is no consensus among Hispanics in the first place. Many Hispanics love this country and will defend its borders.

    Everybody has a story, some past history and still can love this country, the ideal of it.

    There are rules becoming an American citizen, pledging allegiance to our laws and our flag. If your here in our border, believe it or go away.

    There is no changing making illegals, legal overnight. Follow the rules!

    Mass deportation won’t happen, but small groups can be captured. Bus loads. People who are here illegally should want to sign up and go through the process to be an American citizen.

    If they refuse that process, they should be deported. Denied access to state services, schools and education.

    America has to defend its borders because it cost too much with people crashing the borders.

    Its wrong for companies to be underpaying workers because their illegal. Its hurts the pay of other workers. Cheap labor doesn’t mean cheap price for goods on the retail shelf.

  42. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 2:26 am | Permalink

    General coconut,

    I and millions of other do not fear a race war, we welcome it! I look forward to the day when the gloves come off and the bodies of invaders, crminals and traitors are pile like cord wood, so bring it on, choto!

    The Social Contract [2000]by Joseph Fallon

    In today’s Orwellian America, where all groups are equal, but some groups are more equal than others, four radical “Hispanic” organizations — League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), and National Council of La Raza (La Raza) — champion discrimination against non-Hispanics in general and European-Americans in particular.

    In most cases funded by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations and in all cases abetted by the U.S. government, LULAC, MALDEF, MEChA, and La Raza are “politically correct” hate mongers. These four organizations, which form the core of the radical “Hispanic” lobby, have succeeded in having the U.S. government advance their agenda in ten key areas:

    Official identification — legal recognition of “Hispanic” as a separate ethnic category.

    Affirmative Action — legal expansion of affirmative action programs to cover the newly recognized “Hispanic” population.

    Legal immigration — adoption of immigration laws limiting ethnic European immigration while promoting massive Third World immigration in general and massive “Hispanic” immigration in particular.

    Illegal immigration — refusal of Immigration and Naturalization Service to arrest and deport all illegal aliens; granting children born in the United States to illegal aliens U.S. citizenship; providing all other children of illegal aliens free public education; providing illegal aliens free social and welfare services; and granting illegal aliens amnesties enabling them to apply for naturalization, and after obtaining U.S. citizenship, vote, run for elected office, and sponsor additional immigrants.

    Voting — allowing illegal aliens and non-citizens to vote in local, state, and federal elections; Department of Justice obstructing attempts by U.S. citizens to challenge election fraud at the polling booths, and Congressional leaders quashing legislation that would impose stiff penalties for election fraud.

    English language — adoption of government services in languages other than English for voting ballots, welfare, social security, and IRS forms, and drivers’ licenses; elimination of the English language proficiency requirement for U.S. citizenship for certain aliens 50 years old or older; conducting part of the U.S. naturalization ceremony in Spanish; penalizing private companies that require employees to speak English on the job; refusal to enforce laws that established English as the official language of State government; refusal of Congress to pass legislation or a Constitutional amendment recognizing English as the official language of the government of the United States; tacit federal support to those States that declare themselves officially bilingual or multilingual, and tacit federal and State of Texas support to the Texas city of El Cenizo for declaring, itself, officially Spanish only. This tacit support by the federal and State governments extends to the decision by the authorities of El Cenizo to fly the Mexican flag over City Hall.

    Bilingual education — educating students in languages other than English, principally Spanish; denying parents any say in whether their child should be in such classes; threatening legal action against local school boards that teach children in English; denying bilingual education to non-Spanish-speaking Indian immigrants from “Hispanic” countries (i.e., refusing to educate them in their Indian languages and English) and instead teaching them in Spanish; manipulating “bilingual” education to officially promote Spanish as co-equal to English.

    Multiculturalism — promotion of other cultures, especially “Hispanic,” while demonizing, demeaning and eliminating the European-American identity of the United States wherever possible from school curriculum to the names of buildings and streets to the recognition of monuments and holidays. For example, in 1994, San Jose, California spent $500,000 of taxpayers’ money to erect a statue to the Aztec god, Quetzalcoatl, in a public park replacing the previous monument of the Liberty Bell.

    Land claims — introduction of H.R. 505, “Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty Land Claims Act of 1999″ that would enable descendants of Mexican citizens who had been living in what is now the State of New Mexico at the time the land was acquired by the U.S. in 1848 to submit community land grant claims challenging the existing ownership of private and public properties.

    Freedom of speech — refusal of federal, State, and local authorities to arrest and prosecute those “Hispanics” who called for the assassination of California Governor Pete Wilson or made death threats to the sponsors of California Proposition 187 that denied free welfare services to illegal aliens; refusal of federal, State, and local authorities to protect billboards in Los Angeles calling for immigration reform or to arrest and prosecute those “Hispanics” who threatened violence if the billboard was not taken down; the removal by local authorities of billboards in New York City that called for immigration reform in blatant violation of the First Amendment; enactment of “hate crimes” laws which demonize European-Americans then interpreting such laws to cover “hate speech” so as to legally and financially penalize any expression of “politically incorrect” beliefs on immigration, bilingualism, multiculturalism, affirmative action, etc.

    Full articleSource: Social Contracthttp://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=8784

    Viva La Raza Blanco!!!

    —–
    Many Hispanics love this country and will defend its borders.

    I understand. But what doesn’t make sense is why should we love this country when all it seems to be interested in is our labor and military service? That is why the Guest-Worker program is bullshit. Work for five years then go home? For what? So that we can spend U.S. currency in Mexico? Our people are sick of being treated like animals. Our “illegal aliens” are already here, working. Some of them been here for over 5 years already. Whats the point of deporting all of us? just for the sake of us returning again “legally” eventually? Over time, the majority of Mexicans do become Americans. The problem is deportation. We as a people can protest what we believe to be unjust laws and unfair labor practices.

    America has to defend its borders because it cost too much with people crashing the borders.

    And it is well that you should defend your borders. However if it is Islamic extremists you are concerned about then maybe you ought to look to your northern borders, cause thats where the sizeably large Muslim population is, gringo!

    There is no consensus among Hispanics in the first place.

    You are dead wrong on that one, gringo! Come MayDay, we Hispanics together with the Nation of Aztlan will show you just how much of a “consensus” we share!

    Finally, to the White Man’s Dog,It is not our fault that you and your organization are dissatisfied with the White Man’s Government. We do not control them… yet.

    In today’s Orwellian America, where all groups are equal, but some groups are more equal than others…

    In response to this bullshit, I would like you to explain (since Hispanics are “more equal” than others) why Operation Wetback took place, and why there are legislators and Anglo government officials who are presently enacting laws to deport Hispanics? Oh I forgot! White Cubans are so jealous that they arent in danger of being deported! Yeah, we chicanos really have a one-up on you assholes!

  43. J M Walker
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 6:35 am | Permalink

    General Moron.What you are complaining about happened over 50 years ago. Let’s talk about what is happening now: Why are so many Mexicans crossing the border into the US? Because you’re supposedly great country is so riff with crime, scumbag leaders, drugs, and internal strife that they can’t provide its own people with decent jobs, let alone a decent standard of living. Clean up your own country, general. Bring it into the twenty-first century instead of the nineteenth century where it is now.

    Clean your own house, general, before you slam someone else’s. It’s idiots like you that make this country want to deport all the ILLEGAL immigrants in this country.

  44. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 10:19 am | Permalink

    Gringo fuck! Why didn’t YOUR Irish/German/Italian/Polish/Anglo/Albanian ancestors stay in their shithole countries and clean up THEIR OWN FUCKING HOMES before coming to our land seeking a better life!?

    PERIOD!

  45. J M Walker
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 10:41 am | Permalink

    General Brainless,I was born here, not in some other country. Nor do I care what happens in some country my ancestors originated in. I care about this country.

    You, on the other hand, care nothing about this or your supposed homeland. You have no sense of what it takes to be an American, you have no sense of what it takes to be a mexican, you have no sense at all.

    General Santa Ana was born in Mexico. Where were you born? If Mexico, get the F**k out of this country and go back and fix yours. The real General Santa Ana was also a real man. You, on the other hand, are probably some vato with the manhood of a chicken. To name yourself after a real man takes no huevos whatsoever. To be like him takes a real man. You qualify as neither, boy. Go back to Mexico and scare some peasants, puta.

  46. J R
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 11:04 am | Permalink

    Well said Walker.

    Generaissimoron?

    I trust you will be “leading” the “troops” on May 1.

    Just how incredibly stupid can you be? While there is already a plurality of folks that want you and yours shipped south, there is as yet not the will to demand that that happen. There is just enough compassion on the part of some and apathy on the part of others to allow you to continue to enjoy the benefits of this country while you ignore the responsibilities that you have for your own. Why not quit while you are ahead?

    Your not so little street rant on May 1 is probably PROBABLY going to be the most unrest and violence this country has seen since the civil rights riots of the 60’sAnd it will not change minds in the direction of accomodating you. Rather it will make folks of a mind to strongly encourage you to keep marching….SOUTH

  47. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 11:25 am | Permalink

    I was born here, not in some other country. Nor do I care what happens in some country my ancestors originated in.

    The gringos in this country can all be classified as “anchor babies” and should all be deported to Europe! You forget that you are in MY LAND, gringo bastards! You say you are proud of America? Well it is true that America is the greatest country anybody ever stole!

    It was a shame my native ancestors didn’t just deport your asses, deportation is the least of what you invaders deserve!

  48. Julie
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 11:31 am | Permalink

    General,What about those of us of “mixed” heritage. The “Irish/German/Italian/Polish/Anglo/Albanian ancestors” you refer to. Where do we go? If everybody goes “home” then you go to Mexico and I (of North American Native American heritage (Cherokee and Iroquis) stay here.

    buh-bye

  49. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 11:33 am | Permalink

    Your not so little street rant on May 1 is probably PROBABLY going to be the most unrest and violence this country has seen since the civil rights riots of the 60’s

    You are a gringo liar!!! Our protests were vocal, and many attended, but they were all PEACEFUL protests! You see, unlike your gringo parents we MexiCANS know how to exercise restraint! So you can take all your anti-immigration arguments and shove it straight up your lying hypocritical Euro-trash immigrant anchor baby ass!

  50. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 11:39 am | Permalink

    Senora,

    Our people should not be mixing with the Anglo in the first place! They are not our “friends,” they are backstabbers! I pity the confused children of those unions, they should be stopped!

  51. CW
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 11:45 am | Permalink

    Peaceful? Your harsh language and bold tone suggests otherwise. I am not speaking of all involved in the protests, but just you in particular. Unless, you are representative of all participating? If so . . . I think we need to rethink the definition of the word “peaceful.”

  52. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 11:45 am | Permalink

    Gringo,

    We MexiCANS have survived hundreds of years of abuse from the Spanish and have lived in meager poverty in the some of the most inhospitable terrain on this planet. We can handle anything you gringos dish out, I am twice the man you are!

  53. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 11:52 am | Permalink

    Gringo,

    We are a bold people, do you think we will cower in fear while your kind plots the deportation of our families from their ancestral lands? So far all we have done is unite our brothers and organize, that is the purpose of the Nation of Aztlan, gringo. However, we must defend ourselves from the oppressive invaders who wish to commit another mass-genocide of my people. Our solidarity makes us strong, gringo. We are not divided into tribes like our ancestors of old. Do not think that we will be taken captive in our own lands again! Do you hear me, gringo!? Never again!!!

  54. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 12:08 pm | Permalink

    General Banana ana,

    You do not read carefully. That is a common trait among zealots. I was predicting an outcome. I may or may not be wrong. But I cannot be a liar before the fact.

    You and yours are going to be the very force that causes your deportation. You are “hoisting your own petard”—–
    On the contrary, gringo liar, me and mine are going to show the Anglo Government that we can flex our political and economic muscle to achieve our goals! You and yours have been hoisting your own petard for the past 35 years! Like I said before, whether it takes 50 or 500 years, our people shall be the majority. That is an inevitability, gringo liar, that no one can deny.

  55. J R
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 12:13 pm | Permalink

    General?

    Your assertions as to some sort of racial purity are amusing at best.

    As Mexico and the central Americas were invaded by Cortez about 500 years ago, it is highly unlikely that you are “pure” Spanish or “pure” Incan or Mayan or Anasazzi or whatever group it is you are oh so proud of.(I can’t quite tell) No my friend you are most likely some mix of all those things. You are a mutt. Probably in your case the “enemy” is anyone that isn’t you. Best I think you choose a direction to charge before you do so. May I suggest south?

  56. CW
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 12:20 pm | Permalink

    I am not a “Gringo” . . .my people originated in this country (Native American heritage). What I don’t understand is how attacking and holding people of today responsible for actions that were committed before they were even born or thought of yet will accomplish anything? Perspectives and society changes with time and many today feel it would be wrong to deport all Hispanics.

    I wonder . . . if California and Texas and the other states taken away during the Mexican American War were still considered part of Mexico today . . .the land you are “fighting for” right now, would it change the issues in Mexico today that cause immigrants to leave? I seriously doubt it would. Do you see where I am going with this? It is the opportunities available here in the U.S. that drive people to come not the “land.” All of us leaving and you getting the land are not going to solve Mexico’s problems. Fight for equal opportunities . . .fight for current issues . . .the past is the past it can’t be changed.

  57. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 12:20 pm | Permalink

    Gringo Liar,What do I care of race? All I see when I look at your people are oppressors, invaders, rapists, murderers, slave-traders despoilers and supplanters! What I and the Nation of Aztlan decry are your kind’s innumerable crimes and injustices against MY PEOPLE! That is why no self-respecting Hispanic who gives a damn about his or her heritage should EVER take Anglo husbands or wives! I am not so much a racist as a realist, gringo.

  58. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 12:32 pm | Permalink

    We are fighting the gringos today! The purpose of the First of May is to protest the possible legislation of unjust deportation laws that would force our people south just like Operation Wetback in the past! Do you think that the future deportation the Anglo Government proposes to carry out will be a kinder and gentler Operation Wetback!? Open your eyes, my brothers! They will deport Mexican Americans as well as our children! Do not buy the constant lies of the gringo politicos that they are overtly concerned if our people drown in the Rio Grande, or die of thirst in the Mojave Desert!!! They applaud such fatalities and constantly listen for more news of dead Mexican immigrants! I know how the gringo thinks, to them, there is no place for us in America!

  59. General Santa Ana
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 12:33 pm | Permalink

    We are fighting the gringos today! The purpose of the First of May is to protest the possible legislation of unjust deportation laws that would force our people south just like Operation Wetback in the past! Do you think that the future deportation the Anglo Government proposes to carry out will be a kinder and gentler Operation Wetback!? Open your eyes, my brothers! They will deport Mexican Americans as well as our children! Do not buy the constant lies of the gringo politicos that they are overtly concerned if our people drown in the Rio Grande, or die of thirst in the Mojave Desert!!! They applaud such fatalities and constantly listen for more news of dead Mexican immigrants! I know how the gringo thinks, to them, there is no place for us in America!

  60. Ben Huie
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 12:46 pm | Permalink

    “General” – I have to agree wholeheartedly with CW. As one who is largely sympathetic to your cause on immigration ‘reform’ I think that taking any sort of militant stance at this time will be counter-productive.

    By the way, many Mexicans are just as European (Spain) as many “gringos”

  61. gster
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 12:48 pm | Permalink

    PFC Bandana,

    If you replace “Gringo” with “Zionist Bastards” , you’re on your way to Ed Land!

  62. J R
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 12:56 pm | Permalink

    General?

    I think assertions as to genocide are a little extreme.

    I think you are A LOT extreme. You are not doing “your people” any favors here.

    Tell us General; if your people are so “proud” why are they willing to work for wages and in conditions that others avoid? I’d argue you EMBRACE your servitude. Your “masters” are even so kind and benevolent as to give you a day off so you can engage in your little street rant. One day to let you advocate your own enslavement.”Proud” indeed. You bring shame to the word.

  63. RD
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 3:12 pm | Permalink

    My, my, full of rage and racism, aren’t you Heneral? Does that mean Gringo should be pronounced Hringo?

    I’m LMAO off at “boycotting.” Does this mean I can go to the nearby Wal-Mart without seeing any of you? It’ll be heaven!

    Throw racisist comments at me, and I’ll reply in kind. I’m fed up with this bull.

  64. XXX
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 4:40 pm | Permalink

    Santa Ana, you’re a fraud. You’re not a Mexican, you’re a troll. You may fool some, but I don’t buy your cheap crap.If you were a REAL Mexican, you’d know the proper spelling of the General’s name, you silly bitch.

    Bloggers, this piece of crap is pulling your chain.

    Take it from a Texan.

  65. heartlander
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 5:04 pm | Permalink

    First it was Irish immigrants versus Italian immigrants. Then white poor versus freed negros. Then white poor versus Japanese and Chinese immigrants. Then white poor versus black poor. Now white poor versus latino immigrants.

    The capitalist class is laughing all the way to the bank. Here is working class: you just want to provide a roof over your families’ heads, and not starve. The capitalists are playing a totally DIFFERENT GAME: they want to play “human chess” and gain and exercise power for their pleasure.

    They’re playing class warfare chess, and the poor white, black and hispanic workers get to be the pawns.

  66. Posted April 28, 2006 at 5:06 pm | Permalink

    I was always told that we have to live to the full extent of the law. Nobody’s above the law. But I guess that applies only to American Citizens. How do we explain that to our children?

  67. J R
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 5:23 pm | Permalink

    XXX

    The General may or may not be a troll. I engaged him because there ARE those among illegals who think like him.

    Now they want the National Anthem in spanish!!

    We will see these folks Monday. I say have the buses ready so their little demonstration ends with a nice long ride.

  68. Mrage
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 5:39 pm | Permalink

    heartlander,

    It’s also a human chess game at the white collar corporate level. Outsourcing and wanting more immmigrants to come here instead of giving educated Americans a job, just to pay lower salaries.

    Immigrants can rant and protest, its our way of free expression. But someone wanting to overthrow our government and use their flawed cause as some kind of revolution, its the wrong way to desire things in this country.

    Illegals cost society in health care, schools, general prices rising because they aren’t expected citizens.

    Its wrong for capitalism to use illegal labor and underpay them. Its great for executive pocketbooks at expense of society. Streets unbalanced because of the sudden gathering of foreign speaking people. Struggling people without language skills may commit crimes to survive. Using a false identity is a crime.

    I applaud the world has their own langauge and ethnic backgrounds. Everybody shouldn’t be the same. Different colors of skin are great.

    Its the forced immigration thats wrong when America has its soverign rights to restrict who can live in our borders.

    Its business using illegals harming the process. They’ll employ to make profits now, when its long term harm on society.

    Mexico, Central American nations and all the countries on this planet should have basic living conditions for its citizens. Plumbing, shelter that has floors and proper electricty hookups. Education and health care for children born.

    Its too much profit in the fewest pockets at the expense of humanity just living a decent life. The world bank likes to loan foreign countries high interest rate money.

    America won the economic war, but we’re losing the ability to succeed because exports are down and imports are too high. Let other countries build stuff and stop outsourcing jobs. Tax those companies higher using outsourced labor.

    In Mexico, rant and protest, becuase its corrupt government failing its people. Coming here isn’t fixing Mexico. All immigrants coming here isn’t fixing the lands they came from. Get educated, then go home with skills and knowledge to fix those countries!

  69. XXX
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 8:19 pm | Permalink

    JR, I wonder what they’re going to think when they find out the demonstrations are a hoax to get them all together so they don’t have to be rounded up?

  70. J M Walker
    Posted April 28, 2006 at 8:34 pm | Permalink

    XXX,Gotta agree 100% with JR. Plus why are you trying to spoil what has been nothing but fun? general puta was a bit of sunshine on a rainy day. Ya gotta get some repressed anger out of ya once and awhile, and his huevoless just happened to be in the right place at the right time:-)

  71. CrusaderX
    Posted April 29, 2006 at 11:19 am | Permalink

    http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/special_packages/immigration_debate/14458464.htm

    General Wetback,Instead of your racist organization trying to own the country, you should instead be trying to be accepted in the country. You do not own the place, and you are in no position to criticize immigrants since you and yours cross our borders illegally to get here, bitch! You really are a schizophrenic piece of shit! Your first post where you talk about your people “bringing God’s Church to these lands” does not mesh with your latter post of where you claim that your people were “abused by hundreds of years BY THE SPANISH.” Little minds such as yours ought to broaden your communication skills in English before you start posting your incoherent bullshit on an AMERICAN Blog.

    Comprende, Pendejo?

  72. CrusaderX
    Posted April 30, 2006 at 8:28 pm | Permalink

    WOW! These “Viva La Raza” typs are anti-white and anti American. Why would they want to be here then?

    As far as their re-writing of history and “Atzlan”, that was “stolen” or whatever. Here is the story:

    Texas was given to the Texans by the country of Mexico in return for Gen. Maximeillion. If the country of Mexico would have been smart they would just written off ole Max’ for the needs of the people. But that is NOT how Mexico has been run or is being run. The “little guy” has never meeant anything there.

    As for California and the rest, it was purchased for around $15 million. Again, short sited “leaders” in Mexico did not or could not comprehend natural resources. All they could see was desert that could not raise crops. Their loss. Sorry it is HISTORY! GET THE F OVER IT!!!

    IF you think for one moment that just because a few “who pay sales tax on a leaf blower” illegals raise hell make one bit of difference, look around.

    The American public is waking up, just like they did on 9/11, and illegals have to go.

    The real issue and a poor debating point for pro illegal immigrants:

    The real issue:

    “Lobbyists for business will disagree of course, but their claims of doom and gloom are nothing new. Forty years ago, for instance, California tomato farmers said that their industry would cease to exist if the foreign-labor program of the time the Bracero Program were ended. Instead, farmers invested in harvest machinery, causing output to quadruple and the real price of tomato products to fall.

    Fifty years before that, the textile industry predicted disaster if child labor were ended: in fact, at a Senate hearing in 1916, one mill owner said that limiting child labor would “stop my machines”; another said “investors would never receive another dividend”; while a third said that ending child labor would “paralyze the country.”

    America’s economy has done just fine without child labor, and it’ll do just fine without more foreign labor…

    …It’s time to try something new: Attrition through enforcement.”

    From 50 years ago ending child labor. The same arguments are being used to promote “illegal immigration”.

    Very good article here:

    http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0329-21.htm—–
    General Pinhead,

    I will be waiting for you tomorrow near the Capitol building in Topeka. You will recognize me and my compatriots driving the large yellow schoolbuses with the sign: “Mexico Or Bust” painted on the side! We would surely be honored to give you guys a free ride, after all, you should be used to free rides already since you weaseled your way past INS agents huh?

  73. CrusaderX
    Posted April 30, 2006 at 8:31 pm | Permalink

    Dear General,

    Where oh where could you be? Don’t tell me you got deported already!

    HAHAHAHAHA!!!

  74. Posted May 4, 2006 at 11:46 am | Permalink

    PEOPLE FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE SENDING BRICKS TO THEIR CONGRESSMEN..I FOUND THIS WEB PAGE WHERE YOU CAN SEND A BRICK TO YOUR CONGRESSMEN TO LET THEM KNOW THAT: When our borders are secure, only then can we discuss other aspects of the illegal immigration issue..http://www.send-a-brick.com/brick.htm.Like they say, sometimes you have to use a brick to get their attention!!