Right on cue, as the illegal immigrant amnesty bill failed to get the required support for passage in the Senate, the MSM is here to tell us mean spirited LEGAL Americans how "hard" it is on all those poor, innocent ILLEGAL migrants who break the law to come here by the millions. Yes, folks, women and children hardest hit, as the old saw goes. Of course, it is nearly ignored by the MSM that these people are not just "innocents" but are here knowingly breaking our laws and then blaming us when they find life a bit uncomfortable -- and a bit uncomfortable is all they are facing it should be remembered.
Three quick reports are indicative of how the MSM is making the average, legal American out to be an evil, racist, selfish creep by urging their elected officials to think of their own constituents before they think of undeserving foreign invaders.
First up is Reuters with a hyperbole laced, "Hopes dashed for many immigrant workers", with that hyperbole continuing with a subtitle that cries, "Millions had hoped passage of immigration bill would lead to normal lives."
Someone should remind Reuters that these people are not just "immigrant workers", but law breakers.
Reuters seems to think that the "searing heat" of a "sun-baked parking lot" is reason enough to make law breakers legal citizens as they mention the "heat" a few day laborers experience half a dozen times in their piece. If heat of "107 degrees in the shade" is all there is to citizenship, then we should just open the doors to the citizens of any tropical country, eh?
Of course, Reuters attempts to make the reader believe that these illegals pay taxes and get nothing in return because they aren't legal citizens. But the Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector easily disabuses us of that misconception because most of these people are low skilled workers. "Low-skill immigrants receive, on average, three dollars in government benefits for each dollar of taxes paid. This imbalance generates a net cost of $89 billion per year on U.S. taxpayers. Over a lifetime the typical low-skill immigrant household costs taxpayers $1.2 million dollars." Paying taxes or no, they are a net cost, not a benefit to the US.
The Reuters report is so full of whining it is hard to keep a straight face while reading the thing.
Next up is an ABC 7 TV (WJLA, Wash. D.C.) report on how Mexican nationals are "chiding" Americans over the failure of this amnesty bill in a report titled, "Mexicans Chide U.S. Over Immigration."
Starting off with a bald faced falsity, the report goes on to scold Americans for "hurting" Mexicans with US immigration laws.
Opinion makers and migrant advocates in Mexico said Friday that the collapse of U.S. immigration reform plans hurts Mexican workers, U.S. employers and anti-terrorism efforts. President Bush's plan to legalize as many as 12 million unlawful immigrants from around the world while fortifying the border collapsed in the U.S. Senate on Thursday. "This is very bad news for Mexican migrants in the U.S.," said Jorge Bustamante, special rapporteur to the U.N. human rights commission for migrants. "It means the continuation and probably a worsening of the migrants' vulnerable conditions."
Here is a way to safeguard those supposedly worsening "migrants' vulnerable conditions": STAY HOME. If you don't come here illegally, you won't have to hide from authorities and leave yourself open for such exploitation. But following the law, apparently, just isn't a consideration for the MSM.
In any case, American laws are NOT made to benefit foreigners.
My last example is a Kalamazoo Gazette article that absurdly claims that suddenly these illegals are "living in fear." With a headline that screams "Immigrants still living in fear", the Gazette regales us with how mean we are to expect people to abide by the law. This report also goes for the heart strings with the anchor baby problem of some local Michigan law breakers.
They broke immigration law a decade ago when they crossed the Mexican border and could be deported if found out. Their three daughters are citizens because they were born in America.
The Gazette gives us a pity party for their illegal subject who complains that, "I live very fearfully, watch everything I do, all out of fear of being deported.''
Why it is that we are supposed to feel sorry for these lawbreakers is not explained, but it is universally taken for granted by these pitiful MSM reports that we should.
In any case, these kinds of stories are filling the wires and papers all across the country proving that the MSM is four square in the corner of the open borders, anti-Constitution, pro-exploitation of illegals side of the argument.
Laws are meaningless to these people it is painfully obvious. And it is us, rather than the lawbreakers, who are being expected to alter their lifestyles, and bend the rules. And the MSM leads at the head of the lawbreakers.
(Also see Pam Meister's NewsBusters entry on the Reuters Piece)
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MSM
June 30, 2007 - 00:20 ET by Jerry MackThe MSM believes that their purpose is to tell us how to think and what is right and wrong.
The photo says it all.A cit
June 30, 2007 - 01:16 ET by Mean Gene Dr. LoveThe photo says it all.
A citizen of the United States (or anyone that hopes to become a citizen) should never...and I mean NEVER put any flag above the Stars and Stripes. The insolence of these people that think they have a right to citizenship (because of some idiotic assumption that mere residence is 9/10ths of the law) that when they don't get what they want they hang our nation's flag upside down and beneath the flag of Mexico. These illegal aliens are obviously never planning on integrating into our society or swearing true allegiance to the United States. If the Mexican flag is suitable to fly above the United States flag to them, then maybe they need to return to Mexico and remain there, because to them Mexico is obviously better than the U.S., so what are they doing here? Nice way to convince Americans think that you deserve citizenship.
This doesn't make me sick...it gets my blood boiling.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." --Thomas Jefferson
The upside-down thing is al
June 30, 2007 - 01:21 ET by sarcasmoThe upside-down thing is also against flag etiquette. Of course, burning 'em "respectfully" (however that's defined...) is pro flag etiquette, and I doubt all that many folks know that little factoid, either.
JMR
I am well aware of the burn
June 30, 2007 - 01:30 ET by Mean Gene Dr. LoveI am well aware of the burning a soiled, damaged, or retired flag in a dignified and respectful manner. I also know that hanging the flag upside-down is a distress signal, but I am sure it was done in this case as a defiant and disrespectful act.
Of course I didn't learn those things in public school. I learned it from my father (Vietnam era vet...he manned Pershing Missiles pointed at the USSR), my grandfathers (WWII vets) in Cub Scouts, in Boy Scouts, and in the military. When I'm around, no one gets away with disrespecting our flag without me having words with them...too many people have sweat, bled, and died for what Old Glory represents for me to stand by and not say anything.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." --Thomas Jefferson
I am all in favor of rounding
June 30, 2007 - 01:17 ET by Atomic CrusaderI am all in favor of rounding up every last illegal alien in our country, giving them jail time and then deporting them. They are criminals and thieves who steal from every working tax paying citizen, every last man woman and child who is not here legally. Period. Anarchy at the US border must be stopped immediately.
The control George Soros an
June 30, 2007 - 01:45 ET by BondPlainBondThe control George Soros and his minions have over the MSM is evident with this latest MSM regurgitation of the same old song. The voice of the American people is heard loud and clear above the self-interests of the politicians (confidentially on Soros' payroll?) and the American people must be beaten down into submission by the MSM; hour-after-hour, day-after-day, week-after-week, relentlessly - until capitulation is achieved on a grand scale. In other matters, they're damn close to achieving success. But not in this one.
George Soros Quotes
"My goal is to become the conscience of the world.”
“I do not accept the rules imposed by others. If I did, I would not be alive today. I am a law-abiding citizen, but I recognize that there are regimes that need to be opposed rather than accepted. And in periods of regime change, the normal rules don’t apply. One needs to adjust one’s behavior to the changing circumstances.”
"I have always harboured an exaggerated view of my self-importance – to put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god."
“If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me into trouble. But when I had made my way in the world, I wanted to indulge my fantasies to the extent that I could afford.”
“It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of God, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.”
"Next to my fantasies about being God, I also have very strong fantasies of being mad. In fact, my grandfather was actually paranoid. I have a lot of madness in my family. So far I have escaped it."
“I don’t think that you can ever overcome anti-Semitism if you behave as a tribe. ... The only way you can overcome it is if you give up the tribalness.”
"I’m also very concerned about my own role because the new anti-Semitism holds that the Jews rule the world. As an unintended consequence of my actions, I also contribute to that image."
“The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.”
“The (global capitalist) system is deeply flawed. As long as capitalism remains triumphant, the pursuit of money overrides all other social considerations.”
“The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.”
"It is necessary to puncture the bubble of American supremacy.”
“The main enemy of the op
June 30, 2007 - 06:48 ET by motherbelt“The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.”
Um, let's see...how did Soros amass his fortune of 8.5 billion dollars? Government redistribution????
From his Wikipedia entry:
"George Soros has made his mark as an enormously successful speculator" (Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker)
Isn't that capitalism?????
"Oh, never mind" (Emily Litella)
Uh-huh. It sure is! But,
June 30, 2007 - 09:06 ET by BondPlainBondUh-huh. It sure is! But, please remember, George Soros has fantasies about being God and of being mad. His grandfather was paranoid. There is a lot of madness, now rightly termed "mental illness", in the Soros family by Soros' own admission, though George believes he has escaped it. I don't believe he has. That may explain his inability to distinguish capitalism from communism.
'Immigrant Worker' my ass.Try
June 30, 2007 - 02:32 ET by Dave R'Immigrant Worker' my ass.
Try illegal criminal invader.
I say fork 'em and feed 'em beans.
If they ever do manage to somehow gain citizenship (and I truly believe they ultimately will) and vote to carve out about fifteen or twenty states from the gut of this country, I hope all the MSM morons sympathetic to their "plight" are forced to move to the invader's newly acquired territory and cover them full-time.
As I define justice as when people get what they deserve, that would pretty much do it for me.
Idiots.
Help Fred Thompson defeat the RINOs along with the Hitllary/Obama axis & win the White House in '08.
imm-a-grants
June 30, 2007 - 14:18 ET by BigDaveDEMNJI'm with you DaveR. Years ago, in NJ, Gov Whitman tried to increase Parkway tolls from .25 to .50. The outcry was tremendous, as they expected. So, everyone settled for .35. Thats whats happening here, and Ted K., GW, and companay all are in on it. The NEXT immigration bill will not be quite as extreme as this one was (it has probably been written for months). The public will be relieved that it is not as bad as the last one, and it will pass.
The point is that it should NEVER pass!! It is BAD!
Any employer caught hiring illegals should be fined SO heavily that NO ONE will even risk hiring illegals. After a few months, they'll go home on their own!!
Dave,I'm with you on putting
June 30, 2007 - 14:36 ET by botgDave,
I'm with you on putting pressure on the companies that hire illegals. The problem I see is how do you show that the company knows the person is in the country illegally? Perhaps follow the false SSI numbers?
Supreme Court, National Security, Borders, Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.
Increase due diligence requir
June 30, 2007 - 14:49 ET by Ten7sIncrease due diligence requirements on companies (and individuals) to the point where if they think they even MIGHT be hiring an Illegal Alien that they damn well research that person to the nth degree. If they don't, hold these employers accountable and fine them so much that they curse the day they were born. It CAN be done. And put out a bounty; giving whistleblowers a tax-free percentage of the fines. This would solve at least half of the problem in short order.
It can be done but must start
June 30, 2007 - 14:58 ET by botgIt can be done but must start with governmental policy being enforced. What of those states that give drivers licenses to all? I linked to a story where a lady registered her dog to vote. What documents are there that can be checked to ensure citizenship or legal ststus?
Supreme Court, National Security, Borders, Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.
Of course, laws have to be e
June 30, 2007 - 15:11 ET by Ten7sOf course, laws have to be enforced...
Make companies and individuals INVESTIGATE anyone that they suspect even MIGHT be an Illegal Alien. For example, to provide evidence of due diligence companies might get sworn affidavits from schools or former employers that the employee is legal. (And if those turn out to be false, fine those institutions and people.)
The flag picture shows how et
June 30, 2007 - 02:32 ET by rbosqueThe flag picture shows how ethnocentric and nationalistic they are. My parents were Mexican and they have no love for them. If the reverse were done in Mexico as it is done here they would riot in the streets. Try even waving an American flag down there see what happens to you let alone flying the Mexican one upside down, you might end up dead. They have no love for foriegners. It's crazy.
Conservative Comanche Indian
June 30, 2007 - 04:43 ET by alamojbConservative Comanche Indian David Yeagley in his blog has this to say. “…The voice of the American people became so loud it silenced both Democrat and Republican liberal/globalists. Perhaps we should be encouraged. Perhaps we should think the voice of the people yet lives in America. It's possibly true.
However, we're still in chaos. Our laws are still not being enforced
…Immigration and Islam, unchecked, will destroy America sovereignty, and thus the nation. America will become an illusions of the past, a romantic dream of yesteryear. Already, it has changed. Already, America is different. The America we all loved, honored, and died for, is no more. America is being taken from Americans, by greed, corruption, and lying politicians.
To all disallusioned Americans, I say, American Indians know how you feel. Let me be the first to welcome you to Indian County! Welcome to the society of Ghost Dancers. Welcome to the past. Welcome to hope in the past. We've been long waiting for you."
Later, as a response to one of the comments somebody left about “…Mexican “Manifest Destiny…”, he says this:
“I should have ended on a more positive note!
Stand up and fight, patriots! Fight to the last man!
This is the Alamo!”
I don’t always agree with everything Yeagley says, sometimes I think he goes to far, he is too hard on the Mexicans at times, but he is right on some of this. (His comments, not shown here, about dealing with Islam would require a constitutional amendment and is not going to happen.) I never leave comments on his web page because this Anglo feels he set it up for Indians, and I wish to respect that, but I do like to go there and check it out on a regular basis.
For my part, I feel Mexican Separatist Groups like MEChA need to be declared terrorist organizations and banned from colleges and high schools that receive public funding. We should not have to finance with tax dollars those who wish to tear this nation apart. What other nation in the world would allow groups like this whose stated goal is the dismemberment of the U.S. to openly operate in their schools?
Previously , Yeagley had this to say to the separatists.
I thought this was interestin
June 30, 2007 - 05:55 ET by well99I thought this was interesting.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19513374/
What's amusing about your lin
June 30, 2007 - 06:03 ET by Warner Todd HustonWhat's amusing about your linked story is that they refuse to mention that it is black crime that is increasing! They dance all around the subject, but never come right out and say it.
You can't use joblessness as an excuse because we have about the lowest unemployment rates in history at this point!
No, it is a failure of black culture in America, NOT immigrants, being "poor" or ANYTHING else. It is cool to be a thug. THAT is the problem in crime rates. Get RID of Rap "music" and the thug culture and get back to education and bettering yourself and you'll see the crime rate in black areas go down.
So now illegal immigrants a
June 30, 2007 - 07:17 ET by motherbeltSo now illegal immigrants are being touted as the solution to crime in the inner cities?
That's really stretching.
Stretching is an understateme
June 30, 2007 - 07:27 ET by Warner Todd HustonStretching is an understatement!
Of course, this story has abs
June 30, 2007 - 09:32 ET by Roger the ShrubberOf course, this story has absolutely nothing to do with ILLEGAL immigration. If anything, it is another indictment of the liberal (not-so) Great Society. A little off-topic, but thx for the reminder why not to vote for a Lady Pantsuit/Magic Obama ticket in 2008.
What gives?
June 30, 2007 - 08:42 ET by goldenthroatWE continue to lose jobs to that country south of us (I refuse to call it by it's name), THEIR people illegally infiltrate into OUR country by violating OUR borders, take jobs away from REAL Americans, fly OUR flag upside down and BELOW THEIR flag at THEIR immigration rallies on OUR land, demand that THEY be put on OUR social security system, want US to provide THEM medical care and welfare benefits, and then morons like WJLA, the K-Zoo Gazette and Reuters want to write about the "woes" of these lawbreakers?
You have got to be kidding! Thank God the immigration bill was shot down in flames!
Never dance on an empty stomach unless it's a liberal.
Thank God the immigration b
June 30, 2007 - 12:48 ET by motherbeltThank God the immigration bill was shot down in flames!
Here's hoping it was shot down not only in flames, but with a silver bullet, and a stake through its heart.
And all the people said...
June 30, 2007 - 14:01 ET by goldenthroatMB,
Amen!
This must be a the major is
June 30, 2007 - 09:00 ET by Jack BauerThis must be a the major issue in the 08 elections, allied to the ever present terrorist threat to mainland America.
Presuming there are now resurgent signs of intelligent political life in the Republican party, this could be a way back from falling off the electoral cliff facing them in 08.
This could be a Reaganizing moment for whoever the Rep nom is for Prez, (hoepfully the Fred Head), to co-opt all those conservative Democrats who are just as mad as the conservative Republicans at being brazenly insulted by the arrogant D.C. politicos.
Real conservative principles win in 08 in a smart, savvy, well-articulated package with mass appeal. This ain't rocket science here, no matter what Specter, Graham, et al think.
Nothing is always better than something if the something stinks. How hard is that to comprehend?
Sarcasm alert:"We have t
June 30, 2007 - 09:13 ET by richflanjSarcasm alert:
"We have to hide out every night. We're always looking over our shoulder, afraid of the police and the Feds. There's a lot of stress being what we are, and all we're trying to do is make a little money and support our families."
-- Al Capone, as interviewed in the New York Times
Those illegal Mexicans are so
June 30, 2007 - 09:14 ET by Mica the MagnificentThose illegal Mexicans are sooo innocent.
They innocently plot to enter America illegally. Then they innocently hire a Coyote to illegally transport them to America.
Then they innocently have babies in this country for the American citizenship that offers. Then they innocently stay here illegally for decades.
Then they innocently demand welfare and hospital services from the U.S. taxpayer.
It would be racist if the American government adopted our Mexican immigration laws. - - - A lib in Mexico expressing his logic
Mica, don't you know they a
June 30, 2007 - 12:51 ET by motherbeltMica, don't you know they are victims??? They find themselves in the country illegally. Now they find themselves being harassed by law enforcement, in danger of losing their jobs, they find themselves having to pay out-of-state tuition for their kids for college, they find their dreams being destroyed.....they are just ambling along and everything happens to them.
Cry me a river.....Booo frigg
June 30, 2007 - 11:29 ET by BEGRUNTCry me a river.....Booo friggin hooo.
It is not the responsibilit
June 30, 2007 - 12:22 ET by happyuscitizenIt is not the responsibility of the American people to shoulder the cost of predominantly Mexico's, Central America's, and South America's failed domestic policy which causes them to flock in dorves over our borders. Illegal behavior should not be rewarded under any circumstances.
I have read bits and pieces in editorials about how harsh for example Mexico's Immigration laws are. Some provisions I have read, but not yet confirmed, suchs as no voting privildeges, ownership of prime real estate is not allowed, in addition to political protests.
So where do these cats get off coming here and demanding rights and rpiviledges when they circumvented the laws giving the proverbial middle finger to America and its people by being here? Its because of the Socialist, Marxist, Communist (pick your poison), type entitlement mentality that has failed and ruined their home countries.
The victimization approach that we a persecuting a class of people is ridiculous. Americans want security and tangible results. According to the US Customs approximately 85,000 people were stopped at the borders last year with flase documents. How many didn't get caught worries me! That is a big problem that needs vigilence, manpower, and competence to curb.
Once the people feel enough has been done in securing the nation and attrition has taken care of those who would never pass muster for legal residency, then concessions will have to be made especially in regards to the children born to illegal aliens and processing of them will have to begin at the back of the line. Then the loophole for citizenship in the 14th Amendment closed to only the children born to those legal aliens whose visas provide for family to accompany them.
This phony pity party is not working on the Americna people at large. Americans are not heartless and are overwhlemingly as a nation compassionate and caring. They do how however get made when their sense of right and wrong gets offended as witnessed by their actions in regards to the death of the sham reform legislation this week.
"I'm just a big fat hairy American Winning Machine!" - Ricky Bobby
I have some friends in law
July 1, 2007 - 19:15 ET by ScottyDogI have some friends in law enforcement BP and they estimate approx 5-10,000 Illegal Aliens come across our Southern Border a day. We are being invaded folks and you people in the South and Eastern cities are just starting to see what it is like out here in California and Arizona.
The only way we are going to stop the invasion from Mexico is to either put the National Guard or the Military on the border.
The longer we wait the worse it is gong to get. We have to demand that our Congress do this pronto.
Oh, and there is not 12 million here try about 40-70 million.The 12 million number was being quoted by this administration 6 years ago.
Is this Mexico or the USA
First secure the border so that the flood is stopped.
June 30, 2007 - 14:40 ET by c5thenThen, give the illegal aliens a choice (choice is good right?):
a) leave the country and apply for an entry visa in your home country.
b) Sign an afidavit stating how long hou have been in this country and agreeing to pay all back taxes that you owe from that time till the present. Once verified, you will be issued a "green card" and allowed to stay provided that you attain citizenship in three years. Failure to pay the back taxes will result in arrest and immediate deportation.
The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic
You know what? Cry me a frigg
June 30, 2007 - 15:12 ET by drillanwrYou know what? Cry me a friggin' river ... No, make that an ocean. My great-grandparents (both sides) came to this country the right way. My Grandmother's Father worked hard, saved up money, had his papers and left Europe to come to the States in order to get a job, work hard to save money while sending some back to Europe to his wife and children, set up a house, send more money for the family to get their papers together and to buy passage over on a ship. During the time Great-Grandpa was here in the States, my Great-Grandmother, Grandmother (a young girl at the time) and her other children lived through WWI on their own in Hungary. During the time Great-Grandpa was here two of his children died in Hungary, and another was nearly killed when their hog decided to attack and dragged the little boy around the yard by the throat. In an unmatched leap of faith my Great-Grandmother took all the money she had left to the church and wept at the feet of the Saint Anthony icon to please please please help her family get out of Hungary and to the States. Within weeks enough money came from my Great-Grandfather for her to buy their passage and to bribe clerks down at the office where they were to get their traveling papers. They ALL were examined to be certain they were not carrying diseases, got their vaccines, and underwent medical screening when they got here. So, I really don't care about people who sneak in here instead of doing it the hard and right way.
Outstanding. Thanks for sha
June 30, 2007 - 15:24 ET by Jack BauerOutstanding. Thanks for sharing your family history. That's what built America.
By the way, did they remain in the Hungarian ghetto, refuse to learn English and only associate with those from the old country?
Lived in Sharon, Pa. Worked
June 30, 2007 - 15:32 ET by drillanwrLived in Sharon, Pa. Worked in mills and on the railroad and in bakeries. Learned English, and paid ALL taxes (not just sales tax ... the big Trojan Horse the pro-alien set uses, `They pay taxes here ...'. Maybe so, when they buy things in the stores.)
My Grandmother and Grandfather (who was also from Hungary with similar family stories) married and had 7 children. ALL spoke English, with the older ones actually knowing Hungarian also. AND my Grandparents had to study for and take a Citizenship test in order to be granted citizenship in this country. Wasn't easy stuff. I saw the text books while going through things with my Grandmother after my Grandfather died.
An Image says more that 1000
June 30, 2007 - 16:31 ET by BAUHAUSAn Image says more that 1000 words.
Jorge Washintonez
Jorge Washintonez crosses the Rio-Grande!