Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Read:[Aztlannet_News] Immigration Reform: A Congression Myth

Gracias Carlos for the reporting. Great article with some interesting perspectives. It clears up a lot of clouds of confusion about where some people stand or knell. Some stuff we have to take with a grain of salt AND a granule of sugar.

We knew the whole illegal immigration issue would be a 'hot potatoe' for Congress.. or it that 'hot chili'?

Both major parties and their cowardly leadership sicken me. Only a few have stood up for the truth with courage. I want to share this article with others to be read with an objective objective critical eye. ~Peta
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Carlos Pelayo <cgpelayo@hotmail.com> wrote:
by Ken Hughes
Immigration Reform: A Congression Myth
September 06, 2006 10:00 AM EST

Not a single Congressional Democrat or Republican has any intention of doing anything about immigration reform. Any bills in Congress could just as well have a sign hung on them saying, “Election Talking Points Not For Real Use.” Neither party can politically afford to seriously address immigration reform before the November elections where millions of votes are at stake. Politicians have very cleverly ochristrated the issue turning the American public’s emotions and hostility toward the illegal immigrants. In this case the politician’s co-conspirator is the MSM [Main Stream Media] they’re fanning the flames on slow news days inciting descent. Politicians know if you want to misdirect the publics attentions give them an enemy to hate, it works nearly every time.
There’s a simple solution to the illegal immigration problem and it’s not a Wall from Tijuana to Matamoras, and it’s not boots on the boarder. The solution is for this government to enforce laws that requires identification for employment, proper identification when an illegal applies for special services. These laws are covered in the Patriot Act passed by Congress. Illegal immigration should fall into Homeland Security jurisdictions. Don’t blame Bush: blame Congress for fighting to preserve the rights of those who legally have no rights.

There’s no question about illegal immigrants violating our law by coming undocumented, and there can’t be a legitimate excuse for their behavior. However there’re many reasons they come. Illegal immigration isn’t new; it started when the Anglos from the Southern United States migrated to Mexico, what is now our state of Texas. The word Gringo comes from the Anglos seeking out the best lands and dispelling the native Mexicans by the bribes paid to corrupt Mexican courts and officials.

Most Mexicans share the same DNA with the Native American Indian, for over 500 years they’ve been compelled to stand by and watch while the Anglos took their lands and their wealth leaving them to live in poverty. The Indian culture was to share with their neighbors. By the time the indigenous peoples learned the white man’s way of taking what they liked it was too late for them. The indigenous peoples had to learn new ways groveling and begging was among them.

We owe these people something. I’m not sure it’s a free pass and certainly not citizenship. How about a legal way to fill the jobs that without them would go unfilled? How about a little respect, contrary to a popular belief these people aren’t ashamed to be Mexican. They’ve had the misfortune of living under the thumb of dictators with European blood flowing in their veins for nearly 500 years. That doesn’t mean they aren’t a proud people.

The United States rebuilt Europe and Asia, and now the politicians are talking about rebuilding Lebanon and Palestine with taxpayer dollars. It’s time we turned our attention toward our southern neighbors. Rather than fencing them off we should be offering a leg up on the way to a better lifestyle. If Mexico becomes a Muslim-controlled nation you haven’t seen trouble like our children will experience. If Mexico becomes a prosperous country illegal immigration becomes mute.

I’m a firm believer in Americans independence, I believe the citizens of the country should elect their politicians and have rights--not the interlopers such as the protesters in the Southwestern States this past weekend. However Latinos are no longer content to look north and accept a pittance of what their northern neighbors have. Unless we find a way of sharing the wealth some country like China will step in and fill the void. We’re not the great Satan we’re portrayed as but we’re no longer that 800 pound Gorilla we once were. The sooner the American public realizes we’re part of the world and not the whole world the better off we’ll all be. Walls and words won’t work there must be accommodations that satisfy all sides, in order for there to be a mutual accommodation both sides must talk and both sides must listen.

This is not a threat nor a prediction it’s a fact, China has all the elements of becoming the next superpower, they have the resources, the population, the desire and the discipline to overtake America in the not-too-distant future. Unless America forms some new alliances in this hemisphere, we’ll become Second City to China.
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