Illegal
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What the Liberal Press Won't Tell You
Another Former Liberal Turning to "Right"eous Heroism
Where Los Angeles Lives | Pro and Anti-Immigration Rallies Clash in Downtown: Ana Beatriz Cholo, The Associated Press, March 26, 2007
Dueling immigration rallies Sunday marked the
one-year anniversary of a massive pro-immigrant demonstration that jammed downtown streets with a half-million protesters and framed new debate in Washington.
Standing among the anti-illegal immigration protesters was 76-year-old Esther Lofton. Lofton said she was representing "my community, the black community" of Watts - an area that has seen a surge of Hispanic immigrants in the past decade. She said she is against illegal immigration regardless of race.
"I'm not out here just fighting Hispanics," she said. "I'm out here fighting illegal immigration. This is my first march, but I hope to get something started."
Ted Hayes was the leader of this rally in Los Angeles, but he was not interviewed by any newspaper, nor any television station. Being Black, he's not the right face for the liberal media to display, considering that he is deeply anti-illegal immigration. He is a hero to me, much like other liberal heroes like Tammly Bruce, Zel Miller, and Joe Lieberman, who take unpopular stands on issues they strongly believe. I am especially proud of Ted Hayes, since he is finally getting Blacks aroused against illegal immigration, which hurts Blacks more than any other group, taking skilled and unskilled jobs away from their community.
During the rally, one thuggish demonstrator dirtied the American flag, threw it to the ground, spit and stomped on it. Ted Hayes went to the flag, picked it up, and smothered it in kisses.
Ted Hayes Says: Biggest Threat to Blacks Since Slavery
Some months ago, Ted had this exchange with Sean Hannity on Fox News:
HANNITY: You're under fire for saying the biggest threat to blacks in America since slavery is illegal immigration. A lot of people don't like the fact that you made that analogy. How do you...
HAYES: Absolutely. Because it's true.
HANNITY: I've known you a long time. You never — you never shy away from a fight or a controversy. What did you mean by that for maybe somebody who didn't understand what you meant?
HAYES: If this illegal immigration process continues, it is going to completely destroy us. We are losing our homes, our lands, our houses, our employment.
Mr. Hayes
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Theodore "Ted" Hayes, Jr. is an American advocate for the homeless and has recently become an activist for the Republican Party.
Hayes' liberal activism began in January 1985, when Justiceville, a community of homeless people in Los Angeles, was founded. It survived for five months, until authorities moved to shut down the shantytown. When they did, Hayes entered 35-day fast in protest.
In 1993 he founded Dome Village, a Los Angeles homeless facility consisting of geodesic domes designed by architect Craig Chamberlain and funded by ARCO. During the same year, he ran for mayor of Los Angeles during the primary election, receiving 0.63% of the vote. In the mid-1990s, he organized a youth- and homeless cricket team that toured Ireland and England and inspired an opera. He is also the current president of the Los Angeles Social Cricket Alliance.
At the 2000 Democratic National Convention, Hayes, who was leading a contingent of homelessness activists, was shot with a rubber bullet by police.
In 2001 he ran unsuccessfully for the Los Angeles City Council seat of the 9th district, receiving 5.3% of the vote. After the September 11 terrorist attacks, he was criticized by Muslim leaders for his role in persuading the Los Angeles City Council to pass a resolution demanding that Muslims take a stronger stance against global terrorism. Recently, he has become a vocal critic of illegal immigration, joining the Minutemen Project at protests and staging his own. There was an altercation at an anti-illegal immigration rally at Leimert Park organized by Hayes.
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Another Aspect of Illegal Immigration
The Southland's hidden Third World slums - Los Angeles Times: "In the Coachella Valley, hundreds of trailer parks house desperately poor Latino workers amid burning trash, mud, contaminated water," by David Kelly, Times Staff Writer, March 26, 2007.
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THERMAL, CALIF.
Like most of their neighbors in the sprawling, ramshackle Oasis Mobile Home Park, the Aguilars have no heat, no hot water. On cold nights, the family of eight stays warm by bundling up in layers of sweaters and sleeps packed together in two tiny rooms.
Bathing is a luxury that requires using valuable propane to boil gallons of water. So the farmworker clan spends a lot of time dirty.
Jose Aguilar, a wiry 9-year-old, has found a way around the bath problem. He just waits until dinner. "My mom makes frijoles,' he said, 'then I take a bath in that water."
The purpose of this article, of course, appearing in the Left-Angeles Times, is to make you feel sorry for illegal immigrants. I have a different response to it. I believe this is what you can expect when you have an unregulated invasion of our country. Like Ted Hayes, I have nothing against Hispanics. I do have something against filling our nation with unskilled, uneducated, poverty-stricken people who will naturally turn to crime or at least undercut our wages. I continue to repeat, too, that I resent people coming to our nation who do not want to become Americans, will not learn our language, and who bankrupt our hospitals, fill our prisons, and lower the standards in our schools.
Many Hispanics, and now, as we've seen with Ted Hayes and other Blacks, feel the same way. Any Hispanic who comes to America wanting to be an American, willing to work hard, get educated, learn our language, and eschew gangs, to me, is welcome. We do not promote this kind of immigration, however, by being "kind" to all comers. Reality has to set in. Despite our riches, we cannot feed the whole world. If we try, then we will become Third World ourselves, and this cannot be good for anyone. Go to the Oasis Mobile Home Park to see liberal heaven.
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The Solutions?
What is the solution for us? A sensible immigration policy.
What is the solution for poor Mexicans? Believe it or not, it remains in helping and persuading Mexico to treat its citizens better, develop capitalism, decrease corruption, and take care of their own poor. Yes, we need a wall; better border enforcement; and penalties for businesses that hire illegals. Plus, we must stop feeling guilty. We cannot import all the world's poor. The best thing we can do for them is spread democracy, and support the rise of capitalism—as we see happening in China. The Chinese poor no longer need our charity, do they? Neither will Mexico if they change direction.
In conclusion, I salute you Ted Hayes; and I point to the Oasis Mobile Home Park as the vision we want to avoid in America.
Rock
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stop corruption. that is the answer in a nutshell. of course i have no idea HOW to do it, i just believe that if the mexican government was not so corrupt the problem would be so much less severe. good post rock!
ReplyDeletesmiles, bee
(well that or make mexico a state and then they would all go to canada - just kidding! ha ha ha)
Once again you have hit the nail right on the head. Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteEmpress Bee, thanks for visiting. You are so right. I don't know how to stop the corruption in Mexico either. This issue is prevalent in other countries south of the border too, as in Venezuela. With all our faults, how did we manage, in America, to get things relatively right? We are blessed.
ReplyDeleteTake care.
Rock
Sunni Kay, thanks so much for your comments. I''m glad that there are some people in this world who can appreciate these issues.
ReplyDeleteRock
Ahh the scapegoats just keep coming don't they. I agree something needs to be done about illegal immigration, no doubt, but blaming illegals for Black people being out of work is a bit wrong in my book. Rather than an unemployed Black person looking inward and saying "I need to go find work, wherever I can.", now they can say, "Damn Mexicans taking all the jobs!"
ReplyDeleteThe language is MY problem with the immigration debate. People say, "Mexicans are taking over my country!" and "I can't work because Mexicans are taking all the jobs!" when the fact is most native-born Americans of any color are too "proud" to clean toilets, wash dishes and dig ditches.
Until masses of unemployed Americans start demanding employment where they have to vacuum floors in corporate buildings and wipe up piss off toilet seats, nothing will change. We in the middle class can complain all day, but the ones who are truly affected aren't fighting for those jobs- BECAUSE THEY'RE TOO PROUD TO WANT THEM.
Paz, the people who are protesting against illegal immigration are not, for the most part, unemployed. Ted Hayes certainly makes a decent living. There is a direct lowering of wages, though, for the jobs that you mention, because of illegal immigration. People might not balk at cleaning toilets if the wages were high enough. The problem comes when you can get people to do this for $5 an hour. It's not that people are too proud. It's that unemployment insurance is higher.
ReplyDeleteI do see some truth in what you are saying, but there's a sheer mathematical problem working here too. The more people there are competing for the same number of jobs, the lower the wages, and the harder it is to even get those jobs.
Yes, there might not be an excuse for being unemployed, but the standard of living is important too. I've seen construction contractors wiped out because they are undercut so much by cheap labor. If they capitulate, and work for the lower wages, they are no longer in the middle class, as they once were.
Is it also an excuse that our schools are overburdened, and our prisons, our hospitals, and on and on? Traffic increases. Slums are created. Bookstores are closed.
I'm surprised you don't see all this.
Rock
Paz, the people who are protesting against illegal immigration are not, for the most part, unemployed. Ted Hayes certainly makes a decent living. There is a direct lowering of wages, though, for the jobs that you mention, because of illegal immigration. People might not balk at cleaning toilets if the wages were high enough. The problem comes when you can get people to do this for $5 an hour. It's not that people are too proud. It's that unemployment insurance is higher.
ReplyDeleteI do see some truth in what you are saying, but there's a sheer mathematical problem working here too. The more people there are competing for the same number of jobs, the lower the wages, and the harder it is to even get those jobs.
Yes, there might not be an excuse for being unemployed, but the standard of living is important too. I've seen construction contractors wiped out because they are undercut so much by cheap labor. If they capitulate, and work for the lower wages, they are no longer in the middle class, as they once were.
Is it also an excuse that our schools are overburdened, and our prisons, our hospitals, and on and on? Traffic increases. Slums are created. Bookstores are closed.
I'm surprised you don't see all this.
Rock
Paz, as usual you provide much useful food for thought. You do make me think. Yes, I agree with some of what you say, but not all of it. It seems like you have less of an illegal immigrant problem in Atlanta than in other cities. You don't yet experience going into your stores, banks, and restaurants and hearing only Spanish. You don't have your prison cells filled with immigrant gangs, like we do. You don't have whole areas lose their customer base for bookstores, replaced by slum housing, catering to large groups living in single dwellings.
ReplyDeleteAgain, I don't blame the Hispanics. If I lived in Mexico, I'd come here too, the land of milk and honey. I blame Bush for this one, and the Democrats, and businessmen. The American middle class are the ones who lose. Big business wins.
If I could wave my magic wand, I'd open immigration freely to other countries, so that at least we'd have balance. It's almost impossible now for Britains, for example, to emigrate to the U.S. I'd open up immigration from all "advanced" countries (regardless of race, by the way--this isn't a racial thing for me, it's a skill thing). I'd also do like Australia does, require that immigrants have something to offer our country, either education or a needed skill.
I'd punish employers for hiring illegals. This is the key that would solve everything.
Otherwise, I find your comments quite reasonable, except that you don't see a problem. You think the situation now is similar to other immigration waves. I don't think it is. This wave is more massive, so there's no pressure for the Hispanics to assimilate. There was a huge pressure for Italians, Irish, Germans, etc., to assimilate. So, we are creatign two nations, like Canada, which is a shame.
Thanks paz.
Rock
This is getting deep. We DO have an immigration problem here, I just don't see it as "the problem" most people do- I guess you're right about that. Geography has made Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona the gates for illegal immigrants so of course you're going to see/feel it a lot more than me, but I do empathize with everything you're talking about.
ReplyDeleteThe way I see it is that it's a continuation of American immigrant tradition. People come to the US from other countries looking for better lives and find/live with other people who look, think and talk like them. The expectation is that these folks will begin talking English among themselves when they are out together. Not gonna happen! I don't think government facilities should be required to have bi-lingual signs and services to accomodate these folks, but private businesses like banks and restaurants have to accommodate their customers and it's their perogative whether they do so or not.
I have had the experience where I was one of few English-speakers in the room, but I loved it. THAT to me is what America is about, being able to be in a place with people who are completely different than me, culturally, socially, linguistically, spiritually and economically and everyone being totally at peace with it. The US has NEVER been homogenous, even when the Sioux roamed the plains, and the Seminoles fished in the swamps of Florida but the notion is that it's supposed to be homogenous. In fact there is hardly a country in the WORLD that has one culturally homogenous society.
I can see why you think that the US is becoming two countries in one, but it really isn't. Quebec has it's own language and it's own government but that's not happening here and probably never will (although I may eat my words in 400 years!) In 2407, if the US president makes his State of the Union address in Spanish, I'll buy you a car- or whatever people will be driving then. How's that sound?
rock, on an off subject topic: i was (snooping) looking around your blog and i noticed you have baghdad burning on your sidebar. i have read most of this blog. i don't know anyone else that has. any comments? i was with her for the longest time but not so much any more... is she telling the truth or is it propaganda?
ReplyDeletesmiles, bee
I really enjoy reading your blog, it always has great insight. But I am very frustrated with the media’s lack of questions to the presidential candidates about global warming. Now that it is down to just a few candidates I would think that this would be a bigger issue.
ReplyDeleteLive Earth just picked up this topic and put out an article ( http://www.liveearth.org/news.php ) asking why the presidential candidates are not being solicited for their stance on the issue of the climate change. I just saw an article describing each candidate’s stance on global warming and climate change on earthlab.com
http://www.earthlab.com/articles/PresidentialCandidates.aspx . So obviously they care about it. Is it the Medias fault for not asking the right questions or is it the candidates’ fault for not highlighting the right platforms? Does anyone know of other websites or articles that touch on this subject and candidates’ views? This is the biggest problem of the century and for generations to come…you would think the next president of the United States would be more vocal about it.