From Pajamas Media, Powerline, and filmmaker Andrew Marcus comes video of the first of a pair of “No More Immigrants†marches held yesterday in LA.
Notes PJM:
This first demonstration marched through downtown Los Angeles to City Hall and was participated in by an estimated 250,000 people. A second one, with an estimated 400,000, marched later up Wilshire Boulevard. Supported by establishment figures like Cardinal Roger Mahoney, it had a less radical agenda.
Less radical, that is, if you consider marching in support of those who openly flout our immigration laws and treat our sovereignty as if it were the Jell-O mold at Sizzler—something that most people ignore in favor of the tastier soft serve ice cream and host of sundae toppings—as a positively centrist, default position.
A quote in my paper today:
[emphasis mine]
I guess Mr. Reyes does not recognize that he already is a criminal. And why would he not want the wall to be built? He’s already here.
A Day Without Illegal Immigrants was wonderful. No traffic. No congestion. No noise. Less trash being strewn about by our mexican environmental scofflaws. Everything was cleaner and frankly nicer. In other words, it was great. I would not object to having more of these Days Without Illegal Immigrants. Support the Boicott!
I don’t think that someone who asks that the law be changed so that they can participate treats our sovereignty that bad.
Oh….yeah…ignore acthole.
Please don’t feed the acthole.
I think it is a centrist position, in that most people probably tacitly support the status quo. I mean, you don’t see mass demonstrations when nothing’s being proposed by a midterm-jittery Congress.
So..if we just shut up about it and get Congress to stand down then Bush’s poll numbers on immigration will rise from 29% approval to somewhere in the 60% area?
Yeah…right.
I think this issue is as hot or hotter than Iraq. There are people on both sides of the issue that feel strongly about their position.
Well, there’s the question before it gets placed on top of legislative agenda, and the one before it does. After all, insofar as national action is imputed to him, 30% of that disapproval could be “not doing enough” and 30% could be “what are you doing?”
I agree, but I think it is more like half and half. I think that a very small percentage of the population (legal & illegal) have any interest in maintaining the status quo.
Q: A man crawls through your window, uninvited, does some light dusting, and then sits on your couch, clicks on the TV and demands that you get him a beer while he watches “The Simpsons.” What do you do?
A: Throw the bum out.
Think locally.
Analagize the problem away, of course!
Aw man. That’s too god.
Again!
I have not been very comfortable with the stance the Catholic Church has taken on this issue. I believe that every religious organization ought to exhort its followers to obey the law, not to break it nor flaunt their illegality.
Don’t make me break out chapter 13 of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans.
I also find it almost hypocritical that people whine incessantly on how religion needs to keep out of politics: can this active participation not be considered the involvement of a religious organization in a political issue? How is this any different from conservative religious organizations (of many religions) speaking out on issues such as abortion and gay marriage? I clearly remember that when vocal religious organizations do speak out against abortion and gay marriage, the left suddenly demands that their tax-exempt status be revoked. Oh, and people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton can meddle with impunity. Where is the Democratic party’s condemnation of the Catholic Church meddling in politics? Did not Howard Dean recently say something along the lines of how religions need to keep out of politics?
Sorry for the venting, Jeff.
The time has come to fire all legal immigrant workers.
It no longer makes any business sense to hire people working legally, and paying their legal minimum wages, and dealing with all the withholding, reporting, health plan, pension, 401K, etc., hassles, when you can hire someone for a third the money, no benefits, no complaints and the sanction of the California State Assembly and the Catholic Church.
For that matter, it no longer makes business sense to hire citizens, either. How can a responsible businessman justify the unnecessary expense to his shareholders. Hell, he’s breaching his fiduciary obligations incurring all these unecessary costs. A businessman of principle can do only one thing: sack his legal employees.
I think there is only one solution; annex Mexico!
Then after the plight of the poor and suffering there has been relieved, we can turn our eyes north. The problem of the Canadians fleeing their national healthcare system, glutting our hostpitals, and leaving worthless and funny-looking money in their wake, must also be addressed.
One continent, one flag!
Because they enjoy travelling back and forth. A huge proportion of these illegal immigrants cross the border several times a year, taking regular vacations back to Mexico to visit their families.
I think they all be deported back to Spain.
? How un-pc! Actually, we could go all indigenous and just give it back to the Mexicans, but Fish and Game think we should give it back to the coyotes and possum. They’re so natural!
They’re massing in my back yard…
Patricia – if we could reconstitute some dinosaurs (ala Jurassic Park), then we could return the continent to its true owners…
Tired, frustrated and angry over Islamist terrorism, the Iraqi War, Iranian nukes, Euro fecklessness, gas prices, interest rates and all those lefties with terminal BDS?
Well, then, let’s get exercised and energized over the prospect of catching ourselves millions of them law-breaking Mexican invaders! They’ve populated our country like vermin for the past several decades, stolen our shit-jobs and reproduced like rabbits to steal our tax dollars! And they’re Comunistos to boot!
Damn Bush and his Guest Worker proposal and for all his/Repub transgressions! Be sure to vote Democrat or third party for US Sovereignty and Security and a more Perfect Union!
The Right: keeping domestic will strong while at war with an implacable foe, unlike the Left that would corrosively erode and divert national determination and focus and bring down our Prez.
Disclaimer: above not by Jay Kordich, TV personality.
Just am gob-smacked by the slice and dice instant-gratification eruption of disgust and disrespect for Mexican illegals exhibited by conservative pundits and their commenters, (not so much Jeff and his), toward people who work pretty damn hard in jobs some of us have an near-impossible time getting “real” Americans or legal immigrants to do. With notable exceptions such as the members of our armed services and American labor in certain industries, we’ve gone soft in our affluent, service/leisure economy and culture.
Say what you will and pretend mechanization will fix everything and without an economic stall-out or contend that we and our kids would certainly do the jobs that Mexicans are doing if it weren’t for their hogging them and depressing wages. Except for mine on occasion, I’ve never even seen a teenager mow his/her family’s grass or wash the car in my middle class neighborhood. In fact, most adults here hire the yard out and pay to get their cars detailed. Which is pathetic but where too many of us are.
By all means, let’s secure BOTH borders and our coasts. But let’s interject more realism and less vitriol toward Mexicans who want to come here and work, not to blow us up. Why can’t the Right compromise on particulars and get behind a Guest Worker Program that’s win-win for all involved? And that doesn’t threaten to divert from and politically derail our ME agenda which is far from being accomplished, despite the progress.
Meanwhile, kick your kid out of the house and make him edge and rake, build a garden wall and pluck a chicken once a week for grins.