By the by, I agree with City Council member Tim O'Hare from the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch, who told me for the DMN essay:
We have thousands of homes where the values are under $200,000, and many of them under $150,000. You've got people who bought this home in 1956 or 1961, they were beautiful neighborhoods, well taken care of.And now those same people who are widows, widowers or disabled, they can't get out of that house, and they're surrounded by homes with 10, 15 people living in them. There's garbage laying outside in the yard, cockroaches running around, parties late at night.
These folks are sitting there, afraid to go out of their house. That's a real problem for real people. The compassion [that elites] have seems completely one-sided and misplaced. ... It seems to me that you should first have compassion on people who are following the law and doing the right thing.
That was the edited version of his quote. His full quote began by talking about how relatively few houses worth over $500,000 are in his town. His point being that elites, including media elites, don't have any real idea what people like homeowners in Farmers Branch, a Dallas suburb, are having to face from the illegal immigration crisis. O'Hare led a successful ballot initiative (well, it passed overwhelmingly, but a state judge suspended its implementation) that forbade landlords from renting to people who couldn't prove citizenship. I personally supported the initiative, but the paper came out against it. I've said to my colleagues at the paper that none of us have to use public hospitals, and all but one of us have no kids in Dallas public schools. We're not paying a price for what's happening -- unlike, say, the people in Farmers Branch. Or the Dallas suburb of Irving, where 36 percent of the public school students are "limited English proficient." Ya think that holds classrooms back? For the most part, the people who can afford to get out of public schools in Dallas have done so. That leaves people to poor to afford private school, and unable to move away.
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Max:
ROFLMAO!!!
And I am supposed to care about this because...
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Because even Mexicans don't like Mexicans. Look at their Hayek -- 'Mestizo' blood. Zilch. Cruz, 100% Spanish. Check out the Miss Mexico winners over the last, say, 20 years. Mexicans are racist against Mexicans!
M_David is right. NO KIDS, NO FUTURE. I have come across dozens of Reaganite Republicans who had zero or maybe one child. They were so engrossed with careers and materialism, they forgot to reproduce and regnerate the ethno-culture which WAS America. When my wife and I had our third and fourth kids, our conservative church going friends thought we were nuts.
There is a difference in Latinos. The white or mostly white Latinos rule Latin America. Those of them who come here do fine and assimilate. The previous posters are right about Mexican beauty standards. They are white. On the other hand, the rural Mexicans flooding into our country now are predominantly Indian who did not even manage to assimilate into Mexico, and they won't assimilate into ours. That is why you see a neary 50% high school drop out rate among "Hispanics" (really Indian or Mestizo), a 42% illegitimacy rate, and welfare usage rates three times the white rate, and even more menacingly, a hatred for America borne of resentment and irridentism. Hence the growing faction of Guevaristas among our Hispanic citizens and "guests." That amigos, is a future that this gringo will not embrace - but oppose.
The Catholic Church was faced with closing churches throughout Southern California but had overfilled congregations South of the Border. All they had to do was bring the parishoners to the empty churches and besides, social reform is the Catholic Church propaganda anyway. Santa Ana CA had INS in the local parish for the convenience of the 'undocumented.'
As for racial animus, Chino CA has the time honored tradition of beating to a pulp any White male who might dare to walk on or near D Street. And this is one of the "Top 100 Communities in the US to Raise a Child!"
With blue eyes, I have never been permitted to shop in any store owned and frequented by Hispanics, however if I had ever treated an Hispanic in that manner, the world would have come down on me.
I wonder why minority violence against Whites is not only recognized as a permissible avenue of expression but conduct that is not criminally sanctioned. Why does our society permit, endorse and encourage acts of racial violence against White males? Any White male walk though Watts since the late 60's? Or any other minority zone without risking life and limb? But if a minority were to suffer 'bad words' the FBI would stand ready. Why is violence condoned?
From a humanitarian perspective, our fellow human beings, who migrate to support their families, continue to suffer at the hands of immigration policies that separate them from family members and drive them into remote parts of the American desert, sometimes to their deaths. This suffering should not continue.
Now is the time to address this pressing humanitarian issue which affects so many lives and undermines basic human dignity. Our society should no longer tolerate a status quo that perpetuates a permanent underclass of persons and benefits from their labor without offering them legal protections.
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