I Want These People Gone!

And I don't give a tinker's damn what it takes to make it happen.

Heather Macdonald has an exellent piece up at City Journal.

Here's a taste...

The gall of Mexican officials does not end with the push for illegal entry. After demanding that we educate their surplus citizens, give those citizens food stamps, deliver their babies, provide them with doctors and hospital beds, and police their neighborhoods, the Mexican government also expects us to help preserve their loyalty to Mexico.

Since 1990, Mexico has embarked on a series of initiatives to import Mexican culture into the U.S. Mexico’s five-year development plan in 1995 announced that the “Mexican nation extends beyond . . . its border”—into the United States. Accordingly, the government would “strengthen solidarity programs with the Mexican communities abroad by emphasizing their Mexican roots, and supporting literacy programs in Spanish and the teaching of the history, values, and traditions of our country.”

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What about textbooks to propagate American culture in Mexico? They would provoke an uprising against Yanqui imperialism. When President Ernesto Zedillo tried in the 1990s merely to revise Mexican textbooks to acknowledge contemporary cooperation between the U.S. and Mexico, he found himself denounced as a traitor. The revisions went nowhere.

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Mexico’s struggle to hold the hearts of its fleeing countrymen has worked. Mexican migrants have maintained a strong nationalism, exhibited through the “unfailing celebration of Mexican national, religious, and regional holidays, the conspicuous displays of patriotic symbols in Mexican neighborhoods and businesses, and in the low naturalization rate,” writes University of California professor Luis Eduardo Guarnizo. In the last decade, the rate of naturalization among legal Mexican immigrants did improve, in response to the 1996 welfare-reform law, which reduced welfare eligibility for non-citizen immigrants, and to Mexico’s authorization of dual nationality in 1998 (not exactly ideal motives for becoming citizens). The rate is still well below the immigrant norm, however. In 2001, just 34 percent of eligible Mexicans became citizens, compared with 58 percent of other Latin Americans, 67 percent of Asians, and 65 percent of Canadians and Europeans.

I see this borne out in my neighborhood every single day. These people, and yes I mean that exactly how it sounds, hold this country in contempt, and rightly so.

What is required here is a serious boot in the ass, both to our good friend Mexico and the boatloads of criminals they export into our country. I am ashamed that my government hasn't the will or backbone to even address this problem in a serious way.

To those who are clucking like hens and thinking words like xenophobe and nativist right now, look, your on the wrong blog, there's nothing left to talk about here. It's illegal, that's not going to change, and all the multi-cultural wishful thinking in the world will never make it right again.

We are rapidly approaching a rubicon, not a rubicon beyond which the problem cannot be solved, but a rubicon of HOW this problem will be solved. The time for soft words and ignoring the will of the American people is drawing to a close, hence groups like the Minutemen, Save Our State and many, many others. They didn't form because no one cares, they formed because the pot's starting to boil.

I think many Americans are not yet aware that it's perfectly okay to be angry about this. It is guys, we have millions of criminals living amongst us, sixty percent of them believe they are entitled to the Southwest portion of our country, an astronomical number have committed crimes against our fellow citizens. You don't have to think this is okay, by god it's not. It couldn't be further from okay. Our government insists we require these people, when our eyes plainly tell us different. The Senate will soon be voting on this, they have alrady stated they intend to add a guest worker program, essentially legalizing millions of union busters, criminals, and those who will drag this proud country into the gutter.

I couldn't give a rat's ass if that offends your delicate sensibilites. This is a war folks, and we're losing. Until you uderstand that salient fact, everything else is secondary.

Our politicians have the opportunity right now to deal with this long simmering problem effectively before right thinking folk take that power away from them. That actually is our right and solemn responsibility. We don't go to our government hat in hand and ask them to do what we want. We tell them how it will be and they choose their response. Ours is not supposed to be a top down system, yet we accept our scraps from the big kahunas and say thank you sir may I have another.

The time to solve this problem without violence is now. I can make no promises for tomorrow, nor should I.

I want these people gone, out of here, and I don't give a tinker's damn what it takes to make that happen.

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