Wednesday, October 24th, 2007...3:07 pm
Trying to Outdo Dennis Willenchick, I Guess
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You know, I almost forgot about Tomás Tancredo. He kind of fell off the radar screen for me. Every once in a while, I sit there and think to myself, “Gosh, is he still as much of a gamoń as before?”
It turns out, yes, he is. All is right with the world.
Sen. Dick Durbin had an event yesterday in support of the DREAM act that featured immigrants. So, Tancredo would do what any level-headed, public spirited individual would do. He called la migra and demanded that these folks be arrested.
Had he checked, he would have found that the immigrants were, in fact, legally here. Not that he cares about such things. Throw ‘em all out. ‘Specially them Eye-Tals…
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October 24th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
The DREAM Act failed in the Senate today.
As an activist, I’m sad that the U.S. Senate is relegating hundreds of thousands of young people to permanent second-class status. The righties bloviate and claim that these-here mescans are in this country illegally, and they have no right to a college education.
They make this argument even though:
- The young people in question didn’t make the choice. Many of them came as toddlers or babes in arms.
- They grew up in this country, listen to hip-hop on their iPods, are just as American in cultural terms as my own teen-ager, and may speak absolutely no Spanish (or any language other than English).
- The system is stacked against them if they hope to obtain legal residency and eventually citizenship. One of these days the immigration attorneys need to speak up about a screwed-up system that, in the best of conditions, requires DECADES to complete – and if there’s a bureaucratic screwup (lost address, computer glitch or lost paperwork) their application is automatically denied and they have to go through the whole process from the beginning, even if they’ve already invested 5-10-15 years in getting residency.
- And my favorite is the double standard. If you’re a Cuban (which means you probably vote Republican) all you have to do to get residency is place ONE FOOT on American soil. If you’re one of them-there mescans or south ‘mericans (and possibly a potential Democratic voter) you face a bureaucratic nightmare that would make Khafka blush.
- And oh yeah, if you’re an Iraqi, and your life is in danger because you or a family member worked for the Americans in that country, you can’t come here because you might be an islamo-facist terrorist. Stay in Iraq and die, as far as the Bushies are concerned.
All of this saddens me. I keep remembering a young Latino I saw in COSTCO a few years ago. He had an SAT self-study guide in his hands, and his eyes were bright with excitement. He literally couldn’t wait for his parents to pay for the book so he could go home and study and get into college.
I wonder where he is now, and whether that bright light has been extinguished.
I just hope all Hispanics and all fair-minded people pay back the racist-xenophobic-nativist wackos by voting Democratic in 2008 and beyond.
October 24th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
All I can say is: He he he he he…..
October 24th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
And all I can say is thank goodness it failed. For all of my legal citizen but out of state friends who would have to pay more than an illegal alien to attend school, I say thank you US Senate for keeping some sanity.
October 24th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
Cruel, cruel, cruel, cruel…
October 25th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Eh im okay with my illegal friends. They work harder, usually better mannered and more respectful than most Americans I go to school with. Honestly, they are smarter and better, I just hope we can assimilate them sooner rather than later so we can go send all the immigrant haters back to their trailer park so they can go fuck their sisters.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Love the language buddy, way to stay classy.
October 26th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Tom,
Ease up. I may disagree with TEEJ on a lot, but he is a good guy. Keep it clean.
October 26th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
You may be right, Geoff, but the irony of having someone from the College Republicans calling for respectful retstraint in someone else’s rhetoric, particularly with regard to immigration, is making my head spin.
October 26th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Hahahaha touche
October 27th, 2007 at 1:02 am
I’m sure it would make your head spin even more if I told you I’m half-Hispanic. By the way Geoff, good to see you at the Obama event the other day. Don’t you wish you went to a school that had a decent football team?
October 27th, 2007 at 1:46 am
Good to see you too!
And yeah, I’ll pray for a good basketball season though. We need to fire the brothers Stoops.
December 19th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
I would like to see a continuation of the topic