Are Rallying Illegal Immigrants Setting America Up For Confrontation?
Advocates for legalizing illegal immigration are flush with anticipation over the huge numbers of protesters they promise to deliver in cities across America Monday. But in their zeal to get their message out, have they failed to define the terms of the debate?
The answer to that question is almost certainly yes. Organizers and supporters of the movement have framed the issue as one of human rights and race. The official talking points include the claim that illegal immigrants do the jobs that Americans won’t and that Americans who want to defend the border are nothing more than racists.
Ordinarily, those arguments might have the ring of truth to the average American, but these aren’t ordinary circumstances. We have a huge population that has willfully entered our country in an act of overt defiance of U.S. law and they have recently revealed just how large a crowd they are by marching through our streets waving Mexican flags and chanting anti-American slogans.
Now adding insult to injury, they are making demands. Jorge Rodriguez, one of the organizers of those Mexican flag rallies is right out front with the movement’s agenda, “We want full amnesty, full legalization for anybody who is here (illegally). That is the message that is going to be played out across the country on May 1.”
Historically, such a direct confrontation, some might even call it a threat, has never played well here. Americans are perhaps the most generous people on earth, but only when the giving is voluntary. Rodriguez’ statement is more like getting mugged in the alley.
Jim Gilchrist of the Minuteman Project put it this way, “It’s intimidation when a million people march down main streets in our major cities under the Mexican flag. This will backfire.”
April 30th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
OK; I have had enough and so have the American Citizens and Most Legal Imigrents of this great nation. If you come here legally to work or go to college I have no problem with any of you. If you march in our streets for a necessary cause to right a wrong so be it. But do not come to my country and carry your countries flag or hang it above Old Glory and tell me it is your right. Don’t disrespect our symbol of Freedom. This is no Sporting Event. This is about people who have broken our laws and taken advantage of our system to obtain jobs, housing, food, medical assistannce, and schooling for their families thru lies and untruths while draining our social support system. You have never had this right and God willing never will. I believe that everyone has a right to reach for their dreams; but reach for your dreams in your country not mine. What you fail to understand is that what we have has been earned on the battlefields of freedom. This Freedom is being threatened by the very fact that our Imagration Policy is so porus. If all of the Illigal imigrents were Law abiding workers or students they could enter this country legally. The problem is that with our open borders we are taking in your gangs, murders, drug trafficers, and millitants also. Mixed among them will some day soon be our next 9/11 and I am not willing to support any system that allows this to go unchecked. So please don’t try to tell me; the families of our citizens lost in Sept. of 2001; or the families of our sons and daughters fighting for our freedoms in other countries that we don’t have the right to tell you to leave. That is exactly what you need to do and take your flag with you. Or some time soon we Passive US Citizens will no longer be in favor of being silent in this great land. We will fight for what our Forefathers died for; with our blood and yours. It is time to stop pushing and listen! We are watching you!