[Vision2020] immigration: comment to RVcowboy (Huskey)

[rvrcowboy]

I am sorry but your view that our immigration policy is racially motivated
just doesn't fly with me.  If you sincerely don't believe we have a problem
with the illegal immigrants crossing our southern border by the droves, you
are out of touch with reality.

We either have laws in this nation and obey them or we degenerate into total
anarchy.  I am not interested in all the excuses why we should just turn a
blind eye to this problem, I want some solutions and that does not include
disolving our borders and allowing anyone and everyone in.

I still believe in national soverignty and pride in my country.  I still
believe in patriotism and singing the National Anthem in English.  I suppose
that makes me racist in the eyes of most liberals but I really don't care.
I have nothing but good wishes for those who go through the process and
legally immigrate to our country.  I believe those who come illegally only
hurt the chances of others who wish to come by legal means.

You can put our country down all you want, call it any names you wish, it is
of no consequence to me.  You can pick out one or two isolated cases of
injustice toward anyone of a minority race and justify the unlawful actions
of their entire race because of it if you wish.  That has nothing to do with
reality and you know it, despite your self-indulgent-academic demeanor.  All
your example does is cloud the issue that we have a problem with illegal
immigration in this country and need to do something to stem the tide.

Dick

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Melynda Huskey" <melynda at moscow.com>
To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] immigration: comment to RVcowboy


> rvrcowboy wrote:
> > Pardon my language, but just what the hell does the present situation
and
> > problems with our open borders have to do with "racist social policy"?
> >
> > This is the sort of rhetoric that continually prevents any positive
action
> > to solve these problems.  Liberals are quick to play the race card or
accuse
> > the other side of bigotry, or some other heinous act.  This ends debate,
> > diminishes the situation and is clearly an end run around the entire
> > problem.
> >
> > Why can't you simply stick to the point that we have a problem with
illegal
> > immigration without expanding the problem into areas that kill all
action?
> > Self-anointed-intelluctuals always have to give the appearance they
think on
> > a higher plane than "normal" people.  By doing so, they only make
themselves
> > look foolish to the mainstream, will they ever learn?
> >
> Dick,
>
> Why wouldn't the history of immigration law and policy in this country
> have something to do with our current immigration situation?
>
> Surely we can agree that knowing more is better than knowing less, and
> that thinking about how the past and present are connected will help us
> think more clearly about the future?
>
> The very first immigration policy in this country's history limited
> naturalization to white men.  From then to the present day, racism has
> played a key role in the way we understand, talk about, and implement
> immigration policy.  In the process, we have created racialized enemies
> of "white" civilization--the Irish, Eastern Europeans, the Chinese,
> Jews, Japanese, Mexicans--and scapegoated them, which is what I believe
> is happening now.  The real problems caused by undocumented immigrants
> are obscured by such claims as "my cousin was mugged by a Mexican gang,
> so let's deport all the 'illegals.' "   Last week, a Latino boy in Texas
> was assaulted by a couple of white teenagers who believed he'd kissed a
> white girl:  they beat him nearly to death and sodomized him with a
> pipe, poured bleach on his body, and left him for dead.
>
> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3822963.html
>
> I believe that the incessant diatribes on television and talk radio
> against Latinos, disguised as concern about immigration, contribute to
> crimes like these.
>
> Melynda Huskey
>
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