Illegal immigration, Liberal Elites, and Obama (American Thinker - classic conservative view)

[pampango]

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/illegal_immigration_liberal_el.html

"Most middle-class Americans are fed up with illegal immigration. They get no sympathy from liberal elites, however, including the open-borders elites at that lofty bastion of American journalism, the agenda-setting New York Times. " (Anyone who doesn't want to round 'em up and send 'em back is, apparently, an "open-borders elite".)

"America is experiencing massive levels of immigration that are unprecedented in scale and fact that many of the newcomers are from the Third World, not Europe as in the past . The impact of this flood of immigrants is the subject of the Times series "Remade in America." Its underlying theme is that America is remaking the immigrants. But that's certainly not the case in Irving, parts of which now have the shabby look of Mexico ." (Sounds like the author is less worried about the amount of immigration and its legality and more concerned with the lower-class nature of the immigrants and the fact that they are not from Europe.)

"Why do liberal elites at the New York Times find it so much easier to identify with illegal immigrants than with middle-class Americans? Two things obsess them: race and ethnicity ; so that's how they define the immigration debate. Accordingly, ordinary Americans upset over illegal Hispanic immigrants must be "racist" and "xenophobic." Indeed, that's how former Mexico president Vincente Fox, during a visit to this country, described Americans opposing illegal immigration from Mexico." (Democrats do tend to pay more attention, in a productive way (e.g, affirmative action), to race and ethnicity, while repubs are usually in denial when it comes to those considerations.)

"President Obama, for his part, seems determined to give 11 million illegal immigrants, mostly poor and uneducated Hispanics, a path to citizenship. No doubt, he believes this will again demonstrate America's "moral authority" to an audience whose opinions matter to him: anti-Americans elites in Mexico, Europe, and the Third World . And no matter if his immigration plan changes the nation's culture for the worse for ordinary Americans; or at least for ordinary Americans who don't holler and applaud at Sunday church services when their minister yells, "God damn America!" " (Again with the "poor and uneducated". The author in denying the role of race and ethnicity in the conservative opposition to legalization, makes the case that it is an issue of class instead. If the immigrants were just middle class, everything would be fine. Right!)

[KharmaTrain]

1. I Met Plenty Of "Illegals" From Europe...

I worked with a company that had many Polish immigrants...they came here in a big wave in the early and mid 90's. Some went for citizenship, but many would just let their green cards expire and vanish into the large community. Now you're not hearing about that problem cause it doesn't serve the xenophobic, racist GOOP agenda.

Kudos to President Obama for understanding the real problem...not the framing, and going after those who hire the "illegals" and exploit them for cheap labor. There was ZERO enforcement during the boooosh years except to amp up the hatred toward Mexicans to create yet another wedge issue Rove and his ilk thought would bring voters to the polls. It backfired, but the hatred rolls on.

The ideal rushpublican world is the Ozzie & Harriet dreamscape of the 50's...women were subservient, blacks weren't seen and Mexicans were...well, in Mexico. Everyone lived in that happy right wing utopia. When I see the minutemen and wingnuts get serious about busting those that hire the "illegals", then I'll think their argument has moved beyond their usual racism and hatred.