Despite Raids, IDs For All

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  There was a time when being a liberal meant you had a proud tradition of protecting the wages, benefits, and rights of working citizens of all races and creeds.

  Today’s liberalism is more concerned with Mexicans than our own citizens.  No matter the depression of wages and benefits.  We can’t get health care for our own citizens, yet all the Democratic Presidential candidates were quick to claim their health care reform plan would cover illegal immigrants.

  The Latino groups are quick to brand anyone who dares question the unfettered access to our country by this human flood as being racist.  Even someone like myself who would rather that job go to a Mexican-American citizen than a Mexican citizen, I’m still a racist.  That’s because there’s no logical argument to support this human flood other than they’re Latino, we’re Latino, and we Latinos are sticking together, the good of the nation be damned.

  Few in the so-called liberal opinion-shaping community have ever had to raise a family of four on what a roofer, a mason, or a meat packer makes.  They see the human side of extending compassion to the poor people of Mexico,  but they always fail to have any compassion left for the poor folks here who have no one to speak up for them.

  Instead of passing out IDs to illegal immigrants, we need to be shutting down the places they work and putting the people who hire them in prison as is provided for in current law.

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  When they came for the farm workers’ jobs,
  I remained silent;
  I was not a farm worker.

  When they came for the meat packers’ jobs,
  I remained silent;
  I was not a butcher.

  When they came for the bricklayers’ jobs,
  I did not speak out;
  I was not a mason.

  When they came for the help desk jobs,
  I did not speak out;
  I was not a technician.

  When they came for the design jobs,
  I did not speak out;
  I was not an engineer.

  So when they came for my job,
  there was no one willing to speak out for me.

  adapted from a poem by Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984)

  Posted by trippin on Jul 28, 2007 at 9:23 PM

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