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April 29, 2005

Illegal aliens - Is the 'tipping point' close at hand?

From the LA Times

The leader of a Mexican American group called the governor's comments "shameful" and "nothing short of base racism."

"I think we're seeing the real Arnold Schwarzenegger. The mask has now fallen," said Nativo V. Lopez, state national president of the Mexican American Political Assn. "Those of immigrant stock should have no illusions about what his real sentiments and feelings are toward them."

Now what did Arnold actually say that has got actual racists like Nativo eagerly running to any reporter wiling to publish his "outrage"?
"I think they've done a terrific job," Schwarzenegger said of the "Minuteman" volunteers, who plan to expand to California in June. "They've cut down the crossing of illegal immigrants a huge percentage. So it just shows that it works when you go and make an effort and when you work hard. It's a doable thing."
Shocking! Shameful! And let's hear from another CA elected official, someone allegedly sworn to UPHOLD THE LAW
Assemblyman Hector De La Torre, a Democrat from South Gate, blasted the governor's comments as "scapegoating and immigrant bashing."

"To support vigilantism is completely against the oath he took" to uphold the law, De La Torre said. "It goes way beyond normal law enforcement, normal border patrol jurisdiction. It's just off the charts. For him to say this puts him to the right of President Bush. This is completely out of the mainstream in California."

The chutzpah of Hector to wag his finger at Arnold about "upholding the law" when he deliberately refuses to consider that the migrants he's lauding are breaking the LAW. And, too, Hector is jumping on the "vigilante" bandwagon in trying to make out the Minuteman project as something more than what it is, a neighborhood watch type program along the border. All the histrionics from the "A"CLU and its anti-American ilk fellowtravelers that charge that Americans are the problem, not those that cross illegally have fallen flat in the face of almost a month of Minuteman operation in Arizona with little problem. Indeed, the operations have belied the anti-American claims that these are just a bunch of white racist yahoos out to beat/shoot/rape/pillage brown people.

And Arnold also commented on the Los Angeles, CA Mexico billboard:

In the same radio interview, the governor also asked a Spanish-language Los Angeles television station, KRCA-TV Channel 62, to remove a billboard it erected with the words "Los Angeles, Mexico." The governor said such sentiments — implying that Los Angeles was now part of Mexico — would encourage illegal immigration.
This morning I was listening to Bill Handel on KFI/640 AM, Los Angeles, and he mused that the growing uproar over the billboard and the kneejerk comments about Arnold being "racist" merely because he believes that the United States has the right to A border and the duty to ENFORCE that border may be approaching a "tipping point" in California similar to the one that produced Proposition 13 (the 70's populous response to confiscatory property taxes). Politicians like Hector and racists like Nativo might want to review the history of Prop. 13 and realize that Californians still consider the state part of the United States and are increasingly annoyed by being labeled "racists" for just those views.

I certainly hope this is the case.

Posted by Darleen at April 29, 2005 06:34 AM

Comments

Thank God for Arnold. It hurts to know I voted for a liberal in 04. W said he wanted to win the War on Terror. Read my lips 2! Now he joins the ACLU to surrender to the terrorists. Another liberal Bush President.

Posted by: Jo macDougal at April 30, 2005 04:00 PM