"Burn the Mexican flag!": A look back at the hateful anti-immigration rhetoric from 2006
In anticipation of the upcoming immigration marches, Media Matters for America has compiled a review of the hateful and outrageous right-wing rhetoric surrounding the immigration debate in 2006.
Right-wing rhetoric: Immigrant rights marchers are "racis[t]"
Right-wing rhetoric: Pro-immigration marchers should be arrested or deported
Right-wing rhetoric: Stoking fears over displays of the Mexican flag
Right-wing rhetoric: Immigration is an "invasion"
Right-wing rhetoric: U.S., Mexico are in a state of "war"
Right-wing rhetoric: Immigrants are fundamentally altering American culture or way of life
Right-wing rhetoric: Immigration reform is part of plot to institute "North American Union"
Other hate speech and outrageous rhetoric
Right-wing rhetoric: Immigrant-rights marchers, immigrants are seeking to reclaim the Southwest for Mexico
"Reconquista" is a discredited smear used by the right to generate fear of Latino immigrants. During the 2006 immigration debate, right-wing media repeatedly advanced the discredited smear that Mexican-Americans and Mexican citizens -- particularly "illegal aliens" -- are plotting to take over the U.S. Southwest for Mexico.
Dobbs referred to potential "army" of "illegal alien" "invaders" taking over Southwest. During an April 2006 broadcast of his now-defunct CNN show, Lou Dobbs introduced a report by stating: "There are some Mexican citizens and some Mexican-Americans who want to see California, New Mexico and other parts of the Southwestern United States given over to Mexico. These groups call it the reconquista, Spanish for reconquest. And they view the millions of Mexican illegal aliens in particular entering the United States as potentially an army of invaders to achieve that takeover." Correspondent Christine Romans reported, "Long downplayed as a theory of the radical ethnic fringe, the la reconquista, the reconquest, the reclamation, the return, it's resonating with some on the streets," and went on to say: "A lot of open borders groups disavow it completely. But the growing street protests in favor of illegal immigration, Lou, are increasingly taking on the tone of that very radicalism." [CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, 4/31/06]
CNN reporter referenced "the Vicente Fox Aztlan tour," used "Aztlan" graphic sourced to hate group. Lou Dobbs Tonight correspondent Casey Wian characterized then-Mexican President Vicente Fox's trip to Salt Lake City, Utah, as a "Mexican military incursion" and claimed that "[y]ou could call" Fox's trip to the United States "the Vicente Fox Aztlan tour." During Wian's report, CNN featured a graphic of "Aztlan" that was sourced to the Council of Conservative Citizens -- an organization whose "Statement of Principles" reads: "We also oppose all efforts to mix the races of mankind, to promote non-white races over the European-American people through so-called 'affirmative action' and similar measures, to destroy or denigrate the European-American heritage, including the heritage of the Southern people, and to force the integration of the races." [Lou Dobbs Tonight, 5/23/06]
Malkin: "[T]he vast majority of mainstream Hispanic politicians" embrace "the intellectual underpinnings of reconquista." On Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin declared that protesters in Los Angeles were "people who believe that the American southwest belongs to Mexico, that we don't have a right to enforce our borders, and who do nothing more than try to sabotage our sovereignty." Malkin later added that "the kind of quote-unquote 'pride' that a lot of these illegal alien activists are touting now goes much further than just being proud about one's heritage and one's roots. The idea, the intellectual underpinnings of reconquista, are embraced by the vast majority of mainstream Hispanic politicians." [Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, 3/30/06]
Wash. Times editorial: Protesters approve of "reconquista" agenda. A Washington Times editorial accused Latinos who protested against a proposal to restrict immigration of either supporting or having given "tacit approval" to the "reconquista" agenda of "Hispanic radicals," which the editorial said was the "reconquering of Mexican land lost during the Mexican-American war." [The Washington Times, 3/30/06]
Fox's Gibson suspicious that Latino advocacy groups are set on "retaking old Mexico territories ... by pure birth rate." While saying that he was citing an internal email from the National Council of La Raza, John Gibson claimed on his Fox News show that he was suspicious that advocacy groups like the NCLR favor "the so-called reconquista," which Gibson described as the "retaking of old Mexico territories, which are now part of the United States, by pure birth rate." Gibson also asserted that the NCLR "is a group dedicated to the betterment of the race," adding, "good, but try being American while you are at it, guys." [Fox News' The Big Story with John Gibson, 4/3/06]
O'Reilly: Purported immigrant protest "organizers" have hidden "hardcore militant agenda" to take back American Southwest. On his radio show, O'Reilly said that the "organizers" of immigrant rallies have a "hardcore militant agenda of 'You stole our land, you bad gringos.' " O'Reilly said that the "slogan" of the demonstrations' organizers was "[W]e didn't cross the border, the border crossed us," and that this meant that the organizers believed that Americans "stole [their] land." The organizers' hidden "agenda underneath," said O'Reilly, was that "now, we're going to take it back by massive, massive migration into the Southwest." [Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, 5/1/06]
Buchanan: "Chicano chauvinists and Mexican agents" want to "take back through demography and culture what their ancestors lost through war." In his book, State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, published in August 2006, MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan wrote: "Chicano chauvinists and Mexican agents have made clear their intent to take back through demography and culture what their ancestors lost through war." He also wrote that the United States must keep "Americans of European descent" from becoming the "minority" in order to "survive[]." [State of Emergency (Thomas Dunne Books)]
Malkin: "[W]e saw ... that supposed fringe" that favors reconquista "come out into the mainstream." O'Reilly said to Malkin, "So I know that there's an undercurrent of militancy that says, 'Hey, this is our territory. You stole it from us in the Mexican-American War. We're going to take it back now by illegal immigration.' But I think that's a fringe, nutty group, not the mass of millions that we have." Malkin replied: "Well, I guess I disagree with you there, Bill, because I mean, we saw in April and May of this year [2006] that supposed fringe come out into the mainstream. And it wasn't just a dozen folks who are ensconced in the ivory tower who believe that the Southwest is Aztlan and it belongs to them." O'Reilly later asked her: "You think that this massive immigration to the United States, 15 million strong, is a part of a plan to bring back territory to Mexico?" Malkin responded: "Well, I take the Mexican government at its word when it says that is exactly its plan." [The O'Reilly Factor, 8/23/06]
Right-wing rhetoric: Immigrant rights marchers are "racis[t]"
Malkin: "[M]ilitant racism from another protected minority group was on full display" from "Latino supremacists." In her syndicated column, Malkin wrote of immigration rallies, "Well, this weekend, militant racism from another protected minority group was on full display. But you wouldn't know it from press accounts that whitewashed or buried the protesters' virulent anti-American hatred." Malkin also wrote: "Apologists are quick to argue that Latino supremacists are just a small fringe faction of the pro-illegal immigration movement (never mind that their ranks include former and current Hispanic politicians from L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to former California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cruz Bustamante)." [Creators Syndicate column, 3/29/06]
Savage: "[B]rown supremacists" are "behind these protests." On his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage said: "So, it seems to me that there's a certain group of immigrants that's not very happy and they're all Hispanic. I don't see any other racial group out there in the streets, do you? Now, that's very interesting. I'm not allowed to raise the issue or the specter of brown supremacists behind these protests. Don't tell me this is all about compassion for immigrants, because it is not at all only about compassion for immigrants. They are trying to provoke the takeover of the United States of America." [Talk Radio Network's The Savage Nation, 4/11/06]
Right-wing rhetoric: Pro-immigration marchers should be arrested or deported
Fox's Asman wondered whether marches are a perfect chance to "round up these lawbreakers and ship them out." Guest-hosting Fox News' Your World, David Asman discussed nationwide protests of immigration reform and wondered: "With so many illegals hitting the streets, is this the perfect time to round up these lawbreakers and ship them out?" As Asman spoke, the on-screen text read: "Round 'Em Up?" Later, the text read: "Perfect Chance to Arrest Illegal Immigrants?" [Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto, 4/10/06]
Smerconish: "[L]aw enforcement ought to step in" at immigration demonstrations and consider "gathering ... up" undocumented immigrants. Guest-hosting MSNBC's Scarborough Country, Philadelphia-based radio host Michael Smerconish suggested that "maybe law enforcement ought to step in" at pro-immigration demonstrations and consider "gathering ... up" undocumented immigrants. Smerconish wondered why there was "zero discussion" of "gathering them up" at the demonstrations, when "[a]ll I keep hearing is how would we ever find them?" [MSNBC's Scarborough Country, 4/10/06]
Doocy suggested "round[ing] them up right then, when they're saying, 'Hey, I'm right here.' " On Fox & Friends, syndicated radio host Erich "Mancow" Muller announced that he was "having a big rally here in Chicago" for a "group" that he said was "pro-illegal murder and illegal car thieves." Muller added: "We're just getting together, and we're going to be out on the street. We're for illegal murder and illegal car thievery. So, we just like illegal stuff." Muller added: "I just like illegal murder and illegal car thieves. So, you know, it's illegal, but -- and, in fact, all the people who have done it are going to be out there on the street, and hopefully, none of the cops will come arrest us." Co-host Steve Doocy then said: "Yeah, you wouldn't want to round them up right then, when they're saying, 'Hey, I'm right here.' " [Fox News' Fox & Friends, 4/3/06]
Right-wing rhetoric: Stoking fears over displays of the Mexican flag
Media figures attacked Mexican-flag wavers, but not those waving Irish, Italian, or Israeli flags. Following immigration rallies, media figures criticized demonstrators for carrying Mexican flags, but the same media figures had not complained about people waving other nations' flags, such as Irish flags at St. Patrick's Day events, Italian flags at Columbus Day events, or Israeli flags at Israel Day events. Some commentators even dismissed the comparison. For instance, National Review editor Rich Lowry called the Mexican-flag waving "more ominous" than the St. Patrick's Day or Columbus Day displays.
Savage: "[B]urn the Mexican flag!" On his radio show, Savage urged his listeners to "burn the Mexican flag" in opposition to undocumented immigrants, telling them to "[b]urn a Mexican flag for America, burn a Mexican flag for those who died that you should have a nationality and a sovereignty, go out in the street and show you're a man, burn 10 Mexican flags, if I could recommend it. Put one in the window upside down and tell them to go back where they came from! And if that's a little to xenophobic for you, ask yourself why the xenophobes from Mexico wave their flag in your country." [The Savage Nation, 3/27/06]
Fox News: Waving Mexican flag shows "antagonistic edge," waving U.S. flag "just a cover" and "a ploy to win America's support." Asman cited demonstrators' use of Mexican flags as evidence of "an antagonistic edge" and suggested that the use of U.S. flags and signs written in English at pro-immigration demonstrations was "just a cover" by the demonstrators to conceal their "real intention, which is to keep things as normal among illegal immigrants in the country." Similarly, Neil Cavuto suggested that the pro-immigration demonstrators' U.S. flags were "just a prop" and "just a ploy to win America's support." [Your World with Neil Cavuto, 4/10/06; 4/11/06]
Right-wing rhetoric: Immigration is an "invasion"
Buchanan: Illegal immigration is "an invasion of the United States of America" and "[t]he whole world is coming." On MSNBC's Hardball, Buchanan claimed that the influx of undocumented immigrants into the United States is "not immigration" but "an invasion of the United States of America" that is "coming not only from Mexico," but "from the whole world." He reiterated: "The whole world is coming." [MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, 5/15/06]
Savage: "This is an invasion by any other name." Savage said, "We, the people, are being displaced by the people of Mexico. This is an invasion by any other name. Everybody with a brain understands that. Everybody who understands reality understands we are being pushed out of our own country." [The Savage Nation, 3/27/06]
Buchanan: "This is an invasion, the greatest invasion in history." In State of Emergency, Buchanan wrote of immigration: "This is an invasion, the greatest invasion in history." He also wrote: "We are witnessing how nations perish. We are entered upon the final act of our civilization. The last scene is the deconstruction of the nations. The penultimate scene, now well underway, is the invasion unresisted." [State of Emergency]
Right-wing rhetoric: U.S., Mexico are in a state of "war"
Tancredo: [W]e are at war with Mexico, in a way." On Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, WorldNetDaily.com columnist Tom Tancredo -- then a Republican congressman from Colorado -- said, "[I]n a way, we are at war with Mexico, in a way. I'll say it in this way: Mexico is aiding and abetting an invasion of this country. They are part of the problem. They are doing what they are -- in fact, they are creating situations along that border using their own military to protect drug trafficking into the United States, pushing their own people into the United States for a variety of reasons. It is an invasion. It is an act of aggression." [Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, 6/26/06, transcript from the Nexis database]
Beck sidekick Gray: "[W]e are in a war with Mexico right now." Pat Gray, who is now a co-host of Glenn Beck's radio show, appeared on Beck's then-CNN Headline News show and claimed that "we are in a war with Mexico right now." After Beck agreed that "we better wake up soon," Gray responded: "[O]r we're going to wake up dead." [CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck, 9/25/06]
Right-wing rhetoric: Immigrants are fundamentally altering American culture or way of life
O'Reilly claimed to have exposed the "hidden agenda" behind the immigrant rights movement: "the browning of America." O'Reilly claimed that during his Fox News show, guest Charles Barron, a New York City councilman, had revealed the "hidden agenda" behind the current immigration debate. O'Reilly told his radio listeners: "[T]he bottom line is Charles Barron said last night is there is a movement in this country to wipe out 'white privilege' and to have the browning of America." But in the interview, Barron at no point claimed that he and other advocates for immigrant rights are motivated by a desire to force white Americans into the minority -- despite O'Reilly's repeated efforts to provoke such an acknowledgment. [The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, 4/12/06]
Beck: "[I]llegal immigrants are attacking our culture, and our way of life." On his then-CNN Headline News show, Beck said, "[A]t the very least, illegal immigrants are attacking our culture, and our way of life. They are not melting into our melting pot -- they're here for the cash." He later said, "I mean, we've got all these threats coming in from overseas, but the simplest way is for us to lose the culture of the West is just to do nothing and let illegal immigrants not melt in and take the culture away from us." [Glenn Beck, 8/24/06]
Buchanan: "They're not welcome to come here and insult the symbols of our country, and that's what these outsiders have done." On Scarborough Country, Buchanan said that a Spanish-language version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" is "a provocation and an insult" and that immigrants are "not welcome to come here and insult the symbols of our country, and that's what these outsiders have done." Buchanan then said that the Spanish recording is "a good thing in this sense: The American people are awakening to the character of these people." [Scarborough Country, 5/1/06]
Matthews: Republicans "have a right to fear" a "cultural change" that would result in their hometowns "becom[ing] overwhelmingly Mexican." On Hardball, Matthews claimed that House Republicans who had passed a bill that would apparently have criminalized undocumented immigrants, their employers, and those who provide aid to them "have a right to fear" a "cultural change" that would result in their home states and towns "becom[ing] overwhelmingly Mexican." Matthews was responding to a suggestion by guest Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now, that "the Republicans who passed the House bill" are "afraid" that the United States will soon have "a majority Latino population." Matthews later said, "It's not my point view necessarily," before suggesting that "90 percent of this country" agrees with the "viewpoint" that "I didn't move to Mexico; Mexico moved to me, and I'm complaining about it." [Hardball with Chris Matthews, 3/30/06]
O'Reilly: "[Y]ou're on a nice block ... and then the house next to you is turned into an illegal alien Club Med." On his radio show, O'Reilly said:
You've got the folks who don't have emotion invested in it, other than the farmers down and the ranchers down on the border are going -- as the lady just called up, [caller] -- say, look, I got garbage in my -- on my ranch every day. I mean, I'm under siege. They have emotion invested in it. But those of us up here don't.
Unless you live in a town, like Farmingville, Long Island -- we went over this before -- where you bought a house, you spent a couple of hundred thousand dollars, you're on a nice block, your kids are happy, and then the house next to you is turned into an illegal alien Club Med. And this happens all over the country. [The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, 3/27/06]
Buchanan: "I think what's coming is the complete balkanization of America." On Hardball, Buchanan said, "I think what's coming is the complete balkanization of America, and I'm afraid it's going to be by ethnicity and culture, and language, and every other way. ... And so, then, it's not like the country you and I grew up in, Chris, whereby we were monocultural. We were monocultural." [Hardball, 6/5/06]
O'Reilly wondered whether children of Mexican immigrants in U.S. "have any kind of traditional value system" or are "setting up Acapulco North." On his radio show, O'Reilly wondered whether children of legal and undocumented immigrants from Mexico who are attending school in the United States "have any kind of traditional value system at all, vis-à-vis what America used to be," or whether they are "taking their Mexican values, because most of them are Mexicans, and, you know, basically setting up Acapulco North." [The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, 8/15/06]
Buchanan: "You're going to have a giant Kosovo in the Southwest, which de facto is going to secede." On Scarborough Country, Buchanan said: "[Y]ou cannot absorb 40 to 60 million more people. You're going to have a giant Kosovo in the Southwest, which de facto is going to secede from this country." [Scarborough Country, 6/5/06]
Buchanan: Immigration will turn U.S. into "a polyglot boarding house for the world, a tangle of squabbling minorities." On CNN's The Situation Room, Buchanan warned that "[w]e'll become a polyglot boarding house for the world, a tangle of squabbling minorities." He continued: "The problem with the immigration, basically -- let's take Mexico -- is these folks are breaking the law, first. Secondly, they're coming in huge numbers, like no other group before. Third, they're from a contiguous nation. Fourth, 58 percent of Mexicans believe the Southwest belongs to them. Fifth, the Mexican government is pushing them in here, and it's got a political and ideological agenda." [CNN's The Situation Room, 8/28/06]
Right-wing rhetoric: Immigration reform is part of plot to institute "North American Union"
"North American Union" is an absurd conspiracy theory. Right-wing media, including Dobbs, have obsessively warned that elements in the U.S. government are secretly plotting to merge the United States with Mexico and Canada in a "North American Union" similar to the European Union. During the June 21, 2006, edition of his CNN show, Dobbs stated that "the Bush administration is pushing ahead with a plan to create a North American union with Canada and Mexico" and later asked: "Do you think, our question is, maybe somebody should take a vote if we're going to merge Canada, Mexico and the United States as the leaders of the three countries are attempting to do with the security and prosperity partnership? Yes or no. Cast your vote at LouDobbs.com." Dobbs' CNN colleague Suzanne Malveaux later described the North American Union rhetoric as "conspiracy theor[y]." [Lou Dobbs Tonight, 6/21/06]
Corsi: "North American Union ... was the hidden agenda behind the Bush administration's true open borders policy." Jerome Corsi, co-author of Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, wrote in a column that "President Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, effectively erasing our borders with both Mexico and Canada. This was the hidden agenda behind the Bush administration's true open borders policy. Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico." [HumanEvents.com, 5/19/06]
WND's Farah linked Bush guest-worker proposal to plan by "one-worlders" to merge U.S., Mexico, Canada. Appearing on a radio show, WorldNetDaily founder and editor Joseph Farah claimed that the "one-worlders" of the Council on Foreign Relations have a plan to merge the United States, Mexico, and Canada by 2010 and suggested that Bush's proposed guest-worker program is part of this plan. Farah said, "Sometimes, the conspiracies are right." [American Family Radio's Today's Issues, 4/4/06]
Buchanan: Vicente Fox's "ultimate goal" is making Mexico and U.S. "basically part of the North American Union." On Lou Dobbs Tonight, Buchanan said, "The government of Mexico is pushing its poor and unemployed into the United States to ease social pressure on itself. Secondly, they get $16 billion in remittances back to Mexico. Third, it is awoken to the idea that it can reannex the American southwest, which it used to hold, linguistically, culturally, ethnically and socially, not militarily by pushing all these people in there and creating a gigantic fifth column in America." Buchanan added: "The ultimate goal of Vicente Fox is the erasure of the border between the United States and Mexico. He has said as much and to make the two basically part of the North American Union in which Mexico will get ... a constant flow of cash from the wealthy USA and La Reconquista is the objective." [Lou Dobbs Tonight, 9/5/06, Nexis transcript]
Other hate speech and outrageous rhetoric
Savage: Undocumented immigrants at protests are "vermin." On his radio show, Savage warned political leaders against "tak[ing] to the streets," saying "to the politicians": "I warn you personally. You will not be re-elected. If you take to the streets with the vermin who are trying to dictate to us how we should run America, even though they're not even entitled to vote or be here, you're going to be thrown out of office. The people will throw you out of office. There are not enough of them to re-elect you. You will be out of a job. You will not have a living. You will be hunting for a job. Maybe, you'll be picking the vegetables." [The Savage Nation, 4/10/06]
Beck: Undocumented immigrants are either "terrorists," outlaws, or people who "can't make a living in their own dirtbag country." On his radio show, Beck claimed that there are three reasons that an undocumented immigrant "comes across the border in the middle of the night": "One, they're terrorists; two, they're escaping the law; or three, they're hungry. They can't make a living in their own dirtbag country." [The Glenn Beck Program, 4/27/06]
O'Reilly: Immigration controversy is "becoming a race war." On his radio show, O'Reilly stated that "you just cannot keep assimilating millions of people in here at the rate they're coming without unintended consequences. And you've got them all day long. So now, it's becoming a race war. That's what it's becoming -- a race war. You see half a million people show up in L.A. and they were waving Mexican flags. And they're saying, 'Hey, we have a right to be here.' No, you don't. If you're illegal, you don't have a right to be here. But they don't see it that way." [The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, 3/29/06]
Boortz: "[W]here do we store 11 million Hispanics just waiting to ship 'em back to Nicaragua, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico? ... The Superdome!" Nationally syndicated radio host Neal Boortz said that undocumented immigrants "are not going to be shipped back. I mean ... think about -- Mexico doesn't want 'em back, first of all. Think what happens if we round -- first of all, where do we store 11 million Hispanics just waiting to ship 'em back to Nicaragua, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico? Where do we store 'em? ... The Superdome! Exactly. And the Astrodome in Houston. That's where we'll put 'em. We've got practice." [Cox Radio Syndication's The Neal Boortz Show, 3/27/06]
Cavuto: Are immigration protests "economic terrorism?" On Your World, Cavuto addressed the "Day Without Immigrants" protests, asking, "So is it freedom of expression, or economic terrorism?" At various points throughout the program, the on-screen text echoed Cavuto's question, asking: " 'A Day Without Immigrants'; Economic Terrorism?" [Your World with Neil Cavuto, 5/1/06]
Flames, commence fanning.
Lou Dobbs?
From the L. A. Times
1. 40% of all workers in L. A. County ( L. A. County has 10.2 million people)are working for cash and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a green card.
2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
8 Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
9. 21 radio stations in L. A.. are Spanish speaking.
10.. In L. A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish.
(There are 10.2 million people in L. A. County . )
But hey, keep making your case to bring em in here! If all cities could be like LA, it would be one big great place, right?
Second, the underground economy is not easy to quantify. If you ever lived in Los Angeles you would know.
What the-?!
And, please provide your links to support these outlandish claims. Placing your own numbers by them does not tell us which right-wing site you plagiarized them from.
It's NOT from the LA Times, it's an Internet rumor!
The various figures quoted were not taken from a 2002 Los Angeles Times article...
Example: 4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
Truth: The California Vital Records Department of the Department of Health services classified as "Hispanic" the race/ethnicity of 62.7% of all births occurring in Los Angeles county in 2001. The statistic quoted above therefore erroneously characterizes ALL parents of Hispanic heritage in Los Angeles County in 2001 as being "illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal."
You can try to twist the facts and use illogical reasoning, but at the end of the day, they are law-breakers who are not wanted in America.
some of those comments were over three months old.
4 years
It's called: Desperation.
Can't have that, it's pathetic.
I guess you're idea of " promoting civility and a fresh beginning from now on" is for conservatives to trot out the same old debunked lies (death panels, federal funding of abortions, socialism, etc) and you're idea of a fresh begining is to help spread the misinformation about legislative procedures that have been used extensively by Republicans in the past as being undemocratic, treasonous and illegal.
You can wipe those crocodile tears from your face now.
If you think that moves anything along beyond more nastiness, you're wrong.
Nice job.
Rewrite and simplification of Tax Code
Uniter, not a divider
Compassionate conservative
Establishment of health centers in every poor or rural county in the country that does not have one
Promoting flexible schedules to make companies family friendly
Here's a whopper:
"There are 43 million uninsured Americans – 4 million more than when the current administration took office. George W. Bush will reverse this trend by making health insurance affordable for hard-working, low-income families." Bush/Cheney 2000 campaign
"To restore confidence in government, [George W. Bush] will...attack pork-barrel spending." Bush/Cheney campaign 2000
"[B]y far the vast majority of my tax cuts go to the bottom end of the spectrum." Bush 2000
"Governor Bush's income tax cuts will benefit all Americans, but they are especially focused on low and moderate income families."
"As President, Governor Bush will pay the debt down to a historically low level."
"I'll lower the price of oil."
"...Future generations shouldn't be forced to pay back money that we have borrowed. We pay back money that we have borrowed. We owe this kind of responsibility to our children and grandchildren..."
"The President's plan will accelerate this trend to record rates by retiring an historic $2 trillion in debt over the next 10 years."
"The state can do what they want to do. Don't try to trap me in this state's issue like you're trying to get me into." Gov. George W. Bush on Gay Marriage, Presidential Primary Debate, 2/15/00
"You can't distinguish between al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror."
"We're going to keep the promise of Social Security and keep the government from raiding the Social Security surplus."
Oops, there I go bringing up things from the past.
Name a conservative that has EVER mentioned race, just ONE....
ILLEGAL ALIENS span ALL races and a heck of a lot of the ethnic groups as well....
YOU epitomize the racists from the likes of "la raza". I still haven't figured out which race they refer to as "the race".... bigoted racists - go ahead deny it....
trolls, good one, how about the paid shills for the mmfa talking points, you one? pork eater, PIG is more appropriate.
Well. . . Limbaugh did call the President "boy" and "uppity", and Beck said that President Obama hated white culture.
Okay. I deny it. If you had any idea what La Raza stands for or what kind of work the group does you'd (well, maybe not you personally, but any rational person) be hard pressed to call it a racist group.
Me never call racist a person what say US and Mexico at war!
Me never call racist person what use terms like anchor baby!
Me never again point out to right wing reactionaries that America changing whether they like or not!
And me never never again criticize OTP's hero, Lou Dobbs, that hateful, race-baiting coward what afraid to bite black people and think hispanics easier!
Oops!
O the shame!
No one on the "right wing" has ANYTHING against legal and lawful immigration. This country is largely a country of immigrants. Immigrants from all races and elasticities. My ancestors are immigrants....
What I object to, like most conservatives, is the flagrant disregard for the American boarders, and I mean all borders....
What happens if an American enters Canada or Mexico illegally and is caught??? good question. Should America respond any differently when our boarders are violated?
I find it rather disturbing that YOU make incendiary accusations regarding those that "vote thumbs down". Exactly what in your statements(s) are "the truth"... WHO from the rw republican party has ever said ANYTHING regarding immigration or immigration laws... I can only recall discussion on ILLEGAL ALIENS. ILLEGAL ALIENS refers to ANYONE in this country ILLEGALLY. I certainly don't recall anyone singling out those of hispanic ethnicity vs. canadian or irish or israeli.... PROOF, not just lip smacking, name names and fill us in on how you KNOW they are the far rw republicans.... Thanks
Again, what happens if an American enters Canada or Mexico illegally and is caught??? Believe me it isn't very pretty. Perhaps we should take a lesson.....
Well for starters there's Michelle Maglalang. You may not know who that is because that's her maiden name.
What hatred. I am the right wing of the Republican party and my desire that people follow the law is not based upon hatred of anybody - it is based on the desire to have law and order. Opposition to illegal immigration has NOTHING to do with race.
From NCLR.org:
Also noted, and thanks you for answering hispanic does NOT refer to a race but an ethnicity, regardless of race....
So now that a leftard pointed this out, so that I can't be called a racist, tell me, how exactly is anti-ILLEGAL ALIEN considered far rw republican racism? or hate?
anti-ILLEGAL ALIEN simply means WITHOUT regard to race or ethnicity, ILLEGAL ALIENS should return to their countries of origin, be it Ireland, GB, Canada, Mexico, Russia.....
NONE of you have pointed out a SINGLE rw republican OR conservative that has specified ANY race or ethnicity.... DEFLECTION, SPIN, LIES and NO PROOF.....
Right-wing rhetoric: Immigrant-rights marchers, immigrants are seeking to reclaim the Southwest for Mexico
Right-wing rhetoric: Immigrant rights marchers are "racis[t]"
Right-wing rhetoric: Pro-immigration marchers should be arrested or deported
Right-wing rhetoric: Stoking fears over displays of the Mexican flag
Right-wing rhetoric: Immigration is an "invasion"
Right-wing rhetoric: U.S., Mexico are in a state of "war"
Right-wing rhetoric: Immigrants are fundamentally altering American culture or way of life
Right-wing rhetoric: Immigration reform is part of plot to institute "North American Union"
The whole article points this out.
AGAIN - NONE of you have pointed out a SINGLE rw republican OR conservative that has specified ANY race or ethnicity.... DEFLECTION, SPIN, LIES and NO PROOF.....
DiggsDick Armey Calls Tancredo Destructive to Republicans on Immigration
By Heather Tuesday Mar 16, 2010 2:00pm
"...Who in the Republican Party was the genius that said that now that we have identified the fastest-growing voting demographic in America, let’s go out and alienate them? [...]
The Republican Party is the most naturally talented party at losing its natural constituents in the history of the world. This party was born with the emancipation proclamation and can’t get a black vote to save its life. How do they do that? Well, the same thing with the Hispanics. [...]"----Dick Armey
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/dick-armey-calls-tancredo-destructive-republicans
NO ILLEGAL ALIEN regardless of how they come here, (and faux "brides" are ILLEGAL) are welcome. Those that want to enter and stay in the USA via legal processes (which I agree need to be reformed),
Fundamentally changing the face of America.... Interesting, America has a continuous changing face and demographic.... It seems YOU are focused on a PART of the ILLEGAL ALIEN issue.... You need to understand that ILLEGAL ALIEN describes ANYONE in this country ILLEGALLY regardless or race or ethnicity....
So,
YOU said it, YOU brought it up, so now BACK IT UP!!!! I know you CAN'T, so DIVERT, DEFLECT, SPIN and LIE SOME MORE.....
PEOPLE, remember MAIN street, not lobbyist, unions and trial-lawyers....
Regurgitated talking points, DEFLECT, DIVERT, SPIN and LIE same as always.......
Exactly how have you backed up ANY of your assertions....
Not fair - you are using facts which will confuse them. When you hit them with facts their heads spin, and they resort to namecalling.
Bobby Jindal fan - I know, they can't do ANYTHING but DEFLECT, DIVERT, SPIN and LIE.... This site is so entertaining it's great.... I hear the same shills (sozo and dell to name a couple), spouting the same duhhhh! it's a "trollll", don't duh, feed da troll... unbelievable, never support the accusations except with mmfa talking points, which they probably get via e-mail three times a day, maybe four.....
I always look at this site when I need some mind numbing time.... The names and accusations are starting to wear thin... My favorite tho is duh!!! "teabagger".... I love it. Makes me wonder how they know so much about it, teabagged I guess.....
Lord help me when I make a typo - they are all over that. God for bid I ever spell the "teh" - I am obviously too "stoopid" to know the correct spelling of the.
They can't touch conservatives on substance, so namecalling is what suffices as a rebuttal. You are right - it is entertaining. Their ignorance and complete unwillingness to face reality never ceases amuse me.
They think this bill will cut the deficit. If that is not denying reality I don't know what is.
Lets see what would you call someone who did what you did in that case? Ummmmmmm...liar,moron,trool,racist, mentally retarded,yep I think you covered it. Keep us laughing.
Who is "they" BJ? Your doctors?
"...Who in the Republican Party was the genius that said that now that we have identified the fastest-growing voting demographic in America, let’s go out and alienate them? [...]
The Republican Party is the most naturally talented party at losing its natural constituents in the history of the world. This party was born with the emancipation proclamation and can’t get a black vote to save its life. How do they do that? Well, the same thing with the Hispanics. [...]"----Dick Armey
Remember keep em' laughing!!! HeHehe...
WHY, because their message is the same,.. ILLEGAL ALIENS should be repatriated with their county of origin REGARDLESS of the COUNTRY, the RACE or the ETHNICITY.... You DON'T prove me wrong because you CAN'T... DEFLECT, DIVERT, SPIN and LIE....
You certainly are right about one thing, the republicans are LOUSY at persuading "natural constituents", Why? they are far less willing to lie and buy loyalty.... Believe me I have a lot of contempt for MANY republicans....
FINALLY - I DO appreciate that you have FINALLY engaged in a literate conversation.... Much of your last post IS accurate... I am still, however challenging you to PROVE you statements, not by referring me to the mmfa article, to untrustworthy....
OK so lead the blind, PROVE your point instead of just repeating the same thing OVER and OVER....
Michael Savage used "vermin" which is a creepy throwback to "The Eternal Jew" and other examples of Nazi propaganda.
The source for Dobbs’ outrageous leprosy claim is an anti-immigration zealot who once publicly stated that "most" Latino immigrant men molest girls under 12, although some specialize in boys, and some in nuns."
"Look at what has happened to Miami," the WorldNetDaily quotes Tancredo as saying in an interview. "It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World country."
"…..First, we should have a 'civics literacy test' before people are allowed to vote. Second, 'People who could not even spell the word vote or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House whose name is Barack Hussein Obama.'"
Mark Krikorian of National Review, disgusted with people "[d]eferring" to Sotomayor over the "unnatural pronunciation" of her name.
"Asians should change their names to make them 'easier for Americans to deal with.'" Betty Brown
"Take that bone out of your nose and call me back(to an African American female caller) Limbaugh
"Republican lawmakers in Congress are sponsoring a bill that seeks to abolish birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to illegal immigrant parents" using the headline, "GOP Targets 'Anchor Babies.'" Several media outlets have identified the term "anchor babies" as, in the words of the Rocky Mountain News, "derogatory, even racist, because it implies that Hispanics are having children as a way to stay in the U.S."
Several media outlets have identified term as "derogatory," "pejorative".
"There's the new America for you. Bring them in by the millions. Bring in 10 million more from Africa. Bring them in with AIDS. Show how multicultural you are. They can't reason, but bring them in with a machete in their head. Go ahead. Bring them in with machetes in their mind." Savage
"The Democrat [sic] Party is the minority party. ... [Sen. Barack] Obama is a minority, a half minority at least. The membership is made up largely of minority blocs, the Hispanic caucus and the gay caucus -- caucuses that are all against the white person." Savage
"In 1960, whites were 90 percent of the country. The Census Bureau recently estimated that whites already account for less than two-thirds of the population and will be a minority by 2050. Other estimates put that day much sooner. One may assume the new majority will not be such compassionate overlords as the white majority has been. If this sort of drastic change were legally imposed on any group other than white Americans, it would be called genocide. Yet whites are called racists merely for mentioning the fact that current immigration law is intentionally designed to reduce their percentage in the population." Coulter
"I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote." Coulter
So lets assume they are in fact racist and hateful.... How does that have ANYTHING to do with the generalized statement "the far rw republicans"... Should I assume all of you far lw democrats are as ignorant and self serving as william ayers or jeramia wright? Of course not.... If you can identify racist or hateful things far rw republicans have said, I'll support you 100%, It's NOT an issue of ethnicity, race or country of origin.... It's an issue of being in America (USA) without permission, ILLEGALLY... period.....
IF there is someone from the far rw republican party that behaves in a racist or hateful wy well then I'd discount him or her just like I discount ayers and wright... pretty simple....
"ILLEGAL ALIENS should be repatriated with their countries of origin"....is DEFLECTED, DIVERTED, SPUN and LIED about, that it becomes racist and hateful....
ILLEGAL ALIENS come from MOST countries and are ALL races and ETHNICITY's.... DEFLECT, SPIN and LIE some more.....
Just point out where I said ILLEGAL ALIENS or "some" race should be sent home.... NOT!!!! ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS SHOULD BE SENT HOME!!!! You are a racist and a bigot....
What gives YOU the right to define the term ILLEGAL ALIEN as racist? DEFLECTION, SPIN and LIES same as always... FYI - ILLEGAL ALIENS are ALL races, EVERYONE that is in this country ILLEGALLY or without PERMISSION.... Never been anything different, never will be.... racist
HOW stupid to call reality a "loaded term" it's a FACTUAL term.... If it had anything to do with "immigrants" they'd be here LEGALLY.... There is no more descriptive term.... If they were here LEGALLY they wouldn't be called ILLEGAL ALIENS but immigrants, or guests.... Both are legal and absolutely no issue....
I do believe we need comprehensive REAL immigration reform....
THE ALL CAPS ARE BE CAUSE YOU ARE SO DENSE!!!
HOW stupid to call reality a "loaded term" it's a FACTUAL term.... If it had anything to do with "immigrants" they'd be here LEGALLY.... There is no more descriptive term.... If they were here LEGALLY they wouldn't be called ILLEGAL ALIENS but immigrants, or guests.... Both are legal and absolutely no issue....
I do believe we need comprehensive REAL immigration reform....
THE ALL CAPS ARE BE CAUSE YOU ARE SO DENSE!!!
"The Race" sponsors militant ethnic nationalist charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars (at least $8 million in federal education grants). The schools include Aztlan Academy in Tucson, Ariz., the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Ariz., Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School in St. Paul, Minn., and La Academia Semillas del Pueblo in Los Angeles, whose principal inveighed: "We don't want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don't need a White water fountain … ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction." Malkin
But I don't want to detract from the challenge you issued:
Mr. Dobbs says he stands "100 percent behind" the claim that there have been 7,000 new cases of leprosy in the U.S. in recent years. What’s more, he has attributed part of the increase to "unscreened illegal immigrants."
The source for Dobbs’ outrageous leprosy claim is an anti-immigration zealot who once publicly stated that "most" Latino immigrant men molest girls under 12, although some specialize in boys, and some in nuns."
"Look at what has happened to Miami," the WorldNetDaily quotes Tancredo as saying in an interview. "It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World country."
"…..First, we should have a 'civics literacy test' before people are allowed to vote. Second, 'People who could not even spell the word vote or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House whose name is Barack Hussein Obama.'"
Mark Krikorian of National Review, disgusted with people "[d]eferring" to Sotomayor over the "unnatural pronunciation" of her name.
"Asians should change their names to make them 'easier for Americans to deal with.'" Betty Brown
"Take that bone out of your nose and call me back(to an African American female caller) Limbaugh
"Republican lawmakers in Congress are sponsoring a bill that seeks to abolish birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to illegal immigrant parents" using the headline, "GOP Targets 'Anchor Babies.'" Several media outlets have identified the term "anchor babies" as, in the words of the Rocky Mountain News, "derogatory, even racist, because it implies that Hispanics are having children as a way to stay in the U.S."
Several media outlets have identified term as "derogatory," "pejorative".
"There's the new America for you. Bring them in by the millions. Bring in 10 million more from Africa. Bring them in with AIDS. Show how multicultural you are. They can't reason, but bring them in with a machete in their head. Go ahead. Bring them in with machetes in their mind." Savage
"The Democrat [sic] Party is the minority party. ... [Sen. Barack] Obama is a minority, a half minority at least. The membership is made up largely of minority blocs, the Hispanic caucus and the gay caucus -- caucuses that are all against the white person." Savage
"In 1960, whites were 90 percent of the country. The Census Bureau recently estimated that whites already account for less than two-thirds of the population and will be a minority by 2050. Other estimates put that day much sooner. One may assume the new majority will not be such compassionate overlords as the white majority has been. If this sort of drastic change were legally imposed on any group other than white Americans, it would be called genocide. Yet whites are called racists merely for mentioning the fact that current immigration law is intentionally designed to reduce their percentage in the population." Coulter
"I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote." Coulter
Republicans speak code to their base, using words like "states rights", a wink and a node for those southern whites who still long for the days Jim Crow.
And then there Tom Tancredo speaking to a screaming crowd of teabagging loonies, suggesting literacy test for voters, a return to the Jim Crows laws that used to prevent Black folks from voting. Blaming the election of President Obama on the "cult of multiculturalism" and "people who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English".
Once in a while, the truth gets the better of Republicans, like Trent Lott, publicly expressing his desire for the days of segregation to his good old Dixicrat buddy Strum Thurmond, who ran for President as a Dixicrat.
FYI: The States Rights Democratic party, commonly known as the Dixicrats was a short lived segregationist, socially conservative political party.