Tag Archives: illegal immigration

So Long Texas, Hello Mexico

Better late than never. This almost year-old protest song gets the words and sentiments just about right on illegally immigrating to Mexico:

I’ll drive a rattletrap car
With no liability
I’ll demand equal rights
Though I’m there illegally
I’ll protest in the streets
Til they finally grant ’em
Sing English words
To their national anthem
HEY! El Presidente
What’s right for your people
Should be right for me

The rest of the lyrics are at the link above, while the site of the  singer/songwriter is here.

Pushing illegal immigration

"A Mexican Senate committee passed a measure Wednesday urging President Felipe Calderon to send a diplomatic note to the United States protesting the deportation of an illegal migrant who took refuge in a Chicago church for a year."

Isn’t that precious? Now the Mexican pols are openly pushing illegal Mexican immigration to the U.S.

UPDATE: And what has it gotten us, so far? "…Los Angeles is the second largest city of Mexican nationals in the world." That and similar thoughts from "Mexifornia" author Victor Davis Hanson.

George’s and Teddy’s ugly act

Despite widespread opposition, the illegal immigration bill marches to passage.

"There’s something creepy about a political class so determined to impose a vast transformative bill cooked up backstage in metaphorically smoke-filled rooms on a nation that doesn’t want it. It’s an affront to republican government and quasi-European in its disdain for the citizenry." –Mark Steyn

Why it’s almost as if Mexico City was calling the shots. There are times when this democracy looks and acts exactly like the oligarchy south of the border.

UPDATE  Well, what do you know. But even saved from this, we still have an open border that needs fencing. Fred liked the way it turned out, too.

The real answer to illegal immigration

Why, it’s nation-building, of course. In Mexico, where most of them come from. Going to the source.

Insight by WuzzaDem 

Leaving the gate open

Five years after 9/11, it’s comforting that nothing like that has happened again. But, as the Fort Dix case shows, engaging the enemy in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere probably won’t do the trick forever:

"…this is still one of the easiest countries in the world in which to establish a functioning but fraudulent identity."

Closing the borders would help. Too bad not enough politicians are willing to do it.

Those lovable Iranians

They are incensed–incensed!–at perceived injustice, wherever they find it in the world, particularly if it’s outside of Iran and in Texas–in this case right up the road from the Rancho in a little town called Taylor.

"There is a prison camp in Taylor, Texas named Hutto Residential Center [actually, the T. Don Hutto Residential Center]. It opened in May of last year. It has hundreds of children from six months old and up with their moms imprisoned there — in cells, 22 hours a day, prison uniforms, behind razor wire walls — for profit by a private prison company called Correctional Corporation of America (CCA)."

This is a holding facility for some of the hordes of illegal immigrants from Mexico who are flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border at the rate of about 1 million a year–presumably accompanied by lots of Iranians bent on mischief. The ACLU (who else?) got into the act Friday, telling the Austin daily they will investigate alleged violations of human rights at the facility. The heinous "for profit," bit apparently scars the souls of socialists everywhere, but is increasingly common in the USA as a means of keeping taxes low. Not that I believe that the Iranians or anyone else are more humane, you understand. Quite the contrary.

Via Simply Jews 

Illegals and the price of tortillas

Don’t look now, but the pressure of illegal immigration from Mexico could be about to grow, and all because of the rising price of tortillas. But it’s complicated and Mark in Mexico explains why:

"To get the prices for tortillas down, Calderón must allow the importation of more corn. In fact, he has to encourage it. The state of Iowa alone is capable of burying Mexico in a mountain of cheap and quite affordable corn meal [subsidized by U.S. government largess to argibusiness] …When that cheap corn meal hits Mexico, the country’s own producers, in most cases the small, already dirt poor farmers, will be out of business…If Mexicans want to enjoy lower tortilla prices, they’ll have to buy corn meal from Iowa…[which Mexican politicos hate to do]…For millions of Mexico’s poor, the tortilla is about all they’ve got and all they’ve ever had. And now they cannot afford even that."