All Latins not Created Equal

We don’t expect the rabid illegal immigrants who plan to flood the streets and shut down the economy on Monday to pay any attention to this, but a word to the wise: Don’t Do It
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No attention will be paid because the leaders of the mob action shout louder and appeal to the crowd’s baser instincts. One of those leaders is Jorge Rodriguez, a union official who helped organize earlier rallies credited with rattling Congress as it weighs the issue.

"We want full amnesty, full legalization for anybody who is here (illegally)," Rodriguez said. "That is the message that is going to be played out across the country on May 1." Mr. Rodriguez may be high on rhetoric, but he’s low on common sense.

Worse yet, the present hordes of illegal immigrants seek a shortcut to the ‘American Dream’ they say they are entitled to. Fact is, the American Dream is available to anyone who follows the law, learns English, studies the Constitution, takes the test and is of the kind of moral character that’s necessary to gain citizenship. Just ask the Cubans.

America during the Marileito boatlift were hit with the dregs of the Cuban jails and insane asylums. You didn’t see the Cubans staging mass rallies demanding their ‘rights." No, the Cubans simply took care of the bad guys within their own community, continued to work hard and pretty much follow the rules and got what they wanted.

Taking a page out of the Jesse Jackson playbook is just not good sense. Basically the blacks when they staged their freedom marches were for the most part American citizens. They were protesting social injustices they felt were inflicted upon them because they were black and because their forebears were brought to this country involuntarily.

Contrast this with the illegal immigrants who, came to this country voluntarily and violated our immigration laws to do it. If they were exploited it was because they asked to be exploited, virtually begging for the low-wage, unskilled, jobs that they now claim as somehow being their birthright. What they are demanding is pure political and economic blackmail, and if our government gives them anything but a good long look at a detention camp and the inside of a deportation bus, then shame on us.

Interestingly, an American citizen can’t even legally buy property in Mexico. Lack of property ownership immediately puts him in a second class of residency. Strangely, we don’t see hordes of Americans stomping through the streets of Tijuana demanding their rights to the "Mexican Retirement Dream.’ What’s wrong here?

If the government had a scintilla of guts it would mobilize ICE teams to go to these planned rallies and round up all the illegals they can find. If the jails fill up we know of a nice, fenced, bean field in Ruskin where they can be kept until they can be whisked back home.

One final item: The argument that they are doing work that no American will do is specious on its face. They illegals have the jobs because they willingly work for less. If they weren’t in the fields working for cutrate wages the wages would increase and Americans who used to have the packing house jobs would come back.

You never have parity when one group doesn’t have to play be the rules of the other group. Billy Bob and Nancy wouldn’t last five minutes in the strawberry fields if they insisted the 4, 6 and 8-year old children had to work with them. School and child welfare officials would be on them like white on rice. Pedro and Inez, on the other hand have no trouble putting their 3, 4, 5 and 9 year-old children to work because it’s a ‘cultural thing." Last time I heard child labor was a cultural thing was in Nazi Germany.

I have Cuban friends, and they are sickened by what the Mexicans are trying to pull. And, if you’ve noticed, none of those rallies are scheduled for Little Havana. Wonder why.
Arjay