Posted by
Playful Walrus on Thursday, May 01, 2008 3:47:22 PM
Nativo V. Lopez, otherwise known as Larry, is the national president of the Mexican American [But Mostly Just Plain Mexican] Political Association and was a lead organizer of the illegal alien marches of 2006. He has a column that ran today, entitled “Reason We March on May Day.” We already know why, Larry. It is because you are a commie.
The political muscle necessary to make substantive policy changes favorable to immigrant working families devolves from organization of the numbers exercised repeatedly toward very specific ends.
Immigrants are people who come here legally intending to become citizens. You champion illegal aliens. Nice use of the term “working families”, too. I guess we lazy Americans aren’t workers, and single people don't matter.
We continue to wage costly battles over too many issues related to the social well-being of our families. The list is long, and much remains as a legacy of the nasty 1990s in California _ denial of driver licenses, higher education, financial aid, health-care access, business and professional licenses, employment authorization.
Yes, in Larry’s world, illegal aliens are entitled to all of those things – at YOUR expense. They currently do have such access, in most of those cases.
We also struggle against overt forms of state terror, including wanton workplace and neighborhood raids by the Immigration and Ice Enforcement,
That’s not terror, Larry. And it isn’t happening enough.
the arbitrary impounding of vehicles (which constitutes the outright seizure of personal assets),
No, that’s hardly arbitrary. When a driver is pulled over for a violation and that driver does not have a license, then their car is impounded. Sometimes. Don’t like it? Privatize the roads.
a growing number of police checkpoints in multiple jurisdictions,
Oh, so now getting drunk and then driving should be okay? As long as it is Mexican beer, I’m sure.
and the increased cooperation between ICE and local police authorities throughout the country.
Oh no! Law enforcement working together! Oh, the horror of it all! How DARE we deport people who broke the law to come/stay here, and are subsequently committing other crimes? We should welcome criminals from other countries, right?
Notwithstanding a decade of political gains and increased electoral representation for Latinos at all levels of government,
Woah there – there is a difference between the terms “Latino”, “immigrant”, and “illegal alien.”
we have not secured sufficient political strength to curb the aforementioned practices.
Well, yeah – people prefer the rule of law, Larry. Crazy, I know.
The prospects of these issues being resolved in favor of immigrants and their children within another presidential term is highly probable, provided the numbers coalesce politically at the ballot box and in the street.
It helps to commit voter fraud.
Take the elected leadership of the city of Los Angeles, for example. It is the embodiment of diversity and liberalism _ the greatest number of Latinos, blacks, Democrats, gays and liberal Jews probably ever in its storied history.
So the color of someone’s skin is important? I’m so confused! And yes, I’m sure it is important to have both heterosexuals and homosexuals approving budgets. I know I get more savvy financially every time another guy hits on me. And I guess "conservative Jews" don't count.
The City of L.A. is a horrible example. The place is a mess. You like it, Larry, because your illegal alien friends can run around waving the Mexican flag and not be beaten and robbed by the police, like they would if they were demonstrating in Mexico.
However, the city is not as friendly to immigrants as one might think. Immigrant raids continue to abound, vehicles are regularly impounded, sweat shops are more the norm than the exception, and the poverty index remains high.
Yes, because only immigrants are poor.
The city is no longer considered a sanctuary as once touted by Mayor Tom Bradley in the 1980s.
Good! Can you explain that to your buddies south of the border? I want the word to spread.
More than 94 percent of the private work force is neither represented by a union nor enjoys a collective bargaining agreement,
And this has to do with illegal aliens or immigrants or Latinos…how? Are you saying that none of those groups are capable of setting their own terms of employment? Are they somehow deficient to other groups?
the schools are a laboratory of failure for immigrant youths,
Yeah, the public schools are pretty bad. Your kind of thinking is one reason why.
and the prevalence of gangs is greater today than a generation ago _ disproportionately concentrated in immigrant neighborhoods. This is why we continue to march.
I see… I don’t recall any signs complaining about the gangs. Mostly they seem to support the gangs.
Something tells me Larry wouldn’t be so supportive if, oh, Europeans, Africans or Asians were flooding into the area on the level of Mexicans and they were rallying in the streets. Just a hunch.
I've actually dealt with this guy in person. He wishes he was the Mexican-American Al Sharpton. He's not, though.