The long standing belief is that in order to secure the votes of any special interest group, particularly minorities, a politician or party must pander to that group and give them, or at least promise to give them what they want. It's a tricky proposition at best because many politicians have a substantial non-minority block that they must also contend with. What's a politician to do? How can they pander to all sides at once? Oh my....trouble, trouble.
In the case of the fastest growing "minority" special interest group, the Hispanics, it appears from the media hoopla that they all want amnesty for illegal aliens, er, eh,,, excuse my insensitivity...."undocumented visitors", or something benign and harmless sounding like that. And, the polls seem to back that up. Hispanics do all seem to be pretty much lining up on the side of Jose and Lupe from whatever Latin American country they came from, or any other country that the Empire of Spain once conquered, oppressed, plundered and gave them their language and surnames.
Yep, if you have a Spanish sounding surname, the Hispanic or Latino voting block apparently wants to give to you carte blanch, a big heaping serving of the benefits and rights once reserved for US citizens. Not all of them feel that way, we're told, but enough of them to make any fork tongued politician pander like a Chevy dealer at a lowrider convention. They're goin' around speakin' the ol' espanol, stuffing their faces with enchiladas and chili peppers and bad mouthing that "racist Arizona law", which of course, few if any of them have actually bothered to read. They don’t need to, Eric Holder told them what it says.
Two notable examples of which I refer are Meg Whitman who is running for Governor on the GOP ticket in California and Governor Perry of Texas. Yeah, the polls are sayin' "better get out there and put some distance between you and that Arizona law or you'll lose the Hispanic vote." And boy howdy, ain't they doin' just that. Governor Perry, worried that his Demorcrat opponent has caught him in the polls, went and spoke at a conference of La Raza, (The Race), in San Antonio recently and pandered like a street corner beggar, telling them just what they all wanted to hear. "Arizona's approach wouldn't fit in Texas", he pandered. So, in essence, he's against the Arizona immigration law. But, Democrat candidate Bill White also spoke and pandered even better, drawing cheers by emphasizing that, "if he becomes governor, he will absolutely veto any copycat of Arizona's law".
It doesn't matter to the panderers that the Arizona law mirrors Federal law and prohibits racial profiling. It doesn't mattter to the panderers that violence on the border is so bad the buildings in El Paso are being hit by stray bullets coming from gun battles across the border. It doesn't matter to Pandering Perry that if you go fishing on a certain lake on the Tex/Mex border, better watch out for banditos with AK47s looking to rob you of your catch, your pesos and your Lone Star beer. And if you resist, you’ll be left bobbing in the water like so much gator bait. And it doesn't matter to either panderers that both states are looking at huge budget deficits and really don't need any more illegals to feed, educate, medicate and police.
There's an article out now about the record number of these "undocumented tourists" dying of heat stroke out in the desert of Arizona trying to come here illegally, despite the efforts of the humanitarians helping them with water stations, emergency phones and directions to the nearest ACLU office.
"From Jan. 1 to July 15, the office has handled the bodies of 134 illegal immigrants, up from 93 at the same time last year and 102 in 2008. In 2007, when the office recorded the highest annual deaths of illegal immigrants, 140 bodies had been taken there through July 15."
That sure does put the lie to the statement by our esteemed Secretary Of Homeland Insecurity, Janet "the system worked" Napolitano,
"The border has never been more secure" and "Illegal immigration is down".
The problem is, she's obviously basing her statement on the apprehension stats that are lower because ICE is concentrating their efforts on the more politically palatable “criminals” at or near the Ports of Entry or picked up for the umpteenth time by some police department. But they don’t have time to worry about the desert and the unsecured areas of the borders. It’s a policy more palatable to La Raza, so the weak kneed politicians go after the “real” criminals, rather than waste time on all those poor “undocumented immigrant” criminals just looking for a better life and dropping dead from the heat and the weight of the drugs they're carrying through in the Arizona desert.
It doesn’t seem to matter to the panderers that a whole lot of those “immigrants” are being used by the drug traffickers to carry their dope for them and then are just murdered or raped, turned into prostitutes, held for ransom, or whatever.
Yeah, maybe the illegal immigration is down because they're all dying in the desert or downtown Phoenix in some back alley whorehouse. I rather tend to believe they're just not being caught and deported like they used to, and are making it up north to all those jobs Americans won't do. Who knows?
Ond thing we know for sure is that neither Napolitano, the CIA, FBI, IRS or Obama, or anyone else has a clue how many are here or came across last week or last year. There is just no way to know and if they do know, how do they know and why didn’t they stop them?
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