Tea Party: Don’t Give Us Your Huddled Masses
…disdain or anger when they act against the established norm (e.g. when they don’t know or refuse to learn the language)
…it goes directly against the message inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. When people are willing to risk never seeing their children again just to help them escape squalor, violence and instability, these people deserve a helping hand. The obvious hatred, especially from citizens of areas who largely vote Republican, for Central American refugees comes through loud and clear. By waving American flags and signs like “return to sender,” these terrified people are greeted with the worst America has to offer: racist, ignorant bigots.
Happy Independence Day used to mean celebrating our freedom by fighting oppression and giving folks a fair chance for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Hard-working, destitute folks who simply want a chance to live free and raise their families are, like the early 1900’s, met with hateful protest. Of course, in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, the animosity was directed at Jews and Italians.
The most dramatic case of lynching occurred in 1891 New Orleans, when 11 Italians were lynched by a mob.
Italians, especially more olive-skinned Sicilians, were treated with distrust and hatred. Sicilian-Americans like Justice Antonin Scalia would never be where he is today if America continued to treat immigrants like filthy refuse.
In Murietta California, the Mayor, Alan Long, urged residents to protest the federal government’s decision to move the recent influx of undocumented, largely Central American women and children, into the Riverside County City. The mayor gave this statement:
“Murrieta expects our government to enforce our laws, including the deportation of illegal immigrants caught crossing our borders, not disperse them into our local communities…”
It is antithetical to the American spirit of inclusiveness and acceptance to publicize these angry xenophobes, especially on this Independence Day. Thankfully, there’s a counter movement which will hopefully make this trying time for these poor, undocumented people a little more bearable. Their signs say things like “Americans ARE Immigrants,” which gives us hope our nation isn’t going the way of the Koch Brothers’ hate group, the Tea Party.
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By: VegasJessie
A resident of Las Vegas Nevada, a graduate of the University of Oklahoma as a Political Science major. Very motivated to get people to participate in the electoral process.
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Shades July 5th, 2014 at 08:20
Funny how the people who insist a fertilized egg has more rights than a living, breathing female are the same ones who demand children be returned to their hell-hole country of origin, as long as they aren’t Cubans. Now that I think of it, since younger Cubans tend to vote for the democratic party, that may change soon.
John Tarter July 5th, 2014 at 11:04
With your logic, we should just open the borders to anyone and everyone who wants to flee the he’ll-holes of Africa, the Middle East and other places from around the world where life is difficult. We can’t take them all in without adversely affecting our own lives. Think of our own American born children, not the world’s.
Shades July 5th, 2014 at 13:12
Since when did republicans give a damn about American born children? Zygotes, yes, but kids who need food to eat, a warm place to sleep and a fact-based public education … not so much.
Shades July 5th, 2014 at 08:20
Funny how the people who insist a fertilized egg has more rights than a living, breathing female are the same ones who demand children be returned to their hell-hole country of origin, as long as they aren’t Cubans. Now that I think of it, since younger Cubans tend to vote for the democratic party, that may change soon.
John Tarter July 5th, 2014 at 11:04
With your logic, we should just open the borders to anyone and everyone who wants to flee the he’ll-holes of Africa, the Middle East and other places from around the world where life is difficult. We can’t take them all in without adversely affecting our own lives. Think of our own American born children, not the world’s.
Shades July 5th, 2014 at 13:12
Since when did republicans give a damn about American born children? Zygotes, yes, but kids who need food to eat, a warm place to sleep and a fact-based public education … not so much.
Debby's July 5th, 2014 at 11:12
When I look at the babies of Native and First Nation people, and of my friends, I always wonder what kind of monsters the people who founded and started this country were, that they could justify murdering, slaughtering, and hurting the children of these beautiful people. It is a question that everyone of my race and country should ask themselves repeatedly, if the want to become and transcend those self righteous, evil, and immoral ways. Ignoring those facts do not make us a better people or Nation. We can see from this article that that behavior and evil is still alive and flourishing in the descendants and people who founded this country for their immoral and evil ” Liberty” !
Debby's July 5th, 2014 at 11:14
Look at this beautiful baby! Only a heart of evil would willingly justify hurting these children!
Debby's July 5th, 2014 at 11:16
I am not sure why the pictures are not posting? .
Alan your new server is frustrating. Sometimes, I can’t even post comments. Hummm……
Debby's July 5th, 2014 at 11:21
Okay….it takes a few minutes! Thanks!
mea_mark July 5th, 2014 at 11:23
Heavy traffic this morning. Pictures really slow things down.
Debby's July 5th, 2014 at 11:30
Thanks Mark. It takes me awhile to adjust these days too. Lol! My joints just don’t work like they use to! Hehehehe!
Saint_Augustine July 5th, 2014 at 12:01
Roll bigger joints or try a new supplier. ;)
Debby's July 5th, 2014 at 13:36
Hahahahahahahahahahaha ! Maybe the medicinal effect on my joints would be good but not on my brain. I am one of those that has an extremely negative affect from smoking pot. My receptors are greatly impaired. I can’t do anything but wander from room to room and think about eating or wondering why I came into a room! I don’t enjoy it!
Debby's July 5th, 2014 at 11:12
When I look at the babies of Native and First Nation people, and of my friends, I always wonder what kind of monsters the people who founded and started this country were, that they could justify murdering, slaughtering, and hurting the children of these beautiful people. It is a question that everyone of my race and country should ask themselves repeatedly, if they want to become good people and transcend those self righteous, evil, and immoral ways. Ignoring those facts do not make us a better people or Nation. We can see from this article that this attitude, behavior, and evil is still alive and flourishing in the descendants and people who founded this country for their immoral and evil ” Liberty” !
Debby's July 5th, 2014 at 11:14
Look at this beautiful baby! Only a heart of evil would willingly justify hurting these children!
Debby's July 5th, 2014 at 11:16
I am not sure why the pictures are not posting? .
Alan your new server is frustrating. Sometimes, I can’t even post comments. Hummm……
Debby's July 5th, 2014 at 11:21
Okay….it takes a few minutes! Thanks!
mea_mark July 5th, 2014 at 11:23
Heavy traffic this morning. Pictures really slow things down.
Debby's July 5th, 2014 at 11:30
Thanks Mark. It takes me awhile to adjust these days too. Lol! My joints just don’t work like they use to! Hehehehe!
Saint_Augustine July 5th, 2014 at 12:01
Roll bigger joints or try a new supplier. ;)
Debby's July 5th, 2014 at 13:36
Hahahahahahahahahahaha ! Maybe the medicinal effect on my joints would be good but not on my brain. I am one of those that has an extremely negative affect from smoking pot. If I smoke pot, which I tried over thirty five years years ago, my receptors were greatly impaired. I can’t do anything but wander from room to room and think about eating or wondering why I came into a room! I don’t enjoy it!
ChrisVosburg July 5th, 2014 at 12:07
Last add Murrieta:
Camera crews showed up en masse late yesterday afternoon in time to roll for the local evening newscasts, but again, nothing doing, Sorry, no buses, dogged field reporters!
It became apparent last night that the Feddle Gummint pulled a fast one on the easily bamboozled and sunburned suckers, in a flourish of legerdemigrant:
The expected planeload of about 140 migrants arrived yesterday evening at Lindbergh field in San Diego, where they boarded three buses bound for the Border Patrol station in San Ysidro.
ChrisVosburg July 5th, 2014 at 12:07
Last add Murrieta:
Camera crews showed up en masse late yesterday afternoon in time to roll for the local evening newscasts, but again, nothing doing, Sorry, no buses, dogged field reporters!
It became apparent last night that the Feddle Gummint pulled a fast one on the easily bamboozled and sunburned suckers, in a flourish of legerdemigrant:
The expected planeload of about 140 migrants arrived yesterday evening at Lindbergh field in San Diego, where they boarded three buses bound for the Border Patrol station in San Ysidro.