by Nathalie Molina Niño
Last Tuesday’s email from the president on immigration left a decidedly bad taste in my mouth.
Because the audience is those of us active with organizations like MoveOn.org, it attempted to appeal to that young, tech savvy audience, doing its best to touch our tender spots by:
- providing the example of Sergey Brin, the child of Russian immigrants who co-founded Google.
- touching on the stories of engineers educated here but unable to secure visas, thereby depriving all us hopeful startup owners of the key staff we’ll need to make us rich.
- reminding us, by telling the story of Andrew Carnegie, that even the well respected old-money families of 150 years ago had humble beginnings.
Instead, let me tell you a couple things it triggered in me, a tech savvy immigrant citizen and Obama supporter:
- At a time when the U.S. is fervently in the business of separating families by deporting hundreds of thousands of people “just trying to earn a living,” the overwhelming majority of which have brown skin and last names like mine, the only examples you could think to include in your lengthy email were two white guys?
- During this ugly time of disguising torture as “enhanced interrogation,” the closest thing you can come to referring to the rampant racism fueling laws like Arizona’s SB 1070 and its copycats is “ugly rhetoric”?
- When calling this a “nation of immigrants” while discussing “employers who wrongly exploit a cheap source of labor,” are you talking about my neighbors with the Dominican nanny or are you talking about Apple’s suicide inducing Chinese laborers?
I think we can do better, in fact, as beneficiary of over $300B in revenue from Latino-owned businesses and the leader of the world’s 2nd most populous Latin American country after Mexico, Mr. Obama needs to do better. There are more respectful ways to address 
the largest and fastest growing demographic. In fact, I’d suggest using language that starts to make amends, because more than one fourth of all children under the age of five in this country are Latino. So no matter how many of them the U.S. deports, we Latinos are going to be the primary source of funding for services that Obama’s generation will be relying on in their old age.
And we have long memories. Unlike the rest of the population of the U.S., our families are tightly knit, our divorce rates lower and our communication skills stronger because most of us are bilingual. Language means a lot to us, and we deserve a leader who can learn to use it inclusively. We don’t need to hide behind stories of more palatable white immigrant families nor do we need to be especially polite about the inhumane treatment our poor receive every day in this country, by civilian and uniformed citizens alike.
It’s time for a frank discussion on immigration, and Mr. President, I think you need to try for a do-over on this one.
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In 1986 Immigration Control and Reform Act was the original Immigration Reform bill that was subverted by business interests. Millions of illegal aliens entered the country after the mass amnesty using bogus documentation, which indicated they had been resident before the law was signed by Ronald Reagan. Even though the bill was sworn by the departed Senator Kennedy it has been shown to be a failure; not because it’s broken as Liberal and Democrats would like you to believe. But as there sections of the bill, never enforced. That everybody–including mostly Guest Workers for agriculture, that were given a path to citizenship, were able to apply for everything from food stamps to Medicaid costing within a few years $78 Billion dollars. If today, another Amnesty is passed with at least 20 million illegal alien settled here, the cost today would be just unimaginable, with access to Social Security and your pension money.
The afterwards of that Reagan bill was a silent signal for all those newcomers to depart the farms and taking-up other occupations across the country. If you want to witness the 14.5 trillion dollar US deficit reduced, we must enforce our immigration laws, policing our States with a mandatory E-Verify and the new Secure Communities provision of the Save Act. We cannot afford any more half measures, from the ongoing resistance of President Obama, politicians like Senator Harry Reid (D-NV in their growing unconstitutional push for an Immigration reform bill that disguises another capacity Amnesty. Illegal Immigration is an inflammatory issue, caused over decades of Washington lack of sympathy to US worker, now with estimates of 20 million foreign nationals feeding of the welfare system they have—NOT–attributed too? The worst issue is the instant baby citizenship law, which has become an uninterrupted national issue that is another massive entitlement for these people.
This is a foothold for hundreds of thousands of illegal families with 300.000 infants annually and probably the most fiscally exhausting expenditure for taxpayers. The Leftists and even GOP leaders have chosen not to release information of the costs of another amnesty; federal or State costs to support millions of these invaders. Now that Billionaire Donald Trump, Mike Huchabee have opt out of the presidential race, we the taxpayer citizen and legal resident need to choose somebody with a moral responsibility, in identifing the best personage for President. Currently the Tea Party that without any prejudice to a person’s political affiliation, race or religion must combat the Liberal elite in the media, who are going to crucify any challenger to Obama’s presidency. Every new candidate must face an overwhelming ordeal of rhetoric, propaganda and lies from the invasive left wing of the Democrats. They are going to dig up as much dirt as they can? It’s only illegal immigrants that have become the welfare parasites, as ethnic legal Hispanic households having being tied to the same financial brush of those who scorned the “Rule of Law.”
Another peril that must be exposed is that illegal aliens are voting in our elections and must be treated with zero tolerance. ACORN has said to have reorganized, after being dismantled by Congress and they will be registering just about anybody, no matter their immigration status.
THE TEA PARTY is the party of the American people, of–ALL–the American people, who are comprised of all delusional political party members and are ready to conclude this present President and Lib-Democratic party. Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-MN), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) are some of the leaders in the TEA PARTY, and ardent Conservative Constitutionalists that are prepared to reform our unfair tax system, reduce the government agencies and return them to state control and insure a Congressional amendment to halt out-of-control spending. The TEA PARTY are against anything that is an obstacle to the sovereignty rights of all Americans and are ready deport illegal immigrants through ATTRITION. Get going today and join the monolith membership of the TEA PARTY at the National and local branches.
Britt: you are literally too stupid to insult.
And btw “Britt,” the white supremacists called…they said for you not to be late to the weekly meeting on Friday. And please never show your face here ever again with your hateful regurgitations of rhetoric and nonsense.