According to the Dallas Morning News. One little newsflash factoid to that birdcage liner–illegal aliens aren’t Texans. You have to be a citizen to be called that. Read all about it with one of the most racist, pandering editorials I’ve ever read in my life.
2007 DMN Texan of the Year: The Illegal Immigrant
He’s the Illegal Immigrant, and he’s the 2007 Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year – for better or for worse. Given the public mood, there seems to be little middle ground in debate over illegal immigrants. Spectacular fights over their presence broke out across Texas this year, adding to the national pressure cooker as only Texas can.
To their champions, illegal immigrants are decent, hardworking people who, like generations of European immigrants before them, [Hahahahaha! Yeah, just like all the other immigration into this country] just want to do better for their families and who contribute to America’s prosperity. They must endure hatred and abuse by those of us who want the benefits of cheap labor but not the presence of illegal immigrants.
Especially here in Texas, his strong back and willing heart help form the cornerstone of our daily lives, in ways that many of us do not, or will not, see. The illegal immigrant is the waiter serving margaritas at our restaurant table, the cook preparing our enchiladas. He works grueling hours at a meatpacking plant, carving up carcasses of cattle for our barbecue (he also picks the lettuce for our burgers). He builds our houses and cuts our grass. She cleans our homes and takes care of our children…
This essay cannot put a name or a face to an illegal immigrant, because that would subject him to possible deportation. Because he lives underground, the illegal immigrant becomes, in our rancorous debate, less a complex human being and more a blank screen upon which both sides can project their hopes and fears.
In the same article, one of the more interesting comments from Mike Huckabee, revealing just how clueless and idiotic that man really is:
GOP presidential contender Mike Huckabee, born again as an immigration hard-liner, told The New Yorker this month that wherever he campaigns, immigration is the first thing voters ask about. “It’s just red hot,” he says, “and I don’t fully understand it.”
I’m sure he doesn’t.
As a Texas born Latina I’m shocked and appalled, what next “and person of the year runner up, the drug dealer down the streetâ€
Shall we count the ways the Huckster doesn’t “get-it” just on the subject of illegal immigration alone?
Huckabee Exposed in Iowa Next Week for Lies about Amnesty!
by ALIPAC http://www.alipac.us/
http://tinyurl.com/ys3ea5
Huckabee aid plan for illegal aliens draws ‘venom, anger’
http://tinyurl.com/ytsq27
Mexican consulate deal dogs Huckabee campaign
http://tinyurl.com/yrlrsl
Huckabee calls anyone who objects to the Dream Act a “racist”… http://vdare.com/bevens/050205_huckabee.htm
Threatened to sue the federal government over the “REAL ID†act… http://tinyurl.com/cv25m
While Gov. of Arkansas, Huckabee was AGAINST proving citizenship in order to register to vote. He called those who were in favor of this “racistsâ€; http://tinyurl.com/2xs3xs
Huckabee defends societal cost of illegal aliens http://tinyurl.com/26ryfa
Immigration bill un-Christian, anti-life, governor says http://tinyurl.com/22d525
Illegals Foes Reject Nod to Huckabee
http://tinyurl.com/yrt4jd
Immigration group: Huckabee a ‘disaster’
http://tinyurl.com/2det2y
Huckabee Liberal on Immigration
http://tinyurl.com/2cxfck
As a Texas high school teacher, I find myself teaching the children of illegal immigrants (yes, they are themselves illegal) every year. Generally, they are polite, decent kids. The majority work hard to learn English and do well, and my heart goes out to them. Others, like teens everywhere, are more interested in being teens than in building lives.
But–you were waiting for a touchy feely pronouncement, weren’t you? None here. As much as I love my Hispanic kids in general, and even the illegal ones, no competent teacher can ever allow themselves to feel that breaking the law is justified. Teachers are, in many respects, fundamentals role models of what society expects upstanding citizens to be. So it must be in this and every issue.
Vladimer Putin, illegal immigrants. Do we really expect more from the mainstream media?
Illegals form “the cornerstone of our daily lives” He serves our “margaritas”.
He cooks our “enchiladas”.
He works at a “meatpacking plant”.
He builds our “houses”.
He cuts our “grass”.
She cleans our “homes”.
She takes care of our “children”.
And yet, “he lives underground”! Huh?? The author spells out how they are everywhere, and yet they live underground! Last summer they were marching down our city streets protesting the gringos.
The list should have included:
They form gangs.
They fill our prisons.
They bankrupt our hospitals.
They do not pay taxes.
They collect welfare and food stamps.
Their kids fill our public schools.
They exploit our social services.
They are smart enough to know our govt. is inept and our politicians too selfish and thus unwilling to stop it.
They are exploited by businesses while they exploit our government and the middle class shell out our hard earned taxes to pay for it all – and for this are we are suppose to be grateful?
You should read the comments on their blog. Mostly furious because the Texan of the Year is supposed to be a Texan.
The editor compounded their mistake by asking readers to submit suggestions and required them to be Texans.
So the logical question was “Since when are illegal immigrants Texans?”
gangbangers, perps.
Are those cretins in the photo giving the MS-13 sign?
EXCUSE ME?!? They called these leeches WHAT? Oh, no, they did NOT just call illegals TEXANS…
I’m a Texan and I’m now officially livid.