In case you missed it, several Hispanic groups have become unhinged over the recent immigration sweeps which removed over 1,200 illegal aliens from their jobs:
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. Hispanic groups and activists on Thursday called for a moratorium on workplace raids to round up illegal immigrants, saying they were reminiscent of Nazi crackdowns on Jews in the 1930s.
They accused the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of “racial profiling,” or selective enforcement against Hispanics, for arresting 1,300 workers on immigration violations in December 12 raids at meatpacking plants in six states.
“We are demanding an end to these immigration raids, where they are targeting brown faces. That is major, major racial profiling, and that cannot be tolerated,” said Rosa Rosales, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, at a news conference.
“This unfortunately reminds me of when Hitler began rounding up the Jews for no reason and locking them up,” Democratic Party activist Carla Vela said. “Now they’re coming for the Latinos, who will they come for next?”
The groups, which included LULAC, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Hispanic National Bar Association, and the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, sent letters to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, urging a halt to the raids.
They also called on Congress to quickly to approve immigration legislation that would allow for “guest workers” to remain in the United States.
Have you noticed that for the last six years or so, everything the Bush Administration does is compared to what the Nazis did by the Democrats? The holes in their arguments are so self-apparent that I shouldn’t have to refute them, but here we go:
- “We are demanding an end to these immigration raids, where they are targeting brown faces. That is major, major racial profiling, and that cannot be tolerated” - It isn’t racial profiling, its called being mildly observant. As much as you try to deny it, the vast majority of illegal aliens in this country are Hispanic, and come from either Mexico or some other South American country. You can cry “racial profiling” all you want, but that doesn’t make it wrong. Ignoring an entire class of people to avoid offending them, when that class of people are, in fact, the ones who are causing the problems is stupid. I’d be angry if they didn’t profile these people.
- “This unfortunately reminds me of when Hitler began rounding up the Jews for no reason and locking them up” - Sorry Ms. Vela, you are incorrect. As everyone in this country, except for you apparently, knows these people were rounded up because they broke the law by entering the country illegally. Also, in a lot of cases, these people were also rounded up for identity theft because they had stolen someone else’s social security number in order to get a job.
- “Now they’re coming for the Latinos, who will they come for next?” - This one is easy to answer: they’re coming for whomever crossed the border illegally next. If you are Hispanic and are in this country legally, you have nothing to worry about. If, on the other hand, you are Hispanic or Asian or European and you are here illegally, we’ll get to you as soon as possible.
LULAC, the oldest and largest Hispanic group in the country with 115,000 members, said workplace raids would cause families to be separated if the arrested immigrants were deported and also would hurt the U.S. economy.
“Every labor-intensive industry including the hospitality, construction, agriculture and restaurant industries will be adversely impacted if these raids continue,” Rosales said.
Apparently, Ms. Rosales either can’t read or refuses the recognize the reality of the situation:
GREELEY - The line of applicants hoping to fill jobs vacated by undocumented workers taken away by immigration agents at the Swift & Co. meat-processing plant earlier this week was out the door Thursday.
Remember when the Democrats said that we couldn’t deport these illegal aliens because they do the work that Americans refuse to do, and our economy was going to collapse? This is what happened at just one of the plants that was included in the raids. Americans lining up out the door to fill the same jobs which were being performed by these illegal aliens.
The ugly truth in this entire situation is this: business owners hire illegal aliens to reduce their labor costs, because illegal aliens can’t complain or demand higher wages. Hiring for these reasons has created the perception that illegal aliens are doing work that American refuse to do, because Americans probably are not even being looked at for these jobs. Correcting this problem will take a two-pronged attack: you have to heavily fine the businesses who hire illegal aliens and you have to deport the illegal aliens when you find them. Unless the government hurts these business people in the wallet, they will continue to hire illegal aliens. However, if these businesses are fined, say from $100,000 to $500,000 per illegal alien hired, the market for these workers would dry up quickly. Further, once the market for illegal alien labor drys up, the torrent of illegal aliens coming across the border will slow to a trickle because there won’t be any incentive for them to cross the border.
What Ms. Vela and her ilk need to remember is this: If the Bush Administration were truly acting like the Nazis, they would simply have gassed the illegal aliens after rounding them up. She knows this, of course, but she still uses the Nazi comparison because it makes the Bush Administration look evil. What Democrats are overlooking is that the more they keep comparing Bush to Hitler, the more people see the comparison as nonsense. What are they going to do then?
