SubscribeLAT: “Groups” Behind Opposition To Amnesty
From an outraged Los Angeles Times:
How the New York Times recently portrayed those opposing amnesty.
Immigration bill ignites grass-roots fire
The conservative group NumbersUSA has seen its numbers skyrocket. Activists pressure wavering senators.
By Nicole Gaouette, Times Staff Writer
June 24, 2007ROSSLYN, VA. — When Kim Wade pulled up in front of the Jackson, Miss., offices of Republican Sen. Trent Lott, a crowd was already waiting. They were students, professionals and homemakers, all members of the immigration-restriction advocacy group NumbersUSA. And they were all there to blast Lott for his support of the Senate immigration bill.
They delivered petitions bearing nearly 3,000 signatures, part of a multipronged campaign, imploring Lott not to “sell out Mississippi to illegal aliens.” The office secretary “could barely receive them because the phones were ringing off the hook” with calls protesting Lott’s immigration stance, said Wade, a local talk-radio host.
TV, radio and Internet ads condemning Lott had been running for days before the Tuesday visit. By Friday, 1,000 more people had signed the NumbersUSA petition online.
Conservative anger at the Senate immigration bill is at such a pitch that even Republican lawmakers are feeling the heat. Groups like NumbersUSA have been channeling that grass-roots fury and, in doing so, have leaped in size and are playing a larger role in the immigration debate than ever before.
At NumbersUSA, one of the largest and loudest, membership is up 81% since January and donations are soaring. With the immigration bill possibly set to pass or fail in the Senate this week — a crucial vote could come as early as Tuesday — the nonprofit group plans a fierce campaign against the bill and any senator who supports it.
The group will unveil TV ads against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-N.C.). Another ad will target Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
NumbersUSA President Roy Beck expects to contact the group’s activist members — who he says now number 419,000 — with dozens of e-mail alerts, many of which he sends at 2 and 3 a.m.
“We’re in a war zone right now, so we’re drawing down the reserves,” said Beck, who describes his battle against pro-bill groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as “an amazing David-and-Goliath thing.” …Most polls show that though Americans are concerned about border security, a majority favor finding a way to allow most now in the country illegally to gain legal status.
Throughout the immigration debate, senators who back the bill have decried the influence of talk radio, saying it misrepresents the legislation. These lawmakers vow they won’t buckle but admit they’re feeling pressure…
When has the Los Angeles Times ever run a story about (Communist front) International ANSWER and its demands for amnesty and other illegal alien “rights”?
When has any of our watchdog media ever reported on the billions of dollars spent by leftwing groups such as MoveOn.org to marshal their rent-a-mobs?
No, the efforts on the America-hating left are always ”grassroots” movements, and by definition altruistic and pure.
Pay no attention to the mass-produced signs at any leftwing rally. Pay no attention to their buses. Their lunches. The $40 a head cash payments to the demonstrators — unless they are their at the behest of their union bosses.
No. The citizenry’s rejection of the amnesty bill is all the work of a few rightwing special interest groups — and of course rightwing talk radio.
(I myself was all for amnesty until NumbersUSA took my willpower away.)
For the truth of the matter is Americans love illegal aliens and want even more of them. The polls tell us so every day.
And we know that our watchdog media would never lie to us about polls.
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June 26th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
I think that the left took their inch and with this pos ‘bill’ tried to take the mile - and are shocked ney amazed that their polls in their media lead them astray.
I expect the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ to be next on their agenda to shut us all up.
Be afraid, very afraid. These people have no intention of stopping until we are a One Glowball Humanbeings of peace, justice, love and understanding enviro wacko no religion World. . .
June 26th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Their mistake WM4 was not getting the FD first.
June 26th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Today: Amnesty!
Tomorrow: Learn to speak Spanish!
It’s very SAD.
June 26th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Actually its you HAVE to learn spanish. There are now jobs in the public sector where they demand that you have to speak spanish just to apply (some city police officer jobs in California).
I work for a small town police department in southern California and I can’t tell you the number of times a day that someone comes in and the first thing they ask is if I speak spanish and then are dismayed when I replied that no I don’t. I had an occasion to ask one of these people how long they had lived in the United States and his reply was “ten years”. He had been here ten years and could not even answer simple questions in english.
In California you can get a drivers license to without being able to speak or read any english.
Signed:
Really SICK AND TIRED of hearing “habla espanol?”
June 26th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
My sister in law works for the D.A.s office, and she gets so pissed off when people walk in and start speaking to her in Spanish, assuming she understands them.
Her solution: start talking back to them in Japanese. She says the looks on their faces is one of the funnest parts of her job. You know, along with all the photos of infant corpses.
June 26th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Musette ,
I would love to be there for the Japanese part.
June 26th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
how does the government of mexico treat illegal aliens,
especially the ones who sneaked in from ameiica?
June 27th, 2007 at 2:46 am
The ones from further south, you mean?
My assumption would be that they turn a blind eye to them–as long as they’re heading north instead of hanging around.
The sad thing is, Mexico could be a very successful country. They’ve got the population. I don’t know if they have oil, but they have access to Gulf oil. They have access to two oceans, making trade a very real possibility. They have terrain ranging from beach to mountain to desert to rain-forest, which means not only a great variety of resources but a lot of places that tourists would dearly love to visit–and pay for the privilege. As another draw, they’ve got Mayan and Aztec sites that could draw not only a great deal of academic attention but even more tourism money. Mexico not only could, but should be a very successful country–except for the rampant corruption in their government.
And the Mexican government has no need to fix that. Hunger? Send the hungry up north. Political opposition? Send your opponents up north. Crime? Send the criminals up north. Epidemics or medical problems that your health care system can’t handle? Take the diseased, the sick, the diabetic, the cancerous, and send ‘em up north. Poverty? Send ‘em up north so they can use the US’ economy–it’s easier than cleaning up your own.
We have put an entire country on welfare, and it’s time to take our tit back.
June 27th, 2007 at 7:19 am
You are right TRN, Mexico could be prosperous. So could America if it weren’t that you have not only 10 million Mex-cusses bleeding you brown, but you have the already existing problem of welfare dead-beats, over-populated prisons, and liberals that don’t have a production job between the conglomerated mass of them. They are on the public dole, be it social services, teachers or ‘givermint admin. and phsyo-services.
You have a problem and speaking Japanese to it wont solve it.
I am Japanese and should know. When we have an imagration problem it is clear and quick; send it home now, and forever. Return rights permanantly refused, game over. They and said family are booted.
We don’t realy have much of an immagrunt problem.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Japan is a island, but that’s not it entirely, so is the UK. Japan doesn’t have former Colonials with rights of immigration, but that’s not it entirely either. Japan has a belief that its culture is something special and so, has a national will to survive, and is not embarrassed about it. How I wish we had.
June 29th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
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