I came across this quote in a Washington Post article:
I think voters are more concerned about health-care costs, the cost of higher education and gasoline and energy than immigration.”
Is that true, do you think?
What are you more concerned about?
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Yes, I am definitely more concerned about everything you listed than I am about illegal immigration.
But then, I live in Maryland, not a border state …
Should we be comfortable with this kind of me-tooism?
Forester,
I don’t, actually, see the illegal immigrants on anything like the same par as African-Americans. In some ways, it seems (to me) to be somewhat insulting.
I definitely see a big difference in terms of citizenship. I’m just a bit taken aback by the attitude that the voice of one minority might draw away from the voice of another. Isn’t the point here that we’re all the same? That we should all be treated equally? Why should one group pit itself against another?
But then, I’m a stupid white male conservative. What do I know about these things …
I guess what I’m saying is that I’d expect to see one minority group rejoice in the gains of another, since it’s all a matter of human rights. The more awareness of human rights issues, the better for everyone, regardless of skin color — I would have thought.
Yes, I am more concerned with healthcare, energy and our unique issues here in New Orleans than I am with illegal immigration. Actually, I have empathy for the hispanics who cross the border….they are trying to better themselves and support their families and they absoloutely do work no one else is willing to do. I was impressed with the peaceful protest on Monday. If given the opportunity I’m confident many would apply for citizenship and be a LEGAL asset to our country.
Forester –
I don’t think the issue is “minority” vs. “minority”.
Minority status does not equate to aligned goals, no matter how often, or how hard, people try to make it so.
Like any other American community, though, I think folks are divided in their sentiments.
Health care and education costs are at the heart of illegal immigration issue. To a middle class taxpayer, the arrogance of you limosine liberals, country club conservatives and establishment fat cats appears the same. It is always the little people who pay for your schemes.
You don’t pay for the $5B in unearned benefits for illegals. You can live in neighborhoods where the illegal-alien-fueled increases in gang membership don’t affect yopur family. You can afford to send your kids to private schools, so that in high school you don’t have to carry the fund raising burdens and in college your kids don’t have to compete with the privileged status of illegal alien kids in more than a dozen states. You can just impose these costs on the small business owner, the middle class wage earner, and the entry level laborers.
When will anyone stand up for the people who carry the load?!?
Traveling Mermaid, were you aware that post-Katrina reconstruction wiorkers from Mississippi employment agencies were turned away from New Orleans when “the illegals” arrived?
You make the bold assertion that, “If given the opportunity I’m confident many would apply for citizenship and be a LEGAL asset to our country…”
What makes you think the illegals did not have the equal opportunity as everyone else who obeys the law and waits in line? They could hjave waited in line but they broke the law, and when they get here they use false identification to get the job, and they compete unfairly against legal citizens by accepting illegal labor conditions for competitive advantage? Why do you favor lawbreakers and cheaters over your own neighbors?