I was just brewing my coffee and decided to turn on FOX & Friends. Geraldo Rivera was on promoting his new book. Then the talk turned quickly to immigration. I couldn’t help but notice that, as has become all too-frequent, the phrase “illegal immigration” was not in use. Disturbing.
More disturbing though was the attitude of Geraldo Rivera, an attitude that I have witnessed several times on his part in recent memory. Geraldo, obviously an Hispanic-American, says that most Americans are “overreacting” to the “immigration problem.” This irritates me to no end. Overreacting? Geraldo you should be careful — your cultural-bias is showing like an old lady’s slip.
There is no room for overreaction when it comes to the subject of illegal immigration in the United States. The Middle Class American is paying the heaviest of prices for this invasion from Mexico. Invasion isn’t too strong a word by this point either.
As more diseases are being brought over the border by unknowns from Mexico, new strains of Flu that are resistant to the latest vaccines are only a small segment of new biological threats in the United States. Emergency wards are filled with illegals to the point that the cost to taxpayers is in the billions each year for every state in the Union. Education woes are dragging all students down with the influx of non-English speaking students and lower education parents at home. Crime rates increase dramatically and upwards of 50% of inmates in most prisons in the United States are illegals.
Yet, we are told that we need these foreign workers to the point that we should continue to not “overreact” to all these signs. Where then are the benefits? I see my staple foodstuffs increasing in price at a dramatic rate. Aren’t these illegals providing cheaper labor for farmers? Yet I don’t see this reflected in the prices at the grocery store! Milk, bread, pasta — all have seen alarming price increases over the past five years.
Geraldo should exercise more objectivity in his editorializing, because without well-reasoned responses to the illegal immigration threat from Hispanic-Americans, most especially celebrity ones, I’m afraid that the tensions within the United States are going to rise beyond “overreaction” and reach levels that nobody wants to see. Geraldo demonizes the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps for their efforts, calling them “vigilantes”, while I call these same men and women patriots. The ranks of the Minutemen contain hundreds of patriots of Mexican heritage, many of whom are fourth and fifth generation Americans! It is absolute nonsense to call these Americans “vigilantes” simply because they stand in the way of Mexican illegals that otherwise would flood into our nation at a rate to make all our heads spin. It is a thankless job what the Minute Men do, as it is, so I hardly think it it unfair of me to label Geraldo a bigot this morning. I have had my fill of his posturing in regard to illegal immigration.
I’m calling you out, Geraldo. Knock off your obvious cultural bias and remember that you are an American first.
Everyone that is reading this that is a citizen of the United States should never forget where your first loyalty lies — to your country and your fellow Americans. Unfortunately, it seems in recent years that it is becoming harder and harder to be a patriotic American without someone labeling you a nut or a terrorist for wishing to protect the United States and her Constitution.
Indeed, if it were up to me, the border with Mexico would be a series of walls and electronic surveillance from end to end already, the border guards and soldiers would always carry live ammunition, and the National Guard would have orders to shoot any foreigner that so much as tosses a rock at an American on our side of the border. But don’t expect my expectations for U.S. Border Security to ever be met, because it is painfully obvious by now that the agenda of the majority of Congress and even the U.S. Press is to keep that floodgate wide open. What you have to ask yourself at this point is why that has continued to be the case for these many decades, reaching well back to the amnesty given to illegals back in the 80’s.
The answers would shock you. They might even shock Geraldo.
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I hear you Infidel Pride but no matter who the republican nominee is I will never ever vote for a democrat. See what is going on in bezerkley, do you want that behavior in the white house. I don’t. I lived through Carter and believe me this is not the seventies or eighties any more we cannot afford to go down that road today. We kept Bush in check for the most part right, so we can do the same with McCain.
Underwear on the head is humiliation waterboarding is a scare tactic, I know torture I grew up in the decades after WWII and one of our favorite topics of discussion was torture and specifically which torture was the worst. So far I have not seen torture on our side, bamboo chutes under the fingernails, electricity to the genitals, power tools to the body, now that’s torture Mr. McCain you ought to know that. Hillary will bring the commies with her, Obama will bring the islamists in the damage has been done the breakdown of our country moves along.
I can feel it in my bones what is on the horizon. During the Civil War there were easily defined sides not so today we are intermingled among each other the patriotic and the traitorous this time it will be coast to coast. I wish it could be avoided but the rhetoric I hear tells me no, these people are trying to recapture that sixties feeling. Well the sixties led to the seventies. Odd and even gas lines, recession inflation unemployment industry crashes energy crisis a general feeling of depression why do you think so many in those days turned to drugs? When there are major problems to be dealt with and the pres tells us to suck it up and put on a sweater that kind of stuff will happen.
And don’t forget back then we were not facing the worldwide islamist menace. We are walking the razors edge one slip and it could be fatal so think it through carefully. I hate to sound corny but the future is now, we can stand and fight all comers or we can turn away I prefer to fight old habits die hard you know.