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Anti-Immigration Rally Blows Up in Teaparty's Face
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/21/1315661/-Anti-Immigration-Rally-Blows-Up-in-Teaparty-s-Face#
"A racist anti-immigration rally, headlined by Kooky Kongressman Steve King - what could go wrong?
Iowa's Steve King is well known for his hatred of brown people. Last July, King smeared 99% of immigrate children as drug mules, stating
kids that were brought into this country by their parents unknowing that they were breaking the law. And [immigration reform supporters] will say to me and others that we have to do something about the 11 million, and some of them were valedictorians. [...] It's true in some cases, but they aren't all valedictorians, they weren't all brought in by their parents. For every one that's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there that they weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.
Julius Streicher couldn't have produced more hateful garbage.
Well, with immigration bashing going around the clock on Hate Radio and Fixxed News, King decided to hold his own Klan hate rally in his home district of Council Bluffs, Iowa.
I mean, Saturday was a beautiful summer day across America, and how better to enjoy it than getting together with friends while eating hot dogs and attacking children of color. Who could argue with that!?
And with the financial backing of wingnut welfare, as well as the right wing propaganda apparatus to promote and market the rally, surely the crowd in Steve King's red district would be massive, wouldn't..... well, wouldn't?
Yeah, not so much."
"A racist anti-immigration rally, headlined by Kooky Kongressman Steve King - what could go wrong?
Iowa's Steve King is well known for his hatred of brown people. Last July, King smeared 99% of immigrate children as drug mules, stating
kids that were brought into this country by their parents unknowing that they were breaking the law. And [immigration reform supporters] will say to me and others that we have to do something about the 11 million, and some of them were valedictorians. [...] It's true in some cases, but they aren't all valedictorians, they weren't all brought in by their parents. For every one that's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there that they weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.
Julius Streicher couldn't have produced more hateful garbage.
Well, with immigration bashing going around the clock on Hate Radio and Fixxed News, King decided to hold his own Klan hate rally in his home district of Council Bluffs, Iowa.
I mean, Saturday was a beautiful summer day across America, and how better to enjoy it than getting together with friends while eating hot dogs and attacking children of color. Who could argue with that!?
And with the financial backing of wingnut welfare, as well as the right wing propaganda apparatus to promote and market the rally, surely the crowd in Steve King's red district would be massive, wouldn't..... well, wouldn't?
Yeah, not so much."
Every child born should be taken to the US.
Unions have ruined the working class.
Unions have ruined the working class.
Not cowering. Standing proud with SPLC , what's left of our unions and everyone else who fights for the working people of this country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center
"The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American nonprofit civil rights organization noted for its legal victories against white supremacist groups, its legal representation for victims of hate groups, its classification of militias and extremist organizations, and its educational programs that promote tolerance. The SPLC also classifies and lists hate groups – organizations that in its opinion "attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.".......The SPLC's litigating strategy involves filing civil suits for damages on behalf of the victims of hate group harassment, threats, and violence with the goal of financially depleting the responsible groups and individuals. While it originally focused on damages done by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups, throughout the years the SPLC has become involved in other civil rights causes, among them, cases concerned with institutional racial segregation and discrimination, the mistreatment of aliens, and the separation of church and state. Along with civil rights organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League, the SPLC has provided information about hate groups to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)......."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/opinion/why-the-border-crisis-is-a-myth.html
"EL PASO — TO hear the national news media tell the story, you would think my city, El Paso, and others along the Texas-Mexico border were being overrun by children — tens of thousands of them, some with their mothers, arriving from Central America in recent months, exploiting an immigration loophole to avoid deportation and putting a fatal strain on border state resources.
There’s no denying the impact of this latest immigration wave or the need for more resources. But there’s no crisis. Local communities like mine have done an amazing job of assisting these migrants.
Rather, the myth of a “crisis” is being used by politicians to justify ever-tighter restrictions on immigration, play to anti-immigrant voters in the fall elections and ignore the reasons so many children are coming here in the first place.
In the last month, about 2,500 refugees have been brought to El Paso after crossing the border elsewhere. The community quickly came together to support the women and children and Annunciation House, the organization coordinating the effort.
Contrary to the heated pronouncements, this is nothing we haven’t seen before. Groups of refugees arrive by plane and are processed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. When they are released, Annunciation House takes them to a shelter where they get a shower, a place to sleep, meals and even health care — all provided by volunteers and private donations.
The families of the refugees also help, often paying for travel costs and taking them into their homes. The refugees then move on, to Florida, Georgia, New York or elsewhere.
While the numbers of refugees arriving in El Paso are a fraction of the number arriving in McAllen, in southern Texas, the chain of events is generally the same. Like El Paso, South Texas is not the permanent destination for these refugees. And the response from McAllen’s citizens has been generous, too.
The same can’t be said of our politicians. What we are hearing from Austin and Washington is an almost Pavlovian response to immigration concerns. My governor, Rick Perry, a Republican, announced this week that he was sending 1,000 National Guard soldiers, at a cost of $12 million a month, to bolster the border.
And despite President Obama’s efforts to work with Central American leaders to address the root causes of the migration, his recently announced request for $3.7 billion, supposedly to deal with these new migrants, contains yet more border security measures: Almost $40 million would go to drone surveillance, and nearly 30 percent of it is for transportation and detention.
In Texas, state legislators and the Department of Public Safety are planning to spend an additional $30 million over six months to create a “surge” of state law enforcement resources, an expenditure that some in our state’s Capitol would like to see made permanent.
The costs are significant. Every day we detain an undocumented child immigrant, it costs Immigration and Customs Enforcement — i.e., the taxpayer — $259 per person, significantly more than we spend to educate a child in a middle-class school district.
The irony is that this cash-intensive strategy comes from leaders who consistently underfund health care, transportation and education. And they ignore the crucial fact that children crossing our borders aren’t trying to sneak around law enforcement: They are running to law enforcement.
What is most alarming, however, is the attempt to erode rights and protections created by intelligent, humane legislation.
The debate is centered on the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, a law signed by President George W. Bush to provide legal and humanitarian protections to unaccompanied migrant children from countries other than Mexico or Canada. The act passed with bipartisan support, yet the “crisis” is now being cited by some of the same legislators who supported the law as a reason to repeal or change it.
This effort to take away rights that were granted when there was significantly less anti-immigrant fervor isn’t just shortsighted and expensive, it’s un-American. We can debate the wisdom of providing greater protection to Central American children than to Mexican children, but there can be no doubt that giving safe haven to a child facing violence in a country that cannot protect its most vulnerable citizens is what a civilized country, with the resources we possess, should do.
Our border communities understand this. I hope the rest of the country, including our leaders in Austin and Washington, can follow our lead."
Veronica Escobar, a Democrat, is the county judge in El Paso.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center
"The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American nonprofit civil rights organization noted for its legal victories against white supremacist groups, its legal representation for victims of hate groups, its classification of militias and extremist organizations, and its educational programs that promote tolerance. The SPLC also classifies and lists hate groups – organizations that in its opinion "attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.".......The SPLC's litigating strategy involves filing civil suits for damages on behalf of the victims of hate group harassment, threats, and violence with the goal of financially depleting the responsible groups and individuals. While it originally focused on damages done by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups, throughout the years the SPLC has become involved in other civil rights causes, among them, cases concerned with institutional racial segregation and discrimination, the mistreatment of aliens, and the separation of church and state. Along with civil rights organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League, the SPLC has provided information about hate groups to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)......."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/opinion/why-the-border-crisis-is-a-myth.html
"EL PASO — TO hear the national news media tell the story, you would think my city, El Paso, and others along the Texas-Mexico border were being overrun by children — tens of thousands of them, some with their mothers, arriving from Central America in recent months, exploiting an immigration loophole to avoid deportation and putting a fatal strain on border state resources.
There’s no denying the impact of this latest immigration wave or the need for more resources. But there’s no crisis. Local communities like mine have done an amazing job of assisting these migrants.
Rather, the myth of a “crisis” is being used by politicians to justify ever-tighter restrictions on immigration, play to anti-immigrant voters in the fall elections and ignore the reasons so many children are coming here in the first place.
In the last month, about 2,500 refugees have been brought to El Paso after crossing the border elsewhere. The community quickly came together to support the women and children and Annunciation House, the organization coordinating the effort.
Contrary to the heated pronouncements, this is nothing we haven’t seen before. Groups of refugees arrive by plane and are processed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. When they are released, Annunciation House takes them to a shelter where they get a shower, a place to sleep, meals and even health care — all provided by volunteers and private donations.
The families of the refugees also help, often paying for travel costs and taking them into their homes. The refugees then move on, to Florida, Georgia, New York or elsewhere.
While the numbers of refugees arriving in El Paso are a fraction of the number arriving in McAllen, in southern Texas, the chain of events is generally the same. Like El Paso, South Texas is not the permanent destination for these refugees. And the response from McAllen’s citizens has been generous, too.
The same can’t be said of our politicians. What we are hearing from Austin and Washington is an almost Pavlovian response to immigration concerns. My governor, Rick Perry, a Republican, announced this week that he was sending 1,000 National Guard soldiers, at a cost of $12 million a month, to bolster the border.
And despite President Obama’s efforts to work with Central American leaders to address the root causes of the migration, his recently announced request for $3.7 billion, supposedly to deal with these new migrants, contains yet more border security measures: Almost $40 million would go to drone surveillance, and nearly 30 percent of it is for transportation and detention.
In Texas, state legislators and the Department of Public Safety are planning to spend an additional $30 million over six months to create a “surge” of state law enforcement resources, an expenditure that some in our state’s Capitol would like to see made permanent.
The costs are significant. Every day we detain an undocumented child immigrant, it costs Immigration and Customs Enforcement — i.e., the taxpayer — $259 per person, significantly more than we spend to educate a child in a middle-class school district.
The irony is that this cash-intensive strategy comes from leaders who consistently underfund health care, transportation and education. And they ignore the crucial fact that children crossing our borders aren’t trying to sneak around law enforcement: They are running to law enforcement.
What is most alarming, however, is the attempt to erode rights and protections created by intelligent, humane legislation.
The debate is centered on the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, a law signed by President George W. Bush to provide legal and humanitarian protections to unaccompanied migrant children from countries other than Mexico or Canada. The act passed with bipartisan support, yet the “crisis” is now being cited by some of the same legislators who supported the law as a reason to repeal or change it.
This effort to take away rights that were granted when there was significantly less anti-immigrant fervor isn’t just shortsighted and expensive, it’s un-American. We can debate the wisdom of providing greater protection to Central American children than to Mexican children, but there can be no doubt that giving safe haven to a child facing violence in a country that cannot protect its most vulnerable citizens is what a civilized country, with the resources we possess, should do.
Our border communities understand this. I hope the rest of the country, including our leaders in Austin and Washington, can follow our lead."
Veronica Escobar, a Democrat, is the county judge in El Paso.
Of course you will because you got called out for a race baiter and now you cower.
Sorry Vance, but I'm going to have to go with SPLC's definition of hate speech over yours. They've been studying it a lot longer. Studying it, quantifying it, and analyzing it. They can even discern the difference between run-of-the-mill, dumb-as-a-stump, ignorance like Mr. Cantaloupe Pants King and the more carefully conKoched propaganda crafted for purported 'blogs' like Sludge.
Trying to provoke? This above article is nothing but lies trying to provoke free thinking people but spreading hatred.
Nothing about this article or other things you have posted is calling someone out. It is fabricated up to incite racial tensions.
Maybe you can start by calling out Harry Reid and Joe Biden for the racial comments they made years ago towards Obama.
Maybe you can start by calling out Harry Reid and Joe Biden for the racial comments they made years ago towards Obama.
"The rhetoric is what’s hateful. Calling people out for it is not."
Southern Poverty Law Center
Southern Poverty Law Center
Many of these children are refugees, fleeing from intolerable circumstances.
Vance, please stop trying to provoke those of us who do not share your angry right wing rants.
There are many here on the forum who have strong right wing views yet do not try to provoke and taunt people the way you do.
I urge you to take a look at yourself and remember that everyone is entitled to respect, whether they agree with you or not.
BTW: Sometimes the KOS is where you find news that is not available elsewhere. It does have a left bias which does not make it crazy. It just makes it not agreeable to you.
Vance, please stop trying to provoke those of us who do not share your angry right wing rants.
There are many here on the forum who have strong right wing views yet do not try to provoke and taunt people the way you do.
I urge you to take a look at yourself and remember that everyone is entitled to respect, whether they agree with you or not.
BTW: Sometimes the KOS is where you find news that is not available elsewhere. It does have a left bias which does not make it crazy. It just makes it not agreeable to you.
You post racist material cloaked in intolerance and outrage by the left. You keep fanning the racial fumes. So either stop with the racist posts or take the label.
Yes, yes... because anyone that doesn't agree with letting any & all illegal aliens stay in the country while keeping the border open and allowing still more to enter the country illegally, is a racist.
Then I guess I'm a racist.
(Yet again, no surprise that the stupid dems pull the 'race-card' in order to push their country'destroying agenda. Stupid even trying to have this discussion. Idiots)
Then I guess I'm a racist.
(Yet again, no surprise that the stupid dems pull the 'race-card' in order to push their country'destroying agenda. Stupid even trying to have this discussion. Idiots)
Thank you for your thoughtful responses. They are always appreciated.
Vance: You don't know me. None of my wide spectrum of friends, conservative libertarian, liberal, or moderate would use the words racist or liberal to describe me. So I lovingly forgive you for being an ******** ****
Vance: You don't know me. None of my wide spectrum of friends, conservative libertarian, liberal, or moderate would use the words racist or liberal to describe me. So I lovingly forgive you for being an ******** ****
Refreshing to see the dailycrazy and desrt smear people whit no knowledge and try to hide there racism behind someone else. Well done liberal racist.
SM-Dems want amnesty for illegals so they will vote for them, the mindset is racist yet they fail to see it. This link that was post is a hate website for anything that is not far left. So if someone disagrees with them they will say things like "KKK" when the person has no association with the Klan. They are intolerant of others views which make them the worst of all people.
SM-Dems want amnesty for illegals so they will vote for them, the mindset is racist yet they fail to see it. This link that was post is a hate website for anything that is not far left. So if someone disagrees with them they will say things like "KKK" when the person has no association with the Klan. They are intolerant of others views which make them the worst of all people.
I am not a tea party person nor do I like or respect much of what the tea party does. And I don't know this person King and if he makes horrible comments and is known to be racist, that is disturbing that he has a public format to discuss such things.
However, I do think that anyone, child or not should only be able to enter this country if done so legally and that we should not have an open door policy for all to enter.
I don't condone hate or the klan or any of that other stuff. But I don't think addressing the issue of those entering our country illegally at our southern borders is being hateful simply because they have a certain skin color.
As in, I think everyone would be equally as frustrated by illegal immigration no matter what skin color or nationality was entering the country.
However, I do think that anyone, child or not should only be able to enter this country if done so legally and that we should not have an open door policy for all to enter.
I don't condone hate or the klan or any of that other stuff. But I don't think addressing the issue of those entering our country illegally at our southern borders is being hateful simply because they have a certain skin color.
As in, I think everyone would be equally as frustrated by illegal immigration no matter what skin color or nationality was entering the country.
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