Thread: Racial tension simmers on Martha's Vineyard

Racial tension simmers on Martha's Vineyard as Barack Obama arrives
When Barack Obama arrives on Martha's Vineyard for his first family holiday as president, he will enjoy the sparkling sea, salty air and fresh fish and clams.

Published: 6:16PM BST 20 Aug 2009

A store window on the island sells Obama merchandise Photo: GETTY
And like others he will probably be unaware of the thousands of illegal immigrants the island relies on during its summer season.

But in the recession, a small army of dishwashers, gardeners and labourers, mostly from Brazil, has created a simmering tension with some locals and amid the excitement over the impending trip of the Obamas, some islanders hope their visit will bring attention to problems with immigration.

In an editorial on growing interest in the build-up to the presidential holiday, the Martha's Vineyard Times commented wryly: "With few vacation details left to uncover, the press has adopted a storyline of an Island inhabited by happy, clam-raking yeomen simmering in racial, multicultural harmony. This is a 'special' place and there is no shortage of folks willing to let others know how special their special connection is."

Yet last year, racial relations became stretched near breaking point when a local, white girl named Brandy Gibson was killed in a car accident with an unlicensed Brazilian in the country illegally.

Comments on local newspaper websites turned nasty. "Illegal Brazilians, I think you can see … it is time for you to go. What will it be next time? A car full of tourist kids? Then we'd all be scr*w*d," wrote one islander in an anonymous posting.

Residents who were prepared their name included Jon Parkinson, who wrote: "Why is it that young people interested in learning the trades find that many of the entry level positions are filled by Brazilian laborers? Certain segments of the core industries that drive Island life (landscaping, painting, etc.) have all but been taken over by labor provided by illegal immigrants. These are people who drive cars, delivery vans and often large trucks in every town, day and night."

Reaction to the incident subsided when it was revealed that Miss Gibson, 20, was travelling at 82 miles per hour and the sandwich delivery van driven by Francellyo Dias at nine miles per hour.

Plenty of locals spoke up against the reaction, including the editors of the Vineyard Gazette. "There is no question that Mr Dias should not have been driving that evening," it said in an editorial. "But the hateful backlash against the Brazilians that has poured out in the last two weeks has no place in the discussion."

When Mr Obama has finished his one-week stay, he will return to Washington to face a busy autumn agenda of health and energy reform.

Aides have made it clear that legislation to sort out the problem of 12 million illegal immigrants will have to wait until next year.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... rives.html


The race card is played again...

Reaction to the incident subsided when it was revealed that Miss Gibson, 20, was travelling at 82 miles per hour and the sandwich delivery van driven by Francellyo Dias at nine miles per hour

This young ladies irresponsible actions DO NOT make ILLEGAL ALIENS and their presence in the United States more acceptable or LEGAL!

And as anywhere you look in the US you find many entry level jobs are being taken by ILLEGAL AlIENS. Just as it says in the article. So again the government seems more hell bent on catering to ILLEGAL ALIENS then protecting their own young citizens of this country.

Here in Las Vegas...the Casinos will only hire you in an entry level position if you are bilingual Spanish....So our grandkids cannot get entry level jobs....

Would love to see Obama take a few hours from his vacation to listen to the folks in the surrounding community.

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Vernon Briggs, a Cornell University labor economics professor stated:

"The toleration of illegal immigration undermines all of our labor; it rips at the social fabric. It's a race to the bottom. The one who plays by the rules is penalized... a guest worker program guarantees wages will never go up, and there is no way American citizens can compete with guest workers."

An amnesty for illegal aliens forgives their act of illegal immigration and implicitly forgives other related illegal acts such as driving and working using false documents. The result of an amnesty is that large numbers of foreigners who illegally gained entry into the United States are rewarded with legal status for their breaking the law. In January, 2004 President Bush Proposed an earned legalization program for illegal aliens. This is an amnesty under another name.


Tidal wave of illegal immigration.

For over 200 years, the United states only granted amnesty in individual cases and had never given amnesty to large numbers of illegal aliens. Then in 1986, Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) which gave amnesty to all illegal aliens who had evaded law enforcement for at least four years or who were working illegally in agriculture. This resulted in 2.8 million illegal aliens being admitted as legal immigrants to the United States.

Because of chain migration, those granted amnesty have brought in an additional 142,000 dependents - relatives brought in to the United States to join their family members.

The amnesty of 1986 was supposed to be a "one time only" amnesty. Yet since 1986, Congress passed a total of 7 amnesties for illegal aliens:

The Immigration and Reform Control Act (IRCA) Amnesty of 1986 - the "one-time only" blanket amnesty for some 2.8 million illegal aliens.
Section 245(i) The Amnesty of 1994 - a temporary rolling amnesty for 578,000 illegal aliens.
Section 245(i) The Extension Amnesty of 1997 - an extension of the rolling amnesty created in 1994.
The Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA) Amnesty of 1997 - an amnesty for nearly one million illegal aliens from Central America.
The Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act Amnesty (HRIFA) of 1998 - an amnesty for 125,000 illegal aliens from Haiti.
The Late Amnesty of 2000 - an amnesty for approximately 400,000 illegal aliens who claimed they should have been amnestied under the 1986 IRCA amnesty.
The LIFE Act Amnesty of 2000 - a reinstatement of the rolling Section 245(i) amnesty to an estimated 900,000 illegal aliens.
An amnesty is a reward to those breaking the law. Issuing an amnesty to illegal aliens only encourages more illegal immigration into the United States. After the 1986 amnesty, illegal immigration increased significantly. Census Bureau 2000 data indicate that 700,000 to 800,000 illegal aliens settle in the U.S. each year, with approximately 8-11 million illegal aliens now currently living in the United States (up to 12 million, according to Department of Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge).

Yet an amnesty benefits neither our society nor those being amnestied. An Immigration and Naturalization Service study found that after living in the United States for 10 years, the average amnestied illegal alien had only a seventh grade education and earned less than $9,000 a year. Amnestied illegal aliens have no sponsor to support them financially. Instead, by enacting an amnesty, Congress places a staggering financial burden on American taxpayers to support those amnestied.

According to a study by the Center for Immigration Studies, the total net cost of the 1986 IRCA amnesty (direct and indirect costs of services and benefits to the former illegal aliens, less their tax contributions) amounted to over $78 billion in the ten years following the amnesty.

Congress has paved the way for more amnesties. In 2001, Mexico's President Vicente Fox began to lobby the United States to "regularize" the status of millions of illegal aliens from Mexico living in the United States. Both U.S. political parties, in attempts to pander to the Hispanic vote, speak of amnesties in various forms for illegal aliens.

By granting amnesties, Congress has set a dangerous precedent that threatens homeland security. Our normal immigration process involves screening to block potential criminals and terrorists from entering the United States. Yet millions of illegal aliens have avoided this screening and an amnesty would allow them to permanently bypass such screening.

President Bush's January, 2004 guest worker plan announcement - really an amnesty for illegal aliens - directly caused at least a 15% to 25% increase in illegals entering the United States.

Polls show that nearly 70% of Americans oppose amnesty for all illegal aliens and that Hispanics are less likely to reelect President Bush if he supports amnesty.

For more information, see:

NumbersUSA.com amnesty section.
Amnesty in plain English, by Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies, September 4, 2001.
Amnesties beget illegal immigration, by Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies, October 16, 2000.
Why Amnesty Isn't the Solution, by the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
Measuring the Fallout The Cost of the IRCA Amnesty After 10 Years, by David Simcox, Center for Immigration Studies, 1997.
The Open Door - How Militant Islamic Terrorists Entered and Remained in the United States, 1993-2001, by Steven A. Camarota, Center for Immigration Studies, 2003.
Bush Amnesty Plan Producing Huge Increase of Illegals, by Pastor Chuck Baldwin, April 27, 2004, NewsWithViews.com
Bush 'amnesty' blamed for rise in illegals, by Stephen Dinan, April 16, 2004, The Washington Times
Illegals rise 15% since Bush plan, WorldNetDaily, January 29, 2004
Amnesty and Betrayal, by William Norman Grigg, February 9, 2004, New American, published in Stop the FTAA
President Bush Proposes New Temporary Worker Program, January 7, 2004

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Obama has shown in words and actions that he has no love for our country. Every action he has taken has been corrupt and dirty and could lead to our demise, if we don't get him and the Dems that follow his lead out of office. If the Dems vote for this un-lawful Health Care bill, Cap and Trade and Amnesty we must make it our goal to get everyone that voted against us out of office, even if we have to take on Acorn, Amerocorp and Union thugs.