Thread: Harsh talk intensifies, rally attendance declines

(The twisted view of Open Border Advocates)


"And on the subject of Arellano’s deportation, he remarks, “Anyone (who believes) that what happened to her and her son is something that we should witness again is obviously someone who’s not living on this Earth."


Ceding the Immigration Debate to Right Wingers
Harsh talk intensifies, rally attendance declines and Democrats go AWOL

~ By GREG KATZ ~

Photo by Alan Mittelstaedt
~ Does the low turn-out portend a Republican victory in 2008? ~

You might not know it from listening to ever-cautious Democrats, but what passes for a national conversation on immigration is as heated as ever.

The normal background noise is still present: Lou Dobbs and Fox News continue to spew their signature rhetoric. Across the country, anti-immigration groups continue mobilizing their supporters onto the Main Streets of every Midwestern town that will have them.

Meanwhile, Mitt Romney’s assault on Rudy Giuliani for governing a sanctuary city dominates recent radio ads. And last week, right here on the streets of downtown Los Angeles, unmarked cars and plainclothes officers corralled the once-sanctuaried illegal immigrant Elvira Arellano, separated her from her son, and sent her to Tijuana, where she was apparently welcomed as a hero.

Considering all this you might expect that Los Angeles – with its enormous population of recent immigrants both legal and illegal – would be in a very public frenzy over the state of immigration policy reform, but the opposite seems to be true. Case-in-point: the amply named We Are All Elvira Arellano and Saulito Coalition, an ad hoc team of pro-immigrant groups, organized a rally to protest Arellano’s deportation last Saturday. It was an undeniable disappointment for its organizers; only 500 or so people turned out.

To be fair, the rally wasn’t the first immigration event with a lower-than-predicted turnout – just consider the dramatic drop-off from the 500,000 LA protesters on May 1, 2006 to the 30,000 that showed up for a similar event one year later. “They don’t seem to have achieved much of their stated aim, except to really tick off the American people that watch them,â€

Excellent! Yet more evidence that we have the open borders crowd on the run, and in addition, we are beginning to become a serious worry for some of the Democrat politicians who have been their chief supporters. The politicians are finally getting the wake-up call from the folks back home, and I predict we will see more of this to come. More enforcement and more raids will help, too! All we have to do is continue to keep the pressure on without let-up, until they crack, then break! See how our ranks grow, even as theirs decline. It's a long way from over, but I think the tide is beginning to turn!

Despite public support, the pro-immigrant side of the debate seems to remain a silent majority.

That's just it, there is no public support and that's why every time they open their mouths, it makes more Americans mad.

That's why the Dems are running from the topic too.

Dixie

67% want immigration reform with a path to citizenship? I don't think so.

These people who write this stuff have convinced themselves that America seems to owe the illegal aliens the same treatment as legal immigrants.

Ha! This is our country! Go home!

Originally Posted by tinybobidaho

67% want immigration reform with a path to citizenship? I don't think so.

These people who write this stuff have convinced themselves that America seems to owe the illegal aliens the same treatment as legal immigrants.

You have to remember this poll question. In essense it was
- Do you prefer:
A) "A path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who pay taxes and are doing a job Americans won't do" or
B) "Break down doors and deport all undocumented immigrants in cattle cars."

Of course almost no illegal who would qualify under the strict interpretation of A, and nobody is proposing B, but the OBL got their "67% support a path to citizenship" with their bogus poll.