This is an older article but I just came across it and don't know if it's been posted before. At least I didn't find it posted. But I just couldn't let it slide!

Private enterprise strikes first

By Raoul Lowery Contreras
February 19, 2007

The hypocrites are here; the hypocrites are here…The case for Bank of America comes to mind.

First, the hypocrites complain that we are being inundated by poverty-poor Mexicans that lower our standard of living. Secondly, that they shove worthy Americans out of entire professions and jobs. Thirdly, that Mexicans refuse to “assimilate.” Fourth, that companies that follow the rules and regulations that cover their industry are selling out when they do follow those rules and regulations.

According to studies done by the University of Southern California (USC, Dowell Myers, Demographer), poverty levels among Mexican immigrants peaked in 2000 and have been dropping since. Studies also indicate that the longer those Mexicans are in the U.S., the less likely they are to be classified as in poverty. Contrast that with the permanent poverty class in America that never leaves poverty.

With unemployment at record low levels, why is there anyone unemployed? In many California counties, unemployment is 10-15-20 percent below the full employment figure. In Orange and San Diego Counties, for example, there are at least 50,000 jobs available (even as both counties may have a quarter-million or more illegals working, so much for “displaced” Americans).

The Census Bureau reports that labor market penetration by Mexican American and Mexican national men is 85 percent, the highest in the country while non-Hispanic white labor market penetrations is a full 20 percent below that record number.

As for allowing poverty into the country, their rational for making that statement is that these illegals come here and work for “slave wages.” Since when is paying minimum wage paying “slave wages?” (see stupid statements by Congressman Charlie Rangel, D-NY on Lou Dobbs’ daily diatribe against Mexicans)”

To buttress the argument they claim that illegals all work under the table, that they are paid in cash and don’t pay taxes. Studies by government contractors of illegals caught and deported conclude that, in fact, 75 percent of those deported were paid with payroll checks with full with holding of taxes and Social Security.

The illegals seem to speak enough English to understand that if they apply for a tax identification number from the IRS they can file income tax returns without a Social Security number, they can open bank accounts, receive credit cards and in some cases buy homes. In addition to the IRS tax identification number, they need to produce a government issued identification document, which may be a driver’s license, or an identification card issued by a foreign government (Matricula Consular).

The hypocrites claim the illegals commit massive identity theft by using false Social Security numbers, but In the Big Picture, is this as serious as the billions of dollars in identity theft and credit card fraud that occurs every day in the country by non-Hispanic white scamsters?

The issue of the day for hypocrites is Bank of America. It announced that it has been running a pilot program in Los Angeles and Orange Counties (number one and three in size in California) for people without Social security numbers to obtain credit cards.

The conditions: that people have an IRS tax Identification number, a government issued identification document and a checking account with the bank for three months or more without any insufficient checks and a desire to have a credit card with a $500 limit. This is all within rules and regulations issued by the Federal Reserve Bank, the Department of the Treasury and California State banking laws.

This program is 100 percent legal. So what part of legal don’t the hypocrites understand? And, isn’t extending credit to low-income people a blessing, not a curse, for most? Talk about assimilation, what’s more American than having a credit card?

Here is a letter in the Los Angeles Times (February 16) from a self-described “superpatriot” who is the quintessential hypocrite and whiner. His arguments are arguably racist in tone and context, as are the tones of most of the complainers about Bank of America’s not-so-pioneering credit experiment. Citibank started the same program three years ago without a whimper from these people.

“Bank of America's search for new markets among illegal immigrants is nauseating. Corporations like Bank of America that wink at illegal immigration should at least admit that unskilled American workers harmed by federal nonenforcement (sic) policies are already the poorest and most vulnerable segment within the nation's working society. Does Bank of America's search for new markets include low-interest loans to those unskilled American workers displaced by illegal immigrants?” MICHAEL SCOTT, Glendora

How charitable this hypocrite is, feeling so badly for the “poorest and most vulnerable segment within the nation’s working society…unskilled American workers displaced by illegal immigrants…”

Those people he is so worried about used to live in New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta and they refuse to go home for the jobs currently available there.

That’s why illegals from Mexico are flooding into New Orleans and rebuilding the city and working at jobs Americans refuse to do, such as those at New Orleans Burger Kings that is offering $12 an hour, free food and a cash bonus after working six months. That is one of millions such stories in the USA that the hypocrites refuse to see or understand. Maybe if they weren’t so blind, they could see what rational, non-racist people see; i.e., what Bank of America sees.

http://www.calnews.com/archives/contreras323.htm

And I included this from the page because I thought it was a good illustration of just where this guy's mindset is! As if we couldn't tell from the article

Contreras' books, THE ILLEGAL ALIEN: A DAGGER INTO THE HEART OF AMERICA and A HISPANIC VIEW OF AMERICAN POLITICS AND THE POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION