Thread: A history ‘lesson’ we don’t need

A history ‘lesson’ we don’t need
Published: May 19 2008, 10:39 PM
Category: Opinion

(Guest editorial from the Sacramento Union.)

State Sen. Gilbert Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, has introduced a bill to require public junior high and high schools to teach students about the deportation from California of an estimated 400,000 illegal Mexican aliens during the Great Depression.

Cedillo believes that enforcement of U.S. immigration laws are racist and that President Herbert Hoover’s deportation of illegal aliens in 1929 is “an embarrassment to all Americans.â€

How about if California teaches about the Italians & Germans who were interred in prison camps during WW2 while their children were serving in the US military. Thousands more Japanese were also interred and we are aware of them, but not the Italians and Germans. These people were ALL legal immigrants of the US at the time and were jailed simply because of their ethnicity.

The illegal alien Mexicans were NOT put in camps, but deported back to their country. They were treated better than legal immigrants even back then!

Tell me now who got the better deal?

I wish Hoover were here today, evidentely we don't have many people willing to protect Americans these days!! No guts no glory!

The only ones crying I'm sure are the OBL'ers