Yes, They Are Out of Their Minds

Take a look around in the political landscape in this country and you will see one universal truth. Latinos are quickly becoming a larger group by the day. The El Paso Picayune and the Texas Tribune have been running pieces about demographics relative to the Latino community and its emerging influence in America’s political arena.

FOX News “dumbs down” the complexities of hot button issues to a few talking points or phrases so that they are suitable for mass consumption. Think of “shock and awe”, “cut and run”, “drill baby drill”, and most recently, “securing our borders”.

The result of this effective means of communications is capitalization of the naïveté of people and creating a favorable public dialogue. Large sums of people actually believe that the solution to the complexities of migration is “securing” the borders.

There is not a Border Patrol Sector Chief that believes their sector of the border is not secure.

The idea of immigrating “the right way” is another expression of the naïveté of the masses. Many people will proudly thump their chests saying that “my ancestors did it the right way”, which demonstrates their ignorance. Most of what we know consider immigration law was not enacted until relatively recently.

That’s a historic fact.

Its policy that needs to be changed. Merely throwing more money (I thought they didn’t want big government and lots of spending?), allocating more resources, and deploying troops to the border doesn’t do anything to make us safer or alleviate the problem of the undocumented.

At what point will they consider the border “secure”? Is it when our border along the south looks like the one that once divided Berlin? If memory serves, I seem to remember a charismatic President and former Governor of California giving a speech at that wall proudly challenging the Soviet Union, “Mr. Gorbachov, tear down this wall!”

He was a Republican if memory serves. Now the same party thinks that’s good policy?
And if the GOP has all the answers, what the hell are they going to do AFTER the border is “secure”? What is their plan?

They don’t have one.

The beauty of their tactic is to focus on securing the border because it’s a subjective goal. They can continue to pour money in to border militarization indefinently because the idea of a “secure” border is subjective. They can pretend they are actually doing something for many years and the naïve masses will buy it because the idea of a “secure” border in a post 9-11 world gives them a warm and fuzzy. It helps them sleep well at night.

If those that are opposed to Comprehensive Immigration Reform were truly interested in fixing the problem, they would be advocating for smart immigration policy. You know, things that actually make sense.

Like disincentives illegal immigration by coming up with common-sense policies that actually alleviate the situation rather than exacerbate an already out-of-control problem. Here’s an easy fix for example, make more visas available to low-skilled workers. That is a win-win situation for EVERYONE. The business owner will have more access to a legally documented work pool, the immigrant can freely work in this country, and there is a better means of identifying actual security risks as opposed to cleaning ladies.

But that one is a hard sell to conservatives because you can’t dumb it down to a cutsey little catch phrase.

What is really troublesome in this country is to see Raza supporting legislation like that of Arizona SB 1070. Groups like the Arizona Latino Republican Association. Its very sad to see people co-opted for a short-term political agenda. Those individuals need to look in the mirror and ask themselves a very difficult question.

Do you honestly believe that there is a time in the near future that the Republican party will look at you as anything more than “the help”?

Even if massa’ brings you in the from fields to work inside the house, isn’t it still slavery?

The answer is yes.

But in the short term, you will see groups within the GOP put the brown faces within their ranks in front of the cameras and the talking points about the American Dream, “the right way”, legal immigration, and border security will come flooding out of their mouths so that the Republicans can put forth an image that is false.

They want people to believe that there are throngs of minorities in the Republican party so that they don’t come across as being racist. But the sad reality is that minorities are truly minorities in the Republican party.

As soon as the issue dies down and the Republicans take back Congress, the people of color in the Republican party will be pushed aside again in favor of the traditional country club crowd.

And so to those of you who are Latino and supporting SB 1070, ask yourself one question. What are you doing supporting legislation that was written by white-supremacists? That’s the dirty little secret the GOP has been trying to suppress.

The actual author of the legislation is in fact a white supremacist.

Check your moral compass hermanos.