Immigration debate beats around the Bush

The new focus on immigration is yet another ploy to detract us all from the current follies of the Bush administration. This year alone, we have been witnesses to the inept response to Hurricane Katrina while we are funneling millions of dollars to Pakistani earthquake relief and at the same time telling Katrina victims they must fend for themselves.

The debacle that has become the occupation of Iraq (on false pretenses), has mired us in yet another Vietnam; in the history of warfare there has yet to be a successful occupation of lands by any foreign forces (unless of course you count the genocide of the Native peoples of this continent), which may count as the biggest state-sponsored terrorist event on U.S. soil.

Ms. Harriet Miers’ nomination for the Supreme Court may stand as the biggest example of ineptness and crony-ism. We could go on with the Carl Rove issue, the economic blunder we call CAFTA, the “warm” reception Dubya received recently in South America, etc. The fact is that the immigration issue (un-documented workers) is a storm cloud on the horizon and may be the only thing right-wing conservatives have to hang onto.

It’s tantamount to focusing or shifting the light on something other than the real issues at hand (i.e. Iraq, Hurricane relief, NAFTA, CAFTA, gas price gouging, GM, Halliburton, the Carl Rove CIA leak, etc).

As for the un-documented workers who are coming to the United States to take “American Jobs”: Earlier this year there was an incident in Canyon County where workers were poisoned in the fields and not one of the victims was white! If you truly want to stop this “invasion,” start by boycotting any business or services that use “cheap Mexican labor.” Make sure it was white hands that picked your lettuce, apples,

pears and oranges.

If you travel this holiday season, check the kitchen of the restaurant you may be eating at and make damn sure it’s a white person prepping your food. And you sure as hell want to stay at a hotel where white women are making the beds and vacuuming the rooms. So, let’s go ahead and make the eight billion-border fence to keep out all of these “brown-skinned terrorists” (Canyon County Commissioner Robert Vasquez’s words). Jennifer, Heather and Sally will have to drop the cheerleading squad in order to learn how to make beds and cook; Jimmy, Billy and Tim will need to quit hunting, fishing and rodeo because the irrigation pipes need to be moved.

Wake up everybody, you are being hoodwinked, duped and taken advantage of. The Bush presidency will go down in history as perhaps the best Republican administration a Democrat could hope for – right!

LIZ HUERTA HALE
Opinion Writer

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