MAYAN CALENDAR NEWS: NYT - "IMMIGRATION DECEPTION"
OK MAYAN READERS,
An interesting editorial from the New York Times blasting Obama and McCain for
their open lies about their stances on immigration reform.
Let's face it gente, the only way we are going to achieve a just, humane and
fair immigration policy in the USA...IS THROUGH PAIN...!!!
They....must feel the pain!!!
Imagine what a major oil boycott would do to the already bleak economic
condition of the USA.
And I'm talking about a major protracted oil boycott....not a one day symbolic
action. Gente, it would be the "nail in the coffin" against the war on Mexican
immigrants....Mexican Americans, and latino immigrants in the USA.
I re-iterate my call for the boycott of the major oil companies......only
buyCITGO SOLO CITGO.....
Imagine the republican right wing criminal Bush crime cabal.....actually
adopting a "COMMUNIST SOLUTION".... to the housing mortgage crisis. Yes that's
right gente....A BIG GOVERNMENT - COMMUNIST- LEFTIST -SOLUTION....to save the
big mortgage bankers......AIG et al.....It's WELFARE FOR THE SUPER RICH!!!
Now if the rabid right wing bush crime Cabal will adopt communist solutions to
save their buddies in the banking and investment industry......don't you think
that they will ADOPT AN AMNESTY PLAN FOR UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS IF WE PULL A
MAJOR OIL BOTCOTT ON THEM....
OK 10 de Marzo....NAIR.....Centro Sin Fronteras.....Midwest Alliance....Frente
Unido.....which of you are going to step up to the plate and...."MAKE THE
CALL"...... or...maybe it's time for new leadership to emerge...and run with it!
Once again...the Mayan Calendar news is calling for a boycott of all major
oil/petroleum corporations.....except for CITGO.....SOLO CITGO!!!
Carlos Perez
Founder/Editor
Mayan Calendar News
"Meanwhile, the Bush administration keeps raiding factories and farms,
terrorizing immigrant families while exposing horrific accounts of workplace
abuses. Children toil in slaughterhouses; detainees languish in federal
lockups, dying without decent medical care. Day laborers are harassed and
robbed of wages. An ineffective border fence is behind schedule and millions
over budget. Local enforcers drag citizens and legal residents into their nets,
to the cheers of the Minutemen. "
Editorial
Immigration Deception
Published: September 18, 2008
Yes, immigration is a complicated and combustible issue for political
candidates — and the economic meltdown is everyone’s top priority. No, that is
no excuse for ignoring immigration or lying about it to voters, as John McCain
and Barack Obama have been doing.
Mr. McCain lied first, in a Spanish-language ad that accused Mr. Obama of
helping to kill immigration reform last year, by voting for amendments that
supposedly doomed a bipartisan bill. The ad lamented the result: “No guest
worker program. No path to citizenship. No secure borders. No reform. Is that
being on our side?”
That is a jaw-dropping distortion. The bill wasn’t killed by any amendments. It
was killed by a firestorm of talk-radio rage and a Republican-led filibuster.
The very bill that Mr. McCain now mourns is the one he sidled away from as his
own party weakened and killed it. It’s the one he says he would now vote
against.
For Mr. McCain to suggest that Mr. Obama opposes the “path to citizenship” and
“guest worker program” compounds his dishonesty. Mr. Obama supports the three
pillars of comprehensive reform — tougher enforcement, expanded legal
immigration and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants already here.
Mr. McCain was an architect of just such a comprehensive bill. But he is also
leading a party whose members rabidly oppose the path to citizenship. So, in
deference to them, Mr. McCain now emphasizes border security as the utmost
priority. Except when he’s pandering in Spanish.
Mr. Obama’s retaliatory ad, also in Spanish, was just as fraudulent. It slimed
Mr. McCain as a friend and full-bore ally of restrictionists like Rush
Limbaugh, even though Mr. Limbaugh has long attacked Mr. McCain’s immigration
moderation.It quotes Mr. Limbaugh as calling all Mexicans stupid and ordering
them to “shut your mouth or get out,” which he never did.
Immigration was broken before the candidates started this repugnant ad war, and
looks as if it will stay that way for at least the duration of this campaign.
Meanwhile, the Bush administration keeps raiding factories and farms,
terrorizing immigrant families while exposing horrific accounts of workplace
abuses. Children toil in slaughterhouses; detainees languish in federal
lockups, dying without decent medical care. Day laborers are harassed and
robbed of wages. An ineffective border fence is behind schedule and millions
over budget. Local enforcers drag citizens and legal residents into their nets,
to the cheers of the Minutemen.
Both candidates once espoused smart, thoughtful positions for fixing the
problem. But Mr. McCain is shuffling in step with his restrictionist party. Mr.
Obama gave immigration one brief mention at the Democratic convention, in a
litany of big-trouble issues, like abortion, guns and same-sex marriage, on
which he seemed to say that the best Americans could hope for are small
compromises and to agree to disagree.
They’re both wrong. The country needs to hear better answers, stated clearly
and forthrightly over the shouting. The answer to immigration is what it was
last year: comprehensive reform that extends order and the rule of law to a
system that is broken in a million complex ways. Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama both
know this. They should get back to telling the truth about it, in English and
in Spanish.
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