Comment from another diary:
You're on the wrong board, gabacho. Go to Little Green Footballs or Redstate or Free Republic. You'll be a lot happier there eating your white bread tacos and Jello. [link]
Comment from Townhall.com:
One filthy illegal Mexican gone. Now lets get the other 11.999 million! [link]
If I were to employ racial slurs like "ni**er," "Sp*c," or "H*be" when referring to persons of certain ethnic descent and in other contexts, I'd expect to get slapped down by my fellow Kossacks, and hard. As well I should. But now, I am on the receiving end of an ethnic slur. Can I expect fellow Kossacks to treat him in the same unforgiving manner that you would surely (and rightly) deal with me, were I to be so uncouth?
This discussion was precipitated by the brutal rape and murder of 15-year-old Dani Countryman and the execution-style murder of three college students in Newark (allegedly) by illegal immigrants, and the deportation of Elvira Arellano. Taken together, they remind us again that the tsunami of illegal immigration carries with it real and deleterious consequences, which we all must bear. As one fellow Kossack observed:
In the interest of full disclosure, I'm pro-enforcement. My Social Security number has been used not once, but at least twice (in different incidents) to gain unemployment benefits. I recall patiently explaining to my local office after being laid off that I had never worked for a commercial farm in the middle of the state. That little notation could have halved my benefits - which I'm legally entitled to - and at that moment in time, unemployment insurance was the sole source of household income. So it's hard for me to be sympathetic to an individual who knowingly used someone else's Social Security number, whatever the excuse. [link]
With a stolen social security number, Elvira Arellano was able to find work at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. Where's Michael Chertoff's gut when you need it? More to the point, she stole someone's identity.
I'm a big boy who can handle a few repugnant ethnic slurs, but the author's comments regarding Dani Countryman were beyond offensive:
The Countryman family was a nice gabacho family - father involved in drugs (he had Dani hide a crack pipe for him when stopped by the cops, nice guy!), and her sister (who she was living with) was well acquainted with the basura blanca [translation: "white trash"] in the Milwaukie, OR apartment building where Dani Countryman was killed.
What killed Dani Countryman and the three Newark college students was a culture of violence and trash living - a culture that too many people take part in, whether immigrant or long-standing native-born.[link]
I don't care if Dani's father was John Gotti! No young girl deserves to meet such a brutal ending to her life. And it's not like you get to pick and choose your family....
At least in theory, our immigration law is supposed to keep "bad" people out of the country. Canada doesn't even let Americans convicted of a DUI cross her borders. Yet, we are supposed to welcome the dregs of the world with open arms ... including people who want to kill us? Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez at the University of Texas and founder of La Raza, put it bluntly: "We have got to eliminate the gringo. What I mean by that is if the worst comes to worst, we’ve got to kill him."
It seems to me that there has to be a better solution to this problem than the abominable lack of one we have today. But if we can't have civil, respectful, and candid discussion regarding the positives and negatives of illegal immigration without hazarding the slings and arrows of unwarranted ethnic slurs and abuse of troll ratings, perhaps it is a subject we are better off not broaching. I think I have a lot to offer -- my first diary was rec'd by the Rescue Rangers, and there is lots more where that came from -- but I DO NOT want to be a source of needless strife.
After all, there is far more that unites us than divides us.
I will respect and abide by the wishes of the group here, but I'd like to know what those wishes are. However, I won't alter my opinion (pro-enforcement, pro-guest worker program, pro-sane transition) unless and until I am persuaded by a persuasive argument.