The Immigration Debate.

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It's interesting that President Bush, in defending a guest worker/citizenship program for undocumented aliens, is willing to stand up against the reactionary House Republicans who want to build a big wall along the Mexican border and drive all the undocumented workers back across. Bush sees Hispanic Americans as a potential bloc for the GOP, unlike gays (who would alienate the religious right base).

Interesting, too, that NGLTF put out a press release in support of the McCain/Kennedy immigration reform bill (which, to me, does sound like a reasonable measure), but missed the opportunity to discuss the problems of gay immigrants, especially partners of U.S. citizens who can't gain residency. Guess that's "mission creep" (or fear of offending their supposed Latino "allies" by bringing up gay-immigration matters).
--Stephen H. Miller

One Comment for “The Immigration Debate.”

  1. posted by Don "Stuffed Animal" Charles on

    Just because some illegal immigrants are Lesbians or Gay men does not mean I have to support amnesty for them. There are Gay people among all sorts of lawbreakers, and I don’t support them, either.

    Illegal immigrants are nothing but opportunists. They are not the only folks in the world who want to come to the United States out of economic hardship. Many others have come here for that same reason in the past, and they’ve done so legally. However, this newest batch seems to think their willingness to work in the US for unscrupulous employers entitles them to forego the legal immigration process. It doesn’t.

    They’re reaching out to the Black and Gay communities, saying their pain is the same as ours and claiming to be engaged in a civil rights struggle, just like we are. Bulls**t! Their struggle is not a civil rights struggle because they aren’t US citizens. Most of the working-class Latinos who make up the illegal population are religious conservatives who oppose Gay rights. Many of them harbor deep skin-color prejudices, too. What’s more, the pistons driving their so-called grass roots movement aren’t community activists but Wall Street interests who are bent on flooding the United States with cheap labor.

    They are presenting themselves as our friends, but with their foreign flags and militant chants of “s

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