Pat Buchanan: Xenophobic Poster Boy
Put forth on October 4, 2006 by XicanoPwr
Posted in Deportation, Immigration Debate, Nativism, Propaganda, Racism
I have been waiting for this video to be floating around the Internets. Pat Buchanan went on the “Daily Show” to explain his theory of Mexico’s secret plot to recapture the Southwest with an army of hardworking immigrants who, he claims, don’t like English or America. His interview was nothing but a string of fabrications that needs to be exposed.
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Buchanan was true to form as a xenophobic con man, with his hateful vitriol just to spread more fear to white America.
First claim – from 1924 and 1965 there was virtually no immigration into this country. This is false. If he was talking about immigration from Europe then maybe because between 1924 and 1965 anyone who passed a literacy test and a medical exam and came from approved countries (that is, Europe) was also admitted relatively easily.
Buchanan is forgetting a little program during WWI called the Bracero program
It has been estimated that in the 1950s the United States imported as many as 300,000 Mexican workers annually. … Between 1942 and 1964 more than 4.5 million braceros entered the United States.
Virtually none? What stats did he collect? Virtually none? Why did the US government implement Operation Wetback in the 1950s. Some would wonder why Buchanan is trying revise history, could it be he views them as animals who were carted into the country with a specific agenda and when their usefulness ends, just deport them back.
Second claim – the old crime rate stats. Half the criminals in jail are immigrants.
Fact – There have been numerous studies that continue to show that immigrants from south of the border have lower crime rates than their US-born counterparts, and are more likely to abuse drugs the longer they stay in the United States – which is to say the more they become like “real Amurkans,” the higher the chances they become thugs. If anything then, it is “Americanism” that is the problem.
Third claim – Mexico is planning to infiltrate the US, by trying claim that some Mexicans have praised Osama bin Laden. The whole claim is about how the “Mexicans” are not law-abiding people because so many of them are coming illegally, and we are a law-abiding people who believe in playing by the rules. Umm….and like Mark Foley is? Or what about those who steal whole continents. Like the descendants of those who confiscated North America. Buchanan admits that is what happened.
“Look at the Indians. They had a liberal immigration policy. Look what happened to them, Jon.
His statement is not only disingenuous but outright racist and heartless. Buchanan was not only trying to say that Native Americans should blame themselves for their own genocide by letting the settlers in but he also trying to use this deviant logic as an example as to why the US shouldn’t allow any undocumented immigrants from South of the Border to come into the US.
It is this kind of thinking that brought about immigration exclusion laws of 1920s and 40s, such as the Asian exclusion laws that remained in effect for roughly eighty years.
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i promise you and the Great Internix Gods that I will dance the day this man dies. If that stains my soul, I can live with it. But I believe in celebrating the passing of Evil, and the burial of fear.
“THEY CHEER OSAMA IN THE STADIUMS”????
They… were one “porra” (organized fan club– basically a kegger party in the stands. They’re rowdy, but at least they don’t rampage through the streets after the game, like similar clubs in England and Belgium) … chanting “Osmama” at one futbol game.
Yeah, like a bunch of shit-faced soccer fans in Mexico City were going to start staggering up Mexico-57 to Laredo… okie… dokie…
Maddening ain’t it?
I’ve seen quite a few statements from these anti Mexican people about how Mexicans are anti American and so forth, even that Mexicans were cheering on 9/11 (I think Glen Spencer said that). It’s all so ridiculous. I was here in Mexico on 9/11 and everyone I talked to was heartbroken.
And as to being antiAmerican in general, considering that just about everyone in Mexico has relatives or friends on the other side, many of whom are American citizens, such claims are idiotic.
Although I have to admit, that watching the anti Mexican frenzy going on in the states right now, does tend to make one feel more than a little angry. I have to keep reminding myself that these pendejos are just a very vocal minority. At least I hope so.
I just don’t understand why Mexicans get mad because we’re concerned about immigation. This country is only so big, and has only so many jobs. “we do jobs you don’t want to do…” No, you don’t. You do jobs that we would be happy to do for fair pay. There is a difference.
I would love to do construction but I have a family and can afford to stand outside all day and make 5 bucks an hour. Those jobs used to pay $20 an hour.
But if I live in a house with 5 other guys and paid like $20 a month in rent, then sent back all my cash to my wife in Mexico where my house was paid off, them maybe I could take that job.
I understand the desire for a better life and I have no problem with legal people coming here I don’t care where they are from. But sneaking into our Country is against the law and I do have a problem with that.
pane, then why don’t you protest and petition your government to eliminate NAFTA? Why don’t you protest the unfair tax breaks given to the factory farmers that force sustenance living farmers out of business? Why don’t you challenge the way your government endorses a globalization that shits on unions? Why don’t you support those members of unions in latin america that are getting murdered and shot at when they try to organize for living wages and safe work place?
There is all sorts of things you could do that do not include the hate crimes and murder that buchanan endorses.
Everything I was about to say, Brownfemipower nailed it!
Opponents of immigration need to place their squeaky clean feet into a pair of shoes worn by a man from Mexico whose country cannot provide work (due to NAFTA,etc), & is watching his children starve & suffer, to only live in squalor. And when “Pane” says, “..to my wife in Mexico where my house was paid off..”,— I wasn’t aware that you could “pay off” a shack with no running water.
Humanity people, humanity.
Actully, the Barcero program wasnt teknically immigration, but migrant workers. U.S. law defynes an imigrant as someone who applys for citzenship and stays as a rezident. Also your statment abowt indians has a problum. Mexico was invaded by Spanish who comited genowcide against against indians who were alredy in Mexico and wipd out the Aztecs and Mayans. Our peeple ar in now positn to bee criticl in that whay.
Not every Hispanic agrees with your positions on illegal immigration. None of what you’ve said gives Mexican nationals the right to cross the sovereign boundaries of the United States. If Americans decided to cross the border into Mexico in the same fashion, the Mexican government would treat them harshly, as indicated by how they treat other Hispanics entering illegally through their southern border. Making demands in militant tones only destroys racial harmony with white people. Believe me, we as an ethnic group will pay dearly for making immigration demands, i.e. special privileges that no other group has ever made before. Marches do little good, except to agrevate anglos. Whatever progress has been made for our people in the past will be destroyed.
Yeah, illegal immigration is all positive. Read this:
The Poultry Industrys Chickens (Really!) Come Home To Roost
By Walter Pringle
[See also: Canada: The Disease Dimension, By Michael Monastyrskyj]
Here in California, there has been much media attention to the outbreak of Exotic Newcastle Disease (END). Initially detected in private backyard flocks in Los Angeles County, the virus has spread quickly throughout the Southern California poultry industry. Over 1.3 million of the states 12 million chickens have already been destroyed. The outbreak threatens the entire $3 billion California poultry business.
But the media has not reported the cause of outbreak. I searched a hundred or so news links. The unenlightening backyard flock was the only explanation offered. Apparently, no-one had any interest in discovering why this important event occurred.
After much digging in farm trade publications, I discovered the cause: the illegal smuggling of illegal game cocks from Mexico. Cock fighting is illegal in California and all but three other states and poultry smuggling is illegal due to federal health and disease control regulations. In fact, according to the USDA, the principal means of prevention of END is by strict border control and inspection of imported birds.
The same loose border control that allows hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens to sneak into our country also enables the very same aliens to bring in their backyard flocks of fighting birds.
The virus has been assayed and judged to be of the type that caused an END outbreak in Mexico in 2000 during which 13 million birds died or were killed. Obviously, it was not completely eradicated in Mexico three years ago.
But, you may well ask, what does a handful of gamecocks have to do with the California poultry industry? How could a couple of roosters infect those flocks to the tune of 1.3 million dead birds?
Well, the USDA thinks they do. It has destroyed 43,000 birds in backyard flocks in an attempt to stop the spread of the disease.
The reason: many of the owners of these critters work in the nearby poultry farms. Although the poultry farms have strict biosafety rules to protect their flocks, a principal one – you cant be around other chicken flocks – was ignored by the workers. It turns out that END, although harmless to humans, can be carried on clothes and shoes. It is easily spread by a human who has had contact with infected birds.
And, to bang yet another chip out of the Irony is Dead conceit, what about this: the poultry industry hires illegal Mexicans and pushes for open borders. It gets its cheap workers – who then turn around and destroy the business, because of an expression of their culture, that while illegal, is winked as part of the vast multicultural benefits immigration brings us!
END is dangerous. In 1971, the whole California poultry crop had to be destroyed due to infection with END.
Yet here we are, 32 y
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