I think Democrat leadership invited Mexican President Calderon here to address Congress and call us names in order to enforce their position that Arizona’s new law is ‘racial profiling’. Which is outright bullshit. Why doesn’t someone read the damn bill?
They gave him a standing ovation. Sick. Maybe instead of giving them maps and instructions to America, Mexican officials could take better care of their own people!
Rush is right. Again. Calderon has a lot of nerve, considering his country’s attitude toward immigrants.
Via Gateway Pundit
Basically, it was all a show for the nation’s cable & satellite subscribers. Hope y’all enjoyed it.
Yes! Congressman Tom McClintock:
Found at Bakerstreet
McClintockCA04 — May 20, 2010 — Response to President Calderon
House Chamber, Washington, D.C.
May 20, 2010M. Speaker:
I rise to take strong exception to the speech of the President of Mexico while in this chamber today.
The Mexican government has made it very clear for many years that it holds American sovereignty in contempt and President Calderons behavior as a guest of the Congress confirms and underscores this attitude.
It is highly inappropriate for the President of Mexico to lecture Americans on American immigration policy, just as it would be for Americans to lecture Mexico on its laws.
It is obvious that President Calderon does not understand the nature of America or the purpose of our immigration law.
Unlike Mexicos immigration law — which is brutally exclusionary — the purpose of Americas law is not to keep people out. It is to assure that as people come to the United States, they do so with the intention of becoming Americans and of raising their children as Americans.
Unlike Mexico, our nation embraces immigration and what makes that possible is assimilation.
A century ago President Teddy Roosevelt put it this way. He said:
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
That is how we have built one great nation from the people of all the nations of the world.
The largest group of immigrants now comes from Mexico. A recent RAND discovered that during most of the 20th Century, while our immigration laws were actually enforced, assimilation worked and made possible the swift attainment of the American dream for millions of immigrants seeking to escape conditions in Mexico.
That is the broader meaning of our nations motto, e pluribus unum from many people, one people, the American people.
But there is now an element in our political structure that seeks to undermine that concept of E Pluribus Unum. It seeks to hyphenate Americans, to develop linguistic divisions, to assign rights and preferences based on race and ethnicity, and to elevate devotion to foreign ideologies and traditions, while at the same time denigrating American culture, American values and American founding principles.
In order to do so, they know that they have to stop the process of assimilation. In order to do that, they must undermine our immigration laws.
It is an outrage that a foreign head of state would appear in this chamber and actively seek to do so. And it is a disgrace that he would be cheered on from the left wing of the White House and by many Democrats in this Congress.
Arizona has not adopted a new immigration law. All it has done is to enforce existing law that President Obama refuses to enforce. It is hardly a radical policy to suggest that if an officer on a routine traffic stop encounters a driver with no drivers license, no passport, and who doesnt speak English, that maybe that individual might be here illegally.
And to those who say we must reform our immigration laws I reply that we dont need to reform them we need to enforce them. Just as every other government does. Just as Mexico does.
Above all, this is a debate of, by and for the American people. If President Calderon wishes to participate in that debate, I invite him to obey our immigration laws, apply for citizenship, do what 600,000 LEGAL immigrants to our nation are doing right now, learn our history and our customs, and become an American. And then he will have every right to participate in that debate.
Until then, I would politely invite him to have the courtesy while a guest of this Congress to abide by the fundamental rules of diplomacy between civilized nations not to meddle in each others domestic debates.
May 21st, 2010 at 10:42 am
Hear, hear Mr McClintock!
How is this so difficult for the left to comprehend?
And as for reading the damn bill – I’m not so sure these idiots CAN read…
May 21st, 2010 at 10:46 am
Well, they all [or most] got through law school…
They just don’t want to read it – or they would have instead of running their mouths first.
Fools.
May 21st, 2010 at 11:31 am
F**k Calderon and the horse he rode in on. Listen up Speedy Gonzalez, you live and head Mexico. Stay there and keep your mouth shut.
And thank you McClintock! Finally someone speaking for the United States…which the President should have done!
May 21st, 2010 at 11:33 am
Okay… that’s what I wanted to say!!
May 21st, 2010 at 1:20 pm
I say we adopt Mexico’s immigration laws…
May 21st, 2010 at 1:21 pm
not really, but you get the point.
May 21st, 2010 at 1:24 pm
Yep, I get the point.
May 21st, 2010 at 12:03 pm
McClintock for POTUS 2012!
And I love him quoting Teddy Roosevelt’s speech. I might add that I have nothing against immigrants bringing a slice of their culture here to share. I have no problem with them speaking their native tongue at the dinner table in their own homes. But they are to assimilate into OUR culture, not the other way around. Any other country you go to in the world, you act and do as they do, or you’re not welcome. Period.
May 21st, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Exactly, Dave!
May 21st, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Spot on Dave!
This country is made up from the patchwork of the immigrants who came here. Who saved their money, passed through Liberty Island, signed their name to a book and then went out into the country to find their bright new future.
Did they drop everything about their ‘home country’ at the door threshold before they crossed into New York? Absolutely not. But did they strive to learn English, learn the American Way to do things and teach their children in their home about where they came from and the beauty to be found in their home language? You betcha.
There were no packaging put on store shelves in both Spanish and English. There were no signs hung in Gaelic and English. There were no papers printed in both English and Italian. It was all English. That is OUR mother tongue. That is OUR heritage. That is the language that AMERICAN’S speak.
And quite frankly, if you really read the excerpt from Teddy Roosevelt, that would mean we could take out the baloney of “Irish American”, “Italian American”, “French American”, “African American” and any other hyphenated American. You’re either American or you’re not. It’s that simple. And if you’re not…you don’t need to be here and you don’t need to be getting pissy about our rules, regulations and how things are done. Go back to where you came from. But I’m gonna guess that the fact that you’re here means where you came from sucked dirt. So assimilate, join the party and make it better. And if you don’t then there’s the door, don’t let it hit you where the good Lord split ya’!
May 21st, 2010 at 3:20 pm
Yay, Lee Ann!!
May 21st, 2010 at 6:03 pm
McClintock got my first Republican vote ever when he ran for governor of California. I wish he would run for president!
Fuck Calderon. Fuck Obama. Fuck Pelosi…
May 21st, 2010 at 6:07 pm
That would suit me fine. Why is it our choices are always so damned limited to dumb and dumber?
May 22nd, 2010 at 7:24 am
I don’t know…
May 21st, 2010 at 10:30 pm
Calderon. Any idea what a “calderon” is? A boiling pot of hell, loosely translated.
Hijo miserable de la chingada. Vayase al diablo!
May 22nd, 2010 at 9:21 am
Didn’t know that! I took Spanish in high school but have never understood any of it…
May 21st, 2010 at 11:49 pm
I have never lived in a US state that didn’t border on Mexico, nor do I plan to. I had many friends growing up who spoke Spanish at home, I used to speak a little myself. Of course, those were the old days, the fifties and early sixties, back when Mexican immigrants wanted to be Americans. I miss those days.
May 22nd, 2010 at 9:24 am
I’ve had spanish speaking friends all my life but never learned the language.
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Callate, pendejo. And I mean that in the most vulgar of ways.
He’s just about ready to shit down both sides of his legs if this goes through and all the US dollars quit flowing in to his country.
I want pictures of every damn cucaracha who stood and applauded this fucker, as well as every god-damned one of ‘em who is wearing those effing bracelets.
Pardon my language.
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:18 pm
Yeah, can you believe those rubber bracelets? Are they in high school?
May 24th, 2010 at 10:14 am
What bracelets?
May 24th, 2010 at 10:16 am
Pelosi and Biden [at the very least] had ANTI Arizona bracelets, if you can believe that. Silly shits.
May 25th, 2010 at 9:31 am
You’ve got be flipping kidding?! How stupid and immature is that!
Arizona is doing nothing wrong but upholding the law. Rick Scott has added this to his campaign commercials and that he’ll bring the same thing to Florida.
Good!
Don’t like? Suck it and move somewhere else. I hear Canada is fine in January.
May 25th, 2010 at 10:03 am
I know who I’m voting for!!