Why didn't Hispanics protest in their country?

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May 13, 2006

Marjorie Knoblock The Port Arthur News Sat May 13, 2006, 05:50 PM CDT

I am an 80-year-old American woman who, never in a million years, would have lived to experience a day that lawbreakers could come here to our country and have the gall to intimidate our government and our taxpayers.

They demand that President Bush and those that be comply with their demands now, immediately, or they will damage our economy throughout the United States.

Intelligence tells us that Hispanics in this country who are paying taxes, those who have paying jobs and Hispanics who own businesses will feel the effects of the boycott like everyone they want to hurt.

If the economy is affected to the extreme, those who participated in the boycott will be first in the line to collect back wages and unemployment. There will be a rush, of course, for welfare assistance for sure.

Many Americans are for the boycotts. They are probably those who are financially secure in their lives now and for their futures. There is no comparison for Americans who are ill, disabled, elderly and those struggling on a fixed income.

There are more intelligent and humane ways of stabilizing our boarders and of ensuring the security for our country. Pushing away our Americans, who have given much to this country, in order to placate illegal ingrates is disgraceful.

Our government should show some “good ole American guts” and stand up to those who want to destroy us.

Our country has done more for the illegals than their home country ever did for them. Don’t they get it?

Bleeding hearts will disagree with this but that is their business. President Fox and the Mexican government encouraged their people to leave their country and sneak across our boarder in defiance of the U.S. laws.

They did not want to shoulder their responsibilities for the welfare of their neglected citizens. Let America do their job for them.

Why didn’t the protesters and the boycotters, in this country illegally, protest and boycott in Mexico? Why didn’t they use political pressure on their inept government like they are doing to our government?

Mexico needs leadership and vision in their leaders.

Both the U.S. and Mexican governments share blame in the chaos that is going on right now.

As one, self-serving Hispanic organizer of the boycott so proudly announced, “the boycott will make history.” That’s his observation. Then what?

Lord help us all.

Marjorie Knoblock

Port Arthur

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