-=> Quoting Mike Angwin to Jean Halverson <=-
 MA> There is no doubt at all the INS gives preference to northern
 MA> Europeans over any other ethnic group.  The numbers speak for
 MA> themselves.
 
 Yes, the liberals who complain about the racism in America seem to be blind
 to the log in their own eye concerning immigration. 
 MA> Compare the situations at the borders.  Our frontier with
 MA> Mexico here in Texas is buffered by a 100 mile strip of a militarized
 MA> zone complete with combat troops conducting sweeps through civilian
 MA> areas. We have choke points where highways are funneled together and
 MA> INS checkpoints, as much as 200 miles in our interior, stopping and
 MA> searching "suspicious" vehicles and passangers.  "Suspicious" in the
 MA> language of the INS, BTW, is freely exchangable with the word
 MA> "Hispanic".  We have fences with barbed wire strung by our cities, INS
 MA> patrol vehicles, helicopters, and armed border guards sweeping through
 MA> backyards and the ally's of El Paso, Laredo, and Brownsville.  Large
 MA> searchlights sweep up and down the river banks.
 MA> Xenophobia is a disease just like cancer or paranoia.  
 
 So true. And yet we in Texas are in a total denial of our Hispanic heritage.
 I lived in California (born there too) and the same thing is happening
 there. It has been dangerous for anyone with dark skin to go to TJ. A
 friend of mine who was half Native American (with a sense of humor), was
 detained for about six hours at the border trying to get back home. They
 thought his valid drivers license was a forgery. Of course this was back in
 my highschool days before everything was computerized. 
 It would be nice if there was a valid reason for this militarization, but
 they just aren't stopping the real problem: drugs.
 JH>     There should be a sense of pride in opening our golden door to oth
 
 MA> I do appreciate the agreement.  Looking at what is happening
 MA> from the outside, not being caught up in the sheer insanity of all of
 MA> this, it is certianly an interesting process those who support these
 MA> policies have caught themselves up in. 
 
 Yes.  I think that in order for the border doors to open, we _must_ 
 dismantle our social  welfare programs. Of  course, _that_ by itself will
 take nothing less than a miracle.
 Jean Halverson
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