Open-borders quote of the morning; Update: Calderon bashes Arizona
From President Obama to Mexican President Felipe Calderon at this morning’s joint press conference:
“We are defined not by our borders, but by our bonds.”
The reconquista crowd gives two thumbs up.
Reconquista revolution without borders! (Photo credit: El Marco, Denver)
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Right on cue, with the State Department “human rights” zealots cheering on the sidelines, no doubt:
Mexican President Felipe Calderon seized the opportunity to blast Arizona’s controversial immigration law on Wednesday after President Obama welcomed him to the White House.
Arizona’s law, which takes effect in July, will call for state and local police to determine if people are in the country illegally.
At the start of Wednesday’s state visit to Washington, Calderon said the law discriminated against Mexicans and called for the two countries to work together to develop an immigration policy that did not force people to live in the shadows “with such laws as the Arizona law, which is forcing our people to face discrimination.”
Calderon, whose remarks were translated from Spanish, said “We can do so if we create a safer border — a border that will unite us instead of dividing us.
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Here in Pasadena, as in Burbank and other cities and towns, we are fueling our power plants with natural gas. In CA, nuclear is big but slowly shrinking as refits are disallowed so plants shut down when they need to be refitted. Wind and solar accounts for less than 3% of the total and will never contribute much more.
I am not against wind and solar and can point to some very specific projects that work. But there is no substitute for oil, coal, natural gas and nuclear for large-scale production of electricity and everyone knows it, even the eco-fascists.
During the Obama-Calderon event, Obama said that to save Mexico from guns, for the first time 100% of southbound rail traffic is being inspected.
What is more interesting is that in August 2009, DHS Secretary Napolitano said “For the first time we have begun inspecting all southbound rail shipments into Mexico.”
Apparently the Obama administration has two more firsts.
On May 19th, 2010 at 1:27 pm, Pasadena Phil said:
It’s not about the environment. It’s about “brining an Empire to its knees”… i.e., subjugating the U.S.A. to Communist and Jihadist countries.
Even if we completely stopped off-shore oil drilling, we could be 100% independent of any foreign oil if we simply started taking advantage of the proven reserves we have in ANWR and oil shale. It has been proven that we have over three times as much oil in our reserves than Saudi Arabia has in theirs.
We could even become an oil exporter if we regained control of our government from the eco-fascists.
Guess I wont be needing that Jello mold I bought in Tiajuana anymore
Perhaps the Apache, Comanche, Navajo, and other SW US Native American Tribes should be allowed to settle this problem with Mexico in the “old way” they handled it in the past.
The more curious thing about this situation is not so much the inspection of southbound (outbound) freight. The inspection of northbound (inbound) freight is where our largest problems develop (eg. drugs, humans/gangs, illegal products, etc).
Somebody needs to remind Mr. Calderon that all those Mexicans wouldn’t be here in the first place if his corrupt regime hadn’t created a hell-hole south of the border to begin with.
If you think they will all really be safer south of the border why don’t you invite them all to return to Mexico, Mr. Calderon?
What’s that? I can’t hear you…
..
“Visiters”…?
VISITERS…???
Are you FREAKING kidding me, Obama…?!?!?
Would burglars in my living room be “visitors“, TOO????
He should look up the definition of “border”. What a fool.
Today Zero said, and I paraphrase, he wants Republican support in Congress for his “Amnesty” (my word for it) plans, evoking the memory of the McCain/Kennedy bill as an example of bipartisan support.
I wonder how this is playing in Arizona. Seems to me it would remind Arizonans that they have a viper in their midst.
My daily reminder to all friends and relatives: do not patronize any business if you think they are either owned by or employ illegal aliens. If you do, do not complain about handing over your earnings to provide services for them.
Fences make good neighbors.
It doesn’t matter who had which land first, who invaded who, blah blah blah.
Mexican citizens and aboriginal tribes of North America can get in a very long line for justice and reparations.
The Huns, the Vandals, the Tartars, the Mongols, the Norsemen, the Saxons, the Ottoman Turks, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Medes, the Persians, the Saracens, the Moors, the Moghuls, the Romans, and the French have never even said “I’m sorry” for any of their outrages over the centuries. The migrations of civilizations doesn’t work that way. Get over it. Geez.
LittleMa – we have to go after any repub that even hints they’ll go along with ‘comprehensive immigration reform’ or amnesty. This has to be done before Nov. elections. Time is short and we’ve got a lot to do.
If mo and the kids got a gift of dresses from calderon, what do you imagine this bho gave calderon’s family? Maybe some fresh veggies from mo garden?
L
If Bush had secured the border on September 12, 2001 and actually enforced employer sanctions vigorously and consistently since then, we’d be talking about a much smaller problem and many more would be willing to listen to some kind of compromise. It is the complete lack of enforcement that has doubled this problem in the last ten years that exposes the deceitful attempt at forcing us into another amnesty by flooding the country with illegal aliens. The cynical way we are told we will not get border security until we give them an amnesty program is sickening. We won’t be fooled again. We remember 1986. No amnesty/regularization/guestworker until we see ACTUAL fences and ACTUAL enforcement. Let’s try that for ten years, then we’ll talk.
I am sure Obama gave Calderon an iPod with all his speeches delivered by Obama in Spanish. Oh, wait, Obama doesn’t speak Spanish…
A DVD of Warner Bros. “Speedy Gonzalez” cartoons, and Season 1 DVD of “The Cisco Kid.”
Well, hell. No more restaurant meals for me in Houston. I was at a sushi place the other day and their wasn’t a non-Spanish-speaker in the place except for the waitress.
Grrrr….
How about an America that values the Rule of Law?!?
I wonder who picked the veggies seeing that according to so many politicians that is one job Americans wont do.
On May 19th, 2010 at 2:36 pm, Hangfire said:
From Obama, the “Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers”…
Southbound trains to Meixco must be inspected for all those fugitives (from laws we actually enforce).
s/rimshot
On May 19th, 2010 at 2:36 pm, Virginia Patriot said:
That right there was one of George W. Bush’s greatest failures as President. It is a national security issue, and the events of September 11, 2001 should have resulted in us securing our borders immediately.
And we want the “Immigration Reform” law that was passed in 1986 to be enforced. There is no exception in that law for the President. He must fill out an I-9 form and provide acceptable documentation, just like every one else.
OOPsie – Mexico, not Meixco, typo.
The illegal immigration laws of Mexcio are far stronger than what we have passed, but not enforced, in the US. The big difference is that Mexico DOES enforce their laws. They have a very nice fence on their southern border manned by the Mexican Army. Maybe Ovmit should ask Calderon about the Mexican immigration laws before he apologies for ours.
Also Section 834b of the Calif Penal Code also gives all Calif police officers the power to stop anyone anytime for any reason to check their citizenship. How come nobody is boycotting CA because their law is blatantly based on racial profiling!!!
Rags #120
Just as hard to find a restaurant in the Dallas/Metroplex. Just as hard in Denver, LA, KC,… I haven’t been to a mexican restaurant in months, and then only if I know the owner is a citizen and their wait staff/cooks are family. Otherwise, I cook it at home. Same for chinese and any other cuisine I really love.
There is a stunning chinese restaurant down the street, American owned. However, it’s amazing that none of their kitchen staff speak english. They seem to change personnel monthly. Hmmm, these aren’t college kids either?
O.T.
A friend of mine was visiting Mexico recently. When leaving a Mexican restaurant, he slipped on a wet floor and fell forwards violently.
He woke up in a Mexican hospital. A Mexican doctor explained to him that he hit his head on a stone divider, and his skull was fractured. The doctor asked for permission to removed the skull fragments and insert a metal plate below the scalp in order to protect his brain matter. He agreed to give the hospital permission to operate.
As he was going under due to the anesthesia, the last thing he remembers is the doctor whispering in his ear, “Be careful, senor, this plate she is very hot.”
The only thing that binds the USA to Mexico is accident of history by which the greatest country in the world sits directly north of a corrupt world class sh*t hole.
I will Bet the Farm… Before all is said and Done, The United Nations is going to be Involved, thier will be Sanctions and thier Will be Blood Shed. Obama will Pander to the International Court and pay NO Attention to our Constitution or OUR Supreme Court.
This my Friends is how it is going to go down, This is AMERICA! YOUR COUNTRY, not The United Nations!
24Klady at #115
Absolutely! That’s why I worry about the danger of Juan McShame being reelected in Arizona. Given the possibility that his recent “conversion” might fool some voters, it scares me to think the lying sob has a chance.
I don’t fear La Raza or any of these Aztlanders. We have to fear the Libtard appeasers who have their hands on our wallets.
Remember in November.
My post agreeing with a statement by Obama, while doubting that he agrees with a word of what he said.
Calderone is such a loser. His government is dangling by a thread. And our Boy Queen President in Name Only is even more of a loser: what good does it do to inspect rail shipments for guns when the CalZoney Pony is going home with a check to buy more guns that will fall into the hands of the narcotraficantes that run his country?
LOOOOOOOOOOzers and soon to be booted out of office. As the BQ-PINO’s pit deepens he becomes more transparently ludicrous to the American people.
Let’s win this border thang with Mexico today. Talking Point 1: Shoot to kill anything that moves within 50 yards of the border along all border states. (Yes this will require militarizing it.)
Talking Point 2: Set land mines all along the border- reduces costs of illegals coming in and provides an economic stimulus to American land mine manufacturers. Looks like a win win to me.
Talking Point 3: Video tape all currently incarcerated Mexican Nationals doing time in US prisons, showing them “confessing” to authorities all of their sins— then frog march those puppies back across the border after posting their video taped confessions on YouTube.com. That will save the US a few billion in “support costs”.
Talking Point 5: Stop sending Calderone any money and put a division of Marines on the border with authorization to go into Mexico and kill any narcotraficantes and mules who have run drugs into the country.
Talking Point 6: Impeach the Boy Queen President for his documented failure to enforce national security laws involving the protection of our borders.
ironworks
We have a very large group of former and current military that will hopefully act as our insurance policy. Our elected congresscritters are the bad guys and must be systematically removed from office – one election at a time. Everything Americans have railed against for years is either made fun of or laws passed just to spite them.
bear1909
Yea, what he said!
Such as all that water and continents between Kenya and Hawaii?
Opps, I guess that makes me a birther.
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An Armed Society is a polite society.
y’all need to just simmer down. You are being too impatient.
Sit back. Relax. Breathe deeply.
A southern border fence is going to be built. It will be the full length of the border, from California to Texas.
It will be well guarded by technological devices as well as specially trained border agents.
Individuals attempting to cross the border will be shot on site, if they make it past the land mines.
They will build one on the Northern border as well for the same reasons.
And no, our government doesn’t have dyslexia, they know exactly who is going to be prevented from crossing the borders in which direction.
“In 1986 Senator Kennedy said,
obowma could have done an upside the head and told calderone that his people flee a broken country. instead, he blames the people of arizona and republicans for the chaotic borders. divisive.
If America is and always has been a racist society, then explain to me why we produced a television drama in the early to mid 1950s with two Mexican heroes. Explain to me why, in virtually every episode, the villains were Americans? Explain to me why the Americans in each episode treated Cisco and Pancho as equals and friends?
As a little boy I LOVED watching “The Cisco Kid” and still watch it on reruns on late-night TV.
Oh, yeah, and explain why another early television shows, one of the most popular television shows of all times, “I Love Lucy,” featured a Hispanic male married to an Anglo woman?
Does anyone else here detect a minor problem with “the official narrative?”
Did anyone see this on Drudge?
Arizona is threatening to turn off electrical power to LA if they persist in their boycott of Arizona. It seems LA gets 25% of their electricity from Arizona…
Never let reality get in the way of your knee-jerk reaction…
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/Power-Play-Over-Immigration-Law-94251079.html
Very true. But I used to be a big fan of Lash LaRue…in my pre-school days.
Not too sure about ol’ Lash now…
No, no, War. NO THREAT. An offer to cooperate.
BIG difference…!!!
I sincerely hope Arizona cooperates LA back to the stone age!
So how nice is LA in the summer with no AC and a warm refrigerator? I hear Mexicans like their beer warm anyway. Stupid California Marxist putzes…
Yeah, Barry Bonds. Or maybe he meant bondage? Must have misspoke.
Another guy who should be asked about how he stands on women’s suffrage.
bondage?
women’s suffrage?
Yes?
women’s suffrage? FOR
Bondage? FOR, but make her sign a waver.
No, no…GM bonds. Or the bonds the Chinese hold.
Sound as the dollar…
On May 19th, 2010 at 3:53 pm, WarEagle82 said:
The first place that was reported was…
as an EXCLUSIVE on HotAir.com yesterday.
HotAir getting the scoop over all of the lame-stream media on a nationally-discussed news story. Pretty cool!
Follow-up article today about the LA Mayor’s non-sequitur reply.
My little contribution from yesterday…
http://hindenblog1.blogspot.com/2010/05/burn-enjoy-your-boycott-black-out.html
My parents (and I until age 6) grew up in unincorporated Gary, Indiana, where a friend’s father was friends with Duncan Renaldo. I still have several of their autographed pictures of him. The friend’s father owned a little department type store and Mr. Renaldo would come up to do appearances as a favor.
We won the cold war, now its time to win the hot peace.
The mayor will never back down. The cartel payments are too good and he does not want any of his family members to disappear.
RedPill #152
Just about every major story I’ve seen for months on Fox was carried by one of 4 blog sites several days earlier – Michelle Malkin, HotAir, American Thinker, or Pajamas Media. Throw in Drudge and a couple of others and I’m wondering if all they do at all the major media outlets is read lines, exhibit faux outrage, and claim the most viewed #1 spot on cable news?
Rogue…leave it…LEAVE IT….
I guess we should have absorbed Mexico into the US after winning the Mexican-American War. It would have saved us a lot of trouble.
We may purchase oil and other important items from them, but we should be under no illusions that Mexico is any more than an enemy of the United States.
It probably would have caused a lot more trouble. We knew of and didn’t want to inherit Mexico’s problems then, and the strong anti-Catholic sentiment in the US at the time was a major contributor in deciding not to attempt annexing Mexico IIRC.
Have to say I was impressed with the wind farms on the ridges heading into CA. The problem is every mile electircity is transmited you lose a significant percentage of power to line loss. If you could locate the turbines and panels closer to the population they would be more efficient, but then you get Kennedy syndrome. Don’t ruin my view.
Goricle’s new oceanfront plantation would be an outstanding location for a wind farm!
I don’t recall…it may be Ed Driscoll…but somebody dubbed electric cars “coal-powered” cars.
Heh, and totally appropriate.
Any household with one now has a new “first” in its energy consumption, displacing AC and hot water heaters in most homes.
Personally, I can’t see any practical replacement for diesel fuel in heavy trucks under any engineering technology of which I know.
Rush‘s Red Barchetta comes to mind as
lifeBIG BRO increasingly imitates art…Other than mexicans captured by BP…
http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438712/index.html
On May 19th, 2010 at 5:25 pm, 24Klady said:
I understand and agree. What I want ot highlight about this particular story is not just that HotAir covered it first, it’s that someone with a newsworthy statement to make (Arizona Corporation Commissioner Gary Pierce with his letter to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa) provided that statement exclusively to Hot Air and no other news outlet. Every other news outlet that carried the story either got that story from HotAir or from someone else who got the story from HotAir.
Drudge linked to NBC Los Angeles, but they weren’t the first to cover the story… they properly credit:
A fairly significant news story where the tip/info was sent to no one else but HotAir.
I think that’s cool.
RedPill
Affirmation the MSM is a goner. Burns my backside they never give credit nor mention where the story originated or who received the tip – someday they will. We’ve got some great people out there spending way more time researching stories and doing the grunt work than those representing MSMFaux News that take the credit.
The most impressive dedicated application I saw at that wind farm you mentioned had no need for electricity transmission. The city of Rivierside has a large wind turbine that produces hydrogen for use by the city’s buses. No storage involved other than in transportation. It gets used up that day.
Gray Davis built a “peak” natural gas electric generation plant their during the famous Enron debacle which undermined the economics of that wind farm. All of those wind turbines are profitable I’ve been told. Their total contribution to the energy grid is minimal.
The poll on Fox News website regarding how one feels about the AZ Public Utilities Commission letter to the Mayor of LA currently reflects that 93% of those responding are in agreement that AZ should shut down LA’s electricity …
LA is run by another bunch of pompous liberal hypocrites who just had their bluff called by AZ …
actually, that’s not it. Religion did not really play a part in it. It was mainly due in part to racism towards the Indians. The opposition towards Mexican territorial inclusion involved 2 main issues, slavery & Indians. theres no slavery to the south of the U.S., so naturally, the Dixie (southern) states opposed this inclusion as it would change the balance of power in Congress. And they had Indians to the West and South of the U.S. and the U.S. were having a number of Indian wars taking place in the mid-west. Many did not want to rule over a very large group of “brown people” to the south of the U.S. in the words of one of the anti-mexican congress critters.
I would not be opposed to absorbing Mexican territory into the U.S. I think it is a question if we have a “casus belli to take over and absorb the southern territory.
Gad, but besides being unreliably constant, they’re an even bigger blight on the countrysides than mammoth cooling towers! America’s sprawling vistas and horizons and prairies and highways aren’t made to be lined and rimmed with armies of monster whirligigs, yet kids are being taught that despoiling landscapes so is “acceptably green”. There’s even a cartoon called “Railgun” or such that depicts windmills all over the centers of whole cities! Nope, I don’t find these whales of the energy world the slightest “romantic” or cute.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Yet again marking myself as younger than most of you, I have not seen more than a couple of episodes of the Cisco Kid (in reruns).
I grew up with Ponch and Jon.
The Senate Sargeant at Arms needs to throw this little macaca out of the chamber on his butt if and when he actually shows up. Put him on the first ICE bus to Reagan Airport.
This would make a great bumper sticker.
So this guy was on F&F this a.m. I didn’t catch all the details, but apparently, he was ejected from a game because he was wearing a T-shirt in support of the AZ law. They asked him to remove the shirt or he would have to leave. Apparently, he excercised his constitutional right to freedom of speech and they backed down. He also got a bunch of tickets to future games. I may have some details of that wrong. But the point is, we are under attack and our freedom of speech is in serious jeapardy. There are too many ill-informed idiots who have no clue what the constitution says. Or, they don’t care. Yet, someone standing on a U.S. street corner can spew out hatred against this country and that is protected speech. If you are ever confronted this way, stand your ground! Tell them you have a constitutional right and if they don’t believe it, you will bring back a lawyer with lawsuit in hand. If they still insist, then follow through. This is happening too often and it must stop.
‘My Mom doesn’t have papers…’
And how do they help our economy when they are sending between 40 and 60% of their non-taxed economy back to Mexico? The costs states millions. What about the word ILLEGAL don’t these uber liberals get? A country with no borders isn’t a country at all.
Mr. President…This is a sovereign country with borders. We are the only country in the world that allows outright invasion with little resistance. We are being overrun by illegal aliens, many of whom want to hurt us, sell drugs to our kids, trash our neighborhoods and overload our economy. They murder the people who live along the border and steal their property. They leave a mess wherever they go. They are bankrupting this country. Yet, you stand there and criticize anyone who wants our constitutional laws to be followed. Since your JOB is to protect the citizens of this country, why would you ignore the border, and even invite the president of mexico to come HERE and criticize the U.S. on OUR soil? It is not only disgusting, but you are derelict in your duty to do the job you were hired for. YOU’RE FIRED!
The Congressional reaction to Calderons speech today is TO STAND UP FOR ARIZONA and THE US and WALK OUT
EN MASSE!!!
He has just taken the floor as of 8:16am Pacific. On C-Span, Fox is not carrying the speech live (hehehehehe).
http://www.c-span.org
Live stream –
http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN.aspx
YOU’RE
FIREDIMPEACHED!Let’s all say goodbye to the little Pocket Lenin.
Calderon’s a POS.
Let him invade with an army like a real man. This infiltration thing is getting old, and won’t work. I’ve been fed up with these clowns for a looong time (2 1/2 year old link and there are older where that came from).
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
I’m really torked about this whole incident….I will not buy any product grown or produced in Mexico, vacation there, nor condone my gov’t writing a check everytime they pitch a hissy fit. Anyone read labels on clothing? You’d be surprised how many are made in Mexico by America’s top designers.
Redpill would point out that you can’t impeach a usurper.
No one will even look. They are afraid of what they’d find. That’s why so many have joined in the smearing of any who question.
sounds like he failed to pay attention when studying Washington’s farewell address, or chose to ignore it altogether.