A fat racist and a skinny racist jump off a cliff, who wins ?.....Society

This is in response to a blog post by Julie the writer of Texas Talk which can be read here.


In response to your post on April 14th titled, what does a U.S. citizen look like? I strongly disagree with your interpretation of the chosen article.

You said “With all the propaganda that was spoon fed to the masses by the Bush administration” as well as your statement “Between the cases of American citizens being wrongfully deported and the building of a ridiculous wall on the border, racial intolerance has only begun to scratch the surface.” I wonder what you meant when you wrote “all the propaganda that was spoon fed to the masses” It couldn’t possibly be about the thousands of people murdered, kidnapped, and tortured by drug cartels running drugs through our borders. Or about that story of a military hummer with a .50 caliber machine gun strapped to the roof, escorting suv’s containing drugs that U.S. border patrol agents had to watch cross the border, but couldn’t do anything because they were out gunned. Maybe it was about the unknown number of illegal immigrants entering the United States every year?...nah, probably not. Personally, I would like to believe if that was my father, brother, friend who was working as a border patrol agent, that having a wall between them and a .50 caliber bullet would be a not so bad idea.

Secondly, I am having a difficult time understanding your believing that the deportation of Pedro Guzman was due to racism. He was deported because he was believed to be here illegally. He couldn’t read or write and was mentally ill, he couldn’t tell the officers in the jail he was housed(for a misdemeanor offence) that he was a citizen. Also, quoting from the same article as you, Jim Hayes, ICE director of detention and removal, said he is aware of only 10 cases of U.S. citizens detained in the past five years. Even if combined with the cases found by the AP, "that's not an epidemic" Jim Hayes also added that “agents investigate any claims to U.S. citizenship, but they often turn out to be false. He said immigration officials never knowingly hold someone they can definitively determine is a citizen.” So this is clearly an isolated instance.

Also, your comment stating “the longer the law enforcement of this country continue to bow down to the radical and overzealous right wing scare tactics” now seriously, I am a proud card carrying member of “The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy” (we don’t actually have a card, but we do have a secret decoder ring) and my beliefs as well as the majority of the right-wing are based on facts. Solid numbers, factual statistics and the law of the land. I believe every single person on the face of this earth has a GOD GIVEN right to be free. I just believe it should be done legally. Wouldn’t it be much easier to simply deny entry to the criminals, while letting the many honest, hard working, law abiding Mexican citizens the chance at the American Dream? My party is not a party of racism and intolerance. Sure there are the extremist, but your own political party houses extremism as well. However, the extremist are not a majority, nor do they have much of a voice. That is why most Americans simply choose to ignore them. Furthermore, how is law enforcement bowing down? It sounds like they are simply doing their job enforcing the law.

In closing, Pedro Guzman was at the wrong place, at the wrong time, doing the wrong thing and got arrested (where was his mom then?). It was not racism. Mexicans are not the only nationality being deported, believe it or not Canadians get deported to (and they look a lot like us). People will fall through the cracks, it happens. I am truly sorry Pedro Guzman had to endure this horrible situation. It must have been terrifying for him and I do not wish that experience on any human being. But the fact remains, that racism had nothing to do with what happened, it was just a lapse in the system that would happen in any kind of administration.