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JANUARY 15, 2004 - Yes, again we must say
you will not read about this in the non-Moderate Independent media,
but Latinos - here in America and abroad - are absolutely livid with
President Bush's recent racist, anti-Latino policies.
And yes, we heard him say he was really doing
something good for Latinos and America - and we heard the non-M/I
media echo this and repeat his comments as often as he felt like
saying them.
But no one in the Latin community has bought
it.
Today on Telemundo, President Bush's Permanent
Cheap Labor Without Citizenship initiative, which he and the non-M/I
media have touted as an immigration reform plan, was torn apart and
it was made clear that this initiative is something all Latinos need
to be very afraid of.
"It makes us into a permanent source of cheap
labor," said a lawyer analyzing the plan on Telemundo's evening
news.
President Bush doesn't want you to look at the
details, the analyst said, "but you must."
"What happens if you are here and you want to
change your job? You can't, you become illegal and have to
leave. What if you lose your job? What if your job
contract expires? You immediately become illegal and have to
leave. There is no path to citizenship,"
As Stanson will discuss, President Bush was
counting on favorable media coverage to somehow fool the entire
Latin community. He counted very wrong.
Then there is the fingerprinting program, which
applies to all Latin countries but to basically no European
countries, even if a number of terrorists, including the 9/11
terrorists, came via Europe and none have come from Latin
America. Discrimination at its worst.
Brazilian President Ignacio "Lula" Da Silva, as
you may have heard reported spottily in the non-M/I media, has
fought back in defense of his people by returning the favor with a
fingerprinting program that only applies to Americans.
Though this gets no coverage in the media, this
policy is a massive insult and clearly seen as racist on the part of
President Bush. If you went back three years ago, people from
Latin America respected and sometimes envied America. Now,
they see it as a harassing, racist monolith.
President Bush and the obligingly bent over
non-M/I media can report and hold fake debates that conclude
President Bush has made an outreach to the Latin immigrant community
and scored some points, but there is no truth to it. The Latin
community sees clearly what the President has done, and even those
who had been considering him in a positive light now see him as just
another would-be exploitative racist. | 
