That's the only way to explain
this:
Enter Maxine Waters. Waters has poisoned racial politics in Los Angeles for years; she essentially declared the Los Angeles riots a strike against racial injustice. Never saw a cop she doesn’t think is a racist. Yet here she was at the hearing declaring herself absolutely fed up with the race war between Hispanics and blacks that is raging on the streets of downtown L.A. “Why isn’t anyone talking about the Mexican Mafia (a gang of illegal Mexicans that controls the California prison system)?” she thundered. ‘I don’t care if you’re pink or purple or white or black or brown, I want you out if you’re committing crimes.’ There is no excuse not to control the border, she said. ‘I’m a liberal with a capital ‘L’,’ she said, ‘but I’m sick of it.’
Yeah, so this was something I didn't expect, and I'm sure no one else did either.
But you should have. One thing Molotov over at
Booker Rising has been on top of is the growing conflicts of interest between the black community and the illegal alien population that continues to grow in the United States. Particularly in the South, illegal aliens are taking jobs away from black people more than any other group. And in North Carolina, they were trying to pass a bill allowing illegal aliens in-state tuition status, which would have been detrimental to black people trying to get into schools in the state.
There's also this:
Waters' timing was impeccable. A day after she spoke, 100 black and Hispanic students at Jefferson High School in South L.A. attacked each other in a race- and gang-driven brawl; three days later, the same thing happened, this time, students also hurled bottles at the police. Principal Norm Morrow told the Los Angeles Times:"We just have a lot of issues with race," said Morrow. "It's coming out of the community, into the school." Cops in riot gear now patrol the school.
Actually I've heard some rumors that the Black/Mexican conflict was heating up in California. I haven't been able to confirm this, but word is that Mexican gangs have pledged to kill over 2,005 black men this year. It's more of a street rumor, but I've heard it more than once. Maybe Waters didn't hear about this, but she sees the growing rift between the two groups and is taking note.
We haven't heard the last of this issue. I wouldn't be surprised if we hear more black politicians speak out about the illegal immigration issue in the near future.
UPDATE: This will probably be the first of many updates on this issue. I've doing some websurfing and found this from
Dan Stein from last month.
I attended a Capitol Hill hearing today on "Interior Immigration Enforcement Resources." No one could have missed the fact that Democrats are preparing to pounce on the Bush administration's failure to fully fund authorized detention space and ICE enforcement agents. Time after time, Congresswoman Maxine Waters -- a newcomer to the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims -- underscored the hypocrisy in the administration's failure to live up its public commitments to improve overall immigration enforcement. Her comments were echoed by Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and California Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez. Strange coming from people with no real track record supporting immigration enforcement.
So Waters has stepped up her voice for border enforcement. A surprising name in there is Loretta Sanchez. After all, Sanchez won her seat after losing several times under her now-former husband's name, Brixey. She dropped the name in order to sound as if she was Mexican in order to attract that voting bloc. If she continues to stay on that platform, I don't see her winning reelection. The Hispanic lobby will do whatever it takes to keep the borders flowing with illegals.
I'll have more later.
