More on the fascist anti-immigrants
As previously noted, Hugo Chavez and George W. Bush have differing views on illeg- I mean undocumented workers. And the Venezuelan's view is, frankly, fascist:
Today's event at the high-traffic intersection in Vista, attended by mainstream media, illustrates that the Minuteman Project and its spinoffs known as the Minutemen are once again willing to directly tap into widespread anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.$. population to whip up support for the deeply reactionary fascist movement to intensify the repression of migrants. Today's local fascist demonstration comes after similar actions last month, coordinated by other groups, against Latin American and indigenous day laborers and migrants in several States.
So let's look at other fascist activities that are taking place:
Venezuelan troops detained more than 600 illegal immigrants along the border with neighboring Colombia, National Guard Lt. Col. Carlos Contreras said....Contreras said all 627 Colombians were detained Tuesday near the western city of San Antonio de Tachira, located along the porous 1,400-mile (2,250-kilometer) border shared by the two South American nations.
“Plan Sur” (Southern Plan), announced by the Mexican government [on June 19], may already be underway. Over a period of 15 days, starting on June 4, the southern border of Mexico was the stage for a large-scale police action that resulted in more than 6,000 deportations of illegal aliens to Guatemala from Mexico and 3,000 Central Americans located in Guatemala back to the borders of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and neighboring countries.
[I]mmigrants who cross illegally into Mexico "are often ripped off six ways until sundown," says George Grayson, a professor at the College of William & Mary....Mr. Tancredo asked..."President Fox thinks we should tear down the fence that keeps illegal aliens out? Then why doesn't he put up a welcome sign on his southern border with Guatemala instead of using his military to keep poor Guatemalans out? Such hypocrisy about borders defies historic parallel."....Alfonso Nieto, spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington...would not comment on suspected immigrant abuses in his own country....Mr. Grayson says most of Mexico's abuses occur along its 600-mile border with Guatemala, and that three groups -- criminals, local police and immigration agents -- account for most of the mistreatment.
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