Impressions of immigration protests

My bet is that these two images will become icons in the ongoing struggle for immigration reform here in the US:

(Note that in this flyer, Texas and Mexico are one nation)

(Personally I'd be dying to put Che Guevara on a one-way flight to Europe.  Only he has been dead now for 40 years.)

Sure, the Republicans have been after the Hispanic vote for some time now, but come on.  Using these protests to recruit voters?  (Just how many illegals are voting nowadays, anyway?  A thorough investigation would probably be fatally embarassing to Democrats.)  As far as I am concerned, all debate on this topic is now moot.  Neither side is interested in solving problems; both sides simply are going after votes.  And you can't have an honest debate if both sides aren't equally serious about discussing the issue.

I think that this will come back to haunt Democrats, though.  Pandering to illegals and associating themselves with the likes of The Black Panthers, The Nation of Islam, the Reconquista movement, and International ANSWER is not good domestic politics.  And unless they come up with a real plan that addresses border security, the pitifully low wages paid to illegals, or how illegals (and their downward pull on wages) are damaging other minorites as well as union workers, they will lose votes over this issue.

As always, Michelle Malkin has great protest roundups (one) (two) (three)

ADDED:
I've seen enough already.  Simply put, these protests are nothing more than "anti-war" redux.

The groundswell of grassroots support garnered by Howard Dean two years ago must have convinced Democrats that the way to win back the White House and Congress was to energize and motivate the anti-war crowd.  They ended up nominating John Kerry (a strong anti-war advocate during the 1970's) and they sought to make Cindy Sheehan into a saint.  Unfortunately the rabid anti-war movement really never involved more than a fringe element of US society.

But now the protests are back, complete with Che posters and communist sponsorship.  Only this time, instead of scruffy hippies and burned-out Vietnam-era peacenicks, the crowds are packed with Hispanics.  They have a distinct advantage because they are "brown," and any attempt to criticize what they demand can be automatically pigeonholed as "racism" and "bigotry."

Playing the racial fear card has worked well for the Democrats in the past.  It looks like they are willing to give it yet another try in the hopes of recruiting enough voters to swing an electoral victory this fall and in 2008.

Rally Organizer Tied To Marxist Party (Washington Times)
Will Noncitizens Decide The Election? (National Review Online, published Nov. 2000)

And courtesy of Michelle Malkin again, here's one more photo -- a delightful blend of jihad, reconquista, and socialism (maybe with a little Black Power thrown in too) ...

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[Charles]

BLACK UNIFORMS

Josh Roberts double-locked the door behind him and anxiously peeked through the curtains. He didn’t see any of the dreaded black uniforms of the Federales.
Roberts turned on his computer and re-set the preferences for English grammar instead of Spanish. Ever since Texas independence turned the state into Nuevo Tejas, all English language publications were illegal. If anyone found out about Liberty, Robert’s underground newspaper, he and his family would be tossed into the Dallas County jail for . . . well, who knew for how long?
Roberts had worked for the Dallas Morning News before it was banned and re-born as the Dallas Reconquista. Reconquista stood for re-conquest; the acquisition by immigration of the lost Mexican territories of Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona. It once seemed like a ridiculous idea, but the numbers made it a reality.
After the 2006 amnesty bill gave citizenship to fifteen million illegal immigrants, another twenty million Latino illegal immigrants promptly moved to Texas. What Mexico lost at San Jacinto they won back with immigration. Once they had a majority of the electorate, the Latinos simply voted in Latino mayors, chiefs of police, state legislators and – finally – the Governor.
Vicente Diaz was the Governor until he declared Texas independence from the U.S. and made himself Presidente. The 1876 Texas constitution vaguely allowed independence. But the real power behind independence came from the Mexico/Venezuela oil embargo and the millions of immigrants marching in the streets. The U.S. politicians quickly bowed to the wishes of Latino voters in their own states and let Texas go.
However, an aide on Diaz’s staff had slipped Roberts secret documents which proved that the Mexican drug cartels provided the financing for Diaz. This was the bombshell Roberts planned for the front page of Liberty. As Roberts opened his newspaper layout program on his laptop, he heard a knock at the door. He went to the door and looked through the peephole.
All he saw were black uniforms.