Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Why were the immigrant children such an issue lately?

Dave Brat, (click here) who is challenging House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) in Tuesday's primary, believes Cantor betrayed his district on amnesty and shares the blame for surge in illegal immigrant children flooding into the country. 

"One you announced that kids are welcome, they're going to head in," Brat said on Breitbart News Sunday of Cantor's support for giving the children of illegal immigrants amnesty and citizenship because he believes it is one of the "founding principles" of the country. ...

Eric Cantor was the Tea Party that was suppose to be in charge of keeping Speaker Boehner in line. Remember? Cantor was always a threatening presence to the Speaker.

There is nothing more terrifying to the Tea Party than "Border Babies." I do mean terrify. It goes like this. A Border Baby is going to grow up American and become President and take over the country. That Border Baby will turn the USA into a Muslim Holy Land, hence, laws banning Sharia Law.

Border baby' boom strains S. Texas
More illegal immigrants are pouring into the state to give birth

By James Pinkerton
September 24, 2006

Rising numbers (click here) of undocumented immigrants from Mexico and Central America are streaming into Texas to give birth, straining hospitals and costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, health officials say.
Doctors and health officials say they are overwhelmed by both the new arrivals and those immigrant mothers who already are in the state. Even Houston's feeling the pinch. An estimated 70 percent to 80 percent of the 10,587 births at Ben Taub General Hospital and Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital last year were to undocumented immigrants, administrators say.
Also feeling the strain is Starr County, an already poor South Texas county that has the region's only taxpayer-supported hospital district....
Immigrants "want a U.S.-born baby" and know that emergency room staffers don't collect any money up front, said Dr. Mario Rodriguez, an obstetrician in Starr County.
"The word is out: Come to Starr County and get delivered for free. Why pay $1,000 in Mexico when you can get it for free?" Rodriguez said....

It is a long standing hatred drummed up after September 11th. Remember the big fuss and the demonstrations about the Mosque in Lower Manhattan near ground zero. It was sacrilegious according to the right wing extremists. That hate lingers and lingers. Here it is again. 

It is part of the dogma of Muscular Christianity.

Wiki:

Muscular Christianity (click here) is a Christian commitment to piety and physical health, basing itself on the New Testament, which sanctions the concepts of character  and well-being.

The focus of hatred of Muslims stems from the Crusades. It is all part of a serious hatred that will not abate simply because there are anti-hate laws. As far as the right wing extremists are concerned there is a rightful place for the fear and hatred. That rightful place is based in history and real life experience.

There is a talk radio host affiliated with Dobson's Focus on the Family that coins himself as a "Muscular Christian." I can't recall his name at the moment. He means it. He lies about everything and facilitates the hate. In a recent issue with Bergdohl he stated the reason the parade was cancelled in his home town was because they won the war.

This entire idea of 'muscular' which of course is about the masculine authority (fighting spirit) of the christian family has been around awhile now.

Author Examines the Preacher's 'Muscular' Style (click here)
by STEVE INSKEEP
November 24, 200212:00 AM ET