NP Rank:
Boortz: "I don't care if Mexicans pile up against that fence ... [J]ust run a couple of taco trucks up and down the line"
I have issues with immigration as well, but I never heard a progressive express his or her's opposition like this. To deny anti-Latino racism in this issue is to deny the reality of life for non-Europeans in the United States. - The Angryindian
--------------------------------------------
On the June 18 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Neal Boortz advocated building a "double fence along the Mexican border, and stop the damn invasion." Boortz continued: "I don't care if Mexicans pile up against that fence like tumbleweeds in the Santa Ana winds in Southern California. Let 'em. You know, then just run a couple of taco trucks up and down the line, and somebody's gonna be a millionaire out of that."On the June 11 edition of his show, a caller asked, "Why can't we just load them on planes and keep on loading them until they're back?" Boortz later responded, "We're not gonna throw these people out of airplanes with taco-shaped parachutes."
Neal Boortz is a nominee for the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame 2007 Career Achievement Award.
From the June 11 broadcast of Cox Radio Syndication's The Neal Boortz Show:
CALLER: How can George Bush make a statement that we cannot send them back? Why is that not possible? We have more power than any other country in this world, and we have more airplanes than any country in this world. Why can't we just load them on planes and keep on loading them until they're back?
BOORTZ: OK. I'll give you one practical answer to that. You load illegal aliens on a plane, and then all the Mexican government has to do is deny that plane permission to land in Mexico.
CALLER: Ever hear of parachutes?
BOORTZ: Uh-uh. [Caller], that's not gonna happen. We're not --
CALLER: I know that.
BOORTZ: We're not gonna throw these people out of airplanes with taco-shaped parachutes. They will -- I'm sympathetic with your point of view. They will self deport.
CALLER: Right, right.
From the June 18 broadcast of Cox Radio Syndication's The Neal Boortz Show:
BOORTZ: I mean, it's clear. There is no intent to shut the border down. None. If there was, they [Congress] would do what the American people want them to do: pass a law, appropriate the money, and fund it -- to build a double fence along the Mexican border, and stop the damn invasion. I don't care if Mexicans pile up against that fence like tumbleweeds in the Santa Ana winds in Southern California. Let 'em. You know, then just run a couple of taco trucks up and down the line, and somebody's gonna be a millionaire out of that. But there's no intent in this -- what, taco truck -- OK -- I gotta -- I gotta tell you why that's a -- back in a moment.





Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (3)
at 02:34 on June 19th, 2007
AI: I agree with what you write above except I would merely say that many Euro-American's are BIGOTED and not racists for the simple fact there is no such thing as the 'Latino race'. Latino is a culture. What we must not forget is that for the most part the elites of Latin America are ALSO bigoted whites that keep the mixed-raced and native peoples down. But those elites are still Latino. The bigoted and corrupt elites of Mexico don't give a f**k about the poor people they have seriously mistreated and as a result have to pick up stakes and move North. If the white elites of Mexico cared about their native and mixed-raced poor, there wouldn't be a such a diaspora. My point is: plenty of bigots to go around.
at 06:13 on June 19th, 2007
It's hard not to get angry at this sort of thing, between the magical thinking and bigotry/racism here. But will this guy get fired for doing what Don Imus did, or is he safe because his targets are, ostensibly, illegally in this country? One could very easily argue, though, that his insult extends to every Latino-American as well.
at 07:15 on June 19th, 2007
Many North Americans aren't aware of racial/class divisions in Latin America. Eurocentricism is a continental problem.