Chanting 'USA! USA! USA!' Deemed Racist in Texas

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After a boys high school basketball game in San Antonio, Alamo Heights fans celebrated a victory over San Antonio Edison.

Alamo Heights fans started chanting "USA! USA! USA!" and the officials from San Antonio took it as a racial insult. Their team was comprised of all minority players and they felt offended to see the opposing team chant "USA".

Three students from San Antonio Edison had this to say:

"I was very surprised, very appalled."
"They didn't really have any class."
"It just rubbed us the wrong way."

The School district spokesperson said:

"This is disrespectful to our students."

Students that are identified as being "guilty" of chanting this will be banned from the state title games. National pride may not have much to do with a local basketball game but that is not what the opposing school is complaining about. They are complaining that for someone to show national pride in the USA is to be racist... and that is an outrageous claim. It proves that they have not yet embraced living in these great United States.
Read more at http://www.reagancoalition.com/artic...PXE6O86gseM.99

[mudslinger47]

Good Lord. How much worse can it get?

Duane

[HCR#16]

smh..............................

[Clayton_Wetter]

If you can't live in the USA and be able to chant it, something has gone wrong. Wake up call!!

[kidrock]

What foreign country was this against?

[LITE-INN]

The great state of texas

[kidrock]

The great state of texas

When did Texas become a foreign country?

[LITE-INN]

when theyy opened the borders

[kidrock]

when theyy opened the borders

When did they open up the borders?

[LITE-INN]

When did they open up the borders?

do you think our friends from the south flew in lmao

[Clayton_Wetter]

The borders have been open a long time. Wake up call!!!

[kidrock]

do you think our friends from the south flew in lmao

Yeah that's what I thought lol, why do you think I asked you the question dummy lmao

[kidrock]

The borders have been open a long time. Wake up call!!!

Really, How could the people in charge in Texas let this happen. How has been in charge the last ten or so years here?

[LITE-INN]

.S.–Mexico border enforcement

See also: Illegal immigration to the United States






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The U.S.–Mexico border has the second highest number of both legal and illegal crossings of any land border in the world, behind the Canada – United States border.[citation needed] Over five million cars and trucks travel through the border annually. [12] According to Vulliamy, one in five Mexican nationals will visit or work in the United States at one point in their lifetime.[13] The border is guarded by more than twenty thousand border patrol agents, more than any time in its history.[14] However they only have "effective control" of less than 700 miles (1,100 km) of the 1,954 miles (3,145 km) of total border,[15] with an ability to actually prevent or stop illegal entries along 129 miles (208 km) of that border.[16] The border is paralleled by United States Border Patrol Interior Checkpoints at major roads generally between 25 and 75 miles (121 km) to the U.S. side of the border, and garitas generally within 50 km of the border on the Mexican side.[17][18][19]

There are an estimated half a million illegal entries into the United States each year.[20] Border Patrol activity is concentrated around big border cities such as San Diego and El Paso which do have extensive border fencing. This means that the flow of illegal immigrants is diverted into rural mountainous and desert areas, leading to several hundred migrant deaths along the Mexico-U.S. border of those attempting to cross into the United States from Mexico without authorization from the Federal government of the United States.[21]

For a period in the 1990s, United States Army personnel were stationed along the U.S.-Mexico border to help stem the flow of illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. These military units brought their specialized equipment such as FLIR (forward looking infrared) devices and helicopters. In conjunction with the United States Border Patrol, they would deploy along the border and, for a brief time, there would be no traffic across that border which was actively watched by "coyotes" paid to assist border crossers. The smugglers and the alien traffickers simply ceased operations over the one hundred mile sections of the border sealed at a time. It was very effective but temporary as the illegal traffic resumed as soon as the military withdrew.[22] After the September 11 attacks the United States looked at the feasibility of placing soldiers along the U.S.-Mexico border as a security measure, but made no mention of the Canada – United States border. Some believe the whole U.S.-Mexico border could be sealed with as few as 100 helicopters equipped with FLIR scopes, and a few hundred men equipped with state-of-the-art sensors, scopes, and other electronics.[22] Another strategy suggests that the U.S. Military or Border Patrol could easily eliminate 100% of illegal mainland crossings by placing a guard every 500–1000 feet along the 2,000-mile (3,200 km) border with Mexico, arguing that even this low tech, manpower intensive option would represent a tiny fraction of the annual Defense and Homeland Security budgets.[citation needed] Opposition says this is a violation of Posse Comitatus. Former U.S. Border Patrol Supervisor David Stoddard has responded to this by stating "Posse Comitatus prohibits the use of troops for domestic law enforcement. Border security is not domestic law enforcement. It is protecting our nation from foreign intruders." He also points out that the army patrolled the border for more than 46 years after the passage of the Posse Comitatus act.[22]


Each state in the United States has a National Guard organization that could, in principle, be placed on the border at a state governor's discretion to assist with border security; many states also have a backup to the National Guard called the State Defense Force that could, in an emergency, also be activated for this purpose. However, few governors have done this. Many governors fear a backlash from local businesses and ever increasing communities of Latinos. Arizona and New Mexico have currently declared the counties that border Mexico to be under serious duress caused by uncontrolled illegal migration, thereby enabling governors to deploy National Guardsmen to the international border. However, Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) has opposed some measures intended to reduce illegal immigration through enforcement and proposed a bill calling for earned legalization (which many call amnesty) in the Senate. Texas governor Rick Perry has called for the deployment of national guardsmen to watch certain high-traffic spots of the Texas/Mexico border, partly as a response to an incident in 2006 where U.S. officers involved in a pursuit in western Texas lost suspected drug smugglers when their 4x4 vehicle crossed the Rio Grande and was met by several men armed with assault rifles and dressed in Mexican military uniforms. In May 2006, President Bush announced a plan whereby up to 6,000 National Guardsmen would help build facilities on the border to assist the Border Patrol with tactical and technical measures but not enforcement duties. There has been some resistance: in California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger initially denied Bush's request to deploy 3,000 National Guard troops to the California-Baja California border.[23] Later Schwarzenegger changed his mind after being reassured of reimbursement and replacement if they are needed elsewhere and deployed over 1600 California National Guard troops to the border.

Attempts to complete the construction of the United States–Mexico barrier have been challenged by the Mexican government, illegal immigrants living in the United States, and various U.S.-based Chicano organizations. According to proponents of open border policies, agricultural work is one of the many types of work that illegal immigrants fill that could not be easily filled by United States citizens. Opponents counter that U.S. citizens would gladly take these jobs if offered decent wages.

In December 2005, the United States House of Representatives voted to build a separation barrier along parts of the border. A companion vote in the United States Senate on May 17, 2006 included a plan to blockade 860 miles (1,380 km) of the border with vehicle barriers and triple-layer fencing. Although those bills died in committee, eventually the Secure Fence Act of 2006 was passed providing for the construction of 700 miles (1,100 km) of high-security fencing. Proponents[who?] hope that barriers of various types running the length of the border will reduce illegal drug smuggling and illegal immigration drastically.

According to Dr. Douglas Massey of Princeton University[24] and other experts[25] the efforts to curtail illegal immigration by means of security has done nothing but redirect the migration flows into the most desolate and desert areas of the border, thus increasing the mortality rate of illegal immigrants. Instead, they remain in the U.S. for longer periods of time and eventually bring their families with them. President Bush has presented an initiative to reinstate a Guest worker program or expand the H-2B program to fill the perceived needs of labor for some areas of the U.S. and, at the same time, has pushed to strengthen the security measures at the border to stop suspected illegal immigrants, terrorists, and narcotics dealers from entering the U.S.

[edit] Border incursions





Border for pedestrians in Tijuana
According to the United States Border Patrol, in the fiscal year of 2006, there were twenty-nine confirmed border incursions by Mexican government officials, of which seventeen were by armed individuals. Since 1996 there have been 253 incursions by Mexican government officials.[26][27][28]

The Washington Times has reported that on Sunday, August 3, 2008, Mexican Military personnel who crossed into Arizona from Mexico encountered a U.S. Border Patrol agent, whom they held at gunpoint. The soldiers later returned to Mexico, as backup Border Patrol agents came to investigate.[29][30]

[edit] Trans-border communications network

As of September 4, 2009. Mexico and the U.S. will create a trans-border communications network that will help police on both sides of the border to fight crime and violence. According to the U.S. State Department secure voice, data and video channels costing $7 million on the U.S. side, are expected to be online within three years. The Department of Homeland Security and Mexico's Secretary of Public Security will work out the details. William H. Grigsby of the State Department said Thursday that secure networks will allow federal, state and local police to "coordinate a broad array of law enforcement activities."[31]

[edit] Cost to local governments

According to a study commissioned by the U.S./Mexico Border Counties Coalition, costs of law enforcement and criminal prosecution relating to illegal immigration increased 39% within the border counties of Arizona from 1999 to 2006.[32]

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[kidrock]

So, really they have not been able to stop the flow.

[mudslinger47]

I believe I read last month that its about a wash now with the number of illegals leaving because they can't get any work. I guess B-Rock could tout that as a help to stem the flow of illegals in to America, but I don't think it would fly.

Duane

[F22 RAPTOR]

While I don't totally agree in making this a big issue, I can see the point. It sounds like a predominantly Anglo(white) school was chanting, "USA!" at a predominantly hispanic school. The meaning was I think, "We are Americans and you ain't!". That is kinda ugly since both schools are Texas schools, I mean they didn't come over from Tijuana to play them. I'm totally against illegal immigration, but you can't look at someones skin color and know they are illegal, thats jut rude and uncool.

[mudslinger47]

I really don't know how to characterize it, but chanting "USA" in the USA shouldn't be a bad thing. If the other Highschool was in Texas too, and I assume they were, they should have joined in.

Duane

[Clayton_Wetter]

So, really they have not been able to stop the flow.

No they have not. Sorry you have not kept up on what is going on past your two dog three cat yard and dirt racing weekends. Obama won't let the states inforce the border laws by the way. Arizona is trying but have been sued. Now get back to your regularly scheduled TV Land viewing.

[kidrock]

No they have not. Sorry you have not kept up on what is going on past your two dog three cat yard and dirt racing weekends. Obama won't let the states inforce the border laws by the way. Arizona is trying but have been sued. Now get back to your regularly scheduled TV Land viewing.

Sorry but I had to put the my last 2 dogs down so, I'm down to just 2 cats and yes the weekend racing is going good thanks. So you are telling me that Obama is responsible for all the illegals that have entered this country. WOW it did not know that what is it over 20 million in the last 4 years. Sorry don't watch much tv nowadays so, not sure what tv land is. What's the show about anyway?