Felix Longoria came from a small segregated Texas town named Three Rivers . He was drafted in 1944, and left a wife and daughter, On 6-16-45, Longoria was killed in an ambush by the Japanese. His wife was making arrangements for him to be buried in the “Mexican” cemetery, that was separated by barbed wire from the Anglos. The local mortician told the family that services could not be held in the town Chapel, as the whites would “resent the violation of local custom”. The family could not eat in the restaurant”that did not serve Mexican” His wife sought help in the matter and this story received international attention, with the intervention of Senator Lyndon B. Johnson. Longoria was buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors on Feb, 16, 1947.
This young man gave his life for his Country, and that is the thanks he got from white Texas. The Longoria case “was a shining moment of unity against prejudice that gave hispanic’s facts in the battle for civil rights”
Mr l was Longoria was a legal resident of the United States, He was drafted by the American Government, I was addressing the point many of the Anti’s make why do you not assimulated into the dominate cuture and that there is no discrimination aganist hispanic’s, Many of you claim that the Hispanic’s (minorities) that are racist. I am Srry that I did not include the mistreatment of Black, and the Japanese Americans that where interned in concentration camp? America was fighting Germany and Italy also, why were the Japanese the only group intered by America. What was in place 60 years ago were done by whites, that why Ferderal troops had to forcely intergrate segregated school and universities, The Democratic party and the Nations court finally took action on Racial equality pass Afirmative Action, EEOC, Voting Rights ,Act, Public Accomadations, equal inforcement of the law, equal rights in housing Etc. and now your cry is why don’t you assimulate into “our” Same war different battle,
Mr l was Longoria was a legal resident of the United States, He was drafted by the American Government, I was addressing the point many of the Anti’s make why do you not assimulated into the dominate cuture and that there is no discrimination aganist hispanic’s, Many of you claim that its the Hispanic’s (minorities) that are racist. I am Sorry that I did not include the mistreatment of Blacks, and the Japanese Americans that where interned in concentration camp? America was fighting Germany and Italy also, why were the Japanese the only group interned by America?: What was in place 60 years ago was done by whites, that why Federal troops had to forcely intergrate segregated school and universities, The Democratic party and the Nations court finally took action on Racial equality pass Afirmative Action, EEOC, Voting Rights ,Act, Public Accomadations, equal inforcement of the law, equal rights in housing Etc. and now your cry is why don’t you assimulate into “our” Same war different
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Its about someone, You talk about propaganda, and then you vomit the Bush’s & neo con climate of fear .
Some other answers say what has this story have to do with immigration? It shows the hate was there before the issue of immigration. The issues are not 60 years old ,that was the racism of your fathers, many of these issues exist today! You vomit the message of hate, and cite a good example “Hitler” his message goes on from your own mouth
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You don’t mention if Mr. Longoria was in the US legally. But you are talking about the past. How many of you have read this story?
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We have a Texan running this country into the ground and wonder why?Texas is hypocritical state. They now have a large number of Mexicans to contend with and are still doing a pretty cra–y job.
Thanks for sharing! Reminds me of the Japanese interment camps. Young Japanese American men were off earning honors fighting for our country in WWII while our government was imprisoning their family members.
No one that I know of is upset about legal immigration. Legal immigration is fine as long as the legal resident doesn’t commit crimes and pays taxes. Is that too much to ask? The illegal immigration is bad for the immigrant and it drives wages down. These illegal immigrants get treated like animals. A lot of them get ripped off by people take full advantage of them. These same people that are being taken advantage of and are clear victims are also victimizing the citizen and legal permanent resident. They are willing to work for less money and are willing to work way more hours. I don’t think that the argument, they will do jobs that Americans won’t, is invalid. People will do any job as long as they are treated with respect, reasonably paid and with benefits. That is my immigration argument for the day.
WELCOME TO 2007 !!!! Felix Longoria and his family may have been treated very poorly but that was 60 years ago. GET A LIFE!!!! If your trying to combine the issues of present-day illegal immigration and racism of 60 years ago then that is pathetic !!!!
I haven’t and it’s sad. Thats why we had a civil rights movement. My Grandfather served in WW2 as well, and when he returned he was treated like garbage. He never complained. All he did was start a write in campaign to ask to be treated Human. I’m not sure what this has to do with immigration uless its a veiled attempt to attack our position in immigration, but we have improved some, and we need to improve more, but illegal immigration is a separate matter compared to racism you describe. I actuall do not like illegal immigration because it aids the racist. The racist are the ones who hire and abuse the illegal immigrants. The racist like them, because they can feel superior by abusing them and they know the illegal immigrants can’t go to the police. I see illegal immigrants used as leverage to mantain a racist society against those who are legally here. It’s one of the reason why I want to stop illegal immigrants. It’s a mean to protect them from racist as well as to protect our legal residents and citizens from them as well.
If that is true then it is sad. The same thing happened to many black soldiers who made a real difference over in Europe and were eventually respected for their role in the Allied invasion of Europe. When they returned to America they found nothing had changed. Here in Canada we are having trouble with native land claims. One of the more heated battles is in a town called Caladonia, on the Grand River near Hamilton in southern Ontario. A sub-division was being built in an area that the Mohawks considered their land, so they occupied it and caused alot of inconvenience to the non-natives and hostility towards the Mohawks. I wonder if anyone knows how these Mohawks on the Grand River contributed to the war effort for our country in the 20th century? We should give them waaaayyy more respect.
That is why I keep saying the hate was already in place before the illegal issue came up. Illegal is just another excuse for the racist haters.
And why is this in the “immigration” section? It has nothing to do with immigration law.
I would ask you to be honest but propagandists have taken an oath to lie. This question just one more propaganda-missile fired by La Raza, La Zeta, Reconquista and the like.
As always, it uses the tactic of confusing guilt (an emotion) with logic (law); a tactic popularized by Hitler.
In all history, tables turn. The victims in this immigration battle are the persons of all colors who are following the law. The tax-paying middle-class who can NOT collect a penny of assistance from the government while little girls (many only 10 to 14 years old), already 8 months pregnant, come here, give birth to a child and begin, immediately to collect our money.
And Legal immigrants of all ethnicities live in FAR greater fear of deportation than any of these so vocal about it.
One student with a scholarship to Columbia University Medical School was deported earlier this year. The reason? Her lawyer failed to file a document on time. Her mother is a legal U. S. resident. But she doesn’t have the support of La Raza, Reconquista and La Zeta’s.
In fifty years, we’ll look back and compare them to Hitler’s regime.
Only this time, Hitler doesn’t speak German. Historians will draw similarities, though. The new Reich is racist, violent and, so far, just okay at propoganda, as this question clumsily demonstrates.
With each of these questions that attempts to confuse logic with emotion, the picture just gets clearer and clearer.
This is not a desperate attempt of a few people to better themselves – that’s the emotionally charged front. There are plenty of candidates offering to come legally, register, pay and do all the necessary things. I’ve never heard of the “Green Card Lottery” having any openings left.
Rather, it is a very well-funded, well-organized, militarized, media-driven effort to finally end the greatest threat to lawlessness the world has recently known: The determination of a people to establish and follow a system of law that is as close as possible to respectful and respectable. It’s an effort to end representative government once and for all. And it would seem that most in our government and media have already crossed over.
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This question is not about immigration.