CCT – Approximately 30 citizens gathered at the Otis Rotary entrance on MacArthur Boulevard to demonstrate their opposition to Governor Patrick’s offer to bring children who have fled their countries (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador) and crossed our southern border into the United States.
The migrant children ran away from poverty and crime to what they hoped would be a better life.
They are children who don’t speak English in a foreign country without their parents.
Camp Edwards here on Cape Cod is one of the two possibilities being considered for temporary sheltering of these kids while they are being processed.
I’d like to get in these people’s ear for a few minutes and just ask them a few questions. For starters, imagine that you are a child, how awful would your life have to be for you to leave your parents, your home, and everything you are familiar with, in order to escape whatever horrible situation you are in?
Now imagine this, you have heard of this place called the United States. You’ve heard how it is a country built on immigrants. It is a place where no matter what you have, you can always improve your life. It is the home of the “American Dream”, but when you get there, instead of open arms, you are met with a bunch of fat white assholes wearing socks with sandals holding signs that say “send them back”.
The ultimate irony is that the crusty Wal Martians holding those signs grandparents did the same thing these children did, except they were met with a giant awe inspiring statue of a woman holding a torch that bears the very name of what we as a nation are supposed to offer… liberty.
So I’d just like to ask those people protesting letting orphaned kids who have been through a depth of hell they couldn’t even imagine, where would you be right now if they had sent your grandparents back?
P.S. You are also just protecting something you stole to begin with. There really should be a Wampanoag sitting next to the douche with the “send them back” sign with his own sign that says “I totally agree”.
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Amen man!
Thank you for calling them out for what they are. Ignorant, intolerant fear mongers!! They make me sick!
I thought I was the only one who felt like this!
This is dumb.
These people make me ashamed of my white trash heritage…
Thank you! Rally at 5 tonight, Falmouth village green!
Stupid libtard.
I drove past the yesterday on my way off cape..You're right they are stupid..
Great contribution faggotron you really changed my opinion with your ability to spew buzzwords. Do us a favor and die in a fire.
Dear Hippie,
Just want to start with, I am a HUGE fan of yours and can somewhat understand where you are coming from. These people are acting like Wal- Martians and should be ashamed. Rather than standing at the rotary, they should be writing to their state reps/congressman. With that said, I do not think our Cape communities can handle hundreds of illegal children at this point in time. I am not an orphan hater, in fact I would take in all of them if I could BUT as you know there is a serious drug epidemic going on which has been draining our community resources like social programs and education system. If you look at the birth rate of drug addicted babies in the last ten years on Cape Cod, I am sure you will find a correlation with the increase in spending on special needs in our schools. So while we are dealing with one crisis, lets just throw a couple hundred illegal orphan children into the mix- unfortunately we cannot do it. Sad but true.
By that logic, if you have a sick child and your other child gets sick, you should just let it die.
Katie Ryan Collette is 1000% right, but I'll be you these assholes at the Rotary are the same assholes clapping their hands with glee that they don't have to stand back 30 feet at abortion clinics so they can harass and scream at a woman during one of the most difficult times in their lives. Betcha they think GW was a peach too. Well, look what 5 years as the governor of Texas and 8 as president has done at the borders. Not a fucking thing.
By that logic, if you have a sick child and your other child gets sick, you should just let it die because you don't have the resources to help both. We are talking about children, not able bodied adults.
By that logic, if you have a sick child and your other child gets sick, you should just let it die because you don't have the resources to help both. We are talking about children, not able bodied adults.
You also knew there was a quarantine on Ellis Island, right? Those immigrants also weren't handed a bus ticket to anywhere they would like to go, or were put on welfare either. Comparing apples to oranges just shows a lack of historical knowledge. How about we take care of the people in Detroit, our veterans, or elderly before taking more illegal aliens in. Since politics are starting to come into the wheelhouse of this website.. lost a viewer to the Real Cape over this one.
Just have them stay at your house Sean
I am glad you brought this to light. Look at those morons taking pictures of themselves on their phones. Ignorance and bigotry on display.
Well said!!!
You people are fucking brain dead. We he thousands of American children and people that are poor and homeless. I don't see mitsry bases being used for them. We can't provide for our own citizens and veterans. Why should we support these people?
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Thin skin much?
What a liberal smear tactic. Trying to paint those protesters as "haters" because they oppose these illegal aliens flooding into our nation, further burdening our overstretched and bankrupt infrastructure, and destroying the futures for OUR children and grandchildren. DEPORT THEM ALL!!!!
If we are brain dead then you are racist. Children should be helped no matter where they happened to be born. We have thousands of programs to help American children. You think people that aren't from the U.S. aren't as important. It is that elitist crap that makes the rest of the world hate us. Keep thinking your better than everyone else because you were born here, that'll really help you progress as a human being.
Nice one. Let us hear about your vast experiences/knowledge in regards to this issue?
Good riddance. Losing a reader whose reaction to an opposing view is to run and hide under their covers and plug their ears so they can't hear it isn't going to cause us to lose any sleep
There is nothing elitist about seeing the country be corroded by your one-sided "save the children" mentality. This is exactly why the real "elitists" are perverting the nation and getting away with it.
Their divide and conquer method is only fueled by crap like this, making us argue over petty issues and not the real ones.
More like this Hippie:
If you had limited resources and both of your children were very sick, you certainly wouldn't allocate your limited resources to your neighbors sick kid….right? That's the logic- stay calm.
Smearing a group of protesters in order to demonize their point of view is any better? Good luck with your future political posts as I guarantee I wont be the only one leaving. I challenge you to do an article on what benefits these children are given once they enter illegally, gag orders on border patrol employees, or who really runs the Federal Reserve.
Oh, now you're crying for these kids? Strike up the violins. Were you a man once?
Tony Hamilton It's nice to know that you consider the suffering and life or death of innocent children is a "petty issue".
Oh I'm calm and I respect your points, it gets lost on the internet sometimes but this is merely a healthy dialogue. Point is our resources aren't that limited, we spend billions on social programs for our own children. That doesn't mean we should turn a blind eye to other children. When your neighbors kid gets sick and there is a fundraiser, you help out right? Well maybe we should start thinking about the world as our neighbors, not just our own. It may just turn into a better place.
Sorry, but they need to be sent home. To a familiar place where they speak the language and to their families. We cannot afford them anywhere in this country, and there is a legal immigration process. They need to be taken to Logan, and put on a short flight home, which will be a heck of a lot less traumatic than being handed over to mules to run them north illegally. We have hungry and homeless kids, families and vets here who have a hard time getting help. I love kids, But they need to go home. They are not fleeing any persecution, not being hunted down back home. If their countrymen want a better life for themselves and their kids, then they need to fight foe it like every other free society has. We cannot be and should not be the worlds policeman or orphanage.
In today's economy, do you really think public resources can be spent accommodating this massive influx of immigrants? Do you really think the veterans/homeless/elderly are not more deserving of free housing and a welfare check? The indisputable fact that granting amnesty has lead to the recent wave of foreigners crossing the border is, in fact, the major issue at hand. The "save the children" tactic is merely a byproduct meant to tear at the heartstrings of the uninformed or willfully ignorant.
Unfortunately government resources are limited at this time. If it wasn't for great people and groups like the Real Cape donating and fundraising to our schools our children wouldn't be able to do basic things like field trips, music class, or play with paste. While we can agree to disagree I will be the first person to donate to any fundraiser the Real Cape may do for the immigrant children on the base….I dare you! Also, don't even get me going on Child Trafficking Laws!!!!!
I think it's important to note that the children at the border CAN't be "sent home" under existing U.S. law. The Trafficking Victims Act of 2008 prevents that. So that's the fact. The question is what to do with 57,000 kids that are here before that law is amended. You can be a knucklehead dink and hold up signs at the rotary or you can exhibit a small measure of human compassion and house them at a semi-defunct, groundwater-polluting Army base. I prefer the latter.
Why don't we take care of our vets and homeless first!!
The Real Cape… perhaps all countries should just send their orphans over? I don't really care what the rest of the world thinks about us. We send most of the world support checks, and again, 19 trillion debt here… let them take care of their own. How many of those countries do you think would welcome a couple of million of American poor? Not a single one. THEY have immigration laws hat they follow. Do this anywhere else, and you end up in prison. Why are we required to do something no other country does? Because they are kids? Let their native countries handle them.
I agree 200%
Oh man lost an argument better resort to calling me a racist. Truth is hippie I've done more progression as a human being than you can fathom.
Yes they can, that law was written for kids in sex trafficing rings. Not anyone who crosses the border illegally. Look at the title of the law…TRAFFICING victims act. These are not victims of human trafficing.
Heidi Palanza Gavigan That's exactly what we're talking about. The kids Gov. Patrick and the religious leaders are advocating come to the Cape Cod base are the result of that law — all kids from Central American countries (but not Mexico). That's what it's all about. We have to put them through the process and there's a tremendous backlog.
John LoDico The 2008 law does NOT apply to these kids.
I totally agree with with what you are saying, I just think we need to fix the homelessness and children that do not have enough in the United States before we take on other countries problems, these children coming into this country get better
treatment than your own children do, I just do not think it is fair.
Why not have someone stand their with a sign that say "WELCOME"
Those children are not this countries problem there only gonna strain our economy and country as a whole worse then it already is… I agree send them back, we have our borders patrolled for a fucking reason it isn't a god damn free for all for anyone that wants to come here!!!
Heidi Palanza Gavigan Under the Homeland Security Act of 2002 AND the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act in 2008 the Border Patrol takes into custody child migrants who aren't from Mexico, screens them, transfers them, and ultimately houses them. The children you want to put on a plane back to where they came from (you sad, heartless person) are in the bind they are in now because of the current law. Now go get me a cup of coffee.
You openly admit that you think that people from Honduras etc. are not as important as people from the U.S. That is the definition of racism. Make racist statements and I'll call you a racist. The mere fact that you assume what I can and can't fathom with absolutely zero evidence of what I actually can, proves that you have not progressed enough as a human to even use simple logic in your arguments. So good luck with that.
John LoDico You smarmy ass, go educate yourself and keep yourhands out of my pockets. How many of those kids have YOU volunteered to take in? Lemme guess…ZERO. But you have no problem demanding others pay for them.
And John, get your own damned coffee… you would not like what I did with it when I got to you.
Not one person here is saying anything about American children being more important than others..you do however, dodge all of the facts and questions previously stated here. The "save the children" rhetoric can only last for so long before you have to prove an actual point.
Tony Hamilton Don't let him bait you with the old "Racist" chestnut, Tony. It is an old, tired tactic. The word really has no meaning anymore, as it is leveled when there is no reasonable, factual debate left for the liberal side. The debate is over when the racist charge comes out and the one whom it is tossed out at wins the debate, because the other side is fresh out of fact and logic.
Agreed fully, Heidi. Case in point, a crappy article with "Hate orphan children" in the title.
This string of comments is absurd. Hippie wrote an article from his point of view, which of course ended up being controversial and pissed people off because THAT IS WHAT WE DO. This isn't a political website and has never claimed to be one – it's a place where you come to see a twist on real Cape Cod news – I can promise you that every person involved in this site has nothing but the utmost respect, admiration and support for ANYBODY who has or is serving our Country, but also shares those same feelings towards people in general, including those who aren't fortunate enough to have grown up like we did. That doesn't make us brain dead, racist or ignorant – it makes us human.
Were your grand parents protesting in 1945 when we had german POWs, comming to cape edwards ,and were you the same people protesting when they were putting a new county jail on Otis .These Kids are going to be processed and moved on,at the base ,90% will be sent home
Reminds me of when President Kennedy was elected ,and teabagger type red necks thought it would be smart to send up reverse Freedom riders up to hyannis port they werent Illegals just americans That most of us wecomed and took in ,most left after a few years ,but one guy opened up a great rib joint in the hyannis east end ,Seems to me most of you people are missinformed about what is going to happen IF they come up to Otis ,they will be processed Under the 2008 Bush law ,one dumb bitch dosnt seem to know what it means ,USMC VET 1957/63
I will do that if they show up here .USMC VET 57/63
I do not agree with these people – they are fortunate our country allows for free speech. Swearing and hateful talk helps no one. If you are worried about veterans and the poor – please spend some time and money to help. If your conscience tells you to help these children – please do. We will all be judged by our actions or inaction at some point.
The Real Cape what do you think the armys does ?
well thank you for serving
You do realize that you both are douche-bags, right? Christopher Thompson: how about your house? Oh, sorry – forgot you neither have one nor appreciate where you live or the country you live in that allows you to have the asinine opinions you have.
Mike Mullaney: really?!? You would actually hold that bullshit statement against children? Be a man, or better yet, just be an adult and have a little compassion. How did that famine in Ireland treat your ancestors? Oh wait, you're right – the only Irish in the USA are the Irish that were born here, they definitely weren't people looking for a better life because theirs wasn't so wretched.
These people are total fucking losers.
They could have put their energy into charitable work for refugee children instead of standing at a rotary with a sign saying "No Way Jose"
This is Massachusettes. If you cant hack it then move away. If you feel threatened by an orphaned 5 year old that cant speak english than move to a shitty flyover state that better matches your skills.
You dont belong here.
Christopher Thompson , don't worry, your tax dollars won't go far towards paying for them, you pay much more towards the taxes on the booze you put down than you could ever pay for income tax: And Mike Mullaney, for real??? For a guy that makes his living in the entertainment industry, how is that you couldn't recognize a joke if it was strapped to a scud missile and shoved straight up your ass? …"Bitch, moan and be fearful" ~ The new 'Murican Anthem
FYI. They are already here. They have been for a week and a half.
Tiffany LoDico I do not want Illegal immigrants here, so no I wouldn't offer my house up to them, nor my apartment, or any other form of habitation i had. I have NO problem with Immigration, it is when it is done outside the confines of the law that i have a problem. Those "children" that are coming here can file for refugee status at the american embassy in their country and come the correct way. Other than that they can set up a little camp on the boarder and remain in mexico. And i do appreciate where i live and i know that millions have died to to build and create this country. Is it really so wrong to want other people to do the same for themselves?? We should be focusing on taking care of our own people before we take in people who won't fight for themselves.
Sean McCabe real clever. I pay my fair share of income tax, it comes right out of my paycheck. you know that thing you get when you have a job and go to work. And i don't drink as much as you like to think i do. good effort though.
you cover these idiots but not what Cape Cod Liberty Project is doing?
Keep on being controversial and unconcerned about pissing people off. It's your brand of humor that keeps me coming back. People that say they will "leave the site" over this "outrage" would have eventually left anyways when something else inevitably offends them.
Maybe someday you'll even have some fat geriatric slobs with nothing better to do with their lives waiving flags in front of your headquarters demanding you be deported.
Yes deport all those teabagger slugs
the ones that sent 5 people 4 dogs and one cat to protest the protesters , and the papers said 10 people
Anachist and ass hos ,cape liberty project
You're implying that every immigrant came through Ellis Island. From 1600-1900 our borders were pretty fluid, and it was tough to tell who lived where.
Immigrants were also a huge labor boom. You think they checked the status of every Irish or Chinese railroad worker? Do you think anyone gave a shit back then? Most of the country was just getting over the whole "slavery thing." You could just come as you were if you were willing to work your ass off for the right to be here.
So shut the fuck up with your Ellis Island Bullshit. You're focusing on a very, very small part of American History…a myth.
what wrong with our normal vets ?
really ,where is your information from teabagger ?
Paul Larkin I hope you are adopting some of these invaders and supporting them with your life savings. The rest of us choose to support our own children and families or to have our tax dollars spent helping our own CITIZENS and COUNTRYMEN. (You hypocrite).
I don't think immigrants back in the day filled out paperwork in their country of origin before coming over. Boatloads of them came over and were processed through the system once they were on American soil! But the entitled ass-fucks that run this country (and the mindless idiots that follow them) now make it next to impossible for immigrants to come to this country legitimately.