This article from Colombia shows the Latin American backlash against Republican Joe Wilson’s anti-immigrant outburst during President Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress.
According to this editorial from Colombia’s El Tiempo, Wilson is the one who’s ‘lying’, since the bill in Congress ‘explicitly’ forbids health care to the undocumented. Which is why, the newspaper writes, Wilson embodies the insane world of the Republican right, where medical care is denied those who, “cook the food, wait on restaurant tables and enter the homes of the working class every day to take care of their children.”
The editorial goes on to warn Wilson and those of his party that support him:
“Situated in the extreme east of the nation, it’s likely that Wilson of South Carolina isn’t aware of the political debacle the California branch of his party brought about for itself due to the anti-immigrant attitude of another Wilson. Seeking to ensure his reelection in 1994, Pete Wilson blamed undocumented immigrants for all that was bad in the state. With his lies, he won a Pyrrhic victory, not only winning the antipathy of Latino voters, but condemning his party to political irrelevance.”
EDITORIAL
Translated By Liz Essary
September 16, 2009
Colombia – El Tiempo – Original Article (Spanish)
Emboldened by the rare insolence of a South Carolina congressional representative who interrupted the president’s speech last week, the Taliban wing of the Republican Party has specifically attacked the undocumented.
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