Far Left Rockers Record "Si Se Puede" In Support of Illegal Immigrants
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 10:30 AM
What a shock. Far left rockers Carlos Santana, Willie Nelson and the Mexican group Mana have joined together to record songs in support of illegal immigrants.
Carlos Santana sports his Che T-shirt at the Oscars.
The Washington Post reported, via FOX Nation:
Four summers ago, a handful of Spanish-speaking radio disc jockeys helped bring hundreds of thousands of Latino marchers to the streets of Los Angeles and other cities to support immigration reform.
Now, in what is partly a sign of the growing clout of U.S. Latinos both as voters and cultural consumers, a number of prominent artists, both Latino and non-Latino, are urging a boycott of Arizona’s controversial new statute that requires law enforcement officials to determine the status of people they suspect are illegal immigrants whom they’ve stopped or detained for other reasons.
Several musicians, including Carlos Santana, Willie Nelson and the Mexican pop-rock band Mana, are recording songs in support of the millions of immigrants, mainly from Mexico and other parts of Latin America, living in the United States, whatever their legal status.
“These folks are coming to us the way immigrants have always come to us. We really need to welcome these people,” Nelson said in a phone interview, explaining why he took part in recording the song “Si Se Puede,” colloquially translated as “Yes We Can.”
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Ginger commented:
Willie????
What a disappointment! Boy we keep seeing the cock roaches coming out of the baseboards don’t we?
Cher Cropper commented:
Willie Nelson needs to quit smokin’ so much weed.
Cher Cropper commented:
Read the history books Willie. Most of those immigrants you are talking about came here the legal way.
wow commented:
Too bad Santana’s thought processes don’t match his talent.
seven commented:
We welcome immigrants. They have to get a ticket. Entertainment folks sell tickets. If you don’t have a ticket, you can stay outside.
Nelson and Santana do their concerts free?
Chisum commented:
Another goofball wearing a Che tee shirt. As if I’m going to listen to anything he has to say.
gus commented:
Pot smoking hippies are experts on what?
jonyjoe101 commented:
As someone who was born in Mexico I have only one thing to say to willie,santana, if they like Mexico so much they can go live over there. They can take the illegals with them too.
They keep playing the everyone in America is an immigrant card. No not everyone is an immigrant maybe generations ago everyone was an immigrant.
If you come to America, you need to do as the Americans do, don’t bring your “mexican” flag and your spanish language and culture. Don’t expect the Americans to assimilate to your culture. That is why there is tremendous backlash against immigrants and Mexicans in particular they don’t want to assimilate.
WSG commented:
How about this:
“I support illegal immigrants, but I don’t support their mission.”
Hmm. That doesn’t sound like it would work, does it?
GrayRider commented:
Useful Idiots of the marxists.
Andreas K. commented:
“These folks are coming to us the way immigrants have always come to us. We really need to welcome these people.”
Really?
I have relatives in the States. They went there after the war and they got their neither via Mexico nor illegally.
BTW, if we play the “everyone in America is an immigrant” card, that means that the so called “Native Americans”… are also immigrants, which they are. They are homo sapiens and the homo sapiens does not originate from America. Fact.
That said, I still say Mexico should be handed back to Spain.
averagemelon commented:
Why would anyone listen to a pot head entertainer for advise on what direction the nation needs to take? I wouldn’t listen to him if he was my father.
Can you spell loser?
regularguy commented:
Geez, this breaks my heart. I love many songs by both Willie and Carlos, and don’t want to erase my MP3 of their songs. It’s so hard to find great musicians who aren’t jackasses anymore. Why can’t they just shut up and keep their lame, leftist ideas to themselves? They are really musically talented but politically idiotic.
I may still have to drop them from my playlists anyway. The seriousness of the ideas they espouse are less and less forgivable each day. Illegal immigration is not only an affront to our sovereignty but threatens our very culture and rule of law. I simply cannot handle these leftists anymore.
Jenn of the Jungle commented:
Yes you can… go the hell back to your country of origin. Then you are more than welcome to apply and come back legally.
newton commented:
“All we are saying/is Follow Our Laws!”
Kevin P commented:
seven – #5 EXCELLENT POINT!
I’d add – we all need to overwhelm security at all of their concerts and invade without tickets. Then DEMAND free food and beer, maybe crap in the lobby as we are “sneaking” in (destroying their environment), then DEMAND free concert t-shirts and CD’s.
For good measure we’ll kill a few of their security guards.
Then when they bring in the “authorities” – the “authorites” will just let us go. And we’ll all cry “racists” and sue them for discrimination afterwards. Then tell them their concert bus really belongs to us and we’ll take it from them.
“Si Se Puede” – SPIT!!!
Kevin P commented:
Did that go too far??? NAH!!!
sliderblaze commented:
no you mexican’t
Chippy commented:
Yea! Nice boycott. Probably hear the song on every AZ radio station. My guess is you could probably by the tunes from any AZ record store. Heck, probably download the tunes from Itunes from any computer in any home in AZ. They are really Noble!
Lily commented:
“It’s so hard to find great musicians who aren’t jackasses anymore.”
True. Same for actors.
Texmom commented:
Useful tools who probably have never read the law, but they do know what the “cool kids” are doing these days. Idiots.
gus commented:
Do Willie and Carlos share their WEED with the illegals they house in their mansions.
Willie came to town and I tried his tour bus, but they wouldn’t let me. So I said.
Si Se puede!!!
And out came the cold beer and the bong.
As for Carloser Santana. Is he aware the Che Geuvara personally blew the brains out of BROWN PEOPLE?
Don Rodrigo commented:
“These folks are coming to us the way immigrants have always come to us. We really need to welcome these people,”
You mean they all came through Ellis Island?
TrickyDick commented:
I dare any one of these morons go hang out in one of the border towns wiithout a body guard. Let’s see how long it is before they’re kidnapped, beaten up and ransomed. Liberalism is definitely a mental illness!!
bg commented:
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OT..
re: Protest Mega-Mosque Plans at Ground Zero
’10,000′ throng to stop Ground Zero mosque
Group vows to sue federal government:
’3,000 good Americans didn’t die in vain’
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mbabbitt commented:
Today, foolishness has become a respected profession.
bg commented:
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Kevin P @ 11:29 am #17
i agree, but just for the heck of it..
Sí se puede
[President Barack Obama adopted the English version "Yes, we can!" first during the 2004 Illinois Democratic primary race for U.S. Senate, and it became a slogan of his 2008 presidential campaign. "Yes, we can!" was the theme of Sen. Obama's speech following his second-place finish in the 2008 New Hampshire primary. Following the speech Obama was endorsed by the Culinary Workers Union in the Nevada Democratic Caucus, though it is important to note that news of the endorsement had already been circulating prior to this speech. The phrase was also used in the song "Yes We Can", which was performed by numerous celebrities in support of Obama. Another video created in support of Obama's 2008 presidential bid, entitled Sí Se Puede Cambiar written and performed by Andres Useche and directed by Eric Byler was released on YouTube on February 22, 2008.]
[standard disclaimer: source Wikipedia]
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Stuart commented:
Sneak into the USA?
Have an anchor baby?
Get on welfare?
Apply for food stamps?…for my entire family?
Bust the budget in half a dozen states?
Buy a beat up car and drive without a license?
Drive without insurance?
Smuggle a little weed?
Traffic in narcotics?
Steal a car?
Get caught?
Engage in a high speed car chase?
Have a fatal collision with a pedestrian?
Get free legal representation?
Bad mouth the ****ing Gringo?
Bad mouth the ****ing USA?
Scream “Viva Mexico” at an anti American rally?
SI! SE PUEDE!
Habla Angles?…No se Puede!
bigkahuna commented:
Maybe they can remake…Genesis’ song …. Its no fun being an illegal alien !!!!
Nathan R. Jessup commented:
Just last week I was at a bar in Cambridge, MA with a few buddies. We walked into this place and the walls were ALL red, a giant picture of Che hung above the door along with a giant bomb shell (and I don’t mean a hottie). The walls were adorned with Communist propaganda from Russia. I counted 9 hammer & sickles throughout the joint. These people are tapped.
Screw these nut-jobs, here are pictures of me (yes, you can now see what I look like) from last night’s striper fishing:
http://the-raw-deal.com/?p=2608
NRJ
bg commented:
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hmmm, don’t think Santana‘s going
to score many points with Cubans..
A Deadly Turf War Over Cuban Illegals
Cuban diplomat in Mexico has defected to U.S.
[A Cuban diplomat who disappeared with her husband from her post at the Cuban embassy in Mexico last month has told relatives they are "safe in the United States," the Miami Herald reported on Saturday.]
more here (and depending on what one googs, elsewhere i’m sure)..
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bg commented:
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Nathan R. Jessup @ 12:36 pm #33
great pix..
beautiful sunset..
and if i were at least 35 – 40 years younger, i’d
move back to MA & look ya up handsome..
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Kevin commented:
These loons have no idea the backlash that is coming their way, ooohhh boy, it’s going to be epic in a biblical way.
But they do continue to give me great ideas for new shirts
Click on the big red “NEW!” button more on the way after I finish ghost writing an article today.
http://www.zazzle.com/Superkev_1503USA
Rose commented:
Some of my clean family members have argued with me for many years over Willie Nelson – cousin of Jimmy Swaggart and Mickey Gilley(?), because they think of his “outlaw” status as just being “one of the “good ol’ boys” ” and nothing ~”REALLY”~ bad! Really!
This put paid to THAT idea!
When yer weed is more important than your National Security, it doesn’t matter how often you sing “God Bless America” at your concerts.
Betsy Ross commented:
Name for me one country, just one, other than the United States of America, that allows people to enter without proper documentation, apply for, and get, welfare benefits, get free health care, free education, all the while marching in said country’s streets whining about how horrible said country is?
Forgive me if I am really torked about the whole “immigration” issue..
Sen. Fuller Bull - D commented:
“These folks are coming to us the way immigrants have always come to us. We really need to welcome these people
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Willie’s getting tired of having to pay out the nose for a legal housekeeper.
bg commented:
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Rose 12:50 pm #37
re: [When yer weed is more important than your National Security, it
doesn’t matter how often you sing “God Bless America” at your concerts.]
an Amen to that!! thumbsup
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Nathan R. Jessup commented:
@bg #35
*laughing* thanks.
bg commented:
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Stuart @ 12:28 pm #31
you forgot (just a sample)..
form gangs, rep kill opposition, threaten, take over neighborhoods, make songs about it, join Willie & Carlos on stage, and bingo!! you’re living the THE AMERICAN DREAM!! /sarc/ truth/ sarc/ truth/ sarc/ truth/ gah!!
Nathan R. Jessup @ 1:04 pm #41
welcome..
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Stuart commented:
bg. I could have gone on but dont want to get boring. I live in a city full of illegals. There is not a week that goes by that I don’t hear of one or more instances of the items I mentioned. I keep getting more and more upset at OUR government for tolerating (or should I say promoting?)this crap. Tell me again why I should continue to be a good citizen of a nation that obviously doesn’t give a rip about its native born.
pamlinson commented:
Both Santana and Nelson had their day in the sun a loooonnnnngggg time ago. Their both old news and nobody gives a rip what they think. Younger generations don’t even know who these turds are.
bg commented:
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Betsy Ross @ 12:52 pm #38
on this planet??
i ask because there’s an unearthly place called Allahu Akbar that
everyone seems to be either willing to die or kill to get to.. /sarc/
Sen. Fuller Bull – D @ 12:53 pm #39
Over the past 20 years, the United States has granted legal permanent residence (green cards) to an average of more than 1 million persons per year:
[The United States is above average in this group of nations. Notice that Ireland admitted a very high number of immigrants in 2006. That is because 2006 was the best year of Ireland’s economic boom. Since then, the boom has turned into a bust. Some of those people have now left Ireland, and the number of new arrivals has declined significantly. In terms of sheer numbers, in 2006, the United States took as many immigrants as Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Austria, France, and Australia combined. Those nations have a combined population of 410 million, compared to 300 million for the United States.]
Center For immigration Studies
Illegal Immigration
[Over the past 20 years, the United States has granted legal permanent residence (green cards) to an average of more than 1 million persons per year:]
Immigration Clock
flashback
[The number of immigrants living in the United States has more than tripled since 1970, from 9.6 million to 28.4 million. As a percentage of the U.S. population, immigrants have more than doubled, from 4.7 percent in 1970 to 10.4 percent in 2000. ]
flashforward
[The total projected growth of 167 million is equal to the combined populations of Great Britain, France, and Spain. The 105 million from immigration by itself is equal to 13 additional New York Cities.]
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JB commented:
Aging Gramscian whores.
antilbr commented:
Wearing a Che shirt thats all you need to know…..@$$clowns go back to mexico and tend to your pot fields….
olds-mo-william commented:
Maria Maria: si, se puede???!
http://tinyurl.com/268l4j8
bg commented:
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Stuart @ 1:39 pm #43
oh i’m sure you could list much much more, just thought i’d help
out.. and have to say, i’m glad i’m not in your shoes so to speak..
perhaps we should all stand up at once, walk over to
the window & scream at the top of our lungs, oh wait..
seriously though, Obama is right about one thing.. “we the people”
are not going to change the way things are headed w/out sacrifice..
hence, my advice: cancel cable.. there goes a major portion of the syndicated dumbing down of America program right out the window and we didn’t have to walk anywhere or scream about anything to take a stand..
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bg commented:
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Kevin @ 12:47 pm #36
very nice, and most seem reasonably priced
)..
(eh, never was a mug person anyways..
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Spike commented:
Well, I certainly cannot boycott dips**t Nelson’s music as I have never bought the s**t to begin with. As far as Santana is concerned I will turn the radio station anytime his music comes on…Jackasses!
bg commented:
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JB @ 1:48 pm #46
thanks!!
you made me look that up… love to learn something new every
day, and depending on who brings up what, sometimes more..
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jomojava commented:
Dear Willie, Carlos, et al,
Bese Mi Asno
Andreas K. commented:
Betsy Ross
June 8th, 2010 | 12:52 pm | #38
Name for me one country, just one, other than the United States of America, that allows people to enter without proper documentation, apply for, and get, welfare benefits, get free health care, free education, all the while marching in said country’s streets whining about how horrible said country is?
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Any random Euro-peon country will do?
In Austria, for example, when you enter without documentation, you can’t be deported. Since we don’t know where you came from we can’t deport you. In the mean time you get everything you want from food to clothes even tv, etc, financed by the tax payer.
You can apply for asylum, but if the government says no, you… don’t have to leave, just appeal. And again. And again. And again. And again.
You can commit crimes, the worst that happens is that you will be sent back to the facility where you live. If the police just looks at you, quickly scream “racism!” and the leftists will swarm in screaming murder at the police.
Bob commented:
Never was impressed by carlos, less so now.
willie, you just lost a fan as well as your hair.
Adios.
Chip Bennett commented:
Can we just start calling people who wear Che Guevera’s likeness what he represents: racists?
Sojourner commented:
no, Willie.. it looks more like this:
..’Give me your tired, your poor..’
http://factreal.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/aztlanpalestine.jpg
..your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free..’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ8k6iczwhQ&feature=related
..the wretched refuse of your teaming shores..’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSuqU0Yx4jw&feature=player_embedded
..’I lift my lamp beside the..golden door.’
http://dailyretard.com/statue-of-liberty-crying3151-290×300.jpg
Enough.. we are a country… of law.. not the lawless.
Corporal Vere commented:
I suggest they contract with the Hell’s Angels to provide security at their outdoor concerts.
Bob commented:
Hey carlos,
“Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians.” – Che Guevara
Still think Che is cool?
Rob De Witt commented:
Willie, Willie. For Christ’s sake.
Whether “younger generations” find his stuff “relevant” shouldn’t be the issue, although he seems to insist on making it the issue by bloviating about politics. He is and has been a fine, fine singer and musician for decades, and it’s always sounded true to me. I’ve known several of his acquaintances, and they’ve all talked about what a privilege it was to know a man so solid in who he is. And just btw, it’s Jerry Lee Lewis, not Willie, who’s cousins with Jimmy Swaggart and Mickie Gilley.
God, what a shame. I think those commenters who predict a tragic blowback from all this crap have got it just about right. Carlos Santana? Meh. He’s always been a junkie, and he’s played the mystical star-making machinery for all it’s worth.
Willie, though….that’s a crying shame. Probably true that years of smoking weed have eroded his common sense, and it’s a sad, sad thing.
Slider commented:
Ironic that carlos wears a che shirt.
carlos would not be allowed to play his music if che had his way.
Joanne commented:
Arizona should record a song title ‘No You Can’t’. Why should Americans welcome illegal aliens into their country anyhow? It is just nuts.
logprof commented:
Too bad. I like Mana and will continue to enjoy the stuff of theirs I have . . . but buy anything else from them? Nope.
At least in their case, they’re Mexicans so there’s not so much a back-stabbing angle to it.
fightinggranny commented:
Has anyone else, beside me, petitioned their State to draw a Bill like AZ? The more States
we can get to implement them, the more effective.
Do not support these idiots in any way. I have already “built” a hit list with all the Entertainment idiots, Apple, Wal-Mart, etc. that support this regime. This is one way we can get back at them, don’t give them any money.
Kevin commented:
The New Reds;
I use to get mad at the new Reds for showing whose side they’re on. After carefully thinking things through, I’m glad they do this to show everyone how they stand against Border Enforcement, and on the side of the law breakers.
This makes it much easier to find the new Reds in our Country instead of trying to figure out who they are. Look at Danny Glover, Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Bill Maher, Leonardo DeCrapio and Rosie O’Dumbell to name a few.
Hopefully the new Reds will keep talking and show more and more Americans who they are, and what they stand for.
Kevin commented:
Here’s a good, reliable list of The New Reds. Hopefully David Horowitz will update his list to include the filthy tramp named Sarah Silverman, and the not so smart Matt Damon.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/IndividualDesc.asp?type=art
wanumba commented:
How about a fund-raising concert for the widows, widowers and orphans of nice folks viciously murdered by drug cartels so these selfish, despicable coke-heads could get high during their lavish blow-out parties all these years?
crappy musicians commented:
Well let’s see, with headlines like this: “Industry Experiences Record Low Weekly Album Sales” is it any wonder musicians that haven’t had a career in decades are doing stunts like this? Anything to make a buck.
These 3 are the Levi Johnsons of the music industry. They might even make over $1.35 in sales if they actually were GOOD musicians. As it stands, they can’t pay people enough to listen to them
crappy musicians commented:
Another goofball wearing a Che tee shirt. As if I’m going to listen to anything he has to say.
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The irony of it is, if Satana were standing in front of Che, Che would have him immediately executed, probably doing it himself. His music was considered offensive and subversing to Che back in the day
truth teller commented:
That overrated fruitcake Latin racist is still alive???
Ever notice that when a minority gets a little bit of money or power, their racism goes into overdrive?
oldguy commented:
These people are having a hell of a bad time getting old.
get a life, you idiots commented:
the immigrants that came here in the late 1800 – early 1900 came here with a purpose a determination for a better life. they had sponsors that was a requirement for their entry into America, LEGALLY … they did not come here to America with there hand OUT gimme gimme gimme, … they worked hard laborious long hours, 14 – 15 hours a day for pennies an hour, dollars a week, they learned the language, ENGLISH which their children did too. be here in AMERICA legally no problem, here in America illegally sucking off our good way of life, PROBLEM go back to where you slid out from.
mark commented:
How would these clowns feel about people coming to their concerts without tickets? Yeah… didn’t think so. Such a disconnect with reality.