According to an article in the Texas Monthly."Last Thursday Congressman Ted Poe compared illegal immigrants to illegal grasshoppers." I was just as surprised as Eileen to find out many grasshoppers come into our country illegally. It sounds like when Poe was on the House floor he questioned all his colleagues by asking "Why can't we prevent illegal grasshoppers from our country, but not the much bigger illegal immigrants?"
In other words what I believe Poe is suggesting is that we are highly advanced in technology. We take a lot of time and effort into capturing and returning illegal grasshoppers by sending them back to Brazil. I think he was thinking size wise an illegal immigrant is way bigger than a grasshopper so why is it so hard to catch them and send them back to their country.
Eileen suggest that Poe is serious and is worried about "breeding." First off, Whats wrong with illegal grasshoppers from breeding? But that is besides the point. i don't think when Poe mad this comment in a racial way. I'm not sure if i agree with Eileen's opinion of how she reacted to Ted Poe's statement he made. She turned it into something negative and was too focused on making it humorous. I think Eileen missed the whole point Poe was trying to make that we have the power, why cant we stop this?
http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/inthepink/?p=18885
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