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How Did Noel, Mo. ever get by before its Hispanic arrivals?

To read the tone of this Post-Dispatch article, Noel was practically nothing until the new arrivals from Mexico and Latin America arrived. That’s so much the case that if the Federal and Missouri governments’ “crackdown” is successful, Noel would go back to being a backwater retrograde dump.

Think I’m being facetious with my description here? Mike LeSueur, a Deputy Sheriff of McDonald County, said that the Hispanic migration to the area “an upgrade of the gene pool.” In that, he implies that the whites of Noel are some inferior sub-human race of animals.

And then there are these contradictory paragraphs:

About 40 percent of the 1,000-member workforce is Hispanic. Although company officials said they have zero tolerance for illegal workers, town leaders say it’s no secret that many who work at the plant do so in violation of immigration laws. And, they say, any kind of rigorous immigration enforcement would lead many who are here legally to accompany home family members who are not.

The prevailing belief around Noel is that Tyson would struggle to find Americans willing to fill the difficult production and maintenance jobs that pay from $8.35 to $14.30 an hour.

If Tyson truly has “zero tolerance for illegal workers,” then why would Tyson “struggle” to find workers in lieu of illegal aliens? If half of Noel’s Hispanics are illegal (as the article claims), then this means the other half are legal. And if Tyson has “zero tolerance for illegal workers,” then only the legal Hispanic arrivals of Noel are working at Tyson. Any “crackdown” would only affect those here illegally. Therefore, Tyson shouldn’t fear a crackdown.

If illegal aliens are working at Tyson, in spite of the company’s policy, this means that they used fake documents to get the jobs, in which case, there should probably be more Hispanics in the county’s jail (see below). Otherwise, Tyson isn’t telling the truth.

Back to Deputy Sheriff LeSewer:

“I have no trouble with them,” LeSueur said as he munched on a plate of chicken wings in the mayor’s sandwich shop. “They’re great people, friendly people.”

He pointed out that of the 40 or 50 people in the county jail on any given day, maybe three or four are Hispanic.

“The problem doesn’t come from the Hispanics,” LeSueur said. “It comes from a lack of understanding among the whites.”

Don’t forget, McDonald County is just more than the town of Noel, so it would make sense that it’s jail’s population is overwhelmingly white. And there might be another reason for that. If McDonald County has deputies like LeSewer, who think that the whites of Noel and McDonald County are so backwards that an influx of Chicano arrivals “upgrades the gene pool,” and that the social ills of the county comes from “a lack of understanding” (read: bigotry and racism) among those retrograde gringos, then it’s conceivable that the law enforcement authorities of Noel and McDonald County are turning their backs on a lot of the crimes committed by the new arrivals, ceteris paribus. In other words, the bar is set lower for the newly arrived “master race” of Noel, and set higher for the native “inferiors.”

BY THE WAY — If this story were about a previously black neighborhood in St. Louis being gentrified by yuppie whites, and a St. Louis City cop said that the yuppies were “upgrading the gene pool,” would the cop have his job for much longer? Would the Post glorify that statement?

UPDATE:  I’m not going to take this lying down.  I have already written a paper letter to the Sheriff of McDonald County, detailing my disgust with the anti-white bigotry and hatred of one of his deputies, Mike LeSueur.  I have already written another letter to P-D reporter Phillip O’Connor, criticizing him for glorifying such anti-white bigotry when they would complain from the top of the Arch if it were done to any non-white group.

Don Schlessman, McDonald County Sheriff
PO Box 68
Pineville, MO 64856

Phillip O’Connor, Reporter
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
900 N Tucker
St. Louis, MO 63101