May 27, 2007
People who break our laws should be shipped back to wherever they came from and should be told never to dare to darken our doors again. As Sonny Bono said, “What’s to debate? It’s illegal.”
Hurrah!
And might I add:
Round 'em up! Ship 'em back! Rawhide!
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If not faced and dealt with promptly, the geometric, or Malthusian-type, consequences of birthright citizenship will careen Birthright Citizenship even further out of control.Birthright citizenship accounts for many more persons within than the annual influx of illegal immigrants. One striking example is the woman in Chicago who earlier this year was ordered deported and sought asylum in a church because her child was a birthright citizen.
Guest-worker programs, opportunities to earn citizenship and trying to close our borders deal only with the visible aspects of the huge and complex immigration iceberg. All of them are vulnerable to the insidious issue of birthright citizenship, which deserves immediate attention.
And he is right. Guest workers arrive, have kids, and the kids are US citizens -- making it possible, in many cases, for the "temporary" parents to stay on well past the expiration of their status as guest workers.
If we don't reexamine this issue in a public fashion, and consider the implications of birthright citizenship on guest worker programs, we are simply setting such programs up for failure.
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May 23, 2007
“The question I put to my colleagues is this: Should Congress permanently bar from the U.S. and from receiving any immigration benefit: suspected terrorists, gang members, sex offenders, felony drunk drivers, and other individuals who are a danger to society?,” Sen. Cornyn said. “I hope that every Senator would answer this question with a positive response.”
Go John! Go John! Go John!
H/T Jawa Report, Michelle Malkin
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House Minority Leader John Boehner, speaking to a private gathering of Republican activists last night, called the Senate’s immigration compromise bill a “piece of shit” but said that he had promised President Bush earlier in the day that he would let his teeth be a barrier to such thoughts in public.Boehner spoke last night at a small reception for the Republican Rapid Responders on Capitol Hill.
“I promised the President today that I wouldn’t say anything bad about … this piece of shit bill,” he said, according to two attendees.
Now if heÂ’ll just start saying this stuff publicly, to keep this piece of shit bill from becoming a piece of shit law!
H/T Hot Air
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May 22, 2007
By the time he tugged on a pair of jeans and walked toward the living room, he could hear nearby voices shouting. He saw his mother on the couch, being peppered with questions by four immigration agents — questions about her papers, questions about his, questions about two single men who rented rooms from them. In his entire life, all 18 years, Alex had never seen her so close to crying.In the end, the agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement accepted the proof that Alex and his mother, who has permanent resident status, were legal. The two renters, Roberto and Augustine, were led away in handcuffs, Roberto wearing only his boxer shorts.
Then Ms. Sorto discovered how the agents had apparently entered her apartment; the window of the locked side door, intact the previous night, was now broken.
Even after all the tumult, Ms. Sorto insisted that Alex go to school. Even though it was 8:30, and he had no classes for another hour, she drove him there. He watched her hands quake as she tried to steer. In art class, his favorite, he could not get his pencil to move. All he could think about was what would become of him if his mother were taken away.
Such was the triumph of Operation Cross Check, the federal raid against illegal immigrants that went on for four days last month in this community of about 18,500 people. To the Department of Homeland Security, the operation was a success, catching a convicted sex offender and several welfare cheats among its 49 arrests. In a news release announcing the toll, an immigration enforcement director for Minnesota said, “Our job is to help protect the public from those who commit crimes.”
Yet more than half of those arrested had committed no crime other than being in the United States illegally, doing the jobs at Jennie-O that prop up the local economy. And, as the experience of Alex Sorto demonstrates, the aggressive, invasive style of the sweep instilled lasting fear among WillmarÂ’s 3,000 Hispanics, many of them students born or naturalized in the United States. These young people are the political football in AmericaÂ’s bitter, unresolved battle about immigration.
“All of us are scared,” said Andrea Gallegos, a junior at the high school. “When you go to school, you don’t know if your parents will be there when you come home. I don’t feel safe anywhere — walking to the school bus, walking outside the school building.”
I don't know about you, but I'm getting tired of all these sob-stories about the poor persecuted border-jumpers and their kin, forced to live with the threat of having the law enforced. What next? Articles about how the children of drug dealers live with the daily threat of their parents being arrested?
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Ken Boehm, Chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), today criticized the immigration bill crafted in secret by Senators led by Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Arlen Specter (R-PA).Boehm said, "If passed, this bill will make taxpayers pay the legal bills for illegal aliens seeking amnesty. Tucked away on page 317 is a provision that would allow lawyers in the federally-funded legal services program to represent illegal aliens, which they are presently barred from doing."
John Carlisle, NLPC's Director of Policy, said, "Many taxpayers will be chagrined to learn they may soon have to provide a lawyer for illegal aliens who should not be here in the first place. Activist lawyers, illegal aliens and government money are a bad mix."
The federally-funded Legal Services Corporation (LSC) supports s a network of lawyers in hundreds of communities in the country to provide civil (not criminal) day-to-day legal help to poor people. This year, LSC will receive $330 million. Since it was founded in 1974, LSC has received over $6 billion.
The authorizing language states: Section 504(a)(11) of Public Law 104-134 (110 Stat. 1321 et seq.) shall not be construed to prevent a recipient of funds under the Legal Services Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 2996 et seq.) from providing legal assistance directly related to an application for a Z-A visa under subsection (b) or an adjustment of status under subsection (j).
This negates a provision approved by Congress in 1996, with NLPC's input, that prevents LSC-funded lawyers from representing illegal aliens. The restriction was necessary because legal services lawyers have a long history of promoting illegal immigration and showing contempt for the ban on representing illegals.
The proposed amnesty law started bad – now it looks even worse. It must be defeated, and its supporters driven from office.
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May 20, 2007
Two corporations charged in an alleged plot to supply undocumented workers to Keppel AmFELS, an oilrig manufacturer based at the Port of Brownsville, are apparently run by a state district judge.Judge Leonel Alejandro, who is presiding judge of the 357th District Court in Brownsville, has not been charged in the case, but he said he helped start Port Fabricators, which provided workers to AmFELS.
The two companies behind Port Fabricators, CPEP Inc. and LAMC Inc., and former employees Rolando Villanueva, 31, and Ernesto Casas, 33, of Brownsville, were named in a 15-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Brownsville earlier this month.
Alejandro is the president of both CPEP and LAMC, and the public record reflects he was AmFELSÂ’s attorney before taking his seat on the court in January 2003.
“Several years ago, I helped develop Port Fabricators at the Port of Brownsville and still have some involvement with the company,” Alejandro said in a prepared statement to The Herald. “The company has continuously cooperated throughout the process. It would not be appropriate to comment further given the preliminary information we have at this time.”
The corporations, Villanueva and Casas are charged with a combination of crimes, including conspiracy to produce, sell or transfer fraudulent employment documents to the workers, hiring more than 10 undocumented workers, accepting fraudulent documents, transferring fraudulent documents and using the identification of others.
Will there be action taken to remove this man from the bench pending the outcome of this case -- given that he appears to give the phrase "criminal judge" a whole new meaning.
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May 17, 2007
A bipartisan group of Senate lawmakers and the White House struck an immigration reform deal Thursday that would grant legal status to the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants already in the United States and increase border and interior enforcement initiatives.The plan would establish a temporary worker program for new arrivals to the United States with a separate program for agricultural workers. The bill also would include provisions for new technology to ensure against immigration document fraud.
Supporters of the arrangement urged their congressional colleagues and the American public to support the bill as a whole even though strong objection may be felt toward its individual parts.
"All of you know that in the legislative process, no one gets 100 percent of what they want, if you're going to get something done," Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. said, speaking to reporters shortly after the deal was announced.
"From my perspective, it's not perfect, but it represents the best opportunity that we have in a bipartisan way to do something about this problem. And if we had not gotten together as Republicans and Democrats to develop this bipartisan consensus, we can be assured that there would not be a bill passed this year, and probably not next year," Kyl said.
The question is this -- is a bad bill better than no bill at all? Does a bill tha rewards illegal behavior better advance the interests of the United States than continuing with the status quo in the hopes of getting something better? I'm not sure -- but I'm inclined to oppose this one.
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Once again a minority bulwark of Democratic state senators has blocked the advance of sloppily crafted, partisan legislation in Austin. The legislation would have required Texas voters to produce a confusing welter of identification in order to cast ballots.The demise, at least temporarily, of SB 218 in the Senate was as vituperative and tacky as the process that pushed it through the House. Although none of the bill's proponents produced evidence of widespread voter impersonation, the bill still received easy approval on a largely party line vote.
The bill would have required Texas voters to present at the voting place either photo IDs or substitutes in addition to a valid voter registration card. Republicans said the purpose was to increase voting integrity. Democrats charged the real aim was to suppress voting by their prime constituencies, including the elderly and minorities, who are less likely to have the required identification than more affluent, working-age citizens.
* * * Rather than trying to fix a problem — widespread voter fraud — that does not exist, lawmakers should turn their focus to the real issues: the poor reliability of electronic voting systems and the need for a paper trail to verify the accuracy of the count.
Yeah – voter fraud certainly isn’t a problem. I mean, there certainly isn’t any voter fraud or voting by non-citizens in Texas. Right?
Hundreds of illegal immigrants have registered to vote in Bexar County in recent years and dozens of them have actually cast ballots, canceling out the votes of U.S. citizens, 1200 WOAI news will report Thursday morning.Figures obtained by 1200 WOAI news shows 303 illegals successfully registered to vote, and at least 41 cast ballots in various elections.
Bexar County Elections Administrator Jackie Callanan confirmed the figures, but she says a new form of voter registration card, which requires people to swear they are citizens when they register, should help cut the problem, because people who vote illegally can be charged with perjury.
And we know that those who break our laws by illegally entering the country and working in violation of the law are really very concerned about being charged with perjury, given their high level of respect for the rest of the laws of this country. And if we see a couple of hundred illegal voters in every county – illegal voters who are most likely going to vote for the Democrats – that is just great in the eyes of the Chronicle and the Democrats.
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May 16, 2007
Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta, who gained national attention by targeting illegal immigrants living in his small northeastern Pennsylvania city, cruised to the Republican nomination for a third term on Tuesday - and unexpectedly won the Democratic nomination, too.Barletta trounced GOP challenger Dee Deakos with nearly 94 percent of the vote. And he beat former Mayor Michael Marsicano for the Democratic nomination by staging a last-minute write-in campaign, all but guaranteeing himself another term, unofficial returns showed.
"I think the message is clear," Barletta said. "The people of Hazleton want me to keep fighting for them."
The Republican mayor said Democrats kept telling him they wished they could vote for him in the primary. So, about a week ago, he mailed instructions to Democratic voters on how to write in his name.
Just goes to show what American patriots want done about illegal immigration.
Round ‘em up! Ship ‘em back! Rawhide!
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May 09, 2007
You might suspect when illegal immigrants are caught committing violent crimes, it means automatic deportation.That's simply not the case. We dug through months of arrest records and immigration documents to find criminal illegal immigrants can get three, four and even six strikes, and still be allowed in our country.
You've seen these immigration rallies -- hundreds of marchers. But among these faces, you won't likely find Jimmy Ascencio, convicted of assault, evading arrest, DWI and robbery.
The chance is also slim you'll see Gonzalo Roldan, convicted of theft, burglary, auto theft, and manufacturing and delivering cocaine.
Both men were arrested, and according to the Harris County Sheriff's Department -- both admitted they are in the U.S. illegally.
But we discovered both are now out of jail and likely somewhere in the Houston area.
How bad is ICEÂ’s enforcement record?
From Jan. 1 through the end of March, 979 suspects booked into the Harris County Jail voluntarily told deputies they are illegal immigrants.But records we obtained show ICE has only made efforts to deport 195 of those suspects in the same time period -- just 20 percent.
And these are the known criminals – and include killers, rapists, and drug dealers. Yet ICE cannot be bothered to return them to their countries of origin, despite the fact they are already in custody.
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The Federation for American Immigration Reform called the arrests "strong proof that lax enforcement of our immigration laws does pose a severe threat to the security of the nation, and that the government's screening process for granting green cards and other immigration benefits is perilously flawed."
* * * "Given [Tuesday's] events, the American public has a right to demand, not ask, that Congress and the Bush administration drop all talk of amnesty and guest worker programs and get to work on the single most important priority: controlling our borders and fixing an immigration system that allows terrorists and just about anyone else to enter and hide out in this country," said FAIR President Dan Stein.
"Luck was on our side this time, but luck is not a substitute for due diligence and an immigration enforcement policy that protects the nation and its people," he said.
FAIR said the arrests in New Jersey prove that terrorists can and will take advantage of "unenforced immigration policies that have flooded this country with illegal immigrants."
And lest anyone forget – three of the Fort Dix Six were illegally in this country.
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The Federation for American Immigration Reform called the arrests "strong proof that lax enforcement of our immigration laws does pose a severe threat to the security of the nation, and that the government's screening process for granting green cards and other immigration benefits is perilously flawed."
* * * "Given [Tuesday's] events, the American public has a right to demand, not ask, that Congress and the Bush administration drop all talk of amnesty and guest worker programs and get to work on the single most important priority: controlling our borders and fixing an immigration system that allows terrorists and just about anyone else to enter and hide out in this country," said FAIR President Dan Stein.
"Luck was on our side this time, but luck is not a substitute for due diligence and an immigration enforcement policy that protects the nation and its people," he said.
FAIR said the arrests in New Jersey prove that terrorists can and will take advantage of "unenforced immigration policies that have flooded this country with illegal immigrants."
And lest anyone forget – three of the Fort Dix Six were illegally in this country.
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May 03, 2007
America needs immigrants. Last yearÂ’s bipartisan Senate bill recognized this, and raised quotas for both family and employment-based immigration. Congress should do so again. Closing the door to families would be unjust and unworkable, and a mockery of the values that conservatives profess. It would only encourage illegality by forcing people to choose between their loved ones and the law.Compromise is necessary with any bill, particularly on an issue as complex as immigration. But if a deal hews so closely to the new harsh line of the White House and G.O.P that it fundamentally distorts AmericaÂ’s pro-immigrant tradition, it would be better to ditch the whole thing and start over.
That said, any bill guest worker program needs to make it clear that families are not eligible for immigration and that guest workers are not eligible for citizenship. And any program that includes amnesty for illegals -- no matter how it is cast or named -- is unacceptable.
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May 01, 2007
Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in cities across America yesterday, shouting slogans that called for a path to legal residency for about 12 million illegal immigrants and an end to federal deportation raids that have increased during the past year.A year after a series of similar rallies, yesterday's protests focused on keeping families intact. That focus appeared aimed at raids that could separate parents who are in the country illegally from children born here who are citizens. More than 3 million American-born children have illegal immigrant parents who are subject to deportation, according to the Urban Institute and the Pew Hispanic Center.
Mom and dad are able to take their American kids with them if they so desire -- ther eis nothing stopping them. But what they want is to benefit from their illegal activity and the good fortune to drop a baby on this side of the border. That is unacceptable.
Of course, we could always declare that being an illegal alien is grounds for termination of all parental rights to American citizen children --or repeal the notion of birthright citizenship for the children of border jumpers. You know, take away one more incentive for coming to this country.
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