The New Immigration Law and protests
I turned on the news this morning and it was full of stories of people protesting a bill that would tighten up the laws concerning illegal immigration.
Thousands of demonstrators wearing white T-shirts and waving signs and American flags filled the streets of an immigrant neighborhood in Atlanta, Ga. Monday for the first of dozens of marches planned in a national day of action billed as a "campaign for immigrants' dignity."
The two-mile march was in support of immigrant rights nationally as well as in protest of state legislation awaiting Gov. Sonny Perdue's signature. If signed, it would require that adults seeking many state-administered benefits prove they are in the country legally.
Please read that again.
That two mile march was NOT in support of immigrant rights, it was in support of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT rights. What the hell? YOU DON'T HAVE RIGHTS! If you are breaking the law (doing something ILLEGAL), then you forfeit your rights. Isn't that the way that the justice system works? You break a law and you go to jail, thus forfeiting your freedom and other rights.
"Campaign for immigrants' dignity" my ass. What dignity do normal prisoners have when they get their cells tossed, a full body cavity search, or communal showers? Why should ILLEGAL immigrant's get less just because there are so many of them? Screw your "dignity" jackass! You could have immigrated LEGALLY, but YOU CHOSE TO BREAK THE LAW knowing full well that you were doing so.
Why don't immigrant's have to prove that they are legal resident's of the United States to receive State and Federal benefits? Wouldn't that make sense? I know that when I needed State aid that I had to prove my residency, why shouldn't they?
What a joke!
Carlos Carrera, a construction worker from Mexico, held a large banner that read: "We are not criminals. Give us a chance for a better life."
I got news for you Carlos. YOU ARE HERE ILLEGALLY! THAT MAKES YOU A CRIMINAL! Dumbass...
"We would like them to let us work with dignity. We want to progress along with this country," Carrera said. He said he had been in the United States for 20 years.
You have been a criminal for twenty years. That makes you a career criminal. How'd you like to spend the next twenty years in prison while the knowledge that you ENTIRE FAMILY HAS BEEN DEPORTED festers in your brain? How will they survive in your home country without you? That's your problem, we didn't want you here in the first place.
In Pittsburgh, a smaller group marched to Sen. Arlen Specter's office.
"We all know pay is not the same everywhere and lot of people won't work for the minimum here, so if they won't take the job, what's the problem?" said 47-year-old Jose Salazar.
What the hell does this have to do with anything? You're an idiot! Even if you were trying to point out the fact that most illegal immigrants hold down two or three minimum wage (or less) jobs that legal residents wouldn't want, you don't make sense.
These same hard working, low income people are sucking up MILLIONS of dollars in State and Federal wellfare programs. If I didn't have to pay for food, utilities, or rent, then I could afford to get by on a minimum wage job too.
Monday's demonstrations followed a day of rallies in 10 states that drew an estimated 350,000 to 500,000 in Dallas alone.
In Salt Lake City, 20,000 turned out on Sunday, far more than expected, police said, and 50,000 rallied in San Diego. Other demonstrations were held in Minnesota, New Mexico, Michigan, Iowa, Alabama, Oregon and Idaho.
Those numbers are scary. They average out to 140,00 ILLEGALS per state or 1.4 MILLION in the estimated 10 state rally. That's a small country (think Jamaica) worth of people living here illegally.
No wonder the funds for low income benefits are all dried up!
With an overhaul of illegal immigration law stalled in Congress, demonstrators urged lawmakers to help an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants settle legally in the United States.
My first response to this was "What the hell?!?!". So was my second and third response. People want to help illegal immigrants become legal? Reward someone for BREAKING THE LAW?
If I were to take this idea and expand it just a little, it would allow people for keep stolen money, allow corporate execs to lie to investors and get away with it, and put a legal stamp on all white collar crimes. What a friggen joke!
"If we don't protest they'll never hear us," said Oscar Cruz, 23, a construction worker who marched in San Diego. Cruz, who came illegally to the U.S. in 2003, said he had feared a crackdown but felt emboldened by the large marches across the country in recent weeks.
Damn right we'll never hear you! You don't have a voice (politically speaking) because you aren't registered voters! (Thank God). And you should fear a crackdown! You are here ILLEGALLY! This proves that YOU ARE A CRIMINAL and fear prosecution AS WELL YOU SHOULD. Unfortunately, you are correct in the assumption that you will not be prosecuted. The United States is nothing but a bunch of sissies competing to see who can cry the most.
In Birmingham, Ala., demonstrators marched along the same streets where civil rights activists clashed with police in the 1960s and rallied at a park where a statue of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands as a reminder of the fight for equal rights and the violence that once plagued the city.
This enrages me. Martin Luther King Jr. stood up for equal rights between people of all races and color. Not for those who break the law. Using him as a political figure in these rallies is worse than pissing on his grave. It's pissing on his memory and mocking what he stood for.
"We've got to get back in touch with the civil rights movement, because that's what this is about," said the Rev. Lawton Higgs, a United Methodist minister and activist.
Rev. Higgs, could you please explain to me how you can have a civil rights movement WITHOUT CIVILIANS? Apparently, Methodist ministers do not have to meet any intelligence type requirements....
Fortunately, these rallies also drew counter-demonstrators.
In Salt Lake City, Jerry Owens, 59, a Navy veteran from Midway wearing a blue Minuteman T-shirt and camouflage pants, held a yellow "Don't Tread on Me" flag.
"I think it's real sad because these people are really saying it's OK to be illegal aliens," Owens said. "What Americans are saying is 'Yes, come here. But come here legally.' And I think that's the big problem."
This is exactly my point! If these people were here LEGALLY, none of this would be an issue! This is not racial discrimination, racism, or anything similar. These people have broken the law. End of story.
Many groups had been preparing to rally since December, when the House passed a bill to build more walls along the U.S.-Mexico border, make it a crime to help undocumented immigrants and make it a felony to be in the country illegally. It is now a civil violation.
Good. I hope this passes but I wonder why it wasn't already a law.
Since then, local and regional protests, supported by popular Spanish-language disc jockeys, quickly merged into national plans after hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in dozens of cities last month, culminating March 25 with a 500,000-strong rally in Los Angeles.
"This is a force, an energy here," said Amir Krummell, a U.S. citizen born in Panama, who marched to Dallas' city hall on Sunday. All around him in the wave of protesters could be heard shouts of "Si Se Puede!", Spanish for "Yes, we can!"
Oh no you can't! I wish. The truth is that the polititions will probably cave on this because of all these people rallying. They will assume that at least half of these people are voters or that they have voters with them. Thus, these changes will be stalled and nothing will happen. Just like usual...
Thousands of demonstrators wearing white T-shirts and waving signs and American flags filled the streets of an immigrant neighborhood in Atlanta, Ga. Monday for the first of dozens of marches planned in a national day of action billed as a "campaign for immigrants' dignity."
The two-mile march was in support of immigrant rights nationally as well as in protest of state legislation awaiting Gov. Sonny Perdue's signature. If signed, it would require that adults seeking many state-administered benefits prove they are in the country legally.
Please read that again.
That two mile march was NOT in support of immigrant rights, it was in support of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT rights. What the hell? YOU DON'T HAVE RIGHTS! If you are breaking the law (doing something ILLEGAL), then you forfeit your rights. Isn't that the way that the justice system works? You break a law and you go to jail, thus forfeiting your freedom and other rights.
"Campaign for immigrants' dignity" my ass. What dignity do normal prisoners have when they get their cells tossed, a full body cavity search, or communal showers? Why should ILLEGAL immigrant's get less just because there are so many of them? Screw your "dignity" jackass! You could have immigrated LEGALLY, but YOU CHOSE TO BREAK THE LAW knowing full well that you were doing so.
Why don't immigrant's have to prove that they are legal resident's of the United States to receive State and Federal benefits? Wouldn't that make sense? I know that when I needed State aid that I had to prove my residency, why shouldn't they?
What a joke!
Carlos Carrera, a construction worker from Mexico, held a large banner that read: "We are not criminals. Give us a chance for a better life."
I got news for you Carlos. YOU ARE HERE ILLEGALLY! THAT MAKES YOU A CRIMINAL! Dumbass...
"We would like them to let us work with dignity. We want to progress along with this country," Carrera said. He said he had been in the United States for 20 years.
You have been a criminal for twenty years. That makes you a career criminal. How'd you like to spend the next twenty years in prison while the knowledge that you ENTIRE FAMILY HAS BEEN DEPORTED festers in your brain? How will they survive in your home country without you? That's your problem, we didn't want you here in the first place.
In Pittsburgh, a smaller group marched to Sen. Arlen Specter's office.
"We all know pay is not the same everywhere and lot of people won't work for the minimum here, so if they won't take the job, what's the problem?" said 47-year-old Jose Salazar.
What the hell does this have to do with anything? You're an idiot! Even if you were trying to point out the fact that most illegal immigrants hold down two or three minimum wage (or less) jobs that legal residents wouldn't want, you don't make sense.
These same hard working, low income people are sucking up MILLIONS of dollars in State and Federal wellfare programs. If I didn't have to pay for food, utilities, or rent, then I could afford to get by on a minimum wage job too.
Monday's demonstrations followed a day of rallies in 10 states that drew an estimated 350,000 to 500,000 in Dallas alone.
In Salt Lake City, 20,000 turned out on Sunday, far more than expected, police said, and 50,000 rallied in San Diego. Other demonstrations were held in Minnesota, New Mexico, Michigan, Iowa, Alabama, Oregon and Idaho.
Those numbers are scary. They average out to 140,00 ILLEGALS per state or 1.4 MILLION in the estimated 10 state rally. That's a small country (think Jamaica) worth of people living here illegally.
No wonder the funds for low income benefits are all dried up!
With an overhaul of illegal immigration law stalled in Congress, demonstrators urged lawmakers to help an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants settle legally in the United States.
My first response to this was "What the hell?!?!". So was my second and third response. People want to help illegal immigrants become legal? Reward someone for BREAKING THE LAW?
If I were to take this idea and expand it just a little, it would allow people for keep stolen money, allow corporate execs to lie to investors and get away with it, and put a legal stamp on all white collar crimes. What a friggen joke!
"If we don't protest they'll never hear us," said Oscar Cruz, 23, a construction worker who marched in San Diego. Cruz, who came illegally to the U.S. in 2003, said he had feared a crackdown but felt emboldened by the large marches across the country in recent weeks.
Damn right we'll never hear you! You don't have a voice (politically speaking) because you aren't registered voters! (Thank God). And you should fear a crackdown! You are here ILLEGALLY! This proves that YOU ARE A CRIMINAL and fear prosecution AS WELL YOU SHOULD. Unfortunately, you are correct in the assumption that you will not be prosecuted. The United States is nothing but a bunch of sissies competing to see who can cry the most.
In Birmingham, Ala., demonstrators marched along the same streets where civil rights activists clashed with police in the 1960s and rallied at a park where a statue of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands as a reminder of the fight for equal rights and the violence that once plagued the city.
This enrages me. Martin Luther King Jr. stood up for equal rights between people of all races and color. Not for those who break the law. Using him as a political figure in these rallies is worse than pissing on his grave. It's pissing on his memory and mocking what he stood for.
"We've got to get back in touch with the civil rights movement, because that's what this is about," said the Rev. Lawton Higgs, a United Methodist minister and activist.
Rev. Higgs, could you please explain to me how you can have a civil rights movement WITHOUT CIVILIANS? Apparently, Methodist ministers do not have to meet any intelligence type requirements....
Fortunately, these rallies also drew counter-demonstrators.
In Salt Lake City, Jerry Owens, 59, a Navy veteran from Midway wearing a blue Minuteman T-shirt and camouflage pants, held a yellow "Don't Tread on Me" flag.
"I think it's real sad because these people are really saying it's OK to be illegal aliens," Owens said. "What Americans are saying is 'Yes, come here. But come here legally.' And I think that's the big problem."
This is exactly my point! If these people were here LEGALLY, none of this would be an issue! This is not racial discrimination, racism, or anything similar. These people have broken the law. End of story.
Many groups had been preparing to rally since December, when the House passed a bill to build more walls along the U.S.-Mexico border, make it a crime to help undocumented immigrants and make it a felony to be in the country illegally. It is now a civil violation.
Good. I hope this passes but I wonder why it wasn't already a law.
Since then, local and regional protests, supported by popular Spanish-language disc jockeys, quickly merged into national plans after hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in dozens of cities last month, culminating March 25 with a 500,000-strong rally in Los Angeles.
"This is a force, an energy here," said Amir Krummell, a U.S. citizen born in Panama, who marched to Dallas' city hall on Sunday. All around him in the wave of protesters could be heard shouts of "Si Se Puede!", Spanish for "Yes, we can!"
Oh no you can't! I wish. The truth is that the polititions will probably cave on this because of all these people rallying. They will assume that at least half of these people are voters or that they have voters with them. Thus, these changes will be stalled and nothing will happen. Just like usual...
posted by Keko at 10:32
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Today is National Illegal Alien Day!
The news media will attend all demonstrations, but U.S. immigration officials won't attend any. Illegal aliens will march through our city streets with impunity.
Immigration Debate: Facts Every American Should Know
It is ALREADY against the law to enter the United States illegally, punishable by a fine and imprisonment. It is ALREADY against the law to hire illegal aliens. We don't need new immigration laws, we only need the current laws to be enforced - and a fence. Read on: Learn the facts about illegal immigration that every American should know.
FACT: “Immigrants” are people lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States. "Illegal aliens” are people who enter the United States without permission; their presence in the United States violates the law.
FACT: United States Code, Title 8, Chapter 12, Subchapter II, Part VIII, Section 1325, states: “Any alien who enters the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers shall be fined or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.”
FACT: United States Code, Title 8, Chapter 12, Subchapter II, Part VIII, Section 1324a, states: “It is unlawful for a person or other entity to hire for employment in the United States, an alien, knowing the alien is an unauthorized alien…”
FACT: In 2006, jobs, elementary school education, drivers licenses, in-state college tuition, bank accounts, food stamps, health care, and even home ownership, are all offered to illegal aliens. Some city councils are even considering letting illegal aliens vote in elections because they have children in public schools. The states of Washington, California, New York, Illinois, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah provide in-state college tuition rates to illegal aliens; other states are considering the same tuition policy. Several states grant drivers licenses to illegal aliens, ignoring the fact that driver’s licenses are used as a form of ID nationwide. In a few instances, illegal aliens received expensive organ transplant surgery free of charge, and they were placed ahead of tax-paying Americans on the waiting list for the scarce organs. Realtors and lenders in several cities have been known to help illegal aliens purchase homes. Several American cities have become sanctuaries for illegal aliens: In 2003, Seattle’s City Council passed an ordinance preventing the city’s police from questioning the immigration status of people they meet on the streets. For aliens crossing America’s southwest border illegally, water-stations are provided to make the trip through the desert easier. Humanitarian groups placed the water stations along known illegal alien smuggling routes in the Arizona desert.
FACT: In June 2003, the United States Park Ranger Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police announced the “Ten Most Dangerous National Parks in the United States.” Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona, Amistad National Recreation Area in Texas, and Big Bend National Park in Texas, claimed the top three positions because of the high volume of illegal alien smuggling activity in those parks. At Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, the rangers estimated that 250 violent drug smugglers and illegal aliens march through the park and public campground areas each night.
FACT: In April 2005, a group of U.S. citizens calling themselves “Minutemen” went to the U.S.-Mexico border to observe illegal aliens entering the country and turn them over to the U.S. Border Patrol. The Minutemen proved that illegal immigration could be stopped by placing more guards on America’s borders, but President George W. Bush derided the efforts of the Minutemen by calling them “vigilantes.”
FACT: In 2006, it is estimated that more than 12 million illegal aliens reside in the United States. In 2003, the Department of Homeland Security said that it apprehended 1,046,422 illegal aliens, but experts said that nearly 3 million people illegally entered the United States that year. In 2002, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security officially reported that there were approximately 7 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States, and that 67 percent of them, or 4,690,000 people, had entered the United States without being stopped or questioned. They had entered the country illegally by sneaking across the border. Source: “Yearbook of Immigration Statistics,” U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2002, 2003.
FACT and OPINION: It took only 19 people to destroy the World Trade Center and kill nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001. Americans can’t afford to allow millions of people to illegally cross U.S. borders and reside in the United States on the assumption that most of them are just “migrant workers.” Allowing and encouraging illegal immigration to the United States, especially after 9/11, is dangerous and foolhardy.
Thank you.
Michael S. Class
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Wow.
Those facts are scary and anger provoking.
Thank you.
You know, I find it very funny that the same people who are marching for "Immigrant rights" do so because their humanity won't let them see these people suffer without health care, education, etc. They are also the same people who adimently oppose any international action of the US because "We need to take care of our own people, let them take care of themselves". Ironic, don't you think? Apparently illegial aliens in our country are worth more than people living in some other country.
As a humane person, I don't want to see little children suffer without medical care, but the more we allow things to continue as they are with illegal aliens in the US, the less reform happens in Mexico and more little children suffer there. In all honesty if you want to be humane to all these people, send the illegals back. Enforce the bourder. Force change in Mexico. Currently the countries sending the most illegals do so with full governmental support. Heck, if we could send people to another country instead of solving our own issues, wouldn't we? If we enforced our own laws, it would force change in Mexico and there would be less desire to come to the US.
I do support a larger guest worker program. Come here and work by all means! Come here legally. We'll protect you under the law. Your employer won't be able to oppress you or abuse you because you will have LEGAL rights. Isn't this more humane than the current situation?
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