City's sanctuary status mocked (Signs send illegals to Cambridge, MA)

Boston Glob ^ | July 5, 2006 | Yvonne Abraham

[bitt]

When Cambridge recently renewed its status as a sanctuary city for all immigrants, including undocumented ones, the news barely caused a stir around here. But the move has made the city a target for an immigration control group based in Washington ,which is starting a national campaign urging undocumented immigrants to flood into the Massachusetts city. ProjectUSA is raising money to pay for a billboard in northern New Jersey that it hopes will be the first of many across the country.

The proposed billboard would read: "Attention: Illegal Aliens. Cambridge, Mass. is a sanctuary city. For help getting there,contact projectusa.org/NJ-mass transit."

The ProjectUSA website also makes mock offers of support for the journey, providing bus schedules and fare information for trips from Newark to Boston. It gives contact details for Cambridge officials in case immigrants need rides from the bus station and help accessing city services. And it invites NJ residents and others who would like to be rid of undocumented immigrants to pitch in for their bus fares to Massachusetts.

.."I hope we have billboards from coast to coast directing people to Cambridge," said Craig Nelsen , executive director of ProjectUSA.``Cities like Cambridge have made a very public display of their virtue so we're going to give help to people to take advantage of it. We're going to authenticate their virtue by having them exercise it."

He joked that he would put the billboards,complete with maps, right on the Mexican border if he could.

The billboard campaign is another sign of how the debate over illegal immigration is increasingly being played out at the local level,in this case over sanctuary status of cities. With Congress deadlocked,cities and towns are increasingly taking on the issue themselves. Some,including Burlington, Vt.,Maywood,Calif., and San Antonio have moved to declare welcomes for undocumented immigrants.

[bitt]

all your aliens, head to the closest Starbucks in Cambridge...

[AppyPappy]

Great idea.

[.cnI redruM]

Santa Monica, CA was this asinine once when it declared itself a sanctuary for homeless people. Rush Limbaugh chartered five or so buses, filled them with the homeless, and dropped them off at the beach. Maybe Cambridge needs a similar chastisement.

[cripplecreek]

We're going to authenticate their virtue by having them exercise it.

All our border anarchists should prove the same "virtue".

[mewzilla]

Let's see if they're willing to practice what they preach when they're up to their armpits in illegals....

[Diogenesis]

Gov. Romney is soooooooooo conservative.

What he is is so easily trounced by SJC-NewYORKTimes Marshall
AND the city of Cambridge AND his AG AND ...

[.cnI redruM]

I remember when the Boston Blow-hards used to ridicule the South about integrating public schools. Then when school integration came to Massachusetts, adults threw rocks at the black kids when they got on the bus. Cambridge, and the cafe Che Guvaras therein, think this is someone else's problem. That always inspires those jerk-offs to adopt a higher tone of moral preening.

[Reaganesque]

Cambridge also declared itself a "domestic violence free zone" a few years back. To this date, there hasn't been a single instance of domestic violence. (Cough!)

[AliVeritas]

BTTT

[Gritty]

I recommend we ship all the "expired" Iraqi WMDs to that Liberal haven, as well...

[RexBeach]

South Boston, actually, courtesy of federal judge W. Arthur Garrity.

Yup. Busing in Southie was really something to be proud of. Ugh.

[6SJ7]

I recommend we ship all the "expired" Iraqi WMDs to that Liberal haven, as well...

I'll bet there's room down in the 'whine' cellar at the Kennedy compound for those 'expired' WMD's. Stack 'em up right next the cases of Chivas Regal.

[bronxboy]

What is wrong with doing this? Like you stated, NJ is just helping with advertising for Mass. Now if we could only do the same with the illegals here in Georgia.

[jmaroneps37]

``ProjectUSA is a 21st-century version of the Know Nothing Party," said Council or Brian Murphy , referring to the anti-immigrant, anti-Irish party of the 1850s."

Knowing that the rat has dumbed down the government schools so much that many younger reads would have no idea what "Know Nothings" were about, the writer feels compelled to explain them.

This is a great idea and an off shoot of the 10 th amendment idea I posted a while back.

[doug from upland]

This is brilliant.

[bitt]

and so is this:

'recommend we ship all the "expired" Iraqi WMDs to that Liberal haven, as well...'

[abovethefray]

What a great, simple idea. Give the morally superior, sanctimonious elite what they are asking for.
This should be a nationwide project. I'll bet donations to fund an idea like this would pour in from across the country.

[stephenjohnbanker]

The true irony here is that NO illegals can afford to live in Cambridge, and the left wing freakazoids who inhabit Cambridge damn well know it : )

[stephenjohnbanker]

Kinda like Daves Bake Sale in reverse.