Authorities are arresting men on administrative immigration charges for overstaying their visas. Posted on 05/14/2010 7:31:18 AM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
Authorities are arresting men on administrative immigration charges for overstaying their visas.
No, not in Arizona: in NYC and Boston. Following the money trail in the case of Faisal Shahzad the federal authorities are raiding homes and detaining Pakistani immigrants involved in money transactions with the Times Square bomber. Only they arrest them on immigration charges because the men were in the US illegally.
It is perfectly fine. It is the same federal law that Arizona is trying to enforce. If somebody is in lawful mish-mash with the authorities, the latter should be allowed to ask for the immigration status.
Whether it is a cab driver in Boston writing check to a terrorist or a van driver smuggling drugs across the Southern border - the authorities should be allowed to ask for identification – it is the law of the land – the whole land. Arizona is just enforcing the same law that helped the feds last couple of days to detain for questioning people that may have info on the Times Square scare.
Arizona law is much milder than the federal law. The Shahzad’s helpers would be charged with misdemeanor in Arizona for overstaying their visas. In Boston they are faced with felony for the same action.
May be I missed it, but I didn’t noticed Shakira moving her lips against the federal authorities detaining folks on immigration charges in NY, NJ and MA.
I am sure there is a high school basketball tournament somewhere in these three states perfect for boycotting.
May be the NBA New York team is changing the name of their team to Al-Knicks in solidarity with the middle-easterners asked for their papers in NY and Boston.
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Good post, thanks.
Thank you!
Brookline is a Sanctuary City.
“Brookline is a Sanctuary City.”
Meaning that Brookline has decided that certain laws should be obeyed and certain ones should not. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. i.e., I get to make the same sort of decisions.
Howie Carr nailed Boston’s City Council yesterday on his show:
Here’s his Herald Piece:
http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/20100514dont_fret_governors_on_the_case/
Show:(Today will be great too!)
http://www.wrko.com/howie?nocache=1
Too funny, too true, too sad.
The lunatics on the left are now in the process of impoverishing many of the people (Hispanics) it purports to help with these crazy boycotts. Undoubtedly millions of anti-illegal immigrant Americans (which includes many conservative Dems and Indys) are putting off plans to visit California because of L.A.’s and S.F.’s nutty decision to boycott Arizona. Do the leftist nuts realize that a great percentage of people who work in hotels and restaurants across the country are Hispanics and will be severly hurt by lack of business? A person can truly call their decision to boycott Arizona (and whatever future states mimic Arizona I assume) anti-Hispanic.
The left absolute loves material wealth.
Shame they don’t know how to create it.
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