Posted on 05/08/2005 8:26:22 AM PDT by MisterRepublican
On Saturday afternoon, I drove to Rockville, Md., for a large "gathering to condemn the REAL ID Act." (The act will tighten driver's license standards to prevent illegal aliens from obtaining the IDs, close asylum loopholes, and provide funding to fix a huge gap in a border fence between California and Mexico.) Casa de Maryland, a government-funded open-borders group, organized the protest on the public school athletic field at Richard Montgomery High School.
You can see the rally photos I took at my new Flickr site. Here's a sample: www.flickr.com
Several hundred "documented" and "undocumented" workers attended, demanding driver's licenses and blanket amnesty. Maryland is one of ten states that don't require applicants to prove they are citizens or legal residents. Nevertheless, militant CASA leader Gustavo Torres complained: "The MVA [Motor Vehicle Administration] has absolutely no right to ask for people's Social Security number or immigration status to get a driver's license." The illegal alien advocates led protesters in a chant demanding that the "MVA Obey The Law!"
No kidding.
A contingent of Montgomery County police officers were dispatched to the scene--not to help with immigration enforcement, but to protect the protesters, help direct traffic, and manage the parking lot for illegal aliens who (ahem!) drove to the event. Our tax dollars at work.
With Casa de Maryland organizers shouting "No license, no justice! No justice, no peace!" in the background (the only time I could understand them as they exhorted the crowd), I interviewed Montgomery County, Md., police lieutenant J.R. Hack (yeah, that's his real name). Lt. Hack amiably told me the protest was "a good thing." When I asked him why, he said "everyone should have a voice."
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
Don't. It is all a hot bag of campaign air. She will no way EVER deport illegal aliens.
The problem I have with that is they all Hold dual citizenship and send $$$'s home. One guy I know from Guatemala, he is gay, he owns two houses in Guatemala and is purchasing a condo here with his gay friend.
He moved in with an 80 year old American woman and is now trying to get her to sign her house over to him.
Probably because she knew DHS (or ICE) would do pretty much the same thing they're doing now - little or nothing.
You can always implement a surcharge on sending money out of the country. Imagine how the Saudis and Chinese would feel.
The trouble is that the federal government feels sorry for the POOR latinos and other persons feeling here. They don't feel sorry for us. So we keep paying for them.
Mexico has more millionaires per capita than any other country in the world. They are not poor, the country is top heavy. They refuse to help their poor and want us to bail them out.
Here in Orlando an INS raid on workers at the new FEDERAL building resulted in the arrest of 67(??) illegal aliens.
American Citizen Barred From Pro-Illegal Immigration Rally; Assaulted, Then Detained By Police Michael Graham's report (FR thread) on the incident.
Michelle Malkin's blog entry about this incident, including photos and interview with MoCo cop.
Latinos Rally Against Real I-D ActTV report on this rally (FR thread), with no mention of the incident (of course)
( LIVE THREAD) Michael Graham Will Blow The Doors Off Pro-Illegal Rally on Monday's Show FR thread.
PS: Michael Graham will be on Hannity and Colmes tonight (Monday) to talk about this incident.
Excellent. You know all the rules. Rove is most pleased.
Tomorrow, you will own google. :)
So call tehm anyway and then report that they were called and did nothing. It can't hurt.
Besides, it would be interesting if, after making it clear that they wre not allowed to call DHS themselves, the cops would dare try to detain a citizen for doing so. After all, they were there to 'protect" the illegal alien rally.
In ohter words, undocumented (i.e., illegal) and falsely documented.
Incredible audio!!!
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your a moron if you would give her any consideration at all. she is the complete opposite of freedom on every front and on every issue.
I don't wonder, my guess, about 6 feet under if there is enough left of him to bury....
Mexico has very strict rules on immigrants. You probably couldn't even buy your way to mexican citizenship. You are either a mexican citizen by birth or it is darn hard to become one.
1. Register as legal citizens 2. Hold a job that pays both social security and income payroll taxes 3. Must file income taxes 4. Be sponsored by a citizen 5. Not have any outstanding arrest warrants in the country of origin
Pretty simple
So how many of these folks should we give amnesty to? 20 million, 30 million? Oh and what about their relatives and anchor babies...ever see a pyramid from an amnesty point of view? Since the worker gets amnesty what about his family? Their relatives? Where do you stop. Should we stop when the supply of workers equals Mexico and we all make $5 a day? Will anything in Mexico change if we grant a massive amnesty or will the rich keep stealing the country blind while the poor escape to the USA?
Oh and 20 years from now should we have another amnesty like we did before in 1986? Trust the government to enforce the laws when it is obvious they won't? How about a rolling amnesty, say every 15 years? What other laws should we have an amnesty for since we will be condoning breaking laws? Pretty complicated.
Our party is dead, this issue killed it. The GOP sucks, nothing but back stabbing, bought and paid for hacks.
"So how many of these folks should we give amnesty to? 20 million, 30 million? Oh and what about their relatives and anchor babies...ever see a pyramid from an amnesty point of view? Since the worker gets amnesty what about his family? Their relatives? Where do you stop. Should we stop when the supply of workers equals Mexico and we all make $5 a day? Will anything in Mexico change if we grant a massive amnesty or will the rich keep stealing the country blind while the poor escape to the USA? "
You are assuming that amnesty means they get to stay in this country illegally. I didn't say that at all. The cost of amnesty is registering as a resident of this country, getting on the tax roll and stating to pay their fair share. This will do two things, either the person will register or go home because the cost of a businees hiring one will be prohibitive. And we would gladly provide the transportation to the border.
With the border patrolled and fences built, the stream of illegals would go down dramatically. It will be easier to catch, identify and deport.
Of course the other option is to hunt 30 million illegals down, deal with the ACLU in court for years and spend billions in ACLU attorney legal fees as well as the cost of deportation, housing, food and medicine until they get deported and then dealing with having them come back.
I don't understand your "amnesty" what do you mean by registering as a resident of this country? How many people do we let "register"? Why will the cost for a business to hire a "registered" person go up?
With the border patrolled and fences built, the stream of illegals would go down dramatically. It will be easier to catch, identify and deport.
The border is patrolled fences were built in the past. Without a penalty for getting caught it is just a revolving door, they are caught and released OR or voluntarily returned to Mexico hopefully having stayed at least till daylight where they will wait till nightfall to cross again. As far as catching them and identifying and deporting them we do it all the time...but most are voluntarily returned in lieu of deportation...the solution is to enforce sanctions on employers, implement fraud proof identification and cut off public benefits including education and eliminate anchor baby loophole in citizenship.
Of course the other option is to hunt 30 million illegals down, deal with the ACLU in court for years and spend billions in ACLU attorney legal fees as well as the cost of deportation, housing, food and medicine until they get deported and then dealing with having them come back.
No need to hunt down anyone, just use employer sanctions, and refuse them public services...let them go back to Mexico and start a revolution there so we don't have one here....The President needs to say enough is enough everyone out...most will leave of their own once they realize jobs and benefits have dried up. Implement a sane guest worker program that allows for guest workers only after legal residents and citizens are unavailable to fill those jobs-so what if the cost per hour goes up, at least it will be legal persons benefiting from the increase in wages...right now those in the lower skilled jobs are hurt most by the flood of illegals which are depressing their wages and work conditions...We have to choose cheap labor or America first...
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