day laborers in west Houston....
Posted on 06/24/2005 11:57:24 AM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak
"Police admit they just started stopping undocumented workers, taking their names and pictures."
Police "admit?" It implies they have done something wrong.
"The American Civil Liberties Union says it's a clear violation of the worker's constitutional rights."
I have constitutional rights because I can prove I am an American citizen.
"Police say they're just trying to address complaints of trespassing and loitering."
How about knowing who these people are and what they look like to solve crimes? The rest of us have SSN's and driver's licenses. There are many unsolved violent crimes involving illegals. Heinous crimes such as murder and the freqent gang rapes of young illegal immigrant girls pimped by illegal alien men to keep the farmworkers happy.
The ACLU copmplains about how racist it is that the police can't find the perpetrators when a migrant is victimized. Here, they want to make it impossible for the police to have the tools to solve these crimes.
Maybe they should just enforce our laws and deport all of them. Then the ACLU can whine about something else.
"We and the Supreme Court of the United States believe that yes, even persons that are illegal aliens in this country have certain constitutional rights and these are certainly among them," said Michael Skadden with the ACLU."
Do American citizens have a right to drive without a license or forego a social security card?
Houston is an a-hole sanctuary city. So yes they think they are in BIG trouble for ENFORCING the LAW.
"Police admit they just started stopping undocumented workers, taking their names and pictures."
This is translated to mean "Police admit to not apprehending criminals and deporting them."
The outrage is that they know these are illegals but don't do anything about it.
day laborers in west Houston....
You may want to review the 14th Amendmendment that guarantees rights to "Persons" not citizens.
Constitution Rights are provided to all people not just citizens.
Well, unfortunately, most LEOs are not the sharpest or most eloquent tools in the drawer.
But you are absolutely right. "verified" might have been a more appropriate choice of word.
why didn't you get a picture of the smarmy bunch hanging out on Weat Park making lurid gestures at female drivers. Or maybe the trash they "contribute" to the brand new toll road. Or better yet. The license plate numbers of the employers "LIMOs" that come by to pick them up.
You may want to revisit the phrase, "a little learning is a dangerous thing". One must review the meaning of words in the context in which they were written. At the time, the late 18th century in North America, in legal dicussion the word persons was used specifically to distinguish between full citizens (property owners) and others, specifically slaves.
You place yourself uncritically in the same category as the nutcase old black woman who was allowed tons of TV and Radio time, a few years ago, to argue that the word "welfare" in the founding documents have the exact same meaning as the perversion of the word since the 1960s. Very cute; very PC; and very wrong.
Police should go out with a bus and scoop up people with no documents--in other words illegals--and put them on the bus and drive them to the border and let them outon the other side,
I bet the ACLU would crap over that one.
It makes Bush look bad on this issue.
And, it's true. Bush has been a failure as President of the United States on the issue of illegals flowing across our southern border like a broken sewer line.
The American people are rising up and we are taking our country back and could give a sh$t less who doesn't like it. Oooorahhhhh.....get some!
Make yourself a flier Flyer and post in your vehicle window that says in Spanish, "Smile, you're on Candid Camera".
Currently under revision by SCOTUS.
I drive by those guys every day.
There are even more at Durham & 11th.
I think I'll take a few pix.
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