Posted on 08/28/2005 3:17:13 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Opponents from Herndon and as far away as Colorado called for stepped-up police enforcement, legislative changes and an end to the hiring of undocumented workers. .................
Supporters cited the biblical exhortation to love thy neighbor and begged the council not to allow the community to turn its back on its less-fortunate members. They said the problem is not immigration but a neighborhood conflict over noise, littering and safety. .....***
Rights groups fearful of vigilante militias***WASHINGTON — A controversial proposal to create civilian militias to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border was greeted with criticism Thursday by immigrant rights groups that said the amateur force of volunteers could lead to vigilantism.
Republican lawmakers in the House, led by Rep. John Culberson, R-Houston, filed a bill last month that would use $6.8 billion in homeland security funds to train the militias, which would serve under the command of border state governors.
Militia members would operate as sworn peace officers and be allowed to carry arms, make arrests and "use any means and any force authorized by state law to prevent individuals from unlawfully entering" the country.
"I think this is borne of a frustration that the federal government is unable or unwilling to secure the borders," said Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, one of 47 lawmakers who co-sponsored the Border Protection Corps Act. ...***
"They're very scared," Maria Jimenez, a leader of the Coalition Against Intolerance and for Respect, said of the workers.
If they are in this country legally they have nothing to be afraid of..right? If they are not..well, they should just go home.
Maybe the Minute men will target the new illegal immigrant labor pick-up center that they're building in Herndon, VA.
The Left has taught the world well. Make up an organization without legal, moral, or regulatory authority---give it a fancy sounding name, and voila! You demand legitimacy.
These people are lawbreakers who are not even US Citizens!
Glad to hear of their fear of the Minutemen. Too bad they don't fear LEO's as well.
CAIR? Hmmm...
Illegals forming unions? Well, that's one way to get people to stop hiring them...
If they're actively helping and assisting illegal immigrants, especially if they're assisting them in avoiding detection by law enforcement, then this is a criminal enterprise to be dismantled under RICO.
I think the RICO laws only apply to pro-life supporters who dare to protest an abortion mill. < / sarcasm>
The Minutemen are proving remarkably effective at deterring illegals... great job to all involved!
Thats right, they shouldn't be here to begin with, imagine if all of the ones that are here already mooching off Americans
were back in their own country and were as aggressive to get things done in their own country maybe things would improve there for them. Instead millions and millions of them are coming here stealing from Americans to give to Foxy which is totally unfair to Americans!!
RICO. I love the sound of it.
Apparently that isn't necessary at all: a few Minutemen "outing" them does the trick. It's just like a preacher patrolling an area in front of a whorehouse---amazing how the Johns stop showing up, or, at least, those whom he might recognize.
Go Minutemen. Now, if the illegals and the law breaking contractors were as afraid of the BP/ICE.
CAIR............we've got one of those already, and it isn't a friend of Americnas either.
A Martha Stewart phrase comes mind.
"And that's a good thing".
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