Justice for immigrants

Dodge City Daily Globe ^ | April 8 2006 | Charlene Scott

[aft_lizard]

An Ecumenical Day focusing on justice for immigrants will draw U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback and local religious leaders from Catholic, Episcopal, Methodist, Lutheran and Presbyterian churches to the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe on April 18.

The large gathering that will begin at 9:30 a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m. will be open to the general public. Pre-registration is required by Monday.

A Kansas Republican, Brownback joined Democrats as part of a bipartisan coalition on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voting recently to clear the way for 11 million illegal aliens to seek U.S. citizenship.

The committee voted against controversial proposed criminal penalties for illegal immigrants and any U.S. citizens who assist them, a proposal in a House-approved bill that a Houston Catholic newspaper said "shames the United States."

Brownback will discuss the immigration issue during the Ecumenical Day, and United Methodist Bishop Scott Jones will engage the senator in a conversation relating to points made in the Oct. 18, 2005, Interfaith Statement of Immigration issued by a national interfaith network.

Other speakers will include Catholic Bishop Ronald M. Gilmore of the Diocese of Dodge City; the Rev. Don Owens, Presbyterian General Presbyter; Episcopal Bishop James Adams Jr.; and the Rev. John Kreidler, representing Lutheran Bishop Gerald Mansholt.

The Ecumenical Day will begin with registration and a continental breakfast at 9:30 a.m., followed by a welcome and gathering prayer. "Voices of Immigrants" will be presented by several immigrants who will tell their stories, among them former Garden City Mayor and present City Commissioner Juana "Janie" Perkins.

[DoughtyOne]

Ooops...

You're damned straight it should be.

[blackie]

I don't know much about the religion, one of my wives was a Catholic, we never discussed Church dogma, though. :):)

[mtbopfuyn]

What about justice for taxpaying legal citizens?

[Smartass]

THE NATION WITHIN A NATION

Phyllis Spivey April 4, 2006 NewsWithViews.com

Are you listening, America? Did you hear the wake up call generated by Latino protests against pending immigration legislation?

It should be clear by now that what’s growing within U.S. borders is a nation within a nation. And the new nation is comprised of lawbreakers, many of whom claim the Southwest as their own. They disrespect our Constitution, our institutions, our flag and our legal processes, and from all indications owe their loyalty to another country. Yet they demand the rights and benefits meant solely for law abiding American citizens.

In pursuit of those rights, Latinos launched a series of demonstrations across the U.S., culminating in a 500,000 person march in Los Angeles, Saturday, March 25. Two days later, anarchy reigned at many Southern California schools where an estimated 22,,000 protesting students boycotted classes, blocked freeways and city streets. The same day thousands of demonstrators marched in Detroit, Grand Rapids and Washington, D.C.

Mel Johnson, writing for Human Events Online, ominously calls it "the new normal ... the predictable and unimpeded flow of the political culture of Latin America into the United States." Holding signs in Spanish, waving Mexican flags, chanting "Mexico! Mexico!", waves of marching humanity convey a message: We’re here; we’re powerful; ignore us at your peril.

Johnson warns that what "the protests truly represent is the colonization of America by the Latin style of politics." Let’s put it another way: The Third World is moving on the First World. Today it’s peaceful demonstrations that merely imply threat, but what of tomorrow? Rioting, burning, and pillaging? Think France and the Muslims. Think Bosnia and Kosovo.

Who knows what members of the Senate Judiciary Committee were thinking when they bypassed tough immigration legislation approved by the House to produce an amnesty measure promoted by Senators John McCain and Ted Kennedy. It puts 11 million to 20 million illegal workers on a path to U.S. citizenship and creates a guest worker program.

The committee’s action was breaking news on CNN Anchor Lou Dobbs’ March 27 program. Unable to conceal his outrage, Dobbs quoted President Theodore Roosevelt about the importance of being an immigrant in this country.

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith, becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American."

"There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room but for one flag, the American flag ... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Moving on, Dobbs declared: "The government doesn’t know how many illegal aliens live in the United States. But we know what they cost. And that’s plenty." CNN Correspondent Christine Romans presented the alarming figures:

Today, anywhere from 3,000 to 8,000 illegal aliens will cross the border.

According to the Pew Hispanic Center, more people are now coming here illegally than through legal channels. More than half enter without a high school education, and American public schools educate their children.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform says taxpayers spend $12 billion a year on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally. Another $17 billion for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.

It is federal law to provide free emergency health care to those here illegally. Congress has set aside a billion taxpayer dollars each year to reimburse all hospitals – a total, administrators complain, is a fraction of their costs.

Meanwhile, employers hire cheap labor with virtually no risk. The Government Accountability Office found only three employers fined in 2004 for illegal hiring, down from 417 in 1999.

At the same time, America’s criminal justice system is bulging with these citizens of other countries. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, 30 percent of federal prisoners are not U.S. citizens. Most are thought to be illegal aliens.

But if the McCain-Kennedy legislation disturbs Dobbs, it surely pleases President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and everyone illegally in the U.S. or planning to come. And, what a coincidence! It was approved just in time for Presidents Bush and Fox to celebrate with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at their summit in Cancun, Mexico, March 30-31 – a display of unity fitting to their discussions of union.

According to Dobbs on March 28, Presidente Fox, who has taken credit for the committee legislation, says it resulted from five years of work that began with his inauguration as Mexico’s president. He says it’s one step closer to Mexico’s goal of "legalization for everyone" who works in the United States.

Fox has already indicated that, in addition to immigration reform, he wants numerical numbers on visas lifted, and he wants portable social security benefits for Mexicans working in the U.S. He’s likely to get both concessions – the first from NAFTA, which provides for it – the second from the Bush Administration, which has already signed a social security agreement with Mexico. Congress could block it, but when mobs take to the streets, how many lawmakers will stand against "the new normal?"

American citizens must send their own wake up call. Telephone toll free: Senators 888-355-3588; Congressmen 877-762-8762. Demand that your representatives support the legislation passed by the House of Representatives: HR 4437. It includes strong border enforcement, no amnesty, and no guest worker program.

© 2006 Phyllis Spivey - All Rights Reserved

 

[sinkspur]

But I still say -- put the anchor babies up for adoption to US Citizens and send the illegal lawbreaking birth parents back to their homeland. TAGGED and with tubes tied and a vasectomy.

Congratulations! The competition is fierce, but the judges feel confident in proclaiming you the winner of The Dumbest Post of the Day Award.

A list of fabulous prizes will be forthcoming.

[Clemenza]

Brownback became a fan of illegals ever since he converted to Catholicism and became affiliated with the pro-illegal Opus Dei.

[potlatch]

Today, anywhere from 3,000 to 8,000 illegal aliens will cross the border

They are coming through here in droves, they just caught a horse trailer full of them the otherday!

For every one they catch, just imagine how many get further north. I can't help but think the border guards are getting paid off.

[sinkspur]

I think it's to refresh the congregations of Catholics for the pederast priests.

Did your mother take your drool cup away from you today?

That's the only explanation I can think of for such a braindead post.

[sinkspur]

Brownback became a fan of illegals ever since he converted to Catholicism and became affiliated with the pro-illegal Opus Dei.

So now anybody who supports a balanced approach to immigration is "a fan of illegals"?

This place is losing its collective mind.

[Shuttle Shucker]

The more pressure we keep on Mexico, immigration-wise, the more reformers inside of Mexico can be emboldened and empowered to scale back monopolists' abuses down there which keep our own country flooded with economic refugees. Here's an interesting new thread on new legal progress that finally emerged in Mexico I think as a result of immigration reform's failure:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611677/posts

We can make a difference for our sake, and their's as well. Isn't it the neighborly thing to do?

[Smartass]

What is being allowed, is absolutely unforgivable?
   

[potlatch]

Mr. "T"

Seem familiar?

[EternalVigilance]

Brownback became a fan of illegals ever since he converted to Catholicism and became affiliated with the pro-illegal Opus Dei.

I've wondered.

It's really too bad. He's done some good work on religious liberties issues internationally, and he's certainly done yoeman's work for the pro-life movement.

But, maybe it's just as well. He may well be too mild-mannered to run for President anyway. He doesn't strike me as much of a communicator.

[Clemenza]

Much like the Wall Street Journal, Brownback is right on practically every issue aside from immigration.

[sinkspur]

But, maybe it's just as well. He may well be too mild-mannered to run for President anyway. He doesn't strike me as much of a communicator.

Yeah. We need a Catholic communicator like Alan Keyes, who disowns his own daughter.

[EternalVigilance]

I hear ya.

[Smartass]

Good Evening Potlatch...
LOL, that pretty much sums me up, white flag and all.   Remember the seven boxes I had left to do, well, their not done.   I'm so sick of them, I'm going to let it rest for a few weeks.

[EternalVigilance]

Yeah. We need a Catholic communicator like Alan Keyes, who disowns his own daughter.

He never disowned his daughter. You really should get your information from sources other than gay magazines.

[Dionysius]

How about justice for vultures, buzzards and jackals? They do jobs not even Mexicans will do.

[potlatch]

Well if you count the stacks there, it looks to be about 7!! I thought you would get a kick out of it and email it to your friends when they wonder what you are doing, lol.