Posted on 06/18/2006 3:23:51 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
June 18, 2006
Cue the violins. AP has produced a two-hanky tear-jerker on illegals afraid of being deported. The headline sets the tone: 'Immigration sweep brings fear to community'.
Other mournful morsels from the article by AP writer Elliot Spagat:
"Fewer parents are walking their children to school in this border city's Linda Vista neighborhood."
"A sense of unease has spread in this community of weather-worn homes." [Nice touch with 'weather-worn'!]
"People rarely leave their houses now to go shopping," Osorio, 37, said as she clutched a bottle of laundry detergent in a barren courtyard. 'They walk in fear.'" [Extra credit, Elliot, for the clutched detergent bottle.]
"Her husband, Juan Rivera, 29, has stopped taking their two children to the park on weekends. 'We want to go out but we can't.'"
"In a blitz that began May 26 . . . It was the latest salvo . . . " [Nice war imagery!]
"All this has immigrants on edge." [Sure hope so if they're illegals.]
"Day laborer Fredy Calleja said his uncle was arrested about two weeks ago while watering plants outside his home." [Darn that Bush, now he's gone and made watering plants a crime!]
"Serafina Morales has been looking for unmarked white or black vehicles whenever she leaves the house. 'We're all scared to go to school.'"
The sweeps are part of a nationwide effort to round up an estimated 590,000 immigrant fugitives. We should be applauding it. But the AP would cast our government as the bully and curry sypmathy for those who have entered our country illegally.
AP/NewsBusters ping to Today show list.
A question to the AP and all there liberal pals. Just what does the word "ILLEGAL" mean?
These 590,000 are child molesters, criminals, chronic drunk drivers etc. who have been or should have been deported years ago and who have evaded arrest. This is not Maria, the kitchen slave at the taco joint. The AP should be shut down for tripe like this.
Wefare = welfare
The sooner that we round up the ILLEGALS and send them home to Happy Mejico, the better, less drain on our economy. Only rags like this print this kind of tripe.
The liberal MSM and everybody's favorite pinata - immigration.
I hate AP as much as anybody here but I'm glad somebody is putting a human face on it.
I know many illegal immigrants and they are terrific hard-working trustworthy people. I'm proud they consider me a friend.
It would hurt a lot of people financially and emotionally if any of them were rounded up and deported.
And that's why federal politicians suddenly become right-wing challenged...at least in the eyes of too many freepers. In my opinion.
Actually, we should watch AP employees closely. They can undoubtedly lead the cops to even more criminals and child molesters.
I agree.
However, they needed to come into the country legally.
Until they can do so, they need to be deported. Period.
It would hurt a lot of people financially and emotionally if any of them were rounded up and deported.
When I was a prosecutor I knew alot of hard-working people who did ILLEGAL drugs. I am sure that it hurt them financially and emotionally when the police arrested them, and I prosecuted them. So, I guess you would have had me let them go? I guess it was the police officer's fault for doing their job and arresting these people? Never mind the fact that they violated the law. What part of ILLEGAL is everyone not understanding?
Why is deportation such a fear? They just come back with no resistance or penalty...as long as we have a pro-illegal, pro-lawbreaking, elitist ONE WORLD utopian in the White House. No bill will ever get signed that benefits Amercia or the citizens that pay the bills for Bush's friends.
Deportation? That is as much a laugh as the possibility of a real fence/wall to stop illegal immigration. What a joke...like our immigration laws.
If they're worried, that's good. You should have seen the equally sympathetic Ventura County Star article today on the very large houses that the families build in Mexico with the money that the hard-working illegals send back from the US.
How's that feel?
L
Was it one of your friends who tried to break into my kitchen a few months back (with the police hot on his trail), or was it one of your friends who raped, beat and robbed two of my neighbors (both in their sixties)?
Interesting friends you have there DCPatriot. Perhaps you should come down here to one of the border states to see just what kind of people are sneaking across the border these days. The days of the kind, simple, hardworking migrante is long gone, what is coming in now are the dredges of Mexico. The car thief rings, the gang members, the drug pushers, the violent criminals.
I'd respect them just as much if they decided to enforce the policy more aggressively in say....January....2009.
Actually no, they would appear to consider breaking a law they find inconvenient not to be a problem. So, I think you might cross trustworthy off your list.
susie
Anyone who breaks the law should be dealt with accordingly. I'm not as concerned about their financial and emtional state as I am what is being stolen from my children and grandchildren by these criminal parasites.
""Serafina Morales has been looking for unmarked white or black vehicles whenever she leaves the house. 'We're all scared to go to school.'""
Good. I think lawbreakers in this country should be scared of getting caught. I see nothing sinister in the fact that criminals are afraid to walk the streets. I wish we'd step up enforcement and detention so that illegals nationwide are scared to death of getting caught.
(AP Wrings Its Hands Over Deportation of Illegals)
I'mm wringing mine also, not deporting near enough fast enough.
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