So it's ok with you all now to do the same thing in a church?
Posted on 08/29/2006 4:27:48 PM PDT by Baconian
In recent times and in the Middle Ages, a sanctuary served as asylum, a place of refuge for persons fleeing from violence or from the penalties of law. …Christian churches were given the right of sanctuary by Constantine I. Abuses of sanctuary, tending to encourage crime, led to its curtailment and abolition. Modern penal codes no longer recognize the right to sanctuary. (Columbia University Press – Encyclopedia)
What would have happened if Al Capone or Mafia kingpin John Gotti had decided to seek sanctuary in a church? Would your everyday rank and file law breaker be permitted to hole up in a church under the guise of sanctuary? Would derelict parents who refuse to pay child support be accorded sanctuary in a church to avoid prosecution?
The answer to these questions is a resounding "No – of course not." Why? Because they were/are lawbreakers, i.e., common criminals, and because U.S. penal codes do not recognize the right to sanctuary.
However, once again we see that, thanks to federal officials and President Bush's lax (I correct myself – his non-existent) immigration policy, illegal immigrants are granted rights and privileges that legal U.S. citizen criminals are not.
Elvira Arellano is the current poster child for the special treatment illegal criminals are given. Arellano broke into our country illegally in 1997. She was promptly arrested and deported, only to illegally re-enter a few days later. She lived for three years in Oregon before moving to Chicago in 2000. She was subsequently arrested in a post-9/11 undercover sting code-named Operation Chicagoland Skies. She, along with dozens of other illegals, was working at O'Hare and Midway airports. Convicted of working under a false Social Security number, she was ordered to report to the Department of Homeland Security office for deportation Aug. 15.
She refused, taking refuge in Chicago's Adalberto United Methodist Church. Her reasons for continuing to break the law are legion, including that her 7-year-old son "is a U.S. citizen [and] he doesn't want [her] to go anywhere, so [she's] going to stay with him."
Is this not preposterous or what? Am I the only one outraged by this criminal's arrogant flouting of our laws? She claims she just wants to be a good mother and therefore "deserves" to stay in our country. She conveniently omits that her child was not born until one year after she had illegally entered the country a second time (and then at the taxpayer's expense). My assessment is: She is a criminal who should be deported. She can be a good mother back in Mexico.
She is supported by proponents who apparently believe that U.S. law applies only to U.S. citizens, not illegal aliens. She is also president of United Latino Family – a group that lobbies for families that might be separated by deportation.
Arellano represents the appalling truth that illegals are selfish criminals singularly intent on breaking our laws for personal gain. They claim, as does this person, that they only want to work and raise their families. The problem with that canard is that while they may work, I have become aware that many still collect welfare and food stamps, live in subsidized housing, and not only have their children at taxpayer expense, but enjoy every child welfare program available.
Arellano and millions like her are not the only criminals. Those that aid and abet them are complicit in their villainy as well. Consider Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who introduced a "private relief bill" Sept. 16, 2003, that passed both House and Senate. Said bill stayed her deportation at that time. She received two subsequent extensions, listed as medical emergencies, because her son has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
While Durbin now claims to have changed his mind about her status, I want to know how an illegal criminal gains access to a U.S. congressman and has him not only introduce a bill, but get the bill passed that enables her to flout federal law?
Walter Coleman, pastor of the church she is holed up in resisting arrest, claims that after praying about her "plight," he doesn't think she should have to choose between leaving her son behind or removing him from his home here.
I want to know what "god" told this so-called pastor to break the law. Was it the same one that told Presbyterian minister Paul Hill to murder an abortion doctor and his bodyguard?
When she was arrested at O'Hare, Arellano was cleaning jetliner cabins. Are we to believe that's a job Americans won't do? Also, why shouldn't we suspect her capable of participating in a terrorist act or plot?
Arellano is now comparing herself to civil rights icon Rosa Parks. She also says she is armed with video cameras to film her potential church arrest. I say she should entitle the anticipated video "Adios Senorita."
Mychal Massie is a political activist, pundit and columnist. He is host of "Straight Talk," and has appeared on the Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, Comcast Cable and talk radio programming nationwide. He is a member of the conservative public policy institute National Center for Public Policy Research-Project 21.
Whew, you immigration zealots dig yourselves deeper graves with every article.
There is no such thing as Sanctuary in American law. If there was, there would have been no attack on Koresh's compound, which he was pastor of. There was no proven breach of law at Waco, where there is one here.
I'm glad that the feds won't be going into a church to get her. This will blow up in their faces as other crimmigrants watch and think they can find sanctuary. The churches will become swamped with lawbreakers and the donating congregations will take their money elsewhere.
"Am I the only one outraged by this criminal's arrogant flouting of our laws?"
Nope. It is totally ridiculous for such a thing to occur. However, we have officials in place, who are equally as selfish and self-serving who don't give a whit about our constitution or any laws...
Surely you mean illegal immigration zealots?
Agree on the diff.
ping
No such difference. She should be forcibly removed and along with her son....deported.
As a minor his rights are determined by his mother, not the other way around.
So it's ok with you all now to do the same thing in a church?
She's illegal, she's an alien. She had no business working in or around any plane.
sw
President Bush himself made this policy or did it exist previously?
Big difference.
The policy sucks, don't get me wrong, but Bush didn't author it.
Bash the real bad guys for a change.
Nor has he ever done anything to contradict it. In fact, he has always desired a "new America" and has been quietly letting it happen.
.....<
| We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture. Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende. For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America. As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico. George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000. |
Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:
In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster
The Path to National Suicide by Lawrence Auster (1990)
An essay on multi-culturalism and immigration.
Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii)
"Any person who . . . encourages or induces an illegal alien to . . . reside . . . knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such . . . residence is . . . in violation of law, shall be punished as provided . . . for each illegal alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs . . . fined under title 18 . . . imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both."
Section 274 felonies under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, INA 274A(a)(1)(A):
A person (including a group of persons, business, organization, or local government) commits a federal felony when she or he:
assists an illegal alien s/he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him or her to obtain employment, or
encourages that illegal alien to remain in the U.S. by referring him or her to an employer or by acting as employer or agent for an employer in any way, or
knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions.
Penalties upon conviction include criminal fines, imprisonment, and forfeiture of vehicles and real property used to commit the crime. Anyone employing or contracting with an illegal alien without verifying his or her work authorization status is guilty of a misdemeanor. Aliens and employers violating immigration laws are subject to arrest, detention, and seizure of their vehicles or property. In addition, individuals or entities who engage in racketeering enterprises that commit (or conspire to commit) immigration-related felonies are subject to private civil suits for treble damages and injunctive relief.
Fine with me, illegal = illegal.
Well, I am certainly no immigration zealot by any stretch of anyone's imagination...but, I believe she should either be deported, never allowed to return to the USA and the pastor should be arrested if he tries to interfere.
...or I think she, the pastor and 'their church of 'causes' should be totally ignored with the exception of a lone INS guard posted there 24/7 so that she has to spend minute of every day of her life, the rest of her life confined to the church and their 'righteous' causes.
Oh, and she is no Rosa Parks, either.
So you are dissatisfied with Bush.
I presume you regret that he is President and would have preferred Kerry?
Those were the options.
Sorry your guy lost.
Read what you wrote again, Dane...You talkin about yourself?
sw
Where are all the Libs yelling about separation of Church and State now? Not concerned with religion in politics anymore?
I like my amnesty plan!
Please call them INVADERS and don't compare them to people who are legal aliens!
IF you aid and abet CRIMINALS, you are a criminal!
President Bush has been great on most things except for our border.
He has been great on the war on terrorists.
But on the border he is a gross failure.
He acted fast and correct on the 3,000+ people murdered at the world trade center.
He ignores the many rapes, murders and robberies which might be larger than the murders and money loss at the world trade center.
More Americans are abducted on the border of Mexico than in Iraq!
Start building the fence.
It should be made a felony for Criminals who overstay their visas and Invaders.
I believe we should give amnesty to these poor CRIMINALS or INVADERS.
This should be a 2 week amnesty to get the heck out of our Country.
The ones who ignore this amnesty should be buried in a tent city jail and fined $10,000 or buried elsewhere.
All aiders and abettors of these CRIMINALS or INVADERS should get 1 year in a tent city jail and a $10,000 fine for each CRIMINAL aided.
Those in government should be the first ones charged.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.