Posted on 08/13/2007 3:25:13 PM PDT by SE Mom
If you listen to folks who oppose immigration and border enforcement, you get the feeling they think we put locks on our doors to keep everybody out. The truth is we have locks so we can choose who comes in.
An example of what happens when we don’t make the choice took place August 4th when three Newark, New Jersey, college students with great promise were executed, gangland style. The killers’ ringleader was apparently an illegal alien indicted twice in 2007 for felonies, including the rape of a kindergarten-aged girl.
Why would such a person be set free instead of being handed over to authorities for deportation? The answer is that Newark is a “sanctuary city” which bans cooperation between local officials and federal immigration officials. More than 60 sanctuary zones, including 30 of America’s largest cities, provide a national networked haven for foreign and organized criminals who recruit and operate outside those areas as well. These sanctuaries include Cambridge, Massachusetts; Los Angeles, California; Detroit, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Austin and Houston, Texas; Denver, Colorado; and New York City.
The consequences of “sanctuary cities” may be most obvious in the city that became the first in 1979 — Los Angeles. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, a confidential California Department of Justice study from the mid-1990’s showed then that at least 60 percent of the members of L.A.’s most violent gangs, with membership in the tens of thousands, were illegal aliens. Of all outstanding murder warrants in Los Angeles, 95 percent are for illegal aliens. Frustrated police say they are powerless to pick up even well-known, previously deported felons.
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From my experience in management and business there is no follow up on the checks employers do. Just file those I9 forms away. This enforcement based on SS reports is something new and applies to employers who pay witholding on ten or more. It has the disadvantage of being delayed, as many file quarterly. The electronic system they have piloted could ping illegals instantly, but Dems won’t release that info to law enforcement. even if an ax murderer is on the loose..
Seems like this is turning into a blame game between the Feds and local government hacks.
I personally am more concerned with the Federal governments, "sanctuary country"... Since many non-sanctuary cities are over run with illegals.
That was simpler and more straightforward. We have allowed the left to con us into bashing business while they pad their roles with nurses and teachers for the ranks of illegals in the sanctuary cities. At the same time, we let them count them for representation in the census. Imagine how many reps they would lose, if illegals went home.
The one and only. (They didn't just break the mold they smashed it)
Hmmmm......I don’t remember saying they were illegal. I just said as long as I can remember San Antonio has had Mexicans. Besides a lot of my non Mexican relatives came from San Antonio.
Jeez guys, I was born and raised in Texas. My first vacation at age of 5 over 55 years ago was to San Antonio. Ya think I might know something about it?
It wasn’t a response to YOU directly. It’s just that there has been so much negativity toward Hispanics on FR in the last few months, that it’s good to point to those who are NOT illegals, and who have been contributing members of society in these United States for a while. In some cases, far longer than the families of some of those yammering about the illegals.
In a world that was not so far out of kilter a state or city government that refused to support the enforcement of federal law would lose all federal funding.
In a world that was not so far out of kilter, there wouldn't be such a thing as "federal funding."
Have we become so accustomed to what is sometimes called "creeping socialism" that we've grown to accept it as the cost of doing business???
That line of agitprop has gotten far too much mileage.
The cost of labor -- "picking and packing" -- is a relatively minor cost of the final product.
The reason for the promulgation of the "eleven dollar lettuce" lie is the simple fact that people enjoy workers who will work for peanuts, without complaining (although that seems to be changing, as criminal aliens become increasingly secure in their position, and increasingly bold in their demands).
Other than China, criminal aliens are the best thing since slavery. (If that's how one views such things.)
We have pissed all over the legacy left us by the founders. Hip hip hooray.
What is this, a trick question?
You do the same with them you do with ANY criminal -- you bust 'em when you find 'em. Good grief, maybe it IS rocket science.
But, thanx for y'all who clued me in to Fred being pro-amnesty. Thanks to your efforts, I am now an official "Stay at Home Voter."
Screw it.
Ah, but that's changing, rapidly.
I live in a very rural midwestern county. It wasn't that long ago that high school kids took summer jobs "working in the fields." Now, the population is about 15% Mexican -- probably for the most part illegal, going by what I've observed (and conversations with cops). Crime is up, and high school kids don't work during the summer anymore. The Mexicans came in and undercut them. Sort of like "block-busting, country-style."
So, more and more people -- even people living in "way out of the way" locations -- are coming "face-to-face on a daily basis" with this nightmare. And it ain't pretty.
The government's response has been a redefining moment in the concept of "cynical." A year or so ago they DID have something of a "crackdown." The feds came in, and busted something lie 50 to 75 illegals.
The surreal thing was that they were NOT the Mexicans that they had to wade through in order to get to the target of the crackdown -- which was a single Chinese restaurant.
I guess the Chinaman took one look at things, figured it was perfectly safe to run an operation based on illegal alien workers, but DIDN'T realize that this sort of Above The Law pass ONLY applies to Mexican illegal aliens.
Bottom line appears to be that so long as "prominent" employers -- deep-pocket big-fish types with political clout -- WANT to have their "virtual coolie labor force", Washington will look the other way, and when necessary to make it LOOK like they're doing something, go after some two-bit Chinese restaurant.
And let's not forget the Dirty Little Secret -- a LOT of the illegals VOTE!
What? It's illegal for them to vote? LOL! Think that one through, please.
Our Glorious Leaders, rather than crack down on the illegal "community", have decided to pander to it, because they KNOW that they vote.
It's beyond disgusting.
Our "vichy government" lacks the balls to come right out and admit this, yet, they do do the bidding of the occupiers, like a good little vichy government.
that is interesting...
that is interesting...
that is interesting...
What, and be marked for life as "leader of a hate grouup"?
No thanks. There's no percentage in it. The tide has turned. Up is down, wrong is right, and lunacy is normal.
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday he is "sickened" that President Bush and Congress went on vacation "while young Americans in our cities are massacred" by illegal immigrants.
Tell us again how you can tell which are the violent felons before they rape, murder, assault.....
Oh, that's right, you can't.
Ah, a believer in the existence of "law-abiding illegals", are we?
Thank you for our daily dose of doublethink.
The ignorant should be pitied...and the ones with a bigoted xenophobia should be ignored.
Should you be pitied or ignored?
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