Posted on 04/18/2009 7:22:20 AM PDT by stan_sipple
The director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Immigrants' Rights Project is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the upcoming ACLU Nebraska banquet.
Lucas Guttentag will discuss the civil rights advocacy organization's efforts to defend the rights of new Americans.
The annual dinner and banquet will be held in Lincoln on April 25.
Besides his work with ACLU, Guttentag teaches immigrants' rights law at the University of California Berkley, School of Law and Stanford Law School.
ACLU Nebraska also will recognize those who've worked to defend civil liberties, including those of new immigrants
“Immigrants” have all the rights as any other citizen. Illegal aliens have limited rights.
right back on the bus home
I take it the TV station has bought into the open borders agenda, and doesn’t differentiate between legal and illegal immigrants. Someone needs to call them on it.
Illegals have only one right. It’s to leave the country peacefully and with much haste.
I was just in Omaha and Norfolk, NE last week visiting in-laws. I wasn’t surprised to see quite a few Mexicans. With the anchor babies, those of us who favor legal immigration and oppose illegal immigration are seeing our side on the short end of this argument. Is the anchor baby issue something that Congress (certainly not the current one) can address with legislation? Would a different interpretation require a constitutional amendment?
They have the right to fair and humane treatment in accordance with the law. The law says they’re here illegally.
Insurgents have no rights..
The ACLU is a farce of a “civil liberties” organization. If they took civil liberties seriously they would be looking into Janet Napolitano’s plan to start spying on “right wing extremist” veteran’s of Iraq and Afghanistan.
> > > > Would a different interpretation require a constitutional amendment? < < < < <
Non-citizens don’t have standing and certainly shouldn’t have law licenses.
I assume they are having Mexican food? Hopefully, they will all get Montezuma’s revenge.
Funny, I don’t see a big hoopla about Citizen’s rights...
Americans die every day at the hands of illegals. What about their rights?
You don’t hear a peep from these ambulance chasers about American citizen’s rights in Mexico. Why isn’t this argument framed in that context? We should be demanding reciprocal rights and that is the way this immigration issue should be argued.
http://www.theusmat.com/mexico.htm
All the illegal aliens were missing were their visas which they'd forgotten to pick up at the US embassy ~ and it is ONLY an INS ruling that lets the illegal aliens off the hook on that "add to visa" rule.
The "anchor baby" thesis is a creation out of wholecloth concocted by someone at INS who misapplied a court decision here and there.
Seems to me it wouldn't be too difficult to have an agreeable President (maybe an American Indian ~ maybe a Seneca whose people were driven from their land to make way for more white folks in the 1950s) decide that there's no such thing as an anchor baby. I think that'd get rid of about 35 million Democrat voters right there.
Now, to go find that Seneca! Mayby Buckey Phillips would like the job.
That’s a good point. I’ve made similar calls for equal treatment over the years, although not as directly.
For instance, Mexico has armed troops on it’s southern border. Illegal immigrants to Mexico aren’t respected. They don’t get anything for free.
And as for U.S. Citizens in Mexico, you’re risking your neck by even driving down there. Whether you buy the insurance or not, you’re just one corrupt officer away from serious trouble at any given time.
So Mexico can whine all it likes, it’s no bastion of civil rights.
The point is equal rights for American citizens in Mexico should be used to rebut the “nativist” charge.
I agree.
I would add, it would be a good thing to embellish the response though. We should take Mexico to the woodshed for the antics it has been using against us. And we shouldn’t be bashful about listing the tactics it has used against us for decades.
The U.S. gives Mexico a lot of trade. I wonder how it could like us putting a six month moratorium on travel down there.
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