Posted on 04/25/2010 1:01:57 PM PDT by blueyon
70% of Arizona voters agree with new immigration legislation signed into law on Friday. But, not Al Franken or Barack Obama. And, New York City’s Al Franken says he’s ready to organize protests and commit civil disobedience over the new Arizona immigration law. The New York Post reported, via Free Republic:
The Rev. Al Sharpton says he will challenge Arizona’s new immigration bill in court and on the streets.
Sharpton is joining Lillian Rodriguez Lopez from the Hispanic Federation to announce a legal challenge to the bill. They say activists are also prepared to commit civil disobedience to fight the Arizona immigration bill.
(Excerpt) Read more at gatewaypundit.firstthings.com ...
Here’s a popular leftist idea. Adopt other nations laws as our own.
I hereby propose that we adopt Mexico’s immigration policy.
The Mexican solution
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/gaffney/060403
The Congress has received lots of free advice lately from Mexican government officials and illegal aliens waving Mexico’s flag in mass demonstrations coast-to-coast. Most of it takes the form of bitter complaints about our actual or prospective treatment of immigrants from that country who have gotten into this one illegally — or who aspire to do so.
If you think these critics are mad about U.S. immigration policy now, imagine how upset they would be if we adopted an approach far more radical than the bill they rail against which was adopted last year by the House of Representatives — namely, the way Mexico treats illegal aliens.
In fact, as a just-published paper by the Center for Security Policy’s J. Michael Waller (www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/Mexicos_Glass_House.pdf) points out, under a constitution first adopted in 1917 and subsequently amended, Mexico deals harshly not only with illegal immigrants. It treats even legal immigrants, naturalized citizens and foreign investors in ways that would, by the standards of those who carp about U.S. immigration policy, have to be called “racist” and “xenophobic.”
For example, according to an official translation published by the Organization of American States, the Mexican constitution includes the following restrictions:
* Pursuant to Article 33, “Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.” This ban applies, among other things, to participation in demonstrations and the expression of opinions in public about domestic politics like those much in evidence in Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere in recent days.
* Equal employment rights are denied to immigrants, even legal ones. Article 32: “Mexicans shall have priority over foreigners under equality of circumstances for all classes of concessions and for all employment, positions, or commissions of the Government in which the status of citizenship is not indispensable.”
* Jobs for which Mexican citizenship is considered “indispensable” include, pursuant to Article 32, bans on foreigners, immigrants, and even naturalized citizens of Mexico serving as military officers, Mexican-flagged ship and airline crew, and chiefs of seaports and airports.
Article 55 denies immigrants the right to become federal lawmakers. A Mexican congressman or senator must be “a Mexican citizen by birth.” Article 91 further stipulates that immigrants may never aspire to become cabinet officers as they are required to be Mexican by birth. Article 95 says the same about Supreme Court justices.
In accordance with Article 130, immigrants — even legal ones — may not become members of the clergy, either.
* Foreigners, to say nothing of illegal immigrants, are denied fundamental property rights. For example, Article 27 states, “Only Mexicans by birth or naturalization and Mexican companies have the right to acquire ownership of lands, waters, and their appurtenances, or to obtain concessions for the exploitation of mines or of waters.”
* Article 11 guarantees federal protection against “undesirable aliens resident in the country.” What is more, private individuals are authorized to make citizen’s arrests. Article 16 states, “In cases of flagrante delicto, any person may arrest the offender and his accomplices, turning them over without delay to the nearest authorities.” In other words, Mexico grants its citizens the right to arrest illegal aliens and hand them over to police for prosecution. Imagine the Minutemen exercising such a right!
* The Mexican constitution states that foreigners — not just illegal immigrants — may be expelled for any reason and without due process. According to Article 33, “the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action.”
As the immigration debate in the Senate moves into a decisive phase this week, legislators who believe America’s southern border must be secured, the Nation’s existing immigration laws enforced and illegal aliens not rewarded with permanent residency and a direct path to citizenship are being sharply criticized and, in some cases, defamed as bigots and xenophobes. Yet, even their maximalist positions generally pale in comparison with the treatment authorized by the Mexican constitution.
So the next time such legislators — and the majority of Americans for whom they speak — are assaulted by Mexican officials, undocumented aliens waving Mexican flags in mass demonstrations here in the United States, clergy and self-described humanitarians, businessmen and other advocates of illegal immigration ask them this: Would they favor having the U.S. impose the same restrictions on immigrants — legal and illegal — that Mexico imposes on their counterparts there?
Nothing of the kind is in the cards, of course. Nor should it be. Legal immigration and the opportunity for foreign investors and other nationals to contribute to this country are not only one of its hallmarks; they are among the reasons for its greatness.
Still, we should not allow the hypocrisy of others’ treatment of undocumented aliens in their countries to induce us to refrain from taking effective steps to prevent further illegal immigration: by building a fence along our southern border; by enforcing immigration laws in the workplace and elsewhere; and by discouraging more such violations — with potentially grave national security implications — by dealing effectively with those who have already broken those laws by coming here without permission.
© Frank Gaffney
I’m in!
Is Franken aware that Arizona is ready to shoot people who commit civil disobedience?
same here.
Beckel is an angry bitter man who tries to come across as some kind of tough nut.
Why Hannity sucks up to him is beyond me, even on his shows Beckel dares him to throw the ball at him and see what he will do .
hahaha, moron doesn’t realize who the sheriff of Maricopa County (Phoenix) IS.
Oh, how I’ll love seeing Sharpton in his pink jumpsuit.
Al Sharpton should be arrested and charged with inciting riots.
Ok, so how do we do it, how do we get him arrested? Not even the dreaded Glenn Beck has called for civil disobedience.
He is calling for riots. He is attempting to incite riots. He needs to be called out on his loose language and arrested for it.
“Is Al Sharpton & Gang going to round up thousands of ILLEGALS and take them for a sit-in at the public library or the emergency room?”
That would be a better job than the Immigration Service has been allowed to do for years! On second thought, to Sharpton, that effort would be too much like real work!
Al Sharpton is advocating TERRORISM!!! (Two can play at that game!)
Indeed he is and he needs to held accountable for it. He is a government leader and representative and his words are incitement.
“Sharpton is ready to commit civil disobedience over who gets the last Chicken McNugget.”
That would make a good tag line...
Maybe he’ll be accidentally deported - and never make it back across the frontier (the coyotes, and not the four-legged kind, would love to see his fat a— trying to sneak back in).
Ohhh I forgot, dissent is only patriotic when it comes from the left! sarc/
I also hope the 70% in AZ who are in favor of the bill, knock some heads, especially that of Al Sharpton and Al Frankenstein!
“Recommend “civil disobedience” somewhere besides Arizona, Rev. “
Come on in Al...........we have thousands of pine boxes. LOL!!
EPIC FUNNY!
“Hey Al, how the hell is Tawana Brawley doing?
ya pompous self serving race baiting bucket of sh!t.”
Hey, that was good!
Al is blowing smoke, as usual. If he sends his homies here to fight, they will likely leave here in a pine box ;-)
The Arizona Law takes the wording STRAIGHT FROM THE FEDERAL LAWS. Only now, LEO can actually ENFORCE the laws since DC doesn’t want to.
The only ones screwed here are the illegals and people like RevAl who support lawbreakers, criminals, & anti-American invaders!
Someone posted this on FB (I added a few comments):
IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.
IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.
IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU CAN GET SHOT.
IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.
IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.
IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET:
1 - A JOB, (you know, ‘doing the jobs AMERICANS refuse to do’ and if it’s ‘under the table’ you don’t pay taxes like Americans have to do)
2 - A DRIVERS LICENSE, (but not a requirement, feel free to drive without a license, vehicle registration, or insurance!)
3 - SOCIAL SECURITY CARD, (or you can buy/steal someone else’s with no consequences)
4 - WELFARE, (paid with American TAX DOLLARS)
5 - FOOD STAMPS, (paid with American TAX DOLLARS)
6 - CREDIT CARDS (pshaw, who needs to pay those back?! Just get another new one)
7 - SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE, (or heck, just a free house, after all ,you are ENTITLED as ‘an immigrant’ regardless of your legal status)(paid with American TAX DOLLARS)
8 - FREE EDUCATION, (paid with American TAX DOLLARS)
9 - FREE HEALTH CARE, (paid with American TAX DOLLARS)
10 - A LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON (paid with American TAX DOLLARS)
11 - BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PRINTED IN YOUR LANGUAGE (paid with American TAX DOLLARS)
12 - AND THE RIGHT TO CARRY YOUR COUNTRY’S FLAG WHILE YOU PROTEST THAT YOU DON’T GET ENOUGH RESPECT AS YOU STOMP ON OLD GLORY OR BURN HER IN PROTEST.(paid with the BLOOD OF AMERICAN MILITARY HEROES)
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I would add
13 - “UNDYING LIBERAL SUPPORT FOR THE INVASION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA UNDER THE GUISE OF “HUMAN RIGHTS” “
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