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“Why Aren’t You Speaking English?”A Texas senator is receiving praise and criticism.
KTRH AM Radio Houston ^ | Friday, June 17, 2011 | By KTRH STAFF

Posted on 06/18/2011 4:59:42 AM PDT by Free in Texas

During committee testimony this week in Austin, a Texas senator interrupted a Spanish speaker telling him he should "be speaking in English" during a committee hearing. Antolin Aguirre of the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition was testifying against Senate Bill 9 that would help crack down on illegal immigrants in Texas. Aguirre spoke through an interpreter even though he had been in the U.S. since 1988. Two minutes into Antolin Aguirre’s testimony, Sen. Chris Harris, a Republican from Arlington, interrupted asking Aguirre’s interrupter, "Did I understand him correctly that he has been here since 1988?" Harris asked. "Why aren’t you speaking in English then?"

Through his interpreter, Aguirre said Spanish is his "first language and since it is his first time giving testimony he would rather do it in Spanish." "It is insulting to us," Sen. Harris fired back. "It is very insulting. And if he knows English, he needs to be speaking in English."

The fiery exchange happened on Monday during a Senate Transportation and Homeland Security Committee hearing. Law makers were hearing testimony on the purposed Senate Bill 9 – The so-called sanctuary cities bill. The bill would allow local law enforcement officials to check a suspect’s immigration status. Supporters of Senate Bill 9 have said it would help crack down on illegal immigrants. Opponents argue that it will do little to help border security and that it’s instead based on racism. Despite the blow-up The Texas Senate passed the bill Wednesday. It now goes to the House with a vote expected in the next few days.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktrh.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegals; immigration
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And the PC heads explode!
1 posted on 06/18/2011 4:59:45 AM PDT by Free in Texas
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... and the answer was? “No hablo ingles”? Let the PC heads explode ... it would clean out the gene pool.


2 posted on 06/18/2011 5:09:23 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag
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To: Free in Texas
Bravo, Mr. Harris! We need more leaders like this, who have the stones enough to speak out.
3 posted on 06/18/2011 5:10:17 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (A government agency is the closest thing to eternal life you'll ever see on Earth. RReagan)
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To: Free in Texas

Oh, and I forgot this...GTFOOMC!


4 posted on 06/18/2011 5:11:08 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (A government agency is the closest thing to eternal life you'll ever see on Earth. RReagan)
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Hyphenate musta got his orders from Mexico, or Central and South America. Was that his real identity? Evidence shows illegals' use of multiple identities.

Illegal Manuel Mejia Ordonez ordered to repay $3M in Calif employment fraud
San Francisco Chronicle | June 26, 2010
FR Posted June 26, 2010 by artichokegrower

A former Marysville resident has been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay back $3 million in fraudulently obtained unemployment compensation. US Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner said 31-year-old Manuel Mejia Ordonez was sentenced to eight years and one month in prison for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and identity theft. (Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...

QUESTION How does a citizen of Mexico make $3 million in unemployment claims? A. By establishing multiple identities. The fraudster, Manuel Mejia Ordonez, got eight years for conspiracy to commit mail fraud........and identity theft.

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Illegal Jose Madrigal, the Washington state rapist, had some 30 identities.

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REFERENCE Hayward, California woman charged in mass thefts of IDs
Henry K. Lee / Copyright San Francisco Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


Oakland Police Dept Mug Shot: Mishel Caviness, Hayward, accused of
running a large-scale operation devoted to stealing people's identities.

HAYWARD, CALIFORNIA -- A Hayward woman has been charged with numerous felony counts for allegedly running an identity-theft operation that created fake Social Security and California identification cards, checks and credit cards. Mishel Caviness, 40, was arrested after an investigation by Oakland police and the U.S. Secret Service.

The probe began when an Oakland city employee reported in January that someone was fraudulently cashing her checks, according to police Officer Ryan Goodfellow and court records. Caviness was identified with the help of surveillance-camera footage from Bay Area stores, police said.

A search of her apartment on the 21000 block of Foothill Boulevard in Hayward last week uncovered a printing operation capable of making fake checks and credit cards, police said. Also found were 900 blank credit cards, personal information belonging to as many as 1,000 people, blank checks and computers, police said.

Alameda County prosecutors charged Caviness with forgery, identity theft, forgery of a driver's license and grand theft. She has a previous conviction for welfare fraud and told police that she is disabled and unemployed. She is being held at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin in lieu of $325,000 bail.

SOURCE http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/16/BAPP1JGPTT.DTL#ixzz1MotxGM5R Page C - 3 of the San Francisco Chronicle

5 posted on 06/18/2011 5:12:38 AM PDT by Liz ( A taxpayer voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Col Sanders.)
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What this story doesn’t say is that Antolin Aguirre’s Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition is an offshoot of the Saul Alinsky Industrial Areas Foundation community organizations that have taken root in Texas and are working hard to recruit immigrants to their socialist agenda.
It is COPS (Communities Organized for Public Service) in San Antonio, the Metropolitan Organization in Houston, Valley Interfaith, EPISO (El Paso Interreligious Sponsoring Organization), Metro Alliance, and Allied Communities of Tarrant County. It also has ties to the US communist Workers of the World groups.


6 posted on 06/18/2011 5:12:59 AM PDT by La Lydia
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Three cheers for Chris Harris. What kind of a point was Aguirre trying to make? IF he likes spanish so much....go back to Mexico and speak it all the time.


7 posted on 06/18/2011 5:13:10 AM PDT by Dudoight
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To: Free in Texas
This is exactly what should be done. Twenty-three years in this country and he doesn't speak English well enough to read a prepared statement and answer questions?
8 posted on 06/18/2011 5:13:47 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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Illegals establish several identities with phony SS nos and fake documents these "impoverished immigrants" buy from itinerant document brokers for several thousand dollars.

Illegals know their strength is is forming voting blocs to put pressure on lawmakers.They establish multiple identities.......AND ALL OF THEM VOTE.

Illegals are well-briefed on US law WRT getting on the gravy train----most of the US tax dollars they score are sent back home to Third World hellholes where they intend to retire.......as the US govt checks keep rolling in.

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RIDING THE US GRAVY TRAIN An illegal alien w/ wife and five children violates our borders. He gets a job mowing lawns for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that low wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, so each year, he files an Income Tax Return to get "EITC---earned income credit" of up to $3,200 scot-free. He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent. He qualifies for food stamps and no deductible, no co-pay free health care. His children get free school breakfasts and lunches. The kids qualify for monthly SSI checks, faking ADD; the illegal and his wife get SSI if they fake being aged, blind or disabled; SSI qualifies them for Medicare. Plus illegals don't worry about pricey car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance, and qualify for relief from high energy bills. All that is collected with one identity.

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REFERENCE NOTE Earned Income Tax Credit is available only to immigrant workers who obtain legal work status. But the law allows immigrants to claim EITC for up to three years prior to obtaining that status. Workers simply file a tax return for the years in which they were not legally eligible to work in the US. The most widespread abuse stems from the requirement that children live with the worker for more than six months of the year. IRS does little to verify the claim. Many immigrants claim non-existent children, or claim children who they’ve left behind with relatives. Those with two or more children and income below $32,121 could get as much as $4,008. It is estimated that illegals received $22 billion EITC.

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THE LUCRATIVE PHONY ID BUSINESS----NORTH BERGEN, NJ -- July 21, 2006 -- Pelcastre brothers, Angel and Jorge, Dallas, Texas, were a walking threat to US national security, expert document forgers who, for a few thousand dollars, could give anyone a new identity, L/E said. The Texas brothers turned a NJ hotel room into a business office and were readying a massive cache of fake Social Security cards for delivery to a local NJ identity broker.

The Texas brothers were a "one-stop shop" for a myriad of fake US documents, including birth certificates, Social Security cards, driver's licenses for any state in the US, passports and resident alien cards, said state police. Officers happened upon two cars bearing Texas plates in a NJ hotel parking lot. Authorities wouldn't identify the NJ hotel by name for fear it would spark retribution from savage drug cartels operating in the US.

The Texas brothers were followed to a NJ office supply store nearby where they purchased computer supplies. Officers then followed the Texans to a NJ storage facility in Secaucus, NJ, where the Texans loaded several boxes into a car. One of them stood lookout. L/E approached the Texas brothers when they returned to the NJ hotel and questioned them separately. The Texas brothers consented to a search.

Police recovered laminating sheets with built-in security features, pages of blank documents waiting for fake names and information, finished documents, computers and software to create the fake IDs.

All told, the haul was worth about $500,000 on the street. Police also recovered $6,000 in cash, which was the first payment from a NJ fake document broker for a shipment of 500 fake Social Security cards. ####

9 posted on 06/18/2011 5:15:31 AM PDT by Liz ( A taxpayer voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Col Sanders.)
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Nothing good has come from this plague of lawbreakers violating our borders. Karl Rove was WRONG----they came from hellholes whining about a "better life".....but that was a ruse. They DID NOT embrace democracy once they had a taste of it as Rove famously said. On the contrary, they are a national security threat-----and are conspiring to tear down democracy---and their home countries are helping them. Read on:

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News reports say Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Peru and are conspiring to collude with The Anti-Defamation League, The American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center and several other civil and immigrant rights groups to infringe on US sovereignty to make laws as we see fit. The co-conspirators filed a federal class-action lawsuit against Georgia's law and are now asking a judge to halt the measure pending the outcome of their case.

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They only look like they're mowing our loans and flipping burgers in fast food joints. The main occupation of these hyphenated-separatists is creating chaos to divert attention from the Marxist Third World they are building on US soil.

These anti-American criminals consider the United States an invader state---a foreign power imposed on Third World hellholes. They arrogantly refuse to refer to the US by its legal name. The US is known by Mexicans as el Norte, (“the North”), el Otro Lado (“the Other Side”), or Gringolandia (the “Anglo Entity”).

Freud would have a field day with these people----that "warrior" mentality evidences a distinct lack of self esteem. They actually think we are "frail white people." That's what the Japanese thought. The same mistake Mexicans made with Texans. The disturbed left’s identity politics with its propensity to separate and balkanize America moves ahead apace with the era of Obama. You remember Obama? The post-racial president that was supposed to “heal” America? Yeah, that one.

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Phoenix Latinos will protest in Atlanta
"We are taking over this land and anybody who doesn’t like it should go back to Europe"

The Examiner | May 20th, 2011 | Miguel Perez
FR Posted Sat, May 21, 2011 by moonshinner_09

Georgia won’t be part of the proposed Latino homeland of Aztlán, but Latino civil rights leaders from Phoenix will march and protest in different parts of Atlanta next week for immigration laws they view as unjust. “Latinos won’t stay at the back of the bus anymore. We are taking over this land and anybody who doesn’t like it should go back to Europe,” says Jorge Serrano of Take Back Aztlán. “Racism should not be tolerated anymore in this country. Trying to get rid of Latinos is nothing but racist,” says Cecilia Maldonado of Chicanos Unidos Arizona, who will be meeting with Latino civil rights leaders in Atlanta to propose national boycotts. (Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...

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Translated from the Espanol------Third World federales are salivating over looting the US treasury. Can't wait to get their hands on the loot.

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Just here for a better life (sob).

WAITING TO GET THEIR ORDERS FROM MEXICO
Reconquista shock troops at Phoenix Capital protest, May 29, 2010.

2009---TEXAS DREAM ACT DEMONSTRATION
In secret enclaves, they conspire to destroy the USA from within.

10 posted on 06/18/2011 5:16:30 AM PDT by Liz ( A taxpayer voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Col Sanders.)
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EMAIL PAGE FOR SEN CHRIS HARRIS

http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/members/dist9/dist9.htm#email


11 posted on 06/18/2011 5:17:39 AM PDT by Liz ( A taxpayer voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Col Sanders.)
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This sounds like a good impetus to a law making English the official language of the state.


12 posted on 06/18/2011 5:21:31 AM PDT by fwdude (Prosser wins, Goonions lose.)
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The original indigenous occupants who have something more than a copralite to indicate their widesprad permanent presence were Europeans ~ who, in fact, carried in their DNA the Sa'ami X-Factor gene sequence. We identify them as the Clovis culture today.

So, these Mexicans who are the chilluns' of the Spanish conquistidores have turned into Laplanders?

Let me see their skis!

13 posted on 06/18/2011 5:26:39 AM PDT by muawiyah
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“...an offshoot of the Saul Alinsky Industrial Areas Foundation community organizations that have taken root in Texas and are working hard to recruit immigrants to their socialist agenda.”

These groups are enemies of our nation and our way of life, but we let them operate with impunity within our borders. This has to stop, and soon.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to preserve what we value in our nation. I am not prejudiced. I am not racist. I am not anti-immigrant. However, I am anti-illegal immigration. I am strongly opposed to immigration policy that consistently favors selected ethnicities / nationalities over others. I am strongly opposed to policies that encourage or in any way support rapid demographic or political shifts, locally or nationally, and I strongly believe that assimilation into the American melting pot should be the expected outcome of all immigration.

We are under attack by the left, and they are using illegal immigration, and liberal immigration policy as weapons.

14 posted on 06/18/2011 5:32:40 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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Thanks, I didn’t know that. But they don’t call Austin “Moscow on the Trinity” for no reason at all.


15 posted on 06/18/2011 5:35:59 AM PDT by Free in Texas ("Islam is the religion of peace"...Yes, those murdered by Islamists are ever so peaceful.)
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“2009-—TEXAS DREAM ACT DEMONSTRATION “

Those signs are repulsive and underscore an attitude that should be aggressively eradicated from within our borders. Those are the comments of enemies of our state, pure and simple. Without capitalism, there is no America as we know it. Wanting to destroy capitalism is, I believe, sedition.

Those signs essentially are declaring war on America. They are stating their goals (eradication of American sovereignty, and destruction of capitalism), and defining their enemies (e.g. those of European heritage) by what they wrote on those signs. We tolerate this why?


16 posted on 06/18/2011 5:43:18 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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. “Latinos won’t stay at the back of the bus anymore. We are taking over this land and anybody who doesn’t like it should go back to Europe,” says Jorge Serrano of Take Back Aztlán.

Said the racist while decrying racism.

17 posted on 06/18/2011 5:54:39 AM PDT by Free in Texas ("Islam is the religion of peace"...Yes, those murdered by Islamists are ever so peaceful.)
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Sen. Harris fired back. "It is very insulting. And if he knows English, he needs to be speaking in English."

It is called "agitation". The Soviets perfected it and exported it. The Nazi's liked it so much they bought a dozen. This crap is deliberate.

18 posted on 06/18/2011 5:59:14 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (And, therefore, isn't Jim (Robinson) the original Blog Father? - FReeper Aevery_Freeman)
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“IF he likes spanish so much....go back to Mexico and speak it all the time.”

I agree, but the sad truth is that people can live, work, and raise their children in a great number of places in the U.S. with little or no exposure to English.

We’ve gone so far down the path...


19 posted on 06/18/2011 6:10:45 AM PDT by paint_your_wagon
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Stick to your guns, Senator. America is behind you. Don’t apologize. Don’t cave.


20 posted on 06/18/2011 6:12:32 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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