Posted on 12/30/2001 8:01:34 AM PST by sarcasm
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:13 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Is it too much to ask the politicians-with-badges called "police chiefs" to "protect and serve" the vast majority of the taxpayers paying them - native-born Americans?
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Basically, identical statement was made to me by Montgomery County (MD) Police Chief Dr. Charles Moose. He said it was a federal issue, and his job was to serve all residents equally.
Moose was imported from the Left Coast after the Hispanic community complained that the police were picking on them, and basically threatened to riot, like they had done in DC a few years earlier.
Who says violence - or the threat of violence - never solved anything?
...The New M.C. Card...don't invade your neighbors without it!
By immigrants who came here to make a living rather than live it up on the public dole, to assimiliate themselves as Americans rather than spit on America, to obey the laws rather than break them.
Food for thought.
Truth be told, most of the countries I've visited have some sort of fine for visa overstays. Nothing onerous - and certainly not automatic deportation - but usually it works out to a fine of perhaps twice the normal visa fee for that same period.
The other truth is that visas aren't automatically the first thing a doctor, policeman, or bureaucrat seeks to examine in any foreign country I've visited. Usually people want to attend to the matter at hand, not to one's visa status (at least where I have traveled). Most recently, I traveled from the U.S. to Paris to the Netherlands and back, and showed my passport exactly two times: once (a very cursory flick) upon checking-in for the Netherlands, and the second time before boarding the return flight to the U.S.
During a recent period when I lived overseas for more than a year, I was never - not once - asked to produce my passport or visa except at border crossings.
Something to ponder.
Agreed that illegal aliens have no right to be here, but a crime against a criminal is still a crime.
This bull about renegade departments like this one enforcing only enforcing laws they agree with endangers everybody in the country.
Agreed, except that I don't know that I'd use the word "renegade" in this particular instance, at least not yet.
The problem is that this thread discusses putting a bandaid on the cut finger of a hand attached to a wrist that has been slit.
If we can stop the influx of illegal aliens, this kind of thing won't be much of a problem. The security of our national borders should not be a major responsibility of local LEOs or local government. (I don't mean that they should not care at all, just that they have other concerns.) It is a national concen. In time of war, as now, it is military matter, not a law enforcement matter.
Looking at it from a different aspect, as a nation we need to do things to make being an illegal alien in the US less desirable than it is now. Among other things, that would mean drying up the job market for illegal aliens.
Carried to it's end, it means that the local police would be under the command authority of someone in Washington--not your local elected officials.
Arresting employers would certainly help dry up the job market.
Asset forfeiture is contemptable, at least as currently implemented. I'm unwilling to expand it's use.
On the other hand, if you want to have the military (regular, reserve, National Guard or other well regulated militia (not a bunch of yahoos)) patrol the border and handle illegal crossers in a military manner, including shooting them if necessary, I could probably go along with that.
Thanks for the ping.
Although, we do get boatpeople who reckon its their right as 'citizens of the world' to live here on welfare. Who knows what the answer is there.
Happy New Year by the way.
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