Vasquez slams efforts to aid illegal immigrants

The Idaho Statesman ^ | September 25,2003 | Sandra Forester

[jokar]

CALDWELL

[taxed2death]

Since when is respecting laws, a "radical view"?

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

I hope that Mr. Vazquez takes those bums jobs one day.

[skeeter]

I'm disappointed in Craig, and wish we had leaders of Vasquez's quality here in CA.

[.cnI redruM]

Vazquez for Senate.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[lilylangtree]

Agree with Mr. Vasquez. "Illegal" means against the law. Why reward these illegals when they should be deported? By rewarding these illegals, these politicans are taking tax dollars paid by legal citizens of the US and using the money to give illegals a softer way. This is wrong.

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[sasafras]

People get out their and support politicians like Vasquez - these courageous people are risking it all for you and me and we need to support their actions to stop this illegal invasion.

[Allegra]

I like this Vasquez guy. Wish we had a lot more like him.

[dennisw]

Vazquez for Senate..........


He is probably descended from the Basques who immigrated to the Nevada general area 100 years ago. They were cowboys and shepards. This Vazquez most likely has zero Mexican heritage

[Boxsford]

Vasquez said. “It makes me angry because we have these people, residents of Idaho, who need help and can´t get it.”

While I agree that it is wrong what these senators are doing trying to help illegal aliens. I disagree with Vasquez' definition of what government is supposed to being doing. Is it the government's duty to help citizens by handing out $10,000 for indigent care?

From the article: Vasquez said a woman who had undergone brain surgery came to his office Wednesday to seek help because her medical bills had forced her to declare bankruptcy and to ask the county for about $10,000 in indigent aid.

Look at what we are reduced to. Is it now a question of helping illegal aliens or help our own citizens? Shouldn't the question be what is the purpose of government and its spending? See how this takes our eyes off of reckless spending. There are two wrongs here.

[MissAmericanPie]

Since the PC, double speak, crowd decided to transform the word "radical", to mean those that expect the laws and sovereignty of the United States to be upheld and enforced.

They should be jerked up and thrown under the prison.

[flamefront]

I will be boycotting the much-touted "Freedom Ride" scheduled to stop at the Caldwell Migrant Labor Camp. We American citizens can not sit idly by as the organizers attempt to present illegal aliens living in tax-supported, subsidized housing, as the unfortunate poor that are just trying to make a better life here in Idaho.

I am accusing Larry Craig, Mike Crapo, Butch Otter, and Mike Simpson of collaborating with the unarmed enemy invading America.

Immigrant Activists Stopped by Border Patrol

LAST UPDATE: 9/26/2003 3:26:31 PM
Posted By: Jim Forsyth



(SIERRA BLANCA, TEXAS) -- A convoy of two busloads of people on their way to Washington D.C. to lobby for citizenship for illegal aliens working in the U.S. was stopped today by the U.S. Border patrol just outside El Paso in west Texas.

"They were asked for their identification after being stopped at the I.N.S. checkpoint on Interstate 10 near Sierra Blanca," Leone Bicchieri, the leader of the convoy, which left Los Angeles earlier this week and is scheduled to arrive in San Antonio tonight, told 1200 WOAI news.

It is one of ten bus convoys which are calling themselves Immigrant Workers Freedom Rides, after the Freedom Rides of bus passengers which helped integrate bus stations and other public facilities in the south during the civil rights movement.

Bicchieri says the busses were released following the intervention of El Paso Bishop Armando X. Ochoa and two [unnamed!!!] members of Congress, who called on the Border Patrol, which is now a part of the Department of Homeland Security, to allow the passengers to proceed.

The passengers were ordered to get off the busses and enter the Border Patrol offices, where they refused to provide the documentation officials were demanding.

"They were asked for their identification but the passengers felt it was racial profiling and exercised their right to remain silent," Bicchieri said. "Almost everyone on both busses are people of color." [They have no such constitutional right.]

The Border Patrol said it didn't know if any passengers were detained. Bicchieri said he 'didn't know' if any of the passengers are illegal aliens.

The Freedom Rides will lobby Congress on three points, according to spokesman Jaime Martinez in San Antonio.

"Citizenship for all immigrants who are in this country, the right to reunite families, and the right to protect workers on the job."

Martinez says there are an estimated three million illegal aliens, or 'immigrant workers' as the activists call them, currently working in the United States. Several measures have been introduced in Congress to grant some form of legal status to those who have been here for a certain period of time, have held a job, and meet certain other requirements.

"This shows exactly why these laws are needed," Bicchieri said. "People who are working, paying taxes, contributing into this economy, contributing to this society, should not worry that when they drive to another part of the country they live in, that they will be stopped, and harassed, and asked for papers."

Bicchieri said 'if a group of Boy Scouts' had been traveling down the same route, "they wouldn't have been stopped and asked for documentation."

The two bus loads of activists still plan to spend the night in San Antonio, although their arrival will be delayed several hours by the incident. They then plan to travel to Washington D.C, first making stops in Austin and Dallas to meet with supporters.

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These illegal noncitizens who threaten our sovereignty have the gall to think they have the right to petition our government, and now we see people in our very same govt are aiding and abbetting the illegals.

Frosty Wooldridge is at the moment saying on radio that the BICE of homeland security has told enforcement officers to leave the 'freedom riders' alone.

Call Tom Ridge - (202) 282-8000

The fish is stinking from the head down.

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Email Mr.Vasquez: rvasquez@canyoncounty.org

[Iscool]

Since when is respecting laws, a "radical view"?

And why view radical as a dirty word??? I look as it as a compliment even tho it wasn't directed that way...What's better??? Complacent??? Wishy-Washy??? To show some passion for the things that are important is not a bad thing...

[Iscool]

Email sent...

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Larry Craig said a few months back something to the effect that "if we deport the illegals, who'll mow our lawns?" Well I don't know who'll mow the lawn of his country club, but I do my own.

Hopefully next election conservative Idaho will show this lapdog of Ted Kennedy the door.

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