Posted on 02/06/2005 1:48:40 PM PST by GOPXtreme20
When are they going to start shooting this rubbish???
That would probably do it. Why don't you get your city council to instruct your police department to do that.You know that the CBP will even train them for free don't you?
You may not be one of them, but most of the anti-immigrant posters' first priority is not solving the illegal immigrant problem, it's attacking President Bush and bringing the Republican party to its knees.
Watch how many of them balk at the idea of their local police busting employers of illegals. I haven't seen a single one support the notion of their police driving the illegals out of their communities. They insist the George and Laura Bush do it personally.
I can tell of one Township official who was VERY outspoken, when a couple of them trashed some cemateries hereabouts.
Broke off old headstones etc.
The were caught and deported and probably back in country before the ink was dry.
And this is way up here in small-town MI. I can't even fathom what it must be like down in the border states.
LOL!! Good one!
Illegal immigration and our inept politicians provide a target rich enviorment.
You can say that again!
Your article find is interesting.
The horrors it contains, is almost more than I can deal with.
Will we soon be offering rewards to the "Country who is the
most evil"?
Isn't it just horrible? Hell on earth. Definitely qualifies for inclusion in the axis of evil.
You have a good point. Do the embassies have quotas though, for how many people they can "rescue"? Just guessing...
On a couple articles on FR last week about Koreans getting across the southern border it was stated that they had paid $15,000 and more each to coyotes to get them here. North Koreans DO not have that kind of money. Someone wants them here.
New Poll up! Catch Lou Dobbs tonight if you can and see what Tony Blair says about illegal aliens!
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/
Do you believe President Bush's proposal to add 210 border patrol agents is sufficient to secure U.S. borders?
Yes 2% 24 votes
No 98% 1213 votes
Total: 1237 votes
If illegal activity is openly permitted, then by definition the law is diluted.
A legal system that is so broken encourages further illegal activity. Illegal immigration is illegal and should be punished.
It's the "illegality" of the behavior, not the "immigration" of the behavior, that makes it wrong.
It makes no difference to my argument, but I did live in southern Mexico for about a year, and had a wonderful time and made great friendships. I've nothing against Mexicans, or immigrants. I have a lot against illegal activity. Why is that so difficult to understand for some people? If it *shouldn't* be illegal to immigrate undocumentedly, then change the law. It shouldn't just be unenforced....
I ramble sometimes....
Absolutely. I wonder if that someone is in N.K. or somewhere else... and what it means.
Or if perhaps we know them and intend to let them go to infiltrate the bad guys in the US. But that's kinda thinking too positive.
I don't doubt for one second your sincerity and I very much applaud your idealism. I hope nothing ever happens to turn that into cynicism. I took a glance at your Profile page and am quite impressed. You might turn out to be a valuable leader of what may be another "Greatest Generation".
BUT (you knew "but" was coming didn't you), you might share a fatal flaw that I had at your age, the belief in absolutism. Raised in the Church of Christ, I believed that anyone who celebrated Easter was doomed to spend eternity in Hell.
There was "THE LAW" of God, "the law of Caesar", the law of your employer, etc... NO compromise, no grey area.
My attitude was bolstered three years of one of the top law schools in America, representinmg big insurance companies , banks and corporate power houses.
I never even thought about the poor widow we were foreclosing on or the paraplegic we were denying benefits to. THE LAW WAS THE LAW DAMMIT!
Maybe it was representing pro bona a serial killer, or two brothers who committed what TIME Magazine called the crime of the decade, or falling in love and losing with a girl I could never take home to my parents; or maybe the Grace of God that opened my eyes and heart.
The Bible;e is inspired by God. It is Holy. Every word is true. But documents written by men (including the Constitution) are not sacrosanct.
There is nothing redeeming about the law, nothing worth admiring or respectintg. Roe v Wade is the Supreme Law Of The Land. Do you bow down and worship it? Is prostitution "good" or "bad". If "the law" is your moral compass it's good if you just happen to be in Nevada, but bad if you're in Houston, even though there are more than a hundred listings for call girls in the yellow pages.
Before you condemn a man who risked his life walking across deserts to take hard, dirty, low paying jobs in order to feed his children, try praying about it for a few days.
Ask your mentor, Pat Robertson about absolutism. He came to Houston in 1988 to meet with me and some friends after Kemp dropped out of the Presidential race, to ask our support. He had lost the support of the grass roots people he had recruited into politics. They had no heart, it was a matter of cold laws<. I felt so sorry for him, but he was a victim of his own absolutism, where there is no room for compassion, forgiveness or understanding.
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