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Sotomayor: Labeling Illegal Immigrants Criminals Is Insulting
CBS ^ | 2/4/2014

Posted on 02/04/2014 6:43:23 AM PST by Altura Ct.

Edited on 02/05/2014 7:39:29 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who grew up poor in New York City, described Monday how she navigated new worlds of Ivy League universities and the nation

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aliens
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To: Altura Ct.
“I figure I may not be the smartest judge on the court but I’m going to be a competent justice,” she said. “I’m going to try to be the best I can and each year I think my opinions have been getting better.

She knows she's an unqualified politically correct token, chosen not because of her achievements, but because of her group memberships.

Also, how do one's opinions get "better"? She's telling us she is incompetent.

41 posted on 02/04/2014 7:09:59 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: kabar

“She has done a grave disservice to the opinions of Hispanics in this country by its non-Hispanic citizens. It reinforces the thoughts that eth(n)ic allegiance is stronger than sovereign citizenship.”

“She was born a US citizen. She is not an immigrant.”

Not the issue. It’s about ethnicity vs allegiance to the U.S.

She is a typical racist America hating liberal.


42 posted on 02/04/2014 7:12:34 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Vote Democrat. Once you're OK with killing babies the rest is easy. <BCC><)
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To: Altura Ct.
"... grew up poor in New York City.....wound up attending Princeton and Yale Law School".

Ok, but us middle class folks, how do we get our kids in there?

43 posted on 02/04/2014 7:12:52 AM PST by LibFreeUSA
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To: SMARTY

What does Mexico call someone who tries to sneak into that country?

The woman is politically correct idiot.


44 posted on 02/04/2014 7:14:11 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Altura Ct.

Is labeling a racially biased judge racist criminal?


45 posted on 02/04/2014 7:14:27 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: Altura Ct.

She’s on the level of dog turds and they are criminals just as much as a murderer!


46 posted on 02/04/2014 7:18:15 AM PST by dalereed
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To: Altura Ct.
"Labeling Illegal Immigrants
Criminals Is Insulting"
OK.. so I'll call 'em, "illegal wetbacks", Is that any better?
"judicial whoring" @ it's finest.

47 posted on 02/04/2014 7:19:16 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: Rummyfan
“I figure I may not be the smartest judge on the court but I’m going to be a competent justice,” she said."

I just wish Barry Soetero could be a competent President.

48 posted on 02/04/2014 7:20:50 AM PST by Freedumb
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To: Altura Ct.

Maybe she is the criminal. It is insulting to me that she is on the Supreme Court.


49 posted on 02/04/2014 7:22:00 AM PST by mulligan
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To: Uncle Miltie
”Sotomayor said it was tough at first as justices made references that went over her head.”

Obviously it’s all still WAY over her head.

“I figure I may not be the smartest judge on the court…”

Well we might be able to agree on that--although it's a hard call.

”…but I’m going to be a competent justice”

Apparently not.

”…her use of the term “undocumented immigrants” rather than the traditional illegal alien. Sotomayor characterized the issue as a regulatory problem and said labeling immigrants criminals seemed insulting to her.”

Obviously it’s all WAY over her head.

50 posted on 02/04/2014 7:30:57 AM PST by Savage Beast
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To: Altura Ct.

And what opinion does the “wise Latina” have on the thoroughly corrupt political and economic system of a country (Mexico). A country that basically uses the US as a safety valve to export their poverty to so they can maintain those corrupt systems?

And what of the corporatists and corrupt politicians here who encourage this situation for their own selfish interests?

What of the middle-class, the losers in all this, who watch their wages get depressed and taxes increase and see their neighborhoods destroyed and country balkanized as a cost of these insane policies?

That would require far too much thought for the “wise Latina” and not fit the progressive narrative and political agenda.


51 posted on 02/04/2014 7:37:55 AM PST by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Altura Ct.
Not as insulting as having an arrogant, unqualified affirmative action know-nothing on the highest court in the land.
52 posted on 02/04/2014 7:39:40 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The only way women can "have it all" is if men aren't allowed to have anything.)
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53 posted on 02/04/2014 7:46:35 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: GMMC0987

La Raza favors “Undocumented Citizens.”


54 posted on 02/04/2014 7:49:18 AM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished)
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To: Altura Ct.

But, but, but, we sincerely WANT to offend AND insult illegal alien invaders from Mexico!

We ESPECIALLY want to offend and insult the “helpless young children” that were illegally born in our tax-paid hospitals.”

Honest!


55 posted on 02/04/2014 7:53:21 AM PST by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Altura Ct.

calling an elephant a donkey doesn’t make it so (unless we are talking about RINOs)


56 posted on 02/04/2014 7:54:43 AM PST by bravo whiskey (We should not fear our government. Our government should fear us.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Well, they’re aliens. Are they here legally or illegally? It’s not complicated.


57 posted on 02/04/2014 7:59:44 AM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: Altura Ct.

“A regulatory problem”?

I take it that’s her rationalization for ignoring any laws she disagrees with.

The only regulatory problem around illegal immigration has been a lack of enforcement.


58 posted on 02/04/2014 8:01:02 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Altura Ct.

It’s important that we don’t call them the vitiated term “Illegal Aliens”, instead we should refer to them as “Mexican citizens”, instead of “undocumented immigrants”.

To start with, the vast majority *are* Mexican citizens. Of course, if they are citizens of other countries, such as Guatemala, in fairness they should be called Guatemalan citizens.

“Undocumented immigrants” is a meaningless expression, because immigration is a legal process, not just a noun describing relative movement. If I visit Mexico, I am still an American citizen, and I am not an immigrant, even if I stay there several years.

By calling them instead “Mexican citizens”, it puts into perspective what the left is trying to do here.

Should state drivers licenses be issued to Mexican citizens?

Should states offer a free elementary and secondary education, and in-state tuition to college to Mexican citizens?

Should the federal government offer free medical care, welfare, food stamps and other benefits to Mexican citizens?

If so, then why limit it to just those Mexican citizens who are currently in the US? Why not extend these benefits to ALL Mexican citizens?

This is the logical end to what such people are arguing. Redistribution of wealth from our country, America, to other countries. After all, it’s not *our* money, but the government’s money, to spend as it wants to.


59 posted on 02/04/2014 8:03:48 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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To: Altura Ct.

Well, well, well...

The “wize lateena,” after all, is just another Dumb F***.

Whodda thunk it?


60 posted on 02/04/2014 8:08:46 AM PST by ConradofMontferrat ( According to mudslimz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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