Posted on 01/08/2003 11:00:52 AM PST by EaglesCry
A Nation of Laws?
We are a nation of laws, except when politicians don't want to enforce them. That is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo.
Last night on The Factor, former New York City police commissioner Howard Safir admitted that for the past 15 years, the city has defied federal law and not reported criminal illegal aliens to the federal government.
Think about that. The largest city in the country basically allows criminals who come here from other countries to roam the streets even after they're arrested. Situation is the same in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Chicago, Houston, and plenty of other cities.
So what we have here is a complete breakdown of law enforcement in the area of illegal immigration. Federal authorities can't stop the flow of illegals across the border and will not use the military to help out. Local authorities will not enforce federal law.
So criminals from other countries can come here and hurt Americans, and even after they do that, they're still allowed to roam around. It's incredible.
Remember, two of the five illegals accused of raping a New York City woman last month served time for violent offenses. The were released from prison. The INS wasn't even informed.
This is simply unacceptable behavior on the part of our elected leaders from the president on down. Unfortunately, it will probably take another 9/11 disaster to force changes in our corrupt system.
The blame lies everywhere. Both Republicans and Democrats refuse to protect Americans because they want votes from the groups that are pro-immigration.
And the press is responsible too. Very few editorial pages are demanding immigration reform and the securing of our borders. Instead they pander to special interests, they dominate the elite media, which sees itself as defending the downtrodden, i.e., illegal aliens.
Talking Points has documented the danger to you and the incredible expense of failing to control illegal immigration. In California, for example, 12 percent of those currently in state prison are illegal aliens. In Texas, the number is 8 percent. And there's a good chance when these criminals are released from those state prisons, the INS won't even be informed. Thus the thugs will have the freedom you and I enjoy.
Congress is now back in session, but real homeland security is not even on the radar screen. What we continue to get are reorganizations, bureaucratic shuffles, and lame excuses. America is at war, but our defense here is porous and irresponsible.
Politicians like Mayor Bloomberg in New York and Mayor Hahn (ph) in L.A. must enforce the law. The gang rape of that poor woman in Queens is on the mayors who continues to allow criminal illegal aliens to violate federal law.
There are no two sides to this story. Americans must demand that our self-interested and cowardly leaders protect us.
The Spanish on the SSS page is a graphic, not text. I downloaded the .gif file to my PC and ran an OCR program on it. I took the resulting text and ran it through the babelfish translator (Man, I love technology) and got this:
It connects of the Service of Inmigraciôn and Naturalizaciôn (INS)We are thankful to him that System through the site of the INS in the Aqui Network has been connected with the Selective Service is where the men can register in line as of the 12:01 a.m. of Monday until the 11 p.m. of the sãbado one, hour of the central zone. The system in good condition is not neither in the days Sunday nor in the holidays of the federal Government, and either during brief periods of daily maintenance.
The federal laws require that the men of at least 18 years of age, that todavia have not fulfilled the 26 years, esten enrolled in the Selective Service. This includes all the noncitizen men who are within those you limit of age and which they reside pemanentemente in the U.S.A.. The men who have the "green card" must register. Those that they also live in the U.S.A. without documentation of the INS (foreign Undocumented people) must register. They cannot register who have fulfilled the 26 years of age. The nonimmigrants do not have to register who are very temp in the U.S.A. (the personnel of diplomatic bodies or commercial missions, visitors or students with valid visas etc).
It is not required that the noncitizen ones register which they enter the U.S.A. like permanent residents after to have turned the 26 years of age, by to have exceeded the age limits. The women do not register because the law is not applicable to them. The inscription in the Selective Service does not mean that a man is entering to the Armed Forces of the U.S.A.. Of that means, he is in favor so single indicating the Government to him where it is possible to be found to him in case that the men were ilamados to be in the military due to a future national emergency. Even in case of emergency, not ilamaria to all the men, and those are not reclutarian all that were ilamados.
If a man does not register as he requires the law he will not be able to obtain: ciudadania American (when a person who is not citizen asks for the citizenship) use in the Government; vocacional qualification (under program JTPA); loans nor subventions for university studies. To register in line will take a minute hardly him. For it it must have I number of valid Social Security. If it is connected to this site in the Internet during the hours on watch, clicks in ~NEXT~ to pass to Ia page of inscription. Otherwise, it tries again when the system is available.
Of course, some of this is messed up because no OCR is perfect (I had to edit a bit - years came out "anuses", hehe) and the translator isn't perfect either. But you should be able to understand it enough to know what it says.
Neither of us has a crystal ball, so I'll concede that this is one possible outcome. I happen to believe, however, that another 9-11 will kill liberalism in this country for at least the next 50 years or so. This will give us lawmakers and judges that will make and enforce laws that are the opposite of the liberal rubbish we deal with today.
The process has already begun. 9/10/2001 was the most insane day in the history of the USA. The attacks the following day were a wakeup call and the beginning of the end for the liberals. The process is slow, but the trend is right. Another attack will speed it up. Be patient and plow one row at a time.
Why not both?
Securing the borders (either a beefed up border patrol or the military or both) means fewer illegals get in making the life of local law enforcement easier, because they no longer have to deal with a flood.
There are a number of military functions that would be highly useful in border protection. Scouting and recon units would have a good exercise spotting illegals and other intruders, special forces teams going into Mexico to recon deeper to find assembly points. Plus the Mexican military would find the US military a much less appetizing target than the Border patrol.
What happens when the SpecOps people get caught and get 5-10 in a Mexican prison for illegal immigration?
Or else what? We'll invade Mexico? I thought the idea was to keep all those people OUT of US-controlled territory.
What troops were killed, aside from those who resisted a perfectly legal arrest?
OK, we send in a rescue force, and discover that the Mexican government was expecting them (it IS kinda obvious).
Now you have the recon teams AND the rescue force detained for 5-10 for illegal immigration, and we're starting to look downright silly in the process (we're supposedly putting the military to work to stop illegal immigration, and we're committing that felony ourselves).
What I said, if any American troops are killed at any point by the Mexican government, we remove those responsible.
OK, we send in a rescue force, and discover that the Mexican government was expecting them (it IS kinda obvious).
Are you seriously suggesting that the Mexicans could hide a force big enough to take on an airmobile division (the 82nd or 101st)? Anything that big can be found and pounded to pieces by the USAF.
Now you have the recon teams AND the rescue force detained for 5-10 for illegal immigration
You are assuming that the person ordering this rescue would so stupid as to send something that can be captured.
One of the price tags of engaging in warlike acts is that you don't have a hell of a lot of leeway for complaining when the other guy treats it as a war.
Are you seriously suggesting that the Mexicans could hide a force big enough to take on an airmobile division (the 82nd or 101st)? Anything that big can be found and pounded to pieces by the USAF.
They don't send whole divisions to rescue a few soldiers, particularly soldiers who were operating in gross violation of international law.
You are assuming that the person ordering this rescue would so stupid as to send something that can be captured.
I hate to tell you this: rescue missions tend to be small forces of men. They can be captured. A green beret does not make one bulletproof.
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