Posted on 01/14/2003 8:01:56 AM PST by JackelopeBreeder
Grijalva invites Ashcroft to see vigilante 'justice'
ARIZONA DAILY STAR; Tuesday, January 14, 2003
U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva stepped up his campaign to crack down on vigilantes Monday by inviting Attorney General John Ashcroft to come to Southern Arizona to see the threat they pose to border security.
The Tucson Democrat told Ashcroft in a letter that the federal government's silence on the issue is "seen as giving official sanction to this racist movement, both by the perpetrators and victims of vigilante 'justice.' "
Ashcroft's voice, Grijalva added, "is needed now to make clear that private armed groups claiming law enforcement powers have no role in patrolling our border with Mexico."
Last week, shortly after he was sworn in, Grijalva called for a federal inquiry into the vigilante groups that have formed in response to the thousands of illegal immigrants who make their way across Arizona's border every year.
If Mexicans violate the law, arrest them and deal with them ACCORDING TO LAW, to the extent we can reasonably afford it, but make a point of having INS also obey the law by processing applications or stop hiding behind the law.
Welcome those who simply seek a better life. It is a matter of shame that such people have to be "smuggled" across our borders.
Gag, choke......Funny, I read that and still want to deport anyone in my country that is here illegally. Let them stand on their own soil and bleed to make it right, build it strong and kill the corruption.
Bleeding hearts are weak and dying. Most of the American people are tired and they have had enough of this BS insanity, and large scale lawlessness being perpetrated on our country by millions that have no respect for our laws, our rules, our sovereignty, OR YOU! ......
Well, we know what happened to the last reporter who opposed McCain's political stringpuller and sponsor Kemper Marley, and so do the newsmen who cover Arizona politics and want to live to collect their gold watch and retirement check.
McCain is certainly no better, and his current criminal associates are no less murderous.
Gag, choke......Funny, I read that and still want to deport anyone in my country that is here illegally. Let them stand on their own soil and bleed to make it right, build it strong and kill the corruption.
Bleeding hearts are weak and dying. Most of the American people are tired and they have had enough of this BS insanity, and large scale lawlessness being perpetrated on our country by millions that have no respect for our laws, our rules, our sovereignty, OR YOU! ......
So they don't make citizens arrests! They are still engaging in risky activity and look like hapless Keystone Kops without billy clubs. Why DO they carry rifles? The boyz I saw on TV sure looked like beer guzzlers.
Was that directed to BlackElk or myself?
I personally welcome those Mexicans who come here legally, respect our laws, learn our language, seek citizenship and encourage their children to become well educated Americans. They should not be faulted for keeping cultural traditions, any more than Irish or Italian families should.
The unfortunate truth is that few recent arrivals of ANY ethnicity fit this profile.
The really important thing is that the existing demographics of this country have allowed 45 million kids to be sliced, diced and turned into bleeding hamburger. When Roe vs. Wade is gone, talk to me again about borders. Until then, I view socially conservative Mexicans or any other social conservatives as reinforcements.
If they get a better life in the bargain, I am not offended.
So you consider illegal immigration wrong and border groups wrong, when one is illegal and one is not, which shows your opinion is in defiance of the facts. What the border groups are doing IS well within the law - to monitor the border and report illegal activity. Folks report illegal activity that they observe each and every day, but somehow what American Patrol is doing is wrong? And they should not be allowed to carry weapons, when the right to bear arms for protection is otherwise a high priority on FR? Cut me a break.
If you are REALLY worried about American sovereignty, let's get out of the UN and withdraw from all those sovereignty sapping treaties which are a lot more dangerous to American sovereignty than are Mexicans seeking a better life.
There are but only as drug runners foolishly recruited to smuggle, the Mexican drug cartels don't tolerate any competition, no American can get too far up their ladders.
What proof do you have that we're running out of the resources?
You may not be a scientist, but you have a lot of density.
Most of our cities are overcrowded, our schools are overcrowded, our expressways and freeways are bumber to bumber, our social services are being choked off, our freaking jails are full of illegals, we have hundreds of thousands of American citizens out of work, our land fills are full, our energy resources are limited, there are only so many labor jobs left, that's why hundreds of thousands of illegals are now showing up in places like Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Washinton, etc, etc.....
HELLO THERE! We don't need millions more people here, regardless of what the hey they look like..
Are we no longer a nation of laws? Do we no longer expect people from outside of our country to come here legally, by the book? Are there other laws we can just ignore, like paying taxes?
Are we not hated by many countries that want to send those with agendas of death into our home towns.
Do you leave your doors and windows to your house unlocked? Your car? Do you not secure your wallet or purse? If not, why do we continue to leave the doors and windows wide open to our country? Are we stupid? Are we looking for trouble? Is there an agenda here?
You are invited to read the linked article *here* regarding the background of the murder of Arizona park ranger Kris Eggle...unless, of course, you are a blind apologist for the murdering narcotraficantes and their mojado compatriots, or are one of their *little fingers* yourself.
Just who the heck you figure ins running the Hererra drug cartel in Mexico, the Norwegians?
Yeah, and by the time the media got done with freepers at protests, they made us look stupid to suit their agenda. Do you ALWAYS believe what you see on TV?
Why DO they carry rifles?
Funny how a guy running around the forum citing amendments suddenly forgets about the second one.
The boyz I saw on TV sure looked like beer guzzlers.
Ah, going from the race card to the class card. I'll call up Glenn Spencer and tell him that you'd be much happier if his supporters starting consuming a decent merlot instead of beer. Can't have the rabble standing up for their rights now, can we?
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