Once A Lawbreaker, Part II
May 16, 2006 Immigration
ASHEVILLE – A parting gunshot from a vehicle leaving Waffle House in West Asheville shattered a window and caused a minor injury, police said.
The shooting happened around 3:00 a.m. Saturday after a group of whites argued with a group of Hispanics at the 24-hour restaurant on Smokey Park Highway, Asheville police Lt. Wallace Welch said.
“The two groups were jawing back and forth with each other over citizenship issues and whatnot,†Welch said.
As the Hispanic group drove off, someone in the vehicle fired at least once into a large window near the front door, he said.
Whether from a ricocheted bullet or flying glass, Welch said, one man’s arm was bleeding when police arrived. He declined medical treatment.
Police were looking for a white Dodge Intrepid that left the restaurant going west.
Maybe I am off base, (I doubt it) but if you want people who live here legally to empathize with you and not look at you as the lawbreaker you are, perhaps you should not go around shooting at people. Here we have a group (described in the 911 tapes as Mexicans) who were upset by the conversation they had with a group of Americans so they take a pot shot at them. Someone was injured but could easily have been killed.
These are the kind of people who cross the border each and every day. This is why we need to enforce laws so that people who come here are screened to ensure they are not violent, do not have criminal records, and do not carry disease. Instead, we have politicians who want to just turn a blind eye, again, and allow people here who should be in jail. This jackass broke the law by having a firearm, by discharging the firearm, and by assaulting people and likely broke the law to get here. If we catch him and his amigos we need to lock them up for about 10 years. If we deport them without holding them accountable then we have failed the people who actually belong here.
Once A Lawbreaker…
May 16, 2006 Immigration
“People here have more important things to do then watch Bush,” said Carlos Amado Luarca, a Dominican monk who works in the shelter. “This plan to send soldiers is one more sign of the decadence of the American empire.”
Along the border in Nuevo Laredo, across from Laredo, Texas, Honduran Antonio Auriel said he would make it into the United States whatever was in his path.
“Soldiers in the border? That won’t stop me. I’ll swim the river and jump the wall. I’m going to arrive in the United States,” Auriel said.
Francisco Loureiro, who runs a migrant shelter in Nogales, across the border from Nogales, Ariz., criticized the plan as an “aggressive action, more than anything because the migrant is not a criminal or a terrorist.”
“His only objective is to work … and a government that supposedly lobbies for world peace is now acting against defenseless migrants who are helping to fill a need for employees in the U.S.,” he said.
Decadence of the American Empire? As opposed to the decadent life that is pervasive in third world crap holes that people are dying to get out of. These people will stop at nothing to come here and insult our good nature and generosity. look at the immigration laws in the backward countries in which they live and tell me how we are the bad guys. We should enforce the same kinds of laws they have in their home countries.
One guy will swim or jump walls, no matter what it takes, to get here. I hope this guy goes through Arizona and gets to spend time in tent city. That might provide the deterrent he needs. Here is a question. If these people will stop at nothing to get here why don’t they try going about it the legal way?
Source: Yahoo News
Reaction To President’s Speech Open Trackback
May 15, 2006 Immigration
I also agree that we need to have a way for employers to check the status of people they hire. The use of forged documents is a big deal, even when CBS is not involved. There should be some kind of worker card required before an employer may hire someone. The card Bush talked about with biometrics is fine so long as it is issued by the government after a comprehensive background check. No card, no job. They can make this retroactive and they can allow a grace period for people who are here legally to get a card. If after the grace period you do not have a card then you do not have a job.
As for the amnesty part, and that’s what it is, I am not in agreement. I do not care how long the people have been here they should not be allowed to pay a fine and stay. They should have to pay a fine and then go back home for a year before they can apply to come back as a guest worker. It is not like many will even apply since they would run the risk of being deported for a number of things plus it would cost them money and they would eventually have to pay taxes. All are disincentives for the ILLEGALS. We need to get tough with the ones who are here ILLEGALLY and round them up. We can start by going after the 9.3 million W-2s that do not match up with a person or SSN. We can issue worker cards to the legals and then deny work to anyone who does not have one. We can require all employers to reevaluate the status of every non-citizen worker in his employ. We need to be tougher than the President is willing.
The guard to the border is a good idea. We can deploy special units to build walls, roads and other infrastructure. They can construct barriers and conduct surveillance. They can clear obstacles to observation so that the agents can see the border crossings more clearly. If we need to, we can deploy the MPs to the border to set up detention camps to hold those who must be processed for deportation. The military has the resources to do a great number of things that will help in the process.
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May 11, 2006 Immigration
Back in the day, the term my kids use to indicate a few years ago but which I use to indicate a long time ago, the town sheriff was the law enforcement officer. When things got out of hand the sheriff put a posse together and hunted down the criminals. In Maricopa County Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has put together a posse to hunt down ILLEGALS who are entering on their own or being smuggled in. Arpaio is the sheriff who houses criminals in tents in the desert, makes them wear pink underwear, use pink bed linen, and feeds them on 60 cents a day.
I heard him on Rush’s show today and he sounds like a tough lawman. He is a no nonsense officer of the law who takes his job seriously. He does not treat criminals as if their self esteem is some issue and he does not care if they were abused as children or drug addicts. He makes them pay for their crimes the way the legal system is supposed to. He is a real man who fits the mold of Wyatt Earp or the tough sheriffs one sees on the old westerns. Arpaio is taking the same stance against ILLEGALS and he is having some success. Under the law in Arizona the ILLEGALS can be arrested for smuggling themselves in or as conspirators if they pay someone to smuggle them. The law there makes the acts felonies.
Sheriff Arpaio locks up the ILLEGALS and they are charged with a felony. They must stand trial in his county. As he put it on the radio today, “they will not be getting free rides home in air conditioned buses.” Arpaio does what law officers are paid to do and that is to use whatever legal means are available to stop crime:
On Wednesday night, Arpaio’s posse fanned out across the desert, looking for illegal immigrants being smuggled on state highways and local roadways. In the past six weeks, Arpaio’s operation has jailed 146 undocumented immigrants, including 12 smugglers.
Perhaps we need him as the Nation’s top cop so that we can finally be tough on crime. Whatever happens, ILLEGALS will soon get the word out to avoid the territory under the control of sheriff Arpaio. I would not be surprised to see the ILLEGALS put a price on his head.
We need more tough cops like this man.
Source: azcentral
No Mas
Apr 30, 2006 Immigration
Debra Saunders from TownHall.com has a great piece about the unintended consequences of the May Day ILLEGAL alien protest. Here are a few little snippets:
When I read Mexican American Political Association flyers for the May 1 event that demand “immediate legalization without conditions,” that tells me activists don’t want the earned citizenship in the Senate Judiciary Committee immigration bill, because it requires would-be citizens to learn English, attend civics classes, pay a fine and back taxes, and pass a criminal background check.
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Even Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer has told demonstrators that while she supports their right to boycott, the demonstrators have made their point, and now it’s time to cool it.
They want to be legal with no conditions. If any dumb ass in Congress allows that then the Mexicans will have retaken the South without firing a shot (though they seem to have done that whether they are legal or not).
And someone tell Boxer that ILLEGALS don’t have rights in this country. They are lawbreakers and should be at home (their country of origin) or in jail.