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    Tuesday, July 27, 2010

    Please Arrest Illegal
    Immigrants During Protests

    Here’s a message to local and state law enforcement in the great state of Arizona: Do know you the pro and con protests being planned when the controversial illegal immigration law starts on Thursday? Do you think you can actually arrest the illegal immigrants who might be attending?

    After all, they’re probably the only criminal that goes out of their way to go to protests and scream for rights, even though they’re the ones who came into this country illegally.

    This isn’t the first protest where illegal immigrants have come out of the woodworks and marched, however it’s always puzzling how law enforcement didn’t arrested them in recent years. And they’re not that hard to find. The media seems to be able to find these people for quotes. So, undercover police shouldn’t have a problem finding them as long as they have a cameraman following him.

    It will be interesting to see if Arizona’s finest will do what the rest of the nation’s police failed to do in past protests and actually arrest unwanted undocumented workers.

    But while we’re waiting, let’s take a look at what’s been happening. We have Maria Elena Durazo, of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, telling CNN
    CNN story     that she and her fellow group of misinformed liberals will dare police to arrest them for “being brown or black” or “ for being suspicious.”

    Don’t worry, not all Latinos are arrogant of the SB 1070 law. Jesse Hernandez, a member of the Arizona Republican Latino Association that supports SB 1070, will be fighting against the liberal propaganda that people who support the new law are racists.

    “They (liberals) throw out this verbiage, racist, discrimination, Nazis — they’re just trying to drum up fear among the public. We live in a society that doesn’t read anymore, that is spoon-fed by TV. That’s why I’m challenging them to pick up the law and read it and not believe the rhetoric that is coming out from the left,” he told CNN. He also said that the federal law is very similar to the federal one.

    Which brings us to attorneys for Gov. Jan Brewer who told a federal judge yesterday that “the federal government hasn’t shown it has suffered actual harm from (SB 1070) law and instead bases its claim on speculation,” reported The Associated Press
    Associated Press story    . How very true.

    Guts and courage from Arizona’s law enforcement and common sense and wisdom from a judge are what this country needs right now. Or has that become too much to ask for?


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    J C wrote on Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010 - 09:58 am Website
    I also have many friends from Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America -- many of whom are legal immigrants to the U.S., some of whom are not. Also, my wife was a legal immigrant to the U.S. via Mexico and a student visa.

    I really don't see legal vs. illegal immigration as an either/or proposition. I have friends and family who are very anti-illegal immigrant who claim that letting more people in would "open the floodgates" so to speak to the U.S. (similar to claims made about the Italians, Irish, Germans, freed slaves previously). I don't see that happening.

    Obviously, there is a large, unfulfilled need in certain sectors of the economy for immigrants. Without getting into the whole question of rich controlling the poor, let me just say that a guest worker program would make sense in the short term. In the long term, we could set up a system of migration similar to the E.U.
    Anthony (What Burns My Bacon) wrote on Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010 - 07:06 am Website
    Of course I still like you J.C.! We can disagree and still be friends. Besides, I enjoy your Future Twit blog a lot.

    Anyway, I've seen immigration first hand. I had to help a loved one get her Green Card to stay in this country. I've seen most of the people in the immigration office who are Mexican trying to stay here the legal way and that's great.

    So no one should be breaking the law to get into this country. It's an insult to those who have worked so hard to stay here legally.

    And I've increased the word limit to 900 words. That should be enough for people to make their point. ;-) Thanks for mentioning it!

    Thanks for stopping by.
    J C wrote on Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010 - 03:48 am Website
    Third, I find the phenomenon of the "illegal immigration crisis" in the U.S. to be somewhat amazing because it is totally made up. Illegal immigrants account for less than 5% of the population in this country, and most of them are very poor, living paycheck to paycheck. What could the effect of illegal immigration possibly be when compared to, I don't know, the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the "recession" that was created when huge banks were "too scared" to lend money to each other (think about that one for a while and see if it makes sense), which required trillions in tax payer dollars, from both Bush and Obama, to lift the bank's "self esteem" or something.

    It's just a game that the rich people play: blame the illegals for everything so that no one will think to blame them.

    I hope that you still like me after this :P
    J C wrote on Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010 - 03:40 am Website
    In fact, one of the reasons why I think that this system of illegal immigration has been allowed to continue for so long is the fact that the immigrants are wanted to fill a large number of low paying jobs that would be difficult to fill otherwise. Who else, besides an illegal immigrant or a high school dropout, is going to work at Burger King as a cashier for 20 years? The system that we have in place is also highly beneficial to both the United States and Mexico -- to the former because it allows them to keep goods and services artificially cheap (so that you don't pay 4$ per head for lettuce) and to the latter because it allows them to export their poverty and provides a steady stream of foreign investment (via remittences) to bolster the economy. The ones who it is the most unfair to are the illegal immigrants, most of whom are treated like second class citizens.
    J C wrote on Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010 - 03:35 am Website
    I would respectfully disagree with most of the points that you've raised in your article. Unfortunately, a complete answer would take more time than I currently have available (and more characters than are allowed here), but let me bring up a few points.

    First, there will probably be many in attendance at the rally who are NOT illegal immigrants. As police have no way of distinguishing between who is an illegal and who is not without checking papers (which they can't legally do) or resorting to some kind of profiling(kind of like what happens with the SB 1070 law), I find the prospect of arrests doubtful.

    Second, just because the immigrants are "illegal" (under the current law, which was honestly made to benefit the white majority, IMHO)in the country doesn't mean that they're "unwanted".


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