Posted on 04/28/2006 6:27:36 PM PDT by rodeocowboy
It should be painfully obvious to most all of us that our federal government has no intention of stopping or even reducing illegal immigration. It seems all too clear that we have a president and congress that are willing to allow foreign lawbreakers to invade our country and live off taxpayer welfare with total impunity. But there is something that local governments can do. And, thankfully, several local governments around the country are already doing it. An April 14, 2006 New York Times report stated, "While lawmakers in Washington debate whether to forgive illegal immigrants their trespasses, a small but increasing number of local and state law enforcement officials are taking it upon themselves to pursue deportation cases against people who are here illegally.
"In more than a dozen jurisdictions, officials have invoked a little- used 1996 federal law to seek special federal training in immigration enforcement for their officers.
"In other places, the local authorities are flagging some illegal immigrants who are caught up in the criminal justice system, sometimes for minor offenses, and are alerting immigration officials to their illegal status so that they can be deported."
Well, amen! Local and state governments are beginning to see the light (and are probably feeling the heat as well). And for good reason.
The brunt of the burden caused by illegal immigration is born by local and state governments. It is local communities who feel the strain of overcrowded classrooms, congested highways, packed emergency rooms, and stuffed jail cells. It is local citizens who must bear the burden of higher taxes to support the skyrocketing costs of health care, education, criminal justice, and transportation. Rest assured, President Bush and his fellow elitists in Congress feel the burden of illegal immigration no more than retiring Exxon chairman Lee Raymond feels the burden of increased gas prices.
However, imagine what would happen if a majority of local and state governments began a concerted effort to arrest and arrange deportation for every illegal alien they discover! Well, my friends, many local officials have begun doing just that. Now, each of us should demand that all our local officials follow suit!
Each of us should call our local sheriff, police chief, city manager, county administrator, mayor, councilman, and commissioner. We should demand that they enforce the law by arresting and arranging for deportation every illegal alien that they discover.
Furthermore, there are already laws on the books that punish employers for hiring illegal aliens. We must insist that those laws be upheld and those employers be punished!
Remember, the law is on the side of the American citizen. Illegal aliens are lawless violators and must be treated as such. When American citizens break the law, they are expected to pay the price. Are illegal aliens above the law? President Bush and Congress may think so, but local and state governments have the power to say otherwise.
If the American people will aggressively communicate with their local and state officials and insist that they put their foot down on illegal immigration, they will respond!
So, what are you waiting for? Start calling now!
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Sheriff here in NH got shot down on this. Cowards.
Would the aforementioned United States laws included immigration laws? Any attorneys out there?
If a community conducts a roadblock sweep of drivers without insurance and license (or allowing an unlicensed driver to drive one's vehicle, as is the case of many employers)--that will really ruin the day's slave labor. Arrest and charge all violators and impound the vehicles. Even if you can't keep them behind bars or deport them, you've disrupted the pipeline. Do it often enough, and the illegals will move on to greener pastures. Hey--maybe to a certain ranch in Crawford, Texas!
No it's not. Foreign invaders are law-exempt. Just ask our politicians. Right now they're making a list of all the crimes illegals can be excused for in the amnesty bill........er........I mean "workers program." (Sorry about that little slip up. I almost forgot the talking points)
I like the Crawford line. I am so disappointed in this President (that I campaigned twice for and even got an invitation to his first inaugoration) as well as the Senate Republicans.
And a lot of them get sentimental about it, and want other people to buy the ticket for their sentimental journey.
I also watch the golf-course set in local resorts--they just eat up how subservient the illegals are...just love all that humble and lovable going on, all that forelock-tugging, as well as the bargain they get by going illegal. Great White Father and Noblesse Oblige.
They get all the Noblesse and we get Obliged.
In some ways, it's the curse of affluence, this newfound gluttony for Being Waited On. People get money, build their Dream McMansion and then they get overwhelmed by the maintenance. A regular wife just can't keep ten-thousand square feet dusted and vacuumed...
This is a huge class-warfare issue. Bush no longer has a clue what Joe Sixpack is thinking--or else Bush is thinking that Joe can be intimidated into going along for this ride.
Here's the way it is supposed to work. Report illegals to local law enforcement who turn them over to ICE. It is the refusal of locals to do their job and interface that is a big part of this problem, a huge standoff. Heck, they could set up roadblocks and checkpoints if they wanted to. I imagine that they have thought they could get money from the feds, so they have malingered.
You're talking about what the fed is bound to do and refuses to do. I see an increasingly overt refusal and a maddening insistence that the US surrender to Mexico and believe other strategies must be considered--like looking to local LE for help. They don't have the purview to deport, but they can disrupt and harass.
Joe Sixpack's son serves in Iraq--that's another big thing that the elites and the neos and the Patronizing Noblesse crowd is ignoring at great peril to the WOT. It's the children of the middle and lower classes who join the military and defend our country.
If we "can't do it" here, what happens to the mission credibility for doing it "there"? If we're defeated by a corrupt cesspool to the south, how are we going to take on the terrorist world? Does anybody remember how lousy we were treated by Mexico after 9/11? I am just appalled at what Bush has squandered.
Unfortunately you got that right. What has happened to President Bush?
See post #8.
You got that right. It is so sad to see what has happened to a person that we fought so hard for in 2000, supported in 2001 and 2002 along with the rest of the nation, defended in 2003, and campaigned for in 2004. He, along with the Republicans in congress, have totally turned their collective backs on us. I am so disappointed and defenseless when trying to debate a liberal.
Your post is the best explaination I have seen. Great insight.
There was a time, some years back when I lived in El Paso, that hiring black market help was considered a low-down and exploitative thing to do. At the University of Texas at El Paso, I knew some new-minted US Citizens from Mexico and they were quite vocal about those Anglo ladies who kept an intimidated "slave" in their basements.
Of course, there were a lot of nice Anglo ladies who got their cars impounded and sold at auction when they were caught driving their maids to and from the river. Those were the days!
This was how immigration was enforced in the Carter years.
Yeah, Jimmy Carter.
Anyone caught driving without a license has the vehicle impounded and is fined $500.00 in cash. No checks, no credit cards. They can't get the vehicle back without a valid DL and proof of insurance.
They also have to prove identity with 'supporting documents' when they come to claim the auto. Now here's where my town gets sneaky. If it's a SS or Green Card, they check with either SS or INS to make sure it's genuine. If it isn't there's an instant easy Felony arrest right on the spot. Nice huh?
Also when things get rowdy in the Little Mexico area our town borrows an ICE van (here's an aside, when our Police Chief asked to borrow it, they said "Sure, we never use it anyway.") and parks it in the lot of the troubled apartment complex.
Crime plummets, as does the population.
Also, any contractor doing work in the Village is required to post a Surety Bond guaranteeing the work will be completed. They must also certify that they use bona fide legal labor. If they get caught using illegal laborers it's bye bye to the Bond and that contractor can't get another Building Permit issued for a year. OUCH!
It ain't much, but it's a start.
L
There have to be Godfathers at work here--somebody has to be calling people in the countries of origin, arranging to provide resources and shelter (all out of the goodness of their hearts, surely no corruption going on) to the incoming illegals.
What better storefront to hide behind than a church?
What I dread is when their power becomes consolidated, and we have a de facto El Mayor and El Sheriff running more than black market labor.
No, you twisted what I said. I wonder if you really want feds crawling all over the country. I would prefer that local cops take the complaints as they are supposed to.
I'll be working in the EOC tomorrow night monitoring the police and fire bands. I'll bet you a buck that there will be at least 2 reports of 'shots fired' and at least one stabbing tomorrow night. The weather's going to be nice and you can just about set your watch by it.
Gotta go...got a fire.
L
The local cops might prefer it that way, but they would have to have support from the feds. They don't get it. I'm saying there's a way to work within the purview and power that they do have to at least help their own community--by making life difficult for those trafficking in black market labor.
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