Did this sentence somehow flow directly out your fingertips without going through your brain first? 
Posted on 05/22/2005 7:12:56 AM PDT by Jim Noble
NEW IPSWICH, N.H. -- W. Garrett Chamberlain, chief of police in this bucolic town near the Massachusetts border, was tired of having to release the undocumented immigrants his officers had picked up on routine stops, so he decided to do something about it: He would cite them for trespassing. A few weeks ago, one of Chamberlain's officers came upon Jorge Mora Ramirez, who was making a phone call from his car. Questioned by the officer, Ramirez, a 21-year-old who is Mexican, admitted he was in the country illegally, Chamberlain said. The chief called Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, but they declined to send someone over to pick up Ramirez. Chamberlain applied the only state statute he could think of. ''My position was: If Mr. Ramirez was in the country illegally, he was obviously in the town of New Ipswich illegally," Chamberlain said. His initiative has made him a hero to critics of US immigration policy, who argue that ordinary citizens and police officers must step in to fill the gaps left by federal authorities unable or unwilling to enforce the laws consistently. But his actions have appalled immigrants' advocates, who say he is misusing the trespassing statute and is overstepping his authority.
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It doesn't make sense. I can see people who are not adversely impacted being indifferent to the illegals (live and let live), but the illegals seem to have powerful friends in high places.
Who? and why?
I would think that rounding them up and expelling them would make the man who did it a hero.
What am I missing?
I can do this in three words, others may use more for a more accurate explication:
demonrats: votes.
Republicans: Cheap labor.
Note that I *DID NOT* say I'm in agreement...
What exactly is an immigrants' advocate ? Is this a paid position ? Benefits ?
Except the RINOs are trying real hard to find the votes too IMHO.
The problem is that most of these people really are just harmless folks going about the ordinary business of life. They've been led down the primrose path as much as have native born Americans. When the government is so feckless that it doesn't even inquire into the status of actual criminals; and has no border control in place to make sure that actual criminals don't enter and re-enter the country at will, it makes it somewhat difficult to appluad the arrest of some basically law abiding person whose only crime is being in the country illegally. Along with the sob story wife and kids, of course.
So, I appreciate what this police chief is trying to do, but his actions are not really a solution. There won't be any solution to this until we get border control and come to resolve that we've got a right to pick and choose who enters this country, know who they are, know how long they are going to stay and what they are going to be doing while here, and ensure that they leave on time.
If we really need hundreds of thousands of Mexicans to come here and work, fine. But lets make sure we actually get solid citizens, who are not likely to end up on welfare, let their employment comply with all labor laws, taxes, etc. that pertain to US Citizens.
What amazes me are the stories about the families that have been here two decades, own homes, businesses, etc. and it is only when the oldest child applies to college that their status as illegals is "discovered". Something is very out of whack with the whole situation.
Armed insurrection by the citizens and legal residents?
Sorry, but then by definition he is not law abiding.
If more Police Chiefs and Sheriffs do this...a whole lot more...the solution will be forced on the congress critters from the bottom up.
If the state can pick and choose what laws it wants to enforce, we're looking at anarchy.
I'd say citizens should have the ability to exercise a similar anaylsis of laws.
So when a defendant is on trial for committing crimes against the state - filling a puddle with sand, telling lies to a bureaucrat or owning an "assault rifle" - it must be within our purview to judge the offender not guilty.
But they don't vote-so that can't be it.
Unfortunately these people are too stupid to realize that it is their culture that made their lives so miserable that they ran away.
But then they get here and try to recreate the culture that they ran away from. Why? In part, human nature. Whether we consciously love it or hate them, we will always crave things that make us feel "at home". Our immigrant ancestors did this as well. The problem is that it may be harder to assimilate these folks when Mexico is right across the border. In addition, we didn't have welfare, costly social services, or a PC culture (demonizing assimilation) when earlier waves of immigrants arrived. Lastly, its already pretty crowded where I live. More immigration will just make things worse.
But why?
Who is it, that votes, or otherwise influences public officials, that supports this insanity?
I think the President certainly supports it, or with his power something would get done about it.
Would that etc. include paying taxes?
Did this sentence somehow flow directly out your fingertips without going through your brain first?
"In Los Angeles the police have been told not to enforce immigration laws under the guise of "were not the INS or ICE."
I've noticed that if other federal laws are broken the "local police" are there wanting a piece of the action. Perhaps bank robberies should be responded to by only "federal agencies."
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