You mean these charged dredges from Mexico, who are charged with murdering 7 people in a hispanic family?
Oops sorry those are American born dredges, they don't count in your eyes MCG999, in your opinion.
Posted on 06/18/2006 3:23:51 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
June 18, 2006
Cue the violins. AP has produced a two-hanky tear-jerker on illegals afraid of being deported. The headline sets the tone: 'Immigration sweep brings fear to community'.
Other mournful morsels from the article by AP writer Elliot Spagat:
"Fewer parents are walking their children to school in this border city's Linda Vista neighborhood."
"A sense of unease has spread in this community of weather-worn homes." [Nice touch with 'weather-worn'!]
"People rarely leave their houses now to go shopping," Osorio, 37, said as she clutched a bottle of laundry detergent in a barren courtyard. 'They walk in fear.'" [Extra credit, Elliot, for the clutched detergent bottle.]
"Her husband, Juan Rivera, 29, has stopped taking their two children to the park on weekends. 'We want to go out but we can't.'"
"In a blitz that began May 26 . . . It was the latest salvo . . . " [Nice war imagery!]
"All this has immigrants on edge." [Sure hope so if they're illegals.]
"Day laborer Fredy Calleja said his uncle was arrested about two weeks ago while watering plants outside his home." [Darn that Bush, now he's gone and made watering plants a crime!]
"Serafina Morales has been looking for unmarked white or black vehicles whenever she leaves the house. 'We're all scared to go to school.'"
The sweeps are part of a nationwide effort to round up an estimated 590,000 immigrant fugitives. We should be applauding it. But the AP would cast our government as the bully and curry sypmathy for those who have entered our country illegally.
AP/NewsBusters ping to Today show list.
A question to the AP and all there liberal pals. Just what does the word "ILLEGAL" mean?
These 590,000 are child molesters, criminals, chronic drunk drivers etc. who have been or should have been deported years ago and who have evaded arrest. This is not Maria, the kitchen slave at the taco joint. The AP should be shut down for tripe like this.
Wefare = welfare
The sooner that we round up the ILLEGALS and send them home to Happy Mejico, the better, less drain on our economy. Only rags like this print this kind of tripe.
The liberal MSM and everybody's favorite pinata - immigration.
I hate AP as much as anybody here but I'm glad somebody is putting a human face on it.
I know many illegal immigrants and they are terrific hard-working trustworthy people. I'm proud they consider me a friend.
It would hurt a lot of people financially and emotionally if any of them were rounded up and deported.
And that's why federal politicians suddenly become right-wing challenged...at least in the eyes of too many freepers. In my opinion.
Actually, we should watch AP employees closely. They can undoubtedly lead the cops to even more criminals and child molesters.
I agree.
However, they needed to come into the country legally.
Until they can do so, they need to be deported. Period.
It would hurt a lot of people financially and emotionally if any of them were rounded up and deported.
When I was a prosecutor I knew alot of hard-working people who did ILLEGAL drugs. I am sure that it hurt them financially and emotionally when the police arrested them, and I prosecuted them. So, I guess you would have had me let them go? I guess it was the police officer's fault for doing their job and arresting these people? Never mind the fact that they violated the law. What part of ILLEGAL is everyone not understanding?
Why is deportation such a fear? They just come back with no resistance or penalty...as long as we have a pro-illegal, pro-lawbreaking, elitist ONE WORLD utopian in the White House. No bill will ever get signed that benefits Amercia or the citizens that pay the bills for Bush's friends.
Deportation? That is as much a laugh as the possibility of a real fence/wall to stop illegal immigration. What a joke...like our immigration laws.
If they're worried, that's good. You should have seen the equally sympathetic Ventura County Star article today on the very large houses that the families build in Mexico with the money that the hard-working illegals send back from the US.
How's that feel?
L
Was it one of your friends who tried to break into my kitchen a few months back (with the police hot on his trail), or was it one of your friends who raped, beat and robbed two of my neighbors (both in their sixties)?
Interesting friends you have there DCPatriot. Perhaps you should come down here to one of the border states to see just what kind of people are sneaking across the border these days. The days of the kind, simple, hardworking migrante is long gone, what is coming in now are the dredges of Mexico. The car thief rings, the gang members, the drug pushers, the violent criminals.
I'd respect them just as much if they decided to enforce the policy more aggressively in say....January....2009.
Actually no, they would appear to consider breaking a law they find inconvenient not to be a problem. So, I think you might cross trustworthy off your list.
susie
Anyone who breaks the law should be dealt with accordingly. I'm not as concerned about their financial and emtional state as I am what is being stolen from my children and grandchildren by these criminal parasites.
""Serafina Morales has been looking for unmarked white or black vehicles whenever she leaves the house. 'We're all scared to go to school.'""
Good. I think lawbreakers in this country should be scared of getting caught. I see nothing sinister in the fact that criminals are afraid to walk the streets. I wish we'd step up enforcement and detention so that illegals nationwide are scared to death of getting caught.
(AP Wrings Its Hands Over Deportation of Illegals)
I'mm wringing mine also, not deporting near enough fast enough.
What's the big deal? All they have to do is prove that they are in this country legally and no problem. After all, the article does refer to them as immigrants.
You mean these charged dredges from Mexico, who are charged with murdering 7 people in a hispanic family?
Oops sorry those are American born dredges, they don't count in your eyes MCG999, in your opinion.
I have held jobs where I worked alongside illegals.
There were very hard working, until the company got them work permits.
Then they became some of the worst moochers and thieves possible.
I came to the conclusion that the result should have been expected.
People who cannot bother to enter the country legally are unlikely to be of the best character after they arrive.
Once the illegals feel comfortable here, no longer fearing momentary deportation, they revert to their true character, or lack of it.
NO AMNESTY!
My problem is that my own county and state governments have told the police not to question people, not to ask status, ask for papers etc..
The school system knows damned well which students are not here legally..or at least knows how to verify any suspicion. The orders come from the top.
I live in a blue county and state but my governor is republican. IOW, failure to enforce has be the modus operandi of both sides of the aisle...all the way up to the House and Senate. All the way up the White House.
They should all be thrown out of office for allowing it to get to this stage. It should have been addressed years ago, but it's the hot potato of politics.
They are not dumb, evil-minded people we elected. You think they thumb their noses at you because they don't enforce the immigration laws.
I can understand the Feds...the taxes withheld from phony or stolen ss#s translated to a lot of dollars to the treasury.
My own motivation and why I enjoy them? They were the backbone of the housing boom...both as carpenters and landscapers, but they were also 1st time buyers which drove the move-up market.
I'm sorry for rambling. I don't express myself very well too much of the time.
But I think you're all taking stupid pills. No disrespect.
I could have said ignorant pills. ;^)
"Her husband, Juan Rivera, 29, has stopped taking their two children to the park on weekends. 'We want to go out but we can't.'"
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Go back to your oen country, and you can go to the park all you want there. Do they have parks there, BTW?
When I was a prosecutor I knew alot of hard-working people who did ILLEGAL drugs. I am sure that it hurt them financially and emotionally when the police arrested them, and I prosecuted them. So, I guess you would have had me let them go? I guess it was the police officer's fault for doing their job and arresting these people? Never mind the fact that they violated the law. What part of ILLEGAL is everyone not understanding?
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Thank you, thank you. Just when I was trying to formulate an answer to DCPatriot's whiny post, I read your perfect response.
You mean these charged dredges from Mexico, who are charged with murdering 7 people in a hispanic family?
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Try to stay focused now. This thread is about illegal immigrants. I don't think that anyone here said that we don't have our own native-born criminals. Why would anyone want to add Mexico's criminals to the ones we already have?
People who cannot bother to enter the country legally are unlikely to be of the best character after they arrive.
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Bingo!
oen country = own country
FMCDH(BITS)
You know what Dane, nobody cares what you think or write. You think illegals are all sweetness and light. I don't know why, but it's probablyh because you're exploiting them and making a living off the illegals in some way. You really don't care much what happens to anybody else as long as your little buddies keep providing for you.
hahaha...you're wasting your time with Dane and I have wasted enough of my time responding to him/her for today.
FMCDH(BITS)
My life is ruined, oh the agony(/sarc).
You think illegals are all sweetness and light.
No I don't and I don't think each and every one of them is the anti-christ as you seem to.
I don't know why, but it's probablyh because you're exploiting them and making a living off the illegals in some way. You really don't care much what happens to anybody else as long as your little buddies keep providing for you
Wrong, I'm not an employer, I just get sick of the sterotypical and, IMO racist by some, generalities, of an entire ethnic group.
FMCDH(BITS)
I understand your point and it is well taken. I do not judge any one group by ethnicity. I don't judge any "group" at all. Racism has no part in my thinking, unless there is a "race" of lawbreakers. Haven't heard about that race yet...I always called them criminals...how about you?
FMCDH(BITS)
I am all for putting a 'human face' on things,
but let's look at it in another light.
This was a part of a sweep to arrest and deport illegal aliens who have outstanding arrests ...
"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have arrested 2,179 illegal aliens, including gang members and sexual predators, as part of a three-week nationwide interior immigration enforcement operation. "
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20060614-115006-1275r.htm
Now let's put a human face on another usually-victimless crime:
"I know many drunk drivers and they are terrific hard-working trustworthy people. I'm proud they consider me a friend.
It would hurt a lot of people financially and emotionally if any of them were rounded up and jailed.
And that's why federal politicians suddenly become right-wing challenged...at least in the eyes of too many freepers. In my opinion."
Anyone, including you, who thinks illegal aliens help this country need their heads examined. So you know a few nice ones, so what? They are still here breaking the law, driving wages down, committing crimes that wouldn't be committed if we controlled the borders and bringing in diseases we haven't see in decades in this country. Not only did they commit a misdemeanor by coming here illegally, they committed a felony by obtaining fake IDs in order to get work.
They need to be arrested, tried, sentenced and they sent back home, where ever that may be. They don't want to be scared? Have them try obeying the law and returning home on their own and then applying to come here legally.
Nothing like breaking a few laws to make you scared of the authorities, right? Go pedal your BS to people who believe it, say the ones working for AP!
I agree, I also know many hard working people with a family- great people- except they are dumb enough to drive when drinking. Do I want them let go because they are good people otherwise; my answer is NO, because I and or my family and friends or anyone else does not need to meet them on the highway.
Committing crimes is not something only slimeballs do, sometimes otherwise decent people do drugs, get DWIs, commit assults- you name it. I get tired of hearing about the hard working illegals, and how we should ignore the fact that they are here illegally. The other issue is many of the hard working illegals commit other crimes like identity theft and using false documents. For some reason many think we should just ignore it all, but only for a certain group of people.
Yeah. See tagline. Then, point out to me one step of the marxist doctrine that hasn't already been fulfilled or is near fruition in this Republic. I dare anyone to prove me wrong. We are on a collision course with the destruction of borders worldwide.
Now...I want you to "vote the bums out!".........yeah.....right.
Keep your powder dry friend. No one else will.
Just my humble opinion, of course.
FMCDH(BITS)
Random thoughts: there's an article in a (presumably) conservative magazine this past week, the Weekly Standard, in which a shill for the La Raza passes off his opinons as fact that Americans support a "road to citizenship" for illegal aliens.
On November 8th of this year, control of the Congress will pass to the Democrats, but we here will remain conservatives.
I've failed to renew my subscription to the above magazine because it has become a quasi-official news organ for Republi-moonbots, as the NYT is for Demo-bats.
"Danger! Danger....Will Robinson!"
What race? Illegals are of every race creed and color, they are all illegal and should be rounded up and deported.
What is racism is for some to act like it is ok for a group of people to be above the law, because they are citizens of Mexico- I say that because it seems most of the supporters of illegals are only in support of Mexican illegals and could care less about all the other illegals. Citizens from any other country are not above the law, and in fact should not be here.
Thanks for the realtime report. It's indicative of the mindset illegal invaders have---a contempt for law---and a fixation that the US government, the Treasury, and US taxpayers exist for their convenience.
To these predators, US laws are meaningless. The law of the jungle rules them.
Americans are incensed that we are asked to subsidize those preying on us---AND ALSO are required to look away and be nice to them--- pretending they are not stealing us blind.
Judging from the media onslaught, it appears the invaders have had another meeting (/sarc) (here's hoping they have a couple more "protests" that awoke the Nation to their reconquista game).
Now the latest agit prop from the invaders is "you better be nice to us --- sure, there's a few illegal crooks among us---but the rest of us are legit."
The contempt these predators have for Americans is just unbelievable--thinking we will sit still for the takeover of our government by third world predators, who shouted their intent in street protests, to use violence if necessary, to get ahold of our resources.
It is the mindset of the MSM.
Yesterday I was listening to stories of Katrina survivors who were refused help by MSM reporters because "it would violate the integrity of their story".
The AP and their ilk seek to DIRECT the news not to report the news.
We're obviously bigger-picture people.
You have no idea how they have made our economic boom possible, and how they've encouraged an entrepreneurial atmosphere in many regions.
If our grandparents and great grandparents could have gotten in as easy as it is today, they'd have come that way too. Don't act so high and mighty.
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