Do you still own, er, I mean, employ illegals?
Nope...just friends like this.
Posted on 12/23/2008 5:14:10 PM PST by dragnet2
It was just reported on the show KFI Los Angeles that George W. Bush has pardoned an individual named John Allen Aregood of Riviera, Texas, who was apparently convicted of conspiracy to harbor and transport illegal aliens.
Umm yes he can
Actually, it was an incisive, focused, logically correct and dead-on accurate response, and one which has spotlighted with inescapable clarity the incoherent, narcissistic moral relativism and hypocrisy which characterizes your arguments. Your answers have been an embarrassing mish-mash of evasive double-speak and gibberish.
I stand by my words.
Of course you do. However, you're simply wrong. The problem is you're standing (more like tap-dancing frenetically.../g) in a quicksand morass of moral and ethical incoherence and hypocrisy.
I stopped the exchange with the individual as I figured I'd have better luck reasoning with a telephone pole.
That was quite a descriptive response, as much as it was accurate. Not to mention, it made me laugh out loud.
A GOOD Christian would help them find shelter at a detention center.
Thank the Good Lord you are a DC patriot, and not running loose in America...the REAL World America, that is.
Do you still own, er, I mean, employ illegals?
Arkansas Catholic: Bishop Taylor's First Pastoral Letter Teaches On Rights Of Immigrants
Three-week Advent study to be held in all parishes in diocese
Published: November 8, 2008
By Malea Hargett
Editor
Five months after being ordained the bishop of Little Rock, Bishop Anthony B. Taylor is issuing his first pastoral letter in hopes of teaching his flock about the human rights of undocumented immigrants.
"I Was a Stranger and You Welcomed Me: A Pastoral Letter on the Human Rights of Immigrants" was introduced to the priests of the state Nov. 5 during a study day. On Nov. 7, diocesan employees gathered at St. John Center for a similar event.
Bishop Taylor said he believes the human rights of immigrants is a topic that many Catholics are not informed about properly.
"I hope that people will open their hearts to the call of Jesus in our time," he said in an interview with Arkansas Catholic. "There is lots of information people don't have at their disposal that is really relevant to this topic. More than that, I hope it goes down from their head to their heart and see what the Lord is asking of us. ... It is the biggest area where the teaching of the Church is not well-known."
Bishop Taylor, who is fluent in Spanish and has worked in Hispanic ministry for 28 years, said he believes being able to immigrate to another country is an "intrinsic human right." (Big Red Flag)
"They do have a right to immigrate when circumstances require," he said.
He agrees illegal immigration is bad because it is nearly impossible for immigrants, predominantly from Mexico, to come to the United States legally. (WTH?)
"We do support them being here illegally. They have a right to be here," he said. "We are here to serve everybody. Not just Catholics. We are not a country club. We are here to bring the love of Jesus to everybody. They are here because there is no way to get documents, not because they don't want documents. (No way?)
They do not want to immigrate without documents. ... You can't be obliged to do what you can't do. Immigration laws should correspond to the reality. (Snip)
It's useless to argue with our Bishop, so I'm doing my praying from home these days.
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Merry Christmas to you and yours also, spectre!
Seems your bishop understands exactly what I’m speaking about here.
Yes, unfortunately I saw it. Here’s another:
Check out the last line of this article...the alien was wearing our military uniform!
Tijuana Man Guilty of Striking Border Agent with his Car
Last Update: 5:21 pm
SAN DIEGO - A Tijuana man who drove a vehicle with three undocumented immigrants in the trunk through a Border Patrol checkpoint in Pine Valley, striking a border agent, pleaded guilty Tuesday to assault on a federal officer.
Fernando Mejia-Baron, 23, faces a maximum 20 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced March 23 by U.S. District Judge Marilyn Huff.
The defendant admitted that on Oct. 7, he was the driver of a silver Honda Accord that entered the Interstate 8 checkpoint with the undocumented immigrants in the trunk.
Mejia-Baron admitted that when he attempted to flee, he struck U.S. Border Patrol Agent F. Santos with his vehicle.
According to court documents, officers stationed at the checkpoint became suspicious of Mejia-Baron when he approached the checkpoint wearing a United States Army battle dress uniform with the rank of brigadier general, a rank he appeared too young to achieve.
Do you still own, er, I mean, employ illegals?
Nope...just friends like this.
And, IMO, she’s ‘not guilty’...wouldn’t you agree? ;^)
So that's what this was all about. I had no idea.
I thought I detected a conflict, or an unusual interest in regards to the *only* poster here that is defending Bush's actions in this matter.
I should have figured the bottom line was just under the surface in that pile of evasive rhetoric.
Nothing evasive about anything dragnet2.
We are all products of our environment and experiences.
For example, I cannot imagine the turmoil the illegal Hispanic population has caused on the border States and California in general.
Maryland has absorbed them just fine and has numerous government programs in place to address the needs of the less fortunate.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Will W on his last day pardon ALDRETE DAVILA since W has a thing for drug smugglers ?
The gentleman in question is my dear old father in law. He is a great guy and was on his way to the coffee shop one fine morning when he picked up a Mexican and drove him to the bus stop. The feds were there and saw this so the job was far easier than going out looking for someone harboring or employing illegals. They put him in the back of their car and drove him all the way to Brownsville without even allowing him to call his family. The prosecutor told him he should plead guilty or he could spend 100,000 or more to defend himself. So folks, that’s the rest of the story.
P.S. He is also a Vietnam Vet Fine country we live in.
The issue is not about whether or not illegal aliens are good or bad or good looking or bad looking people. I don't participate in the "guilty/innocent" thing. FWIW both of your friends are very attractive youngsters IMO. Are you hinting that you're divided on the issue and would support enforcing the law on fugly illegals?
Love is a great thing, DCPatriot. The greatest thing. No one with a functioning brain cell and a beating heart is going to condemn you for loving your friends and being biased about it. I hope you can help them become citizens.
But love for friends can't be the deciding factor in immigration/borders/sovereignty laws. Who do you start withholding your love from? There must be half a billion (if not far more) people who would like to come live in the U.S.
Will you people who keep holding their nose and voting “for the lesser of two evils” stop going down this suicidal path. The dept. of justice has declared the number 1 threat to our country’s security is the Mexican drug cartel, NOT AL QUEDA!!!!!!
http://www.caller.com/news/2008/dec/24/riviera-man-receives-bush-pardon/
CORPUS CHRISTI — A 64-year-old South Texas farmer got an unexpected gift this Christmas — a pardon from the President of the United States.
John Allen Aregood of Riviera was convicted in 1996 of conspiracy to harbor and transport illegal aliens. He served three years probation and paid a $1,000 fine.
He was the only Texan on a list of 19 people pardoned by President George W. Bush.
Aregood said on Wednesday his crime was hiring undocumented immigrants to help harvest his watermelon patch.
His wife, Mary said back then it was something many farmers in the area were known to do even though it was against the law.
“Everybody used them at the time,” she said. “You’re just trying to make a living.”
end snip
Hmmm, how did I just know without looking that you signed up today to post that little fairy tale? Guess it’s just experience.
Such innocents.
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