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Illegal Update

Just a few more good people coming to do the work Americans refuse to do

A Mesa drop house raid yields 13 illegal aliens. The East Valley Tribune configures the article to illicit sympathy for the illegals, who they tell us “were possibly also being held there against their wills.”

“Some of the immigrants were bruised and slightly dehydrated when deputies arrived, but none appeared to have received the brutal treatment that sometimes occurs at drop houses,” the article goes on. And, the two bedroom house, had “just one bathroom.”

This quote comes from a neighbor: “I’ve seen the people. They don’t appear to be bad people.”

Well, then, that settles it.

To keep things in perspective, it’s worth remembering that the people in the house paid “coyotes” to illicitly transport them into the United States in violation of the laws of our sovereign nation. They were not picked up against their will and forced to accompany the transporters–they are co-conspirators in criminal activity–regardless of how the paper constructs the scenario.

The EV Tribune: Getting it wrong

It’s not fear of immigration, it’s fury at those illegally invading our country

 The East Valley Tribune asks why people are so angry about immigration. In a nation built on immigrants, what is the problem?

The article, Why so angry about illegal immigration? stirs the pot by writing of a “backlash against foreigners who are perceived as a threat,” and further discusses ire vented on Arizona blogs and “a strong racist undercurrent running through the anti-immigration movement.”

Then they quote former president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza (The Race), ASU instructor Raul Yzaguirre, who points to the transformation of neighborhoods overwhelmed by immigrant Hispanics. At first, he said, small changes such as businesses moving in and putting up signs in Spanish are not seen as threatening. “But there comes a tipping point when the feelings about those changes turns into fear,” Yzagurre said.

It’s not fear, Mr. Yzaguirre. It is the fact that this nation is being inundated with lawbreakers, many of whom continue to break other laws once they have arrived illegally. The resentments are further exacerbated by the lack of an attempt at assimilation by Latino separatists and Reconquista, who believe the American Southwest is their land to reclaim.

The Tribune neglected to mention that Hillary Clinton has named Raul Yzaguirre, a supporter of amnesty and mass immigration, to lead her Hispanic outreach effort. He is the counterpart to John McCain’s Hispanic Outreach Director, Juan Hernandez–who says we are not separate nations, but merely a “region.”

Yzaguirre states, “That fear is then too often fueled by opportunistic politicians who exploit the situation for votes, rather then working to alleviate fears . That in turn only serves to fan the psychological flames and incite even more anger,” he said.

And in case you might not have guessed the “exploitive…opportunistic politician,” the next paragraph thoughtfully provides the name of Rep. Russell Pearce (R-Dist.18), who authored the state’s stringent employer sanctions law, which penalizes businesses that knowingly hire illegal aliens.

For good measure, they add Salvador Reza, an illegal alien organizer and protest leader to the mix. He operates the Macehualli Work Center for illegal laborers. Reza, hardly concealing threats, incites Hispanic street demonstrators, then says they were able to keep incidents from escalating, but added he’s unsure whether it will be possible in the future. “It’s getting very hard to tell people not to confront them,” he said. “We can’t control the anger anymore.”

The “them” Reza refers to is us–American citizens who have had their fill.

You can read more about Salvador Reza and his extremist views in the Sonoran News’ coverage here.

Piling on Arpaio, Parte Tres

To quote the venerable Ronald Reagan, “There you go again.”

The daily is determined to sink Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. But his numbers are too high and theirs are too low to negatively impact him.

Ever wonder what your kids are learning at school?

Political correctness and promoting the ‘gay’ agenda trumps history and geography

 The daily reports that about 275 students at Gilbert Public Schools’ Desert Ridge High in Mesa’s city limits remained silent for most of the day to raise awareness about the bullying of gays and their straight supporters, according to school officials.

Students wore yellow cards explaining the annual Day of Silence observance and after school, a few gathered for a discussion led by guidance counselors and supportive staff members.

Monday’s Day of Truth, sponsored by a faith-based Scottsdale group, the Alliance Defense Fund, encourages students opposed to homosexuality to speak out.

This year, Mission America, requested that parents keep their children home on the Day of Silence, a move which the districts disapproved, although a number of families were opposed to their children’s participation in such an observance.

Principal Daniel Coombs, said about 200 to 250 students of the 2,400 enrolled were absent Friday, an unusually high number.

Coombs said overall, the day was successful because students made it seem like business as usual. “I feel bad for the several that chose not to come to school because they did not get to see what I’d been telling people all week,” Coombs said. “I’m really proud of all the kids.”

McCain fails to disclose Cindy’s tax records

Pledge of “greater transparency” excludes McCain

John McCain is facing accusations of hypocrisy for failing to disclose his wife’s tax records, despite his promise to bring greater transparency and accountability to government.

The Arizona senator declared income of $419,731 in 2007 - a fraction of the multi-million dollar earnings reported by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, his Democratic rivals.

But the disclosure excluded the income of his wife, Cindy, the heiress to a large Arizona beer distribution company, whose wealth is estimated at more than $100 million.

McCain is considered one of the wealthiest members of Congress because of his wife’s fortune. The McCain campaign said the couple had kept separate finances throughout their 27-year marriage, and that Cindy McCain would not release her tax records in order to protect their children’s privacy.

Read the full report in the Financial Times of London.

Holiday celebration lauds lawbreakers

 

With the Passover holiday approaching this weekend, we decided to check in with the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix for information on the holiday observances. What we found were two decidedly political articles, both going after Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

The first one, an editorial commentary by a local rabbi, makes the bizarre analogy between the biblical Israelites in Egypt and today’s illegal aliens in America:

“Thirty-six times in the Torah we are commanded, “Do not oppress the stranger, the widow, and the orphan, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” We remember our people’s history. We have been the stranger, and we have been oppressed. We cannot oppress the stranger and victimize him.

The implicit underlying theme draws a fallacious analogy between Nazi roundups of Jewish citizens and the non-citizen illegals who, by virtue their very existence here, are lawbreakers.

“This scene conjures up all sorts of images in our minds,” the rabbi laments.” He describes “fully armed officers” as though wearing a sidearm was not basic to any law enforcement uniform.

What the rabbi hypocritically fails to take into account is the issue of the rule of law and the rights of sovereign nations to secure their own borders, especially in a post 9/11 world. Certainly Israel is doing that very thing today with the construction of a wall to protect her own citizens from invasion.

The second article, detailing a Passover ritual seder with members of the Latino community, refers to Sheriff Arpaio’s criminal patrols as “dragnets.”

The rabbi chastises “non-Latino” citizens for not speaking out against the patrols, in which “mothers and children (are) led to the mobile jail cell surrounded by heavily armed officers.”

With the distorted use of this provocative language, one can almost envision them being handed towels and bars of soap by SS officers as they are led to the showers, which turned out to be gas chambers. Using such an analogy constitutes an affront to the memory of those who were systematically slaughtered during the Holocaust.

Sheriff Arpaio’s patrols are world’s apart from the misinformation coming from this least likely quarter.

Seeing Red AZ is indeed seeing red over these distortions.

We send sincere good wishes for a blessed Passover to our Jewish friends.

Arizonans make the LA Times

 Rep. Russell Pearce and Sheriff Joe Arpaio get enthusiastic support…NOT

This past weekend the Los Angeles Times went apoplectic over the effectiveness of Arizona’s Employer Sanctions law. In an article titled, Arizona slams door on illegal immigrants, the paper bemoans the success of E-Verify, a federal program which allows businesses to confirm the legal status of their workforce.

 Arizona legislator Rep. Russell Pearce (R - Dist 18) and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose efforts are effectively combating illegal immigration, are the subjects of derision. The sub-headline suggests the hand-wringing pitch: Some citizens have been bruised, too, as the state cracks down.

 The complete article is available here.

 Be sure to pay particular attention to these amusing lines from the article:

 No one knows how many immigrants have left the state, and the most recent government figures show Arizona growing robustly - as of July, Maricopa was the fastest-growing county in the nation. Enough immigrants have left that the government of Sonora, the Mexican state bordering Arizona, has complained about how many people have arrived on its doorstep.

Obviously, the efforts at enforcing the law are having the desired impact.

A soaring opportunity

Honor or exploitation?

In a blatant attempt to influence the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, soon to be deciding whether to use the name Piestewa Peak on official documents and maps, the daily pounds again on their racial-guilt drum.

Try this: As a nation and as a community, we honor our war dead. We want to ease the pain. There are other pains that we, as a nation and a community, need to acknowledge. The historic treatment of Native Americans is one of those. The injustices that were committed against these First Americans are a painful legacy.

Today we are not only treated to guilt, but another editorial dose of their pro-Napolitanoism. The ham-handed renaming of Phoenix’s Squaw Peak mountain to honor a fallen solider, adverse to the five-year waiting period was simply wrong. But bestowing such an honor on this specific soldier was not serendipitous.

It should be acknowledged that this particular solider, Lori Piestewa, a member of the Hopi tribe, was able, in death, to do for Arizona’s crafty governor what the unfortunate young mother of two could never have done in life. She gifted the politically ambitious Janet Napolitano with a vitally important inroad to Arizona tribal votes.

We grieve for Army Pfc Lori Piestewa and her family–just as we do for every military life lost and disability suffered by our combat personnel. Yet we also recognize that this was a purely political move that requires some rational reflection be brought to this issue.

Today the paper acknowledges the governor’s political maneuvering and outlandish tactics were beyond the pale when her swaggering henchman and former aide, Mario Diaz, threatened commissioners on the Arizona panel to ramrod the name change through by saying: It was the wrong way to do it, but it was the right thing to do.

The editorialist omitted two important words: For Napolitano.

The name game begins anew

Fish-wrapper calls for feds to retire ‘Squaw Peak’

When the daily ran a lengthy article last week on the five year memorial commemorating Lori Piestewa, it was clear this revival regarding the name of Phoenix’s popular mountain, would not be far behind. Piestewa died in 2003 while serving in the armed forces in Iraq.

The U.S. Board on Geographic Names now enters the picture with an April 10, 2008 vote which, if passed, would authorize the name be used on maps and other federal publication.

This interesting historical revisionism is included in today‘s front page article: Five years ago, Gov. Janet Napolitano and others successfully convinced a state panel to waive its own five-year waiting period to adopt the name Piestewa Peak.

Did we read that correctly?

That “convincing” was accomplished by the disreputable, ham-handed tactics of Gov. Janet Napolitano and her then henchman-in-chief, Mario Diaz. Diaz had served as her campaign manager and deputy chief of staff, and was no stranger to strong arm tactics. He attempted to pressure the chairman of state geographic names board to bypass the established five-year waiting period required when landmarks are posthumously named.

When brute force didn’t work, Diaz resorted to back-door intimidation tactics and coercement by buttonholing the man’s employer. Finally, the hapless chairman was removed from his leadership role and the name change was ramrodded through.

If this is “convincing,” dictionaries need to be revised.

Meanwhile, most of us continue to take our weekend hikes on Squaw Peak.