Illegal Update, parte dos

Just a few more good people coming to do the work Americans refuse to do—such as steal social security numbers of U.S. citizens

At least 300 people were arrested today at the Agriprocessors, Inc. meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa. The entire population of the town is reported at 2273.

The operation, which targeted people who criminally used other persons Social Security numbers and were in the U.S. illegally, was the largest of its kind in Iowa, said Claude Arnold, a special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

According to an affidavit, “Based on information thus far developed in the investigation, it appears, based on 2007 fourth quarter payroll reports, that approximately 76 percent of the 968 employees of Agriprocessors were using false or fraudulent social security numbers in connection with their employment.”

Read the full account in the Des Moines Register.

Imposing E-Verify system nationwide would be ‘disastrous’

So says the daily’s editorial writer, Linda Valdez

She writes: House Democratic leaders may not support the piecemeal. enforcement-only approach to immigration reform being proposed by Rep. Heath Shuler (D -NC) . But that’s minor consolation considering they have done little to push the comprehensive reform since taking the majority role.

Valdez continues: At least Arizona’s (Democrat) Rep. Gabrielle Giffords gets it. She says it would be “disastrous” to go along with Shuler’s plan to impose the flawed E-Verify system nationwide.

Valdez, an unabashed liberal and open borders advocate, appears to find it difficult to abide a Democrat such as Rep. Shuler, who actually supports border enforcement, including employer verification of new hires. She obviously supports Gifford’s contention that the simple-to-use E-Verify system is “burdensome.”

The only word Valdez omitted when referring to principled Democrat Shuler was “Heretic!”

Illegal Update

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

The daily Fish-wrapper has a communication problem. There are certain words they are unable to affix to the written page. It would appear that something of this magnitude would prove catastrophic for a newspaper, but this affliction doesn’t hold them down a bit. Proper words or not, they just keep writing,

Here we are treated to another sad tale. This one involves “53 immigrants…held against their will by human smugglers,” who were trying to extort money from their hapless captives. Among the group “being held by force against their will” were three women and a mentality disabled man.

In truth, these are illegal aliens. Since they paid their transporters to ensure safe passage into the United States in violation of our law, they are not actually victims, nor were they taken by force to accompany the coyotes. Let’s call them what they are: Criminal co-conspirators.

Words have meaning. How odd that Arizona’s largest newspaper has difficulty communicating facts in the English language. Could this be a reason why their reader base is dwindling?

Just a small “let’s be energy independent” quiz

With $5 a gallon gas looming…

Which political party has consistently blocked drilling in ANWR and which politician reliably reaches “across the aisle” to give them support?

National Review Online provides the answer.

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.

Congressman John Shadegg backs guest worker program

This is an election year, Mr. Shadegg, and your constituents are not with you on this

 On the eve of a key vote on a temporary-worker program for Arizona, the proposal has won the endorsement of a friend in a high place: U.S. Rep. John Shadegg.

“I have been a consistent supporter of a guest-worker program from . . . forever,” Shadegg said Friday. “Since when I was growing up in Arizona.”

Although he emphasized that he is unfamiliar with the details of the bill, Shadegg finds the idea “appealing,” according to a report in the daily.

“I think a guest-worker program is a step down the road to solving this problem,” he said, referring to illegal immigration.

He neglects, however, to explain how he would deal with the issue of birthright citizenship when those ‘guests’ have American citizen children while they are here as “temporary workers.”

 

Shadegg was among congressional members who backed the McCain-Kennedy-Kyl “comprehensive immigration reform,” which many regarded as granting amnesty to the estimated 30 million illegals currently in this country. That plan was derailed as an unprecedented outcry from American citizens shut down the congressional switchboard, alerting representatives to the fury such a scheme generated.

But Shadegg on Friday said a temporary-worker program should ease the strain on the border. “If people could cross lawfully, the motivation for them to cross illegally would drop,” he said.

That makes sense. If they are legalized, they will no longer be illegal.

 Likewise, if employers have a legal way to hire the workers they need, particularly in agriculture, there should be less incentive to hire illegal workers, he said.

Smell the familiar stench of amnesty here?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Turnout light in May Day demonstrations

Illegals demand “rights”

“We come here to fight for legalization. We’re people. We have rights,” said Eric Molina, an undocumented factory worker who immigrated to Zion, Ill., from Mexico.

Margot Veranes, a volunteer organizer in Tucson, where an estimated 12,000 took to the streets last year but early guesses Thursday put the crowd at closer to 500, blamed the turnout on aggressive enforcement by Border Patrol and police, according to a MyWay report.

“People have been stopped and deported in the last week. This is a community living in fear,” said Veranes, a researcher for the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades. “You never know when you’re going to be stopped by Border Patrol and now the police.”

“We’re marching to end the raids and the deportations, but we’re also marching for health care and education and good jobs,” she said.

Recall effort targets Phoenix’s “Sanctuary City” Mayor Phil Gordon

Bad year complicated by inability to understand meaning of ‘illegal’

This has not been a good year for Phil Gordon. He has had personal issues dogging him, his Phoenix Police union publicly expressing discontent with his hand-tying policies and Sheriff Joe Arpaio nipping at his heels. His poll numbers are tanking at 42 percent, and now, Gordon is the target of a recall effort by American Citizens United.

American Citizens United spokeswoman Anna Gaines says supporters are angry that Phoenix police do not have unconditional authority to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement when they encounter a suspected illegal immigrant.

To recall Gordon, the group must gather 23,751 valid signatures in 120 days from the time they file their formal campaign paperwork.

In January, Gordon was quoted as saying, “And it’s outrageous conduct on the part of these individuals that have proclaimed themselves judges of who belongs in our country and who doesn’t belong in our country.”

Seems lawyer Gordon has great difficulty comprehending that those who enter this country in violation of our laws by openly defying our status as a sovereign nation, are here illegally. That’s why they don’t belong here, Mr. Mayor.

Were you sleeping through law school when the definitions of legal and illegal were being taught?

Contact Keith Lefebvre at 602-200-4646, or at keith.lefebvre@yahoo,com to get petitions. Beat the rising summer temperatures, and circulate these now.

Hispanic advocates declare law “divisive,” urge veto

 Gov. Janet Napolitano is being urged by Hispanic activists to veto legislation authorizing local police and sheriff’s agencies supervision of federal immigration law violations.

Members of Somos America have written Gov. Napolitano, saying the requirement increases racial profiling.

Somos America, which translates to We Are America, also called it “a divisive bill” that polarizes the state between “the pro-immigrant reformers and the anti-immigrant groups infiltrated by hate groups such as the neo-Nazis and KKK.” Napolitano has until the end of the day to decide whether to sign or veto it.

Somos America members object to provisions that law enforcement officers receive special federal training to allow them to enforce federal immigration laws

The Rev. Luz Santiago, pastor of Iglesia Puebla de Dios in Mesa, threatened Hispanic lawmakers who supported the bill, saying, “we’re the ones that can vote you out.”

The Arizona Daily Star covers the story here.

Piling on Arpaio, Part Dos

Illegals vent

Now the East Valley Tribune jumps on the anti-Arpaio bandwagon with a video on their site, titled: Mesa Hispanics talk about the effects Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s crime sweeps are having on their community.

As Spanish-speaking illegals talk, a soft-voiced female English narrator translates their “fears and concerns.”

“The first thing they tell me is we’re leaving because of Arpaio. Because he doesn’t let us work.”

“I make less money.”

” I don’t have legal documents. If they catch me I’ll be left with nothing. So then what will I do?”

“It causes fear in the community.”

“They don’t go out to amuse themselves, to pass the time. They don‘t do that anymore.”

“We take more precautions. We call each other.”

“We live in fear.”

“People are very intimidated. I have friends who don‘t go out. They don’t leave on weekends.”

“I think it’s racial.”

“I would ask the sheriff, isn’t it more important to catch the people who are trafficking drugs? Those are the ones who murder our children. Those are the ones who commit more serious crimes. That’s something that affects us all–legal and illegal. Why not stop those people–that would be more important, I think.”

“I’ve heard rumors they don’t send their kids to school. They don’t send their kids to school.”

 Quite a heart-wrenching saga. Obviously, it is long past time for those here ilegally to go home and put these worries behind them.