Immigration Insanity
This headline should shock everyone:
Hispanic Groups Call for Moratorium on Work Raids
Here’s what the article says:
U.S. Hispanic groups and activists on Thursday called for a moratorium on workplace raids to round up illegal immigrants, saying they were reminiscent of Nazi crackdowns on Jews in the 1930s. They accused the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of “racial profiling,” or selective enforcement against Hispanics, for arresting 1,300 workers on immigration violations in December 12 raids at meatpacking plants in six states.
These activist groups jumped the shark by equating enforcing existing laws with Hitler’s Germany. Do these activists realize that they’ve just marginalized themselves? Something that I’m wondering is whether this fits into the legislation that Pelosi and Conyers plan on introducing on CAIR’s behalf.
“We are demanding an end to these immigration raids, where they are targeting brown faces. That is major, major racial profiling, and that cannot be tolerated,” said Rosa Rosales, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, at a news conference. “This unfortunately reminds me of when Hitler began rounding up the Jews for no reason and locking them up,” Democratic Party activist Carla Vela said. “Now they’re coming for the Latinos, who will they come for next?”
Saying that ICE uses racial profiling in making the raids is stating the obvious. Should ICE profile white-skinned Europeans in looking for illegal aliens? Or should they target African-Americans? Or should they just use random searches like they use in airports so that Hispanics aren’t targeted? What tools should ICE use in going after illegal aliens? Or are these groups asking that the borders not be enforced at all?
I’ll be interested in seeing how the 110th Congress will handle this issue. It’ll tell us alot about how serious they are on law enforcement and national security issues. If the Democrats in Congress include Hispanics in their legislation against profiling of all sorts. If they are, then it’s important that Republicans step forward to say that that isn’t acceptable. It’s important that Republicans filibuster such legislation.
Technorati Tags: Illegal Immigration, National Security, Law Enforcement
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
December 22nd, 2006 at 7:22 pm
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December 23rd, 2006 at 7:19 am
Republicans will not filibuster such legislation. These are the same republicans that went along with medicare prescription, no child left behind, etc, etc. I have zero confidence left on the republican party.
December 23rd, 2006 at 9:04 am
Im not sure if I was more shocked than angry when I read that story last night. What huge balls those people must have. I live in So Cal and have my life disrupted every day because of the invasion of illegals. The first thing I heard George Bush saying after the democrats took control of the House was that he could work with them to pass amnesty for illegals. He will never ever get a single bit of support from me again.
December 23rd, 2006 at 11:20 am
I think Bush should be impeached for not protecting our borders from invasion.
December 26th, 2006 at 9:51 am
Oh, my, where to begin?
We’re picking on all those poor brown faces! Oh, excuse me, I meant to say all those poor brown faces that have not one iota of legal standing to be here, within the borders of this country anywhere. Oops.
The feds are just like the Nazis picking on the Jews. Except the Jews had lived there legally for centuries, and had not broken immigration laws getting there. Oops.
Maybe, if we’re all lucky, they’ll come for every other illegal scumbag that isn’t latino, next. Then, if we’re really lucky, they’ll seal up the borders and allow only those who have properly applied and filled out the paperwork and waited their own turn. Kinda like the laws were supposedly set up to do in the first place.