What assimilation?
Four Wichita families filed a discrimination lawsuit Monday in federal court against St. Anne Catholic School over a policy that requires English to be spoken at all times during the school day.
The lawsuit calls for an end to St. Anne’s policy, an order barring English-only or similar policies at other diocese schools and $75,000 for court and other costs.
The families want students to be able to speak other languages if they choose during their free time — not in the classroom or during instructional times.
A diocese spokesman called the discrimination suit “unfortunate,” saying the Catholic church has a history of offering support and services to minorities and of speaking out for immigrant rights.
But one of the parents behind the suit said he’s concerned that the English-only policy could spread.
“I think if one school is granted their wish by not allowing their students to speak another language, then other schools will follow suit,” said Michael Silva.
St. Anne’s language policy has been in effect since September.
The lawsuit claims that the policy “has created and continues to promote racial and national origin discrimination.. ”
Diocese spokesman Fred Solis said he cannot agree with the discrimination claim.
“We have to disagree with the notion that the church, or the diocese or St. Anne for that matter is or has discriminated against any member of a minority group given our history, and the many ways that, even today, we go about to speak out on behalf of immigrants, minorities and the many services we offer to those groups of people,” he said.
The school, its principal, Sister Margaret Nugent, the parish and the Catholic Diocese of Wichita are named defendants in the lawsuit.
Initially, I thought that it was a little strange to ban other languages during free time. What’s the point of that?, I wondered.
And then I saw this little nugget:
The diocese has said the school enacted the policy in response to four students who were using Spanish to bully others and to put down teachers and administrators.
Ah.
The students’ first language also is English, not Spanish. So what’s the problem here? It isn’t like these students can’t understand English.
Like the school’s policy or not, here’s the kicker — it’s a private school. Any funding the school receives goes to its students, not the school itself. So that school, as far as I’m concerned, can make whatever policies they want. They can require students to speak only in Pig Latin for all I care. If you don’t like it, you’re welcome to take your children elsewhere.
And of course, it won’t matter how the rest of the student population and their families feel about the English-only policy. They could all support it, but if a few minority families change, we have to buckle under to please them. Isn’t that how it works nowadays?
Hat Tip: Moonbattery
Check out this ad I saw on TV for childhood obesity prevention, sponsored by the U.S. Government:
Yep. All in Spanish. Here in the United States.
My blood boiled when I saw it.
It brought to mind a particular quote (emphasis mine):
In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.
- Theodore Roosevelt, January 3, 1919
Roosevelt also told the Kansas City Star in 1918 that “Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or to leave the country… English should be the only language taught or used in the public schools.”
What a switch, huh? Not only is English not the national language, but it isn’t the only language taught in our schools, and we have ads commissioned by our own government in Spanish.
Also, does anyone think that this does Spanish-speaking children any favors? Coddling them won’t help them assimilate. It’s fine for them to grow up here in the U.S. speaking Spanish, but if we expect them to be able to grow up as productive adults, then they need to learn English. And that isn’t going to happen if we’re accomodating them with Spanish at every turn.
It looks like Republicans in the Senate are finally getting it. Jim DeMint, who was a hero in fighting the shamnesty movement last year, has introduced legislation to finally get the damn fence finished.
Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) introduced the “Complete the Fence Act” that will require the completion of 700 miles of reinforced pedestrian fencing along the nation’s southern border by December 31, 2010. The bill also requires the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to report to Congress by June 2009 on fence construction progress and how it plans to complete the full fence by the 2010 deadline.“Americans demand a secure border and the first step is to complete the fence,” said Senator DeMint. “Our nation’s borders are fundamental to our national security and our sovereignty, and we can’t delay any longer. If we want to have a legal immigration system that works, we must have a secure border so we know who is entering and leaving the United States.”
In September 2006, Congress overwhelmingly passed and the President signed a bill that required 700 miles of reinforced fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border. The “Complete the Fence Act” will require DHS to complete the 700 miles fence by December 31, 2010, using only reinforced pedestrian fencing, not vehicle barriers or “virtual” fencing.
In direct conflict with the requirements set by Congress in 2006, DHS Secretary Chertoff has recently attempted to count vehicle barriers that stand only a few feet high and can easily be walked around as part of total fencing completed. DHS claims to have completed 302 miles of fencing by counting 134 miles of vehicle barriers. DHS has actually only completed 167 miles of physical, pedestrian fencing.
Last week, at a U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee hearing, U.S. Border Patrol officials admitted that the “virtual fencing”, which was to account for nearly 300 miles of the 700 mile fence, is not working as promised and will not be operational for at least 3 more years. The technology encountered numerous problems that included: software integration, synching cameras with the radar systems, trouble identifying objects among desert trees, rain interference, and easy targets for drug traffickers to disable.
“Border security cannot wait any longer and we cannot depend on failed virtual fencing or vehicle barriers that won’t stop pedestrians,” said Senator DeMint. “We must keep our promise to America and build a real fence to secure our borders immediately.”
“Over half a million new illegal immigrants enter our nation every year. But this is more than an immigration problem. The southern border is where the majority of cocaine is smuggled in, and where heroin, marijuana and crystal meth flood into our country. It’s where the disgusting and immoral practice of human trafficking happens, with thousands of people sold into modern day slavery and prostitution. And most importantly, the border is a national security threat that leaves America vulnerable to terrorists and weapons of mass destruction,” said Senator DeMint.
What the heck has taken them so damn long to figure it out? We showed them our outrage when they tried to force amnesty down our throats, we should show them our support for finally cluing in.
This is just another sign that Republicans got the hint last year. They’re ready to get tough.
Senate Republicans are set to announce Wednesday the hardest-hitting package of immigration enforcement measures seen yet — one that would require jail time for illegal immigrants caught crossing the border, make it harder for them to open bank accounts and compel them to communicate in English when dealing with federal agencies.Most of the bills stand little chance of being debated in the Democrat-controlled Congress, but the move by some of the Senate’s leading Republicans underscores how potent the issue of immigration remains, particularly during a presidential election year.
The bills give Republicans a way to put pressure on the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates to take a tougher stance on immigration. They also reflect a shift toward harsher immigration rhetoric and legislative proposals from both parties since Congress failed to pass a comprehensive overhaul in 2007.
The package, an enforcement smorgasbord assembled by at least eight lawmakers, consists of 11 bills, but could expand to include as many as 14. Some elements echo House bills, but others go beyond House proposals.
One would discourage states from issuing driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants by docking 10 percent of highway funding from states that continue to do so. Another would extend the presence of National Guard on the border and a third would end language assistance at federal agencies and the voting booth for people with limited English ability.
A bill by Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., who is leading the effort, would impose a maximum two-year jail sentence on someone caught crossing the border for a second time.
… Other bills in the package would:
• Block federal funding from cities that bar their police from asking about immigration status.
Give the Department of Homeland Security the authority to use information from the Social Security Administration to target illegal immigrants.
• Require construction of 700 miles of fencing along the Southern border, not including vehicle barriers.
• Impose sanctions on countries that refuse to repatriate their citizens.
• Deport any immigrant, legal or illegal, for one drunken-driving conviction.
• Enable local and state police to enforce federal immigration laws
And we now have the Senate Border Security Caucus:
Today, U.S. Sens. David Vitter (R- Louisiana), Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama), James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), Elizabeth Dole (R-North Carolina), Saxby Chambliss (R-Georgia), Johnny Isakson (R-Georgia), Richard Burr (R-North Carolina) and Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) announced the formation of the Border Security and Enforcement First Caucus.The U.S. illegal immigrant population is the highest it has ever been. One in 25 residents currently living in the United States is here illegally. Over the last seven years, immigration has been the highest in history – 10.9 million immigrants arrived, over half of them (five million plus) without legal status.
The Caucus members recognize that Congress has presented the American people with a false choice in solving the illegal immigration problem – give illegal aliens amnesty or round them up and deport them en masse. The principle mission of the Caucus is to promote a true, achievable alternative: attrition through enforcement and border security. Living illegally in the United States will become more difficult and less satisfying over time when the government – at ALL LEVELS – enforces all of the laws already on the books.
The Caucus will be a platform to let Americans know that some in the U.S. Senate are continuing to make sure that the laws already on the books will be enforced, act as the voice of those concerned citizens who have expressed their opinions time and time again for interior enforcement and border security, push for stronger border security and interior enforcement legislation, and work together in the U.S. Senate to defeat future legislation that offers amnesty.
Gee, and what a surprise — all Republicans, no Democrats.
I don’t want to get too excited, but this all looks very promising. I think it wouldn’t be a bad idea at all to send these Senators calls and/or e-mails of support — like I said, we railed on them for amnesty, we should let them know that they’ll have our support for giving us good policy. You can get their e-mail addresses and phone numbers here. We shouldn’t only be active in politics when things are going badly; all politicians are supposed to be public servants, so don’t hesitate to tell them your opinion on an issue, and don’t only express the negative opinions, either.
In any case, this makes me very hopeful. It’s unlikely that we’ll see many results from this, given that Dems are all for open borders, rampant multiculturalism, and lax national security, but who knows what could happen if our guys keep the pressure on? Feel free to e-mail the Senators with the (D) next to their name and encourage them to vote for the Complete the Fence Act, too.
A disturbing story today, from Powerline:
Fort Huachuca, the nation’s largest intelligence-training center, changed security measures in May after being warned that Islamist terrorists, with the aid of Mexican drug cartels, were planning an attack on the facility.Fort officials changed security measures after sources warned that possibly 60 Afghan and Iraqi terrorists were to be smuggled into the U.S. through underground tunnels with high-powered weapons to attack the Arizona Army base, according to multiple confidential law enforcement documents obtained by The Washington Times.
According to the FBI advisory, each Middle Easterner paid Mexican drug lords $20,000 “or the equivalent in weapons” for the cartel’s assistance in smuggling them and their weapons through tunnels along the border into the U.S. The weapons would be sent through tunnels that supposedly ended in Arizona and New Mexico, but the Islamist terrorists would be smuggled through Laredo, Texas, and reclaim the weapons later.
A number of the Afghans and Iraqis are already in a safe house in Texas, the FBI advisory said.
Can we close them now? This is just an example of what anyone with half a brain has been worried about. This is what can happen if we have a border with more holes in it than Swiss cheese. See, us conservatives are not just bigots and xenophobes. We actually like our country and want immigrants to come (provided they follow our laws). We do not want Al Qaeda to be able to pay off Mexican drug cartels and smuggle themselves in without a problem.
See, liberals? It’s not just an immigration issue (although it is a factor). This is also a let’s make it as tough as possible for Al Qaeda to enter the United States and wreak havoc and terror issue. So let’s just stop all this politicizing B.S. over closing the border now and just do it, simply because it’s the right thing to do — it’s what needs to be done.
However, I won’t hold my breath.
I can’t tell you how thrilled I was to read this story:
Federal authorities have busted a statewide sex trafficking ring in which Central American women said they were smuggled into Florida and forced into prostitution in Jacksonville and other cities.The women were brought to Florida under the guise of getting work as maids or bartenders but were forced into prostitution at apartment complexes in Jacksonville, Tampa, Tallahassee and Orlando, according to an arrest affidavit signed by Senior Special Agent William Maxey of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
An indictment unsealed last week in Tallahassee said the women were rotated from city to city and required to have multiple sex acts with multiple partners every day. Federal prosecutors said the men promoted the prostitution ring with business cards and cell phones and kept the $30 per sex act the women were told to charge. The women were picked up in Texas, the indictment says.
A fifth man, also from Colombia, was convicted by a Tallahassee jury in May of seven related counts. Jorge Wilmar Melchor is awaiting sentencing Oct. 15.
Melchor was arrested in 2006 after two Guatemalan women fled his Tallahassee home and told a neighbor they were being forced to work as prostitutes. The women testified they were taken to apartment complexes populated by alien workers, said Melchor’s attorney, Armando Garcia.
“My understanding of how this works is they service strictly the Latin community,” Garcia said Tuesday.
Witnesses interviewed for Melchor’s case told agents about others involved in human trafficking in other cities, including Carlos Andres Monsalve, who Maxey testified ran the organization from Tampa. He said Monsalve began smuggling women into the United States in 2005 and told them they had to work as prostitutes to pay his smuggling fees.
Also arrested were:
- Fabio Perez, a Colombian immigrant who witnesses said drove prostitutes to and from Jacksonville and ran the organization in Monsalve’s absence;
- Jorge Enrique Londono, also known as Alvara Prado, who agents said formerly ran the Jacksonville end of the ring; and
- Luz Karime Ramos Teran, also known as La Negra, who prosecutors said housed women in Jacksonville.
A sixth defendant, whose name has been kept secret and who is cooperating with agents, told Maxey he normally met Londono and Perez between Jacksonville and Tampa for the purpose of exchanging prostitutes.
Garcia estimated about two dozen women were involved in the ring. He said he argued during Melchor’s trial that the women were willing participants.
“He was a pimp. He was not a smuggler,” Garcia said.
North Florida is already fast becoming a goldmine for drug traffickers, thanks in large part to the fact that it is pretty much a halfway point between Miami and Atlanta. And prostitution by no means is something new here, but an illegal immigrant prostitution ring — especially one with women who are being abducted, trafficked, and then used as unwilling sex slaves? That makes me thrilled.
Of course, there’s a simple way to fix this problem.
Deport. Them. All. Now.
Whether these women are willing participants or not (and I don’t believe that they were), prostitution is still illegal. These men became criminals just by crossing the border, and then expounded upon that by creating a prostitution ring. They have ZERO right to remain in this country.
Illegal immigrants should be deported just for being in the country illegally, but once they become criminals, there’s no reason to allow them to stay. The cost is too high.
The list of their victims grows longer every day, and even in post 9-11 America, our government does not seem to understand the importance of closing the borders and deporting illegal immigrants. They won’t even deport the illegal immigrants who are criminals!
Will these men be slapped on the wrist and released back into society? The way our government handles these criminals, that’s probably exactly what will happen. They’ll do some jail time and will be released, to perhaps start up a new prostitution ring. Some might progress to trafficking drugs, raping, or murdering.
There are so many cases of illegal immigrants getting arrested for petty crimes, being released, and then going on to rape and kill innocent Americans all across the country.
How will the state of Florida handle these disgusting criminals?
If you haven’t yet, visit Deport Them Now! and add your name. Let the government know that this game of catch-and-release needs to stop. NOW.
Get that? The state that was the site of the worst terror attack in United States history is letting illegal aliens get drivers licenses now.
They were celebrating outside the governor’s office Friday as Eliot Spitzer handed a landmark victory to a half-million illegal immigrants.The state will no longer require proof of citizenship for driver’s licenses.
“We’re changing our policy with respect to getting more people out of shadows and into the system so people don’t hide they’re here,” Spitzer said.
He said the current restrictions on non-citizens have filled the roads with unlicensed drivers five times more likely to get into accidents. But he also called it a matter of justice. “As long as I’m governor we won’t pretend they don’t exist, cut them off from society,” Spitzer said.
But the action triggered a bitter response from some 9/11 family members, who said the governor would be providing identification for potential terrorists. And a Brooklyn state senator says he’ll try to overturn the decision.
“This governor has chosen to give the keys to the city, the keys to the state to terrorism,” Golden said.
As for the public, it’s clear that people have strong feelings on both sides of the issue.
“I don’t think if you’re here illegally you should have the same privileges people who are here legally do,” office manager Cliff Hoffman said. Added legal word processor Bill Slater: “I think illegal people are getting a free ride. I don’t think it’s fair to other hard-working citizens who do work hard.”
Planning consultant John Madden said the move is also a pre-emptive strike against another type of potentially hazardous driver. “The problem is they’re gonna drive anyway,” Madden said. “You might as well make them legal drivers with insurance.”
The new rules will start to kick in at the end of the year, unless someone finds a way to put a halt to them.
Under the new policy, the Department of Motor Vehicles will accept foreign passports and birth certificates from immigrants as proof of identification. They will no longer need to provide a Social Security card.
Well gee, why don’t we just hand them a few 747s while we’re at it?
You would think that New York would have learned the lesson of what terrorism can do to our country more than anyone else, but Governor Spitzer has decided that the best way to handle illegal aliens is to hand them legal identification to make it easier for them to attack the country.
Not to mention that illegal aliens, are, well, illegal. He says he won’t cut them off from society, but that’s exactly what he should do. If they aren’t prepared to come here through legal channels like the millions of legal immigrants before them have, then they shouldn’t be here. They have no rights. Period.
Then there’s also the effect that illegal aliens are having on the overall well-being of the cities and counties they’re taking over, like New York’s own Westchester and Putnam counties, as an example. Public drunkenness and urinating have become the norm, as liberal moonbats agreed with illegal aliens who sued the city of Mamaroneck to stop police officers from asking them if they were here legally and trying to get them to move along rather than be wasted in the streets, claiming it was discrimination.
But, to moonbat Governor Spitzer, none of that matters. Safety of New York citizens, overall well-being of the cities and counties of New York, following our country’s laws — that’s all irrelevant. The most important thing is that illegal aliens get their way.
Hat Tip: Moonbattery
Michelle Malkin and Hot Air have issued a call to arms: a movement created to pressure the government to deport convicted criminal aliens.
We’ve seen it over and over again the past few months: illegal aliens killing someone while driving drunk; rapists; murderers — most of them with past convictions who not only were not deported, but allowed to walk the streets, free again.
Michelle’s column explains why we need to act:
My fellow Americans, we have a problem. We spend billions of dollars on homeland security, but our government can’t even track and deport convicted criminal aliens. These are not the well-meaning “newcomers” who just want to “pursue economic opportunities” by “doing the jobs no one else will do.” These are foreign-born thugs, sex offenders, murderers, and repeat drunk drivers who are destroying the American Dream.
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The terrible kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Zina Linnik in Tacoma, Wash., on July 4th is a typical example of the criminal alien revolving door. Terapon Adhahn, Linnik’s suspected kidnapper and killer who allegedly snatched her from the backyard of her home, is a permanent legal resident from Thailand. He was convicted of incest in 1990. Adhahn had sexually attacked his 16-year-old relative and pleaded down from a second-degree rape. Two years later, he was convicted of intimidation with a dangerous weapon. Section 1227(a)(2)(C), Title 8, of the U.S. code dealing with immigration states: “Any alien who at any time after admission is convicted under any law of…using, owning, possessing, or carrying…any weapon, part, or accessory which is a firearm or destructive device…in violation of any law is deportable.”
But Adhahn was not deported. In fact, as Lorie Dankers, spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Seattle, admitted: “He escaped our attention.”
Just like illegal alien gangster Mwenda Murithi , who was arrested 27 times without deportation before being arrested in the shooting death of 13-year-old innocent bystander Schanna Gayden last month in Illinois.
Just like illegal alien thug Ezeiquiel Lopez, who built up a six-year rap sheet without deportation before being arrested in the murder of Deputy Frank Fabiano two months ago in Wisconsin.
Just like illegal alien Juan Leonardo Quintero, who had been previously deported after committing crimes from indecency with a child to driving while intoxicated, but who traipsed back into the U.S. last fall and was arrested after allegedly shooting Houston police officer Rodney Johnson four times in the head during a routine traffic stop.
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It is not “anti-immigrant radicals” who are fed up with the failure to kick out and keep out criminal aliens. Zina Linnik’s uncle, Anatoly Kalchik, points out that his family was a family of legal immigrants who all obeyed the laws. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported: “Zina’s uncle was angry that the suspect had not been deported after being convicted in a sex crime. “We are all immigrants, but we come legally,” Anatoly Kalchik said of his family. He added that the adults all cleared a criminal background check. ‘If someone is a sex offender, or any kind of offender, he has no business being in America,’ he said.”
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Rep. David Price, a North Carolina Democrat, is sponsoring legislation to require monthly prison and jail checks by DHS to track incarcerated illegal aliens, increase spending on criminal alien deportations, and expand a program known as 287(g) to encourage more local and state officials to cooperate with the feds to help identify and deport criminal aliens in their hometowns.
Why the hell aren’t we doing all this already? How many more innocent lives will be taken or ruined before we do?
After the defeat of the Bush-Kennedy amnesty bill last month, I received tons of e-mail from readers asking: “What can I do?” Answer: Don’t wait for Washington. Sign up to help pressure our government to rid this country of convicted criminal aliens at www.deportthemnow.com.
For Zina. For Schanna. For Deputy Fabiano. For Officer Johnson. For our safety, sovereignty, and the protection of the American Dream for those who deserve it.
Make sure the read the column in its entirety.
Michelle is right — this has gone on far too long. Since the government won’t act, its time that we do. Visit Deport Them Now and together, we can send a powerful message to the government that they cannot ignore.
Everyone is going on and on and on about how President Bush commuted Scooter Libby’s sentence:
Just when things looked darkest for I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, when prison seemed all but certain, President Bush wiped away the former White House aide’s 2 1/2-year sentence in the CIA leak case.
Bush’s move came Monday, just five hours after a federal appeals panel ruled that Libby could not delay his prison term. His prospects for an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court seemed bleak. The former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, Libby was just waiting for a date to surrender.
After months of sidestepping pardon questions, Bush stepped in. He did not issue a pardon but erased a prison sentence that he felt was just too harsh.
“I respect the jury’s verdict,” Bush said in a written statement. “But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive. Therefore, I am commuting the portion of Mr. Libby’s sentence that required him to spend 30 months in prison.”
That’s all fine and good — I agree that the sentence was excessive.
But there are two people in prison right now who shouldn’t be, with terms much longer than 30 months, and it has been a lot longer than five hours after their sentencing.
Their names are Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. They are the two Border Patrol Agents, arrested for defending themselves against an illegal alien smuggling over 740 lbs of marijuana into the United States.
Agents Ramos and Compean were sentenced to eleven and twelve year prison terms with a possibility of twenty years to life. I wrote about this travesty back in January in an open letter to President Bush:
On February 17, 2005, U.S. Border Agent Ignacio Ramos (a former nominee for Border Patrol Agent of the Year), and Jose Compean attempted to apprehend a fleeing illegal alien at our border. Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila had the pleasure of getting a personal visit from a Department of Homeland Security investigator, sent by you, to offer him full immunity in exchange for testifying against the Border Patrol Agents.
Really, Mr. President? Who are you representing — an illegal immigrant who tried to smuggle drugs across the border and assaulted an American, or Americans who are trying to protect other Americans? You didn’t offer them a pardon, so I guess we know your answer.
Mr. Aldrete-Davila thanked you for your kindness, generosity, and faith by getting caught smuggling more drugs into the United States. He was again freed. He thanked the United States by suing for $5 million, claiming his civil rights were violated.
T.J. Bonner, of the National Border Patrol Council, said on CNN that ”This is really the most outrageous miscarriage of justice that I’m aware of in my twenty-eight years as a border patrol agent. I have never seen anything so… I can’t even think of the word.”
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-CA, said, ”The word is out that the southern border is undefended. Border agents won’t dare to draw their weapons, and the drug cartel will double their effort to drive a wedge in our border.”
”This is the worst betrayal of American defenders I have ever seen,” he continued. ”It’s shameful this was done by someone who is in the Republican Party. He obviously thinks more about his agreements with Mexico than the lives of American people and backing up his defenders.”
They are now in prisons where they are surrounded by criminals, which they themselves have arrested. They were being held in the general population — until Ignacio Ramos was the victim of a brutal attack by a group of illegal immigrants yelling “Maten a la migra!” which means “Kill the Border Patrol agent.” He suffered repeated blows and kicks, and allegedly did not receive medical attention for up to 48 hours after the attack. His wife reported he had a concussion, with blood coming out of his ears after the attackers kicked him wearing their prison work-issued, steel toe boots in the back, ribs, and head.
These men were doing their job to protect us and our borders, and yet they are in prison. Where is a pardon for them, or a commutation of their sentences? Both are married, with families. They did nothing wrong, and the President is refusing to act.
That’s why there is no reason whatsoever that this Scooter Libby clemency should be news.
I just received this statement from presidential candidate Duncan Hunter:
By a vote of 46 to 53, the U.S. Senate voted today not to proceed with debate on legislation providing amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants presently living in the United States. Following the Senate’s vote, Presidential Candidate and U.S. Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) made the following statement:
“From the very beginning of the immigration debate, the American people were clear in their strong opposition to granting amnesty to more than 12 million illegal immigrants. While this flawed piece of legislation should never have been considered in the first place, I commend my colleagues in the Senate who positioned themselves with the American people and rejected this amnesty bill.
“The idea that amnesty must be accepted in order to achieve secure and enforceable borders is absurd. The effort to provide citizenship benefits to millions of illegal immigrants failed — not once, but twice. It is time that we abandon the concept of rewarding those who have broken our laws and take action to secure our borders and enforce existing immigration laws. This is what the American people have been demanding and this is what they deserve.
“Executing one existing law in particular, the Secure Fence Act, would go a long way to bringing a greater element of security to our Southern land border. By constructing double-layered security fencing across the major smuggling corridors on the U.S.-Mexico border, as required by the Secure Fence Act, we will have taken a significant step towards achieving a border that is enforceable and no longer a conduit for illegal activity.”
NOTE: Congressman Duncan authored the fencing provisions in the Secure Fence Act, extending the San Diego Border Fence across Arizona, and portions of New Mexico and Texas.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again — we need Duncan Hunter in 2008.
On June 30th, another FEC finance report is due. You can donate using the form located below on my blog, or go on over to Duncan’s page at www.gohunter08.com. If you want a true conservative in the White House — and Hunter is — then get on over to his page and donate a few dollars if you can.
