Another great video. Must watch.
This is another political cartoon I like. Enjoy. From the US News and World Report.
Oh yea, enforcement is working. It is taking those countless criminal scumbags of aliens of the streets and back where they belong. They are all so dangerous and scary. Lets take a look at the first example of a dangerous individual.
First up, as reported by FOXNews. There was an evil librarian in the town of Burlington, NC. Yep, she was taken care of. She was dangerous all right, being here for so long that she doesn’t remember the place she came from. And of course, she married a real American and had a kid. She committed the crime of stealing that guy from a real American woman. The shame! I’m so glad that giving the police immigration powers is working so swell.
Second to the plate, by the NY Times. This wretched human being was caught for driving badly. So, she went to jail for 6 days, she was 9 months pregnant and had a kid on a hospital while having an officer watching over her. Of course, she was also chained to the bed with handcuffs while having the kid. We all know women usually have a very merry time while giving birth. Having a kid is so easy that she could have tried to escape. So the police did the right thing by chaining her, right.
Now, I’m not even going to bother writing anything about this because I couldn’t seriously make this up or make fun about it, I’ll just quote the article.
After she was discharged from the hospital, Mrs. Villegas was separated from her nursing infant for two days and barred from taking a breast pump into the jail, her lawyer and a doctor familiar with the case said. Her breasts became infected, and the newborn boy developed jaundice, they said.
No, let me speak seriously for a minute. ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS??? The woman had a baby for Christ’s sake. But of course, she is a dangerous individual.
I’m so tired of the bullshit that comes from giving police immigration powers. Instead of going after people that actually put people in danger, you know, actual criminals, they do this shit. Going after librarians? Recent mothers? People working at factories? I mean, come on, the hypocrisy of immigration enforcement is so thick I could cut it with a knife.
Those two stories above are shameful and people should be embarrassed that their tax payer money (including my parents’) is being used like that. How did we come to this? What next? I’ll be taken out because I was having fun at my university?
Garcia Hernandez gives a good historical background & some really disturbing reflections on the judiciary’s involvement in this raid & on its implications for migrants’ ability to seek justice in the US.
Wow, this sort of news makes me sad for America. America is supposed to be better than this but apparently not. A man named Luis Ramirez was beaten to death by 6 teenagers in the town of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. The following are quotes from the article from ABC News.
“From what we understand right now, it wasn’t racially motivated,” Nestor said. “This looks like a street fight that went wrong.”
Umm, no, a street fight is one thing. Ganging up on someone and leaving them one step away from death is another. Look at the picture below.
Luis Ramirez. This is the result of a hate crime. (Crystal Dillman/AP Photo)
Retired Philadelphia police Officer Eileen Burke, who lives on the street where the fight occurred, told The Associated Press she heard a youth scream at one of Ramirez’s friends after the beating to tell her Mexican friends to get out of Shenandoah, “or you’re going to be laying next to him.”
On Dillman’s fireplace mantel hangs a medallion of Jesus that Ramirez was wearing the night he was beaten. Ramirez had an imprint of the medallion on his chest, marking where an assailant stomped on him, she said.
The Garcias said they heard the youths call Ramirez “stupid Mexican” and an ethnic slur.
Burke, the former Philadelphia officer, said she saw shirtless youths swarming around Ramirez, called 911 and went outside, when she heard a youth yell obscenities and make the get-out-of-Shenandoah remark.
But do the people in the town choose to believe this. Take a look at the quote below to know.
Despite the witness statements, Borough Manager Joseph Palubinsky said he doesn’t believe Ramirez’s ethnicity was what prompted the fight: “I have reason to know the kids who were involved, the families who were involved, and I’ve never known them to harbor this type of feeling.”
Of course, the witnesses are lying. Yep. They are just out to ruin the kids who were defending themselves from the big scary Mexican illegal. OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH look out, I’m also scary. I’m like boogie man, out to get you. I guess someone forgot to inform my girlfriend and friends that I’m scary, because all Mexicans are, right?
The people defending on this story are full of shit, it is that simple. They are defending kids because what, they are football players and win games. Because they know the families involved? All shit. The kids deserve to go to jail or more for the crime they committed. It doesn’t matter whether the person who is now dead was illegal or not, he was attacked by the simple fact of being Mexican. The man was stomped one and kicked in the head, how is that not a crime.
This article and event are disturbing beyond belief, I’m Mexican and I’ve always been afraid of something like this happening to me or my family. This is what happens when the immigration debate gets out context and everyone within group are labeled as demons, in this case, Latinos. I thought American was better than this.
The rest of the abomination is written in the following article by ABC News, the quotes and pictures belong to them.
This is from FarkTV. I think it is hilarious. Have a good laugh.
You know, it really bothers me that Spanish is seen as a threat. I mean, I would have thought that being bilingual is good. But now, thanks to the immigration debate, knowing something other than English is seen as unpatriotic. I don’t understand it. I mean, no one, and I mean no one, is asking the American people to learn another language. They want new immigrants to learn English, that’s fine.
But give them a break, I mean, newcomer kids like myself do learn English. I’m in college for God’s sake. Adults, like my parents, they can’t learn as easily. It is harder for an adult to learn a new language, and they work 40 hour jobs which takes away their time and energy.
So, why does it bother people that others are speaking Spanish. I mean, it is not undermining the American sovereignty. I would like to know more than 2 languages but I think that my time in learning languages is coming to an end. Oh well, at least I’ll have a better chance in understanding people than monolingual people.
I found this via Citizen Orange (belonging to Signs of the Times), this picture, as Kyledeb said, is the world where the antis would love to live in. This is not how its going to go down though, or I least I hope not. I think the world is moving to a more progressive side, slowly but surely, we will get there and this picture will not come to pass.
Wow, talk about being stuck in limbo and then some. I have the unique advantage of people not knowing my location and such, I keep a low profile. I mean, I could go out and party and such, make a disgrace of myself but I choose not to, I think it is the smarter move. Anyway, back to the point, this kid who goes by the name of Arthur Mkoyan is stuck in the limbo from hell.
He graduated with a 4.0 GPA, probably higher than most of his American-born peers, and a letter of admission to UC Davis. So, that would be good right. Well, no, he is an undocumented immigrant from Armenia. But wait you say, I thought all undocumented immigrants were stinky Mexicans. No, you are wrong, epic fail.
So, why is the kid an undocumented immigrant. His father made the choice of emigrating to the US bringing his wife and kid, Arthur, at the age of 1. So, now, after a 16 year process that didn’t give the family assylum, they are supposed to be deported. Apparently having your house burned down and shop they owned getting ransacked aren’t valid enough reasons to flee your country and seek asylum elsewhere.
Well, now, here we are 16 years later and Arthur is stuck in limbo. He wants to continue his education but that has become doubtful considering he is undocumented. So, here we have a kid who would probably do well in life, his life in the US, but can’t because of the mistakes of others. Are you going to ask him to leave to a place where he has never been? Is that fair? And I thought I had it bad. I still can’t believe things like this could happen in this country but I guess I was wrong.
Read more about Arthur and his family’s story in the following article.
Umm…if only there was a piece of legislation that would allow his DREAMs to come true. Nah, I’m sure there isn’t one, no wait–
Well, here we go, from the so-called America’s toughest sheriff. He is leaving his residents behind. When the sheriff’s office started to concentrate on becoming immigration agents, their real jobs, being police agents to you know, protect and serve, was thrown out the window. This is what would happen if people get their way on regards to transforming police officers into immigration agents.
It is the rural communities that are affected by this measure. They depended on the man they elected and he threw them out the window in his search of glory and his five minutes of fame. Here is a quote from the article.
As a result, even serious criminal investigations began to suffer, the Tribune reported. In El Mirage, for instance, sheriff’s detectives did little or no investigation into at least 30 violent crime cases, including a dozen reported sexual assaults, during 2006 and 2007. The lack of significant work on those cases prompted the sheriff’s office to open an internal affairs investigation.
Is that what the residents wanted, unsafe communities. Sure, there are less immigrants now but only the hardworking ones are being scapegoated and such. It is quite sad. That’s the price that has to be made by giving the power of immigration to the local authorities. I hope that Arpaio is enjoying his 15-minutes of fame, because I know after all this mess is solved, he will live in infamy forever.
Read the rest of the sheriff’s bad decisions on the following article by KTAR.com.
Well, this is not about immigration but I’m going to blog about it anyways. It is kind of old too but I’m glad that some people do have b***s. The past 4th of July, the man known as Jesse Helms died. As far as I’ve been told and now read, he was one the most racist and homophobic individuals to ever wield power in this country. Seriously, to the people of NC, what the hell where you thinking in electing this guy? So much hate, destruction, it’s ridiculous and embarrassing. You people should be ashamed. Here are some of the quotes from the illustrious man himself.
“The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian.”
– 1995
“The University of Negroes and Communists”
– Reference to the University of North Carolina devised by Mr. Helms when he worked for Willis Smith’s 1950 U.S. Senate campaign.
“Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade-school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING and MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.”
– Fund raising mailer, 1996
“All Latins are volatile people. Hence, I was not surprised at the volatile reaction.”
– After Mexicans protested his visit in 1986
“Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches.”
– 1995 radio broadcast
“She’s a damn lesbian. I am not going to put a lesbian in a position like that. If you want to call me a bigot, fine.”
– Explaining why he was opposing the appointment of a woman for a cabinet post.
“They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro.”
– In response to Duke University students holding a vigil after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, 1968
Anyways, back to the point. I read this article over at Alternet and decided to share it here. So, the governor of NC, Gov. Easley decided that all flags should fly half-staff in order to honor the memory of their dead ex-senator. One man said no. It was L.F. Eason, a 29-year veteran of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. This is what he had to say about his choice.
“This is in no way a political decision. I simply do not feel it is appropriate to honor a person whose epitaph of government service was to have voted against or blocked every civil rights issue that came before the US Congress. His doctrine of negativity, hate, and prejudice cost North Carolina and our Nation much that we may never regain.”
All I can say is bravo good man, bravo. The man had to retire early from his post because of his decision Now, I say honor goes to the men who earned it. In my opinion, Jesse Helms didn’t earn any honor.
Well, now, this is insulting and unnecessary. I mean, has it really come to this. I guess so. Well, the following article from the city of Freemont says that now you have to have a license in order to live anywhere. I guess they finally found a way banish us. But really, I don’t think such an ordinance will be able to stand up in court. Such things never do.
Unsurprisingly, the article says that the ordinance doesn’t stipulate a penalty for landlords who fail to comply in checking out the licenses. Isn’t this like the raids, going after the little people instead of the ones who hire them. In this case, the people who allow them to have a residency.
Apparently the people are ’sick and tired’ on the lax immigration laws or the lack of action on the part of the federal government. Really, these people are sick and tired of what all the nativist are tired of, seeing people who are brown and therefore not liking them.
I’m sick and tired of all of this. Sick and tired of being considered a burden and a criminal. It depresses me the level of hate that people have toward me when they haven’t even met me. Or try to meet me.
This is a quote from the article from the Omaha World Herald, all credit goes to them, describing the racial stereotypes.
Angel Freytez, commission spokesman, said some opponents of the ban left the meeting early because they felt there was inadequate security. One opponent of the ordinance later broke into tears because of the “hateful” statements, said Freytez, who called the behavior at the meeting “shameful.”
“Instead of raising the level of dialogue over the immigration issue,” Freytez said, “they are degrading it.”
Pflanz, the Appleseed attorney, said some people in the audience of Latino and Asian descent overheard remarks aimed at them: “There’s an illegal. There’s an illegal.”
An illegal. An illegal. It goes on and on, doesn’t it? I’m tired of it. I’m tired of waking up and being on the same situation, I’m tired of just everything. How long can this mess continue, and even I don’t think I can last that long. Is it going to be until 2010? I don’t know, so many questions with no answers, yet. Banish? Cockroaches? And more, how long can this continue?
Read the rest of the article over the crap that is happening in Nebraska right here.
I just want to say thank-you to the police department of Montgomery, Washington, for doing your job. Protect and serve. Yes, to protect and serve everyone in the community. Not just the citizens and legal residents, because everyone is entitled to live a peaceful life in their homes. The job of the police is not to terrorize a group of people that is already being demonized by the likes of politicians and such.
“We don’t want our community members to think Montgomery County police conduct random raids that can result in the deportation of undocumented immigrants,” Baur said, adding that the support of all residents, including illegal immigrants, is necessary to report crime and solve cases.
I couldn’t agree more or said it better myself. I mean, really, why is that the anti-immigrants believe that transforming cops into immigration agents is going to solve the immigration issue. It is not. It is a band-aid solution. Undocumented immigrants will learn to live with whatever obstacles that you put in front of them. It is not a matter of wanting to break the law, but a matter of necessity. Taking the kids to school, going to work, buying the groceries, those are all activities necessary for the function of a family. Immigrants are not going stop doing that.
Nothing is gained by terrorizing a group of people. Nothing but their distrust and unwillingness to cooperate on actual criminal investigations, investigations that actually track down real law breakers who deserve to be in jail. That is who the police should be focusing on, not helping in the latest cheap illusion of solution of cont–er, I mean immigration raid. The police should focus on the protection of their community, of all members in it, everyone deserves to live in peace.
