Conservative Rumblings

No wonder the Border Patrol is understaffed; we keep convicting our agents of violating the rights of people who don’t have any rights.

Santiago Perez, 26, of Edinburg, plead guilty to the use of excessive force on two undocumented visitors, or people-without-papers, or night-time tourists, or whatever it is we’re calling illegals these days.

Apparently, he did a great Jack Bauer imitation, threatening the guy with his gun and his baton and caused him ‘mental anguish.’

Wow. So illegals have civil rights AND they can claim mental anguish? What a world.

Very impressive to start hitting some name-brands instead of Joe’s Tuna Packing plant or the like.

Hoodathunk has a good post about the situation and I happen to agree that prison time would be even better.

If forced deportations are not going to happen (much to my dismay, mind you), at the very least we need to crush the employers so severely that no one will ever in their life take the risk.

Like the above blogger points out, they just do the math; right now they can still turn a profit with illegals and fines. Changing that will go a long way to putting the heave-ho on the rabble and freeing up some jobs for LEGAL and AMERICAN workers.

Since the Federal government has shown itself to be completely inept when it comes to illegal immigration, many states, cities and towns are taking matters into their own hands.

Add the Nebraska town of Fremont to the list.

A proposed law aimed at banishing illegal immigrants from Fremont, Neb., would require every renter —whether they were born in the United States or immigrated here — to obtain an occupancy license through the city.

The proposal has sparked an outcry among advocates for Latinos. Nebraska Appleseed attorney Norm Pflanz said he is confident that many Fremont citizens will join in opposition once they understand the full impact of the ordinance — on their lives as well as those of immigrants.

Fremont’s is the first city council in the state to propose an ordinance that would ban harboring and renting to illegal immigrants. Lawmakers in other U.S. localities have introduced similar initiatives, often later struck down by the courts, according to national immigration groups.

Now, does anyone really think that the law says only Hispanic immigrants are affected? I doubt it. The law applies to ALL illegals. Of course, the reason the Hispanic groups are getting all up in arms is because they know their demographic is the one most often breaking the law.

I’m really getting tired of these “immigrant rights groups” acting like these criminals have anything due to them other than a swift kick in the butt back across the Rio Grande.

“I’ll fight to the dying end to do what they want,” longtime Councilman Bob Warner said of constituents who advocate the legislation. “I don’t know why everybody is making a mountain out of something that is very simple.”

Warner, the bill’s sponsor, said some residents are “sick and tired” of what he believes is the federal government’s lax approach to enforcing immigration.

Well said by Warner; I think every resident in the country is sick and tired of the federal government’s lax approach to enforcing immigration. And unfortunately, it’s only going to get worse with either McShamnesty or The Obamessiah elected this fall.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — More than 14,000 illegal immigrants have been deported from North and South Carolina and Georgia in the past eight months, according to federal immigration officials.

“The fact of the matter is that our officers deport people every day. Deportations are up every year. I attribute that to increased activities by the agency and increased resources,” Barbara Gonzalez, a regional spokeswoman for the U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement agency, told The Greenville News.

This story brings a joyful tear to me eye. Dang I love deportations. Only another 11 million to go guys! Keep it up!

After getting creamed in 2006, you’d think that the Republicans would realize they did something wrong, like, oh, I don’t know, being too moderate, not focusing on the issues people care about and reaching across the aisle to negotiate with the Democrats. Apparently, it’s taken until now, with McCain ‘leading the party,’ for them to realize that they are about to get pulverized in another general election.

Now that we have arguably the most hated (by conservatives) Republican politician as our nominee for President, some of the true conservatives are starting to wake up and say, hey, we’re not with him!

WASHINGTON — As N.C. Republicans look for ways to connect with unsatisfied voters this fall, they’re hoping to hit all the right chords with their attempts to crack down on illegal immigration.

The subject prompted a zealous public outcry last year but has since receded, and some N.C. candidates think they can still turn anti-illegal immigration sentiment into votes if they revive it on the campaign trail.

Of course they can turn it into votes. Conservatives, independents and even a lot of liberals want that border sealed. We’re more split as to what needs to be done with all the criminals that are already here (DEPORT!!!), but at the very least, that border needs to be locked down to stop any more of them from creeping over.

Immigration enforcement has been featured in campaign ads by Sen. Elizabeth Dole; stump speeches by gubernatorial candidate Pat McCrory, the mayor of Charlotte; and press events by Rep. Sue Myrick of Charlotte and other members of Congress.

“Nationally it doesn’t poll that high, but it’s still the No. 1 issue that people stop me about in the grocery store and other places where I am and say, ‘Please don’t give up on the border,’ ” Myrick said after a recent news conference to call for swift completion of a fence on the Mexican border. “I still hear it all the time in my district.”

I’d be willing to bet anyone would hear it all the time in any district across the country. Except San Fran. And Seattle.

The candidates are pushing the issue without the same strategy from the top of the ticket. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., courts the Hispanic vote and has taken a more moderate approach to tackling the influx of people who enter the country without proper documentation.

That right there is the nice way to say “These candidates are desperately trying to separate themselves from the madman at the top of the ticket. McCain has been pandering to the Hispanics of the country, and is consistently pushing a radical left-wing amnesty plan to reward all the criminals already in the country and open the flood gates for another 15 million to come across.”

Ahhhhhhhhhhh…YES!

ARLINGTON — Federal immigration agents raided an Arlington aerospace company and arrested nearly three dozen people Thursday morning after a yearlong investigation into allegations the business employed illegal workers.

Immigration authorities served a federal warrant of inspection at Aerospace Manufacturing Technologies Inc., according to Lorie Dankers, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Seattle.

The best quote of the article:

“Every job held by an illegal alien is a job taken from a U.S. citizen or legal resident of this area,” Winchell said in a statement.

You’re darn right. Enough of this “jobs Americans won’t do” garbage (paging Senator McShamnesty).

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, one of the biggest and brightest stars in the War on Illegal Immigration, inspired protests and more insults Friday as a sweep for criminals in Mesa netted a number of illegal immigrants. Arpaio, who bills himself as ‘America’s Toughest Sheriff’ has a history of receiving harsh backlash for his controversial style of law enforcement, especially when it comes to illegal immigration. The guy rocks, basically. Anyone who assembles a ‘posse’ to hunt down illegals is good in my book.

MESA, Ariz. - A sheriff’s crackdown on immigration and other criminal violators in Mesa produced 28 arrests by Thursday night and inspired a protest by 80 people who accused him of racial profiling.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who launched three similar sweeps in Phoenix and neighboring Guadalupe during the spring, said the 100 deputies and posse volunteers he sent to Mesa were focused on confronting a wide range of criminal violations, not just infractions of immigration law.

“Every time we do this, we get all kinds of people from different backgrounds, not just brown people,” Arpaio said.

Authorities said at least 13 of the 28 people who were arrested were illegal immigrants.

Even though he has the legal authority to enforce laws in cities in his county, Arpaio has fueled a backlash from other officials who considered the sweeps to be an unwanted intrusion into their communities. The mayor of Phoenix has asked for a federal investigation of Arpaio for possible civil rights violations.

The best part is coming though (and by best I mean nausea-inducing):

Day laborers also were warned by immigrant rights advocates against trying to find work Thursday on city streets, because they might risk being arrested.

On a street corner near the sheriff’s substation in Mesa, immigrant rights activists held up signs saying “Police State” and “Racial Profiling.”

Immigrant rights? I’m sorry, but if you’re not a citizen of the country, you are, well, the enemy. You have no rights, so how can they be violated.

Man, this feels like deja vu.

Illegals, who are already completely out of control, are just getting worse.

There is a reason countries have citizens. These are the people who BELONG in a country and who have EARNED AND PAID for the rights in the country.

When they are here illegally and they are criminals, how on earth can these idiots demand these rights? They are criminals!

Domestic workers have no right to overtime, sick time, vacation, health care and workers’ compensation in most states, and the immigrants among them often have it even worse.

But many domestic workers are finding their voices. They are suing employers who abuse them, organizing cooperatives to demand fair wages and lobbying politicians to change laws that exclude household workers from labor protections most employees take for granted.

Last June, immigrant household workers at the United States Social Forum in Atlanta — a gathering of social activists — formed the National Domestic Worker Alliance to campaign for state and federal laws guaranteeing basic labor rights.

Domestic worker? Are you kidding me? How about illegal day laborer? Illegal alien criminals? Illegal migrants? Criminal janitorial workers? So many correct titles, but now they are calling themselves “domestic workers?” INS should crash one of their meetings with a fleet of semis and just start shipping them out en masse.

What floors me is that they are ORGANIZING for God’s sake! We are allowing a criminal coalition of foreign nationals to organize and file lawsuits in a country where they do not even have citizenship.

I can’t even wrap my head around how utterly wrong this is.

UPDATE: a poster on FireSociety.com makes an excellent point:

Second, these illegals are much dumber than I thought. They are only here as cheap and convenient sources of labor. If they start suing and forming ridiculous labor unions, how cheap and convenient will they be? It would be really funny if they litigate and organize themselves out of jobs.

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s community colleges will no longer admit illegal immigrants, returning to more restrictive policy on the advice of the state Attorney General’s Office.

Last year, the system said it would enroll illegal immigrants who are 18 years old and high school graduates at all of its 58 campuses. The policy provoked heavy criticism, especially from the leading candidates for governor.

The system later asked North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper for guidance on whether the admissions policy was legal under federal law. Last week, Cooper’s office suggested the system drop the admissions policy.

On Tuesday, the community colleges said it would follow the advice from Cooper’s office.

Excellent.

The bill creates the South Carolina Verify method, a state verification
system with aggressive enforcement provisions that will be monitored and
checked by South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and
Regulations. As opposed to federal E-Verify, SC Verify gives the state
the authority to enforce citizenship requirements and scrutinize the
legal status of all South Carolina workers. The new state verification
system is the first of its kind in the nation.

Seems pretty stout to me.

Now if only more states or maybe, perish the thought, the Federal government would take notice and follow suit.