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Gestapo Immigration Raids in the Bay Area
Over the last two months immigrants throughout the San Francisco Bay Area have been targeted in vicious raids. Hundreds have been arrested and deported as part of a nationwide effort by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) known as “Operation Return to Sender.” The recent raids began in January in the cities of Richmond, San Pablo and Concord, in poor neighborhoods with large Latino populations and have spread to other areas.
Part of Nationwide Crackdown
Gestapo Immigration Raids in the Bay Area
“To those criminal aliens who have eluded apprehension in the past, be forewarned: ICE agents will seek you out, apprehend you and remove you from the United States.”
-- Michael Garcia, assistant secretary from a National Fugitive Operations Program fact sheet.
“We are experiencing a Nazi Gestapo action on our community. I feel that very strongly in my heart.”
-- Rev. Filiberto Barrera of Richmond's St. Cornelius Church
Over the last two months immigrants throughout the San Francisco Bay Area have been targeted in vicious raids. Hundreds have been arrested and deported as part of a nationwide effort by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) known as “Operation Return to Sender.” The recent raids began in January in the cities of Richmond, San Pablo and Concord, in poor neighborhoods with large Latino populations and have spread to other areas.
People have told of agents going to a Home Depot lot where day laborers wait for work, to supermarkets, street corners, houses and apartments, and BART (rapid transit) stations, armed with weapons, grabbing anyone without an ID. Some immigrants have been taken to unknown detention centers, some out of state.
Rev. Ramiro Flores said, “These agents come to people’s doors pretending to be police, they break their windows and scare them. When agents can’t find who they’re looking for they’ll just take another individual without papers.” (SF Chronicle January 29, 2007)
ICE agents went into neighborhoods around Meadow Homes Elementary School in Concord. Children were traumatized after seeing armed agents dragging people away and were afraid their parents wouldn’t be there to pick them up after school. The principal reported that the day after large raids in Concord, 106 children were absent.
The raids have cruelly broken apart families. Women are carted away leaving young children to be taken care of by friends or neighbors. Sometimes a family member will disappear for days without being able to call family, friends or attorneys.
Fernando, a young boy, about 10-years old testified at a City Council meeting in Richmond: “My cousin’s mom was making breakfast for my two cousins. When she went to her refrigerator she had no milk. When she left the house to go get milk the immigration came and took her away. My cousin’s dad was lucky because he escaped. My cousins were sad and my cousin’s sister was crying because who is going to take care of her?”
A climate of fear has been created throughout the Latino community. Busy 23rd Street in Richmond, usually filled with shoppers in the Latino markets, record stores, beauty shops, panaderias (bakeries), carnicerias, (butcher shops) have been empty. A small businessman said he lost 60% of his business in four weeks and the street was turned into a “desert.”
Outrage and Protest
On January 28, 2007, in protest of these raids, a 1,000 people filled a church gym at a community meeting called by the Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization at St. Mark’s Church in Richmond. Although some feared that ICE would arrest people who came to the meeting, immigrants came out with their families and some publicly spoke out against the raids. The Mayor of Richmond, City Council members, school officials, teachers, and attorneys voiced their support for the immigrants and called for a stop to these raids. Similar meetings drew hundreds in Concord, Redwood City, and Santa Cruz.
Then on February 6, 300 people, mainly immigrant families with children, but also Latino students and community organizers, religious people and others, gathered to at a meeting of the Richmond City Council to protest the raids.
Copies of the Revolution Special Issue opposing Bush’s escalation of the war in Iraq with the headline “¡Esto tiene que PARAR! (This Must Halt!) were passed out broadly and many people held them up along with other signs against the raids.
Revolution spoke with Jose, an older Catholic priest from Richmond, who was looking at the back of the newspaper with the poster: “Wanted for Mass Murder: The Bush Regime” and laughing. He was upset at the way these immigration raids are being justified as part of a war on terror. “We say that George Bush is the number one terrorist. Most of the terrorist schools, preparing people for terrorism are here, like the School of the Americas [description],” Jose said.
“The U.S. says ‘with justice for all,’” Jose continued. “I think there’s not justice because these people are being hit, without doing anything wrong…because they don’t have documents. I think it is very unjust. They are very rough, they come into people’s houses, using very bad language – they say ‘open the F??? door.’ Putting their weapons in people’s faces.”
One ESL teacher asked, “What kind of country is this becoming?” She had been talking to her students about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and went down the list of the Bill of Rights and most of the students felt these rights still do not exist.
Twenty-nine ESL teachers signed a statement denouncing the raids that was published in the San Francisco Chronicle. The letter stated: “Even before these recent raids, our students shared stories of being separated from their children growing up with grandparents in their native countries, of people who have had their parents get sick or who die and they are unable to go back to visit or to their funerals, and many more. We have heard of people who worked for $2.00 a day in Mexico and felt they had no choice but to come here to survive. We have heard of people working in an avocado processing plant in Mexico, where the avocados were sorted out, only to be sent here for U.S. consumption. They come here to work and to support their families, sometimes working two jobs. They are human beings, not criminals. We say: Stop the raids, arrests and deportations!”
A significant element of the protests has been that a number of Black activists have spoken out against the raids. Leonard McNeal of Black Alliance for Just Immigration, and a member of the San Pablo City Council denounced the roundups. Barbara Bechnel, an author, journalist, and film producer who was a close friend of and advocate for Stanley “Tookie” Williams, the prisoner and former gang leader who became an advocate for a gang truce and was executed in 2005, said, “As a Black woman I will stand shoulder to shoulder with my Brown brothers and sisters. I do so because what I have heard here, what I have seen, what I know – this is discriminatory and unjust behavior. As a Black woman – I will be 57 years old in May – I have experienced unjust and discriminatory behavior. I don’t wish that on my Brown brothers and sisters, and I will stand with them, shoulder to shoulder, until this ends.”
What Is Needed?
A Nazi-like climate against immigrants is being created in this country. And there are those who welcome and seek to justify these ugly attacks. The Mayor of San Pablo, implying that people are lying, said, “I’m not saying they were made up. I’m just saying that they could have been.” And Vice Mayor Sharon Brown came right out and said that the statements by immigrants and their supporters are “outrageous lies and fabrications.” In an action equivalent to a cross burning, the racist anti-immigrant Minuteman group held a rally in the heart of the Latino community in Redwood City in support of the raids and in defense of two Border Patrol agents who are facing charges for killing an immigrant.
Every person needs to ask themselves: Can I stand by while my government is terrorizing immigrant communities, while children are afraid to go to school, and parents are afraid to step outside? Can I stand by while families are being broken up, while our immigrant brothers and sisters, who have come to this country to work and survive are deported, while hundred of immigrants die every year in the deserts of the Southwest. This is like rounding up fugitive slaves, or putting Jews on the trains to the camps in Germany. This situation is immoral, unjust and intolerable. It cannot be allowed to continue.
It is up to the masses people themselves to stand up to these attacks. We cannot rely on the Democrats to stand up for the rights of immigrants. Look at the stand of the leading Democrats. Hillary Clinton has called for a national ID card, a proposal aimed at targeting immigrants. And in a 2004 interview on WABC radio, she said: "I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants." Barack Obama voted for funds to construct the border fence and was a co-sponsor of the 2006 Senate immigration bill, containing a lot of anti-immigrant provisions, including making English the official language.
We cannot accept, we cannot live, with a situation where millions of immigrants are hounded and hunted down like criminals. Unless we resist and mobilize others in mass, determined action to put a STOP to these Gestapo-like raids, then we will bear the responsibility for the perpetuation of the these very crimes. By standing up we create the possibility of a different future than one where millions are driven from their homes by the workings of a cruel imperialist system, forced into dangerous border crossings, made to work in the most dangerous and difficult jobs, hounded at every turn and forced to live in the shadows.
Gestapo Immigration Raids in the Bay Area
“To those criminal aliens who have eluded apprehension in the past, be forewarned: ICE agents will seek you out, apprehend you and remove you from the United States.”
-- Michael Garcia, assistant secretary from a National Fugitive Operations Program fact sheet.
“We are experiencing a Nazi Gestapo action on our community. I feel that very strongly in my heart.”
-- Rev. Filiberto Barrera of Richmond's St. Cornelius Church
Over the last two months immigrants throughout the San Francisco Bay Area have been targeted in vicious raids. Hundreds have been arrested and deported as part of a nationwide effort by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) known as “Operation Return to Sender.” The recent raids began in January in the cities of Richmond, San Pablo and Concord, in poor neighborhoods with large Latino populations and have spread to other areas.
People have told of agents going to a Home Depot lot where day laborers wait for work, to supermarkets, street corners, houses and apartments, and BART (rapid transit) stations, armed with weapons, grabbing anyone without an ID. Some immigrants have been taken to unknown detention centers, some out of state.
Rev. Ramiro Flores said, “These agents come to people’s doors pretending to be police, they break their windows and scare them. When agents can’t find who they’re looking for they’ll just take another individual without papers.” (SF Chronicle January 29, 2007)
ICE agents went into neighborhoods around Meadow Homes Elementary School in Concord. Children were traumatized after seeing armed agents dragging people away and were afraid their parents wouldn’t be there to pick them up after school. The principal reported that the day after large raids in Concord, 106 children were absent.
The raids have cruelly broken apart families. Women are carted away leaving young children to be taken care of by friends or neighbors. Sometimes a family member will disappear for days without being able to call family, friends or attorneys.
Fernando, a young boy, about 10-years old testified at a City Council meeting in Richmond: “My cousin’s mom was making breakfast for my two cousins. When she went to her refrigerator she had no milk. When she left the house to go get milk the immigration came and took her away. My cousin’s dad was lucky because he escaped. My cousins were sad and my cousin’s sister was crying because who is going to take care of her?”
A climate of fear has been created throughout the Latino community. Busy 23rd Street in Richmond, usually filled with shoppers in the Latino markets, record stores, beauty shops, panaderias (bakeries), carnicerias, (butcher shops) have been empty. A small businessman said he lost 60% of his business in four weeks and the street was turned into a “desert.”
Outrage and Protest
On January 28, 2007, in protest of these raids, a 1,000 people filled a church gym at a community meeting called by the Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization at St. Mark’s Church in Richmond. Although some feared that ICE would arrest people who came to the meeting, immigrants came out with their families and some publicly spoke out against the raids. The Mayor of Richmond, City Council members, school officials, teachers, and attorneys voiced their support for the immigrants and called for a stop to these raids. Similar meetings drew hundreds in Concord, Redwood City, and Santa Cruz.
Then on February 6, 300 people, mainly immigrant families with children, but also Latino students and community organizers, religious people and others, gathered to at a meeting of the Richmond City Council to protest the raids.
Copies of the Revolution Special Issue opposing Bush’s escalation of the war in Iraq with the headline “¡Esto tiene que PARAR! (This Must Halt!) were passed out broadly and many people held them up along with other signs against the raids.
Revolution spoke with Jose, an older Catholic priest from Richmond, who was looking at the back of the newspaper with the poster: “Wanted for Mass Murder: The Bush Regime” and laughing. He was upset at the way these immigration raids are being justified as part of a war on terror. “We say that George Bush is the number one terrorist. Most of the terrorist schools, preparing people for terrorism are here, like the School of the Americas [description],” Jose said.
“The U.S. says ‘with justice for all,’” Jose continued. “I think there’s not justice because these people are being hit, without doing anything wrong…because they don’t have documents. I think it is very unjust. They are very rough, they come into people’s houses, using very bad language – they say ‘open the F??? door.’ Putting their weapons in people’s faces.”
One ESL teacher asked, “What kind of country is this becoming?” She had been talking to her students about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and went down the list of the Bill of Rights and most of the students felt these rights still do not exist.
Twenty-nine ESL teachers signed a statement denouncing the raids that was published in the San Francisco Chronicle. The letter stated: “Even before these recent raids, our students shared stories of being separated from their children growing up with grandparents in their native countries, of people who have had their parents get sick or who die and they are unable to go back to visit or to their funerals, and many more. We have heard of people who worked for $2.00 a day in Mexico and felt they had no choice but to come here to survive. We have heard of people working in an avocado processing plant in Mexico, where the avocados were sorted out, only to be sent here for U.S. consumption. They come here to work and to support their families, sometimes working two jobs. They are human beings, not criminals. We say: Stop the raids, arrests and deportations!”
A significant element of the protests has been that a number of Black activists have spoken out against the raids. Leonard McNeal of Black Alliance for Just Immigration, and a member of the San Pablo City Council denounced the roundups. Barbara Bechnel, an author, journalist, and film producer who was a close friend of and advocate for Stanley “Tookie” Williams, the prisoner and former gang leader who became an advocate for a gang truce and was executed in 2005, said, “As a Black woman I will stand shoulder to shoulder with my Brown brothers and sisters. I do so because what I have heard here, what I have seen, what I know – this is discriminatory and unjust behavior. As a Black woman – I will be 57 years old in May – I have experienced unjust and discriminatory behavior. I don’t wish that on my Brown brothers and sisters, and I will stand with them, shoulder to shoulder, until this ends.”
What Is Needed?
A Nazi-like climate against immigrants is being created in this country. And there are those who welcome and seek to justify these ugly attacks. The Mayor of San Pablo, implying that people are lying, said, “I’m not saying they were made up. I’m just saying that they could have been.” And Vice Mayor Sharon Brown came right out and said that the statements by immigrants and their supporters are “outrageous lies and fabrications.” In an action equivalent to a cross burning, the racist anti-immigrant Minuteman group held a rally in the heart of the Latino community in Redwood City in support of the raids and in defense of two Border Patrol agents who are facing charges for killing an immigrant.
Every person needs to ask themselves: Can I stand by while my government is terrorizing immigrant communities, while children are afraid to go to school, and parents are afraid to step outside? Can I stand by while families are being broken up, while our immigrant brothers and sisters, who have come to this country to work and survive are deported, while hundred of immigrants die every year in the deserts of the Southwest. This is like rounding up fugitive slaves, or putting Jews on the trains to the camps in Germany. This situation is immoral, unjust and intolerable. It cannot be allowed to continue.
It is up to the masses people themselves to stand up to these attacks. We cannot rely on the Democrats to stand up for the rights of immigrants. Look at the stand of the leading Democrats. Hillary Clinton has called for a national ID card, a proposal aimed at targeting immigrants. And in a 2004 interview on WABC radio, she said: "I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants." Barack Obama voted for funds to construct the border fence and was a co-sponsor of the 2006 Senate immigration bill, containing a lot of anti-immigrant provisions, including making English the official language.
We cannot accept, we cannot live, with a situation where millions of immigrants are hounded and hunted down like criminals. Unless we resist and mobilize others in mass, determined action to put a STOP to these Gestapo-like raids, then we will bear the responsibility for the perpetuation of the these very crimes. By standing up we create the possibility of a different future than one where millions are driven from their homes by the workings of a cruel imperialist system, forced into dangerous border crossings, made to work in the most dangerous and difficult jobs, hounded at every turn and forced to live in the shadows.
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The point is that the raids are immoral and unjust. The Nazi round-ups of Jews, the internment of Japanese Americans, slave catchers during slavery days were all legal. Does that make them right? Didn't people at the time have a moral obligation to oppose unjust laws? Where would you have stood?
The point is that the raids are immoral and unjust. The Nazi round-ups of Jews, the internment of Japanese Americans, slave catchers during slavery days were all legal. Does that make them right? Didn't people at the time have a moral obligation to oppose unjust laws? Where would you have stood?
You comparison of Nazis, slave traders, etc, is incredibly flawed. What you fail to realize is there are legal ways to immigrate. Illegal aliens choose the immoral route by ignoring legal means, breaking entry laws, fraud, identity theft, etc. The list goes on. How do you defend those immoral behavior. How do you explain it to victims of these crimes?
Illegal aliens know that their action could result in deportation. There is nothing new going on. Only problem is illegal aliens thought our immigration laws were a joke and they got "comfortable".
Articles like this are filled with hype, distortion and lies. All it will do is make American citizens more determined to rid this land of people who promote their cause. Nobody likes siding with anyone who can't simply tell the truth. Nazi's....I tell ya. You guys are getting desperate and the lies and distortion has no end. How do you create this stuff? This is the funniest article that I've read on this issue. LOL
Illegal aliens know that their action could result in deportation. There is nothing new going on. Only problem is illegal aliens thought our immigration laws were a joke and they got "comfortable".
Articles like this are filled with hype, distortion and lies. All it will do is make American citizens more determined to rid this land of people who promote their cause. Nobody likes siding with anyone who can't simply tell the truth. Nazi's....I tell ya. You guys are getting desperate and the lies and distortion has no end. How do you create this stuff? This is the funniest article that I've read on this issue. LOL
Idiot assfucker said:
"Illegal aliens know that their action could result in deportation. There is nothing new going on. Only problem is illegal aliens thought our immigration laws were a joke and they got 'comfortable'."
Now this rings a bell, or two. Ah yes. Those self-inviting, self-serving pilgrims who overstayed their welcome. It's really the ONLY reason why WHITE people and their WHITE mentalities exist HERE on this continent, TODAY. You could do us a favor and go back home. Thank you.
"Illegal aliens know that their action could result in deportation. There is nothing new going on. Only problem is illegal aliens thought our immigration laws were a joke and they got 'comfortable'."
Now this rings a bell, or two. Ah yes. Those self-inviting, self-serving pilgrims who overstayed their welcome. It's really the ONLY reason why WHITE people and their WHITE mentalities exist HERE on this continent, TODAY. You could do us a favor and go back home. Thank you.
Wow....I'm an assfucker. I must have touched your nerves real hard.
The Pilgrims landed, colonized and took over. It was wrong.
The illegals aliens landed, attempting to colonize and trying to take over. It is wrong.
Two wrongs don't make it right. But I guess it does in your books huh champ?
Unlike the author of this article, I tell the truth and I MAKE NO EXCUSES.
I wish we could all do the same.
By the way, my ancestors were forced to come to this country. They were slaves.
I wish we could all do the same.
By the way, my ancestors were forced to come to this country. They were slaves.
There are some important points the Revolution article missed that must always be stated:
(1) The ruling capitalist class is encouraging scapegoating of immigrants instead of attacking the root problem: The poverty of Mexico where most undocumented immigrants are from. This poverty is caused by the massive dumping of US goods and products on Mexico, thanks to the free trade agreement, NAFTA, proudly promoted first by Democrat Pres. Clinton, along with most Democrats and Republicans in Congress. The undocumented immigrants are the victims as they can no longer sell their corn or anything else they produce; the perpetrators are the US capitalist class.
(2) Any Gestapo raids against one sector of the workingclass will not end with that sector and are not meant to end with that sector. Not only do these raids make it impossible for undocumented immigrants to organize labor unions, they become a precedent for attacking all workers who try to organize labor unions. With the suspension of habeas corpus by Congress, Democrats and Republicans together, the Gestapo could easily take any labor union sympathizer off the street and send him or her to a death camp. This is fascism, just like Nazi Germany. The Nazis were first and foremost anti-labor.
We must all concur with the fact that the Pilgrims were illegal immigrants who stole Native land. This fact highlights the hypocrisy of the justification of these raids. The US government is not at all concerned about the fact that there are 12 million undocumented immigrants doing all of the hard, physical labor. After all, they are always on the side of the employers who employ all these undocumented immigrants at the lowest possible wages to maximize profits, the primary goal of capitalism. They know, for example, that there would be no San Francisco hotel or restaurant industry, which is to say the tourist industry, without Latino labor. The same is true for most janitorial services in all the office buildings and a large part of the construction industry. Elsewhere in this country, there would be no crop harvest and no meatpacking industry without Latino labor. This labor is to a greater or lesser degree undocumented immigrants. This is especially true for farm labor.
The only viable solution is total amnesty for all 12 million undocumented immigrants. There is no Democratic or Republican politician in the House or Senate calling for this. Thus, we need another May Day labor strike and march all across the nation with total amnesty as a primary demand. Last year, the strawberry fields of California and the meatpacking industry in the Midwest shut down as their workers were on strike on May Day to stop all the anti-immigrant bills in Congress. They succeded in their goal last year and with a large enough turn out this year, we can succeed in winning total amnesty for all 12 million undocumented immigrants. That should greatly assist labor organizing in this country, which is desperately needed to not only improve all our living standards, but also to make possible universal health care, decent public schools for all, abolishing the death penalty and prisons, both vicious attacks on labor, and shutting down the military and its related Gestapo here at home.
(1) The ruling capitalist class is encouraging scapegoating of immigrants instead of attacking the root problem: The poverty of Mexico where most undocumented immigrants are from. This poverty is caused by the massive dumping of US goods and products on Mexico, thanks to the free trade agreement, NAFTA, proudly promoted first by Democrat Pres. Clinton, along with most Democrats and Republicans in Congress. The undocumented immigrants are the victims as they can no longer sell their corn or anything else they produce; the perpetrators are the US capitalist class.
(2) Any Gestapo raids against one sector of the workingclass will not end with that sector and are not meant to end with that sector. Not only do these raids make it impossible for undocumented immigrants to organize labor unions, they become a precedent for attacking all workers who try to organize labor unions. With the suspension of habeas corpus by Congress, Democrats and Republicans together, the Gestapo could easily take any labor union sympathizer off the street and send him or her to a death camp. This is fascism, just like Nazi Germany. The Nazis were first and foremost anti-labor.
We must all concur with the fact that the Pilgrims were illegal immigrants who stole Native land. This fact highlights the hypocrisy of the justification of these raids. The US government is not at all concerned about the fact that there are 12 million undocumented immigrants doing all of the hard, physical labor. After all, they are always on the side of the employers who employ all these undocumented immigrants at the lowest possible wages to maximize profits, the primary goal of capitalism. They know, for example, that there would be no San Francisco hotel or restaurant industry, which is to say the tourist industry, without Latino labor. The same is true for most janitorial services in all the office buildings and a large part of the construction industry. Elsewhere in this country, there would be no crop harvest and no meatpacking industry without Latino labor. This labor is to a greater or lesser degree undocumented immigrants. This is especially true for farm labor.
The only viable solution is total amnesty for all 12 million undocumented immigrants. There is no Democratic or Republican politician in the House or Senate calling for this. Thus, we need another May Day labor strike and march all across the nation with total amnesty as a primary demand. Last year, the strawberry fields of California and the meatpacking industry in the Midwest shut down as their workers were on strike on May Day to stop all the anti-immigrant bills in Congress. They succeded in their goal last year and with a large enough turn out this year, we can succeed in winning total amnesty for all 12 million undocumented immigrants. That should greatly assist labor organizing in this country, which is desperately needed to not only improve all our living standards, but also to make possible universal health care, decent public schools for all, abolishing the death penalty and prisons, both vicious attacks on labor, and shutting down the military and its related Gestapo here at home.
Your first paragraph is classic finger pointing. Mexican leadership is responsible for their economic success and failure.
Your second paragraph is classic extremism. There are no raids, there are arrests of criminals (i.e. illegal entry, fraud, theft, ex-cons and people who ignored previous deportation orders). Perhaps they are the type of people you think are beneficial to American society. Most members of society think NOT.
Sure the pilgrims were unauthorized arrivals; it was the only way they knew to come here. This is unlike illegal aliens -- who do have a way to come here legally. If you think America will starve, come to a halt or become lost without illegal aliens then you don't know much about this society. People go where the money is at. Illegal aliens do it (albeit illegally), so do U.S. citizens. Meatpackers and farms can raise rates...and you do know that my salary will rise to deal with the inflationary effects.
As long as there is a legal way to immigrate, amnesty is not an option. As long as we have existing guest worker programs, amnesty is not an option. There is no excuse for businesses and foreigners to ignore the resources available for legal entry. There is no need to reward lawbreakers.
Thanks ICE for showing millions of American citizens and legal immigrants that the law is the law.
Your second paragraph is classic extremism. There are no raids, there are arrests of criminals (i.e. illegal entry, fraud, theft, ex-cons and people who ignored previous deportation orders). Perhaps they are the type of people you think are beneficial to American society. Most members of society think NOT.
Sure the pilgrims were unauthorized arrivals; it was the only way they knew to come here. This is unlike illegal aliens -- who do have a way to come here legally. If you think America will starve, come to a halt or become lost without illegal aliens then you don't know much about this society. People go where the money is at. Illegal aliens do it (albeit illegally), so do U.S. citizens. Meatpackers and farms can raise rates...and you do know that my salary will rise to deal with the inflationary effects.
As long as there is a legal way to immigrate, amnesty is not an option. As long as we have existing guest worker programs, amnesty is not an option. There is no excuse for businesses and foreigners to ignore the resources available for legal entry. There is no need to reward lawbreakers.
Thanks ICE for showing millions of American citizens and legal immigrants that the law is the law.
Let us keep in mind that the 911 terrorists were all LEGAL. I see these raids as Nazis on parade. This must stop. The road to legal immigration has been closed for years. Hence illegal immigration. If we would look at the real situation the immigrant is in, we wouldn't be so fast to say "get legal". With the ten year ban, and ignorant laws such as that, we leave the immigrant no choice. Your relatives did the same thing. America is a melting pot. That is what makes us beautiful. Who are you to deny the immigrant a right to come here. Your family did. And Illegally I might add. Legalize,legalize,legalize.
To: Kay
The situation that the so-called immigrants are in is not American citizens fault or problem. Those so-called immigrants are citizens of other countries and they need to respect American laws, return home and hold their home government accountable for their plight. They need to bring about a revolution at home. We have millions of poor Americans who need our attention. The poor from other nations lie and steal to obtain resources and opportunities that poor American citizens are entitled too. There is no excuse for such despicable behavior.
Illegal aliens claim they are good and honest...yet in the face of the law they continue show no respect for authority. Hmmmm.....maybe one day they'll figure out what makes the average American citizen fear living next to them. Their inability to operate truthfully at any level.
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