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Response to “Immigration Opinion from California Reader”

According to Rosemary LaBonte (and David), “Some [Ellis Island immigrants]would even get down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground.”  Remember that if some of the Mexican immigrants got down on their hands and knees and kissed the ground, they would be kissing the ground that only a few short years ago (historically speaking) belonged to them — their long lost country. To them, the interlopers may be us.
Your memories of the “good old days” of “good people” immigrants is probably looking a bit through rose-colored glasses. Don’t forget that some of those wonderful immigrants formed the American mafia, whose fielty was and may still be to the Scillian mafia.
A couple of Mexican flag-wavers should not cause your mind to leap to the wild conclusion that Mexican immigrants do not love the US of A. They may just be artists who are waving that flag because it’s pretty. They may be white Americans waving the flag to show solidarity with our friend and neighbor, Mexico. Do you have the same feelings of abhorance when you see a Canadian flag waving at a BlueJay’s game?

6 Comments

  1. mike Schroeder says:

    Ok, so let me get this straight. Mexicans want their territory back. And the illegals who have crossed from the middle east, what part do they want back. And which part do we give to the south Americans who are also coming here illegally? Comparing the mob to gangs of illegals? I guess they both broke or are breaking the Law. Not sure why having two groups of people breaking the law is a good thing however. Back then you had a Federal government that actually wanted to catch and prosecute the bad guys. Of course since they were LEGAL bad guy citizens they were a little easier to find and prosecute.

    It is hard to imagine making a statement that people just want their land back. US sovereign territory. Maybe we should ask the British if they want the thirteen colonies back. Makes about as much sense.

  2. Jerry Masters says:

    Bobbi and Dan Surber,

    Re: Yuma Michaels, Duarte, CA (East L.A.)

    Here are a few simple questions that I, and many others in the City of Sedona, would like to ask of you.

    Are you associated with Yuma Michaels or is “Yuma Michaels” your pseudonym?

    Does she write letters to the editors of our local Sedona media?

    Is this the Yuma Michaels who orchestrated your demonstrations in Sedona? Isn’t she associated with the Southern Poverty Law Center (producer of “hate” maps) who backed A.C.O.R.N., the National Council of La Raza ([AZTLAN] Reconquista), the ACLU and the editing of Jason Overstreet’s book 71 DAYS: THE MEDIA ASSAULT ON OBAMA?

    How long has she been living in Sedona and is she a full time resident?

    Did you bring her here or invite her to live here?

    Is she the same person who is known for organizing extreme left-wing associated protests and demonstrations around the country (which quite often erupt into violence)?

    Is one tactic that she has been known to employ when she orchestrates a demonstration that of immediately tagging anyone opposed to her as a “white supremacist,” “racist” or “bigot” (a tactic taught to her by the Southern Poverty Law Center and La Raza) in order to create racial division in the communities that she has chosen to assault?

    Does she also commonly employ the tactic of using very young unsuspecting children in her organizational efforts of demonstrations?

    Jus\’ Askin\’!

    Jerry Masters for The People of Sedona

  3. Bobbie Surber says:

    As Dan has very clearly stated we do not know Yuma. We have always signed our names to anything we have ever stated in public or in private correspondence.

    Bobbie Surber

  4. Jerry Masters says:

    May 27, 2010 05:56 PM by Noah Bierman and Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff.

    Massachussetts Senate passes crackdown on illegal immigrants

    With one lawmaker citing President Lincoln’s respect for the rule of law, the Massachusetts Senate passed a far-reaching crackdown this afternoon on illegal immigrants and those who would hire them, going further, senators said, than any immigration bill proposed over the past five years.

    In a surprising turn of events, the legislation replaced a narrower bill that was passed Wednesday over the objections of Republicans.

    The measure, which passed on a 28-10 vote as an amendment to the budget, would bar the state from doing business with any company found to break federal laws barring illegal immigrant hiring. It would also toughen penalties for creating or using fake identification documents, and explicitly deny in-state college tuition for illegal immigrants.

    The amendment would also require the state’s public health insurance program to verify residency through the Department of Homeland Security, and would require the state to give legal residents priority for subsidized housing.

    The amendment will now be part of negotiations with the House as part of the entire state budget.

    Supporters, especially Republicans, struck patriotic notes and spoke of the sanctity of the law as they spoke on the Senate floor.

    “It was President Lincoln — and I’m going to paraphrase here — who suggested that respect for the law should be preached from every pulpit taught by every mother to every child,” said Senator Bruce Tarr, a Gloucester Republican.

    But one supporter said that the measure was being passed for practical purposes and would hurt people. Senator Frederick E. Berry, a Peabody Democrat, complained that one of the Republican sponsors acted like the “Patriots had just won the Super Bowl. … I am going to vote for it, but I don’t think we ought to rejoice.”

    Democrats had resisted such a sweeping proposal, but spent last evening negotiating today’s measure, shortly after a new polled showed 84 percent of the liberal-leaning state’s voters supported tough immigration rules barring state services to illegal immigrants.

    Sonia Chang-Diaz, a Boston Democrat who opposed the amendment, said the measure had not been properly vetted and would add undue obligations to businesses and state government when they could ill afford it. She said it would cost the state money, while programs for children and public safety are being cut and people in her city are being shot at.

    “I just don’t think this is an appropriate time to be enforcing an additional cost burden on the state, doing things that are not our job,” Chang-Diaz said.

    The measure would also close what supporters say is a loophole that allows businesses to register cars under a company name, without identifying the owner by Social Security number and federal tax identification number. It would also crate a toll-free hot line for anonymous reporting of companies that employ illegal immigrants.

    The measure comes weeks after immigration measures failed in the House, and amid heightened debate over illegal immigration fueled by the state’s election season and Arizona’s passage in April of the toughest immigration law in the nation.

    Recent polls have found that, while voters supported blocking illegal immigrants’ access to public benefits, they were split over whether the Bay State should have a law such as Arizona’s.

    Thursday’s Senate amendment would also authorize the state attorney general’s office to broker an agreement with federal authorities to help enforce immigration law. That would be a stark departure for Attorney General Martha Coakley, who has increased outreach to immigrants, encouraging them to file employment complaints, regardless of their legal status. Scores of immigrants whose bosses allegedly failed to pay their wages have turned to her for help in recent years.

    The legislation also would increase penalties for driving without a license, one of the main problems facing illegal immigrants in Massachusetts. In November, a panel commissioned by Governor Deval Patrick urged him to push to grant driver’s licenses and in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, among many other recommendations. Patrick sent the recommendations to his cabinet for study and pledged to return with a proposal in 90 days, but the results have not been made public.

    Most immigrants in Massachusetts are here legally, but an estimated 190,000, or 20 percent, are here illegally, according to the census.

  5. Jerry Masters says:

    I wouldn’t bet that it’ll be so easy to overturn SB1070 in the Federal Courts. Here’s why:

    The language of SB1070 was actually crafted by Kansas attorney Kris Kobach, an authority on immigration enforcement with a growing national reputation.

    Kobach has a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, a doctorate in political science from Oxford University and a law degree from Yale Law School. He said he first got interested in immigration issues as a law student reading about California’s Proposition 187, a 1994 voter-approved measure that would have denied health-care, education and social-service benefits to illegal immigrants. A federal court in California ruled the law unconstitutional.

    Kobach said he was fascinated by the debate over whether states had the right to enforce immigration laws.

    In 2001, just days after 9/11, Kobach got a job as chief adviser on immigration law and border security to John Ashcroft, who was in his first year as U.S. attorney general. Kobach oversaw Department of Justice efforts to tighten border security, including the design and implementation of a system that requires foreign nationals from certain nations to register with a program that tracks their movements in and out of the U.S.

    While at the Justice Department, Kobach began making contacts with state and local government officials.

    Kobach left the Justice Department in 2003 and now teaches constitutional and immigration law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. He’s running for secretary of state in Kansas.

    Jus’ Sayin’

    Jerry Masters

  6. Mike Anklam says:

    Dear Congressman,

    Just saw you on Cavuto….I have an idea that is circulating with a number of elected officials including Tea Party leaders,..and that is a very simple law that will eliminate Illegal Immigration overnight….here it is..

    “Effective immediately, all employers who knowingly employ Illegal Immigrants shall be subject to a $500 per day fine per Illegal Immigrant”…The state of Arizona shall collect such fines to offset damages incurred here-to-fore”

    Do this and the problem is gone, they will deport themselves !!!

    Mike Anklam
    Sedona AZ

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