A victory for which Americans?
Dan Sernoffsky
August 02, 2007
http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/dsernoffsky_200708...
Not that is was particularly unexpected, given the cir***stances, but
a U.S. District Court Judge, one James Munley, overturned an ordinance
enacted by Hazelton that had been designed to protect itself from the
problems inherent with illegal immigration.
Under the ordinance, the "Illegal Immigration Relief Act," Hazelton
essentially sought to protect itself by attempting to deter property
owners from renting to illegal aliens and employers from hiring them.
The decision to enact the ordinance stemmed from a shooting in which
two illegal immigrants killed a U.S. citizen.
Munley, appointed to the District bench by Bill Clinton, ruled that
the ordinance violated "Constitutional guarantees to every person in
the United States, whether legal resident or not," and that it was
contrary to current federal immigration policy because it did not
consider "the implications of the ordinances on foreign policy."
The decision was immediately praised by many on the American left,
among them one of the men who would be President, one Barack Obama,
who called it "a victory for all Americans."
And which Americans would that be?
Would that be the Americans find hospital emergency rooms closing
because they have been bankrupted after having been forced to provide
services for illegal immigrants without remuneration?
Would that be the Americans who find themselves facing a bigger and
bigger tax bite on their paychecks to provide public services for
illegal immigrants?
Would that be the Americans who find themselves victimized by illegal
immigrants who, being already in violation of the law by virtue of
their presence in the United States, see no reason to obey other
societal laws, from traffic ordinances to felonious behavior?
Would that be the Americans who find themselves threatened by diseases
such as tuberculosis, a disease once virtually eradicated in the U.S.
thanks to hygiene and drugs that is making a comeback thanks to the
influx of tubercular illegal immigrants spreading the disease?
Would that be the Americans who first arrived in the United States as
immigrants, but did so fully intending to become citizens, and who
have spent the time and money necessary to fulfill the requirements of
citizen****p, including becoming both fluent and literate in English?
Would that be the Americans who have endeavored to live as law-abiding
citizens?
Would that be the Americans who view the U.S. Constitution as a
do***ent which pertains to citizens of the United States, and not
those whose allegiance is to a foreign power?
It is not particularly surprising that in their sup****t of Munley's
ruling, the American left has been almost unanimous in painting the
Hazelton ordinance as "anti-immigration." Considering the mayor of
Hazelton, the man behind the ordinance, is the son of immigrants, the
semantic sleight of hand is ludicrous. The Hazelton ordinance, and the
numerous other ordinances since enacted by other municipal bodies,
neither impose restriction on nor deny availability of op****tunity to
those who, in coming to the United States from elsewhere, willingly
accept and abide by the laws of the country in which they seek
citizen****p.
The ordinances which Murley overturned are, in fact, no different than
any other ordinances designed to protect the citizenry of a
municipality, a state or a nation.
The opposition to illegal immigration is not now, nor has it ever
been, opposition to legal immigration. It is opposition to the blatant
violation of existing laws, and to an equally blatant attack on U.S.
sovereignty.
Americans very recently made their voices heard when they spoke up
loudly and clearly in their opposition to the immigration bill which
would have essentially provided blanket amnesty to the millions of
illegals now in the country, and which would have opened the door for
millions more.
Hazelton has appealed the Munley ruling, which means it could be
overturned and the ordinances reinstated. Such a result just might
inspire the United States to begin enforcing already existing
ordinances, and to begin acting on the myriad of proposals to enforce
border security. Should that occur, it would really be "a victory for
all Americans."
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PLEASE EMAIL THESE LINKS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW:
"The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave" by Heather MacDonald
www.City-Journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html
www.PredatoryAliens.com
www.ImmigrationsHumanCost.org
www.DayLaborers.org
www.Alipac.us
www.ImmigrationWatchdog.com
www.AmericanPatrol.com
www.SaveOurState.org
www.EscapingJustice.com
www.MothersAgainstIllegalAliens.org
See the COLOSSAL costs of illegal aliens to the American taxpayer:
www.ImmigrationCounters.com
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"**** La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada"
("For The Race everything, for those outside The Race nothing")
-- Motto of MEChA, one of the nation's largest publically-funded
organizations with cells on high school and college campuses across the
USA
(Note: Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez says he "used to be" a member)
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：How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico；
By John Dillin
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html
Excerpt:
：General Eisenhower ... quoted a re****t in The New York Times,
highlighting one paragraph that said: ．The rise in illegal
border-crossing
by Mexican 'wetbacks' to a current rate of more than
1,000,000 cases a year has been accompanied by a curious relaxation
in ethical standards extending all the way from the farmer-exploiters
of this contraband labor to the highest levels of the Federal
Government ..."
：Herbert Brownell Jr., Eisenhower's first attorney general, said the
president had a sense of urgency about illegal immigration when he took
office.
：America ．was faced with a breakdown in law enforcement on a very
large
scale,・ Mr. Brownell said. ．When I say large scale, I mean hundreds of
thousands were coming in from Mexico [every year] without restraint.・"
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Just two of MANY American cops murdered by illegals:
www.DeputyDavidMarch.com
www.KrisEggle.org
"Unfortunately, the majority of illegal aliens who are here are engaged in
criminal activity. Identity theft, use of fraudulent Social Security
numbers and green cards, tax evasion, driving without licenses represent
some of the crimes that are engaged in by the majority of illegal aliens
on
a daily basis merely to maintain and hide their illegal status. In
addition, violent crime and drug distribution and possession is also
prevalent among illegal aliens. Over 25% of today's federal prison
population are illegal aliens. In some areas of the country, 12% of
felonies, 25% of burglaries and 34% of thefts are committed by illegal
aliens."
-- Testimony of District Attorney John M. Morganelli before the House
Subcommittee on Immigration, Border, Security and Claims [Note: 99% of
warrants for murder in Los Angeles, California -- the USA's 2nd
most-populous city -- are for illegal aliens]
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of
men."
-- Samuel Adams
"：All great truths begin as heresies.；
-- Former Democrat Governor of Colorado Richard Lamm, official of
Defend Colorado Now, a movement opposed to illegal immigration
and public services for illegal aliens
WHAT WOULD THE FOUNDING FATHERS DO? ...
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is
then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of
self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government ...
The
citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert,
without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair ...
The natural strength of the people in a large community, in
pro****tion to the artificial strength of the government, is greater than
in
a small, and of course more competent to a struggle with the
attempts of the government to establish a tyranny ... the people, without
exaggeration, may be said to be entirely the masters of their
own fate.
-- Alexander Hamilton
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain
occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
-- Thomas Jefferson
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any
government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
-- Thomas Jefferson
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government
by the majority who participate.
-- Thomas Jefferson
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to
remain silent.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people
alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
-- Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of
principle, stand like a rock.
-- Thomas Jefferson
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
-- Thomas Jefferson
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to
keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves
against tyranny in government.
-- Thomas Jefferson
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show
them we can fight like men also.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks
and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will
delineate and define you.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not
constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their
gains.
-- Thomas Jefferson
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied
cor****ations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial
by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
-- Thomas Jefferson
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties
than standing armies.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own
kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the
rich on the poor.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government
those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations,
perverted it into tyranny.
-- Thomas Jefferson
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