“There is no middle ground or debate when it comes to the issue of illegal immigration … rational human beings understand that being here illegally constitutes sufficient grounds for deportation.” -Frank Jorge
Frank Jorge
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Minuteman extremist leader Frank Jorge continued his assault and battery on reason today as he responded to my Signal column, “Fewer signs, more thoughts are needed,” published February 6. Jorge spoke like a typical extremist and claimed there is no middle ground or debate to solve illegal immigration issues, and that fools like myself muddy this apparently clear-cut issue. But is it a clear cut issue? Even Jorge was obviously torn and somewhat emotional at times during his 30 days living with a family of illegals on Morgan Spurlock’s mini-documentary show. Throughout the show, Jorge kept a kung-fu grip on his key defensive crutch of emphasizing America as a “land of laws.” This is particularly rich considering Jorge has advocated the vigilante killing of illegals and the assignation of political leaders, which, last I checked, is against the law. The biggest problem with using this rigid defense of legality alone is that it is a double-edged sword. Jorge lived with the undocumented family, which consisted of two undocumented parents, a few undocumented children and two children who were legal U.S. citizens. What would Jorge really propose we do about this situation? Send them all back? Even the U.S. citizens? Legally, the U.S. Constitution protects American citizens from being unlawfully exiled to another country. But Jorge claims there is no middle ground in a situation like this, which undoubtedly happens all throughout the United States. Continue reading Extremist Frank Jorge Responds →
Part 2 // Fighting Illegal Immigration on all levels
By ✖ the Monk ✖ on February 14th, 2010
The World has mistaken American Kindness as Weakness.
The United States is facing serious challenges that desperately need solving if our nation is to remain a thriving world leader. Few issues spark more passion than illegal immigration. The problems illegal immigration presents are not going to be solved with one single solution. Many people focus on the problem of our unsecured border and believe fixing this alone will fix the entire illegal immigration problem. While this is a major component, we can’t forget the American businesses that are hiring and exploiting the illegal labor. With unemployment at 10 percent or more, I think those jobs former President George W. Bush dismissed as not being wanted by Americans might look pretty appealing these days. This is a sticking point especially for conservatives who are typically against any regulations on businesses. Carole Lutness said it best at a recent City Council meeting: If we want to solve our ant problem, we need to get the open bag of sugar off the table. We must enforce the current laws in place and adopt higher fines that far outweigh the risk of hiring illegal labor.
It was a little over 15 years ago when the citizens of California saw the financial writing on the wall and passed Prop. 187 – an initiative that would have prohibited Illegal immigrants from benefiting from social services, health care and public education. Soon after its passing, a legal ping pong match began between the state of California and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which ended in a great victory for freeloaders everywhere when Justice Mariana R. Pfaelzer put a nail in the proverbial coffin of California’s fiscal future. An excerpt from the ruling reads, “California is powerless to enact its own legislative scheme to regulate immigration. It is likewise powerless to regulate alien access to public benefits. Proposition 187 is not constitutional on its face. We will not act in a way unbecoming to a sensible and humane people.” So tax-paying Californians like my mother and father, who worked their hands to the bone to put food on the table for my family, aren’t sensible or humane people? Justice Pfaelzer thought it was sensible to continue to allow illegal freeloaders to drain money and resources away from hard working Californians? Now a decade and half later, the state with the largest economy in the union can’t pay its own bills.
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