Sensenbrenner anti-immigrant bill HR 4437
"Under Sensenbrenner anti-immigrant bill HR 4437... eight million to twelve million people would be subject to immediate arrest and imprisonment.
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All undocumented immigrants, all immigrants with visa violations, 1.5 million of their children, their families, their lawyers, their doctors, and the good Samaritans who aid them will become guilty of an aggravated felony. So if you give your co-worker a ride home, or you provide medical aid in your capacity as a health care worker, or you buy dinner for a friend who can't prove their citizenship, or you put a bottle of water in the desert to keep someone from dehydrating, you're a felon facing prison. Not to mention the person you assisted. Everyone arrested would be incarcerated. And, just for good measure, legal residents would waive their right to a hearing if their visa is in violation.
Local police forces will receive "inherent authority" and funding to turn over immigrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. If local law enforcement has responsibility for immigration violations, every darker-skinned person--Meso-American, Southwest Asian, Middle Eastern, African--will become suspect just for walking past a cop. Whole communities will fade into an underground culture and economy."
more from the article "The Conscience of a Nazi and What Immigration Reform Means" Link
~Immigration reform is THE issue for this year's Congressional elections? (and for years to come?) The Republicans can keep their majority in the House by pushing the creation of 12 million new felons? Over-riding their party's corruption scandals, their lies about WMDs, the deaths in Iraq, the Bushies mismanagement of hurricane relief, gas prices and a stagnant economy?
(I think they can. I think they have the will and the discipline to serve it up in a big stinking-steaming bowl. And I believe the majority of Americans will get in line to gratefully gobble every last bit of it up. "Please sir, can I have some more sir?")
Who will cast the first stone? Who will loose the dogs? Who will pick the last tomato? Who will change the sheets on your feces stained hospital bed? Think about it!
Lantern Bearer
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All undocumented immigrants, all immigrants with visa violations, 1.5 million of their children, their families, their lawyers, their doctors, and the good Samaritans who aid them will become guilty of an aggravated felony. So if you give your co-worker a ride home, or you provide medical aid in your capacity as a health care worker, or you buy dinner for a friend who can't prove their citizenship, or you put a bottle of water in the desert to keep someone from dehydrating, you're a felon facing prison. Not to mention the person you assisted. Everyone arrested would be incarcerated. And, just for good measure, legal residents would waive their right to a hearing if their visa is in violation.
Local police forces will receive "inherent authority" and funding to turn over immigrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. If local law enforcement has responsibility for immigration violations, every darker-skinned person--Meso-American, Southwest Asian, Middle Eastern, African--will become suspect just for walking past a cop. Whole communities will fade into an underground culture and economy."
more from the article "The Conscience of a Nazi and What Immigration Reform Means" Link
~Immigration reform is THE issue for this year's Congressional elections? (and for years to come?) The Republicans can keep their majority in the House by pushing the creation of 12 million new felons? Over-riding their party's corruption scandals, their lies about WMDs, the deaths in Iraq, the Bushies mismanagement of hurricane relief, gas prices and a stagnant economy?
(I think they can. I think they have the will and the discipline to serve it up in a big stinking-steaming bowl. And I believe the majority of Americans will get in line to gratefully gobble every last bit of it up. "Please sir, can I have some more sir?")
Who will cast the first stone? Who will loose the dogs? Who will pick the last tomato? Who will change the sheets on your feces stained hospital bed? Think about it!
Lantern Bearer
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