Freedom Folks: Pro-Immigration Forces?

Pro-immigration forces my ass. This article from the Washington Times deserves a good fisking. My comments, as always, are in red.

A coalition of pro-ILLEGAL immigration advocates will march on Washington next month to pressure the Senate into defeating pending House-approved legislation making illegal entry a criminal offense (God forbid doing something ILLEGAL should actually be a CRIME) and calling for the construction of 700 miles of high-security fences on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Led by the National Alliance for Human Rights (NAHR) (couldn't find them on the web, or I'd provide a link...but since when is it a HUMAN RIGHT to violate the sovereignty of our country?), the march was approved last week during a meeting in Riverside, Calif., of more than 500 ILLEGAL immigration advocates who mapped out a strategy of "social justice and political empowerment" involving Hispanic groups from throughout the United States and Mexico. (Note the blanket term "immigration" is quickly narrowed down to "Hispanic" and "Mexico" -- is this march for the "justice and empowerment" of all ILLEGAL immigrants, or just a Reconquista rally in disguise?)

NAHR Coordinator Armando Navarro, chairman and professor of ethnic studies at the University of California at Riverside, said coalition members agreed not only to respond to the legislation -- written by Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, Wisconsin Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee -- but to defeat it and call for immigration reform. This bill is all about immigration reform: the need to stop it from happening ILLEGALLY.

Mr. Navarro told The Washington Times that 2006 will be a year of "massive mobilizations (perhaps mirroring the massive mobilizations of people entering and staying in the country ILLEGALLY?), activism and political participation to countervail the heinous (I'm not), racist (I'm not) and nativist (I'm not) crusade" of those who support the bill (HELL YES!) and the construction of "an Iron Curtain" (if it takes militarization of our border to enforce the sovereignty of our nation, then HELL YES again!) along the U.S.-Mexico border.

In addition to efforts by the coalition, the foreign ministers of 11 Latin American countries opposed to the Sensenbrenner bill met in Cartagena, Colombia, last week and also agreed to begin a massive lobbying campaign in Washington to defeat the legislation. NO! I don't believe it!

The ministers will send a team to Capitol Hill this week to identify key members of Congress on the immigration issue. They will call for the implementation of a guest-worker program, outline their opposition to the criminalization of illegal entry, demand better treatment of migrants, and condemn proposals for tighter control of the U.S.-Mexico border. Where the hell to representatives of other countries get off lobbying American officials to screw their own citizens in favor of foreign lawbreakers?!?

Ministers who attended the meeting were from Colombia, Mexico, Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. Migrants from those countries are believed by U.S. authorities to send about $32 billion in remittances to relatives at home each year. HELLO? Follow the money trail, people. It leads directly from our pockets to theirs.

Mr. Navarro said the U.S. coalition will focus on strategically formulating "a Mexicano-Latino coordinated response" to the legislation and on what he called the "escalating attacks" on the Mexican and Hispanic communities in this country. Hispanic Americans are welcome to live, work and prosper in this country. But "Mexican communities" are for Mexico. There is no place here for people whose loyalty and support lie firmly with the interests of another country -- especially one that is doing all it can to undermine our own.

"You have to galvanize what you got and go after what you don't have," he said, adding that the coalition eventually will seek its own immigration-reform program.

Known as the Border Protection, Antiterrorism and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, the Sensenbrenner bill directs Homeland Security to take "all appropriate actions, including development of a national border strategy, to maintain operational control over the U.S. international land and maritime borders." Does anyone with a brain that is pea-size or larger actually see something wrong with the U.S. maintaining operational control over its land and maritime borders?

The bill passed Dec. 16 in the House on a 239-182 vote. Sent to the Senate on Jan. 27, the Sensenbrenner bill is expected to be debated before the Senate Judiciary Committee beginning next month. Because too many senators are all too willing to sell out the people they were elected to represent...and THAT is a damn shame.