a few questions for illegal aliens boycotting on May1st......
~ by: Jim Kouri, 5th Vice President of the National Association of Chiefs of Police
We pride ourselves in the United States with having the freedom to protest, demonstrate and boycott in order to make our voices heard with out fear of retribution. However, since you lawbreakers are protesting and boycotting this Monday, perhaps you will answer a few questions for me:
1. Will illegal alien gangs cease their drug trade, violence and mayhem for at least one day? You know the gangs: MS-13, The Murder Unit, Border Brothers, La Gran Raza, La Fran Familia and other who prey on American citizens and LEGAL immigrants who are from Latin American countries? Will these tens of thousands of criminal aliens cease their illegal operations for one day?
2. Will the criminal aliens who are child sexual predators avoid contact with American children for that one day?
3. If any of you or your loved ones becomes ill or has an accident requiring medical attention, will you suck it up for one day and not use the American heath-care system? Or are you selective in your boycott?
4. Coyotes, in support of your brothers and sisters from Mexico and other countries in Latin America, will you stop smuggling illegals into the US for that one day? Boycott our border for the day. Please.
5. Drug traffickers, will you also refrain from bringing your poison into the US for one day?
6. Welfare recipients, will you tell the US Government to dock your welfare checks for one day? Will you give up one day's worth of food stamps?
7. You claim you are not criminals, but those who are deported and re-enter the US are felons who serve as many as 20 years in federal prison. Will you turn in these felons to the immigration authorities? Show us you are loyal Americans. Do it anonymously, if you wish.
8. Since you are participating in a boycott, will you boycott gasoline stations, car rental agencies, public transportation, etc., and walk to and from your protests no matter how far away it is?
9. Teachers in California, who are supporting these lawbreakers and urging your students to do the same, will you give back one day's pay since you aren't teaching on May 1st? Or you may use one of your vacation days or personal days for your political activities. Afterall, I don't know of any bosses paying workers who wish to go to the border to help Minutemen build their fence.
10. California politicians who passed a resolution in support of the illegal alien boycott and protests, will you give back one day's pay to the taxpayers? Perhaps all the campaign contributions you receive on May 1 can be given to charity?
These are not difficult items to add to your boycott. If you do these things it will reflect upon your sense of fair play. But I, for one, am not holding my breathe.
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Just a few points to ponder about the protestors today. I found this little tidbit on a link that I was sent to by Saurkraut (from my links). Interesting questions, no doubt.
posted by Ellen at 4:35 AM
7 Comments:
very good and powerful!
Wow, I have to say that this whole thing has really shocked me. I am kind of sad at some of the reactions to these protests.
I mean "Will the Mexican drug dealers stop selling drugs for the day" of course not, don't think that they want to be tax paying citizens either. I just think that we all need to look at where we came from, where are families came from and look at this with some empathy to figure out a positive solution.
Scott
Today at work all the green-card workers were there as usual, prob scared of losin their jobs n work visa's.
I think there are different levels of seriousness in "illegal actions" (ie breakin the speed limit isin't as bad as runnin some one over, right?) So I don't think all aliens are equally guilty of evil doings, (like drugs n gangs) although many are certainly taking advantage because thay can, that's merely human nature to do so-
N Mexicans are but a fraction of the people being focused on. I always feel it's wrong to put all of "them" into the same barrel, for there are always many not getting fair representation.
I actually believe immigration regs do need an overhaul, but I'm not sure what I'd do with it!
I happen to have many latino n other country's pals n family members.
lee ann~
Yeah, my reaction was that this was a reactionary statement, and that we are gradually pitting ourselves against ourselves towards a solution. But then that's what happens when two sides oppose each other on issues. It did make me sit back and think for a moment.
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scott~
I read your post about this issue, and tried for an hour to make a response that seemed coherent, but after a long day of work, I couldn't seem to make sense of my words. By the way, your post was excellant!
Believe it or not, I do see exactly what you are saying, and in many ways I agree with a lot of your points. It's not that I don't have empathy for the illegal immigrants here, they did exactly what our forefathers did by migrating here, but they used a back door to do it. If you want to assimulate into a country and culture, what's wrong with the front door? By disregarding the immigration laws, I wonder what other laws are willing to be passed to the side because it doesn't suit people to be bothered with them.
The focus of this falls mostly to the Mexican/ Latin people, because they have the easiest axis into our country, and most other nationalities do not.
Other people have to jump through many hoops to be here, and what makes them any less wanting of a better life? But they do it because that's the rules of immigration.
You are very right.... we do need to come to a positive solution, because it has gotten out of control. But we tried that in the 80's with amnesty for those who immigrated in without using the proper channels, and it never was enforced back then to keep tighter controls on our borders. Now we have over 12 million illegals (of all nationalities) that want the benefits of our system, without the proper papers to give them that right.
I have no problem with anyone being here, but they should abide by the rules of this country to obtain legal status, or at least work status. Otherwise, it is nothing but a slap in the face to the people who immigrated here legally, and went through all the paperwork to do so. That's my only issue with it.
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snaggle~
I don't exactly see them as "felons" for crossing over the border illegally, just lawbreakers... and you're right, there are different levels of crimes involved here. However, if they do come through the back door, we have a hard time weeding out the ones with definite bad intentions (gangs, drug dealers). And I'm not saying they are all drug dealers or gang members, but if we make it too easy for everyone to get in, we can't keep a handle on the situation and we have the mess we have today.
In many ways, most good intention people are not getting fair representation, but that's because the numbers are staggering, and the axis was too easy for everyone to get here to make that number so high. The controls were too lax, and now everybody suffers the repurcussions of our own laziness.
of course i don't live in an area much affected by illegal immigrants, so who am i to talk really.. i'm sure there are some, but not nearly enough to put a huge damper on our lives out here.
i don't have a problem with immigrants. just come over legally, or become legal. if americans travel to other countries to live, we're expected to know or learn their language, most of our illegals don't learn our language. instead they make us have to be familiar and be bilingual for them. doesn't seem right. it can take time, sure to learn english, but atleast make an effort for crying out loud. one of the things i dislike about umass amherst is that you can't assume everyone here speaks english. many graduate students are here from other countries doing research. they have access to esl classes here, but i doubt many take advantage.
those points in your post were right on.
Oooh, excellent post, girl!
mb~
I just believe in fair play, and feel that we have laws to keep the rules of engagement in place. I have no problem with immigrants coming to America, I just want to see it done right. And, I'm all for the ESL classes, because it shows an effort on our part to help out. We should be proud that we do this, and only expect basic communication skills in return.
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saur~
Boycotting is such a selective process, isn't it?
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