Illegal Immigration Is Making America A Police State

Both Republicans and Democrats have failed to take any meaningful steps in the battle against illegal immigration.

And the few who have tried to take steps against the influx of illegal aliens, such as Hazleton Pennsylvania mayor Lou Barletta, find their city ordinances being challenged in federal court, with little to no support from the government, in fact the feds are usually the ones issuing the challenge.

So what have our brain-dead members of Congress come up with now?

Democrat Senator Charles Schumer and Republican Lindsey Graham are behind a bill that will require all American workers to carry a biometric identification card.

I guess I had better win the lottery pretty soon, because I will be damned if I will allow the government to fingerprint me as if I were a common criminal.

Taking the fingerprints of someone who is joining the armed forces, or is working for the government in a security-sensitive position is one thing, but you mean to tell me that the best idea Congress can come up with to fight illegal immigration is scan the fingerprints of a teenager applying for a job at Burger King?

To showcase just how ludicrous this idea is, you need look no further than the fact that, on this issue, the ACLU and I are in agreement.

“It is fundamentally a massive invasion of people’s privacy,” said Chris Calabrese, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union.
“We’re not only talking about fingerprinting every American, treating ordinary Americans like criminals in order to work.
“We’re also talking about a card that would quickly spread from work to voting to travel to pretty much every aspect of American life that requires identification.”

Calabrese makes some excellent points, and I for one will go on record right now as saying that I won’t stand for it.

And I have a feeling that I’m far from being the only one who feels that way.

Sheriff Joe Says “I Don’t Take Orders From The Government”

Sheriff Joe Arpaio is just doing his job.
And he has been doing it very well.
So well in fact that the feds told him to knock it off.

 PHOENIX —  An Arizona sheriff known for cracking down on people who are in the country illegally launched a crime and immigration sweep in northwestern metro Phoenix on Friday, a half day after officials in Washington limited his powers to make federal immigration arrests.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose sweeps have led to allegations of racial profiling, said the rebuff from Washington won’t stop him. He said he can still arrest immigrants under a state smuggling law and a federal law that gives all local police agencies more limited power to detain suspected illegal immigrants.

“It doesn’t bother me, because we are going to do the same thing,” said Arpaio, whose deputies had arrested 16 people by Friday evening on unspecified charges. “I am the elected sheriff. I don’t take orders from the federal government.”

The officers were participating in a federal program that grants a limited number of local police departments special powers to make immigration arrests and speed up deportation. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement stripped Arpaio of his power to let 100 deputies make federal immigration arrests, but renewed another agreement that allows 60 jails officers to determine the immigration status of people in jail.

The sheriff’s sweeps in some heavily Latino areas of metro Phoenix have drawn criticism that Arpaio’s deputies racially profile people. Arpaio said people pulled over in the sweeps were approached because deputies…Read the rest of this entry

Law Enforcement Officials Accused Of Racial Profiling

The Mayor of Maricopa County, Arizona recently accused the members of the Sheriffs Department of racial profiling.
And as the video shows, the mayor must have his head stuck up his butt, or maybe he is simply like so many of the other elected officials in this country who are afraid to risk offending groups of people who start off their lives in America by breaking one of our most fundamental laws.

Illegal Immigrants Are Working For The Department Of Defense

Not directly, of course.

At least in this case, who knows what might be going on elsewhere.

But as this news report shows, 59 illegal aliens were taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents at a plant that has a long-standing contract to make parachutes for the U.S. military.

An official of the company, who did not appear on camera, mentioned as how it was hard for these people to obtain proper documentation.
It must be harder to obtain proper documentation than it is to obtain phony birth certificates, fake Social Security numbers, etc.

And I can’t help but wonder if the people who are always making excuses for illegal aliens would chalk this up to “They were just doing jobs that American citizens won’t do.”