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April 12, 2006

Daily Border Collies

 

 

We have some illegal immigration follow up stuff to do today, so let’s hop right in.

 

First, Citizens for Immigration Reform has posted its photos from last weekend’s pro-enforcement rally in Dallas (cute bug, no?)

 

CFIR was joined by several others for a successful movement that will grow even more successful as the sleeping giant awakes and sets things right in accordance with our long American tradition.

 

Our next item: A Lady’s Ruminations has posted yet another tireless collection of links and summaries of the day’s top immigration blogs and news, so be sure to check it out.

 

The Oh, Really? Factor: Love him or hate him, or even if he usually just annoys you, Fox News Channel's Bill O’Reilly is one of the biggest friends to Americans when it comes to the issue of border security.

 

Today he had Dr. Mike Waller of the Center for Security Policy on. Waller is a Mexico expert (click here to read his bulleted summary of the Mexican constitution as it addresses immigration).

 

Waller’s share time with O’Reilly included citing such facts from Mexico’s 54 page constitution that:

 

- It is a felony to enter or remain in Mexico illegally. This includes tourists and students who overstay their allotted time in the country.

 

The punishment? Up to 2 years in a dingy Mexican prison, followed by deportation.

 

Even naturalized Mexican citizens or those visiting with a valid visa can be expelled for any reason, any time. Other ways naturalized citizens are subject to 2nd class status: They cannot vote, hold office, cannot be a military officer or member of clergy, among other things.

 

And Mexico does not faint from enforcing these rules either. According to Waller, Mexico deports more illegals than does the US (which shouldn’t be hard even for a country the size of Haiti. Essentially, Mexico accomplishes this by putting its military on both its northern and southern borders, and hunting down and immediately deporting any illegal it finds in the interior, without any due process.  

 

- If illegal aliens staying in Mexico don’t like it? Foreigners are forbidden from protesting; and since natives who protest against their government in Mexico take their lives into their hands, it’s a good guess foreigners would do well not to even say something negative that could be overheard…unless they are carrying some pocket cash, of course.

 

Now none of this is anything new for those of us who have been following this issue for a bit, but it’s still fun to air out the dirty little secrets of hypocrisy and Emperor Vicenté’s foreign meddling.

 

Earlier today, Laura Ingraham had another stellar broadcast today, featuring a number of calls from Hispanic Americans angry about illegals invading our country and resenting, as other legal immigrants do, the audacity of these criminals to come here voluntarily while breaking our laws, then protest to demand special treatment.

 

Laura had an excellent interview with Arizona Senator John Kyle, though her best sound byte was from an illegal alien marcher: “Americas the most racist country in the world". Which of course is why he decided to leave Mexico (apparently only the world’s second-most racist country) to get here. That makes sense.

 

Laura also featured a segment with sound bytes from a local Arizona station that was doing a little activist journalism: doing all but shouting si se puede into the microphone.

 

Lastly, speaking of slanted coverage: SRN News (Salem Communications) was calling the protesters and rabble rousers “immigrant rights supporters” during its radio newsbreaks today. Apparently no one has asked at SRN just how jumping ahead of legal immigrants respects their rights.

 

 

UPDATE: Right Truth has a must-read: It's Not about Immigration, It's about Power. From Vicenté Fox to Osama bin Laden and every nutty group and government in between, demagogues are afoot.

 

What we’re seeing in the streets is a naked assertion of power by outsiders against the American nation.

 

 

Posted by Martin at April 12, 2006 12:24 AM

Comments

Thanks for the link, Martin! :)

Posted by: Lady Jane at April 12, 2006 02:04 AM