The Pink Flamingo :: The Ugly Racist Connotations of Anti-Immigration & ICE Slips

The Sonoran Alliance brings news of the move to stop all sanctuary cities in Arizona. The important thing about this is the fact that evidently one of the movers and shaker of the whole thing is Rusty Childress. They are having a big rally.

“…By Whom: United for a Sovereign American (USA) in conjunction with Riders Against Illegal Aliens, You Don’t Speak for Me, RidersUSA, Pachyderm Coalition, Patriots Border Alliance, the John Birch Society, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, and others
Speakers:
Colonel Al Rodriguez (Ret.) of YDSFM
Carl Seel, Pachyderm Coalition 
Al Garza, National VP of MCDC 
Rusty Childress, United for a Sovereign America 
Bob Wright, President of Patriot Border Alliance 
Chris Farrell, Director of Investigations and Research, Judicial Watch…”

Immigration Buzz.Com

A MINI RANT
I’ve done enough on the above organizations that I am not going to stop and re-write everything. There are some nasty connotations with the above bunch. From the Phoenix New Times.

BIGOTRY EXPOSED
Immigration Watch Dog exposes their anti-Hispanic bias with this headline, “TV Crew Captures Latino Gang Fight”

“A New Mexico news crew catches a gang fight on tape while reporting a story about local crime. New Mexico State Representative, Miguel Garcia blames the fight on lack of security and surveillance in the park. Umm I don’t think so. It has everything to do with how these kids are raised. The Latino culture doesn’t value education and too many kids are dropping out of school and having children at an early young age….”

This is the video.
A MINI RANT

“…The Latino culture doesn’t value education and too many kids are dropping out of school and having children at an early young age….”

Can you believe this piece of racist you know what? I’m not even going to waste the time debunking it.

THIS IS NEW MEXICO, STUPID. If you have ten kids in a group, 5 of them will be Hispanic!
I find the implication that “Hispanic” gangs are out of the ordinary here in New Mexico rather strange. This is New Mexico, stupid. HISPANICS ARE THE MAJORITY POPULATION. We also have a serious gang problem in the state. And – not all of it is Hispanic. In fact, the most vicious, and dangerous gangs in the state are right up the road from me and are specifically and ONLY Mescelaro Apache.

According to local Hondo Valley legend, the entire idea of gang cultures started in the Hondo Valley and Roswell. I’ve been told the gang leaders were then exported to Los Angeles, where they went on to be involved in the forming of the Crips and the Bloods. Gang violence is a very specific New Mexico problem (not that other states don’t have the same problem). But, to lump it all in with the Latino Culture is just plain racist.

If the Hondo Valley version of the story is true, then I am inclined to think that the origins of the gang violence had noting to do with Anglo-Hispanic but is a direct off-shoot of the Lincoln County Cowboy War.

DEPORTING THE FAMILIES OF OUR SOLDIERS
I think the reason I am against so many “mainstream” conservative organizations is because of people like Mark Kirkorian who is demanding the deportation of the spouses of our soldiers who are serving their country in harm’s way.
From Greg Siskind’s Blog

“..US Navy Petty Officer Eduardo Gonzalez's wife Mildred, incidentally, has been in the US since she was five and they have a young child. She would be a good candidate for the DREAM Act. And Petty Officer Gonzalez, by the way, legalized himself a few years back after entering the country illegally as a child. So much for "they're coming to steal our jobs" or "they're coming to leach off our welfare system."..”

The CNN article.

“…However, six weeks earlier, Gonzalez and Mildred got married, canceling Mildred's ability to apply for legal status through her mother because she was no longer an unmarried daughter under the age of 21. As a result, her legal status still remains in jeopardy…A judge in June granted her a one-year extension to remain in the United States. If her legal status does not change by June 8, 2008, she will have 60 days to voluntarily leave the country or face deportation.
That's just fine, according to Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which lobbies for tougher laws on illegal immigration.

"What you're talking about is amnesty for illegal immigrants who have a relative in the armed forces, and that's just outrageous," he said. "What we're talking about here is letting lawbreakers get away with their actions just because they have a relative in the military. ... There's no justification for that kind of policy."
Gonzalez said that type of response is unjustified. "I'm trying to make his country better -- my country better -- and it should be her country too."

Gonzalez himself entered the country legally, crossing the Mexican border with his family when he was about 10. He joined the Navy as a so-called "green-card sailor" and became a U.S. citizen in July 2005. The military does accept some immigrants who aren't U.S. citizens…”

Immigration Prof Blog

Called As Seen Ken Prescott has an excellent rant today. Saves me from having to say it.

“…Yes, there is, Mr. Krikorian. The justification is that Petty Officer Gonzalez, unlike you, has shown that he is willing to sign a check for anything, up to and including his life, to defend this country--even down to utterly worthless oxygen-wasting dirtbags like you....Remember that big, tough immigration bill the House passed last year but failed in the Senate? It would have made harboring, in your home, someone without legal status a felony. The husband would be facing jail time. If it was base housing, then whatever officer made the decision to grant the base housing to her would also face felony charges, too. That's what the House Republicans wanted in their get tough immigration bill....I don't want to hear "Well, I didn't mean that." That does not feed the bulldog. I want to hear you justify the law as written. I want you to justify your braying "Enforce the law!" in this case, or y'all can have yourselves a big helping of STFU.

The society that does not show loyalty to its warriors has no call on their loyalty….”

ICE OUT OF CONTROL
I’ve been telling you about ICE and how they are out of control. Well, seems like people are starting to take notice. From Greg Siskind
From the NYTimes

“…Mr. Mulvey said that many United States citizens and legal residents were rousted from bed and were required to produce papers during an operation so ill-conceived that all but 6 out of 96 administrative warrants issued by the immigration enforcement agency in the search for gang members had wrong or outdated addresses.

In one case, agents were seeking a 28-year-old man with a photo taken when he was 7. Of more than 90 people arrested in Nassau County, most were illegal immigrant workers with no criminal record, Mr. Mulvey said, some with young children who were frightened by the immigration agents’ “inappropriate” behavior. “There were clear dangers of friendly fire,” he said of the operation, in which Nassau police provided standby support.

In a sharply worded letter to Michael Chertoff, the secretary of homeland security, Mr. Suozzi asked for an investigation into what he called “serious allegations of misconduct and malfeasance committed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel in executing arrest warrants in various Nassau County communities on Sept. 24 and 26, 2007.”
Peter J. Smith, the special agent in charge of the raids for the agency, denied the charges.

“All those allegations that he’s making, they’re without merit,” he said. Only one of 180 special agents assigned to the operation from the agency’s Office of Investigations was wearing a cowboy hat out of personal preference, he said. “We didn’t have warrants,” he added. “We don’t need warrants to make the arrests. These are illegal immigrants.” But in fact, Mr. Smith said, one of the 186 arrested last week turned out to be a United States citizen. “I believe it was a woman in Westbury,” he said. The woman, he said, was released after an hour or two either with taxi fare or a ride home. “That is not uncommon,” he said of the citizen’s mistaken arrest as a deportable immigrant….

…“I was misled,” Mr. Mulvey said. “In good conscience, I can’t continue to cooperate unless these problems are ironed out.” Among the problems, he wrote in a Sept. 27 letter to Joseph A. Palmese, resident agent in charge of the immigration agency’s Office of Investigations in Bohemia, N.Y., was that the Nassau police could not even get a list of the 40 people arrested Monday night, leaving local officials unable to deal with a deluge of missing persons reports and inquiries from churches whose members had disappeared. Only three of the 40 were gang members, he said.

By then, he added, complaints were coming not only from immigrant advocates, but from his own officers who had seen what they said was the undisciplined conduct of the federal agents….

“We will continue to support their efforts,” he said in a written statement. “The gang members and violent felons have now been removed from the streets of Suffolk County, which will come as a great relief to the parents who tell us on a regular basis about their concerns that their own children will be lured into gang activity or targeted by gang members in their communities.”

Just how many gang members and associates were taken into custody, and how they were categorized, remains uncertain. Mr. Smith said that in Suffolk County, the raids resulted in the arrests of 15 identified as gang members, and 50 as “associates of gang members.” Mr. Dormer provided different figures. He said 85 were arrested and 55 were gang members or associates. And while Mr. Smith said 59 out of 186 arrested in both counties had criminal records, Mr. Dormer said 61 of those arrested in Suffolk County alone had criminal records and 14 were violent felons. Mr. Smith said the agency did not count up the number of homes that agents searched where they found neither gang members nor illegal immigrants, only citizens and legal residents. “These people are very transient,” he said of those being hunted. “They don’t stay at that location. We keep going to these different places until we find them.”