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Archive for January, 2007

25 January

Raids on Illegal Immigrants

After the raids this last week netting over 700 illegals from Mexico, Ukraine, Japan, Poland, and Trinidad, sissy-pants Reuters correspondent Tim Gaynor talked to plenty of illegal immigrants, trying to get at the heart of how they were feeling about things. The story finishes with…

“We used to feel secure here,” Nicaraguan electrician Manuel Salomon told Reuters as he sipped coffee in a Mexican bakery in the city. “But it looks like that honeymoon is over.”

Ah yes… glad we’ve been able to get the point across. If you’re not supposed to be here, you shouldn’t feel safe. You’re committing a felony just by existing inside the borders undocumented.

Now look, I’m not saying our immigration system doesn’t need some work. Obviously it does, on both fronts. But seriously, how can a whole group of people stage a rally for their rights when they don’t even have the right to protest. Staggers the imagination…