Friday, January 26, 2007

Area Organized Crime Families Fearful of FBI Anti-Mob Investigations

Crazy ForeignersUnmitigated Gall

Reuters reports that in the aftermath of the recent round up of hundreds of illegal undocumented aliens workers, known to me as scofflaw foreigners, some people in California are fearful.  Why are they fearful?  Let’s hear what Rosa Maria Salazar has to say.  She is a cook at a Salvadoran cafe in a heavily Hispanic neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles:

“We’re terrified. The police could come for us at any time and deport us.”

As an aside, she made the above comment in Spanish.  Reuters helpfully translated.  But why is Rosa Maria frightened?  Because, well, she’s an illegal alien.  She is here in this country illegally, and she is working illegally.  I am sure that Rosa Maria is a nice woman, hard working and eager to make a better life for herself.  No doubt that was difficult in her native Guatemala.  But I am not overly moved by her terror.  She has every right to be concerned that agents of our government will come and send her away, because, that’s their job and she is a utterly and completely legitimate target for their scrutiny.  She’s breaking our laws just by being in Los Angeles.

This Reuters article is full of not so sly bias toward the “victims” of this latest sweep.  Observe:

The 55-year-old undocumented worker from Guatemala is among many Hispanics deeply shaken by recent immigration raids at the heart of Latino communities in southern California.

I imagine that most of those frightened Hispanics are also illegal aliens.  American citizens of Hispanic descent really don’t have to worry, now, do they?  Should we be concerned that criminals are “shaken” by police patrols?

The-seven day Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sweep, dubbed “Operation Return to Sender,” targeted jails across five counties in the Los Angeles area, where police took 423 of what they called “criminal aliens” into federal custody for deportation, after being held on charges unrelated to their immigration status.

And look, more than half of the people rounded up were already rounded up, albeit for other crimes.  Is the Hispanic community, and indeed concerned citizens throughout this great nation expected to weep for shame because 400 people already in jail are deported?  Sheesh.

Federal agents from seven teams also fanned out in local communities, where they nabbed 338 undocumented immigrants, more than 150 of whom were classed as “immigration fugitives”—foreign nationals who ignored final deportation orders.

And of the other half, almost half of them were not merely here illegally, but were actively running from immigration officials.  These aren’t the grey masses of illagals, people who are in this country but under the radar.  These are people who we have specifically told to go home, and for some reason are still here.  Why were these “final deportation orders” not accompanied by a Federal Marshall and a plane ticket?  Of the others, these undocumented immigrants yearning to be free, well they are 188 out of an estimated 2.5 million in California alone.  It’s a start, but hardly a solution.

“We hadn’t seen anything like this here before, and it came as a shock,” said Antonio Bernabe, a community worker who runs a day labor program at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.

Why the fuck would this come as a shock to you, Antonio?  The fact that we haven’t enforced our laws for decades might have lulled you into a false sense of security, but the writing has been on the wall for a little while now.  And why aren’t you in jail for helping criminals evade justice?

“The police didn’t just take people with deportation orders, they took anybody ... guys who were just hanging out in the street and even from a Jack in the Box restaurant ... and now people are afraid to go out,” he added.

Well, damn, that’s just like, terrible.  They took anybody who wasn’t here legally.  How… fascist. 

“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.”

I certainly hope so, Manuel.  I hope that you get arrested and deported.  And then I hope that you turn around, and make your way back to this country legally.

This article, and many like it, are ridiculous in the euphemistic treatment of this issue.  Calling Manuel, or others, “Undocumented Workers” or some other truth dodging phrase does not erase the fact that they are people who are breaking our laws, and have been showing contempt for laws since the moment they slipped across the border.  They are illegal aliens – a nicely accurate phrase that has almost completely disappeared from the major media.  I am not against immigration.  I do not hate Hispanics.  I am against illegal immigration, and I think that most people on this side of the issue realize that they are different issues despite the efforts of some on the other side to conflate them.


Posted by Buckethead on 01/26/07 at 02:28 PM
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