Friday, June 08, 2007

Arresting Illegal Aliens in New Haven: Terrorism?

That's exactly what those pro-open borders/illegal aliens rights groups are claiming. The feds cracked down on New Haven area businesses, arresting 31 illegal aliens.

When will it sink in with most people that the people arrested were arrested because they are violating US law every day they're here in this country. They are not undocumented workers. They are illegal aliens. As such, they do not have the same rights as those who immigrated to the US legally - including those legal residents who obtained Green Cards.

If coming to the US is so important, do so legally. Expand the number of those who can come into the US legally, but to claim that crackdowns on illegal aliens amounts to terrorism is not only hyperbole, but shows the rank hysterics that the open borders crowd will use to push their extreme agenda.
Afterward, local officials’ cellphones lighted up with dozens of frantic phone calls from residents and community leaders saying that people were missing. There were rumors of a mass arrest at a supermarket. Fair Haven resembled a ghost town, with residents huddling inside their houses, afraid that they, too, could be arrested at any moment.

“At 10 in the morning, the streets were just empty,” said John Lugo, an organizer for Unidad Latina en Acción, an advocacy group. “People were really very afraid all of the sudden. They still are. They think it will happen again.”

On Wednesday, Mr. Lugo and others passed out hundreds of fliers outlining immigrants’ rights, instructing them not to give federal authorities any information without a lawyer present and advising them to not answer their doors.

Mayor John DeStefano and other city leaders angrily accused the federal government of “terrorizing” the immigrant community. Many of them speculated that the mass arrests — the first of their kind in recent memory here — were retaliation for the acceptance of municipal identification cards and other immigrant-friendly city policies.
UPDATE:
As if to underscore the complete incompetence of the federal government to deal with border control, the feds are waiving the new requirement for US citizens to obtain passports to travel to the Carribean, Canada, or Mexico. The excuse - the number of applications involved was too burdensome to provide timely turnaround on passports.
The Bush administration on Friday suspended some of its new, post-Sept. 11 requirements for flying abroad, hoping to placate Congress and irate summer travelers whose vacations have been thwarted by delays in processing their passports.

The proposal would temporarily lift a requirement that U.S. passports be used for citizens flying to and from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Bermuda. The rule, and its suspension, does not affect Americans driving across the Canadian or Mexican borders or taking sea cruises, although those travelers are expected to need passports beginning next year.

The suspension should allow the State Department to catch up with a massive surge in applications that has overwhelmed passport processing centers since the rule took effect this year. The resulting backlog has caused up to three-month delays for passports and ruined or delayed the travel plans of thousands of Americans.

Until the end of September, travelers will be allowed to fly without a passport if they present a State Department receipt, showing they had applied for a passport, and government-issued identification, such as a driver's license. Those who have not applied for a passport will not be allowed to travel.

Those with receipts but no passports would receive additional security scrutiny, which could include extra questioning or bag checks.

"This is further evidence that the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department are simply not ready to make this program work as well as it must," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
If the number of passports issued was too burdensome, how can anyone in their right mind expect the same to be done with any program dealing with illegal aliens and/or guest worker programs where the number of applications will be significantly higher.

Of course, Schumer and other Democrats wont make that very logical conclusion. They're too fixated on finding a way to bash the Administration.

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