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| September 8, 2011

There was a massive rally in Charlotte, NC this week.

At Tuesday’s rally, nearly 200 participants gathered at Central Piedmont Community College’s central campus to protest policies that they say discriminate against undocumented immigrants. The protesters blocked traffic, at the intersection of Kings Drive and Fourth Street, while chanting “education not deportation” and “undocumented and unafraid.”

Law Enforcement was on the job… The local LEOs anyway.

Mecklenburg jail officials said Wednesday they determined that 10 of 15 protesters arrested at an immigration rally Tuesday are in the country illegally.

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In a statement released Wednesday, the Sheriff’s Office said that in keeping with the jail’s policy to screen all arrestees, the 15 people arrested at Tuesday’s rally were fingerprinted, photographed and screened to determine whether they are in the country legally.

Jail authorities also did criminal background checks on the protesters, Rush said, and found that none of them had criminal records.

“Per Immigration Customs Enforcement, any arrestee charged by CMPD during the protest was not to be given detainers, but released on their own recognizance,” the Sheriff’s Office said.

I must admit a certain grudging respect for the protestors. They are merely pointing up the feckless, and reckless, nature of our immigration policies. Drawing easy parallels with the lunch-counter protests of decades ago has some merit.

IS  illegal immigration simply a civil rights issue?  Where do we, as a nation, draw those lines? Is ANY lawbreaker just an oppressed minority yearning for freedom?

Category: Geezer Alert!, Illegal Immigrants, Pointless blather, Politics

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Old Trooper

I have an idea; get rid of the borders, period. We don’t need them, we have had several administrations that don’t want to have borders anyway. We can quit calling ourselves a country, because we will have no sovereignty, and I will pick and choose which laws I want to follow, also. We will save a heap of cash that goes to having border patrol and immigration departments. It’s a win-win. I mean, I will quit paying taxes, because there will be no federal oversight or authority, because we are not going to be a nation, anymore.

Fuck it; we don’t need no stinking country!!

Miss Ladybug

Central Piedmont? I never would have imagined that. The campus bookstore used to be a customer of mine with a job I used to have…

I think we are just about the only country who doesn’t properly enforce – and is being pressured to be even more lax about – national borders and immigration policy. I saw we have the same policies as Mexico, and see how *they* like it….

UpNorth

Can being a serial murderer be a civil right? How about a serial burglar? Serial car thief? Are there also parallels to the “lunch counter protests” and serial thieves?
Not in my experience. Once again, the rest of the country is allowing the left and the law-breakers to define the debate. They’ve determined that this is a “civil rights” issue, not an issue of law-breaking.
When one commits an illegal entry of your home, it used to be called burglary, the left has defined it now as someone “yearning to breathe free”, at our expense.
Don’t like it, you’re a racist, sexist and a xenophobe.
Doesn’t matter if you really are, that’s what they say you are.
I agree, OT, fuck it, who needs a country?

NHSparky

Immigration is not a RIGHT. Period. If our government is stupid enough in most cases to not enforce the law, they really shouldn’t act all surprised when and if they run into a jurisdiction that DOES enforce the law.

Oh, and when Mexico, et al, treat their illegal immigrants the way we treat ours, they might have a point. Until then they can STFU.

Shit, at this rate, we can just say that murdering someone is a civil right. After all, they’re just undocumented population control advocates.

Ben

Of course they’re “undocumented and unafraid”. There’s no reason to be afraid. They’re breaking the law in plain sight and no one is doing anything about it.

I remember the recent protests in Atlanta over Georgia’s anti-illegal immigration laws. I read an article about it. I wish I could find the article I read, but I can’t. I’ll paraphrase from memory what one of the protesters said. It went something like:

“Yes, I’m undocumented and that’s why it takes so much courage for me to be out here today. I could be arrested and deported, but I feel so strongly about this and I’m so brave so I’m going to protest anyway.”

I laughed so hard my coffee went shooting out my nose. It takes “courage”? Why? No one has taken the enforcement of that law seriously for years.

Here’s an interesting link. Seven “undocumented” (illegal) immigrants were at the Atlanta protest arrested and, you guessed it, none of them are being deported.

http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2011/04/13/undocumented-youths-arrested-during-immigration-protest-wont-be-deported

Ben

When I lived in Germany (as a civilian) I entered the country legally, obtained a visa, and obeyed the laws of their country.

When I lived in Japan (as a civilian) I entered the country, obtained a visa, and obyed the laws of their country. I even had to carry “papers” (Gaijin kahdo) and present them to police upon request. This happened two times during the course of the year that I lived there.

I wasn’t an oppressed minority and I wasn’t living in a racist, Nazi state just because I had to carry “papers”. I was just following their immigration laws. By the way, both times they asked for my papers, it was because I was obviously not Japanese. I say obviosuly, because Japanese people are racially different from me.

NHSparky

Ben–I love how the illegal immigration crowd loves to throw out the racist card so quickly. They’d shit bricks if they spent more than 3 days in Japan…hell the first time they tried to enter a “Japanese only” club would be enough.

Supe

If it weren’t for entitlements and things like minimum wage laws, I wouldn’t care. Why should anyone, immigrant or not, be not subjected to all the same laws of the land, particularly when they reap the same benfits?

Thunder 26

They weren’t detained and deported because the obama issued a Presidential Order directing the DHS and ICE NOT to deport anyone who hasn’t committed a crime. Isn’t crossing the Border Illegally a crime? I guess with his poll numbers in the crapper he needs new idiots to vote for him.