August 19, 2008
The Convicted Illegal Immigrant Song
In a rebuke to Gavin's proposal to handing over illegal immigrants accused of a crime to federal authorities, the Immigrant Rights Commission passed a resolution urging Gavin to do no such thing. Instead of giving said folks accused of a crime to the Feds, which could lead to possible deportment, the Commission said the city should keep, ahem, them in the City and look into whether or not they're eligible for asylum. Also suggested, the occasional pillow fluffing.
The issue of how the city handles illegal immigrants accused of crimes has become a hot potato lately when it was revealed that instead of doing what Federal law states -- handing them over to immigration services -- the city's Sanctuary Laws said that city officials weren't allowed to so. So, the city would either ship them back themselves or just issue a stern rebuking. The issue all came to a head when Edwin Ramos, the man charged with the brutal, awful shooting of Anthony Bologna and his two sons, was discovered with an assault and robbery charge at the age of 17. Ramos was pretty much let go after both charges, and the result of all of this was the usual caterwalling, including a protest by the Minute Men.
Gavin has the choice of following the suggestions or throwing them into the recycling bin, which we are guessing will be the probable action. Running for Governor can be a tricky thing when you can be blamed for horrific shooting for reasons that can be easily explained in a fifteen second commercial.
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I thought this came to a head before that when we sent those juvenile drug dealers down south and they "escaped" from the unlocked halfway house they were in while we tried to get things together to ship them back home. Y'know, because otherwise these drugs dealers would never be allowed to re-enter the US if they were just deported properly.
the whole sanctuary concept, if i'm not mistaken, was put in place to help people that were facing serious reprecussions from sandanistas or death squads or some such in the 80's in el salvador?
i think there's a big difference in trying to buck the federal system to help out the politically oppressed than there is with, you know, giving 17 year old thugs a slap on the wrist and $6000 a month summer camp trips. ramos' family was incapable of raising him to understand that assaulting pregnant women was not cool, only an idiot would think that same family is going to be capable of putting him on the straight and narrow after he finds out that the punishment is basically nothing. they even say "these kids are vulnerable to exploitation by known criminals" so why do they think keeping them here in the city with those criminals is going to help?
it's almost hard to believe there are even 15 people in this city who can't see that there's something wrong here, much less ones who are actually part of the government that is supposed to protect it's citizens.. an i'm not into some anti-immigration scene, i could care less about immigrants illegal or otherwise, it's the ones that are committing crimes that concern me. maybe these guys need to publicize some feel-good success stories about downtrodden murderers who turned their lives around and became beacons of the community after getting 'culturally appropriate counseling' to convince me otherwise.
Actually, these somewhat less than legals should be subject to "deportment." Practicing the finer points of the social graces never hurt anyone. Learning to pour tea gracefully, for example, could only add to their quality of life. And the lines of illegals marching about City Hall with books on their heads to improve their posture might lend a more graceful note to the Civic Center. However should they fail to improve their overall deportment they would, of course, be subject to deportation proceedings. But hey, they could keep the white gloves as a parting gift!
Sincerely,
Professor Henry Higgins
Enry Iggins beat me to the deportment, but also: caterwauling.